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Tra le ombre scintillanti della corte Tudor, Jane Parker cammina con passo sicuro. Gli occhi di tutti sono su di lei, ma nessuno vede davvero chi è. I segreti sono i suoi alleati, le bugie il suo scudo. Jane Parker è una moglie devota, una sorella fedele, una spia silenziosa. Ma è soprattutto la mente più acuta dell’Inghilterra di quel periodo. Mentre il potere dei Bolena vacilla e l’ira di un re imprevedibile si abbatte come una tempesta, Jane si muove sul filo delle alleanze, dove uno sguardo può tradire e un sorriso nascondere una condanna.

Behind the Iron Curtain, the Truth Can Kill You. Europe, 1956. The Iron Curtain divides the Free West from the Soviet Bloc, and the battle for hearts and minds is waged with words, not bullets. Charlie Atkins, a 23-year-old California farm girl, works at Radio Free Europe in Munich, relaying Western news to millions trapped behind Soviet borders. She longs to report real stories—like her own, marked by the mysterious disappearance of her father, Captain A. J. Atkins, in the last days of World War II. Her boss dismisses her: too young, too green, too female.

My name is Jon McCullough, a pastor in Texas. I also love writing, another way to help people in this very lost world. The book you are about to listen to is my story, my history. I purposed in my heart to write a true story about my past, the bad, the good, everything. I wanted to remind others that if you make mistakes, it doesn’t have to define you. You can be redeemed. “Dulapa” is based on a true story about me when I was twenty-one years old.

On the verge of becoming a spinster at twenty-three in colonial Nova Scotia, Submit Leete yields to parental pressure to marry a British Captain more than twice her age, but when he dies and she marries his young protégé too soon afterwards, her young stepdaughter Mary suspects the worst and vows revenge. Was his death an accident or murder? Mary sets out to prove that Submit and her new husband were motivated by lust and greed to end her father's life and steal his fortune. Dogged by this quest, she traces clues deep into the past hoping to destroy their lives, just as hers was destroyed.

If you loved Landscape of a Marriage by Gail Ward Olmsted, you'll absolutely adore Katharine's Remarkable Road Trip. In the fall of 1907, Katharine decides to drive from Newport, Rhode Island to her new home in Jackson, New Hampshire. Despite the concerns of her family and friends that at the age of 77 she lacks the stamina for the nearly 300-mile journey, Katharine sets out alone.

In the bustling silver mining town of Aspen, Colorado, a young woman's promising life was cut short on a June evening in 1886. I should know—I was that woman. My name is Ida Chatfield, and my mysterious death has remained one of Aspen's oldest unsolved enigmas. From beyond the grave, I recount my journey from the Nebraska prairie to the soaring peaks of Colorado.

It seemed so easy — dig a hole and climb through to the other side! If Kiki had known what was waiting for her there, would she have given up all that was dear to her? Stripped of material possessions, separated from her family and facing the end of her marriage; she has to survive in her adopted country as a single, older woman. For this, a metamorphosis is essential. Her strongest motivation and goal is to obtain citizenship. To get there, she has to dig deep. Cry with her, laugh with her, but never give up hope.

Giorgio Prà continua il suo viaggio, ma l'incontro con una donna fatale — tanto bella quanto pericolosa — mette a rischio tutto ciò per cui ha lottato. La separazione dal suo mentore rappresenta un'ulteriore prova, dalla quale esce con l'animo rafforzato. Ma la vita gli pone davanti una prova inaspettata, capace di scuotere le sue certezze più profonde. Giorgio si fa trovare pronto, come sempre… ma questa volta dovrà affrontare il nemico più difficile: se stesso.

Vittoria, apparsa come un'improvvisa luce nella sua vita, riporterà Giorgio alla realtà, e solo di fronte a un evento drammatico riusciranno a scoprire la verità nascosta dietro il viaggiatore di passioni.

À vingt ans, j'ai arrêté d'écouter les gens et je suis partie. Seule, en stop et sans un sou en poche. J'ai traversé l'Europe jusqu'au Cap Nord, sans autre but que de ne pas pourrir chez moi. On peut dire que j'ai fui. C'était mon premier grand voyage.

Emily looked like the perfect mom. Inside, she was breaking. She had a career, a family, and two children she adored. But one glass of wine became many, and soon alcohol was the one thing that could take it all away. The night police knocked on her door, she faced a choice: lose her children or fight for them and for herself. Inspired by Howard Kane’s own sobriety journey, this memoir-style novel exposes the raw truth of addiction and the long road back. Courtrooms. Custody battles. Sleepless nights. And the fragile strength it takes to rebuild from rock bottom.

Step into the heart of East London through the eyes of Elizabeth Cooper as she reflects on three turbulent decades of life, love, and survival. From the cobbled streets of Masthead Lane to the shadow of the Great War and the challenges of making ends meet, Elizabeth's story captures the resilience of working-class families as they navigate a rapidly changing world.

They all crossed paths with Stick Elliott, the best race car driver you never knew. A force to be reckoned with, he drives for money, women, pride, and glory. But he lives for speed. And he’s damn good at it. Stick can make a getaway with a trunk full of moonshine across the Carolina backroads faster than any man around. Now with the homemade liquor business running dry, Stick just needs to catch as many checkered flags as he can on the track, and maybe even the heart of the most beautiful woman he has ever seen.

A book of unparalleled scope and vision, Your Name Here is a spectacular honeycomb of books-within-books. In this death-defying feat of ambition, collaborators Helen Dewitt and Ilya Gridneff weave together America’s “War on Terror,” countless years of literary history, authorial sleight of hand, Scientology, dream analysis, multiple languages, emails, images, graphs, into something wondrous and unique.

“Sonora’s story is about not giving up in the face of setbacks. An inspirational tale.” —Booklist "This one's for the horse girls, the girls who fell in love with Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken and hoped someday they'd be like the fearless, determined, strong Sonora Carver whose love and...

Kutalaani: From the Stars is a stylish unique recording in radio-play style. It reveals the amazing life of Gerry Moses Martin a blind indigenous man who believes that his ancestors are talking to him through iconic Hollywood movies. This audio features traditional indigenous elders singing ancient stories from country (Australia) as well as contemporary original indigenous music.

Melbourne, 1976. A crew of precision-minded criminals walks into the fortified Victoria Club and disappears with millions in cash. No weapons. No alarms. No arrests. What they pulled off would go down as one of the boldest and most mysterious heists in Australian history. But this story isn’t just about the robbery—it’s about the silence that followed… and the cost of keeping it.

Big Boys Don’t Cry is a raw, emotionally charged work of fiction drawn from the real-life experiences of those who serve and protect. Told through the eyes of a first responder, it reveals the deep inner struggles faced by men and women in uniform—long after the sirens fade.

After losing the life he worked so hard to build, Folly finds himself in ruins with no direction, no certainty, and no map of where to go next. Drawn by whispers of a reclusive Sage that dwells high in the mountains, he sets out on a journey that he hopes will piece him back together. What he doesn’t yet understand is that transformation demands he face the very things he has tried to outrun and question the identity he constructed to protect himself.

Magical Journey is the story of Ricky, a 13-year-old minister’s son, who is forced to move from his comfortable home in Maine when his father is called to a new church in New Hampshire. His dad, who is also a professional magician, takes the family on a seven-month cross-country journey in a converted school bus to all 48 states in 1952 America.