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But just as he's packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby who says that if Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike. Broadway actor Jim Dale's impressive vocal range gives each character in the book its own distinctive voice--a considerable task, given the pantheon of witches, warlocks, ghosts, ghouls, dwarves, and elves that Harry encounters in his second outing.

In the richest installment yet of J. K. Rowling's seven-part story, Harry Potter is faced with the unreliability of the very government of the magical world and the impotence of the authorities at Hogwarts. Despite this (or perhaps because of it), he finds depth and strength in his friends, beyond what even he knew, boundless loyalty; and unbearable sacrifice. Though thick runs the plot, listeners will race through these tapes and leave Hogwarts, like Harry, wishing only for the next train back. As his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry approaches, 15-year-old Harry Potter is in full-blown adolescence, complete with regular outbursts of rage, a nearly debilitating crush, and the blooming of a powerful sense of rebellion. Somehow, over the summer, gossip (usually traced back to the magic world's newspaper, the Daily Prophet ) has turned Harry's tragic and heroic encounter with Voldemort at the Triwizard Tournament into an excuse to ridicule and discount the teen. With an overwhelming course load as the fifth years prepare for their Ordinary Wizarding Levels examinations (O.W.Ls), devastating changes in the Gryffindor Quidditch team lineup, vivid dreams about long hallways and closed doors, and increasing pain in his lightning-shaped scar, Harry's resilience is sorely tested.

Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts for his fourth year of magical adventures in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood set their sights on men who will perfectly match their disparate personalities, with unexpected results. Stevenson, a narrator who makes the reader recognize the voices she creates long before the text reveals their identities, portrays the numerous characters with alacrity.

With over 110 million copies of his novels in print, David Baldacci is one of the most widely read storytellers in the world. On his very first play, a violent helmet-to-helmet collision knocked him off the field for good, and left him with an improbable side effect--he can never forget anything. His family destroyed, their killer's identity as mysterious as the motive behind the crime, and unable to forget a single detail from that horrible night, Decker finds his world collapsing around him. "Brilliant use of language...vivid supporting characters and numerous sudden and unexpected plot twists...[Baldacci] doesn't let the action sag at any point...In [Chung-Cha], Mr. Baldacci has created one of his most memorable characters. "Baldacci has been on a hot streak for the past few years, and The Target continues the trend. This isn't a garden-variety thriller or even a garden-variety Baldacci. "Its pace is relentless, and Baldacci's reworking of his perennial theme - absolute power corrupts absolutely - gives the book a sense of urgency and cultural relevance that many thrillers lack. By then, Baldacci has planted an emotional hook that remains long after readers have turned the last page of the book.

While political events drive the story, Dickens takes a decidedly antipolitical tone, lambasting both aristocratic tyranny and revolutionary excess--the latter memorably caricatured in Madame Defarge, who knits beside the guillotine.

