Fiona digs, builds, and pretends in her favorite spot—the sandbox—in this second of four irresistible full-length miniature picture books, where the littlest readers are introduced to new friends and the charming world of the Hippo Park playground.This second book in the Hippo Park Friends series—introduces Fiona the Hippo in her beloved sandbox. Fiona is a builder and a digger, and has a big imagination. She's digging for dinosaurs when she hits an imaginary bone ...

**In the third miniature picture book in the Hippo Park Pals series, perfect for little hands—Fiona needs help getting onto her swing, and brother Herbert helps out, like big brothers do.The fourth book in the adorable Hippo Park Pals series, real picture books--perfect for little hands!**In the third Hippo Park Pals miniature book, Fiona is first to the swing set, but her swing is too high to reach! “Help me, please, Herbert,” she asks her brother. With his help, Fiona get...

THE SPANISH CONQUEST OF THE AMERICAS — Audiobook · Narrated by Fiona Park. Listen time: 4 hours 33 minutes Spanish conquest history — Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro, the fall of the Aztec and Inca empires, and the complete narrative history of how two men with fewer than 700 soldiers destroyed the largest civilizations in the Americas. In the spring of 1519, Tenochtitlán — capital of the Aztec Empire — was one of the largest cities on earth, with 200,000 to 300,000 inhabitants. London...

‘Why shouldn’t we offer to take care of her? She could live with us at Mansfield.’ In this way Mrs Norris persuades her sister, Lady Bertram, and Lady Bertram’s husband, Sir Thomas, to ask their poor niece Fanny Price to live with them at Mansfield Park. At first Fanny is unhappy there. Then, after she makes friends with her young cousins, things improve. But what happens when the cousins are older, and starting to think of love?

New York, 1884. De ongehuwde Sara Smythe krijgt de kans van haar leven als ze door architect Theodore Camden wordt gevraagd om conciërge te worden van het pas opgeleverde Dakotagebouw. Sara neemt de baan aan, maar wordt verliefd op Theo.In 1985 is binnenhuisarchitecte Bailey Camden net uit een afkickkliniek ontslagen, ze is werkloos en heeft geen dak boven haar hoofd. Haar grootvader was een beschermeling van Theodore Camden, maar omdat een bloedband ontbreekt kan ze geen aanspraak...

This book brings together internationally renowned academics and professionals from a variety of disciplines who, in a variety of ways, seek to understand the legal, conceptual and practical consequences of parental imprisonment through a children’s rights lens. Children whose parents have been incarcerated are often referred to as "invisible victims of crime and the penal system." It is well accepted that the imprisonment of a parent, even for a short period of time, not only negatively a...

Perfect for anyone fascinated by the Royal Wedding, Netflix's The Crown, or Wolf Hall, this is a pitch-perfect reimagining of the romance and tragedy of Henry VIII and his six wives, told from multiple points of view by some of your favorite authors.If you were one of King Henry VIII's six wives, who would you be? Would you be Anne Boleyn, who literally lost her head? Would you be the subject of rumor and scandal like Catherine Howard? Or would yo...

Ce livre audio est narré par une voix numérique.Arrachée à son humble foyer pour vivre chez de riches parents, Fanny Price, calme et réfléchie, grandit en marge de Mansfield Park. Alors qu'elle navigue entre les complexités de la famille, des classes sociales et de la moralité, Fanny reste fidèle à ses principes, même lorsque ceux qui l'entourent vacillent. Avec une perspicacité aiguë et une ironie subtile, Jane Austen explore les conflits de conscience et de caractère dans un mon...

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Speeches of Note by Shaun Usher, compèred by Richard Cordery, and with speeches read by a variety of narrators.SPEECHES OF NOTE: seventy-five extraordinary ways to step into someone else’s shoes.From Shaun Usher, the author of the international bestseller LETTERS OF NOTE, comes an obsessively curated, richly illustrated and sumptuously produced collection of speeches from throu...