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18+ for language and sexual content!Danielle Harris is the daughter of an overprotective police chief and has led a sheltered life. As a kindergarten teacher, she's as far removed from the world of Harleys and bikers as you could get, but when she's rescued by the sexy and dangerous Austin Carver, her life is changed forever.Although Austin 'Booker' Carver is enamored by the innocent Dani, he tries to keep the police chief's daughter at arm's length. But when a threat is made from an unexpected source, he finds himself falling hard and fast for the only woman who can tame his wild heart.Will Booker be able to find the source of the threat before it's too late?Will Dani finally give her heart to a man who's everything she's been warned about?

Piper Davenport (Author), Jack Davenport, Piper Davenport (Narrator)

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The Fifth Gospel: A Novel

In Ian Caldwell's masterful follow-up to his international sensation The Rule of Four, a lost gospel, a contentious relic, and a dying pope's final wish converge to send two brothers, both Vatican priests, on an intellectual quest to untangle Christianity's greatest historical mystery. Ten years ago, Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason's The Rule of Four became a literary phenomenon that earned comparisons to Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose and Donna Tartt's The Secret History. It was hailed as "ingenious . . . profoundly erudite" (New York Times), "compulsively readable" (People), and "an exceptional piece of scholarship" (San Francisco Chronicle). Now, after a decade of painstaking primary research, Ian Caldwell returns with a new intellectual thriller that confirms his place among the most ambitious popular storytellers working today. In 2004, as Pope John Paul II's reign enters its twilight, a mysterious exhibit is under construction at the Vatican Museums. A week before it is scheduled to open, its curator is murdered at a clandestine meeting on the outskirts of Rome. The same night, a violent break-in rocks the home of the curator's research partner, Father Alex Andreou, a Greek Catholic priest who lives inside the Vatican with his five-year-old son. When the papal police fail to identify a suspect in either crime, Father Alex, desperate to keep his family safe, undertakes his own investigation. To find the killer he must reconstruct the dead curator's secret: what the four Christian gospels, and a little-known, true-to-life fifth gospel known as the Diatessaron, reveal about the Church's most controversial holy relic. But just as he begins to understand the truth about his friend's death, and its consequences for the future of the world's two largest Christian Churches, Father Alex finds himself hunted down by someone with vested stakes in the exhibit, someone he must outwit to survive. At once a riveting literary thriller, a feast of biblical history and scholarship, and a moving family drama, The Fifth Gospel is a novel about the depths of sacrifice and the power of forgiveness. Rich, authentic, erudite, and emotionally searing, it satisfies on every level.

Ian Caldwell (Author), Jack Davenport (Narrator)

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The Fifth Gospel

A mysterious exhibit is under construction at the Vatican Museums. A week before it is scheduled to open, its curator is murdered. The same night, a violent break-in rocks the home of the curator's research partner, Father Alex Andreou. When the papal police fail to identify a suspect in either crime, Father Alex undertakes his own investigation. But just as he begins to understand the truth about his friend's death, Father Alex finds himself hunted down...

Ian Caldwell (Author), Jack Davenport (Narrator)

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A Bellman & Black: Ghost Story

