This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In the Age of Exploration, the British began building an enormous and highly profitable foreign empire.While the British Empire initially lagged behind other European powers such as Spain and Portugal, it still managed to colonize the New World and discover highly-lucrative trade routes British colonies could be found on virtually any continent. For decades, colonialism was painted as the duty of the more advanc...

Jake and Josh in The Blanket Rescue is a story about the meaning of friendship and overcoming fears. Jake and Josh gave up their cribs for toddler beds and they made it through the first night without calling mom or dad for comfort. Josh made it without help, but Jake needed his Little Blue Blanket. It made him feel safe. In the morning, Jake is shocked to learn his mother is about to send his Little Blue Blanket to the church rummage sale. Jake and Josh call on their friends Ella, Corriga...

A bizarre and exuberant work of pure imagination, Rondah, or, Thirty-Three Years in a Star tells the story of a ragtag group of space explorers who—aided by a shuttle set off by clockwork explosives in the Adirondack mountains—find themselves stranded on alien planet. Their adventures will test the limits of their frayed and tenuous bonds as they seek to colonize the planet, take claim of its resources, and rule over the bizarre alien lifeforms who inhabit it. Utterly strange and bursting ...

A classic of early literary modernism, Lord Jim tells the story of a young "simple and sensitive character" who loses his honor in a display of cowardice at sea -- and of his expiation of that sin against his own "shadowy ideal of conduct" on the remote island of Patusan. The novel, written by Conrad for magazine serialization during an intense and chaotic ten months in 1899 and 1900, has, in the words of Thomas C. Moser, "the rare distinction of being a masterpiece in two separate genres....

In this revealing business advice audiobook, the magic of the World Famous Pike Place Fish Market proves a dynamic example of what a group of people can create when they are aligned and living a powerful vision. Here for the first time, owner John Yokoyama explains in his own words just how he transformed his business into a workplace that is renowned worldwide.WHEN FISH FLY offers Yokoyama's cohesive strategy for achieving world-famous results for owners, managers, and front-line ...

In this fantastic collection, Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho shows us that poems are made to read OUT LOUD!In this wittily illustrated anthology of poems, designed to be read aloud, twenty poemsarm children with techniques for lifting poetry off the page and performing with confidence.Perfect for confident children and shy readers alike, this book teaches all sorts of clever ways to performin...

From the fantastic duo behind Poems Aloud comes another compendium of poetry to read out loud and make you smile!Twenty five original poems from award winning poet Joseph Coelho designed to be read aloud to project confidence, conjure happiness, make you laugh or cheer others up. Some are odes, some can be said as personal mantras or just poems full of words that you can't help but smile when you hear them.This is ...

From Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho come 25 more bold and brave poems for children. These waltzing verses for reading aloud were written to comfort and inspire!With his third read-aloud poetry book, Coelho focuses on building kids’ courage! It follows Poems Aloud and Smile Out Loud, books that have inspired thousands of little readers to harness the power of their own voice.This new collection contains mantr...

A stunning Italian cookbook collecting 120 recipes from the legendary restaurant that sets “the benchmark for Italian food outside of Italy" (Eater).At the River Cafe in London, Ruth Rogers and her co-founder, Rose Gray, helped to shape the way we eat, trained a new generation of chefs, and, with their best-selling cookbooks, transformed the way we prepare Italian food at home.Now, with River Cafe London, Ruth and her restaurant’s head che...

NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.This month, we're bringing you original fiction from Caspian Gray ("Promises of Spring") and Caroline Ratajski ("And With Her Went the Spring"), along with reprints by Stephen Graham Jones ("Brushdogs") and Cynthia Ward ("The Midwife"). In the latest installment of "The H Word," we hav...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.HUSH SONG - THE SECOND DREAMSome bonds cannot be broken. Some connections should never have been made.Kimberly Gray has always felt drawn to the ancient forest surrounding her family's farm—to the towering Keeper Tree, to the pond where silence listens, to something vast and patient that seems to be waiting. When she was five years old, something found her in those woods. Something that has watched over ...

A century ago Tennyson had begun to be dismissed as a poet whose work embodied everything the modern world was looking to leave behind. He still seems to readers to embody the substance of the Victorian era more fully than any other poet—but nowadays that is counted in his favor. Critics continue to find layers of complexity in poems once thought simplistic—while appreciating with fresh ears Tennyson’s aural mastery.This new edition includes the two long poems In Memoriam ...