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A real-life “Lady Private Investigator” recounts humorous cases and lessons learned from 40 years of working cases in Southern Louisiana. Listeners get to ride along on jailhouse interviews, stake-outs, and skip tracing assignments. With her wit, her watchdog, and her trusty .38 at her side, she confronts danger and comical characters in equal measure. Buckle up and join Granny P.I. in action. It's a quick, fun listen!

When both learn of the other’s lack of desire for love, they know the best chance to escape those seeking to wed them is to come to an agreement - one that will free them both from the pressures of matchmaking. But a marriage of convenience doesn’t imply a marriage without passion. As their feelings eventually warm toward one another, old enemies emerge and threaten everything they have worked for. Will they be able to draw strength from their blossoming love to defeat those who seek to destroy them, or will they deny their feelings and lose one another forever?

When Mishi is taken from her orphanage home, she fears she'll never see her best friend Taka again. And when Taka is taken to the infamous Josankō that same day, it seems as if more than distance will keep them apart. Suddenly alone in their fight to survive, each girl must come to terms with her true nature - Mishi as warrior, Taka as healer. Years after their separation, the girls’ journeys lead them each to uncover the horrifying secret that the Rōjū council has spent centuries killing to keep.

A child turns up at a rural police station in Yorkshire, with a tale that will shock the nation. As Thea Watts begins her investigation, she realizes she can't trust the system to keep the boy safe, so she calls on the one man she knows won't let her down, Jack Quinn, a vigilante with his heart set on doing one thing: the right thing.

This short collection of Alexander Kuprin's stories and novellas is intended as light listening - to amuse, puzzle, entertain, and enchant.

Racconti interattivi sulle avventure di due topolini che scoprono il mondo e volano sulle ali della fantasia. Piacevoli storie che incanteranno i vostri bambini, insieme a piccole attività che li avvicineranno ai protagonisti della favola e nello stesso tempo li aiuteranno ad imparare: colorando, contando degli oggetti, unendo dei puntini o con degli indovinelli.

Melody Bennett's parents trampled on her teenage romance with a drifter 10 years ago. He disappeared without a word of goodbyes on the night they had planned to run away together. Since then, she cast aside her foolish notions of happily ever after and worked hard alongside the hired help to care for the majestic horses on her family's ranch. She refused to give love another chance and resigned to live her life alone.

At the Inn, life is filled with the unexpected. Payton is left to pick up the pieces after her divorce is finalized. Seeking a fresh start, she returns to her home town in Pelican Beach. Determined to move on with her life, she finds herself caught up in the family business at The Inn. It may not be her passion, but anything is better than what her broken marriage had to offer. Payton doesn't wallow in her sorrows long before her opportunity at a second chance shows up. Is there room in her heart to love again? She’ll soon find out!

When new lumberjack Tom Jeffries tells the camp cook, Jo Christy, that he’ll marry her if she can make a fruitcake “as good as the one my mother makes”, she rises to the occasion. After all, he’s the handsomest, smartest, and strongest axman her camp-boss father has ever had in his camp - and the cockiest. And she intends to bring this lumberjack down a notch or three by refusing his proposal.

As a princess of the Romanov Empire, Elizabeth has enjoyed a life of luxury and privilege. But the sudden deaths of her parents leaves her unprotected, awash in the dangerous tide of her family’s political rivals. When the supreme council crowns her half-nephew Peter II in her place, Elizabeth is left with no title, no power, and no allies. Now little more than a bastard in the eyes of the world, she is sent to serve in the palatial home of Prince Menshikov - the real power behind the boy king.

As her freshman classmates move into dorms at Cornell University, Olivia Somerset suffers a nervous breakdown. When months of coaxing and analyzing fail to rouse Olivia from her stupor, big sister Miranda decides the sisters should fly off to Barcelona for some “vacation therapy”. After a mistake at their Barcelona hostel puts the Somersets in a large coed dorm room, Olivia and Miranda are saved by kindly Mr. Brown and his son, Greg, who happily volunteer to surrender their private room.

With Iris now dating and working on her first novel and Geneva reaping the benefits of being the most famous amateur sleuth in northern Indiana, things seem to be looking up for the crime-solving duo. That is, until the day they go shopping at a high-end clothing store and discover a scene of carnage. Marilyn Abshire, 77, the genius impresario behind Sunday Chic, is found run down in a deserted alley.

"Lei fece scorrere la mano sulla sua coscia, solo qualche centimetro in entrambe le direzioni, ma non c'era dubbio al riguardo. C gli stava accarezzando la coscia. E a lui piaceva". La rockstar Paul McKenzie ha una nuova regola: rimanere fedele a sua moglie. Ultimamente è stato molto bravo a rispettarla. Ma quando incontra la sua fan più devota, Candice, da sola e in lacrime a una stazione di servizio sperduta in mezzo al nulla, non riesce a voltarle le spalle. Ha un aspetto così indifeso, con quegli occhioni blu.

The long-awaited second volume of Vladimir Odoyevsky's excellent prose is here at last, delivering more titillating gossip, astute society remarks, a touch of mysticism, a healthy dose of the ridiculous, and much more.

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first...

It’s 1890. A veteran, Detective Rudyard Bloodstone has fought a brutal battle and witnessed war horrors that haunt his nightmares. Now, one of those horrors has followed him home from Africa. A vicious predator, the Cape cobra, can kill a man in 30 minutes. A suspect using the snake as a weapon in robberies is terrorizing London. When the crimes escalate into murder, a victim’s daughter Honoria Underhill becomes the focus of the killer.

When two sisters, Lyla Ford, a successful stunt woman, and her sister Kat Ford, a sought after makeup artist, decide to change course after Lyla is almost killed in a stunt-gone-wrong accident, they never think that becoming Pet Nannies to the stars will put them on the trail of a cunning murderer. Lyla’s visit to take care of a Golden Retriever puppy named Gracie turns into a murder investigation when she discovers Gracie cuddled up next to a dead woman who turns out to be a well-known actress – Faith Sheridan.

"Non smettere. Ti prego non smettere" dissi gemendo. "E allora dimmelo". "Tutto quello che vuoi Paul. Con quelle mani mi puoi fare qualunque cosa". "E cosa vuoi che faccia in particolare?" "Che mi scopi"." Non c'è nulla che ecciti Ellie tanto quanto l'idea che delle mani, per la precisione quelle di un certo pianista dalle lunghe dita sottili, la penetrino mentre è allungata su di un pianoforte. Quando Paul, che è proprio quel pianista, per caso la sente parlare dei suoi erotici organi prensili da "pornografia con le mani", Ellie si sente profondamente mortificata.

"Lo sapeva. Oh. Se. Lo. Sapeva. Cazzo. E fu allora che accadde. Lei fece scorrere la mano lungo l'interno coscia, fermandosi sul suo sesso. Senza smettere di guardarlo, di fissarlo dritto negli occhi. Lui sentì quella ben nota contrazione là sotto. Il suo cazzo si stava risvegliando. Velocemente". Nick non è il tipo di uomo che deve masturbarsi sbirciando le donne; è una star del cinema, è attraente ed è noto col secondo nome di "stallone". Ma con la sua vicina di casa, non riesce a farne a meno.

Some might see the lessons in Odoyevsky's short and charming life manual for children old-fashioned and outdated. Some might even bristle at certain suggestions. However, we would like to urge our listeners to look beyond the somewhat antiquated rhetoric and consider these lessons as they were intended - guidelines for bringing up intelligent, well-educated, considerate, and industrious future spouses, parents, and, most importantly, engineers of the future world.