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Author: Eliot Schrefer
Format: Online
Author Eliot Schrefer
Narrator James Fouhey
Duration 9h 49m
They Both Die at the End meets Gravity in this mind-bending sci-fi mystery and tender love story about two boys aboard a spaceship sent on a rescue mission, from two-time National Book Award finalist Eliot Schrefer. Stonewall Honor Award winner! Two boys, alone in space. Sworn enemies sent on the same rescue mission. Ambrose wakes up on the Coord...
View BookAuthor: Rick Riordan
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Author Rick Riordan
Narrator Jesse Bernstein
SeriesPercy Jackson, Book 6
Duration 7h 5m
Brought to you by Penguin.The original hero. A brand-new adventure.Percy Jackson has saved the world multiple times - battling monsters, Titans, even giants - but these days the modern-day son of Poseidon is hoping for a regular final year at school.Too bad the Greek gods have other plans, and three new quests for Percy to complete.First up: the cu...
View BookAuthor: Kim Sung-hwa, Kwon Su-jin
Format: Online
Author Kim Sung-hwa, Kwon Su-jin
Narrator Carolyn Quinn
Duration 15m
Check in to The Good Germ Hotel to learn about all the good germs and bacteria superheroes that live inside the human body. These amazing microbes fight viruses, digest food, and keep us healthy and happy. Did you know that your body is full of bacteria? And that most of it is good bacteria that helps to keep you healthy? Well, now's you...
View BookAuthor: Michael Foreman
Format: Online
Author Michael Foreman
Narrator John Kelly
Duration 14m
A boy and his grandfather watch as a baby seal is born on the rocks near their home and from that day a special friendship is created between them. Despite his disability, the boy is a keen surfer, and he enjoys many afternoons surfing with the seals. One day, however, he gets into trouble in rough seas, and the young seal saves him.
View BookAuthor: Winne M Li
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Author Winne M Li
Narrator Katie Leung
Duration 13h 57m
Ten years ago, Sarah left behind a career in Hollywood that she had sacrificed everything for. Now she lectures at a small college, her dreams of showbiz success long behind her. When a curious journalist raises her filmmaking past, Sarah must finally tell her own story and confront the old dreams that she left behind. But with old dreams come new...
View BookAuthor: Luna McNamara
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Author Luna McNamara
Narrator Rachel Petladwala, Joshua Riley
Duration 11h 4m
Born into an era of heroes, a prophecy claims that Psyche - Princess of Mycenae - will defeat a monster feared even by the gods themselves. Rebelling against society's traditions, she spends her youth mastering blade and bow, preparing to fulfil her destiny. But she is soon caught up in powers beyond her control, when the jealous Aphrodite sends th...
View BookAuthor: Adalyn Grace
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Author Adalyn Grace
Narrator Kristin Atherton
SeriesBelladonna, Book 2
Duration 13h 55m
A duke has been murdered. The lord of Thorn Grove has been framed. And Fate, the elusive brother of Death, has taken up residence in a sumptuous estate nearby. He's hellbent on revenge after Death took the life of the woman he loved many years ago...and now he's determined to have Signa for himself, no matter the cost. Signa and her cousin Blythe a...
View BookBy Your Side: My Life Loving Barbara Windsor
Author: Scott Mitchell
Format: Online
Author Scott Mitchell
Narrator The Author
Duration 10h 53m
In December 2020, while the world was gripped with news of an imminent third lockdown, Scott Mitchell was visiting the care home where his partner and wife of 27 years—Dame Barbara Windsor—was being looked after. At the age of 83, after a career spanning seven decades and a seven-year battle with the debilitating effects of dementia, sh...
View BookAuthor: Libby Page
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Author Libby Page
Narrator Sarah Barron, Kirsty Cox
Duration 13h 8m
Lorna's world is small but safe. She loves her daughter and the two of them are all that matter. But after nearly twenty years, she and Ella are suddenly leaving London for the Isle of Kip, the tiny remote Scottish island where Lorna grew up. Alice's world is tiny but full. She loves the community on Kip and how her yoga classes draw women across t...
View BookAuthor: Sarah Street
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Author Sarah Street
Narrator Zoe Mills
Duration 10h 58m
In a kingdom that fears the sea, Ria Lucroy longs to be brave. Bodies are washing ashore and everyone knows who's to blame. Legends of the Heartless King shroud the continent in fear; they call him a pirate, a monster, a god. When his mercenaries raid her father's merchant ship, Ria's family is faced with a horrifying demand. They will spare his li...
