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This audiobook encompasses the fascinating 40 year journey in life of someone who just wasn’t your average practicing GP, but someone whose passion and drive were to use his skills and medical ability to bring quality of life to every patient that crossed his path.

Have Not Charity is a fascinating and profound investigation into deep and important concepts which have become obscure in modern times: sin and virtue. Alexandr Korol examines what motivates people in their actions, how goals and behaviours align, and how these are all affected both for good and ill both by virtue and by sin. He seeks to show that many ‘good’ deeds are in fact motivated by sin. This is a true modern work of ethics, in the classical sense, a guide for a better life.

In this gripping tale, we follow the journey of Pooky, a compassionate young girl growing up in the Victorian era. Despite her kind heart, Pooky struggles with severe stomach issues, which leave her feeling isolated and alone. She longs for meaningful friendships, but finds herself without companionship. Her situation takes a turn for the worse when she becomes the victim of bullying at the hands of two boys, Hecter and Rocky. To make matters even more dire, Pooky finds herself trapped in an abandoned factory, under the control of a malevolent wizard.

Ryan Tanner is an average family man battling alcohol and the demons from his childhood, while struggling as a husband and a father. Drowning in a life that often makes no sense, he turns to an insightful, no-nonsense psychologist as a last resort to try and save his volatile, but altogether beautiful marriage with his beloved wife Tess.

On each of the adventures, our characters get caught up in situations sometimes exciting, sometimes dangerous, and sometimes comical. Along with a host of other interesting characters attached to their adventures, these stories are written to help introduce children to a new way of looking at something that may ordinarily present a challenge.

Dig in on the deadly struggle for a Boston hilltop, Breed’s Hill, known as Bunker Hill. For the British Army, it was the deadliest battle of the American Revolutionary War. This battle, more than any other event, created the moment Massachusetts and the other colonies realized the American Revolution had begun. Meet a young Boston bookseller who believed he could bomb the mighty British army out of Boston. He became Washington’s Yankee, standing with him from Boston to victory at Yorktown.

Born to privilege, Tess Johnson has it all–beauty, brains and a loving family. But even the beautiful people can have their problems. Tess is cruelly expelled from Australia’s most prestigious public school, and her problems are only just beginning.…

A mountain that fills the horizon, a dream that becomes a nightmare, a woman in search of her forgotten past and a king looking for his future: These separate but related parts are all brought together when a stranger appears in their midst, asking for help. As the story unfolds, the landscape and its inhabitants come to life with the tale moving slowly toward its inevitable climax.

In London, 1989, the metropolitan police are dealing with the biggest drug crime. Drug problem is rising in the capital, and it is up to them to stop these lowlife dealers from smuggling drugs in their city. PC detective Barry Dermative is the expert when it comes to drugs criminals, however, although he works for the police, Barry does not obey the law. He takes his job seriously and has his mind on only one man; Maverick Loki, more commonly known as Loki.

This ageless story introduces us to a caterpillar named Fear. Fear is afraid of everything - the other critters who share the garden, lightning storms, being bullied, and making new friends. A chance encounter with a wise butterfly named Faith helps Fear find the courage within to experience the world in a bolder and more joy-filled way. Rosenblum’s message for children is simple yet profound: Fear is just faith turned inside out.

Miles Maskell has lived a varied and adventurous life, and has travelled widely as amply demonstrated in his anecdotes. He has been a City of London wine merchant, owned two restaurants and a champagne bar, and eventually created a company letting top-of-the-range properties in southern France on behalf of their owners. Written as a lighthearted and easy-to-listen series of anecdotes, this is his autobiography and recounts some of the more entertaining experiences of his life to date, as well as a number of amusing incidents encountered by his relations and closest friends.

Spring 1968. Formerly inseparable, five boys, known affectionately as ‘The Heroes’, all of them eight years of age, school together, play together and explore together. One day in the spring term, one of them dies suddenly, in the arms of his teacher and their headmaster goes missing without a trace. May 2019. Fifty years later, local private investigators, Robert Fox and Rosemary Bennett are engaged by the dead boy’s sister to find out if the headmaster is still alive, because he may hold the key as to why her brother, Derek, died.

Benito’s treasure is the second great unsolved Australian treasure legend alongside Lasseter’s Reef. It involves the tale of one Bennett Grahame aka Benito ‘Bloody Sword’ Bonito, a Royal Navy captain turned pirate, a girl and a love affair that would shake the very fabric of the Spanish Main and the Royal Navy itself.

A group led by American Alan Mackenzie daringly escaped from communist Hungary during the brutal Soviet repression of the popular uprising of 1956. Twelve years later, at the height of the Cold War, Alan and two of the Hungarian participants, Frank and Maria, are reunited to help organize the defection of a high-ranking East German official who can identify communist moles in the American government. The resources of the American intelligence agencies could not be used to find moles within their own ranks; therefore, the President and the Secretary of State decided to find help elsewhere.

The native boy laid on the grass. It was a warm day. Gently rolling hills of rich green grass extended to the horizon. The native boy relaxed, soaking in the warmth of the sunshine. He was happy. The day was beautiful. The sky was a light blue. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky. There was no breeze. It was quiet. The native boy was calm. His life was about to change. He would learn that farming is fun.

On June 6, 1944, tens of thousands of American soldiers, sailors, and airmen assaulted the German-held coast of France at Normandy. Some were killed, some wounded, and all of them were changed as the battles raged against Rommel and his defenders. They fell for yards of sandy beaches, for critical roads, bridges, villages, towns, and cities. Together, we will travel to those places, and we will relive all the bravery and horror, all the mistakes and honor, as we learn their stories - Chasing Rommel.

Wolf Vandengetz has the ideal post for an adventurous scientist, researching prides of lions. Then he gets a promotion. With a heavy heart, he leaves his fieldwork in the Serengeti to administer a program to save endangered pangolins in Nepal. As a scientist, he’s accustomed to solving complex ecosystem mysteries but ill-equipped to tackle the politics of donation-hungry NGOs, the tragic consequences of conservation strategies gone wrong or the greed driving pangolins to extinction.

Imagine that Isaac Babel’s Cossacks were sailing together with Runyonesque Liverpool Jews outside the plate-glass window of a Hampstead café where a Klezmer band is playing to a packed and tea-drinking congregation of jazzmen, Hasidic scholars, surrealists, old soldiers; and you have the tone and temperature of this unique and unclassifiable memoir – no, not memoir, more a stream-of-consciousness novella – no, not a novella but a piece of autobiographical fiction – no, not autobiography but a picaresque drama conquered from the unreliable and fertile brain of the eponymous Fastovski.

Don’t mistake this for dry history! Lynn MacKaben Brown’s Furs and Fevers offers the listener a view into a long lost and mostly forgotten world—a world where Indigenous tribes interact with French-Canadian trappers and traders, while their way of life is unravelling under the pressure of American expansion into Indiana. The characters are historical, and their interactions follow the historical records available thanks to Brown’s exhaustive research.

In 1915, the world is in turmoil. A war, the likes of which has never been seen, involves much of the known world. An Englishman, John Norton Griffiths, proposes using miners to tunnel under the enemy lines and destroy them from below. Once his idea is accepted, other countries of the Empire decide to raise similar tunneling companies. Canada, New Zealand and Australia provide companies of men, drawn from mining and trades backgrounds, to assist in the defeat of an aggressive enemy, intent on domination.