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From West Africa to Windsor Castle, The Other Princess is a vivid imagining of the life of Queen Victoria's Black goddaughter, shining a light on a woman searching for home, love and identity.

Featuring Norman Rossington as Big Jim, listen to these six funny and anarchic tales from those demob days “when we was going to build the new Jerusalem – you know, before the world turned lax and sour”. Set on the building site of a seaside town in the1950s, and narrated by comedy legend Bernard Cribbins, this is classic BBC comedy at its best.

Nelson Algren reading from The Man With the Golden Arm, James Jones reading from The Thin Red Line, John Updike reading “Lifeguard” from Pigeon Feathers and Other, Bernard Malamud reading from “The Mourners” from The Magic Barrre.

In this important book, G.K. Chesterton offers a remarkably perceptive analysis of social and moral issues, even more relevant today than in his own time. With a light, humorous tone but a deadly serious philosophy, he comments on errors in education, on feminism vs. true womanhood, on the importance of the child, and other issues, using incisive arguments against the trendsetters’ assaults on the common man and the family.

Les Sept Couronnes sont exsangues. Le royaume panse ses plaies. Les guerres ont vidé les campagnes, les épidémies ont ruiné les récoltes et les pillards écument les terres dévastées. Pourtant il y a toujours autant de prétendants qui briguent la couronne : chacun dans son repaire échafaude des stratégies. Les Lannister multiplient les alliances fragiles, Stannis Baratheon se réfugie toujours davantage dans le culte de Rhllor, le maître de la lumière, et Robb Stark soupire après son fief en lambeaux.

A riveting portrait of the Gold Rush, by the award-winning author of Down the Great Unknown and The Forger's Spell. In the spring of 1848, rumors began to spread that gold had been discovered in a remote spot in the Sacramento Valley. A year later, newspaper headlines declared "Gold Fever!" as...

I lived and worked in the Philippines for three years, but I started out like many others: lost in a land that resembled my own with few lifelines to throw. This audiobook is aimed at helping those who decide to visit the Philippines for work, vacation, travel, or fun be more prepared than I was for all of the things that the Philippines has to offer.

Dans une Bretagne envoûtante, une histoire d'amour fulgurante et ambigüe entre trois êtres. Un château isolé, entre forêt et océan. Albert, maître des lieux, Herminien - son ami, son complice - et la belle Heide s'appréhendent, se côtoient, s'attirent, se repoussent, s'attirent encore, et enfin se déchirent.

Connie is scared of swimming. And what is worse, her twin baby brother and sister love it!

'An affirmation of the power of love, kindness, courage and human resilience' - Lara Marlowe, author of Love in a Time of War Bernard Phelan was working for an Iranian tour operator when he was arrested on false charges of spying on 3rd October 2022, becoming a political hostage. He shared...

It was in the nature of Belgium’s withdrawal from Africa that power was essentially handed over to the first in line to receive it. Very little of the careful preparation that characterized the British withdrawal from Africa was evident in Congo. As it turned out, the first in line to take power was a tall, stern-featured ideologue by the name of Patrice Lumumba. This audiobook looks at one of the most important African leaders of the 20th century.

What is the experience of black men in Britain? With continued conversation around British identity, racism and diversity, there is no better time to explore this question and give black British men a platform to answer it. Safe: On Black British Men Reclaiming Space is that platform. Including essays from top poets, writers, musicians, actors and journalists, this timely and accessible book brings together a selection of powerful reflections exploring the black British male experience and what it really means to reclaim and hold space in the landscape of our society.

Comment lord Eddard Stark, seigneur de Winterfell, Main du Roi, gravement blessé par traîtrise, et par là même plus que jamais à la merci de la perfide reine Cersei ou des imprévisibles caprices du despotique roi Robert, aurait-il une chance d'échapper à la nasse tissée dans l'ombre pour l'abattre ? Comment, armé de sa seule et inébranlable loyauté, cerné de toutes parts par d'abominables intrigues, pourrait-il à la fois survivre, sauvegarder les siens et assurer la pérennité du royaume ?

Plutarch’s Lives remains one of the world’s most profoundly influential literary works. Written at the beginning of the second century, it forms a brilliant social history of the ancient world. second volume includes Alexander and Caesar, Demetrius and Antony, Dion and Marcus Brutus, the aforementioned Demosthenes and Cicero, as well as biographies of Alexander, Caesar, Cato the Younger, and others.

This book is an absolute game changer! But don't just take it from me!

**A Good Morning America YA Book Club Pick** **A USA Today Bestseller** Two love stories. One hundred years apart. An unforgettable sapphic romance from the screenwriter and coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestselling novel and film Five Feet Apart. Libby has always been inexplicably drawn to...

Caligula Alavacomgetepus, préfet des Gaules veut faire forte impression à Rome et décide d'offrir à César rien moins qu'un Irréductible Gaulois ! Souvent isolé dans la forêt pour exercer ses talents, que ses camarades goûtent modérément, le barde Assurancetourix fait une proie idéale. César, considérant l'offrande plutôt assourdissante, donne l'ordre de jeter le barde aux lions lors des prochains jeux du cirque. Astérix et Obélix partent pour Rome délivrer leur ami.

A curvy young woman sets out into the wilderness to become the mate of an alpha werewolf. Trouble is, her new pack has two alphas. Both males are very different, but they have one thing in common: they're each determined to sire her children!

Amy Radcliffe loves playing the piano. She also loves her teacher, Mr. Sullivan and enjoys her lessons with him immensely.... even if he does have trouble keeping his hands to himself. In fact, she even enjoys giving the shy, lonely man a little thrill every once in a while, whether that be a flash of thigh or a touch of her titties.

Professor Blip Korterly is arrested, his friend Dr. Flake Fountain is drafted into a shadow-government research project to develop the ultimate biological weapon, and an accidental outbreak turns into a merry-hearted, babble-inducing apocalypse that will either destroy humankind or take it to the next step in evolution.