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Demon

by Matt Wesolowski ...

Narrated by Richard Burnip, Anne Dover, Kitty Kelly, Julie Maisey, Mark Milligan, Simon Mattacks, John Telfer, David Thorpe ...

Series Audiobook 6 - Six Stories
Unabridged

8 hours 36 min

In 1995, twelve-year-old Sidney Parsons was savagely murdered by two boys his own age. No reason was ever given for this terrible crime, and the 'Demonic Duo' who killed him were imprisoned until their release in 2002, when they were given new identities and lifetime anonymity. Online journalist Scott King investigates the lead-up and aftermath of the killing, uncovering dark and fanciful stories ... Read more

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In 1995, twelve-year-old Sidney Parsons was savagely murdered by two boys his own age. No reason was ever given for this terrible crime, and the 'Demonic Duo' who killed him were imprisoned until their release in 2002, when they were given new identities and lifetime anonymity. Online journalist Scott King investigates the lead-up and aftermath of the killing, uncovering dark and fanciful stories
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Waves of Social Movement Mobilizations in the Twenty-First Century

Challenges to the Neo-Liberal World Order and Democracy

by Nahide Konak, Rasim Özgür Dönmez, Sam Halvorsen, Walter Nicholls, Mark Purcell, Simon Thorpe, Helga Rittersberger-Tiliç, BEYZA TEKIN, Justus Uitermark0, Luis Rubén Díaz Cepeda1, Gökçe Bayindir Goularas2, Rifat Baris Tekin3, Ernesto Castañeda4 ...

Based on case studies, this book analyzes a recent wave of social movement and protests in the twenty-first century. It has two overarching broadly defined themes: first, to identify commonalities across the social movements and protests in terms of strategies, desire, hopes as well as the main factors in the decline of the movements. And second, to underline the significance of the general ... Read more

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Based on case studies, this book analyzes a recent wave of social movement and protests in the twenty-first century. It has two overarching broadly defined themes: first, to identify commonalities across the social movements and protests in terms of strategies, desire, hopes as well as the main factors in the decline of the movements. And second, to underline the significance of the general
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Trueman and the Arsonists

by Max Frisch, Chris Thorpe, Simon Stephens ...

Series series Modern Plays
But the best disguise, I find, is always the absolute bollock naked truth. It's really strange. Nobody believes it.This is an amoral morality play. It's also got songs in it.Fires keep starting. All across the city, arsonists worm their way into respectable people's homes only to burn them all down. It's a plague. And we don't know why.But Trueman is no fool. He can spot an arsonist from a mile ... Read more

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But the best disguise, I find, is always the absolute bollock naked truth. It's really strange. Nobody believes it.This is an amoral morality play. It's also got songs in it.Fires keep starting. All across the city, arsonists worm their way into respectable people's homes only to burn them all down. It's a plague. And we don't know why.But Trueman is no fool. He can spot an arsonist from a mile
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Watchers of the Dead

by Simon Beaufort ...

Narrated by David Thorpe ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Alec Lonsdale
Unabridged

10 hours 56 min

December 1882. Attending the opening of the new Natural History Museum, reporter Alec Lonsdale and his colleague Hulda Friederichs are shocked to discover a body in the basement, hacked to death. Suspicion falls on three cannibals, brought from the Congo as museum exhibits, who have disappeared. But Alec discovers that three other men have been similarly murdered, and when he and Hulda discover a ... Read more

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December 1882. Attending the opening of the new Natural History Museum, reporter Alec Lonsdale and his colleague Hulda Friederichs are shocked to discover a body in the basement, hacked to death. Suspicion falls on three cannibals, brought from the Congo as museum exhibits, who have disappeared. But Alec discovers that three other men have been similarly murdered, and when he and Hulda discover a
... Read more
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Comic Sans

The Biography of a Typeface

by Simon Garfield ...

Narrated by David Thorpe ...

Series series ABC of Fonts
Unabridged

2 hours 7 min

A compact and charming history of the font we love to hate by the New York Times bestselling author of Just My Type.Since its improvised creation at Microsoft in the mid-1990s, Comic Sans has become one of the most used and talked-about typefaces of the digital age. The subject of April Fools pranks and endless internet discourse, it has spawned a movement to ban it, inspired revivals and spinoffs ... Read more

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A compact and charming history of the font we love to hate by the New York Times bestselling author of Just My Type.Since its improvised creation at Microsoft in the mid-1990s, Comic Sans has become one of the most used and talked-about typefaces of the digital age. The subject of April Fools pranks and endless internet discourse, it has spawned a movement to ban it, inspired revivals and spinoffs
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Chimera

by Simon Mawer ...

Narrated by David Thorpe ...

