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Fathomless
- Spineless, Book 2
- By: Samantha San Miguel
- Narrated by: Vivia Font
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
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After months away at boarding school, Lulu Davenport was looking forward to summer vacation at her home on the southwest Florida coast, especially since her best friend, Algie Emsworth, will be spending his vacation with the Davenport family. But since his widowed mother has fallen on hard times, he’s gotten a job nearby that keeps him away from the house most of the day. And Frankie, Lulu’s sister and usual companion, is out of commission after injuring herself while sailing.
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Fathomless
- Spineless, Book 2
- Narrated by: Vivia Font
- Series: Spineless, Book 2
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 22-10-24
- Language: English
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Finding Alfie
- A D-Day Story
- By: Michael Morpurgo
- Narrated by: Michael Morpurgo
- Length: 59 mins
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Aunty Iris always treasured her small painting of a boat, painted by her close friend Alfie many years before. Her nephew, Michael, is inspired to try and find out what actually happened to Alfie in World War II. He embarks on a journey that takes him across the Channel into France, learning a profound lesson along the way about service and the surprising power of memory.
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Finding Alfie
- A D-Day Story
- Narrated by: Michael Morpurgo
- Length: 59 mins
- Release date: 28-11-24
- Language: English
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The People Could Fly
- American Black Folktales
- By: Virginia Hamilton
- Length: 4 hrs
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“The People Could Fly,” the title story in Virginia Hamilton’s prize-winning American Black folktale collection, is a fantasy tale of the slaves who possessed the ancient magic words that enabled them to literally fly away to freedom. And it is a moving tale of those who did not have the opportunity to “fly” away, who remained slaves with only their imaginations to set them free as they told and retold this tale.
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The People Could Fly
- American Black Folktales
- Length: 4 hrs
- Release date: 03-12-24
- Language: English
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Wink, Murder
- A Bletchley Park Mystery
- By: Rhian Tracey
- Length: Not Yet Known
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Mary has a gift for languages and codes that has brought her to the attention of the adults working at Bletchley Park. She finds herself drawn into their undercover operations, learning Japanese in order to decode enemy messages - but the operation she's a part of remains cloaked in mystery. As tensions on the Home Front escalate, Mary is forced to face the realities of warfare - the enemy is operating amongst them. Posing as a waitress amidst the glamour and bustle of the Ritz Hotel, Mary uncovers secrets and lies amongst the people she's working mostly closely with.
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Wink, Murder
- A Bletchley Park Mystery
- Series: Bletchley Park Mystery
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 13-02-25
- Language: English
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Murder! By Narwhal!
- Grimacres Whodunnit, Book 1
- By: Alex T. Smith
- Narrated by: Lucy Strange
- Length: 10 hrs
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When the tyrannical family patriarch Sir Ignatious Gristle is murdered on his 90th birthday at his country estate, every one of his gathered family members is a suspect. Trapped by a snowstorm with no way to contact the police, it's up to his mettlesome granddaughter, Edna, and her trusted tortoise, Charles Darwin, to determine whodunnit!
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Murder! By Narwhal!
- Grimacres Whodunnit, Book 1
- Narrated by: Lucy Strange
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 31-10-24
- Language: English
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Abgrund
- By: Robert Harris, Wolfgang Müller - Übersetzer
- Narrated by: Frank Arnold
- Length: 12 hrs
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Sommer 1914. Die Welt am Rande der Katastrophe. In London hat die 26-jährige Venetia Stanley – aristokratisch, klug, unbekümmert – eine Affäre mit Premierminister H. H. Asquith, einem Mann, der mehr als doppelt so alt ist wie sie. Er schreibt ihr wie besessen Liebesbriefe und teilt ihr die heikelsten Staatsgeheimnisse mit.
