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In Silverdale, Washington the survivors of a worldwide apocalypse are preparing for the coming winter storms. But just as they’re stocking away the last of the fall harvest, they make a disturbing discovery - someone has pilfered the food supplies!

The Russians have taken far too much from me. So I’ll take something of theirs. Except, I never expected my captive to be a woman. She could be the key to destroying them entirely. I’ll do whatever it takes to get revenge. Even seduce the enemy.

Este audiolibro te ayudará a dominar las habilidades que necesitas para hablar en público incluso si es introvertido o ansioso. No dejes que tus increibles ideas se desvanezcan sin ser escuchadas y mucho menos dejes pasar las oportunidades profesionales. Es posible que hayas intentado consultar otros libros para poder hablar en público pero has terminado decepcionado. Pero este audiolibro es diferente porque es muy práctico y fácil de usar. Contiene guías paso a paso que no te abruman, lo que permite un progreso tranquilo y constante.

What the world dreads most happened, and now Graham's group has found a way to fight back, but is it too late? And are their methods going too far in the name of humanity? Hear the conclusion of the best-selling series Graham's Resolution, a top 100 best seller in dystopian and post-apocalyptic fiction novels.

When Grey serves his justice out on those who betrayed them, Aurelia is caught off guard by the very man who altered the course of her life forever. The presence of the tracker can only mean one thing—Grey has betrayed her. Fleeing the Facility with one of the Riders of the Wild Hunt, Aurelia accidently stumbles upon the hidden portal to Faery. From there, things go from bad to worse. Pulled through against her will, she finds herself exactly where she doesn't want to be.

Eight of George Bernard Shaw's most memorable plays in one splendid collection: Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Arms and the Man, Candida, The Devil’s Disciple, Major Barbara, The Doctor’s Dilemma, Misalliance, and Pygmalion.

Bardskull is the record of three journeys made by Martin Shaw, the celebrated storyteller and interpreter of myth, in the year before he turned 50. It is unlike anything he has written before. This is not a book about myth or narrative: Rather, it is a sequence of incantations, a series of battles. Each of the three journeys sees Shaw walk alone into a Dartmoor forest and wait.

Irascible phonetics professor Henry Higgins makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can train Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle to talk ‘like a lady’ and pass as a duchess at the Ambassador’s Ball. As the day of reckoning approaches, can Eliza convince the assembled aristocrats that she’s one of them? And what will become of her afterwards? This effervescent radio version of Shaw’s classic comedy features a stellar cast, including award-winning comedians Alistair McGowan as Henry Higgins, Morgana Robinson as Eliza Doolittle and Al Murray as Alfred Doolittle.

I survived a crime we swore to bury. Now someone is killing us to make sure the truth stays dead. The phone call comes at midnight, shattering ten years of carefully constructed silence. Jilly is dead. Murdered—just like the others. I haven’t spoken to any of them since we scattered after college. Since that night, when blood soaked into carpets and our lives split into before and after. We made a pact back then—to stay away, to let the past rot in silence. But promises don’t matter when someone starts hunting the survivors. Now we’re all back in Miami. Five women bound by trauma,...

Three women. Three impossible choices. Three mind-bending journeys into obsession, betrayal, and survival. From wellness retreats with deadly secrets to glittering empires built on lies, Mind Games pulls you into the twisting psyches of ordinary women caught in extraordinary deceit. Each story unravels with razor-sharp tension and shocking revelations that will keep you turning pages late into the night. It includes the books: The Stay Vanished at Sea Pretty Little Profits Mind Games contains three unputdownable psychological thrillers—The Stay, Vanished at Sea, and Pretty Little Profits...

In 1987, when Sandy heard the bark of the first pistol shot right next to her ear, she bolted and ran for her life. After ducking behind desert scrub brush in the dim glow of the moonlight, she spotted eighteen-year-old Troy Kell and his buddy Billy Merritt standing over the dead body of James Cotton Kelly. Though only fifteen, this was the fourth murder Shaw witnessed in two years. She was convicted and sentenced to two life terms without parole and became the youngest female ever incarcerated in an adult Nevada prison.

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A true crime podcast thriller about obsession, vanished evidence, and deadly secrets in the woods. Jenna Dalton thought co-hosting a true crime podcast with legendary investigator Grant Langley would be her career breakthrough. Instead, it pulls her into a cold case disappearance that refuses to stay buried. Ten years ago, college student Lacey Bell vanished in the woods. Her final voice recording—panicked, breathless, unmistakably afraid—was captured just before she disappeared. Now, Jenna is tasked with re-examining the evidence behind one of the most disturbing unsolved missing ...

A family will do anything to survive after a nuclear attack has left their world in ruins. Actions which even surprise them.

To celebrate Radio 3's 50th anniversary, Man and Superman was directed by Sir Peter Hall, and preserved for all time in this lush audio dramatization. "A comedy and a philosophy", Man and Superman is based on the Don Juan theme, and using all the elements from Mozart's Don Giovanni, Shaw reordered them so that Don Juan becomes the quarry instead of the huntsman. Boasting an outstanding cast including Ralph Fiennes, Juliet Stevenson, Dame Judi Dench, John Wood, Nicholas Le Prevost, and Paul Merton.

Have you ever felt such a pull to one person that you cannot control yourself around them? Just one mention of their name and a fire ignites deep within? Well I, Sloan Barton, had that connection... with my brother's best friend. You see, I was in love with Wesley King long before I ever knew what love was. Always tagging along, admiring him from afar. Until one day, he loved me back. Except I found out he wasn't mine first and because of that, I had no choice but to let him go.

In January 1863, in a remote Appalachian valley of North Carolina called Shelton Laurel, thirteen prisoners ranging in age from thirteen to fifty-nine were shot to death.

The women wake to find themselves locked in a small basement. There are no windows and only one—locked—door. Just when they start to think they have been left to rot in there, the lock clicks and the door opens to reveal him standing there. Simon. Simon doesn’t know his victims. To him they aren’t real people but, rather, play-things instead; snatched from their lives so as to play a simple game of “Simon Says” with him.

It's better for everyone that I disappeared. At least, my ex thought so when he left me for dead. Then Cash—my childhood best friend turned country music star—sings his heartbreak for the world, one song at a time. And somehow, I know… they're all meant for me. I tell myself none of it matters. That I can never have him. That if he knew my secret, he'd never look at me the same. Then a viper with fake lashes and even faker intentions latches onto his fame, and suddenly, my excuses don't matter. It's time to stop hiding. Time to go home.

With Saint Joan, George Bernard Shaw reached the height of his fame as a dramatist. Fascinated by the story of Joan of Arc but unhappy with "the whitewash which disfigures her beyond recognition," he presents a realistic Joan at war not just with British invaders but with realpolitik. This is a masterpiece of the theater of ideas, presented in the most eloquent, vital, human, and moving terms.