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Eight-year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of 16, she's competing for the US Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and the thought of escape becomes all the more tempting.

In this engrossing launch to the Queens of Portugal trilogy, Catherine Mathis gives a fresh take on the tale of Pedro and Inês, Portugal’s real-life Romeo and Juliet. Pedro’s father would not have been king if not for his trusted advisor, Gonçalves. Once king, he wants no part in neighboring Castile’s royal convulsions though his son, Pedro, befriends powerful Castilians.

In a kingdom of shadows and ruin, I dared to love a cursed king. We've come to Irridain Court in disguise, clinging to a final thread of hope: a talisman that can break the curse before it kills Lore. Without it, he dies. No more stolen nights. No more whispered vows. No more us. The talisman...

Trick I - The first thing to vanish is a worthless doorstop. Then, in the twinkling of an eye, goes its rich and elderly owner. And, for the grand finale, both reappear - each as dead as the other. Trick II - From the House of Darkness issues more bafflement. In total darkness and from a distance of 12 feet, four bullets are pumped within an inch of each other into a spectator's back - a feat utterly impossible to perform yet brazenly and undeniably done.

The price of love is loss. We all pay it eventually In every life Some moments are too painful to be endured. Some moments will break you if you let them. And yet I cant afford to let anything break me, because we have one chance to win this war. One chance to create a better life for everyone...

The rock star known as Vampire Lestat, worshipped by millions of spellbound fans, prepares for a concert in San Francisco. Among the audience—pilgrims in a blind swoon of adoration—are hundreds of vampires, creatures who see Lestat as a "greedy fiend risking the secret prosperity of all his kind just to be loved and seen by mortals," fiends themselves who hate Lestat's power and who are determined to destroy him . . .

Lady Georgiana Rannoch, 35th in line for the British throne, knows how to play the part of an almost royal - but now she's off to Hollywood, where she must reprise her role as sleuth or risk starring in an all-too-convincing death scene...

Morganium has a new queen. She has no idea what she’s doing. The Prince of Jarvirium is dead. A skeletal army has seized Morganium. King Jarva has fled across the sea, leaving the continent of Aloysius in turmoil. And now, somehow, Momo sits on the throne. Some call her a usurper. Others, a savior. But the Holy Resistance, Jarva’s most zealous followers, call her their next target. With enemies on all sides and the polls against her, Momo has to campaign like her life depends on it — because it does.

To put his princess back on the throne, Trent Marston has faced down a corrupt king, shadow creatures, devil mages, and even an assassin from a nightmare realm. With his enemies now reeling and his allies aligned, Trent makes ready to lead the final strike that will liberate his nation. Yet the peril facing Trent's people is far worse than he thought, and a mass murder of millions is far closer than he knows.

Kings and Queens Biography Collection is a rotating public-domain audiobook show of biographies, memoirs, and lives of notable people. Each episode is a complete book that already found listeners on other Sol Good Media podcasts, gathered here because it fits the collection. New titles move through the feed, so there is always another story waiting. More free classic audiobooks at solgoodmedia.com.

Torn between two worlds . . . Separated from the man she loves . . . Fighting to save her throne and her best friend . . . Sarielle has never been more lost. Kingdoms will fall, hearts will be broken, and the future of Aureon will never be the same. QUEEN OF STARS AND SHADOWS is the third and...

Ein verfluchtes Erbe. Eine vergessene Vergangenheit. Ein Mann, dessen Blut der Schlüssel zu allem ist, was sie vergessen sollte. Vor dreihundert Jahren wurden die Drachen bis zur Auslöschung gejagt, zusammen mit den königlichen Blutlinien, die sie einst beschützten. Oder so glaubt es die Welt. Als Ruby Ahern erfährt, dass der Tyrannenkönig nicht nur ihren Bruder zum Herzog ernennen will, sondern sie auch noch seinem blutrünstigen General zur Frau geben möchte, trifft sie eine mutige Entscheidung: Sie flieht.

Enemies-to-more. Forced proximity. A queen who rules by magic and the one man she can’t disarm. Mandzee Hamartano didn’t ask to be queen. She didn’t ask for the peace treaty that’s turned half her city against her, the mage tournament that’s about to put her life on the line, or the envoy from Armonguard who’s moved into her palace and refuses to leave. She certainly didn’t ask to fall for him. Lovell Dunn is King Gidon’s royal envoy, tasked with one job: shadow the queen, keep the treaty, and report back.

Trent Marston has survived situations that would have killed a lesser man. But when an unexpected tragedy steals away a member of his loyal tribe, he’ll stop at nothing to get her back. With the aid of Emerald, a warrior and tracker with hundreds of years of battle experience, and the rest of his loyal and beautiful tribe, Trent will finally take the war to the devils who’ve threatened his realm.

A crown won in the eye of a storm. A queen who refuses to be broken... Princess Anna of Denmark sails for Scotland to marry King James VI, but storms ravage her fleet, igniting a deadly obsession with witchcraft in her new home. Arriving in a strange and paranoid court, Anna finds her new husband’s bed is a treacherous place. Surrounded by whispering courtiers and shifting alliances, Anna refuses to remain a passive pawn. When the court takes her children to raise them away from her, the young queen draws her line in the sand.

When a Republican party wins the General Election, they strip the royal family of everything and send them to live on a housing estate in the Midlands. Exchanging caviar for boiled eggs, servants for a social worker named Trish, the Queen and her family learn what it means to be poor among the...

Triona Sinclair was never meant for an ordinary life. A spark of something powerful has always lived within her—silent and still, until the moment it finally woke. A moment of fire and ruin. With her world shattered, Triona escapes into the wilds of Scotland—flanked by four allies, each loyal in their own way. But none of them challenge her quite like Finn MacGregor.

After the sudden death of her boyfriend, Vera would have been happy to spend the rest of her days curiously unnoticeable, washing bed sheets and cleaning toilets in present day Glastonbury. But when the strange new guest at her hotel reveals himself to be Merlin and drags her back to seventh century Camelot, a place she knows only from legends, only Vera (or Queen Guinevere as Merlin calls her) can right the course of history and save Arthur's kingdom from the will of a power-hungry mage.

For Ellery Queen, there is no puzzle that reason cannot solve. In his time, he has faced down killers, thugs, and thieves, protected only by the might of his brain - and the odd bit of timely intervention by his father, a burly New York police inspector. But when a university professor asks Queen to teach a class, the detective finds there are people whom reason cannot touch: college students. Queen's adventure on campus is only the first of this incomparable collection of short mysteries.

It's late 1936, and King Edward is in turmoil, having fallen in love with the scandalously divorced and even more scandalously American Wallis Simpson. He wants to marry her but knows that doing so will jeopardize his crown. Edward confides in his dear friend Darcy, Georgie's husband, and the couple agree to hide Wallis in their home while Edward figures out what to do. But unbeknownst to Georgie and Darcy, Sir Hubert, the owner of the estate, has given a film crew permission to shoot a motion picture about Henry the Eighth and Anne Boleyn on the grounds