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Abgrund
- Narrated by: Frank Arnold
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 04-11-24
- Language: German
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Shadow Creatures
- By: Chris Vick
- Narrated by: Nina Yndis
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
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Mose and her daughter Agna are incomers in the village, treated with suspicion. But young Liva, left out of the secrets her sister Tove and brother Hakken share, idolises Agna and follows her everywhere. Unwittingly, they lead the German soldiers to a perfect island. Once a haven for picnics and storytelling under the midnight sun, it is transformed into a grim POW camp. This is an unlikely place to find buried treasure, but it's there.
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Shadow Creatures
- Narrated by: Nina Yndis
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 03-10-24
- Language: English
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Spineless
- Spineless, Book 1
- By: Samantha San Miguel
- Narrated by: Todd Haberkorn
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
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When his asthma lands him at a health resort in the wilds of Gilded Age South Florida, twelve-year-old Algie Emsworth is over the moon. The scientific treasure trove of unexplored swamps may launch his dream career as a naturalist. But even Algie is startled when he happens upon a brand-new species and her brood in the karst springs surrounding the resort. Algie quickly realizes he must keep his discovery a secret: a famous collector of exotic animals is also staying at the hotel, and the new species is threatened by his very presence.
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Spineless
- Spineless, Book 1
- Narrated by: Todd Haberkorn
- Series: Spineless, Book 1
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 22-10-24
- Language: English
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The Legend of Viking Thunder
- Time Keys, Book 2
- Series: Time Keys, Book 2
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 11-09-25
- Language: English
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The Night War
- By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
- Narrated by: Gilli Messer
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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German Nazis occupy much of France. And 12-year-old Miriam, who is Jewish, is not safe. With help and quick thinking, Miri is saved from the roundup that takes her entire Jewish neighbourhood. She escapes Paris, landing in a small French village, where the spires of the famous Chateau de Chenonceau rise high into the sky, its bridge across the River Cher like a promise, a fairy tale.
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The Night War
- Narrated by: Gilli Messer
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 01-12-24
- Language: English
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The Boy at the Window
- By: Lucy Strange, Rohan Eason - illustrator
- Length: 2 hrs and 8 mins
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Folk say the fog plays tricks – that it shapes itself into little hands and frightened faces that press at people’s doors and windows, desperate to come inside. But Hugo is convinced the ghost he has seen at the window is no trick of the fog. The boy’s hollow eyes are haunting him. What would happen if Hugo were to open the door, and let him in? Brace yourselves for a chilling, wintery ghost story …
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The Boy at the Window
- Length: 2 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 13-02-25
- Language: English
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The River Thief
- By: Hannah Peck
- Narrated by: Olivia Darnley
- Length: Not Yet Known
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When Adderley discovers Ef - a being who seems part human and part fish - in the river by her home, she is drawn into an adventure that challenges everything she's learnt about the world. Ef is searching for a special stone that she says has been stolen from her people. Could this be the key to the drought that is destroying Adderley's home? Together, Adderley and Ef resolve to recover the stone and return it to its true home, but the river waters are not always on their side and the journey is filled with danger.
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The River Thief
- Narrated by: Olivia Darnley
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 24-10-24
- Language: English
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I Survived the Black Death, 1348
- I Survived, Book 24
- By: Lauren Tarshis
- Length: Not Yet Known
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In this gripping story about the first wave of the plague, I Survived fans will travel to medieval England—a time of knights and peasants; cathedrals and castles—when the most deadly disease in world history sweeps across Europe and parts of Asia and Africa.
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I Survived the Black Death, 1348
- I Survived, Book 24
- Series: I Survived, Book 24
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 15-10-24
- Language: English
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Poppy Field
- By: Michael Morpurgo
- Narrated by: Michael Morpurgo
- Length: 48 mins
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In Flanders' fields, young Martens knows his family's story, for it is as precious as the faded poem hanging in their home. From a poor girl comforting a grieving soldier, to an unexpected meeting of strangers, to a father's tragic death many decades after treaties were signed, war has shaped Martens's family in profound ways – it is their history as much as any nation's. They remember. They grieve. They honour the past.
