Author: Ibram X. Kendi
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Author Ibram X. Kendi
Narrator Ibram X. Kendi
Duration 10h 44m
Not being racist is not enough. We have to be antiracist. In this rousing and deeply empathetic book, Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Antiracism Research and Policy Center, shows that when it comes to racism, neutrality is not an option: until we become part of the solution, we can only be part of the problem. Using his extraordinary gifts...
View BookAuthor: Veronica Henry
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Author Veronica Henry
Narrator Julia Barrie
Duration 10h 46m
Would you know your forever house if you found it? Hunter's Moon is the ultimate 'forever' house. Nestled by a river in the Peasebrook valley, it has been the Willoughbys' home for over 50 years, and now estate agent Belinda Baxter is determined to find the perfect family to live there. But the sale of the house unlocks decades of family secrets -...
View BookThe Witch's Kiss Trilogy Book 3: The Witch's Blood
Author: Katharine Corr, Elizabeth Corr
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Author Katharine Corr, Elizabeth Corr
Narrator Katy Sobey
SeriesThe Witch's Kiss, Book 3
Duration 9h 9m
The final spellbinding book in The Witch's Kiss trilogy by authors and sisters Katharine and Elizabeth Corr. Life as a teenage witch just gets harder for Merry when her brother, Leo, is captured and taken into an alternative reality by evil witch Ronan. Determined to get him back, Merry needs to use blood magic to outwit her archrival. Merry is mor...
View BookAuthor: Abir Mukherjee
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Author Abir Mukherjee
Narrator Simon Bubb
SeriesSam Wyndham, Book 3
Duration 10h 17m
India, 1921. Haunted by his memories of the Great War, Captain Sam Wyndham is battling a serious addiction to opium that he must keep secret from his superiors in the Calcutta police force. When Sam is summoned to investigate a grisly murder, he is stunned at the sight of the body: he's seen this before. Last night, in a drug addled haze, he stumbl...
View BookThomas Kydd Series Book 20: The Iberian Flame
Author: Julian Stockwin
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Author Julian Stockwin
Narrator Christian Rodska
SeriesThomas Kydd, Book 20
Duration 12h 19m
1808. With the Peninsula in turmoil, Napoleon Bonaparte signs a treaty to dismember Portugal and put his brother, Joseph, on the throne of Spain. Meanwhile, Nicholas Renzi, the Lord Farndon, undertakes a deadly mission to stir up partisan unrest to disrupt this Napoleonic alliance with Spain. Thrust into the crucible of the uprising, Captain Sir Th...
View BookAuthor: Rangan Chatterjee
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Author Rangan Chatterjee
Narrator Rangan Chatterjee
Duration 5h 42m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Four Pillar Plan, written and read by Dr Rangan Chatterjee. In The Four Pillar Plan, Dr Rangan Chatterjee presents us with an incredibly simple framework for taking control of our health. He divides health into four pillars: diet, rest, sleep and movement. By making small, easily achievable changes in e...
View BookIllness As Metaphor and Aids and Its Metaphors
Author: Susan Sontag
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Author Susan Sontag
Narrator Tavia Gilbert
Duration 4h 40m
In l978 Sontag wrote Illness As Metaphor. A cancer patient herself at the time, she shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding cancer, Sontag shows cancer for what it i...
View BookAuthor: Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler
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Author Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler
Narrator Steven Kaplan, Mary Ellen Cravens
Duration 6h 58m
It's 1996, and less than half of all American high school students have ever used the Internet. Emma just got her first computer and an America Online CD-ROM. Josh is her best friend. They power up and log on-and discover themselves on Facebook, fifteen years in the future. Everybody wonders what their Destiny will be. Josh and Emma are about to fi...
View BookAuthor: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Author Robert Louis Stevenson
Narrator Jasper Britton
Duration 6h 15m
Treasure Island must be the most enthralling adventure book ever written. As we listen to the voice of Jim Hawkins telling his extraordinary tale, and later that of his companion Dr Livesey, we are plunged into a world of pirates, buried treasure, mutiny and deceit. We meet Billy Bones, Blind Pew, Black Dog and, of course, the charming buccaneer Lo...
View BookAuthor: mark holloway
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Author mark holloway
Narrator Various
SeriesFather Paolo Baldi Mysteries Series 2, Book 6
Duration 42m
On sabbatical from the Franciscan order, Father Paolo Baldi is working as a philosophy lecturer in Dublin when his life takes an unexpected turn and he finds himself helping the police to solve crimes. When a high-ranking officer in the Dublin police force is murdered in Early Retirement, Tina is compelled to re-assess her relationship with a belov...
