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In this audiobook you’ll meet one of the craziest characters you’re ever likely to experience anywhere. He is a green giraffe named Clyde, and he’s standing on his head out in the rain while eating a blue banana! You’ll find out why in my book titled Clyde the Green Giraffe in 4 Tales.

Hear three magical tales of dragons and unicorns.

Curators at the infamous Billamore Hall Museum and Art Gallery are being mysteriously murdered, and now no one will accept the job...except Sandra Peterson. The cozy Massachusetts town of Billamore has been home to the infamous Hall for over 200 years. Renowned for its rare and somewhat macabre collections, being curator there has been a life-long dream for the intelligent, level-headed Sandra. Unlike her best friend, Josephine, who believes in the existence of all things unseen and supernatural, Sandra refuses to be scared off by ghost stories and strange circumstances.

Dead Guilty by Michelle Davies is the captivating fourth novel in the critically acclaimed Maggie Neville crime series, following False Witness. Has the killer in DC Maggie Neville’s cold case returned after a decade of silence? Katy Pope was seventeen when she was brutally murdered on a...

Wilbur Mallard is a very odd duck. He is bright orange with purple spots and a great big bright purple thing-a-ma-jig on top of his head. Every time Wilbur tries to fly, that thing-a-ma-jig spins him upside down! When he tries to land, he always ends up bouncing, somersaulting, and finally crashing or splashing in a heap. Ducks aren’t built to fly upside down, so Wilbur has to work much harder than the other ducks to fly. Poor Wilbur! But these challenges and differences help Wilbur in many ways.

Au milieu de l'hiver glacé du Colorado, ce portrait d'une communauté traumatisée est noir, intense, poignant : une révélation ! Dans cette petite ville du Colorado, on adore ou on déteste Lucinda Hayes, mais elle ne laisse personne indifférent. Surtout pas Cameron, qui passe son temps à l'épier, ni Jade, qui la jalouse terriblement. Encore moins Russ, qui enquête sur sa mort brutale. On vient en effet de retrouver le corps de Lucinda dans la neige. Chacun leur tour, Cameron, Jade et Russ évoquent la jeune fille, leurs rapports, leurs secrets.

Vystopia is the normal response any feeling human being should have after discovering the nature and extent of society’s systematized animal abuse. It’s fueled by the trancelike collusion of non-vegans with a dystopian world they’ve not yet realized they’re part of. Best-selling author Clare Mann, a vegan psychologist, communications trainer, and existential psychotherapist, not only validates the vegan’s experience but rejects medical labels that claim such anguish is abnormal.

Gender inequality in the fields of education, law, employment and wages lead to incalculable social and political disparities. These disparities in turn give rise to endemic poverty and violence, to individual frustration, social instability, and cultural disaffection. When women are deprived of their rights, economies are eroded, democracies weakened, and the fabric of societies radically undermined. This pioneering book shows, once and for all, the direct correlation between the freedoms given to women and the prosperity enjoyed by all.

Indulge in the perfect winter's day treat and escape to the snow-fringed fjords of Norway with The Christmas Lights, a delicious tale full of drama and mystery, heartache and hope by Sunday Times bestseller Karen Swan. Bo lives a life most people can only dream of. She and her boyfriend Zac are...

She’ll never forget...I’ll never forgive. People always notice my daughter, Isobel. How could they not? Incredibly beautiful...until she speaks. An unsettling little-girl voice, exactly like a child’s, but from the mouth of a full-grown woman. Izzie might look grown up, but inside she’s trapped. Caught in the day it happened...the day that broke her from within. Our family fell apart that day, and we never could pick up the pieces....

The first in a gripping series of crime novels set in the seamier side of St Petersburg, featuring sharp, yet compromised policewoman, Captain Natalya Ivanova. Student Zena Dahl, the daughter of a Swedish millionaire, has gone missing in St Petersburg (or Piter as the city is colloquially known) after a night out with a friend. Captain Natalya Ivanova is assigned the case, making a change for Natalya from her usual fare of domestic violence work, but, because of the family’s wealth, there’s pressure for a quick result. As she investigates she discovers that the case is not as straightforward as it may seem.

