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This Audible production expertly brings to life Salman Rushdie’s postcolonial masterpiece Midnight’s Children, available for the first time unabridged in audio. Written in the magical-realist style that Rushdie is renowned for, Midnight’s Children follows Saleem Sinai - a child gifted with extraordinary powers after being born at the exact moment India becomes independent. The captivating events that unfold act as an allegory for India’s transition from colonialism to independence as Saleem finds himself 'handcuffed to history', with his fate entwined with that of his newly independent state.

The Psammead trilogy, featuring Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet, and The Story of the Amulet, has enchanted audiences of all ages for decades. Experience the entire story in this one unique collection, narrated by Rosie Akerman.

The young orphaned boy was abandoned and raised in an Ethiopian monastery. He has never seen outside its walls - at least, not the way most people see. Now he must flee those walls or die. But the world is hardly ready for a boy like Caleb. When relief expert Jason Marker agrees to take Caleb from the monastery, he unwittingly opens humanity's doors to an incredible journey filled with intrigue and peril.

Powers are determined by geographic birth locations, and only the rich and powerful are permitted access to prized sites. SC is the first person born in space. The punishment for unauthorized births is death. Out of fear, SC keeps his strange abilities as his darkest secret. But when his mother is kidnapped by an unknown organization, SC has no choice but to act.

Battling a wolf to save a little girl’s life makes Argus Brock a local hero. But what the small town of Redstone doesn’t know is that the tough teenager is a secretly a werewolf, which means the wolf Argus bit during the fight is now a werewolf, too. But unlike Argus and his wolf pack siblings, this wolf man is far from tame.

The Royalton Family have purchased an old Victorian style house that they hope to fix up. There is a lot of work ahead, but they are confident they are up to the task. As for the attic, the children are not only finding it a fun place to play, but it also happens to be a portal to another world. Despite the children’s adventures to the divine, the Royalton family is experiencing great turmoil and darkness. With struggles against disease, infidelity, and a wayward teen, the Royaltons find themselves fighting forces that appear beyond their control.

A young girl that has been held in a secret facility since her birth and trained to be a killer has escaped into the realm of humans. With those in charge seeking to eliminate her, she must find refuge in the only place safe from both sides: Bathory Asylum, a safe haven for supernatural beings.

In a small southern pecan town, the annual harvest is a time of both celebration and heartbreak. Even as families are forced to sell their orchards and move away, Lil Clearwater, keeper of a secret covenant with her land, swears she never will. When her twin Sasha returns to the dwindling town in hopes of reconnecting with the girl her heart never forgot, the sisters struggle to bridge their differences and share the immense burden of protecting their home from hungry forces intent on uprooting everything they love.

Mary Mulligan has two problems: her wisdom teeth…and everything else. Her only daughter is moving overseas. Her husband would rather go golfing than spend time with her. And Mary’s left to wonder why she abandoned her career ambitions when loneliness is all she has to show for it. Plus her teeth really, really hurt. But that’s one problem she can fix—never mind the stories that say if she gets her wisdom teeth removed, the last thirty years of her life will be erased. In fact, Mary wouldn’t mind if the Mulligan curse were actually true.

Sam has cheated death, but the world he returns to is mutated, and the holograms and robots are programmed to watch his every move. He is hounded by his past ghosts and surrounded by suspicious people bent on keeping him imprisoned.

Eternal Bones is a trilogy that unveils how Fairy and Mutants emerge on Earth after an alien-induced cataclysm. The civilizations we knew during the year 2065 were destroyed, leaving a single person occupying the International Space Station to watch the devastation firsthand. A freelance group of scientists discovered the climatic trend and escaped the disaster, but little did they know that forces beyond their comprehension were managing the future of humanity. Once the survivors emerge from their stasis pods, they realize that the Earth they once knew had drastically changed.

A wonderful book for all ages that like magical adventures sailing the high seas with witches and wizards and mythical creatures as shipmates! A dramatic dystopian fantasy about a living ship who escapes a locked down quarantined port during the black plague to make her way to a great ship graveyard far north where she will transition to a different spiritual plane. The problem is, the whole world wants her dying timbers, and it seems they will stop at nothing to get them, dead or alive!

Luis Alejandro y María San Clemente son una joven pareja que llegan a la presidencia de la república siendo ella la primera mujer en ocupar el cargo en la historia de la nación. Se debatirán entre el amor y el costo que tiene el poder, enamorarse del hombre equivocado traerá consecuencias aún en la forma de gobernar. Escándalo tras escándalo, convertirá la vida del esposo de la presidente en un martirio que lo llevará a cometer una locura para descansar de su forma de vida.

Are you looking for a new book? If you are addicted to gods and demons, this series is perfect for you! In these novels, you will discover the beauty of being a spiritual God and how difficult it can be human. Deciding to have an experience away from home is just the beginning. We are attending the deepening of a novel and necessary literary field for today's society: "The fusion of the so-called self-help book integrated into a romance fiction novel." Even more impressive: A story based on real events.

In this modern take on a holiday classic, high school junior, Kerril, faces her past, present, and future to be reminded of the good in others, and in herself.

In the Southwest an old Indian shaman takes a trio on a mystical quest to gain special powers for future events. They have no idea how important their success is. On their journey they will encounter mystical creatures that will help guide them in the ways of the Creator and prepare them for their final initiation. The fabled mythological Unicorns that will accompany them will be a source of wisdom and comfort along with the owls, ravens, and other woodland creatures.

Anna didn't even know she had an aunt. Aunt Moira had appeared the day after Anna's parents died in a car crash: a tall grey figure through the screen door, silhouetted against the bright sun. The neighbors welcomed her - they were relieved to get Anna off their hands and into the custody of a relative. But Anna hadn't warmed to her aunt or her pug, whose eyes eerily tracked Anna's every move.

Tu sei l’unico responsabile della tua "bella" o “brutta” vita. Cambiare la tua esistenza è possibile ed è possibile farlo in qualsiasi momento, a 15 anni come a 70. Ma non puoi cambiare la tua realtà, se prima non comprendi come è stata generata. Con questo breve racconto l’autore ci catapulta in un mondo fantastico fatto di libri che si cancellano, disegnatori di pensieri ed enormi bolle di sapone. Un sogno che di onirico, in fondo, ha ben poco. Attraverso gli occhi della protagonista ci introduce ai temi del cambiamento, della riprogrammazione, dell’immaginazione.