View BookAuthor: Sam Hoyle, Jessica Dromgoole, Matthew Broughton, James Robinson
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Author Sam Hoyle, Jessica Dromgoole, Matthew Broughton, James Robinson
Narrator Gunnar Cauthery, Donnla Hughes
SeriesPlanet B Series 1, Book 5
Duration 28m
The fifth episode of series one of Matthew Broughton's 'Planet B', the BBC Radio 7 sci-fi drama set in the virtual world of a futuristic game. Originally broadcast 6 March 2009. Thrust into a frantic world in The Smart Money, John and Medley buy low and sell high-unaware they are playing for John's life.
View BookAuthor: Jacqueline Wilson
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Author Jacqueline Wilson
Narrator Lucinda Gorringe
Duration 3h
Tracy is ten years old and lives in a children's home. She would like a real home one day with a real family. Share her hopes for the future in this beautifully observed, touching and often very funny tale, all told in Tracy's own words.
View BookAuthor: Frank Roscoe, James Casey
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Author Frank Roscoe, James Casey
Narrator Jimmy Clitheroe
Duration 1h 47m
Four vintage instalments of the classic radio comedy starring Jimmy Clitheroe in The Clitheroe Kid. James Robinson Clitheroe was enormously popular with the public as Jimmy in The Clitheroe Kid. At the height of his popularity, the diminutive Lancastrian comic had regular audiences of over 10 million people and was a radio institution from 1958-197...
View BookThe Archers: Farming Catastrophes In Ambridge
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Norman Painting
Duration 30m
In this compilation, Phil Archer and Tom Forrest lie in wait for a poacher-and Bob Larkin accidentally gets shot. Plans to run electricity pylons through Ambridge cause uproar, and Dan Archer discovers a case of fowl pest. Also, Walter Gabriel's sheep are attacked by stray dogs.
View BookI'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Three
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 57m
A compilation of hare-brained games including the legendary `Mornington Crescent' from the much-loved `antidote to panel games' chaired by Humphrey Lyttelton. With Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Willie Rushton.
View BookTony Hill and Carol Jordan Book 11: How the Dead Speak
Author: Val Mcdermid
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Author Val Mcdermid
Narrator Saul Reichlin
SeriesTony Hill and Carol Jordan, Book 11
Duration 12h 16m
After an explosive case that forced Tony Hill and Carol Jordan to reassess everything they thought they knew about right and wrong, both are dealing with the fallout in their own separate ways. While Tony must pay the price for his actions, Carol is conducting investigations into suspected miscarriages of justice. But when a shocking discovery is m...
View BookAuthor: Veronica Henry
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Author Veronica Henry
Narrator Julia Franklin
Duration 10h 2m
When Ellen writes her annual round robin to send out with her Christmas cards, she realises it's all about the rest of her family. Fed up and exhausted by yet another year of single-handedly trying to make it a perfect Christmas, Ellen takes a pile of books, her cosiest clothes and the Ocado order and escapes to a beach hut on the North Devon coast...
View BookAuthor: Santa Montefiore
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Author Santa Montefiore
Narrator Rachel Atkins
Duration 13h 26m
Gracie Burton is a grandmother living quietly in Devon. She has rarely left the village over the past 40 years. Her daughter, Carina, is immensely high-powered, with her own fast-paced business in London. She has very little time for her 17-year-old daughter, Anastasia, away at boarding school, and even less time for her ageing mother. In many ways...
View BookAuthor: Abir Mukherjee
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Author Abir Mukherjee
Narrator Simon Bubb
SeriesSam Wyndham, Book 2
Duration 11h 17m
The fabulously wealthy kingdom of Sambalpore: home to tigers, elephants, diamond mines and the beautiful Palace of the Sun. When the heir to the throne of Sambalpore is assassinated in Calcutta in the presence of Captain Sam Wyndham and his colleague 'Surrender-Not' Banerjee, Wyndham works to uncover the reasons behind Prince Punit's death, despite...
View BookThomas Kydd Series Book 21: A Sea of Gold
Author: Julian Stockwin
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Author Julian Stockwin
Narrator Christian Rodska
SeriesThomas Kydd, Book 21
Duration 11h 14m
1809. After his heroic actions during the retreat to Corunna, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd is the toast of London society. Here he falls in with the legendary frigate captain Lord Thomas Cochrane. So begins a relationship, professional and personal, that will be unlike any that Kydd has known: a relationship that will lead him, almost simultaneously, to...
View BookThe Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body In the Healing of Trauma
Author: Der Kolk Bessel Van
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Author Der Kolk Bessel Van
Narrator Sean Pratt
Duration 16h 17m
The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies and towards an alternative approach that heals mind, brain and body.
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