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Elizabeth and Betsy are old school friends. Born in 1948 and unready for the sixties, they had high hopes of the lives they would lead, even though their circumstances were so different. When they meet again in their thirties, Elizabeth, married to the safe, older Digby, is relieving the boredom of a cosy but childless marriage with an affair. Betsy seems to have found real romance in Paris. Are their lives taking off, or are they just making more of the wrong choices without even realising it?

Toby Stephens stars in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Raymond Chandler’s second Philip Marlowe mystery.Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world. California in the ’40s and ’50s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, and Marlowe must struggle to retain his integrity amidst the corruption he encounters daily.In ‘Farewell My Lovely’, Marlowe has a chance encounter with a not-so-gentle giant outside Florian’s nightclub.

Stan wuja Antoniego pogarsza się z dnia na dzień. Na łożu śmierci wypowiada słowa, które otwierają kolejne drzwi w historii rodu Ludwigów. Sekrety narastają lawinowo, a Zuzanna czuje się coraz bardziej zagubiona w gąszczu rodzinnych opowieści i przemilczeń.

Tajemniczy pożar restauracji sprawia, że Paolo znika bez śladu. Niedługo później również Wiola ulatuje jak kamfora. W głowie Zuzanny kłębią się tysiące pytań i domysłów. Aby nie popaść w paranoję, dziewczyna skupia się na remoncie starej willi. W trakcie prac dochodzi do odkrycia, które przewraca życie mieszkanek do góry nogami!

Zuzanna towarzyszy ciotce w podróży za ocean. Irmina pragnie po raz ostatni spotkać się z bratem Antonim, którego dni zdają się być policzone. Na lotnisku w Montrealu spotykają jego syna, Roberta, który niespodziewanie zdradza nieznany fakt dotyczący własnej siostry. Jaka tajemnica, o której przez lata wiedzieli Antoni i Irmina, skrywa się w cieniu choroby i rozłąki?

Niespodziewany powrót Paolo Vecchego nieźle namiesza w głowie Zuzanny. A inni mężczyźni też nie zostają w tyle! Kolega z pracy odsłania przed nią zaskakujące oblicze, właściciel firmy remontowej pragnie skrócić dzielący ich dystans, a i oficer policji ukradkiem wplątuje się w jej codzienność. Czy to nieodparty urok Ludwiżanki przyciąga tylu adoratorów? A może to stara, drogocenna i pełna tajemnic willa jest prawdziwym obiektem ich zainteresowania?

Klamka zapadła – Zuzanna wraz z ciotką wyruszą do Kanady, by Irmina mogła po raz ostatni spotkać się z umierającym bratem. Propozycja pracy od właściciela Ekoreno, dociekliwy dziennikarz zbyt uważnie śledzący jej losy i nieustannie znikający Paolo. Termin wylotu coraz bliżej... Czy Zuzanna zdąży wyplątać się z gęstej sieci wyborów i konsekwencji?

Jeden gest może odmienić codzienność. Jedno spotkanie – obudzić przeszłość, która podobno odeszła w zapomnienie. U progu osiemdziesiątki Irmina coraz mocniej odczuwa ciężar samotności. Powiew nadziei wnosi Zuzanna - młoda krewna, która nagle pojawia się w Kornelinie i szybko się w nim zakorzenia.

I Love Chocolates is Book 6 in the Round Door series. It is a delightful story about how Emily’s Mamma wins a box of chocolates for her blueberry pie and how Emily tries to talk Charli into not giving Mamma the chocolates. It is a funny story about a box of yummy chocolates. This is a book filled with fun, and it’s a beautiful story as well.

Are you a woman looking for self-love? Do you want to be more confident and raise your self-esteem? Do you wish you had more friends? Are you finding it difficult to meet new people? Tired of feeling lonely? Rebecca Collins has put both her books Love Yourself Deeply and How To Make Friends Easily together in this very special two-in-one audiobook package.

Alcohol and Medicine have an inextricably intertwined history, with innovations in each altering the path of the other. The story stretches back to ancient times, when beer and wine were used to provide nutrition and hydration, and were employed as solvents for healing botanicals. Over time, alchemists distilled elixirs designed to cure all diseases, monastic apothecaries developed mystical botanical liqueurs, traveling physicians concocted dubious intoxicating nostrums, and the drinks we’re familiar with today began to take form.

