Playaway Digital Audio

"Presents six stories about the misadventures of literal-minded housemaid Amelia Bedelia, in which she goes camping, helps tend the garden, tries to teach a group of children, and shares her family album."--

"Ana and her husband, Lucho, along with their two young children, have fled the financial and political upheaval facing Peru in the twilight of the twentieth century, seeking a chance at a new life in New York City. When Lucho loses his job, his cousin proposes a tenuous offer of hospitality to the family. Despite the setback, Ana is intent on putting down roots, but she soon finds that her undocumented status significantly curtails her family's opportunities....

"1944. Crystal City, Texas. Margot gave up everything to keep her family together. And now they are together -- imprisoned in the Crystal City family internment camp, worlds away from their German-American farm community in Iowa. But the camp is changing them, day by day and piece by piece. As Margot watches her mother's health deteriorate and her loving, patriotic father turn into a man who fraternizes with Nazis, she wonders what more it will take...

New York Times number one bestselling author Jeffrey Archer is a master of the short-story form, creating classic tales beloved by his fans. Now the award-winning writer collects twenty of his most popular and fêted short stories in The Short, The Long and the Tall. Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to solve a murder and ends up falling in love; and the pretentious schoolboy...

With this anthology, bestselling author Brad Meltzer introduces twenty-one original stories from today's most prominent mystery writers.

"This sampler of brief mindfulness meditations is a chance to try different approaches for developing the powerful practice of intentional awareness." --

"For far too many of us, amassing wealth seems like a pipe dream. We assume that to become a "high net worth" individual -- someone who has over $1 million in liquid assets -- we'd need some mysterious combination of genius and luck. But what if you could solve this mystery? Long gone are the days when captains of industry such as John D. Rockefeller and Dale Carnegie dominated the economic arena. Today, the world's richest individuals are a diverse...

"Following her father's sudden death -- after having not heard from him for decades -- Ilka Jensen has impulsively abandoned her quiet life in Denmark to visit the rural Wisconsin town where he ran the local funeral home. There, she's devastated to discover her father's second family: a stepmother and two half sisters she never knew existed. Now a local woman has been killed, seemingly the unfortunate casualty of a home invasion turned violent. But...

This true-crime police procedural is the riveting story of the racially-motivated serial killings that terrorized San Francisco from 1973 to 1974 and how they were solved. Code named the Zebra Murders, the case involved a series of random violent attacks by African-American men against whites, resulting in fifteen deaths. Author Prentice Earl Sanders, the SFPD's first African-American police chief and one of the lead detectives on the case, takes...

Splat the Cat: A nervous Splat finds his first day at Cat School much better than he expected. Spoon: Spoon has always been a happy little utensil. But lately his life is just not cutting it. Fork, Knife and Chopsticks all have it so much better. But do they? This is a celebration of what make each of us special. Arnie the doughnut: When Mr. Bing buys Arnie in a doughnut shop, Arnie realizes he must persuade Mr. Bing that a doughnut can be more...