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A beautifully controlled and powerful story of love and conscience, will and desire which begins when a mysterious young girl arrives to take up a post at the seedy H-tel du Lion d'Or in a small French town in the mid-1930s. The Girl at the Lion d'Or is the first book in Sebastian Faulks' French...

Wealthy, powerful and potentially dangerous, hedge fund managers have emerged as the stars of twenty-first-century capitalism. Based on unprecedented access to the industry, More Money Than God provides the first authoritative history of hedge funds. A saga of riches and rich egos, this is also a history of discovery. Drawing on insights from mathematics, economics and psychology to crack the mysteries of the market, hedge funds have transformed the world, spawning new markets in exotic financial instruments and rewriting the rules of capitalism.

Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr Grene, and their relationship intensifies and complicates. Told through their respective journals, the story that emerges is at once shocking and deeply beautiful.

SCHLAFEN. TRÄUMEN. STERBEN. Stell dir vor, deine Träume wären nach dem Aufwachen nicht verschwunden, sondern aufgezeichnet worden. Du könntest sie dir jederzeit ansehen. Doch dann wäre dein nächster Schlaf dein letzter … Alysee ist vier Jahre alt, als ihr Vater sie panisch anfleht, um Himmels willen nicht einzuschlafen. Doch dem Mädchen fallen die Augen zu. Als sie wieder aufwacht, ist ihr Vater tot. Bestialisch ermordet. Die Angst vor dem Schlaf verlässt Alysee nie mehr.

The Hero of Humanity—the man summoned to slay the Demon King—he went and destroyed all who wronged him, humans and gods included. At the end of his bloody campaign, he had nothing left. He retired to a humble cottage built from the divine, wood of the World Tree that he chopped down. All was well until, one day, the world shook. The Hero wanted nothing to do with it and went to sleep. The next day, he went outside and saw that his property had been transferred to yet another world.

Brought to you by Penguin. Seven Londoners are invited to an opulent dinner party. From a brutal hedge-funder to a lovelorn barrister, a Polish footballer to a pickle magnate, they are defined by the virtual worlds of religious extremism, financial gambling, drugs and internet obsession they...

Winona is a young Lakota orphan adopted by former soldiers Thomas McNulty and John Cole. Living with Thomas and John on the farm they work in 1870s Tennessee, she is educated and loved, forging a life for herself beyond the violence and dispossession of her past. But the fragile harmony of her unlikely family unit, in the aftermath of the Civil War, is soon threatened by a further traumatic event, one which Winona struggles to confront, let alone understand. 

If you’re tired of awkward silences, stalled attraction, or relationships that lose momentum after the early excitement, this audiobook offers a clearer path forward. Many men struggle with women not because they lack confidence or effort, but because they’ve learned approaches that don’t align with how attraction and connection actually work. This 5-in-1 audiobook focuses on developing the skills that matter most: presence, conversation, emotional leadership, and relationship direction.

18 And Life on Skid Row tells the story of a boy who spent his childhood moving from Freeport, Bahamas to California and finally to Canada and who at the age of eight discovered the gift that would change his life. Throughout his career, Sebastian Bach has sold over twenty million records both...

Brought to you by Penguin. In the depths of the archive, Hannah dances with the ghosts of Vichy France, lost in testimony and a desire to hear the voices of the past. Back in her apartment, Moroccan teenager Tariq crashes on her sofa, consumed by his search for the mother he barely knew. Their...

Following the end of the First World War, Eneas McNulty joins the British-led Royal Irish Constabulary. With all those around him becoming soldiers of a different kind, however, it proves to be the defining decision of his life when, having witnessed the murder of a fellow RIC policeman, he is wrongly accused of identifying the executioners. With a sentence of death passed over him, he is forced to flee Sligo, leaving behind his friends, family and beloved girl, Viv.

Sie dachte, ihre größte Angst ist es, allein zu sein. Bis sie herausfindet, dass sie es nie war... Wer ist der "Nachbar"? Die Strafverteidigerin Sarah Wolff leidet an Monophobie, der Angst vor Einsamkeit. Was sie nicht weiß: Nachdem sie mit ihrer Tochter an den Stadtrand Berlins gezogen ist, hat sie einen unsichtbaren Nachbarn, der sie keine Sekunde lang allein lassen wird ... Das Unheimliche lauert im engsten Umfeld - der neue nervenzerreißende Psychothriller von #1-Bestseller-Autor Sebastian Fitzek sorgt für garantiert unruhige Nächte!

Cat Sebastian returns to Georgian London with a stunning tale of a reluctant criminal and the thief who cannot help but love her. Marian Hayes, the Duchess of Clare, just shot her husband. Of course, the evil, murderous man deserved what was coming to him, but now she must flee to the...

In "Vivian Awakened", we embark on an intimate journey through the eyes of Sebastian, a loving husband who observes and supports his wife's remarkable transformation. Vivian, once a traditional housewife, begins to confront her own desires, breaking free from societal expectations, leading to an evolution that neither of them saw coming. This evocative tale touches on the vulnerabilities and uncertainties that come with embracing change within a marriage.

Brought to you by Penguin. Five lives overlap across two centuries. School teacher Geoffrey’s war takes him to the brink of sanity; Billy’s fortitude lifts him from the Victorian slums in London; Elena and Jeanne interrogate the notion of the soul, from opposite points of view, a century...

Er weiß nicht, wie er heißt. Er weiß nicht, woher er kommt. Er kann sich nicht erinnern, wie er nach Berlin gelangt ist oder seit wann er auf der Straße lebt. Noah begibt sich auf die verzweifelte Suche nach seiner Herkunft. Doch je näher er der Wahrheit kommt, desto größer wird das Grauen. Denn Noah ist weit mehr als ein Gedächtnisloser. Er ist das zentrale Element einer Verschwörung, die das Leben aller Menschen auf dem Planeten bedroht und bereits zehntausende Opfer gefordert hat.

Most men struggle with attraction not because they lack effort, kindness, or intention, but because they were taught the wrong model entirely. They were told that being more agreeable, more accommodating, and more emotionally available would make them desirable. This audiobook explains why. Attraction is not created through persuasion, validation, or negotiation.

Ten contemporary reimaginings of Ovid’s iconic tales, with star-studded casts including Toby Jones, Shaun Dooley and Robert Glenister The Roman love poet Ovid has influenced writers past and present, with his witty, sexy tales inspiring authors from Shakespeare to Ezra Pound. Included here are...

F-Rank foot soldier Riven Wrangleman found people stuck in pods. And now, those people are dangling above his head. A mouse woman, a bat woman, and three anthropomorphic camel people, these five Demons bring with them incredible new glimpses into the state of the world for those lost on the island, namely Riven, Lucerein, and Enkriah. The new information is all well and good, but it doesn't change Riven's goals. He's still being slowly poisoned by the island, and his camp could still use some improvements. No amount of world-shaking revelations will alter that.

(Ads may play before the episode begins.) When night falls and the air grows heavy with rain, there’s a sound that soothes everything it touches. Rain Sounds With Thunder immerses you in an atmospheric world of thunderstorm rhythms, gentle ASMR layers, and cinematic rainfall that transforms any space into a sanctuary of calm. Imagine being under a cozy tent as a storm rolls through the forest—each raindrop landing softly above you, the distant rumble of thunder echoing like a heartbeat. This podcast captures that moment of perfect stillness, where the outside world dissolves and all that ...