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Ricarda and her younger brother Samuel have a whole week of school holiday ahead of them, and they don't intend to waste it! Before the week is over, they will have visited the zoo, gone to the funfair, helped grandpa to get an apple pie, hunted for hidden treasure, been given a pet hamster, and even fallen into a pond! Listen to their fun-packed adventures to discover exactly why this is their busiest week ever!

These are the stories of things out of water - of sea bed deserts choked with ghosts; of the lonely, roving children of the fen. Here your garden grows below ground. You will be born into a cradle of your own bones, shadows will burst from your eyes, and your mouth will fill with thorns. Storms will twist inside you, and the ghosts of your past will follow you and chart your future.

Here is a bundle of the first books in two Sophie Love series - the Inn at Sunset Harbor series and the Romance Chronicles series - all here in one convenient place. This bundle offers a great introduction to Sophie Love’s series. For Now and Forever and Love Like This mark the debut of beloved new romance series that will make you laugh, cry, and listening late into the night. And, it will make you fall in love with romance, all over again!

A two audiobook mystery bundle by number one best-selling author Blake Pierce, author of Once Gone, a number one best seller! Here is a bundle of the first books in two Blake Pierce series - the Avery Black, and Riley Paige series - all here in one convenient place. This bundle offers a great introduction to Blake Pierce’s series. Dark psychological thrillers with heart-pounding suspense, Cause to Kill and Once Gone mark the debut of riveting new series - and beloved new characters - that will leave you resisting to pause late into the night.

This audiobook is a bundle of two books: For Now and Forever and Forever and for Always in Sophie Loves’s The Inn at Sunset Harbor series. This bundle offers the first two books in one audiobook, for hours of listening. In For Now and Forever, Emily Mitchell, 35, living and working in New York City, has struggled through a string of failed relationships. In Forever and for Always, 35-year-old Emily Mitchell has fled her job, apartment, and ex-boyfriend in New York City for her father's abandoned home on the coast of Maine, needing a change in her life.

A bundle of books Love Like This and Love Like That in Sophie Loves’s The Romance Chronicles series. This bundle offers books one and two in one convenient file, with over 150,000 words of reading. A whirlwind romantic comedy that is as profound as it is funny, The Romance Chronicles will make you laugh, cry, and will keep you turning pages late into the night - and will make you fall in love with romance all over again.

A man turns up dead in his own apartment, locked in his closet, his body crawling with poisonous spiders, and the Boston police are stumped. As all of their leads collapse, they are dreading the killer will strike again. Desperate, the police have no choice but to turn to Boston’s most brilliant and controversial homicide detective - Avery Black. Now retired, Avery, in a low point in her own life, reluctantly agrees to help with the case. But when other bodies start turning up, Avery can’t help but wonder: Is there a serial killer on the loose?

Lisa’s mother is dying. But Lisa doesn’t care.... Now in her early 40s, and with her life disintegrating around her, she’s been forced to return to her childhood home where the memories of her father and brother have long been repressed. When the Victorian villa across the road goes up for sale, Lisa is naturally curious. One old woman has owned the property her whole life, and Lisa has never been allowed to step into the grounds before. Now an odd young stranger invites her to explore the garden...but only after midnight.

Thirty-five-year-old Emily Mitchell has fled her job, apartment, and ex-boyfriend in New York City for her father's historic, abandoned home on the coast of Maine, needing a change in her life and determined to make it work as a B&B. She had never expected, though, that her relationship with its caretaker, Daniel, would turn her life on its head.

Family tensions run high as families blend together in Mansfield Park. There are many families with secrets to hide, and the Mansfield family is no different. Fanny Price is sent to live with her power hungry and wealthy aunt and uncle, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram. There, Fanny doesn't get along well with her three eldest cousins, but she has a special affinity to the youngest one, Edmund, who is studying to be a clergyman. When Sir Thomas has to leave on business, Henry and Mary Crawford, the local minister's wife’s siblings, come to stay with them and things begin to get racy!

Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know is a compilation of fairy tales from many famous authors including The Brothers Grimm, Richard Johnson, and many more.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson tells a mysterious and thrilling tale through the eyes of the honest and good-natured lawyer, Mr. Utterson. In the will entrusted to Mr. Utterson, Dr. Jekyll states that when he dies, all of his money and possessions shall be left to Mr. Hyde. At first Mr. Utterson and his close friend, Mr. Enfield, suspect that the brutish and child-trampling Mr. Hyde is somehow blackmailing the well-known and well liked Dr. Jekyll.

The Manor Psychiatric Hospital in the Lake District is where Doctor Helen Ross decides to move her career. She soon realizes, however, that all is not as it should be at the hospital. Patients being removed from their beds in the dead of night and the odd behavior of the staff prompts her to investigate. What secrets does the hospital hold? And why are the staff so obedient to Professor Kirkby and his strange rules?

A short story for kids of all ages. Cover illustration by bnsolution.in.

Spring is in the air...and so, too, is the sound of music as the residents of Honeychurch Hall are stunned to learn that the Dowager Countess Lady Edith Honeychurch has agreed to the staging of a production of The Merry Widow in the dilapidated grand ballroom. Fears that the fiercely private octogenarian must be going senile are soon dismissed when our heroine Kat Stanford learns that the favor is a result of a desperate request from Countess Olga Golodkin.

It's 10 days before Christmas at Honeychurch Hall, and Kat Stanford has persuaded the Earl of Grenville to open the museum room to the villagers in an effort to raise money for rooftop repairs. For the price of a ticket, visitors will be able to view an unusual display of antiques - including the legendary Bleeding Hawk of Honeychurch Hall.

Following the butler's death and the cook's retirement, the ever-gullible Lady Lavinia replaces them with a power couple who are determined to thrust the crumbling estate into the 21st century. The Dowager Countess reluctantly agrees to hold a big-ticket Christmas gala and silent auction with a mystery celebrity flying in from Monaco as the guest of honour.