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Dan Jones’s life of Henry V stands out for the generous amount of space it allots to the critical first 26 years of his life before he became king. Both standalone biography and a completion of Dan’s sequence of English medieval histories that began with The Plantagenets and The Hollow Crown, Henry V is a thrilling and unmissable life of England’s greatest king from our best-selling medieval historian.

For years, Aspen has avoided going home. But when a family emergency calls her parents away from Sapphire Cove, she agrees to spend spring break overseeing the renovations on the family inn. The timing couldn’t be worse—it’s only been a month since her fiancé called off their wedding, and she was supposed to spend the break on her honeymoon. But Aspen is convinced she’s finally strong enough to go home—as long as she doesn’t run into Dan, her high school boyfriend and first love.

Jaxson and Hayden aren’t just best friends—they’re identical twin brothers! But being a twin isn’t always easy, and as they navigate playing with trash cans and chewing on electrical cords, they’ll have to figure out how to work together. It’s a twin thing. The very best thing! And these adventures are just the start.

Little Moon There Are No Stars Tonight was four years old when armed federal agents showed up at her home and took her from her family. Under the authority of the government, she was sent away to a boarding school specifically created to strip her of her Ponca culture and teach her the ways of white society. Little Moon was one of thousands of Indigenous children forced to attend these schools across America and give up everything they'd ever known: family, friends, toys, clothing, food, customs, even their language.

Henry V reigned over England for only nine years and four months and died at the age of just thirty-five, but he looms over the landscape of the late Middle Ages and beyond. The victor of Agincourt, he is remembered as the acme of kingship, a model to be closely imitated by his successors. William Shakespeare deployed Henry V as a study in youthful folly redirected to sober statesmanship. For one modern medievalist, Henry was, quite simply, “the greatest man who ever ruled England.”

Spekulatius ist mehr als nur ein Keks! Für Mats ist der Start in den Dezember ziemlich ungewöhnlich. Er bekommt statt einer Schnur mit 24 kleinen Päckchen nur einen Adventskalender mit blöden Sprüchen. Doch dann schenkt ihm eine mysteriöse Frau Karma ein Ei. Ein goldenes Ei, aus dem ein kleiner Drache schlüpft. Mats stellt schnell fest, dass der Kleine ein Weihnachtsdrache ist. Er duftet nach Weihnachtsgebäck und so tauft Mats ihn Spekulatius. Specki, der Weihnachtsdrache überrascht Mats und seine Schwester Matilda jeden Tag aufs Neue.

Hidden in the margins of history books, classical literature, and thousands of years of stories, myths and legends, through to contemporary literature, TV and film, there is a diverse and other-worldly super community of queer heroes to discover, learn from, and celebrate. Queer Heroes of Myth & Legend brings to life characters who are romantic, brave, mysterious, and always fantastical. It is a magnificent celebration of queerness through the ages in all its legendary glory.

In this conversation with Audible Editor Katie, historian Dan Jones reveals that he dove into writing his first novel after a gentle shove from George R.R. Martin. Listen in to hear Dan’s story about the writing and recording of Essex Dogs.

The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it into an empire stretched at its peak from Scotland to Jerusalem. In this epic history, Dan Jones vividly resurrects this fierce and seductive royal dynasty and its mythic world. We meet the captivating Eleanor of Aquitaine, twice queen and the most famous woman in Christendom; her son, Richard the Lionheart, who fought Saladin in the Third Crusade; and King John, a tyrant who was forced to sign Magna Carta, which formed the basis of our own Bill of Rights.

Thrust from her home out in The Elements, having escaped from the labs of The Tyson Estates and now free from the horrors of Sub Terra, Annie with Hutch and their infant daughter, Eden, now find themselves in a world they never knew existed, Atlantica. An underwater civilization, Atlantica was built by seven friends who believed Calvin Tyson’s theory of extreme climate changes due to a drastic shift of the Earth’s axis. It was to be a temporary base of operations until scientists could find a way for their people to survive out in the harsh ruins of the Earth after The Shift.

Peter Lewis has a decent job, a devoted girlfriend, and a bright future that begins with college in the fall. And, he’s about to lose everything to an obsession that no one, including Peter, understands. It begins as an idle diversion, but as Peter’s grasp on reality slips, the demons grow stronger. His health deteriorates, his job is in jeopardy and the people around him, including the person he loves the most, begin turning away from him. To save everything, Peter will have to overcome an overwhelming addiction and escape from a world that seems to have no exit.

Aliens - for Galileo, they are nothing more than a fantasy that his best friend Nikki is obsessed with. Like fairies and witches, they're just another story to keep people entertained. That's why, he laughed at her notion that his mother was an alien. Why wouldn't he? She may be the weirdest person he's ever met, but that's just because she's not from around here. He never could have guessed just how right Nikki was.

Wild Monsters Dance About is a collection of 21 short stories that will take into author M.J. Sewall’s unruly mind. These finely tuned tales jump through genres, concepts and characters, predicaments, adventures, and conundrums. Whether about everyday-science going terribly wrong in "Unintended Science" to animal evolution suddenly speeding up in "It Finally happened" or the prickly family politics of road trips in "Sibling Warfare", these stories will thrill, delight, and discombobulate your imagination.

In 1307, as they struggled to secure their last strongholds in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the Templars fell afoul of the vindictive and impulsive king of France. On Friday, October 13, hundreds of brothers were arrested en masse, imprisoned, tortured, and disbanded amid accusations of lurid sexual misconduct and heresy. They were tried by the Vatican in secret proceedings. But were they heretics or victims of a ruthlessly repressive state?

Welcome to the audiobook version of The Free Brontosaurus, David Berkeley's novella comprising 10 interweaving stories, complete with his accompanying album of 10 songs, one for each character. This is an incredible merging of genres, exploring the relationship between literature and music, between prose and lyric. Here, you get the stories and the songs sequenced together. These are gently written narratives of isolation, describing characters disconnected from home and community.

To jumpstart your shift to the Paleolithic diet, the 7-Day Paleo Beginners Plan encourages you to clear your home of non-Paleo items that can tempt you to revert to your usual diet. Keep in mind that the Paleo diet is more of a way of life than it is a dietary program. Making the right choices of food is the center point of this plan. Therefore, to make it easier for you to choose the right food, it helps that you remove unhealthy choices.

Women with endometriosis don't always have symptoms. Sometimes women go in for treatment for infertility or pelvic pain and get a diagnosis of endometriosis. This guide is to help women who have pelvic pain and endometriosis. It'll help you learn more about this health condition and help you get an idea of available treatment options. Besides this, you'll also find some alternative modes of treatment that could help relieve your symptoms.

Jacob's once normal life is shattered when a serial killer called The Butcher tortures his beloved girlfriend to death. He is torn between wanting justice for his girlfriend's murder and moving on with his life when he moves to a new city and meets Megan. Just when Jacob thinks that he will be able to escape his past, The Butcher follows him and Jacob is the only one who can stop him from killing again.

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Fly Witness is the delightfully zany tale of a boy swept away to a world populated by some very peculiar, teeny, tiny creatures. "Come to the kitchen! Quick! Quick! Quick! It's a fly. It keeps buzzing, and it's making me sick!" Beckoned by his new bride, our hero is called upon to kill a meddlesome fly. But he cannot do it! And he has no idea why. The world renowned psychiatrist, Dr. Shrinknoggin, steps in to help.