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Hatred and fear between the machine-power people of the Dark and the magic-wielding people of the Day have kept at the edge of war for centuries. The delicate balance is about to be lost when a young, sickly boy discovers a secret that sets the forces of Dark and Day racing to secure a devastating power that could control the sun itself! Join Jono Wyer as he is thrust into the center of the prophecy, politics, and prejudice that threaten to tear the world apart. Jono must learn to trust new strange friends and doubt what he was raised to believe if the world is going to survive....

Lucien's best friend Sir Roger Foxcote has long since lost the spirit of Christmas following a tragic loss. Lucien's cousin Angela Seaford Holmes is widowed and destitute. Is Lucien's gift of a portrait that Fox adores a mere Christmas gift to Angela, or is the manipulative, matchmaking duke back to his old tricks? Once again, Lucien sets in motion events that are all but guaranteed to bring together this unlikely pair.

Jute can break into any house, climb any wall, and steal anything - and he just got hired for what he thinks is an easy burglary job. The only problem is, if he succeeds, the Thieves Guild is going to murder him. He just doesn't know that. Not yet. Being a thief always came easy for him, but it's a lot harder now, particularly when everyone wants him dead. Hiding out in the city of Hearne, Jute finds some strange allies in an old wizard and a talking hawk. Together, they uncover an ancient secret of terrifying power.

Mount Panorama in Bathurst, Australia, was the track that made his father a legend. Now, Bill Watson must overcome more than just his own fears as he and his family face adversity and sudden loss. A tale of rising again and again, this multigenerational story of heroism, love, and loss takes listeners on an edge-of-your-seat journey into the world of auto racing, the family we meet along the way, and the trials we must navigate...all while racing at 200 mph.

Beneath the surface of a London top university, an ancient society known as The Seechers, operate. They protect the world’s biggest secret. A hidden gateway to the subconscious world. Unlocked only by a mysterious liquid, found deep within the human brain. Dark forces close in, as subjects, known to possess the liquid, are kidnapped and experimented on.

Conor McBride has accepted a bargain he may live to regret, if he gets to live at all. Lured by the chance to resume his career as a violinist, he’s agreed to extract a defecting Iranian from Prague. He’s been promised a simple, stitched-up mission, but as he might have expected, it unravels into chaos as soon as he arrives.

Written in the first four months of the war in Ukraine, fuelled by anger towards mindless violence, Jan Němec’s stories tackle the present moment and confront what really matters at times of abundant destruction. A Czech man in Ukraine in search of his alter ego. A gang of homeless kids driven from a cellar by tenants using it as a shelter from the war. A German couple who ‘rented a womb’ in Ukraine, whose child is now stuck in Kyiv. A teenager partnered with a Valkyrie for the distribution of lavash in besieged Mariupol delays his flight until it is too late.

Listening in English is perhaps the most effective way to build up your vocabulary. With our audiobook English Short Stories for Intermediate Learners, you can practice listening while working on your English vocabulary and grammar skills as an ESL learner.

Welcome to the wonderful world of AI. AI Unveiled is meant to be a primer on AI by providing an overall introduction into AI and its associated technologies.

Don’t look. Don’t ask. Don’t get involved. This was once Inkwell Featherfield’s way of life. It was simple. Straightforward. Easy to remember. Too bad he botched it so spectacularly. And now, despite his best efforts to escape his troubles, things are even worse. The Wickwire Watch is showing him visions—though not about the missing parents he seeks. The powerful Lady Seherene is now an ally but demands a steep price for it. The Colonists have welcomed him into their family...which might be nice if they weren’t hunted fugitives in constant mortal danger.

As part-time operatives, Conor McBride and Kate Chatham are trained for unexpected developments, but their current troubles have nothing to do with undercover work. Overwhelmed by meddling relatives, an engagement party they didn’t want, and their own short tempers, they’d welcome any stress-relieving antidote. They just didn’t expect it to appear in the form of stolen treasure, buried in a bloody mound of snow on a deserted back road.

A tale of space exploration interspersed with nail-biting action (or something very much like that). A ripping yarn told from the point of view of them who went there. "I tried to imagine a situation where a cast of several, are in fact one and the same. An individual trapped alone in space surrounded by versions of themselves, each with their own separate opinions. If it takes a village to raise a child, it would at least take a handful to trek through space (even if only imaginary).

Lieutenant Liam Doherty has spent his life in the shadow of his famous friend Captain Brendan Merrick. Now in his sunset years, the Irish mariner is content to watch over his late friend's family and live his life with carefree abandon. He doesn't want change, and he doesn't need shaking up. But there's that widow down in Baltimore he just can't forget....

Annoying vampires? Talking skeletons? The fun never stops at Grimerth School for Monsters. It's Terry's first night, and he's in for quite a surprise!

Unholy gives the complete epic fantasy experience in novella form, following the story of a young boy who realizes his church's corrupt ways. Lord Jericho, the leader of the church of St. Damascus, trains students in the art of killing dragons and harnessing their magic. Isaac, a student of the church, is called to perform his final test of the year.

The Legend of Damian Bloodstone is the first novelette written by Erna J. Weissman. The story is narrated by Damian Bloodstone, a vengeful spirit long forgotten by the city of London. He will recollect the chain of events that resulted in him the ghostly defender of Paganism.

As the cadets and squires graduate from the Windom military academy, the call to a Knight's Quest summons two of the students to embark on a journey to the city of oracles, Pythia. The world is changing, struggling to find hope in new leaders while ancient threats begin to stir and thrust the cadets' plans for the future in disarray. Loyalties are tested as cadets and squires traverse the far reaches of the Day, searching for meaning, to find their purpose in life, as they embark on truly an impossible quest.... 

When a stranger from Dublin comes to his coastal village looking for a boat ride to the Great Blasket Island, Tom McBride isn’t anxious for the job. He has enough to handle, working the farm that will one day be his inheritance and dealing with a contentious father who’s threatening to withhold it. Tom agrees to the trip, curious about the man's purpose in visiting such a desolate spot. Steering his uncle’s fishing boat toward it, Tom thinks he’s prepared for whatever it has to offer, but nothing could prepare him for Brigid O’Sullivan.

Lady Katharine Farnsley has been jilted yet again. Her cold exterior masking a world of hurt, she despairs of ever finding true love. But when a mysterious stranger comes to her, hurt and desperate on a snowy Christmas Eve, she never dreams that opening the door to him will change her life forever...and show her the true meaning of Christmas. A holiday novella set in the De Montforte world, written by the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of The De Montfortes.

A pox of time and space is ravaging both ends of the world. It is unpredictable and unstoppable, devouring everything it touches. As the Windom Academy welcomes squires from the Day into its ranks, cultures and beliefs clash over the true nature of the pox and how to stop it. Jono and his team begin to fracture as they struggle to save a world from an enemy they don't understand.