It’s going to be hard for Stephanie to keep her hands off all that ice cream, and even harder for her to keep her hands off Ranger. He lives alone in the back room of his auto body shop on Baker Street in north Trenton, and he hasn’t cut his hair in at least ten years. He has a reputation for drinking too much and abusing women, and he has a hotdog with testicles tattooed on his forehead. None of this would be any of my business, but a couple months ago Trenton’s finest caught Virgil hijacking an eighteen--wheeler filled with cases of premium bourbon. Virgil was arrested and subsequently bonded out by my bail bondsman cousin and employer, Vincent Plum. If Virgil isn’t brought back into the system in a timely fashion, Vinnie will lose his bond money. I’m a college graduate with virtually no marketable skills, so for the past several years I’ve been tracking down Vinnie’s skips. What I lack in expertise I make up for with desperation and tenacity, because I only get paid when I catch someone. It was ten o’clock at night in mid--September, and cool enough for me to need a sweatshirt over my T--shirt. I was currently pulling surveillance on Larry Virgil’s three--bay garage, hoping to catch him entering or exiting. “He isn’t answering his phone, and there aren’t any lights on in the building.”. Lula is a former ’ho who Vinnie hired as a file clerk a while back. When files went digital he didn’t have the guts to fire her, so now Lula shows up every day for work and pretty much does whatever she wants. I have shoulder--length mostly unmanageable curly brown hair that’s usually pulled into a ponytail, and I’ve been told I look a little like Julia Roberts when she played a hooker in Pretty Woman. Only time this man goes out is to hijack a truck, and he got a crimp put in that activity.”. Lights flashed at the cross street and an eighteen--wheeler chugged toward us and parked in front of the lot attached to the garage. The lot was enclosed by a six--foot--high chain link fence topped with razor wire. “It’s him,” Lula said, sticking her hand into her big bedazzled purse and rooting around in it looking for her gun. Lula was out from behind the wheel of her Firebird, running across the road, waving her gun and yelling, “Bond enforcement!”. Virgil went deer in the headlights for a moment, then bolted for the corner with Lula in pursuit. Even in the dark of night I could see that Lula was running flat--out in her spike--heeled Via Spigas. Her spandex miniskirt was up around her waist, and one of her basketball--sized boobs had popped out of her tank top. He reached Lula’s red Firebird, wrenched the door open, jumped in, and took off. And it got all my makeup in there.”. “Guess you left the key in the ignition,” I said, gasping for air, coming alongside Lula. “Then go around and pull me in.”. I climbed into the cab from the passenger side, crawled over, and gave Lula a hand up. “There’s a awful lot of doohickeys here.”. “I thought you said you knew how to drive one of these.”. “I’m just sayin’ this here’s a fancy rig. I used to drive my Uncle Jimmy’s dump truck before I got established as a ’ho.”. She planted a Via Spiga on the clutch pedal and shifted. “It don’t matter if we lose a gear or two on account of this baby got a lot of them.”. We slowly drove down the street. Good thing there weren’t any cars there.”. I caught flashing strobes in my side mirror. “It’ll waste my time and I gotta get to the chop shop before they start on my Firebird. He’ll come in handy when we get to Stark Street and we confront Larry Virgil. This is our lucky day.”. The cop car zipped past us and came to a stop just before the next intersection, blocking our way. The patrolmen jumped out of the way, and Lula punted the patrol car halfway down the block before bringing the semi to a stop. That moron Larry Virgil stole my car and I gotta get to Stark Street before my baby’s nothing but spare parts. “Lula didn’t totally have the hang of driving this thing.”. Eddie’s partner, Jimmy, was standing alongside him. “Her grandmother would make my life a living hell.”. “What do you want to do about the car?” Jimmy asked Eddie. And I can get him to check with the chop shop to make sure they don’t take Lula’s car apart.”. Ranger is a former Special Forces operative turned businessman and security expert. He owns Rangeman, an exclusive security firm housed in a stealth building in downtown Trenton. I made a short call to Ranger and joined Lula and Eddie at the side of the truck. “That would be if I had a gun,” Lula said, thinking twice about her offer since she didn’t have a permit to carry concealed. Eddie took the key, opened the door to the freezer truck, and a body fell out. It was a chocolate--covered man, sprinkled with chopped pecans, totally frozen. “I’m going to see if I can get the trunk open on the squad car so I can get some crime scene tape and rubber gloves.”. Lula looked into the trailer. Somebody’s gonna be real disappointed in the morning if they don’t get their ice cream delivery. Not that I’d turn my nose up at a carton of this here ice cream if it accidentally fell out of the truck.”. “That would be tampering with evidence,” Jimmy said. “Just sayin’.”. Eddie returned with some yellow tape and a box of disposable gloves. “They wouldn’t look good on me, and they’d ruin my nail varnish.”. A shiny black Porsche Cayenne drove up and eased to a stop, and Ranger got out. He’s the boss, but he still works alongside his men if the threat level is high or if they’re short--handed. “I don’t want to go through his pockets and ruin the chocolate.”. Eddie and Ranger pulled on rubber gloves, crammed the stiff back into the truck, and closed the door on him. We drove to Stark Street in silence, and Ranger parked in front of the chop shop. A Rangeman guy who looked like the Hulk except for the part about being green got out of the Explorer and walked over to us. Tonight it was said softly with an undertone of desire, as if he might take me home and stay awhile. It gave me an instant rush, and heat curled through a bunch of my internal organs. It was a good moment, but I think it’s a little like planning on winning the lottery or contemplating losing five pounds. What were you doing with the freezer truck?”. “Lula and I were staking out Larry Virgil, and he drove up in the semi. And Lula crashed the truck into Eddie Gazarra’s squad car.”. “And the deceased?”. “We opened the door to look inside and the guy fell out.”. “As it turns out,” Ranger said, “I’ve been hired by Harry Bogart. In the past it’s been confined to competitive pricing, ripping off recipes, ads that pushed the boundaries of libel, and occasionally a shouting match at a family function.”. “They’re related?”. “Cousins.”. “And I guess they don’t like each other.”. “Not even a little. Bogart is sure it’s Mo Morris out to ruin him, but he can’t prove anything.”. “So he’s hired you.”. “His factory is old--school. He says ice cream is happiness and comfort and his customers would turn to birthday cake and mac and cheese if they thought his ice cream was under siege.”. “He sounds like a nice man.”. “He’s ruthless and miserly. I’m told that everyone gets to take a pint of ice cream home with them at the end of the shift in Mo Morris’s plant.”. “Hard to pass that up.”. Ranger stopped in front of my apartment building’s back door. The kiss was light but lingering, sending a clear message of checked passion. “I’ll make the arrangements for you to start work at Bogart’s plant and be back in touch,” Ranger said. “Have a good night?”. “Eddie Gazarra called you, didn’t he?”. “Cupcake, everyone called me, including your mother and the Trenton Times.”. “News travels fast.”. “Not every day someone gets dipped in chocolate and sprinkled with nuts. Usually people in Trenton just get stabbed and shot.”. I squeezed between Morelli and Bob, flipped the lid up on the pizza box, and took a piece.

