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Twelve short stories, 12 points of view, 12 neighborhoods of the same town, and finally, 12 pieces of the same puzzle. Paris Noir takes you on a ride through the old medieval center of town with its intertwined streets, its ghosts, and its secrets buried in history. You'll cruise Paris with its nightclubs full of mysterious beauties who seem to have a lot to hide.

In the stories of Havana Noir, current and former residents of the city - some international sensations such as Leonardo Padura, others exciting new voices like Yohamna Despestre - uncover crimes of violence and loveless sex, of mental cruelty and greed, of self-preservation and collective hysteria.

On March 16, 1912, British polar explorer Titus Oates commits suicide by walking out of his tent into an Antarctic blizzard, to save Robert Falcon Scott and the other members of the English exploration team. His body is never found - because he was snatched away into the year 2045 by scientists experimenting with a new faster-than-light drive. Arriving in the future, Oates stubbornly sticks to his old explorer job and sets off on an intergalactic adventure that leads to both knowledge and self-knowledge.

Take a medieval Arab kingdom, add a ruler who wants to update the kingdom’s educational facilities, include a somewhat reserved English research psycholinguist (an Oxford classmate of the ruler) invited to pursue his work on animal communication, and then add a touch of chaos in the person of Dinah: a chimpanzee who has begun to learn to form coherent sentences with plastic symbols.

Facing a Christmas without their dad, Marty and Julie send letters to Santa asking for his help to bring their dad home for the holidays. Prof. Brett Beenie, meanwhile, is in Alaska continuing his evil plot to steal the reindeer’s flight and keep Christmas from coming this year. Elf Eric is at the North Pole working hard at getting ready to present a jet as a backup plan to Santa, who still remains loyal to the reindeer.

Meet Lara Dominguez—a troubled Creighton cops reporter obsessed with the city's debonair vigilante—The Black Ghost. With the help of a mysterious cyber-informant named LONE, Lara's inched closer to uncovering the Ghost's identity. But as she searched for the breakthrough story she desperately needs, Lara will have to navigate the corruption of her city, the uncertainties of virtue, and her own personal demons. Will she have the strength to be part of the solution—or will she become the problem?

Highlights and Audible are back to present Season 2 of the original podcast, Lola Chick! Come along with spunky little chickadee Lola, and her Abuelita Hen, for more fun outings in Chicken Meadow. But where are they going? La di di di, they’re going to the park. La da da da, they’re going to el jardín. But that’s not all! Join Lola and Abuelita as they go to the fair to celebrate their Latino heritage, learn ballet at the Chickadee Dance School, ride in a parade on bicycles decorated with florecitas, and have many more exciting aventuras!