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Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish essayist, poet, and author of fiction and travel books, was born in 1850 in Edinburgh, Scotland, as an only son of a prosperous civil engineer. He entered the University of Edinburgh at the age of 17 and studied to be an engineer to follow his father in the family business; however, he soon realized that he was not cut out for that profession. His father agreed to let him study law instead and although Stevenson graduated from the law school, he never practiced law because, by then, he knew he wanted to be a writer.

Hailing from a family of actors, best-selling children's writer Sir Michael Morpurgo likes to joke that were it not for a twist of fate he could have been the next George Clooney! Best known as the author of War Horse which was adapted into the film by Stephen Spielberg, over forty years Michael has written more than 130 books. Hear Michael talking to Maggie Lee about teaching, what he learnt from the poet Ted Hughes and why lying down is the best way to write!

On the planet of Raster, standing in the vast locust fields is The Warehouse. Aart is a bounty hunter looking for a missing girl in a strange land. Perhaps it's because he's a stranger he asks the one question you're not allowed to ask in the locust fields: Why? Soon he's a target for the authorities' rage, and it's not just one missing girl, but hundreds. Time is not on his side.

Aart has lived his whole life a slave. Only hours after finding freedom, he is stranded on a planet where emotions are bought and sold...and stolen. Criminals are forcibly "harvesting" the population. When a gang of thugs steal Aart's greatest emotions, he can no longer stand idly by. Aart must fight against the injustice and find his place in the universe.

Don't cry. Don't spill a drop. Valda risks her life every day to cross the Waters and bring supplies to her people. The Drubs are slaves, forced to live and work in the middle of the Waters, but they have hope. If they work hard enough, they can buy freedom. At least, that's what they've been told. The waters come for everyone. When Valda is refused freedom she must fight back and free the Drubs, but the Waters are hungry, and they don't take sides.

Bitcoin has almost become a buzzword in the last few years, thanks to its growing popularity. But the important question is, how does Bitcoin function? Is it a sound investment opportunity? How can you buy Bitcoin? If you want the answer to these questions, then this is the audiobook that you need. Bitcoin is changing the world, and it is entirely possible that in the next 20 years, it might become the currency that everyone in the world uses.

This collection of classic horror stories is sure to give you goose bumps, raise the hair on the back of your neck, and put some fright in your night. Includes Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper by Robert Bloch, Coin of the Realm by Charles L. Grant, Something Had to be Done by David Drake, The Graveyard Rats by Henry Kuttner, The Small Assassin by Ray Bradbury, Calling Card by Ramsey Campbell, The Words of Guru by C.M. Kornbluth, and Passengers by Robert Silverberg.

In the tradition of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Wang Gang's English is a captivating coming-of-age novel about the power of language to launch a journey of self-discovery. When a new teacher - a tall, elegantly dressed man from Shanghai carrying an English dictionary under his arm - comes to Urumqi, the capital of China's far west region of Xinjiang, 12-year-old Love Liu turns away from Chairman Mao's little red book and toward the teacher's big blue book for answers to his most pressing questions about love and life.

Having been drawn to the wild for a number of years, young Luke McKinney is forced to leave 1839 St. Louis for the North Country even sooner than he expected to go. At 17, along with a female companion and an elderly father figure, he is literally running for his life. With the law pursuing him and the wilderness unforgiving, he finds himself caught up in a survival system that has nothing to do with civilization or laws. Then the unthinkable happens, the only love of his life is taken from him.

Rich, evocative, and dignified, the King James Version of the Bible remains the favorite of millions for both its inspirational and poetic qualities. This awe-inspiring production contains the Old Testament in its entirety, read by a versatile group of distinguished performers. Whether it's your first introduction to the ancient text or if you can recite each word from memory, you will enjoy the literary and spiritual value this monumental audiobook has to offer.

The is a novel about a boy growing up with a closeted gay father. It details the good times and the bad times of living with a parent who never wanted to live up to who and what he was.

Picking up exactly where Playing Gods 1: Isolation left off, Playing Gods 2: Adaptation brings the zehuderan warriors Xriah and Vylis to the world of Gravios. A far cry from the last plane where the two battled, Gravios is an ocean world of cybernetically augmented humans and post-apocalyptic sea vessels. All land on Gravios has been completely submerged into the depths, the sea level elevated by the planet-swallowing marine creature known as the Grava.

The stench of death hangs over Happyville. When Flintlock rides into town, he sees windows caked in dust, food rotting on tables, and a forgotten corpse hanging at the gallows. The citizens of Happyville are dead in their beds, taken down by a deadly scourge, and Flintlock must stay put, or risk spreading the killer disease. His quarantine is broken by Cage Kingfisher, a mad clergyman who preaches the gospel of death.

Under Cancún’s hard blue sky, a beach boy provides a canvas for tourists’ desires, seeing deep into the world’s underbelly. An enigmatic encounter in Copenhagen takes an IT consultant down a rabbit hole of speculation that proves more seductive than sex. The collapse of a love triangle in London leads to a dangerous, hypnotic addiction. In the Nevada desert, a grieving man tries to merge with an unearthly machine.

Kenichi Zenimura–known as “Zeni”–loved baseball. As a young man in the 1920s he developed a Nisei baseball league in Fresno, California, and later organized barnstorming tours that brought the likes of Babe Ruth to the West Coast and Japan. And despite being sent to a Japanese-American internment camp in Arizona during World War II, he knew that somehow, baseball would be the key to improving the lives of his fellow detainees.

When life’s challenges arise, we often ask, “Why?” Why me, why them, why this suffering? When we believe in an all-good, all-knowing God, these questions become even more challenging to answer. Trials come with our choices, like building relationships or raising a family. We have expectations, but life can take us on a path we never anticipated. Our family faced this when our daughter’s journey was far different from what we imagined.

This unique and informative book provides well-documented but little-known facts that will give listeners a deeper understanding of the cultural experience of Asians in America. Michael Soon Lee powerfully reveals how he overcame prejudice and discrimination to achieve success despite these obstacles.