With insight into the historical, cultural, political, legal, and economic processes that shape our use of animals as food, Fitzgerald provides a holistic picture and explicates the connections in the supply chain that are obscured in the current mode of food production. Bridging the distance in animal agriculture between production, processing, consumption, and their associated impacts, this analysis envisions ways of redressing the negative effects of the use of animals as food.

Emma, 17 ans, et Cass, 15 ans, sont les sœurs Tanner, devenues tragiquement célèbres depuis leur inexplicable disparition. Après trois ans d'absence, Cass frappe à la porte de chez ses parents. Elle est seule. Elle raconte comment sa sœur et elle ont été victimes d'un enlèvement puis retenues captives sur une mystérieuse île. Emma y serait toujours. Mais la psychiatre qui suit cette affaire, le Dr Abigail Winter, doute de sa version des faits et s'intéresse de plus près aux Tanner. Elle finit par découvrir, sous le vernis des apparences, une famille dysfonctionnelle régentée par une mère narcissique.

Comment apprécier le goût des choses simples ? Trouver du sens à nos difficultés ? Peut-on éviter d'être pris au piège du perfectionnisme ? Pourquoi est-ce si difficile de donner une bonne éducation à nos enfants, de réussir nos vacances, de prendre une décision... ? En associant les réflexions pleines de sagesse de son coiffeur avec les dernières découvertes sur le cerveau et la psychologie positive, Tal Ben-Shahar, le professeur du bonheur, nous apprend à aimer la vie, tout simplement.

Grace Peterson è disperata: vive in clandestinità, in una perenne fuga da uomini malvagi e pericolosi determinati a sfruttare la sua straordinaria capacità di guarire gli altri. Il dono che la rende speciale - un'infallibile abilità telepatica che condivide con la sorella - è svanito nel nulla, lasciandola ora completamente sola e vulnerabile. La missione di riportare a casa Grace sana e salva è affidata a Rio, misterioso e implacabile membro del KGI, un uomo freddo e risoluto ma del tutto impreparato di fronte a quella donna ferita e confusa, che ne scalfirà la dura corazza.

All Anna wants is to be able to sleep. But crushing insomnia, terrifying night terrors and memories of that terrible night are making it impossible. If only she didn’t feel so guilty. To escape her past, Anna takes a job at a hotel on the remote Scottish island of Rum, but when seven guests join her, what started as a retreat from the world turns into a deadly nightmare. Each of the guests has a secret, but one of them is lying—about who they are and why they're on the island. There's a murderer staying in the Bay View hotel. And they've set their sights on Anna.

È arrivata dal nulla, proprio nel momento in cui lui aveva più bisogno di lei... La voce di un angelo, un sospiro nel silenzio, l'unico appiglio a cui Nathan Kelly ha potuto aggrapparsi durante il periodo infinito della prigionia e delle torture, fino al giorno in cui è tornato a essere libero, pronto a ricominciare una nuova esistenza. Ma ora quella voce è scomparsa e lo ha lasciato a consumarsi nella solitudine, a rimettere assieme i pezzi della sua vita. A chi appartiene quella voce? È stata solo la sua immaginazione o là fuori c'è veramente qualcuno che lo chiama?

Unica testimone di un omicidio a sangue freddo compiuto dal fratellastro, Sarah Daniels è costretta a nascondersi. L'uomo ha agito per proteggerla e lei, sopraffatta dal senso di colpa, decide di far sparire le proprie tracce. Quando la CIA inizia a indagare sul caso chiede l'intervento del KGI, la squadra speciale composta dai fratelli Kelly. Il compito di tenere d'occhio Sarah, nel tentativo di risalire all'assassino, viene affidato a Garrett. Il fratellastro della donna è un nemico giurato del KGI, e Garrett ha un conto in sospeso con lui.

Veronica Britton is a Victorian private detective, a specialist in untangling tricky situations that occur in time as well as space. Working alongside her young apprentice Gabrielle Pendleton, she's very much in demand: if a necklace goes missing and you suspect that someone is selling it off in the future as a valuable antique, or you find yourself being blackmailed by someone who knows a little too much about your past, she's your woman.

"Most Eugenists are Euphemists. I mean merely that short words startle them, while long words soothe them. And they are utterly incapable of translating the one into the other, however obviously they mean the same thing. Say to them 'The persuasive and even coercive powers of the citizen should enable him to make sure that the burden of longevity in the previous generation does not become disproportionate and intolerable, especially to the females.'"