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In The Unquenchable Thirst of Dracula, one of seven 'unmade movies' available on audio, it is 1934, and young Englishwoman Penny is travelling by train across India in search of her missing sister. En route, she meets sibling artistes Prem and Lakshmi, who have been hired by a Maharajah and his wife, the Rani, to entertain their aristocratic European guest. But evil lurks in the hidden caverns beneath the ancient palace, where the acolytes of a fiendish blood cult await their next human sacrifice....

Eletään tuntematonta vuotta tulevaisuudessa. Sodat ja kurjuudet ovat ohi, sillä yhteiskunnassa on enää pelkkiä naisia. Lapset hankitaan spermapankkien avulla, ja tarvittaessa naiset voivat tyydyttää seksuaaliset halunsa terapiakeskuksiin vangittujen miesten avulla. Poikalapsen saa synnyttää, mutta lapsi muutetaan hormonihoidoilla ja leikkauksilla naiseksi.

Western Australia, 1886. After months at sea, a slow boat makes its passage from London to the shores of Bannin Bay. From the deck, young Eliza Brightwell and her family eye their strange, new home. Here is an unforgiving land where fortune sits patiently at the bottom of the ocean, waiting to be claimed by those brave enough to venture into its depths. An ocean where pearl shells bloom to the size of soup plates, where men are coaxed into unthinkable places and unspeakable acts by the promise of unimaginable riches.

Ever since it was first drilled more than 150 years ago, oil has been both a blessing and a curse. It has enabled economic growth, provided an efficient energy source, fuelled our entire infrastructure - and caused wars, pollution and global warming. These seven dramas, set between 1951 and 2045, and taking us from postwar Iran to futuristic Lancashire, examine the role oil has played in shaping our world: recounting incredible stories of wealth, power, politics and corruption.

Äntligen kommer den efterlängtade sjätte delen i romanserien Släkten! Den högt älskade författaren Elisabet Nemert tar nu över stafettpinnen med den fristående delen Ringens gåta.

Manchester, the summer of 1890. A city humming with industry and gleaming with affluence. But for Charles, cloistered in his middle-class parents' suburban villa on holiday from university, the city's vibrancy holds no charms. Bored and a little listless, he spends the summer in pursuit of his little sisters' governess, Hettie. Before the summer's end, both must face the consequences of their affair - consequences they will live with for the rest of their lives.

Star D'Aplièse se encuentra en una encrucijada tras la repentina muerte de su padre, el misterioso millonario Pa Salt. Ha dejado a cada una de sus seis hijas una pista sobre sus orígenes, pero Star, la más enigmática de todas, tiene serias dudas sobre la necesidad de aventurarse y perder la seguridad que la estrecha relación con su hermana CeCe le brinda. A la desesperada decide seguir la pista, que la conduce a una librería de antiguo en Londres y al comienzo de un nuevo mundo para ella.

In this acclaimed Greek novel, Auguste Corteau imagines his own mother’s inner life, observing with wit and earthy humour the saga of her extended family’s ups and downs in the city of Thessaloniki over three generations. From the poverty of the early years through to affluence and aspirations of grandeur, Katerina drags her husband and son into the chaos of her life: sicknesses are hidden, siblings fight for love and attention, while feckless husbands and unwanted children are riven through the family story.

Det hade börjat som en lättsam lek, en ganska töntig tävling i vem som först blir mamma. Ett babyrace. Hade någon av dem ens tagit den på allvar? Uppenbarligen hade resultatet i alla fall blivit ytterst konkret. Året kunde ha börjat bättre för Emily. Trettio, singel, snart bostadslös och nu även på smällen. Kompisen Sandra kände sig olustigt delaktig. Här är din livmoder, och här har vi ett litet barn, sa barnmorskan och log. Ett dunkande ljud hördes. Susanne rynkade pannan medan hon fortsatte att föra dopplern över magen. Det dröjde oroväckande länge innan hon sa något.

Seven years ago, an innocent act by Rowan Slone turned her life into a nightmare. Since the age of 10 she’s lived with the burden of her baby brother’s death. Now she is 17, and all she wants to do is graduate high school, go to college, and escape the loveless family she has endured all these years - the same family that holds her responsible for his death. But no one holds her responsible more than herself. When longtime crush Mike Anderson invites her to the prom, suddenly her future looks brighter. But Rowan’s younger sister is determined to ruin her newfound happiness.

