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Plain English Shakespeare adapts and abridges Shakespeare's classic plays presenting them in shorter versions in plain English. Antony and Cleopatra is a Roman tragedy with romantic and comedic aspects, first performed around 1607, based on Thomas North's translation of the story Plutarch's lives in Ancient Greek. The plays follows Antony and Cleopatra at a time of strife in Sicily and the Roman Republic more broadly.

Lola Sullivan has been stared at by men since she was 13 years old, but no one has ever seen the real her. Not until venture capitalist Duncan Lyman walks into her textile design studio and they’re drawn to each other on every level. When deep passion sparks between them, along with an amazingly powerful emotional connection, they stay up all night together. By the time the sun comes up, she’s sure she’s found The One. Duncan never imagined a woman like Lola existed - she is just as beautiful on the inside as she is on the outside.

Verbessern Sie Ihr Spanisch mit düsteren, geheimnisvollen Kriminalgeschichten, die speziell für deutschsprachige Lernende entwickelt wurden. Dieses Hörbuch nutzt die effektive Parallelgeschichten-Methode, um Hörverständnis, Wortschatz und Sicherheit gezielt zu fördern. Jede Geschichte beginnt vollständig auf natürlichem Spanisch, sodass Sie die Sprache in einem authentischen und spannenden Kontext erleben. Anschließend hören Sie die komplette deutsche Übersetzung, damit alle wichtigen Details klar verständlich werden.

Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say. Even after archaeologists found a Viking longhouse in...

Silvia trabaja en una importante multinacional y está perdida. Silvia necesita encontrar a alguien para olvidar a Álvaro. Álvaro es su jefe y acaba de romperle el corazón. Bea, su mejor amiga, le propone un viaje. Y allí Silvia se encuentra con Gabriel...

¿Y si tu ciclo no fuera una carga, sino la brújula para transformar tu vida? Lejos de ser sólo un proceso reproductivo, el ciclo menstrual es un signo vital, una fuente de información fisiológica y una guía precisa para regular tu bienestar físico, hormonal y emocional. Radiance es un...

Sadie is delighted to have booked famous romantic-suspense novelist Linnea Bliss for an event at The Inkwell, her literary-themed pub, housed in a renovated grist mill. The author and her personal assistant, Marcie, are staying at Shady Creek Manor, a grand historical hotel that was once a private mansion and is rumored to still hold hidden treasure somewhere within its walls. But the hotel's storied past is nothing compared to its tragic present when Marcie plummets to her death from an open window on the third floor.

Dieses Hörbuch wurde speziell für Lernende entwickelt, die ihr Englisch durch aktives Zuhören verbessern möchten. Mit über zwanzig Kurzgeschichten aus dem modernen Arbeitsalltag bietet es eine abwechslungsreiche und effektive Methode, um Hörverständnis, Aussprache und Wortschatz gleichzeitig zu trainieren. Die Besonderheit dieses Hörbuchs liegt in seiner dreiteiligen Struktur: Jede Geschichte wird zunächst vollständig auf Englisch vorgelesen, gefolgt von der deutschen Übersetzung, und anschließend erneut auf Englisch – diesmal mit dem Wissen, was die Geschichte bedeutet.

When Sue persuades her husband to purchase a Victorian estate outside Branson, Missouri—rumored to conceal the lost treasure of Civil War bushwhacker Alf Bolin—she expects a festive renovation project. She does not expect a body in the upstairs bedroom. Nor does she expect the woods below the house to whisper. As Ellen, Sue, and Tanya prepare to restore the 1918 mansion over the Christmas holidays, they quickly discover the haunting isn’t harmless. A volatile sprite stalks the halls, guards the surrounding Murder Rocks, and makes one thing terrifyingly clear: The treasure stays buried.

Hai-Attacke! Im Londoner Aquarium "Bubble-Zoo" herrscht große Aufregung. Jemand hat das komplette Haifischbecken geleert - inklusive der mordsgefährlichen Bullenhaie! Die Olchi-Detektive begeben sich sofort auf die Suche, denn eins ist klar: Mister Paddock & Co müssen die Raubtiere finden, bevor sie ganz London in Angst und Schrecken versetzen. Werden ihnen die Haie ins Netz gehen?