Thirty-year-old widow Louisa Middlehope is determined to escape from her late husband’s family and live life for herself for the first time. The tiny village of Great Maeswood offers her the peace and quiet her heart craves, and perhaps, it might provide a little entertainment, too. But the house she has leased has been empty for a quarter of a century and who knows what secrets it holds?

Hope has no wish to marry, but it’s almost five years since her father died, and the final peculiar clause of his will is about to come into effect: If Hope’s brothers can’t be found, then the whole estate will be bequeathed to the church, and Hope must move to the Dower House with her mother. There’s just one way out: Her cousin Hugo can inherit Allamont Hall, but only if he marries Hope. Can she bear to give up the chance of finding a man who loves her, even if it means saving her home?

Paired with local lawyer Rob Hewitt, Sammy Baker is excited to start up Sunny Cove Services, a special place where disabled adults can find meaningful employment. There’s a lot of work to do to get it up and running, including hiring a contractor to remodel their workspace. When Sammy hires Harold Woodland, she doesn’t understand why some people are warning her against him. He seems like a pretty nice guy to her. But Harold slowly starts to show his true colors, and it turns out someone dislikes him enough to finish him off for good.

Poor and widowed, Lucy finds a post as chaperon to two young ladies...It sounds like easy work, well suited to her sociable nature, but the sisters squabble over their suitors, and there are tensions below the surface of the seemingly happy family. Then there is the charming Mr Audley, who is more interested in flirting with Lucy than in discovering where his sisters have disappeared to. And as for Lucy’s uncle, she’s quite convinced he is hiding something. Curiosity is Lucy’s abiding sin, and one day it will get her into trouble.

If Scarlet Ray is such a wonderful psychic, then why is her life a bloody mess? Thirty-year-old Scarlet is about to marry the wrong man; has a mountain load of debt and eats chocolate croissants whenever she is depressed, which is a lot. Scarlet miraculously lands a job as a psychic TV host; the only catch is she has to share the studio with manipulative porn producers. A battle ensues at Mega TV as Scarlet has to fight dirty to keep “The Psychic Show,” on air and the “Pleasure Zone Babes” off her psychic sofa. Which one will win the airtime?

Rok 966. W osadzie Polana wciąż żyje się według pradawnych pogańskich zwyczajów. Matka puszcza karmi, odziewa i chroni ludzi. Dni oraz pory roku naznaczają ich dolę odwiecznym rytmem pracy i odpoczynku, a bogowie czuwają. Dwie siostry - Rzepka i Dziewanna - zakochują się w Dobromirze, mężnym woju z książęcej drużyny. Jedna z nich zwraca się po pomoc do szeptuchy, ale czy ziołami i magią można zdobyć miłość? Mieszkańcy pogańskiej kniei wiodą proste życie, lecz okrutny los o nich nie zapomina.

In We Are the Gardeners, Joanna and the kids chronicle the adventures of starting their own family garden. From their failed endeavors, obstacles to overcome (bunnies that eat everything), and all of the knowledge they’ve gained along the way, the Gaines family shares how they learned to grow a happy, successful garden. As it turns out, trying something new isn’t always easy, but the hardest work often yields the greatest reward. There are always new lessons to be learned in the garden!

There is a village that sits at the edge of lush rainforest, its stilted huts face the ocean, its children plunge below the water's surface with spears to learn the ways of their elders. This is the Surin Islands, on Thailand's Andaman coast, and home to the Moken, the world's last sea nomads. For centuries, the Moken roamed Burma's Mergui archipelago, diving for shellfish to trade for rice, taking shelter on land only during the monsoon season.

Joanna Toye joins Robin Morgan in the Audible Studios for an exclusive interview. Joanna Toye was a writer on the BBC Radio 4's The Archers for 35 years. She joins Robin Morgan in the Audible Studios to discuss The Death of Grace Archer, an audio collection featuring archive editions of the world's longest-running soap opera.