Gabriel är konstnär. Han är också ung, snygg och konstant på språng. Kanske beror det där sista på den starka, men ändå diffusa, längtan han har inom sig. En känsla som är lika överväldigande som den är omöjlig att precisera.

Tre dagar är inte särskilt lång tid - ändå kan det hända så mycket. Att det var ett misstag att åka ut till ödetorpet i Ludvika har Gabriel nu klart och tydligt förstått. Därför ger han sig av igen och ställer siktet på Frankrike. Kessa bestämmer sig för att släppa allt och flytta till Berlin. På vägen dit möter hon holländaren Jakob som snart tar allt större plats i hennes liv. Där hemma finns Mari kvar och uppdraget att hålla koll på den destruktiva Anna blir nu hennes. Och just den här gången verkar något ha gått riktigt snett.

Berlin, 1925. Hulda Gold ist in der neuen Frauenklinik in Berlin-Mitte zur leitenden Hebamme aufgestiegen. Nachdem sie die komplizierte Liaison mit Karl North beendet hat, verliebt sie sich in den jungen Arzt Johann Wenckow, der im wohlhabenden Frohnau wohnt. Trotz des Missfallens seiner Eltern vertiefen die beiden ihre Beziehung. Doch Hulda fühlt sich zwischen den Welten zerrissen, in denen sie von nun an ein und aus geht: dem quirligen Schöneberg, wo sie immer noch "Fräulein Hulda" ist, und der reichen Villenkolonie, in der sie sich nach wie vor fremd fühlt.

Wealthy heiress Catherine Sloper has always been plain and rather simple, though very sweet. She is drawn by the attentions of handsome gentleman Morris Townsend, the only man who ever even noticed her. But is he more interested in her fortune than Catherine herself? When they get engaged, despite protestations from her brilliant physician father, Catherine has to choose between her inheritance or love.

As I’ve gotten older, I recognize that life is full of terrible irony. Lying undetected on the fringes of our day-to-day schedules, it’s everywhere - like with the love that blindsided me and destroyed my entire family. I had spent long, hard years waiting and longing for the time to come when I would be allowed to leave home, to finally escape my tyrannical crime boss mother. Then Angie filled my heart with her love, and I hated it each time that I had to leave.

It's been years since the first Emergence, since the first specimen of the kaiju scourge awoke from millennia of dormancy beneath the sea and wrought untold devastation upon the cities of man. Much has since been lost, but a great deal gained, too. In the crucible of extinction-level events, a new breed of super-soldier, capable of interfacing with the beasts, was born.

The young and beautiful Isabel Archer finds herself suddenly wealthy beyond her imagination thanks to her devoted uncle. Sought after by many suitors and yet determined not to marry any of them, Isabel embarks on a journey of self-discovery throughout Europe, only to find herself drawn to the charming and clever Gilbert Osmond. Through betrayal and heartache, Isabel not only learns what she truly wants out of life but also just how strong she really is.

The charismatic Count Dracula, a Transylvanian nobleman, wishes to purchase a house in London. Assisted in this enterprise by a young solicitor, Jonathan Harker, it becomes evident that there is a sinister side to the Count's plans. A small group of friends unites to prevent the success of the Count's schemes, hazarding danger to themselves for the greater good of humanity.

The last place very average 31-year-old Mara Williams thought she’d be is on a solo vacation impersonating her fortune teller when she finally meets the one. Josef, a gorgeous Austrian cellist, sits down for a reading and before she knows it, she’s telling him his destiny will be sitting in a pub in the English seaside town of Broadgate on the last Friday of August. And her name is Mara. Enter Project Mara: three months to turn herself into the stylish, confident woman she’s always hoped to be. Can Mara pull off the transformation of a lifetime?

Терпение и труд до добра не доведут. Особенно если работа сопряжена отнюдь не с добром. Вот и головная боль начала проявляться (в ее-то возрасте!), и радость жизни куда-то исчезла, а толпы страждущих захватить забыла. И никуда от них, страждущих, не деться. Разве что... к людям?