Unabridged

12 hours 28 min

First published in 1989 Chimera was Simon Mawer’s first novel. Mawer is renowned as one of today's most talented writers of historical spy fiction.The fabulous Chimera - mythic monster, part lion, part goat, part serpent - is more that just an Etruscan bronze discovered by archaeologist David Hewison. It lurks in the background of this novel as a symbol of the man himself: part Italian, part ... Read more

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First published in 1989 Chimera was Simon Mawer’s first novel. Mawer is renowned as one of today's most talented writers of historical spy fiction.The fabulous Chimera - mythic monster, part lion, part goat, part serpent - is more that just an Etruscan bronze discovered by archaeologist David Hewison. It lurks in the background of this novel as a symbol of the man himself: part Italian, part
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Albertus

The Biography of a Typeface

by Simon Garfield ...

Narrated by David Thorpe ...

Series series ABC of Fonts
Unabridged

2 hours 36 min

A compact and charming history of the beloved handcrafted font by the New York Times bestselling author of Just My Type.Albertus, first carved on a bronze tablet in the 1930s by German Jewish refugee Berthold Wolpe, has proved to be one of the most enduring handcrafted typefaces in the world. It is at once modern and timeless, authoritative and whimsical—renowned as the typeface of London Street ... Read more

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A compact and charming history of the beloved handcrafted font by the New York Times bestselling author of Just My Type.Albertus, first carved on a bronze tablet in the 1930s by German Jewish refugee Berthold Wolpe, has proved to be one of the most enduring handcrafted typefaces in the world. It is at once modern and timeless, authoritative and whimsical—renowned as the typeface of London Street
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Baskerville

The Biography of a Typeface

by Simon Garfield ...

Narrated by David Thorpe ...

Series series ABC of Fonts
Unabridged

3 hours 10 min

A compact and charming history of the classic Enlightenment font by the New York Times bestselling author of Just My Type.When Baskerville was first created in 1757, there was concern that it would damage readers' eyes with its combination of thin and thick strokes and tapering serifs. Yet 250 years later, it remains one of the most commonly used typefaces in books of all kinds. As bestselling ... Read more

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A compact and charming history of the classic Enlightenment font by the New York Times bestselling author of Just My Type.When Baskerville was first created in 1757, there was concern that it would damage readers' eyes with its combination of thin and thick strokes and tapering serifs. Yet 250 years later, it remains one of the most commonly used typefaces in books of all kinds. As bestselling
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Mind of a Killer

by Simon Beaufort ...

Narrated by Jonathan Keeble ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Alec Lonsdale
Unabridged

9 hours 57 min

London, 1882. Alec Lonsdale, a young reporter on the Pall Mall Gazette, is working on a story about a fatal house fire. But the postmortem on the victim produces shocking results: Patrick Donovan's death was no accident. But why would someone murder a humble shop assistant and steal part of his brain? When a second body is discovered, its throat cut, and then a third, Lonsdale and his spirited ... Read more

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London, 1882. Alec Lonsdale, a young reporter on the Pall Mall Gazette, is working on a story about a fatal house fire. But the postmortem on the victim produces shocking results: Patrick Donovan's death was no accident. But why would someone murder a humble shop assistant and steal part of his brain? When a second body is discovered, its throat cut, and then a third, Lonsdale and his spirited
... Read more
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The Dead Don't Wait

by Michael Jecks ...

Narrated by Peter Noble ...

Series Audiobook 4 - Jack Blackjack
Unabridged

9 hours 50 min

A priest has been stabbed to death in the village of St Botolph, his body left to rot by the roadside – and Jack Blackjack stands accused of his murder. As well as clearing his name, Jack has his own reasons for wanting to find out who really killed the priest, but this is an investigation where nothing is as it seems. Was it a random attack by a desperate outlaw, or do the answers lie in the ... Read more

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A priest has been stabbed to death in the village of St Botolph, his body left to rot by the roadside – and Jack Blackjack stands accused of his murder. As well as clearing his name, Jack has his own reasons for wanting to find out who really killed the priest, but this is an investigation where nothing is as it seems. Was it a random attack by a desperate outlaw, or do the answers lie in the
... Read more
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Murder at Whitby Abbey

by Cassandra Clark ...

Narrated by Pearl Hewitt ...

Series series Abbess of Meaux Mystery
Unabridged

9 hours 15 min

Dispatched to Whitby Abbey to barter for a Holy Relic, Hildegard of Meaux is plunged into a baffling murder investigation in this gripping medieval mystery.Late December, 1389. Ordered to undertake a grueling three-day journey to bleak Whitby Abbey in the far north of England in a bid to purchase the Abbey's priceless Holy Relic—a lock of St. Hild's hair, said to be 700 years old—Hildegard of ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Dispatched to Whitby Abbey to barter for a Holy Relic, Hildegard of Meaux is plunged into a baffling murder investigation in this gripping medieval mystery.Late December, 1389. Ordered to undertake a grueling three-day journey to bleak Whitby Abbey in the far north of England in a bid to purchase the Abbey's priceless Holy Relic—a lock of St. Hild's hair, said to be 700 years old—Hildegard of
... Read more

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