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Including poems specially adapted into melody and song for this audiobook. One of The New York Times Best Audiobooks of 2024 A BBC ‘BETWEEN THE COVERS’ BOOK CLUB PICK 'I didn't want it to end' - Maggie O'Farrell 'Powerful . . . written with a calm, luminous precision' - Colm Tóibín An...

Darla is desperate to escape her overbearing parents on their Hawaiian vacation. Who could have expected a whale to swim up beside her on a boating excursion and become her closest confidant? There is something about the whale's soulful gray eyes and powerful demeanor that she finds intriguing, but alas, she must return to shore with the rest of the humans. Later that evening, however, when a seven-foot-tall man with an odd dialect approaches Darla on the beach, there is something strangely familiar about him... Moby never intended to utilize his power to shift from a whale to a human.

For the first time, Einar and the Wolf Coats find themselves divided as circumstances mean they end up on opposing sides: the Wolf Coats in Ireland, and Einar in the lands of the English. With war brewing and a great battle on the horizon, can Einar and his comrades reunite in time - or will the horrors of war make their split a permanent one?

936 AD. Brittany is torn apart by war. Many nobles have sought refuge in King aethelstan's England, including Louis, prospective king of Francia. Einar and the Wolf Coats, disillusioned by events in Norway, are also at aethelstan's court. When Louis decides to take up his throne, aethelstan sees a way to make a crucial ally: a powerful noble whose support Louis needs. And aethelstan has just the men he needs to carry his message... and undertake a secret mission.The Wolf Coats' quest is fraught with danger and foreboding, for the world is changing. 

Einar and the Wolf Coats have angered most of the kings of Northern Europe. With England no refuge, their only solution is to set sail across the Whale Road. A chance encounter with a slave trader leads them to Muslim Spain, but what starts as a joyous homecoming for one of the crew ends in the Caliph's infamous dungeons. The Mediterranean proves a perilous sea. Byzantine warships roam, armed with liquid fire that can torch man and ship alike. Viking mercenaries and pirate lords alike spill blood for gold or glory.

Darla Sims left her hometown of Whale Harbor years ago to pursue a career as an artist in New York City. But after a disastrous art show that leaves her questioning everything, she receives even more devastating news: her beloved grandmother has passed away, and she needs to return home for the funeral. Going back to Whale Harbor wasn't in her plans, and from the moment Darla sets foot in the small coastal town where she grew up, her life is turned on its head.

Bloggerin Viola lebt jeden Tag als könnte es ihr letzter sein – schließlich hat in ihrer Familie noch keine Frau ihren 35. Geburtstag gefeiert. Während einer Rucksacktour durch Kanada hat sie einen Unfall. Doch als sie im Krankenhaus erwacht, ist sie 35 und die Zukunft liegt plötzlich vor ihr. Krankenschwester Skye Cameron lädt sie ein, sich bei ihr auf Whale Island zu erholen. In Skyes Haus lebt seit Kurzem auch ihr jüngster Bruder, der Schriftsteller Glenn. Noch nie hat sich Viola bei jemandem so wohl gefühlt wie bei dem schüchternen aber attraktiven Glenn.

Greta Lorenz soll ihren Chef, den attraktiven aber unnahbaren Hotelmanager Duncan Sommerset, auf eine Geschäftsreise nach Kanada begleiten. Auf Whale Island, wo die Brandung an die schroffe Küste donnert und Buckelwale ihre Kreise ziehen, betreibt seine Familie ein kleines Hotel. Als Greta für Duncans Ehefrau gehalten wird, und er sie bittet, das Spiel mitzuspielen, bekommt die Reise eine ganz neue Wendung. Umgeben von herzlichen Menschen und atemberaubender Natur wird die wilde kleine Insel für Greta schnell zu dem Zuhause, nach dem sie sich schon ihr Leben lang gesehnt hat.

Restaurantmanagerin Stella Minetti hofft auf einen gelungenen Neustart für sich und ihre 13-jährige Tochter Feli in der Cameron Lodge auf Whale Island. Doch von einer entspannten Atmosphäre ist in dem charmanten Inselhotel zunächst wenig zu spüren, denn die temperamentvolle Halbitalienerin gerät immer wieder mit dem ebenso hitzigen Chefkoch Aidan Cameron aneinander. Dass sie sich trotz allem zu ihm hingezogen fühlt, macht alles noch viel komplizierter. Dann taucht plötzlich der attraktive Sänger Jackson auf und macht Stellas Gefühlschaos perfekt.

Family secrets and imposing friends are making Chalese feel like an outsider in her very own home on beautiful Whale Island. But it's only when a shocking revelation makes her feel truly lost that she opens her heart to the possibilities the past offers - including a chance at love with the last man she expected...

It is 1919. Elizabeth Whitman is working as a nurse in the local hospital, waiting for her husband to return from war, though he is missing in action, 'presumed dead'. She keeps him alive for their four-year-old son, Jack, by telling the story of a man she calls The Balloonist, who went away in a hot-air balloon and has adventures in exotic countries.

Can whales watch the humans who watch them? Miranda Jones is convinced they can and do. She's looking forward to her day of whale-watching off California's Central Coast. In preparation for a painting commission, she'll be photographing the migrating gray whales.

When Abigale inherits her uncle's curiosity shop she is thrust into the world of the occult. Where strange rituals are performed and cursed antiquities change hands. In this, she finds an entity of untold power. A primeval being of aeons past shouting to be freed. An old tome acting as a latched door opened a crack, outlining a rite requiring exotic ingredients and acts of questionable morals. He promises an answer to her family's dark secret in exchange for her help.