Showing results by publisher "Next Chapter Audio Ltd." in Literature & Fiction

A private investigator - a stranger in a strange land - searches for a missing girl in Tokyo. Two brothers have a lifelong pact. But what happens when a deal goes wrong? A homeless man gives up his drug and alcohol-fueled life. But, is the good life all it's supposed to be? Stopped by police one night, a group of friends runs into trouble. Soon, one of them must confront his past.

Major Jack Windrush of the 113th Foot is given a mission to convince Batoor Khan to support the new Amir. However, when a rival to the Afghan throne, Ayub Khan, appears to threaten a British garrison, Jack joins the army sent to restore order. From that point, Jack’s time in Afghanistan descends into chaos. From major battles, savage skirmishes, family feuds, an enigmatic woman, and a mysterious Timuri, Jack finds that Afghanistan continues to be a dangerous place.

In this audiobook, Sergeant Watters finds himself overwhelmed with three simultaneous cases. With a case of poisoning, a series of child kidnappings, and somebody with a seeming dislike of clocks and watches, Watters and his team are stretched thin. Things become even more complicated when a circus comes to Dundee, and Watters has to help raid an illegal gambling den. Fortunately, Dr. Beaton is there to help. But who is the mysterious man who crosses his path in Dundee, and why would anyone wish to kidnap boys from impoverished backgrounds?

People often told Zya she was special, but she never knew why, suspecting only that the visions in her dreams would one day become clear. Her simple life changes when a series of events forces her to leave her family—and face her destiny head-on. Elsewhere, three guildsmen are dismissed from the coveted order of law. Thrown out into the world with nothing but their wits and the guidance of an elderly benefactor, they decide to find out what was really behind the notorious night of spears 20 years ago.

After the events of Under a Dark Sky, Asher Perez has been hunting and killing immortals for years. Then one day, they contact him with a proposition. They need his help. An agent has gone missing on the Goliath homeworld, Nifelheim. Baseline humans are not welcome on the icy moon, and the only way for the team to get clearance is for Perez to talk to his old friend, Thorfinn Wagner: the heir to the Throne of Shields.

Murder. Robbery. Kidnapping. Welcome to Napa Valley, California. To lawmen and bad men alike, the "Low Man" is a ghost story. The most feared bounty hunter to ever walk the territories. Whispered to be a Native American shapeshifter, a renegade Pinkerton detective, or the Bible-quoting son of a mad preacher. No one knows for sure. He’s a spectre outlaws scare each other with around campfires.

Simmering tensions boil over as the Ragnosians attack the colony world of Alios, beginning a war with Leyria. Jack, Anna, and Melissa must defend a planet full of civilians from a hostile invasion force. Meanwhile, Slade’s origins are revealed, as he hatches his plan to assassinate the prime council—a plan that will irrevocably change the political landscape of many worlds. The Overseers will soon move their final pieces into position...and the galaxy will never be the same again.

An assassin sent by Arma Dei disappears into the night, with him a collection of heretical art and writings. For five centuries, the satchel—containing sketches and writings by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and many others—is pursued by kings, popes, princes, and scavengers. The Paletti notebook lives on through rumor and legend, which also suggest that it contains the infamous Gospel of Matthias, thought to be lost forever.

Kirstin Beck está decidida a escapar a Occidente. Desde la ventana de su casa adosada, a sus espaldas, una alambrada que cruza un cementerio, ve cómo cierran la frontera con Berlín Oeste, donde Tony Marino, un escritor norteamericano que allí trabaja, observa en la cercanía el progreso del levantamiento, al tiempo que ve a una atractiva mujer en su ventana. Kirstin sujeta una pizarra con ayuda para que este la vea, lo que los lleva a un plan, aunque difícil empresa, para que ella cruce la frontera.

Hunter is a soldier-turned-monk, sworn to bring down the Kistrill Empire by stealing Kingmaker, an enchanted sword and the royal family’s most precious talisman of power. His best friend, Chekwe, is just the sort of vicious fighter to help Hunter pull off the theft and keep the stolen blade hidden. Tennea is Hunter’s sister, and as the Emperor’s crack manhunter, she’s sworn to retrieve Kingmaker and bring Hunter and Chekwe to justice. She’s got a company of elite cavalry and a bag of enchanted tricks to help, and she’s tightening the noose.

Les nouvelles de Au-Delà De La Fissure Du Trottoir explorent les aspects de la vie, de l'amour et de la mort: les principaux éléments qui définissent notre existence humaine. On y trouve également une histoire plus légère: un mystère écrit dans la veine de la Quatrième dimension. Les personnages de ces histoires sont d'âges divers, de Gloria, soixante-dix ans, qui est sur le point de retrouver l'amour, à Bobby, cinq ans, qui ne comprend pas pourquoi son papa n'est plus là.

Irreverent and resourceful, Lillian Betts has her dreams. But in 1891, a woman with ambitions to rise into the city’s upper echelon requires more than hopes and wishes. One problem is Lillian’s a maid, who's snatching illicit kisses with her employer’s son. Another is her sister, who wants her help caring for illegitimate babies in exchange for premiums.

Cancerwords is a record of Glenn Peirson’s three-year battle with a rare sinus cancer. Diagnosed at stage 4, Glenn did his elegant utmost to stay here for his wife and children, the joys of his life. As mother of this remarkable man for all seasons, I was seized by a need to write poetry and take photos on my prayer-walks. These media became my prayer forms. For me, they reached through the madness to a silence where pain is transformed into resilience. I was sustained and enabled to be what Glenn, Mary, Theodora, and Henry needed me to be.

Social drama meets rite of passage and the supernatural in Guilt, a riveting psychological thriller set in 1962 small-town England. It's a time of class consciousness and jobs for life, where a man is defined by his work and the Aldermaston march is imminent. After a night of heavy rain, four teenage boys meet in the Roman camp: middle-class Brock; Red, whose working-class family has upwardly-mobile aspirations; Mouth, the scraplad; and Raggy, the deaf simpleton. They decide to go down the flooded riverside fields to see what they can shoot.

Que ferons-nous quand notre planète en aura assez? Le monde se meurt. Face à la pollution galopante, à la surpopulation et à l'élévation du niveau de la mer, l'élite dirigeante élabore un plan audacieux, mais terrible. Lorsque le cerveau de ce plan fait marche arrière et cache au monde entier ce plan ingénieux, sa vie est soudainement menacée par un facteur des plus inattendus.

In A Collection of Recollections: Between Here and There, Jen Schneider curates, collects, and shares bits and pieces of story and life. From “bus delays” to “knees on concrete” to “states of suspension”, the pieces prompt new ways of thinking about both language and lived experiences. Exploring a range of experiences from “rec time” to “things that go bump in the night”, the collection plays with time, form, and fashion in ways both experiential and experimental.

A loyal Southerner embroiled in John Wilkes Booth’s plot to kill President Lincoln struggles with a dilemma that is tearing him apart. But should he avenge the South as a hero or back out as a coward and avoid an unforgiveable sin? We know about Mary Surratt, “the Conspirator” who helped John Wilkes Booth launch his insane plot to assassinate President Lincoln. But Mary wasn’t the only conspirator in the Surratt family. Her son John is a mere footnote in history, but he was also one of John Wilkes Booth’s most trusted followers.