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Brought to you by Penguin. Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before 'Holy Wood is a different sort of place. People act differently here. Everywhere else the most important things are gods or money or...

Pilot Nicole Ardus leaves Hawaii with a group of avian researchers in her small plane. Their destination is a tiny island in the middle of the South Pacific. When the plane’s engine sputters out she’s forced to ditch in a roiling sea. Battling tempest storms, thirst, and sharks, Nicole and the survivors make it to a small atoll.

The beautiful young Dorian Gray has his portrait painted by society artist Basil Hallward. Admired by all, the dazzling, wealthy, handsome young man has everything anyone could wish for, or so it appears. Oscar Wilde's novel is a masterly study of moral corruption, a tour-de-force of suspense and surprise.

When strangers on a cruise ship share a dinner table, the menu calls for intrigue, romance, and danger - deception is the main course. A shy, awkward young woman with an embarrassing anxiety affliction, a fashionable single woman looking for romance, and her sister, wealthy and married with...

In the novel by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter, the Cimmerian youth Conan witnesses the death of his parents at the hands of Thulsa Doom, a priest of Set. Enslaved, he is trained as a gladiator. Gaining his freedom he allies with Subotai, a Hyrkanian archer, and a skilled swordswoman thief named Valeria. Together they raid the Tower of the Serpent, and then Conan breaks away to seek the cult of Doom—and revenge on the sorcerer who leads it.

 Over 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in audio. This volume restores material, including instances of graphic homosexual content, removed by the novel's first editor, who feared it would be "offensive" to Victorians. 

Available for the first time on audio! Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Star Trek: The Motion Picture with this classic movie novelization written by legendary Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry! The original five-year mission of the Starship Enterprise to explore strange new worlds and to seek...

The classic of eternal youth. 'How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young… If it was only the other way!' Wilde's first and only published novel recounts the story of handsome Dorian Gray who upon having his portrait painted desires...

The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound is the third installment in the charming young adult series by Laura Lee Hope, best known as the author of The Bobbsey Twins. First published in 1914, this delightful story continues the adventures of sisters Ruth and Alice DeVere, along with the spirited crew of the Comet Film Company, as they navigate the early days of silent filmmaking. In this volume, the company journeys to a remote lodge in upstate New York to capture picturesque winter scenes for their latest motion picture.

In this companion volume to Joshua Valiant, the story of the conquest of the Promised Land of Canaan continues. Joshua’s first target in Canaan: The impenetrable mighty walls of Jericho. God has been preparing a Canaanite harlot named Rahab to help Israel. You only think you know her story. Rahab has fallen in love with an Israelite warrior whose child she bears in the line of Messiah.

Jack Brewster, a detective suddenly on the wrong side of the law, drives his car to the bottom of a lake, with a young woman tied up in the trunk. As the car fills with water, they pass out, moments away from drowning. Mysteriously, they regain consciousness in an alternate reality which seems to mirror their own, but in nightmarish fashion. With no memory of who they are, their search for answers leads them to a sinister, charismatic figure, the proprietor of a casino called The House of the Rising Sun. He offers them both the ultimate gamble - their souls, for another shot at life.

In the 1880s Old American West, after befriending a little girl in a town built for him to rob, a legendary outlaw trains to take on a band of miscreants who don’t buy into his mystique, save the little girl, and for the first time in his life, become a real hero. Ever wonder what Blazing Saddles would look like if Mel Brooks wrote it in 2023? Here you have it.

The Eagle Scout Picture. Book 1 of the Shadow and Subterfuge Series. Texas was a lifetime ago. Now, there is only the uniform of the enemy and the weight of a lie that could end with a firing squad. In the heart of Nazi Germany, an American Eagle Scout has done the unthinkable: he has become a ghost within the Hitler Youth. But in the shadows of the Gestapo, identity is a fluid, dangerous thing. As the line between the mission and the monster blurs, one young man must navigate a landscape of moral decay where the cost of a mistake isn't a lost badge-it's a mission undone and death.

Ariel Archer's debut into the world of serial story-telling (originally appearing on Kindle Vella), featuring iconic fictional Hollywood stuntwoman Alivia Chambers as Marshal Tessa Blaine in Sentinel Ridge Pictures Presents "Lady Lawgiver," a western serial adventure set in 1880's Colorado,

The Little Mermaid finds herself on an adventure too far when she is brought to live in an aquarium. Will she choose to enjoy a life of luxury or will she return to the dangerous life of the sea?

What happens to teenaged heroes once they've fulfilled the prophecies and saved the world? Well, the lost prince of Atlantis is going to speed dating events in Manhattan, and having a surprising meeting.

As Hurricane Hector barrels down on Tampa Bay, five brave children embark on a dangerous treasure hunt on Halloween night 2032. Faced with the threat of their neighborhood sinking into the Gulf, they must navigate local legends and haunted tunnels to find a stolen diamond necklace hidden away for almost a century. With the fate of their community at stake, this thrilling adventure combines history, mystery, and the resilience of friendship to save their Jungle Prada neighborhood from disappearing forever.

A young boy named Miles discovers courage, knowledge, and bravery in the dark of the night after he meets a cat named Shadow. Together, they travel a mythical journey far and wide, overcoming fear while unlocking the beauty of imagination.