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Even as a child, Martin Luther King, Jr. was shocked by the terrible and unfair way African-American people were treated. When he grew up, he decided to do something about it - peacefully, with powerful words. He helped gather people together for nonviolent protests and marches, and he always spoke up about loving other human beings and doing what’s right. He spoke about the dream of a kinder future, and bravely led the way toward racial equality in America.

Even when he was a kid, Albert Einstein did things his own way. He thought in pictures instead of words, and his special way of thinking helped him understand big ideas like the structure of music and why a compass always points north. Those ideas made him want to keep figuring out the secrets of the universe. Other people thought he was just a dreamer, but because of his curiosity, Einstein grew up to be one of the greatest scientists the world has ever known.

This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great - the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves. Each book tells the story of one of America's icons in a lively, conversational way that works well for the youngest nonfiction listeners and that always includes the hero's childhood influences. This volume features Billie Jean King, the world champion tennis player who fought successfully for women's rights.

Amelia Earhart refused to accept no for an answer; she dared to do what no one had ever done before and became the first woman to fly a plane all the way across the Atlantic Ocean. This audiobook follows her from childhood to her first flying lessons and onward to her multi-record-breaking career as a pilot.

This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great - the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves. Each book tells the story of one of America's icons in a lively, conversational way that works well for the youngest nonfiction listeners and that always includes the hero's childhood influences. This volume features Walt Disney, who makes dreams come true for himself and countless kids around the world.

The first woman to win a Nobel Prize, physicist and chemist Marie Curie is the 19th hero in the New York Times best-selling book biography series about heroes. This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great - the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves. Each book tells the story of one of America's icons in a lively, conversational way that works well for the youngest nonfiction listeners and that always includes the hero's childhood influences.

Spider Season is the debut collection by Billy Hanson. Deeply haunting and immensely enjoyable, these stories are sure to leave you wide-eyed and breathing heavily.

The sexcapades of Flick's erotic adventures in Red City Whispers' Diary Xploits will make you laugh and lust with the same passion. Unapologetic for her exploits, Flick entices the voyeur in you and takes you to her secret world of sexy escapades. If you have ever wanted to peek into someone's diary (and who hasn't) Red City Whispers' Diary Xploits is the place to start!

Learn Japanese in a whole new way, based on up-to-date understanding of linguistics and learning psychology. Drawing on the best innovations in language instruction of the last 40 years, Dr. Blair's method integrates a variety of language-teaching approaches and activities into one breakthrough course.

Claudia, una periodista que abandonó hace años su pueblo natal (Tordevianos) a las afueras de Burgos decide volver para escribir un reportaje sobre una de las tradiciones más bárbaras que tienen, La suelta, con el fin de conseguir un artículo que la promocione como periodista. Lo que comienza como un simple reportaje se convertirá en la investigación de la desaparición de los más jóvenes del pueblo y en un cruce de acusaciones entre los vecinos y el regreso de Claudia a su desafortunado pasado.

Who wouldn't love to have a cat like the one in Charles Perrault's amusing fairytale? A cat that can think, talk, that help his young master to get rich and famous! And to think that the relationship between cat and master has not started in a very promising way...

Another great audiobook classic from the world’s most prolific and prestigious new company, Icon Audio Arts. Presented by actor author Geoffrey Giuliano, here is an exciting "listen while you learn" audio production which promises to entertain, enlighten, and enliven the listener. Icon productions offers a daring, fresh perspective on the hundreds of perennial favorite tales which have inspired generations and imbued a deep love of literature and art in millions over time.

David Walker disappeared in the summer of 1969 and was assumed dead. Imagine going to work one day, then waking up in 2019 without knowledge he had gone to sleep for fifty years in suspended animation. Would he be able to live successfully in the life he now faced, being the world's first cryonaut, and with a son who he last saw as a three-year-old, who was now an older man?

Dos hermanas gemelas adolescentes y su mejor amiga, la Nena, forman parte de un grupo de música experimental y perversa. Una de las hermanas es sordomuda y la otra fantasea con la idea de cortarle esa lengua inútil… La historia reflexiona sobre la condición sordomuda, sobre escuchar, sobre no oír, sobre el silencio, sobre los terrores nocturnos que siempre vienen de algún lugar secreto y recóndito de la infancia. El terror, la emoción, la música y la poesía se entremezclan en este cuento extraño.

La rutina es un animal que devora todo a su paso. Y si no, qué se lo digan a Nora. Ya no recuerda cuándo fue la última vez que Luis la tocó, besó o sorprendió. Sus vidas, a punto de entrar en los cincuenta, pasan entre el trabajo y unas sábanas que solo se abren para dormir. Además viven en una rutina de domingo que consiste en un bocadillo de calamares y un museo. Pero a veces, la vida nos permite una tregua, un respiro y, aunque Luis está emocionado por poder hablar a Nora de una de sus obras favoritas, ella está pendiente de un nuevo visitante del museo.

Elena, una destacada bailarina de ballet, vio su vida truncada por un accidente que hizo que se despertara en el hospital en silla de ruedas. Sin posibilidad de recuperar su vida, se encierra en su casa para aislarse del mundo. Pero un día, sin previo aviso llega Carlos, un fisioterapeuta que es contratado para llevar su recuperación y que ha venido dispuesto a sanar heridas que nada tienen que ver con la piel y mucho con el alma.

Across the globe, the skies have witnessed inexplicable events. Tales of blazing objects falling from the heavens, mysterious hieroglyphic-like symbols etched onto unearthly crafts, and encounters with beings not of this world. But with each revelation comes shadowy Government agendas lurking in the darkness, silencing the truth, erasing evidence, and leaving behind deception of what truly occurred—while purportedly tasked with handling the aftermath of extraterrestrial encounters that caused injuries to civilians and military officials.

Top UFO researchers reveal that there may have been German bases on the moon as early as the 1940s. Could Germany have beaten the world to the moon? What did the German paper clip scientists know that the world did not?

Explore pyramids around the world even more mysterious than those in Egypt as well as bizarre "Alien" archaeological artifacts that defy comprehension.

When Sara's army captain father is ordered to the Second Boer war, he brings her to the "best" girls' boarding school in England, where Miss Minchin only accepts her after learning of his financial and social status and ensures him that Sara will have the best of everything in his absence. The unspoiled Sara enjoys her privileged life and makes many friends, but misses her father. When he is reported missing and presumed dead, Miss Minchin, who is still owed money, confiscates Sara's possessions, and keeps her on as a servant, assigning her to work in the kitchen and sleep in an attic room.