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When a juvenile detention exercise off the coast of the Kimberley goes wrong, 16-year-old Sparrow must swim to shore. There are sharks and crocs around him but the monsters he fears most live in the dark spaces in his mind.

Oh no! A little girl is missing her right sock! It may have fallen off somewhere along the way...or could it have gone on an exciting elephant ride? Perhaps it's hiding among sparkling jewels in a treasure chest! If you lost your very own little right sock, where do you think it would go? What would it do?

Claudia Montgomery is the best-selling author of the Nosy Parker mystery series. Her life was everything she had dreamed it would be, but it all came crashing to a halt when her parents died. As a result, she has an acute case of writer’s block. After several months, she goes to a Bed & Breakfast on the coast to relax and regenerate. Kate is a a successful archaeologist. She loved traveling the world and studying matriarchal societies. However, her work and life were upended when her sister was arrested and sent to prison.

An der Küste von Northumberland, genauer in dem kleinen Ort Darnby-on-Sea, ist eine Leiche an den Strand gespült worden. Die Polizei steht vor einem Rätsel. Denn eigentlich kann von einer Leiche nicht die Rede sein - der angespülte Tote war bereits ein Skelett, obwohl seine Kleidung keine Spuren von Zersetzung trugen. Allem Anschein nach ist der Tote ein Reporter, der in der Gegend von Darnby über eine dunkle Mordserie recherchierte. Patricia Vanhelsing und ihr Partner Tom Hamilton machen sich im Auftrag der London Express News auf den Weg nach Northumberland.

Planet Stories returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s listeners in electronic format.

The first of the legion have been called. What will they find when they arrive? With their personal worlds destroyed, Gabriel, Othia, and Samantha must continue on their journey. An undertaking that marks the final moments of mankind’s existence. Despair unravels Gabriel’s mind. The voices, nightmares, and unspeakable things in the shadows are all too real. His human frailty, fear and uncertainty feed the hell-fires that threaten to consume us all. The Assembled still thirst for Gabriel’s blood.

An anthology celebrating the witches and sorcerers of epic fantasy - featuring stories by George R. R. Martin, Scott Lynch, Megan Lindholm and many more! Hot on the heels of Gardner Dozois' (Rogues, Old Venus) acclaimed anthology The Book of Swords comes this companion volume devoted to magic. How could it be otherwise? For every Frodo, there is a Gandalf...and a Saruman. For every Dorothy, a Glinda...and a Wicked Witch of the West. What would Harry Potter be without Albus Dumbledore...and Severus Snape?

Only days have passed since a freak accident granted four college students superhuman powers. Now Jools and her friends (who haven’t even picked out a name for their superhero team yet) get caught up in the hunt for a Mad Genius’ misplaced super-weapon. But when Jools falls in with a modern-day Robin Hood and his band of superpowered Merry Men, she finds it hard to sort out the Good Guys from the Bad Guys - and to figure out which side she truly belongs on. Especially since nobody knows exactly what the Gun does....

Chase Banter thought her life couldn't get any weirder. Her mother has taken up private investigating, her writers' group's helpful suggestions have led to severe writer's block, and her girlfriend's family is nuts. Growing up isn't high on her list of priorities. What grip Chase has on her life is severely challenged when her girlfriend tells her about the little oops at the gynecologist. Seems the doctor mixed up the rooms, and now Gitana is pregnant. The reality of Gitana's radiant glow - and growing waistline - finally convinces Chase to accept that she's about to become a parent.

All Sarah ever wanted was a good career, a good woman to love, and a good life. She thought she had it all - until her lover threw her out for a younger woman. Now, Sarah is hunting for a new place to live. A place where she can start over. When she finds the perfect house, she has no idea she is about to meet the woman of her dreams. Kristen fell off a ladder while remodeling her Victorian house and died instantly. She had a lot of unfinished business in life and is destined to roam the rooms of her house, all alone. When Sarah moves in, Kristen is overjoyed for the company.

50 Things to Know to Know About Business Networking: How to Build a Professional Network by Jeanette Gardner will instantly give you some great tips on how to become a skilled business networker. Learn how to brand yourself as a networker, master the best etiquette when you attend conferences, events or meeting, find out how to handle yourself and others, and become a networking virtuoso. In this audiobook you will learn how to build strong business contacts and be a savvy networker and become the person everyone wants to know and talk to.

The only way Adelaide can provide for her family is by doing what she does best: keep a ship's engine running in the black of space. Sapphire would rather starve together than be separated from her soulmate. When Adelaide takes a job on the long-haul space freighter Sundered Rock against Sapphire's wishes, can their family survive the separation, or will everything that matters to Sapphire and Adelaide be torn asunder?

Eight-year-old Mariah Graystone likes making shadow puppets on the wall while she tells stories to her younger sister, Ariana. One night, Mariah creates a shadow bird - and she comes to life! Shadow Bird flies around the girls’ house and becomes injured after a harrowing encounter with Muffins, their cat. The sisters must think of a way to nurse Shadow Bird back to health - and get her back to her shadow world!

"This story happened when His Majesty was still a young man, a huntsman to be precise. It is the tale of a clockwork machine from the future, with a mission to terminate His Majesty to prevent him from meeting his future queen." Jarvis paused for effect. "Then, she was known only as Snow White." 

The Earth is doomed. A sinister alien race, disguised as giant rotary phones, is planning to blow up the world and sell whatever is left as collectibles! It’s up to our hero Lenny and his team of paranormal investigators - a ghost hunter, a psychic, a vampire, a werevole, and a pooka named Bob - to save the day. They must survive Yetis, vampire brides, a robot swami, and being shot into the depths of space. But they must succeed, or Earth will be no more!

On a routine mining mission to the asteroid belt, the crew of the Kerwood is mired in their personal concerns: finishing quickly, getting home, earning a fair share of the profits - until the ship experiences catastrophic failure on the return journey. Now they must put aside their petty worries if they're to have any hope of getting home alive.

Two species lived in peaceful coexistence on the planet Demoth until a deadly plague wiped out millions of the winged Ooloms while leaving humans untouched, helpless to do more than ease the suffering of their alien friends and neighbors. Faye Smallwood saw the horror firsthand, caring for the plague victims in her fahter's hospital. She was there when he discovered the cure that made him famous. She was also there when a freak accident killed him.

One minute Jordan March was falling out a window and the next she was falling in love - with the emergency room doctor! It looked as if nothing could stand in the way of Jordan and Dr. Amy Stewart finding true love together...except a banana peel, a psycho stalker, a lesbian poetess, an extreme chef, a KGB spy, and a sex toy inventor.

Meet Lennox Cooper. She’s a smart poker player, a smart detective, but she’s got issues. A year ago her affair with a married cop got her fired from the Portland Police. Now she’s trying to build a new life as a private investigator, but all she’d landed so far are surveillance gigs. The murder of a wealthy developer gives her a chance to reestablish herself as a homicide detective. During the course of the investigation she meets Mr. Right. Only problem, he’s on the short list of suspects. Lennox bets on her lover’s innocence.

No one has failed to notice that the current generation of youth is deeply - some would say totally - involved with digital media. Professors Howard Gardner and Katie Davis name today’s young people The App Generation, and in this spellbinding book they explore what it means to be “app-dependent” versus “app-enabled” and how life for this generation differs from life before the digital era.