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Davina Porter's lyrical narration will launch listeners into an exhilarating world of heroism, pulse-pounding adventure, and breathtaking romance as one woman is torn between past and present, passion and love. For here, James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a passion so fierce and a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire...and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.

Frank Herbert's death in 1986 was a tragic loss, yet the astounding legacy of his visionary fiction will live forever. He worked a wide variety of jobs-including TV cameraman, radio commentator, oyster diver, jungle survival instructor, lay analyst, creative writing teacher, reporter and editor of several West Coast newspapers-before becoming a full-time writer. Simon Vance is the critically acclaimed narrator of approximately 400 audiobooks, winner of forty-one AudioFile Earphones Awards, and a six-time Audie recipient. A graduate of the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London, Euan Morton's breakthrough role was appearing as Boy George in the musical Taboo , which earned him a Laurence Olivier Award nomination. Morton's breakthrough role was appearing as Boy George in the musical Taboo , which earned him a Laurence Olivier Award nomination.

But working from notes and partials left by Jordan, established fantasy writer Brandon Sanderson stepped in to complete the masterwork. Judkins previously worked on shows such as ABC’s “Agents of SHIELD,” the Netflix series “Hemlock Grove,” and the NBC series “Chuck.” Red Eagle partners Rick Selvage and Larry Mondragon will executive produce along with Radar’s Ted Field and Mike Weber. The Wheel of Time ® New Spring: The Novel #1 The Eye of the World #2 The Great Hunt #3 The Dragon Reborn #4 The Shadow Rising #5 The Fires of Heaven #6 Lord of Chaos #7 A Crown of Swords #8 The Path of Daggers #9 Winter's Heart #10 Crossroads of Twilight #11 Knife of Dreams. By Robert Jordan, Harriet McDougal, Alan Romanczuk, and Maria Simons The Wheel of Time Companion. “Michael Kramer and Kate Reading have been the masters of the Wheel of Time series from the very first book to this fourteenth, and final, book…They present the unfolding of the many themes with infinite patience and consistent tones of engagement with the characters and events.” ― AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner.

Now a major motion picture—Stephen King’s terrifying, classic #1 New York Times bestseller, “a landmark in American literature” ( Chicago Sun-Times )—about seven adults who return to their hometown to confront a nightmare they had first stumbled on as teenagers…an evil without a name: It . But the promise they made twenty-eight years ago calls them to reunite in the same place where, as teenagers, they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city’s children. His novel 11/22/63 —a recent Hulu original television series event—was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller as well as the Best Hardcover Book Award from the International Thriller Writers.

Listen to all seven stories in C. S. Lewis's classic fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia in this unabridged 31-CD collection, read by some of the world's most renowned performers: Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) fue uno de los intelectuales más importantes del siglo veinte y podría decirse que fue el escritor cristiano más influyente de su tiempo. Fue profesor particular de literatura inglesa y miembro de la junta de gobierno en la Universidad Oxford hasta 1954, cuando fue nombrado profesor de literatura medieval y renacentista en la Universidad Cambridge, cargo que desempeñó hasta que se jubiló.

