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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Riverkeep by Martin Stewart, read by James Cosmo. Fifteen-year-old Wulliam is dreading taking up his family's mantle of Riverkeep, tending the river and fishing corpses from its treacherous waters. But then everything changes. One night his father is possessed by a dark spirit, and Wull hears that a cure lurks deep within the great sea beast known as the mormorach.

Sep, Arkle, Mack, Lamb and Hadley: five friends thrown together one hot, sultry summer. When they discover an ancient stone box hidden in the forest, they decide to each make a sacrifice: something special to them, committed to the box forever. And they make a pact: they will never return to the box at night; they'll never visit it alone; and they'll never take back their offerings. Four years later, a series of strange and terrifying events take place. Someone broke the rules, and now everyone has to pay.

En todas las islas del Imperio, se extrae detrás de la oreja de cada niño un trozo de hueso, durante un ritual que con demasiada frecuencia es fatal. Desde su palacio, el emperador utiliza estos preciosos fragmentos para crear y controlar formidables quimeras animales, los constructos que mantienen la ley y el orden. Pero su autoridad flaquea y la rebelión ruge por todas partes.

1964. A hoard of the finest Scotch whisky ever made–the legendary Dalziel Double Proof–goes missing. 2023. Albie, youngest son of the wealthy Dalziel family, vanishes. His desperate mother turns to Robbie Gould, a disgraced reporter with a reputation as a 'psychic crimebuster'. Broke and unemployed, Gould is in no position to turn down the job. He throws himself into a twisted chain of criminals, bent cops and Japanese gangsters, but when someone fires a shotgun through his door, he realises he doesn't need supernatural powers to see how deadly the situation has become.

Three mates chatting football, join us as we talk about controversial matches, favourite moments and much more!

Sports betting podcast focusing on NFL, college football and college basketball. Four sports handicappers and friends Chris Thruston, Adam Trigger, Kelly Stewart and Drew Martin breakdown the week's games from a gambling perspective. Each shares their routines and specific angels to find an edge in the odds. Sides, totals, prop bets we talk about it all. Plus, some flare from off the field experiences from the crew that is always an entertaining listen. "A Gentleman's Podcast" featuring a weekly guest spot, mail/ twitter questions answered on air and a look from behind the counter some weeks ...

Bridget and Tom travel to Butterälp to stay with Vivienne Velvete – the world’s finest chocolatier. But a horrifying monster is terrorising the villagers and the chocolate festival has been shut down. What's more, Le Choc - the world's most perfect bar of chocolate, kept in an alarmed, triple-locked room – has been chomped! Bridget and Tom must trace a track of confuddling clues and unravel their most fiendish plot yet.

Someone has stolen Mr Vanderpuff’s golden whisk! If Bridget and her new friend Stacy don’t find it by midnight, the world’s best baker will never mix again. And – as the girls chase a chain of impossible puzzles through the secrets and shadows of Paris – Tom and Pascal find skulduggery afoot in Belle-on-Sea… Can Bridget and her friends crack the case and save the bake shop in time?

Nessuno sa chi sia Tobias King. Forse, nemmeno lui stesso. I conti in sospeso con un passato difficile e violento non hanno mai permesso al Francese di mostrarsi per ciò che è veramente. Il misterioso leader dei Ravenhood ha vissuto gran parte della vita nell'ombra, animato da un'unica ossessione: saziare la sua sete di vendetta. Ma ora che finalmente i tempi sono maturi per passare all'azione, a scompaginare i piani è arrivata Cecelia Horner. La ragazza ha rinunciato a tutto per lui, e se in un primo momento Tobias ha cercato di tenerla a distanza per proteggerla, adesso la pretende.

Bridget Baxter is the very last orphan at the Orphanage for Errant Childs, left at the mercy of the awful Miss Acrid and her foul-smelling fish sandwiches. Miss Acrid's mission is to make Bridget's life a misery. But Bridget is more than a match for her. When kindly Mr Vanderpuff arrives at the Orphanage in search of a child to care for, Bridget thinks her luck has finally turned. Mr Vanderpuff is the village baker, and his shop is a world of wonders. But they soon discover that Bridget is absolutely terrible at baking.

Belle-on-Sea is getting ready for the Night of the Hungry Ghosts, the spookiest time of the year. Mr Vanderpuff's bake will be the centrepiece of the whole parade, but he needs a new creation and he’s totally stumped. To make matters worse, salty old seadog, Captain Lufty, and his Hat Rat, Barry, have warned that something is coming to Belle-on-Sea. Something terrible. When a ghost train is seen rattling into town, and people start to go missing – first the librarian, then the Mayor – Bridget and Tom begin tracking the train’s tracks, delighted to be in the thick of another mystery.