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One of Jane Austen’s most beloved works, Pride and Prejudice, is vividly brought to life by Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike ( Gone Girl). In her bright and energetic performance of this British classic, she expertly captures Austen’s signature wit and tone. Her attention to detail, her literary background, and her performance in the 2005 feature film version of the novel provide the perfect foundation from which to convey the story of Elizabeth Bennet, her four sisters, and the inimitable Mr. Darcy.

The haunting love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar. When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a...

When the luxurious overnight passenger train from Calais to the Riviera, known as the Blue Train, arrives in Nice, a guard goes into the compartment of American heiress, Ruth Kettering and attempts to wake her. Unfortunately, she will never wake up, as she is dead, having been killed by a heavy blow to her head, disfiguring her almost beyond recognition. What is more, her precious ruby, known as the 'Heart of Fire', is missing. The prime suspect is Ruth’s estranged husband, but detective Hercule Poirot, who also just happens to be a passenger on the train, is not convinced.

Persuasion, Jane Austen's last novel, is a tale of love and marriage told with irony and insight. Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth have met and seperated years before. Their reunion, after the passage or irrecoverable years of their youth, forces a recognition of the false values that drove them apart.

Pride and Prejudice has delighted generations of readers with its unforgettable cast of characters, carefully choreographed plot, and a hugely entertaining view of the world and its absurdities. With the arrival of eligible young men in their neighbourhood, the lives of Mr and Mrs Bennet and their five daughters are turned inside out and upside down.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Daniel Fletcher has spent his life learning how to carry things: the weight of steel, the expectations of his family, the demands of work, and the quiet responsibilities that come with being the man everyone relies on. But there is one weight he has...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Meara remembers a home filled with morning mist, her mother’s bread, her father’s quiet kindness, and the simple safety of a life that once seemed ordinary. Then that life is taken from her. After years of forced labor, fear, and abuse on a distant...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. **Persuasion**, Jane Austen's final completed novel, is her most tender and mature work. Eight years ago, Anne Elliot was persuaded to break her engagement with the young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. Now twenty-seven and faded in the eyes of her...

Desperate to win the heart of the man she secretly loves, Beatrice Hadley becomes the masked Lady in Blue—an opera-ballet star whose true identity could ruin her if revealed. But when Luke Atherton discovers the woman behind the mask is his brother’s jilted bride, keeping her secret may cost...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Eleanor Ashcroft has spent her life learning how to belong in the right rooms, carry the right name, and meet the expectations attached to both. At university in Norcaster, she expects to continue doing exactly that—until she meets Daniel Fletcher, an...

Wolf hatte gehofft, sein Leben als Dieb hinter sich lassen zu können, als er unerwartet eine Grafschaft erbte. Jeremy Wolfson Chesterton – „Wolf“ – der neue Earl of Pembroke, wird wider besseren Wissens erneut in eine Untersuchung hineingezogen. Er weiß, dass er Tabitha, die Witwe...

A murdered clerk. A body at Waterloo. A letter with a deadly secret. London, 1889. In the gloomy Dead Letter Office at St Martin’s Le Grand, young clerk Andrew Peverell spends his days sorting through letters that never found their intended reader. When three anonymous notes cross his desk –...

Auf Gut Traubnitz entscheidet sich das Schicksal zweier Schwestern: Ein bewegender Roman über verbotene Liebe, dunkle Geheimnisse und den Mut zum Widerstand von Kindle-#1-Bestsellerautorin Margit Steinborn Berlin, 1913: Helena von Traubnitz trotzt den Erwartungen ihrer Familie und verfolgt ihren Traum, Lehrerin zu werden. Doch in der Großstadt lauert eine Bedrohung aus der Vergangenheit. Auf Gut Traubnitz zerbricht unterdessen die Welt ihrer Schwester Johanna, als ihre große Liebe Edgar ohne Erklärung in die Nacht verschwindet.

Eine große Liebe und der unbändige Drang nach Freiheit London und Indien, im Herbst 1855: Es sind die letzten Tage des farbenprächtigen Königreichs von Awadh, dessen märchenhafter Reichtum die Gier des Britischen Empires geweckt hat. Schon bald wird das Gebiet von den Briten annektiert und einem Chief Commissioner unterstellt, und Awadhs tragischer Untergang wird bis nach London zu spüren sein. Für eine Frau mit dem Wunsch, als Heilerin zu arbeiten, ist weder in England noch in seiner Kronkolonie Platz.

De forsvundne træers ø er en familiesaga, en kærlighedshistorie og en fortælling om krig i Europa. Cypern, 1974. Tyrkiske Defne og græske Kostas på 17 og 18 år mødes i al hemmelighed på en taverna på den ø, som de begge kalder hjem. Midt i tavernaen står et stort, gammelt figentræ...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Jane Austen’s beloved classic exploring prejudice, pride, misunderstanding, and the quiet complexities of love and marriage in Regency England. Elizabeth Bennet, sharp‑witted and independent, navigates family expectations, social standing, and a...

A woman as untamed as the islands themselves. A guarded doctor who can heal every hurt but his own. Will their differences bind or break them? For Georgina Wright, traveling to the Hawaiian Islands in 1873 with renowned explorer Isabella Bird is the adventure of a lifetime. After years of being watched over, protected, and quietly underestimated, Georgina is ready to see the world, fill her sketchbook, and prove she is capable of more than anyone believes.

All Miss Sophie Everett wants is to see her beloved cousin happily married to the man she loves, and she'll do whatever it takes to make it happen. When a prime opportunity for matchmaking presents itself in the form of a country house party, she contrives to spend the week sowing the seeds of romance... until a fellow guest arrives with ideas of his own. Soon Sophie finds herself butting heads with the most stubborn man she's ever known. A man who once owned her heart... James Halloran, the Earl of Dearborn, is in need of an heir, but first he must find a wife.

Evermore tells the sweeping tale of the Mayer and Sharples families and how their lives intertwine through love, joys, sorrows, and tragedies. The setting is the Finger Lakes Region of Upstate New York and spans the decades, from the 1930s to the beginning of the new millennium.

Vincent van Gogh arrives in Paris with little more than paint-stained hands and an aching determination to create something worthy of the world. Living in his brother Theo's cramped apartment, he struggles against poverty, doubt, and the relentless pull of his own restless mind. Across the ocean in Amherst, Emily Dickinson receives news that changes everything. Faced with the nearness of death, the reclusive poet does the unthinkable: she leaves the quiet safety of the Homestead and sails for Paris, determined to taste life before it slips beyond her reach.