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding audio transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. I can’t imagine American literature without it.” —John Leonard, Los Angeles Times. “A triumph.” —Margaret Atwood, The New York Times Book Review. “Toni Morrison’s finest work. [It] sets her apart [and] displays her prodigious talent.” — Chicago Sun-Times. An extraordinary work.” — The New York Times. Resonates from past to present.” — San Francisco Chronicle. “A brutally powerful, mesmerizing story. “Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature.” — New York Review of Books. “A work of genuine force. Beautifully written.” — The Washington Post. “There is something great in Beloved : a play of human voices, consciously exalted, perversely stressed, yet holding true. a glorious book.” — The Baltimore Sun. A profound and shattering story that carries the weight of history. rich, provocative, extremely satisfying.” — Milwaukee Journal. Toni Morrison has become one of America’s finest novelists.” — The Plain Dealer. A lasting achievement.” — The Christian Science Monitor. “Written with a force rarely seen in contemporary fiction. One feels deep admiration.” — USA Today. Morrison shakes that brilliant kaleidoscope of hers again, and the story of pain, endurance, poetry and power she is born to tell comes right out.” — The Village Voice. “A book worth many rereadings.” — Glamour. “In her most probing novel, Toni Morrison has demonstrated once again the stunning powers that place her in the first ranks of our living novelists.” — St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “Shattering emotional power and impact.” — New York Daily News.

Big Brother stares out from every poster and the Thought Police uncover each act of betrayal. He is also well known for his essays and journalism, particularly his works covering his travels and his time fighting in the Spanish Civil War.

Witchfinder Shadwell and his assistant Newton Pulsifier are also en route to Tadfield to investigate unusual phenomena in the area, while Anathema Device, descendent of prophetess Agnes Nutter, tries to decipher her ancestor’s cryptic predictions. Everything, that is, but for an unlikely angel and demon duo, who have been living on Earth for several millennia and have become rather fond of the place. Adapted, sound designed, and co-directed by Dirk Maggs ( Neverwhere , The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ) this first ever dramatization of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s novel features a large cast including Peter Serafinowicz, Mark Heap, Josie Lawrence, and Paterson Joseph. His screenwriting credits include the original BBC TV series of Neverwhere (1996), Dave McKean's first feature film, Mirrormask (2005), and the Doctor Who episode 'The Doctor's Wife' (2011).Terry Pratchett (Author) Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983.

In the richest installment yet of J. K. Rowling's seven-part story, Harry Potter is faced with the unreliability of the very government of the magical world and the impotence of the authorities at Hogwarts. Despite this (or perhaps because of it), he finds depth and strength in his friends, beyond what even he knew, boundless loyalty; and unbearable sacrifice. Though thick runs the plot, listeners will race through these tapes and leave Hogwarts, like Harry, wishing only for the next train back. As his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry approaches, 15-year-old Harry Potter is in full-blown adolescence, complete with regular outbursts of rage, a nearly debilitating crush, and the blooming of a powerful sense of rebellion. Somehow, over the summer, gossip (usually traced back to the magic world's newspaper, the Daily Prophet ) has turned Harry's tragic and heroic encounter with Voldemort at the Triwizard Tournament into an excuse to ridicule and discount the teen. With an overwhelming course load as the fifth years prepare for their Ordinary Wizarding Levels examinations (O.W.Ls), devastating changes in the Gryffindor Quidditch team lineup, vivid dreams about long hallways and closed doors, and increasing pain in his lightning-shaped scar, Harry's resilience is sorely tested.

Deeply in love, Christophe and Joy Lammenais built Chateau Lammenais into a small but renowned Napa Valley winery and an idyllic home where they raised their beloved daughter, Camille, who takes on increasing responsibilities for the estate they all treasure. Her many international bestsellers include Precious Gifts, Undercover, Country, Prodigal Son, Pegasus, A Perfect Life, Power Play, Winners, and other highly acclaimed novels.

Like every other hobbit, Bilbo Baggins likes nothing better than a quiet evening in his snug hole in the ground, dining on a sumptuous dinner in front of a fire. Though content to enjoy his cozy life, cheerful hobbit Mr. Bilbo Baggins agrees to help his wizard friend Gandalf aid a group of dwarves seeking their lost treasure.

New York Times best-selling author Iyanla Vanzant recounts the last decade of her life and the spiritual lessons learned—from the price of success during her meteoric rise as a TV celebrity on Oprah, the Iyanla TV show (produced by Barbara Walters), to the dissolution of her marriage and her daughter’s 15 months of illness and death on Christmas day.

On this complete nine-hour curriculum, Dr. Weil helps you take charge of your well-being with proven, natural solutions for boosting your body's self healing function, building energy, and overcoming everyday health challenges. Weil's books include Spontaneous Healing and Natural Health and Eight Weeks to Optimum Health.

A Jesus fully capable of turning your life completely around. Bestselling author Philip Yancey offers a new and different perspective on the life of Christ and his work--his teachings, his miracles, his death and resurrection, and ultimately, who he was and why he came.