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Fiver could sense danger. Something terrible was going to happen to the warren; he felt sure of it. They had to leave immediately. So begins a long and perilous journey of survival for a small band of rabbits. As the rabbits skirt danger at every turn, we become acquainted with the band, its humorous characters, and its compelling culture, complete with its own folk history and mythos. Fiver’s vision finally leads them to Watership Down, an upland meadow. But here they face their most difficult challenges of all.

Sometimes the voices of ghosts are caught on tape. The Demonic Tapes is a horror podcast based on real life hauntings. The recordings you are about to listen to are the property of Jonathan and Eleanor West, a family who recorded their encounters with demonic and ghostly entities.

Tales from Watership Down is the enchanting sequel to Richard Adams's best-selling Watership Down, the enduring classic of contemporary literature that introduced millions of readers to a vivid and distinctive world. Here, he returns to the delightful characters we know and love - including Fiver, Hazel, Bigwig, Dandelion, and the legendary rabbit hero El-ahrairah - and presents new heroes as they struggle to survive the cruelties of nature and the shortsighted selfishness of humankind.

Adams returns to the vivid and distinctive world he created in that enduring work, reacquainting listeners with the characters we know and love, including Fiver, Hazel, Bigwig, Dandelion and the legendary rabbit hero El-ahrairah. These compelling tales include all-new adventures, with the younger generation of rabbits eager to find out about the heroic age that existed before they were born.

The places in this book are shunned, abandoned, and forgotten. They do not exist, and yet here you will find the stories of people who have gone and survived to tell their tales. These are the postcards from the void, frightful evidence of places that should not be, and yet exist in our nightmares. Should you dare to venture into these blighted places, remember: Don't talk to strangers, don't stray far from home, and never, ever go in alone.

Quinto podía percibir la sensación de peligro. Estaba seguro de que iba a ocurrir algo terrible a todos los habitantes de la madriguera. Tenían que salir de allí inmediatamente. Así comienza el largo y azaroso viaje de supervivencia de un pequeño grupo de conejos. A medida que los conejos van sorteando peligros a cada paso, nos vamos familiarizando con cada uno de los miembros del grupo, sus personalidades singulares y divertidas, y su cultura apasionante, con sus propios relatos y mitos tradicionales.

C’est dans les fourrés de collines verdoyantes et idylliques que se terrent parfois les plus terrifiantes menaces. C’est là aussi que va se dérouler cette vibrante odyssée de courage, de loyauté et de survie. Menés par le valeureux Hazel et le surprenant Fyveer, une poignée de braves choisit de fuir l’inéluctable destruction de leur foyer. Prémonitions, malices et légendes vont guider ces héros face aux mille ennemis qui les guettent, et leur permettront peut-être de franchir les épreuves qui les séparent de leur terre promise, Watership Down. Mais l’aventure s’arrêtera-t-elle vraiment là?

Wild Seas, Wilder Cities is a ‘wild-seeded’ collection of short stories, poems, memoirs and environmental articles from 49 unique contributors, all concerned with showing the positive side of our relationship with the earth. Thanks to funding from Portsmouth Creates, this audiobook features...

A poverty-stricken girl develops a strange ability that makes her family rich, but at a terrible price. A grieving attorney teams up with a terrifying mythological force to prove that justice reaches beyond the grave. And a police officer discovers that a quiet little antique store is ground zero for an invasion of horrific creatures, hiding in plain sight….

I Kaninbjerget fortælles om en lille flok unge, vilde kaniner, der anført af den kloge Hassel bryder op fra deres koloni. Hassels bror, Femmer, fornemmer, at kolonien er truet af tilintetgørelse, og hans sjette sans slår aldrig fejl. Derfor forsøger brødrene at overtale så mange kaniner som muligt til at flygte sammen med dem, men ikke mange vil lytte til dem, for det er forår, og græsset er grønt og saftigt.