View BookAuthor: Jill Mansell
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Author Jill Mansell
Narrator Katherine Press
Duration 11h 22m
Amber, Lachlan and Raffaele met as teenagers in the Cornish seaside home of kind-hearted foster parents. Years on, the bond between them is unbreakable But Amber has a secret. She's in love with Lachlan. She can't tell him, because that would never work—he's definitely not the settling-down type. Surely it's better to keep him as a friend tha...
View BookAuthor: Elspeth Barker
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Author Elspeth Barker
Narrator Eilidh Beaton
Duration 6h 47m
Vera was painting the pony's hooves gold in the dining room; Janet said this was bad for him; poison would seep into his bloodstream. At the bottom of a great stone staircase, dressed in her mother's black lace evening dress, twisted in murderous death, lies Janet. So end the 16 years of Janet's short life. A life spent in a draughty Scottish castl...
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Author Elly Griffiths
Narrator Beth Eyre
SeriesBrighton Mysteries, Book 7
Duration 8h 26m
Brighton, 1966. Max, now divorced and living in London, is on the way to visit Ruby and her new-born daughter when he is hailed by an old magician friend Ted English, aka The Great Deceiver. Ted is terrified because his assistant, Cherry, has been found dead in her Brighton boarding house and he's convinced that he'll be accused of her murder. Max...
View BookAuthor: Nikesh Shukla
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Author Nikesh Shukla
Narrator Sukh Ojla
Duration 6h 30m
Madhu is 17 going on 40 and starting her final year of sixth-form college. She has the weight of the world on her shoulders: her dad is putting pressure on her to do a law degree, which is the last thing on earth she wants to do. Her estranged sister is raising her nephew by herself in London, and contact is strictly forbidden. And Madhu needs mone...
View BookAuthor: James Oswald
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Author James Oswald
Narrator Ian Hanmore
Duration 13h 23m
Two victims. Nothing connects them, except that someone buried them in the exact same way. Seven hundred years apart. An archaeological dig at the old South Leith parish kirkyard has turned up a mysterious body dating from around 700 years ago. Some suspect that this gruesome discovery is a sacrifice, placed there for a specific purpose. Then a sec...
View BookAuthor: Isabel Ibañez
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Author Isabel Ibañez
Narrator Ana Osorio, Ahmed Hamad
Duration 16h 37m
Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Buenos Aires, and like the rest of the world, the town is steeped in old world magic that's been largely left behind or forgotten. Inez has everything a girl might want, except for the one thing she yearns for the most: her globetrotting parents - who fr...
View BookAuthor: Chloe Gong
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Author Chloe Gong
Narrator Jeena Yi
SeriesFlesh & False Gods, Book 1
Duration 11h 58m
Every year, thousands flock to San-Er, the dangerously dense capital twin cities of the kingdom of Talin, where the palace hosts a set of deadly games. Those confident in their ability to jump between bodies can enter a fight to the death - for the chance to win unimaginable riches. Princess Calla Tuoleimi has been in hiding for five years, ever si...
View BookAuthor: Lesley-Anne Jones
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Author Lesley-Anne Jones
Narrator Imogen Church
Duration 14h 25m
No comprehensive biography of the time Paul McCartney spent with Wings has ever been published. A period often dismissed as McCartney's 'missing' years, in fact the band lasted for a decade: two years longer than the Beatles, and wielded such impact and influence that they at one point achieved the status as the biggest live band in the world. Band...
View BookAuthor: Clive Oppenheimer
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Author Clive Oppenheimer
Narrator The Author
Duration 8h 44m
We are made of the same stuff as the breath and cinders of volcanoes. They have long shaped the path of humanity, provoked pioneering explorations and fired up our imaginations. They are fertile ground for agriculture, art and spirituality, as well as scientific advances, and they act as time capsules, capturing the footprints of those who came bef...
View BookAuthor: Stephen Leather
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Author Stephen Leather
Narrator Paul Thornley
SeriesSpider Shepherd, Book 20
Duration 12h 37m
The action-packed thriller from Stephen Leather. Terrorists have shot down a British helicopter in West Africa and taken the crew hostage. Their lives are on the line and the British government is refusing to negotiate. The pilot is Liam Shepherd, and only his father - Dan 'Spider' Shepherd of MI5 - can help. Shepherd and an SAS team fly out to the...
View BookThe Last Tale of the Flower Bride
Author: Roshani Chokshi
Format: Online
Author Roshani Chokshi
Narrator Steve West, Sura Siu
Duration 9h 17m
Once upon a time, a man who believed in fairy tales married a beautiful, mysterious woman named Indigo Maxwell-Casteñada. He was a scholar of myths. She was heiress to a fortune. They exchanged gifts and stories and believed they would live happily ever after—and in exchange for her love, Indigo extracted a promise: that her bridegroom...
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