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Poppy Field
- Narrated by: Michael Morpurgo
- Length: 48 mins
- Release date: 28-11-24
- Language: English
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All the Beautiful Things
- By: Katrina Nannestad
- Narrated by: Ana Benham
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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Anna's little sister, Eva, is frail and needs time to learn new things. She has a huge heart and a gift for loving, but Hitler doesn't value such riches. And so she's hidden away. Safe for now, but with the threat of discovery always near. Anna does her best to bring joy and light to Eva's small life with stories, trinkets and treasures from the outside world. But soon, more children need hiding. Risks are taken – by Anna, by her best friend Udo, by a Nazi seamstress and feisty Brunhilde. Until Anna wonders if any of them will make it through the war ...
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All the Beautiful Things
- Narrated by: Ana Benham
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 01-11-24
- Language: English
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Hunt for the Golden Scarab
- Time Keys, Book 1
- By: M. G. Leonard, Manuel Sumberac - illustrator
- Length: 7 hrs
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Sim and his mum never live anywhere long. When dangerous strangers appear one night, Sim discovers why. His mum has been keeping secrets: she has the power to open doors in time. Running for their lives, Sim and his friends are determined to outwit the sinister Council of Keys and be the first to find Nefertiti’s lost tomb and a powerful door to Ancient Egypt. They must piece together long-hidden clues if they are to solve the mystery of her golden heart scarab. Can they find it before the Council finds them?
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Hunt for the Golden Scarab
- Time Keys, Book 1
- Series: Time Keys, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 30-01-25
- Language: English
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Max in the Land of Lies
- A Tale of World War II (Operation Kinderspion)
- By: Adam Gidwitz
- Length: 8 hrs
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Max is on a mission. Well, two missions. One has been assigned by his British spymasters: Infiltrate the Funkhaus, the center of Nazi radio and propaganda. The other they have forbidden: Find his parents.
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Max in the Land of Lies
- A Tale of World War II (Operation Kinderspion)
- Series: Operation Kinderspion, Book 2
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 25-02-25
- Language: English
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El príncipe y la coyote [The Prince and the Coyote]
- By: David Bowles, Amanda Mijangos - illustrator
- Length: 10 hrs
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1418. Les presentamos al príncipe Acolmiztli. Puma de la gente Acolhua. Heredero al trono de su padre. Mitad Acolhua, mitad Mexica. Cantante. Guerrero. Poeta. Dieciséis años de edad. Y ahora, traicionado. Una conspiración en el palacio, planeada por el letal imperio Tepaneca, mata a su madre y hermanos, pone al ejército de su padre en retirada, y manda al príncipe Acolmiztli a un exilio pernicioso.
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El príncipe y la coyote [The Prince and the Coyote]
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 22-10-24
- Language: Spanish
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Links to Liberty
- American Revolutionary War Adventures
- By: Robert J. Skead, Robert A. Skead - contributor
- Narrated by: Brian Holden
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
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In this third adventure, the brothers search to find the traitor who has put their father and brother as well as the cause of independence in jeopardy. As they bravely, and sometimes impetuously search for the culprit, hoping to make him pay, they must also make a life-changing decision—to follow Major Tallmadge’s lead and train as Dragoon’s in the Continental Army or accept scholarships to Yale, leaving behind the danger of war and spy intrigue.
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Links to Liberty
- American Revolutionary War Adventures
- Narrated by: Brian Holden
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 17-12-24
- Language: English
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Submarines, Secrets and a Daring Rescue
- American Revolutionary War Adventures
- By: Robert J. Skead, Robert A. Skead
- Narrated by: Brian Holden
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
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After working as spies to aid the Colonies and delivering a message to General George Washington himself, twins Ambrose and John Clark find themselves volunteering for another mission to help the newly forming United States. This time, the boys step up to help transport much-needed gunpowder to the patriots, and end up in an even more dangerous situation—trying to man one of the first submarines. But the biggest challenge may be finding a way to free their imprisoned older brother.
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Submarines, Secrets and a Daring Rescue
- American Revolutionary War Adventures
- Narrated by: Brian Holden
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 26-11-24
- Language: English
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