Posh (Phillip Lee Curtis) and Fab (Adam Richard), have created a new network for pop-cultural deep dives. Glitter+ will feature a weekly chapter-by-chapter investigation of the life of Cher in Chermoir: Cher: The Memoir: The Podcast Part One. There will be science fiction medical drama with Christine Lahti in Space. Plus, catch up on Mariah Carey's memoir and discography in Me. I Am. A Memoir. The Meaning of 'The Meaning of Mariah Carey' and side-step into the world of Jennifer Lopez in The Regularverse. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Die weltbekannte Saga vom Exodus der Kaninchen: Der junge Fiver spürt, dass seinem Volk das Verderben droht. Nur seine engsten Freunde kann er überreden, mit ihm das Kaninchengehege zu verlassen und sich auf die Suche nach einer neuen Heimat zu machen. Was sie unterwegs durchleben, ist so beispielhaft wie fesselnd: zahllose Abenteuer, Meuterei, Treuebruch und Heldentum, Schlachten mit hohem Blutzoll - und schließlich der glückliche Einzug ins Land der Freiheit und des Friedens.

Quinto presentía peligro. Algo terrible iba a suceder en la madriguera: estaba seguro. Tenían que marcharse de inmediato. Así se inicia un largo y arriesgado periplo de supervivencia para una pequeña pandilla de conejos. A medida que los conejos van esquivando el peligro a cada paso, llegamos a conocer a la pandilla, a sus graciosos personajes y su fascinante cultura, con su propio folclor, historia y mitos. Finalmente, la visión de Quinto los lleva a la colina de Watership, una pradera de tierras altas. Pero es allí donde enfrentan los obstáculos más difíciles.

FNH Audio present the first in a new series of science fiction short story collections. A journalist on Mars finds himself in the middle of a coup. An underground operative discovers a man with a formula for winning a planetary war. A lone hunter takes to space to bring down the legendary giant space bat. The best of space detectives gets caught up in an interplanetary extortion ring. In Jorgensen's Worlds secret operative Retief gets dispatched to a frozen world to face off an invasion. Peeten is the guard for the last of the Martian water, when an alien drops into his world...

Highly charged and profoundly important, Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul is a new masterpiece from one of Canada’s greatest writers. On a bright morning in June 1985, a young Micmac man starts his first day of work—but by noon he is dead, killed mysteriously in the fourth hold of the cargo ship Lutheran. Hector Penniac had been planning to go to university, perhaps to study medicine. Roger Savage, a loner who has had to make his own way since his youth, comes under suspicion of killing Hector over a union card and a morning’s work.

If you love the savage and barbaric worlds of Robert E. Howard, you won't be disappointed with Savage Realms Monthly. Hot new authors bring you tales that capture the spirit of Howard's iconic characters, while exploring new horizons in the realm of sword and sorcery, bringing you fresh takes on the genre that will leave you breathless.

How wonderful it is for those who love Christmas to listen to stories that inspire the happiest of seasons. And no story is as compelling as Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, penned in 1843. But what triggered Dickens' imagination to write a story so unlike anything he had written before? In Eben Kruge, author Richard Barlow Adams delivers a pause-resisting narrative that weaves fact and fiction for a penetrating look inside the life and psyche of Dickens when he and wife Catherine traveled to America in 1842 at the invitation of Washington Irving.

In this ground-breaking work, James Adams and Richard Kletter clearly explain the potential and likely ramifications of AI. They show how ill-prepared we are for the forthcoming "fourth industrial revolution" and look at how human beings might fare as it unfolds. Meticulously researched and extensively referenced, this audiobook to the brave new world is created by two highly credible authors, who use all of their experience, insight and contacts to give listeners a privileged look into that which is to come.

Slavná kniha ze zlatého fondu světové literatury. Poprvé vyšla v roce 1972, stala se bestsellerem i předlohou animovaného filmu, seriálu a několika počítačových her. „Sem tam některý panáčkoval na vrcholku mraveniště, s nastraženýma ušima se rozhlížel kolem a větřil. Ale nerušený zpěv kosa na pokraji lesa zvěstoval, že odtamtud nebezpečí nehrozí.“ Nebezpečí však přichází s člověkem a jeho plány postavit domy na území obývaném sandlefordskou králičí kolonií.

Each episode, lifelong friends and film enthusiasts Adam and Jake each assign a movie the other person has never seen before. Reviews, reactions, and rants of all things cinema are had. Here's to the movies!