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The West African country of Sierra Leone has long been known as a diamond-rich area. With civil war ripping the heart out of the country, all aspects of life there are unstable. Worst of all, guerrilla rebels, in their lust for the resource-rich land, have sunk to depravity and terrorism to evict people from the country.It's into this maelstrom of political and emotional turmoil that Ben and Danielle must go.

Mason only knows one way to fight—to the bitter end. Army veteran Mason Sharpe is finally enjoying some peace and quiet. Sleepy days full of good music, better barbeque, and lazy rides on his motorcycle. But then he sees three burly men beating on a kid and knows he has to step in. The kid, Spencer, is obsessed with the idea of winning big money at an underground fight club—he desperately needs the cash to fund a life-saving operation for his little sister.

Making conscientious choices about technology in our families is more than just using Internet filters and determining screen time limits for our children. It's about developing wisdom, character, and courage in the way we use digital media rather than accepting technology's promises of ease, instant gratification, and the world's knowledge at our fingertips. And it's definitely not just about the kids.

After the year Aidan and I have had, we needed some respite. My husband is overworked, whilst I'm anxious about the past, so renting a night at this converted barn house in the countryside seems like the perfect place for the pair of us to relax and unwind. It might be situated at the bottom of a large garden, but it's private enough that we don't have to mingle with the homeowners who live nearby. Or at least that's what I thought...

How are the shocking murders of elderly Holocaust survivors connected to the deaths of high school students in Israel and the West Bank? Palestinian-American detective Ben Kamal and Israeli detective Danielle Barnea soon discover that the answer to this blood-drenched puzzle lies as much in the past as in the present, with the clues leading from a Nazi labor camp to the forefront of modern biotech research, while leaving a trail of deception and death behind.

Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid is the first major audiobook by a biologist to focus on the fascinating story of how the natural world is adjusting, adapting, and sometimes measurably evolving in response to climate change. Lyrical and thought-provoking, this audiobook broadens the climate focus from humans to the wider lattice of life.

In May, 1899, a hundred and fifty unassuming envelopes are delivered to households across the city. Most of them will be picked up by butlers and carried on silver trays to their recipients. All of them contain invitations to the wedding of Lady Eleanor Serrs to Mr. Ryce Penn.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER *WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER * Bestselling author Andy Borowitz, “one of the funniest people in America” (CBS Sunday Morning), brilliantly “chronicles our embrace of anti-intellectualism” (Walter Isaacson) in modern American...

Nick and Lesley's desire for a better life in the countryside was a long-held dream. Unforeseen events and a leap of faith forced that dream into reality, but moving to rural Ireland was only the beginning of their story. Foreigners in a foreign land, they set about making new friends, learning the culture, and expanding their collection of chickens and unruly dogs. But their dream home was in desperate need of renovation - a mammoth task they attacked with the aid of a DIY manual, dwindling funds, and incompetent enthusiasm.

A wintry and ghoulish Frey & McGray poem for fans of Detective 'Nine-Nails' McGray and his erstwhile English sidekick, Inspector Ian Frey, in celebration of the pair's 5th anniversary... Features a sample of The Dance of the Serpent. Praise for the Fray & McGray Mysteries: 'A hugely entertaining...

Panic over, he's back! Everyone's favourite grumbling funny man and star of BBC2's 'Mock the Week', Andy Parsons is back on the road with his brand new show, Gruntled. Britain's foremost topical comedian returns to the stage for more logically rigorous, cutting edge comedy. Expect the usual clever politically inspired bemusements and disappointedly crushed enthusiasm. This is a sharp, thought provoking show by one of our most astute comedians in the UK.

Coel’s journey eastward with the sorcerer Reza Walladid earned him the wrath of the Hobgoblin Hordes and the Lord of the Assassins. The terrible secret he discovered there could turn humanity against him, yet now it must be revealed. Now nation after nation falls before the Horde’s inexorable march west, either slaughtered and eaten in battle or accepting the Horde’s terrifying terms of surrender. In every shadow, Assassin daggers lurk. 

Titan was one of the nation’s most loved and respected Heroes, until an infidelity scandal tore his image and family apart. After decades spent out of the limelight, Owen Daniels has decided to take up the mantle of Titan once again to try and make amends for his years away. Unfortunately, the Titan Scandal is still common knowledge, and no Hero team wants such a polarizing figure. With no other options, Owen is forced to take a job overseeing a group of corpies, corporate-sponsored Supers who do rescue work… as long as there are cameras around.

It's Halloween night, 1984, in Coventry, Massachusetts, and two families are unravelling. The Barbosas have opened their annual Haunted Woods attraction in the forest behind their house—the house they're about to lose. The Sweeneys are fighting about alcoholism and infidelity on their front lawn. Up the street, high-school senior Vanessa Montez is about to have her secrets exposed during the violent end to the neighbourhood's block party, while down the street, the truth about Ruth and Zack Burgess turns out to be even more horrifying than the rumours ever were.

Two heavily armed gunmen crash into a quiet Florida bank, and army veteran Mason Sharpe is caught in the middle of a deadly heist. Later, the cops describe the robbery as an act of senseless violence, but something seems off to Mason. Was this really about the money? Or is there something else going on here?

Thomas and Andy (the We Love You guys) provide you with a guidebook to deepen your relationship with nature—scratch that…your relationship with yourself—scratch that…your relationship with everything. In this audiobook, these lifelong best friends explore nature as they talk, laugh, and...

Subject 336, once a victim of sinister experiments designed to replicate her extraordinary abilities, now grapples with the consequences of her captors' actions. Unbeknownst to them, they unleashed a primal force that laid waste to their facility and left her haunted by the aftermath. Adrift and uncertain, Subject 336 embarks on a perilous journey from the scorching Mexican desert to the lush Colombian Amazon, all while the Third World War rages on.

In this charming, witty, and occasionally wistful tale of a dream pursued, Andy provides an honest and earnest recount of his family’s journey from the United States to the Mediterranean idyll of Spain, all amidst the deadliest global pandemic since 1918.

One of Time Out’s Top 100 Children’s books of all time! ‘Completely hilarious … kind of The League of Gentlemen for kids' Zoe Ball Shabba me whiskers! A new audiobook reading from the author Andy Stanton, bursting out the nostrils with fun! It's one of those Mr Gum books by Andy Stanton!...

Army Veteran Mason Sharpe is killing time on Florida's gulf coast when he meets Ralph Roberts, a heartbroken older man who has come to Florida in search of the woman he loves–a woman who has mysteriously disappeared with a great deal of Ralph's money. Mason immediately suspects that Ralph has fallen victim to a scam artist, but Ralph won't hear a bad word about his true love, Camilla.