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The Joe Bev Holiday Treat is a joyful and surprising one-hour compilation of Christmas themed stories - some true, some fictional - hosted by veteran public radio producer Joe Bevilacqua. The stories included are "Sleepy Santa", "The Christmas I Saved Macy's", "Sherlock Holmes' Creepy Christmas in Scotland", "A Rockabilly Christmas", and "Willoughby and the Professor Spend Christmas in the Middle East".

Set in the sparse frontier settlements of northeastern Brazil, Backlands tells the true story of a group of nomadic outlaws who reigned over the area from about 1922 until 1938. Taking from the rich and feared by the poor, they were led by the famously charismatic bandit Lampiao.

When her boyfriend is naively sucked into the Mob, young Rita Napapolus spends years trying to reconcile her days as a school teacher against her nights as a mob mistress. Eventually, the distraught young woman flees the familiarity of the east coast with her daughter to begin a new life in Seattle. Though tortured by leaving her lover behind, she is now free of the Mafioso’s hold. After peaceful years in the Pacific Northwest, Rita’s life takes another dangerous turn....

They've escaped the Breeders, yet their journey has just begun. Riley and Clay are once again on the run from the Breeders. The group may have escaped the deranged experiments at the hospital, but as one of the world's last free women, Riley can never be safe. On the road back home, Riley and her crew are captured by a band of savage men. Their destination: the Citadel, run by a bizarre religious prophet named the Messiah. Somehow he knows their secrets. He wants them to join his group of Believers, but only if they'll drink the baptismal water and swear allegiance.

Sixteen-year-old Riley Meemick is one of the world's last free girls. When Riley was born, her mother escaped the Breeders, the group of doctors using cruel experiments to bolster the dwindling human race. Her parents do everything possible to keep her from their clutches - moving from one desolate farm after another to escape the Breeders' long reach. The Breeders control everything and they're hunting Riley.

Emily Miller tells her personal story of how being a single, female victim of a home invasion drove her to try to obtain a legally registered gun in Washington, D.C. The narrative - sometimes shocking, other times hilarious in its absurdity - gives the listener a real-life understanding of how gun-control laws only make it more difficult for honest, law-abiding people to get guns, while violent crime continues to rise.

What if Mary Bennet’s life took a different path from that laid out for her in Pride and Prejudice? What if the frustrated intellectual of the Bennet family, the marginalized middle daughter, the plain girl who takes refuge in her books, eventually found the fulfillment enjoyed by her prettier, more confident sisters? This is the plot of The Other Bennet Sister, a debut novel with exactly the affection and authority to satisfy Austen fans.

Violet Mayhew is a proper young lady—who's on the run from her parents! Eleven-year-old Violet has one goal in mind when she runs away from home: to find her sister, Chloe. Violet’s parents say Chloe has turned into the "wrong sort of person," but Violet knows better. The only problem is...

Shawn Halstrom has an assignment: travel to Atlanta, Georgia to investigate the Heart of Atlanta refugee center so that Burke Enterprises can make a donation. The job should take two weeks tops, but he wasn’t planning on falling for a Cuban refugee named Carolina Diaz. When work pairs the unlikely duo together, Shawn and Carolina see a different side to each other and the world. But when the refugee center where Carolina works faces closure, the two must decide if they are strong enough to work through the difficulties ahead and if love is a risk they’re willing to take.

Katrien is 'n student tydens die politieke woelinge en die Voëlvry-toer wat Suid-Afrika in die tagtigerjare tref. En in die verre Pole het 'n jong man pas duur betaal vir sy sin vir geregtigheid.

Blou sjokolade is die derde boek in hierdie humoristiese en romantiese tienerreeks oor Elle Kroon se avonture. Die vorige twee boeke is Kondensmelk en Koshuiskoffie. Die boeke volg op mekaar, maar kan ook as enkeltitels gelees word. In Blou sjokolade vind Elle tot haar skok uit dat die orkestoer Frankryk toe, waarna sy so lank reeds uitsien, afgestel is.

Tienerlesers het die eerste keer kennis gemaak met Elle in die skreeusnaakse topverkoper Kondensmelk. In hierdie welkome opvolg op Christien Neser se debuutroman kom die bedorwe Elle voor een van die grootste uitdagings in haar jong lewe te staan - die koshuislewe. Koshuiskoffie is die tweede boek in hierdie humoristiese en romantiese tienerreeks oor Elle Kroon se avonture. Die ander twee boeke is Kondensmelk en Blou sjokolade. Die boeke volg op mekaar, maar kan ook as enkeltitels gelees word. Vervaardig en opgeneem deur BiB.Africa. Voorgelees deur Carla Smith.

New York Times-bestselling author Goldy Moldavsky delivers a deliciously twisty YA thriller that's Scream meets Karen McManus about a mysterious club with an obsession for horror. When it comes to horror movies, the rules are clear: x Avoid abandoned buildings, warehouses, and cabins at all...

Coming of age as a Fat brown girl in a white Connecticut suburb is hard. Harder when your whole life is on fire, though. Charlie Vega is a lot of things. Smart. Funny. Artistic. Ambitious. Fat. People sometimes have a problem with that last one. Especially her mom. Charlie wants a good...

El destino de la humanidad pende de un hilo: Gaia, la madre Tierra, ha abierto de par en par las Puertas de la Muerte para liberar a sus despiadados monstruos. Los únicos que pueden cerrarlas son Percy, Jason, Piper, Hazel, Frank, Leo y Annabeth, el equipo de semidioses griegos y romanos elegido por una antigua profecía. Pero su misión es todavía más difícil de lo que parece: sospechan que para encontrar las puertas deberán cruzar el océano, tienen solo seis días para conseguirlo y, por si fuera poco, acaba de estallar la guerra entre sus dos campamentos y ahora ellos son un objetivo...

In the bustling heart of New York City, Josh Sanders, a man ensnared in the monotonous rhythm of his uneventful life, stumbles upon a luminescent alien ship in Central Park. This chance encounter thrusts him into a perplexing cosmic trial designed to challenge human morality, through a lens vastly different from our own.

Year after year, I’m blown away by how phenomenal the men that I work with are. You know what I’m talking about—because you’re one of them. Men from around the world, just like you, who are courageous, heart-centered, willing to do the work, and prepared to get vulnerable. The world is calling for you to show up, but not power through, push harder, and use your willpower, because that just doesn’t work.

¡La colección de no ficción preferida por las familias! Únete a nuestros intrépidos exploradores Otto y Cassandra y Missy, el ave más astuta del universo, y embárcate en una nueva aventura. En esta ocasión, Otto, un niño galáctico, y Missy, la criatura más inteligente del universo, se introducirán en el cuerpo humano para descubrir todos sus secretos. ¿Por qué estornudamos? ¿Qué tienen de especiallas rótulas? ¿Y los diferentes tipos de intestinos? ¿Es cierto que existe un «hueso de la risa»? ¿Es un hueso de verdad?

Thoughts, stories, and philosophy of life from someone living with mental illness

Una lectura cálida, intensa y con un sabor que nos devuelve a la tierra del origen del té. Capaz de combinar belleza poética con tramas cautivadoras, Lisa See ha ido construyendo en sus novelas, desde El abanico de seda hasta El círculo de mujeres de la doctora Tan, un fascinante universo literario en torno a la historia y la cultura chinas. En La joven del té, vuelve a sorprendernos con un relato conmovedor sobre familia, identidad y maternidad.