As a boy, William Bellman commits one small cruel act that appears to have unforeseen and terrible consequences. The killing of a rook with his catapult is soon forgotten amidst the riot of boyhood games. And by the time he is grown, with a wife and children of his own, he seems indeed to be a man blessed by fortune. Until tragedy strikes and the stranger in black comes, and William Bellman starts to wonder if all his happiness is about to be eclipsed. Desperate to save the one precious thing he has left, he enters into a bargain. A rather strange bargain, with an even stranger partner, to found a decidedly macabre business. And Bellman & Black is born. Praise for The Thirteenth Tale: "A spellbinding story that grabs the reader from the opening page." --The Toronto Sun "The story of Margaret Lea, the prim and proper antiquarian book dealer, is eerie and fascinating and should delight lovers of books old and new." --USA Today "A first-rate mystery, suffused with the murk of the English moors.... Setterfield's spooky, gloom-infused work lovingly invokes both Jane Eyre and Rebecca, but the mystery is very much her own." --Entertainment Weekly, B+ "I loved The Thirteenth Tale! I raced through it and was up late each night to finish it. Very addictive." --Tracey Davies, publisher, The Bookseller "I'm utterly distracted by this fascinating, original, creepy, brilliant, compulsive novel. I read it practically all night. It is so great to read something with a voice and tone all its own, and very well written too. I think it will be a big, big success." --Nicholas Coleridge, author of Godchildren and A Much Married Man "I thought it was simply brilliant - I haven't enjoyed a first novel so much for absolutely ages." --Kate Mosse, author of Labyrinth "This thoroughly absorbing and strangely other-worldly novel captivates the reader from the very first page." --Robert Goddard "This first novel contains the three ingredients essential for a classic tale: a clear, powerful story, an original exploration of a passionate and unusual relationship (a fugue of siblings and twins) and a narrator whose steady and enterprising quest for the truth is increasingly engaging. It is a gothic tale (shades of Jane Eyre but full of surprises) told by a writer whose descriptive power and general command of language put her in the top drawer. Anyone picking up this novel will not be able to put it down. Pick it up." --Elizabeth Jane Howard The Thirteenth Tale is a book that you wake in the middle of the night craving to get back to.... Once, only once, I finished a contemporary novel and started it over right away. That book was Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things. The Thirteenth Tale is a book to savor dozens of times. Like a childhood favorite, it is timeless, charming, pure pleasure to read. It weaves reality and fantasy into a cozy colorful world where characters are both real and archetypal and the good life belongs to people who read. The Thirteenth Tale is a comfort book. A book to restore the spirit." --San Diego Union-Tribune "Readers will be mesmerized by this story-within-a-story tinged with the eeriness of Rebecca and the willfulness of Jane Eyre. The author skillfully keeps the plot moving by unfurling a new twist in each chapter and leaves no strand untucked at the surprising and satisfying conclusion. A wholly original work told in the vein of all the best gothic classics. Lovers of books about book lovers will be enthralled." --Booklist "Diane Setterfield's debut novel arrived already wreathed in acclaim, and it's easy to see why. The Thirteenth Tale is a cleverly plotted, beautifully written homage to the classic romantic mystery novel. Rebecca and The Woman in White spring to mind, but especially Jane Eyre: a book that Setterfield weaves into the substance of the plot, and whose Gothic elements are skilfully reimagined in a peculiar tale of madness, murder, incest and dark secrets.... It is a remarkable first novel, a book about the joy of books, a riveting multi-layered mystery that twists and turns, and weaves a quite magical spell for most of its length." --The Independent (London) "Those who buy and read this complex, compelling and, in the end, deeply moving novel are unlikely to feel they've been shortchanged." --Philadelphia Inquirer "It's not often that I would even dare to compare a book to Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, but The Thirteenth Tale is one that I will." --Sessalee Hensley, B&N Fiction Buyer "Every once in a while, you happen across a book that reminds you of why you came to love reading in the first place. The pure thrill of words on paper, the headlong rush of story, the powerful feelings strong narratives can evoke -- every now and then, you find a book that brings back the freshness of all these, and also does that wholly magic thing: it makes time stop. Those books find us as children. They seem, for many reasons, to become rarer birds as we grow older. But here is one of them." --The Buffalo News "An urgently readable novel...nearly impossible to put down." --Barnes and Noble "This is a compelling and emotional mystery about family secrets and the magic of books and storytelling, and it captures you right from the very first page. Written in the style of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Henry James' Turn of the Screw, this is a page turner in every sense of the word." --The Financial Times "Setterfield proves a mistress of the craft of storytelling and her musings about the pleasures of reading are most beguiling." --The Guardian "Setterfield's debut is enchanting Goth for the 21st century." --Kirkus Reviews "Here's a novel brimming with atmosphere and labyrinthine plotting that recalls the gothic-like chillers by Daphne du Maurier and Joyce Carol Oates, spiced with flavors reminiscent of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights by the Bronte sisters. The language is rich, the elements intriguing -- a secluded mansion populated by brooding characters, musty family secrets that must be unearthed and ghostly presences that appear to vanish." --The Sacramento Bee "A novel for book lovers." --Reader's Digest "The Thirteenth Tale is a book that you wake in the middle of the night craving to get back to. Like a childhood favorite, it is timeless, charming, pure pleasure to read. It weaves reality and fantasy into a cozy colorful world where characters are both real and archetypal and the good life belongs to people who read. The Thirteenth Tale is a comfort book. A book to restore the spirit." --Reader's Digest "This will without a doubt be one of the best books published this year." --Daily American "Readers will feel the magnetic pull of this paean to words, books and the magical power of story." --People "Honestly, I haven't enjoyed reading a book this much in a long time. The story is fascinating; equally full of lurid secrets and heartfelt revelations and is told in a way that grabs you in. While reading it, I would find myself suddenly 50 pages later, yet I felt like no time had passed at all." --collegiatetimes.com "Setterfield is remarkably gifted, and the book is a page turner. Readers should heed one warning: Prepare to be so captivated by the story that you cannot put it down. Not even for a cuppa tea." --The Roanoke Times "The shared literary landscape that The Thirteenth Tale re-creates with lush precision takes us back to a time when reading could seem more compelling than life." --The Columbis Dispatch "The Thirteenth Tale is enthralling, a tremendous feat of storytelling by a true believer." --Weekend Australian "Atmospheric and gripping." --South-East Advertiser (Australia)

Diane Setterfield (Author), Jack Davenport (Narrator)

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A Clockwork Orange

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Anthony Burgess's novel which became a controversial film in the 1970s. In a nightmare world of the near future, packs of teenagers run wild, beyond the control of their families or the police. Alex is a gang-leader, addicted to drug-fuelled assault, torture and rape.

