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No one said love would be easy. Follow the pair as they try to figure out if the love that they share is strong enough to withstand the many tests life brings them.

How much should you pay for a return trip to the moon? How are Winnie the Pooh and the artificial heart related? Did teenagers exist before 1950? If not, who invented them? James May's 20th Century answers all these questions and more.

Meredith May recalls the first time a honeybee crawled on her arm. She was five years old, her parents had recently split, and suddenly, she found herself in the care of her grandfather, an eccentric beekeeper who made honey in a rusty old military bus in the yard. That first close encounter was at once terrifying and exhilarating for May, and in that moment, she discovered that everything she needed to know about life and family was right before her eyes, in the secret world of bees.

Yelling, pleading, enforcing strict rules, and giving in have proven ineffective. You’ve tried it all—along with tons of treatments and therapies—with no improvement. Katie K. May knows what you’re going through. She also knows what your teen is going through because she lived it. You’re on Fire, It’s Fine is more than a book; it’s a comprehensive approach for parents of teens overwhelmed by intense emotions.

The woman he loves is caught in the crossfire of revenge... but he'll have to face his crimes to save her. Seven years have passed since ranch foreman Kade Logan walked away from small town Dawson, Montana, and the woman he loved, Haddie Brown. He had his reasons, including a dark secret that made him swear never to return to Eastern Montana oil country. When family problems bring Kade back to Dawson, his past comes due - and Haddie is caught in the crossfire.

Ryan “Edge” Stanton has everything he could want in life. As the sergeant at arms for the Rebel Chasers MC, he has a full brotherhood at his back, great friends outside of the club, and his own tattoo shop Needle's Edge. Looking from the outside in, one would think his life is perfect.

With his father’s mysterious disappearance and his brother Ronnie enlisting in the Vietnam War, 13-year-old TJ Crowley is left alone with his racist, unstable mother, Kate. The newly enforced Fair Housing Act results in the unthinkable for the Crowleys when a Black family, headed by the eminent Dr. Washington, crosses the racial red line and moves in next door. Kate is quick to warn TJ that their new neighbors are strictly off-limits and makes a panicked call to beg Ray, her old flame, to travel to their home in Wichita Kansas to help deal with “the problem next door.”

Based loosely on Louisa May Alcott's own upbringing, Little Women follows the lives of four sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March. Each girl has a vision of what their ideal future will bring, though ultimately experiencing, as most young do, something completely different. Little Women, originally written as two volumes, was a great commercial success and is considered one of the most widely read American novels.

After a horrific train derailment, ex-CIA operative and tech wizard Lacey Montgomery finds herself separated from her daughter, handcuffed, and accused of murder. With her five-year-old still missing, she calls her estranged friend, Jim Micah, special-ops captain and search-and-rescue leader. But she can't share the chilling text message that soon appears on her cell phone.

When RJ Marshall said she’d be right back, York should have objected. No, he wasn’t going to let her run off to Berlin, even if it was to save a little girl. Only problem—she’d told him this while he was unconscious. So really, it doesn’t count, and it’s not his fault that she’s gone missing. And he didn’t know why he expected RJ not to chase danger into trouble. But now he has to find her before criminal mastermind Alan Martin tracks her down.

A country girl named Polly is visiting city friends and comes to realize that this world is quite different than which she has left. Here people are judged according to their dress and manner of speech rather than for their honesty and hard work. Yet all who meet Polly cannot help but be enamored of her; her sweet simplicity is unlike any that they have ever seen, and soon everyone comes to realize that Polly is not someone to be laughed at and ridiculed, but someone to put upon a pedestal for failing to become willing prey to the cynicism of the times.

This is a collection meant to be cherished for a lifetime. Whether encountering these cherished tales for the first or the 50th time, listeners will find enchantment in this collection.

Elizabeth Boleyn has been ordered to yield to a lecherous king what she most prizes - her innocence. Now, at the tournament of two kings, her beauty has attracted not only the eyes of Henry Tudor, but those of the handsome Scottish warrior Ambrose Macpherson, whose bold offer to bed her might be her only salvation....

Sled dog musher and outdoor adventurer Nick Dahlquist doesn’t mean to be a loner - he just feels at home in the woods with his dogs, and also online in his vlogging world, where he’s amassed nearly a million viewers. But he’s just a simple guy with simple goals - care for his dogs, teach people how to survive the cold, and run the Iditarod. Unfortunately, life turns cold when his lead dog is injured, and he’s low on funds. Good thing he has LadyJHawk to chat with.

When western Alaska erupts in a devastating fire, the elite firefighting crew of the Jude County Smokejumpers is called in to save the day. They’ll do anything to stop the fire, including fighting alongside a crew of local prisoners. The last thing they expect is a jailbreak, and when the prisoners disappear into the forest with one of their own, they’ll have to fight not only the fire but for the freedom of their friends during the summer of the burning sky.

In the finale, Auburn has finally gotten the fairy tale love that she has always desired with the man of her dreams. Feeling on top of the world, nothing can bring her down— or so she thought. When a secret comes to surface, she quickly finds out how painful love can be. Everything has fallen into place in Eric’s life, both professional and personal. With this being the final year of him playing in the NFL, he plans to go out with a bang. But what he didn’t expect was a blast from the past, scheming her way back into his life with some life-altering news that could potentially destroy...

A brand-new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the evergreen classic novel by Louisa May Alcott.

With their father away in the American Civil War, the March sisters are facing a lean Christmas with their mother. As the years go by, we follow the fortunes of Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy on their journey into womanhood.

Maria had been forced to marry at 17, then was left widowed shortly thereafter. Now, five years later, her brother had chosen another husband for her, sight unseen - the boy king of Scotland. Maria, who had never known passion or love, refused to submit, vowing to flee to freedom. But the ship she chose went down in the gathering fog, leaving the dark-haired beauty at the mercy of wind and tide, and headed for a shattering destiny.

When a mass grave containing 18 mutilated female corpses is discovered in Shanghai, detective Li Yan is sent from Beijing to establish if the bodies are linked to an unsolved murder in the capital. Here, Li will be working with Mei Ling, deputy head of Shanghai's serious crime squad. Mei Ling is a formidable woman: a fact that is not lost on Li's on-again, off-again lover, forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell. But when Campbell learns that the victims were subjected to "live" autopsies, she swallows her pride and joins Li Yan and Mei Ling in the hunt for the murderer.

Complete Trilogy in one set! All three of the men you love and the women who made them work for their hearts! Nailed by You: Kellie has had it with men! Especially good for nothing sperm donors who never see their daughter! The only men who don’t get on her nerves are her father, brother, and Mason Ross. The first two for obvious reasons and the last one, well...he’s just Mason. Sweet, silly, and more handsome than any man should ever be. Too bad a man like him can have any woman that he wants. He is definitely not going to want a single mother with stretch marks when he can have women ...