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In the heart of historic Maine, two friends embark on an unforgettable summer filled with adventure and mystery. Ruth introduces Betty to the rugged beauty of the coastline, where fishing and clam digging intertwine with the thrill of dodging smugglers and navigating perilous explosives. As they explore the secrets of Witches Cove, their courage and cleverness are put to the test. Will their exceptional physical strength and quick thinking be enough to uncover the hidden dangers lurking beneath the surface? Join Ruth and Betty on this action-packed journey that blends friendship, exploration, ...

In 'Silent Alarm,' the sixth installment of the Adventures for Girls series, listeners follow Marion, a dedicated school teacher, as she embarks on a mission to uplift a struggling mountain community. Paired with the adventurous Florence Ormsby, Marion discovers the dilapidated state of the local school in the Cumberland Mountains of Eastern Kentucky. With a heart full of determination, the duo sets out to raise funds and use their talents to transform the educational landscape. Yet, they soon face resistance from some residents who are wary of change. This gripping tale explores themes of ...

With AI upending work and life, the bestselling authors of Smart Brevity offer a one-stop survival guide to dramatically improving your life, work and happiness. * Toxic complexity clogs our meetings, inboxes, calendars - even in our daily habits. We can do so much more, but first we need to do...

A groundbreaking, women-centered guide to addiction and recovery that reveals how addiction uniquely affects women—often hidden behind high-functioning lives—and offers a clear, compassionate path forward. Addiction in women often hides in plain sight. As women, we’re expected to keep it...

Quinn Black is having the worst day ever...over and over again. The same car blocking his driveway, the same horrific accident he witnesses, the same cop that keeps preventing him from saving his boss from dying in it, and the same memory of a girl from his past that gets sharper each time. Then he realizes he has the power to travel through time and change the future. Could he prevent terrorist attacks? Natural disasters? The deaths of friends? Before long, Quinn is thrust into the greatest race in human history.

In this distilled version of his bestselling Life Without Diabetes, Professor Roy Taylor offers a brilliantly concise explanation of what happens to us when we get type 2 and how we can reverse it permanently. Taylor's research has demonstrated that type 2 is caused by just one factor - too much...

This third treasury of rare archive material presents another four newly restored radio episodes of Hancock’s Half Hour: ‘The 13th of the Series’ (1957), ‘The Male Suffragettes’ (1958), ‘The Sleepless Night’ (1958) and ‘The Last Bus Home’ (1959). Starring once again alongside Tony Hancock are Sid James, Bill Kerr, Hattie Jacques and Kenneth Williams. Three further editions of the radio hit Calling All Forces, from 1952, feature Hancock as co-compere with Charlie Chester, with a bill featuring Robb Wilton and many other light entertainment stars of the day.

A self-described "skeptical believer", Stemman uses his skills as a professional journalist to perform an in-depth exploration of reincarnation. Using case studies, anecdotes, and physical evidence from the best-documented cases from around the world, Stemman shines a bright light on this subject.

In this boldly drawn portrait of 18th-century England, Roy Porter defines a nation from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered run the gamut, covering diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work and wages.

Office worker Ryoma Takebayashi had an unpleasant life and an unlikely death, but the gods of a parallel world reincarnate him as a boy with great magic abilities and all memories intact. After Ryoma registers with an Adventurers' Guild, his first challenge is protecting a town from an epidemic. Will his modern-day Earth knowledge and advanced slime skills be enough to halt a plague?

Idiosyncratic detective duo Max Matthews and Sean Armitage are back for three more series, in which they expertly extract confessions from their suspects during the course of one interview. Their relationship has evolved since they were first paired up, back when Armitage was a rookie constable, but their interrogation technique is as incisive as ever. These 11 compelling dramas all shine the spotlight on a different suspect, each with their own tale to tell - and their own selective version of events.

Roy Dean retraces the trials and tribulations he faced in learning the sophisticated art of Brazilian jiujitsu from early competition experiences in Southern California to running a world class academy and sharing that journey online. The lessons he learned are the lessons he shares with you.

Acclaimed radio and TV dramatist Roy Clarke is well known for his hit sitcoms Last of the Summer Wine, Open All Hours and Keeping Up Appearances. But before he came to fame, he penned two hugely entertaining six-part thriller serials—both directed by a struggling radio producer who would become one of the most renowned playwrights in the world: Alan Ayckbourn.

Two people consumed by grief. One seeks salvation. The other, revenge. Two years after losing her husband in the line of duty, DI Carrie Tyler is finally stepping back into the field. When tragedy strikes again in the form of apparent, drug-related gang killings, Carrie must lead her team into the shadows of Arthwaite’s streets to find a killer. Then the letters arrive. A million and one people interacted with my daughter while she was alive. It took only six to kill her. One by one, they will pay the price...

Type 2 diabetes has been regarded as an incurable, lifelong condition for centuries. Even worse, it seemed to be inevitably progressive. When you got the diagnosis, it was as though above the clinic door was written: Abandon hope all ye who enter here. Professor Roy Taylor is the world's leading expert on type 2, the man who in 2006 finally found the missing piece in the scientific jigsaw that paved the way for a cure. 

The principle of this extraordinary book is to help you uncover and neutralize the programming of your past by conquering the negative emotions in the present. The present holds the key to the past and the future, and that to continue reacting to cruel authority in an infantile way keeps alive what was implanted in you as a child. Somewhere in your distant past, there was an original upset or trauma - perhaps many of them. Someone or something that you deeply resented changed the course of your whole life.

Kenneth Cranham and Alex Lanipekun star in these 15 hard-hitting crime dramas. Chalk and cheese coppers Max Matthews and Sean Armitage are from different generations and different worlds, but together they make a remarkable team. In this powerful, unconventional police procedural, we join the detective duo in the interview room as they practise their unique style of interrogation in a bid to extract a confession....

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Jack Saxby is trying to keep the farm he thought he’d been given by his mother. His vindictive father wants to take it away, and Jack’s two brothers also have their own agenda. Then there’s a suspicious death, and the family’s dark secrets come to light. Can Eric Ward, representing Jack, find out who’s really guilty? Eric is facing a risky eye operation and he’s still resisting a serious relationship with young heiress Anne Morcombe. Can he solve the case and save his reputation?

From 1381 - when Sir John Cavendish, Lord Chief Justice of England, was killed during the Peasant’s Revolt - to 1906, when the Duke of Devonshire’s resignation brought down the Tory government: the family’s fortunes (and misfortunes) mirrored the life of the nation. The Devonshires is also the story of the huge support networks of servants and labour needed to sustain the supremacy of a family whose accumulated wealth, from the dissolution of the monasteries to the coming of the railways, saw them found ship ports, holiday resorts, scientific laboratories, stud farms and some of the most significant buildings in the land.