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This electrifying new audiobook thrives on revealing, not resolving, the ambiguities of Shakespeare's plays and their changing topicality. It introduces an intellectually, theatrically and ethically exciting writer who engages with intersectionality as much as with Ovid, with economics as much as poetry: who writes in strikingly modern ways about individual agency, privacy, politics, celebrity and sex.

Most of what we say about books is really about the words inside them: the rosy nostalgic glow for childhood reading, the lifetime companionship of a much-loved novel. But books are things as well as words, objects in our lives as well as worlds in our heads. All books are, as Stephen King put it, 'a uniquely portable magic'. Here, Emma Smith shows us why. Portable Magic unfurls an exciting and iconoclastic new story of the book in human hands, exploring when, why and how it acquired its particular hold over us.

Beloved and bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith lends his delightful touch to EMMA, the next book in The Austen Project.Prepare to meet a young woman who thinks she knows everything.Fresh from university, Emma Woodhouse triumphantly arrives home in Norfolk ready to embark on adult life with a splash.

Among the cobblestone villages and towns of rural Bulgaria, a dedicated team of unsung heroes led by Emma and Anthony Smith works tirelessly to change the destiny of street dogs. These animals are abandoned and neglected, and sometimes in danger, until Street Hearts step in to provide them with a second chance. In this heartwarming and inspiring tale, we meet the remarkable dogs they rescue and learn how an army of volunteers goes about it.

Uprooted from her beloved Great Western Beach, Emma Smith moves with her family from Newquay to the Devonshire village of Crapstone. But the dust has hardly settled when tragedy strikes, and Emma’s father, a DSO-decorated hero of the Great War, is so frustrated by the hardship of life as a lowly bank clerk and by his thwarted artistic ambitions that he suffers a catastrophic breakdown - from which disaster Emma's resourceful mother rallies courageously. Then, in 1939, the war again becomes a reality.

For centuries past, and all across the world, there are words for a certain kind of woman. Words that raise our hackles, fire up our blood. Words that tell a story. In this blazing cauldron of a book, the boldest writers of our day take up these words and take up their pen, celebrating fifty years of Virago.

Dan Smith (Bastille) and Emma Nagouse (You're Dead To Me) discuss the people in the songs on Dan's new project, Ampersand. Each episode is a conversation about history, music, mythology and popular culture, and how those things overlap. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Commissioned by Audible and written especially for audio format this collection brings together six crime stories through the themes of discovery, destination and arrival. Top narrators bring these gripping tales to life acknowledging the Scandinavian tradition of oral storytelling.

The city of Paris wanted to tear down the Eiffel Tower! Gustave Eiffel, an engineer and amateur scientist, had built the incredible structure for the 1889 World's Fair. Created using cutting-edge technology, it stood taller than any other building in the world! More than a million delighted people flocked to visit it during the fair. But the officials wondered, beyond being a spectacle, what is it good for? It must come down!

When Sam's best friend is whisked off the Outer Hebrides by her parents, Sam suddenly finds herself without any friends. Sam doesn’t seem to fit in anywhere anymore. She's not "cool", she’s not "sophisticated", and the gorgeous new boy at school certainly won’t be interested unless she has an image overhaul - fast! But as Sam experiments with new clothes and new friends, she finds herself more lost than ever! Who does she really want to be - and will she realize before it's too late.

In her eventful lifetime, Miriam was many things to many people: protective older sister, song leader, prophetess, leper. But between the highs and the lows, she was a girl who dreamed of freedom, a woman who longed for love, a leader who made mistakes, and a friend who valued connection.

Mann will Frau. Frau will Mann.Ihr denkt, einfacher geht es nicht? Dann kennt ihr Cam und Jenna noch nicht. Jenna. Wie reagierst du, wenn dein Ex auf dem Klassentreffen mit seiner Neuen auftauchen wird und du ihm ganz sicher nicht als Single gegenüberstehen willst?Richtig. Du erschleichst dir einfach einen festen Freund. Und zwar nicht irgendeinen.Cameron Murray ist der beste Freund meines Zwillingsbruders, früherer Captain des Basketballteams unserer Highschool, überdurchschnittlich attraktiv - und ein Vollidiot.