Anthony Burgess (Author), Jack Davenport, Jason Hughes (Narrator)

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Henceforward...

Starring Anne Heche and Jared Harris, the hilarious Henceforward... is one of Alan Ayckbourn’s most unusual works. In the near-future, a composer with creative block tries to re-unite with his estranged wife and daughter, hoping their reconciliation will free his mind to create his greatest musical masterpiece. But his own erratic impulses hinder his journey to creative freedom. Includes a interview with playwright Sir Alan Ayckbourn. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Jared Harris as Jerome Anne Heche as Nan (in Act I) and Corrina Jack Davenport as Mervyn Paula Jane Newman as Geain Moira Quirk as Zoe and Nan (in Act II) Darren Richardson as Lupus Directed by Martin Jarvis. Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood.

Alan Ayckbourn (Author), Anne Heche, Darren Richardson, Jack Davenport, Jared Harris, Moira Quirk, Paula Jane Newman (Narrator)

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Candide

Candide, published simultaneously in five European capitals in 1759, became an instant bestseller and is now regarded as one of the key texts of the Enlightenment. Voltaire’s preoccupations with evil and with various kinds of human folly and intolerance found a perfect vehicle in the philosophical tale. A master storyteller, he combined often wildly entertaining action with profoundly serious sense, parodying the traditional chivalric and oriental tales with which his public was more familiar to create a witty allegory of a young man whose optimism gives way to disillusionment after a series of terrible misfortunes. “Penned by that Renaissance man of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Candide is steeped in the political and philosophical controversies of the 1750s. But for the general reader, the novel’s driving principle is clear enough: the idea (endemic in Voltaire’s day) that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and apparent folly, misery, and strife are actually harbingers of a greater good we cannot perceive, is hogwash.”--Amazon.com, editorial review

Voltaire (Author), Jack Davenport (Narrator)

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The Raw Shark Texts

Welcome to Unspace Eric Sanderson wakes up in a place he doesn't recognise, unable to remember who he is. All he has left are journal entries recalling Clio, a perfect love now gone. So begins a thrilling adventure that will send Eric and his cynical cat Ian on a search for the Ludovician, the force that is threatening his life, and Dr Trey Fidorus, the only man who knows its secrets.

Steven Hall (Author), Jack Davenport (Narrator)

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Remote Control

A new kind of thriller, gritty, vivid and menacing, with a pace that never lets up.Nick Stone left the Special Air Service in 1988, soon after the shooting of three IRA terrorists in Gibraltar. Now working for British Intelligence on deniable operations, he discovers the seemingly senseless murders of a fellow SAS soldier and his family in Washington, DC. Only a seven-year-old daughter, Kelly, has survived - and the two of them are immediately on the run from unidentified pursuers. Stone doesn't even know which of them is the target.On his own, Stone stands a chance of escape. But he needs to protect the girl and together they plunge into a dark world of violence and corruption in which friend cannot be told from foe. As events draw to their blazing and unexpected climax, Stone discovers the shocking truth about governments, terrorism and commerce - and the greed that binds the three together...Remote Control is a new kind of thriller, gritty, vivid and menacing, with a pace that never lets up. Other thriller writers talk the talk. Only McNab has the walk.

Andy McNab (Author), Jack Davenport (Narrator)

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Crisis Four

Crisis Four hurtles us into the heartstopping world of violence, betrayal and high-octane suspense.Nick Stone, ex-SAS, now a 'K' working for British Intelligence on deniable operations, is tough, resourceful, ruthless, and highly trained - a master of his trade.Sarah is beautiful - steel-willed, intelligent, cunning - the only woman Stone has ever let under his guard. And now he's been sent to hunt her down...As the pair are pursued through the backwoods of the American South, Stone's mission becomes a journey to the heart of a dark and deadly conspiracy - to which only Sarah holds the key. And as the tension builds to breaking point, the two are led to a confrontation that echoes our worst nightmares.In Crisis Four the master storyteller hurtles us once more into his heartstopping world of violence, betrayal and high-octane suspense. Here indeed is a new kind of thriller, so gritty, vivid and menacing that it's hard to tell where fact ends and fiction begins.

Andy McNab (Author), Jack Davenport (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Jack Davenport