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This is a story from the The Happy Prince and Other Stories collection.

Summer brings sunshine, outdoor adventures, and vibrant energy—but it also places unique stress on the skin. Heat, humidity, sweat, and strong ultraviolet rays can disrupt the skin’s natural balance, leading to dryness, irritation, dullness, or excess oil. Summer Glow is a practical guide designed to help you protect, nourish, and restore your skin throughout the hottest months of the year. This audiobook explains how simple daily habits—when practiced consistently—can help maintain radiant, healthy skin even under intense summer conditions.

Building your first PC doesn’t have to be intimidating. If you’ve ever stared at a pile of computer parts and felt overwhelmed, The Frame Rate Frontier is your calm, step-by-step roadmap from unopened boxes to a fully powered machine. Written in plain English without unnecessary jargon this beginner-friendly guide walks you through every stage of the build with confidence and clarity.

Everyday Budgeting for Financial Stability is a clear, practical guide designed to help you take control of your money without feeling restricted or overwhelmed. Budgeting doesn’t have to mean cutting out everything you enjoy or living by rigid rules. This audiobook shows you how to build a simple, flexible budgeting system that supports your real life and creates long-term financial stability. Many people struggle with money not because they earn too little, but because they lack a plan that works day to day.

Emerson (Emmy) Hartwell has waited for a spot on an NHL roster since she became a professional hockey player, and this season, she'll finally get a chance to showcase her talents with the struggling D.C. Stars. Maverick Miller is the best player in the league, but he's never had a winning record. Team captain and desperate to turn things around, he agrees to play nice with the fiery new left-winger even though they're total opposites.

DI Zoe Finch has a new job. New house, new boss, and new team too. She's been persuaded to move from Birmingham to Cumbria, to head up a team investigating some of the county's most complex crimes. But it isn't easy. Adjusting to rural life, not to mention navigating the politics of Cumbria Police, will be a challenge. And she's not sure who she can trust. And then, her work becomes linked to that of her partner Carl, whose job it is to chase down bent coppers. Zoe's been here before.

In the quaint streets of South-West London, four female pensioners are about to embark on the heist of a lifetime. United by forty years of friendship, and desperate to raise funds for Beth’s healthcare, the Crones set about a daring plan to steal a priceless brooch from Hawling House. But this is no ordinary theft. It's a mission to right a decades-old wrong – the ‘death’ of their friend Ronnie at the hand of the mansion's enigmatic owner, Edgar Hawling.

Brought to you by Penguin. From the global bestselling author of Moonflower Murders and Close to Death comes an unputdownable new mystery in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series. The Word is Murder, the first book in the Hawthorne series, is about to be made into a major feature film. The actors...

Get ready to be transported to the world of Harry Potter in a captivating production that features hundreds of unique voices and immersive sound design that brings the wizarding world vividly to life in Dolby Atmos. You’ll hear footsteps echoing through the corridors of Hogwarts and the heart-racing whoosh of the Golden Snitch as it darts past your ears in the heat of a Quidditch match. Also featuring an electrifying new musical score, The Full-Cast Audio Editions present J.K. Rowling’s iconic series as a truly spellbinding listening event for the whole family.

Treat your ears to a performance so rich and captivating you'll imagine yourself in the halls of Hogwarts. Wherever you listen, the unmistakable voice of Stephen Fry is guaranteed to guide you ever more deeply into this magical story and transport you to the heart of the adventure.

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Set in a magical kingdom where a wealthy prince and a Russian princess meet for the first time and fall madly in love with each other. Their wedding is to be a huge celebration for the entire realm, with all sorts of entertainment, including fireworks as a grand finale. As soon as various firework elements are set in place, they start talking amongst each other, and we meet the very distinguished Remarkable Rocket, responsible for so many of Oscar Wilde's memorable epigrams.

The Mindful Screen is a practical, relatable guide for anyone who feels tethered to their phone and exhausted by constant digital noise. Julian Stokes breaks down the psychology behind screen addiction, from dopamine-driven habit loops to the myth of multitasking, and explains why modern devices are so difficult to put down. Through clear strategies and real-life examples, listeners learn how to audit their screen time, silence notifications, design distraction-free environments, reclaim deep focus, and rebuild meaningful relationships.

The age of narrow specialization is ending. As automation accelerates and artificial intelligence reshapes entire industries, the traditional career advice of "pick one niche and master it" is no longer enough. The Adaptive Polymath offers a bold alternative: cultivate intellectual range, stack complementary skills, and become indispensable in a rapidly evolving world.

In a world rapidly shaped by artificial intelligence, automation, and constant disruption, success no longer depends on memorizing information—it depends on how you think, create, and connect. Future Ready Minds is a practical and inspiring guide to developing the human skills that will matter most in the AI-driven era.

Hear the best stories ever written with Puffin Classics on audio. The Happy Prince and Other Stories is a haunting, magical fairy tale collection, in which Oscar Wilde beautifully evokes (amongst others) The Happy Prince, who was not so happy after all, The Selfish Giant who learned to love...

Are you stuck in endless self-analysis, waiting for the “perfect” moment to live your dreams? In Live Your Legacy, Stuart Berretini offers a transformative roadmap to break free from the healing trap and start living now. This practical guide empowers you to move from overthinking to action, embracing imperfect progress and building a life aligned with your deepest values.

In a world that never powers down, reclaiming your evenings may be the most radical act of self-care. Reclaim Your Nights is a thoughtful and practical guide to restoring deep, restorative sleep by redesigning the final hours of your day with intention, awareness, and calm structure. Rather than treating sleep as a passive event, this book presents it as a biological process that must be prepared for with care.

Build Better Habits with Money is a practical, empowering guide for anyone who wants to stop feeling stressed about finances and start feeling confident, calm, and in control. This audiobook isn’t about complicated spreadsheets or extreme budgeting—it’s about understanding the everyday habits that quietly shape your financial life and learning how to change them for good. Money habits are built one decision at a time: how you spend, save, borrow, and think about money. Many of these patterns form automatically, often influenced by emotions, upbringing, and environment rather than logic.

In the 1970s, Paul McCartney was a man on the run. After the breakup of The Beatles, the biggest and most culturally influential band of the 1960s, Paul McCartney faced an impossible question: Who was he now? At 27 years old, being a Beatle was all he had known since he was a teenager. Now he had to figure out who he was as an artist, as a husband, and as a father. In this Audible Original, hear Paul tell the story of his most transformative decade in his own words.