Ergebnis für "Taken" in Literatur & Belletristik

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Bev Hollister has a plan. Of course she does. After months of family mishaps across India, Japan, Greece, Rome, Egypt, and Kenya, the Hollisters have arrived in Oaxaca, Mexico, for an eight-week stay. This time, Doug has handed over the map—and Bev...

For fans of Lights Out and You, this follow-up to Love Me Stalk Me is a dark rom-com about a woman matched with her fantasy boyfriend by an AI app—unaware he’s actually her ex-husband, back to win her over in disguise. When Amanda Bennett signs up for the beta feature of the Obsess AI...

Dean Moser is a cocky stock market savant whose friends are all settling down, leaving Boulder's infamous ladies' man all alone. When Norah needs a fake date for her parents' anniversary party, her new silent investor is the perfect guy for the job. It seems like a foolproof plan.... That is until Norah decides to break her biggest rule and lock lips with Dean in the middle of the party to spite her meddling mother.

For Delilah Sinclair, catching a man's attention has never been a problem. It's the part that comes later - the happily-ever-after part - that always seems to trip her up. All her friends may be settling down, but this fiery redhead has no intentions of ever being tamed...Until she meets a man just as wild. Luca "Blaze" Buchanan is the best fighter to come out of Boston in years. Men want to be him, women want to be with him, and no one smart ever bets against him.

When ex-SAS soldier, Michael Purdy, comes in front of the judge for hacking the bank account belonging to the Minister for Invalidity Benefits and wiping out his personal wealth, he braces himself for a prison sentence. What Michael doesn’t expect, is to be put in charge of a group of...

A witty and touching tale about mismatched expectations and living life in the moment, from the author of cherished ebook bestseller, The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village It's never too late for the adventure of a lifetime . . . Heather Winterbottom has worked side by side with her...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Doug Hollister has learned a few things on his family’s year-long world tour. In Delhi, he became an internet sensation after ordering the spiciest curry he could find. In Tokyo, he survived a toilet that nearly launched him into orbit. In Greece, he...

Take It from Here (first broadcast between 1948 and 1960) was one of the most influential radio shows of all time, sweeping in a new era of comedy and introducing an enduring pair of writers: bright young things Frank Muir and Denis Norden. Their literate scripts, and the madcap adventures of the show's stars - Dick Bentley, Jimmy Edwards, Joy Nichols, June Whitfield and Alma Cogan - ensured 11 years of classic capers. The show is best remembered for introducing The Glums, who featured regularly. 

Being taken hostage by a criminal was not on my agenda for the week. The plan was to catch the billionaire con artist, Liam Hawthorne so I can finally prove myself and gain the attention of my boss. Liam caught me instead. Forget the bounty, I’m killing him. Unfortunately, it’s proving a rather difficult task–especially when he convinces me to help him. He's trying to con me, but I won’t be falling for it.

Take It from Here (first broadcast between 1948 and 1960) was one of the most influential radio shows of all time, sweeping in a new era of comedy and introducing an enduring pair of writers: bright young things Frank Muir and Denis Norden. Their literate scripts, and the madcap adventures of the show's stars - Dick Bentley, Jimmy Edwards, Joy Nichols, June Whitfield and Alma Cogan - ensured 11 years of classic capers. The show is best remembered for introducing The Glums, who featured regularly.

‘If I wasn’t dead, I would sue.’—Bram Stoker This is the origin story of the first real vampyre (not Dracula). The trouble with immortality is that eventually you get sick to death of it, and so to soothe his sickened soul, the Comte De’Ath decides to take a trip. From psychoanalysis...

Jasper and Annie are a pair of jobless no-hopers who have dropped into the cracks between the paving slabs of life. Rather than bothering to climb out, they have embraced their situation and created a life based around doing pretty much nothing. That is, apart from visiting various chronic illness clubs for free refreshments and selling old cassette tapes online. But when a customer leaves negative feedback for a month-old purchase without first making contact, Jasper seeks retribution.

'A LABYRINTHINE MYSTERY OF EMOTIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY' Jo Brand 'DELIRIOUS AND REWARDING' Guardian 'UNMISSABLE' Woman's Weekly A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 Fleeing Scotland in the wake of family disgrace, 16-year-old Ida Campbell secures a scholarship at a failing girls' boarding...

How to Kill Your Family meets The Husbands in a darkly funny, wickedly original novel about friendship, revenge and the dangers of playing God. Thea has a gift. Or possibly a serious ethical problem. With a single touch, she can see how long someone has left to live – and transfer that time to...

Od chvíle, kdy ho životabudič připravený jeho novým komorníkem jako zázrakem zbaví kocoviny, je Bertie postaven před zásadní otázku: jak bylo vůbec možné bez Jeevese existovat? Když se postupně ukáže, že Jeeves si dokáže bez ztráty elegance poradit s obávanými tetičkami, nezvanými hosty, dospívajícími dívkami i dalšími zdroji nežádoucích potíží, Bertiemu začíná být jasné, že o nenahraditelnosti jeho diskrétního a všestranně schopného sluhy nemůže být nejmenších pochyb.

Meet Lily Wilder: New Yorker, lawyer extraordinaire, blushing bride. And totally incapable of being faithful to one man. Lily’s fiancé Will is a brilliant, handsome archaeologist. Lily is sassy, impulsive, fond of a good drink (or five) and has no business getting married. Lily likes Will...

In a gleefully self-deprecating mystery, three estranged sisters meet in LA for the making of a documentary, learning the depth of their family dysfunction is nothing compared to social media obsession. Another long weekend, another family reunion for the Finch sisters. This time, Venice Beach...

'You need to get back in the saddle…' Alice despises that phrase. She's fine being single – with two slothful teenage boys and a meringue business to run, she has enough on her plate without negotiating the troublesome world of modern dating. However, Alice's three best friends have other ideas. Each one will present her with an utterly delicious, eligible man – all Alice has to do is pick her favourite.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe, read by Richard Goulding. It is the 1980s and the Winshaw family are getting richer and crueller by the year: Newspaper-columnist Hilary gets thousands for telling it like it isn't; Henry's turning hospitals into car...

'Her best yet . . . a wonderful read about growing older and grabbing hold of life' Weekend Australian 'An intriguing, warm-hearted novel challenging age stereotypes' The Australian Women's Weekly 'Warm, insightful and funny . . . celebrates, so well, the treasures that life's later stages can...