Katie Chandler is back in New York and just in time to help Magic, Spells, and Illusions, Inc. with the latest crisis. A magical crime wave is sweeping the city and wizarding whiz Owen Palmer thinks the chaos-causing spells look awfully familiar - like something his arch-rival Phelan Idris would create. When Idris' rogue firm Spellworks starts selling amulets to protect against these spells, Owen's suspicions are confirmed. While Owen and the other wizards scramble to unravel the wicked spells, it's Katie's job as the new director of marketing for MSI to fight the battle of public perception.

Wildlife biologist Alex Carter leads a hike through the mountains of Wyoming, where dangerous landscapes, spirited wolves, and a staggering discovery await—only for the hikers to reveal deadly motivations and shifting loyalties, in this exhilarating sixth book in the Alex Carter series from...

Florence Ellsworth reluctantly lives in the shadow of her family’s notoriety. Mortified that her widower father is on the hunt for his fourth wife, she accepts an engagement to a staid clergyman in the desperate hope for propriety. But she’s unprepared when her sire’s newly hired attorney proves to be young, sincere, and handsome.

Yet another business trip, and I find myself seated next to a smoking-hot piece of eye candy on my flight to New York. Turns out he’s got a special talent for locating the free-spirit I thought I’d lost somewhere at the bottom of my laptop bag. He said it was nice to meet me, but I wouldn’t know how nice until we got very familiar with an airplane blanket and each other, too. It was a crazy thing to do, just a onetime stunt. So why am I still thinking about him after five years?

In ärmlichen Verhältnissen im Süden Afrikas aufgewachsen, heiratet Mary einen Farmer. Doch das weiße Paar hat sich wenig zu sagen, und der finanzielle Ruin rückt Jahr für Jahr näher. Als ein schwarzer Farmarbeiter als Diener ins Haus geholt wird, wird Mary für ihr rassistisches Verhalten bestraft. "Afrikanische Tragödie" erzählt nicht nur die Geschichte einer missglückten Ehe, sondern demonstriert die erstickende Kraft kolonialer Herrschaft in Rhodesien, dem heutigen Simbabwe. Eva Mattes liest den 1950 erschienenen Debütroman von Doris Lessing, die selbst in Rhodesien aufwuchs und 2007 den Literaturnobelpreis erhielt.

One grump. One thief. One highly-questionable adventure. Leonard Stanton has perfected the art of being alone. He keeps to the edges of ballrooms, and society, whenever possible. But when a priceless family heirloom is stolen off his very person, Leonard finds himself dragged into the one thing...

Gabe Sullivan risks his life every day as a firefighter in San Francisco. But after learning a brutal lesson about professional boundaries, he knows better than to risk his heart to his fire victims ever again. Especially the brave mother and daughter he saved from a deadly apartment fire... and can't stop thinking about. Megan Harris knows she owes the heroic firefighter everything for running into a burning building to save her and her seven-year-old daughter. Everything except her heart.

Mia Callaway thought she had the perfect guy and the perfect job...until she didn't. After a run of bad luck, Mia is looking for an escape, so she agrees to go to Angel's Bay to clean out her aunt's house. She has no idea that the wounded soldier next door and his adorable, but also wounded, daughter are about to change her definition of perfect. Add in stolen art, a family secret, and a town where miracles can happen, and Mia's escape turns out to be the greatest adventure of her life.

Now that the Magic, Spells, and Illusions, Inc. team has defeated the nefarious Spellworks, the only "competition" in town, Katie Chandler doesn't have much to do as director of marketing, and she's starting to question her role at MSI. Her boyfriend Owen Palmer, on the other hand, is in hog heaven, translating an ancient and powerful magical manuscript. But then he finds that the cryptic text describing the location of an enchanted gem known as the Eye of the Moon has radically changed. This deadly stone gives its holder enhanced power over others and a craving for more power.

Times are truly desperate within Averalaan's hundred holdings, and Jewel MArkess and her den are finding it hard to survive. Then suddenly their mentor, Rath, orders them to avoid the ancient Undercity beneath Averlaan's streets, cutting them off from their main source of income. Yet Rath himself refuses to heed the warnings of Jewel's seer dreams. Instead, he allies with the mages of the Order of Knowledge in a secret war against demonic foes, knowing he'll be targeted for death - or worse.