When spunky Maddy McGuire needs money to pay for horseback riding lessons, she decides to host a week-long pet camp. Despite many near-disasters, Maddy learns that raising the money itself was much of the fun and decides to try out different businesses. Throughout the series, she discovers skills that help her be a great entrepreneur, including organization, enthusiasm, math skills, and more.

The title story tells of a typical Christmas at the farm before the coming of Flora Poste. It is a parody of the worst sort of family Christmas: Adam Lambsbreath dresses up as Father Christmas in two of Judith's red shawls. There are unsuitable presents, unpleasant insertions into the pudding and Aunt Ada Doom orders Amos to carve the turkey, adding: 'Ay, would it were a vulture, 'twere more fitting!'

Gavin McNally is an eleven-year-old who lives in a small Northern California town. Just as he’s preparing to enter middle school, Gavin’s parents announce that the family will spend the next year traveling the country in an RV. How boring! But Gavin learns that a year in an RV can be many things—terrifying, death-defying, action-packed—but it’s definitely not boring!

Does it ever feel like everyone is living their best life? While you, on the other hand, find yourself reheating a frozen pizza while being three hours deep into a Netflix marathon, wondering where it all went wrong! It's nights like this that make even the hardiest of us want to throw in the towel and wave the white flag of defeat. I don’t possess a magic wand that will change your life overnight. What I do have is the key to help you unlock your true potential, and that's by helping you understand the power of your mind and how adopting a growth mindset will change your life.

Er liebt mich nicht! Und das wäre absolut kein Problem, wenn Cole weiter in der Hölle schmoren würde. Denn dorthin hätte ich ihn am liebsten geschickt, als die Wahrheit über unsere Hochzeit ans Tageslicht kam. Cole Turner mag mein Herz gestohlen haben, aber mein Kopf hat nicht vergessen, was er mir angetan hat. Deswegen macht es mir überhaupt nichts aus, als er Monate später vor meiner Haustür steht und tatsächlich hofft, dass ich weiter Mrs. Cole Turner spiele. Aber nicht mit mir! Sie verzeiht mir nicht! Menschen lügen. Und bisher waren mir die Folgen absolut egal. Aber das war vor Sienna.

Wenn dein Date eine Lüge ist, lügt sein Herz dann auch? Lucy ist verschroben, eine graue Maus, und stolz darauf. Warum auch nicht? Die Studentin verdient nebenher als Laborassistentin gutes Geld und keiner kommt ihr dabei in die Quere. Doch als der heißeste Kerl, den sie in ihren 22 Jahren jemals gesehen hat, ausgerechnet mit ihr Essen gehen möchte, verändert sich ihr Weltbild. Schließlich hat es Wochen gedauert, bis sie aufgehört hat zu sabbern, wenn er ins Labor kam. Was will er also ausgerechnet jetzt von ihr? Das Date kann nur schieflaufen. Nun, sie irrt sich.

Discover the humanities with Emma Smith.

Tom besitzt alles, nur nicht Dakota. Lerne den Millionär kennen und erlebe hautnah, wie er sich unglücklicherweise in ausgerechnet die Person verliebt, die ihn ebenfalls nicht vergessen kann. Dakota: Mein größtes Problem: den richtigen Mann finden. Nachdem mir Tom nach seiner Scharade den Gnadenstoß versetzt hat, habe ich die Faxen dicke und suche bei Chelseas Mom – der besten und einzigen Wahrsagerin, die ich kenne – nach Antworten. Wann werde ich endlich Mr. Right treffen? Doch die Weissagung ist niederschmetternd: Angeblich ist er mir bereits über den Weg gelaufen.