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(0)Natalie Dormer
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After achieving a dream retirement with his wife of 50 years to a condo in the South of France, Joseph (James Fox) finds himself utterly miserable. Bored, lonely, and tired of his wife's incessant nagging and slow onset of Alzheimer's, he finds himself gazing hopelessly at the younger women that pass by and catching unflattering looks from the locals his own age. Brenda (Brenda Fricker) eventually begins to sense her husband's loss of enthusiasm...
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Picnic at Hanging Rock volume 6
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English
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Hester has grown increasingly certain that her vengeful husband is behind the disappearances and is coming after her. As she prepares to flee, the arrival of Sara's guardian provides conclusive proof of Mrs. Appleyard's lies. As Hester travels to the Hanging Rock, the truth of her haunted past and the secret lives of the missing college girls are exposed.
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Picnic at Hanging Rock volume 1
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English
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In the final decade of the 19th century, mysterious widow Hester Appleyard arrives in Australia, haunted by a secret past. Here, in the new world, she establishes a successful school for young ladies. But six years later, on Valentine's Day, 1900, the enigmatic headmistress allows her pupils to picnic at Hanging Rock. And there, in the strange brooding landscape, something unthinkable happens.
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Picnic at Hanging Rock volume 5
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English
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The French governess, Mademoiselle, is growing increasingly suspicious of Mrs. Appleyard's erratic behavior and fears the worst when she is told that Sara was unexpectedly collected by her guardian, unseen by any other staff. As Mademoiselle searches for answers, the sergeant travels to Melbourne to seek a last interview with Irma, and a secret vow made by the missing girls is revealed.
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Picnic at Hanging Rock volume 4
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Hester struggles to contain mounting hysteria as aftershocks from the disappearance continue to disrupt the old order. A mysterious visitor summons memories of Hester's dark past, while Sara seeks escape from the college. Meanwhile, the story delves into the lives of the missing girls in the months leading up to the picnic, and the dark stain of the unsolved mystery continues to spread.
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Picnic at Hanging Rock volume 3
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The missing Rothschild heiress, Irma Leopold, has been found, remarkably unharmed, but claiming to remember nothing. Meanwhile, rumors spread, and the sergeant turns his attention to the college. What secrets lie hidden behind the locked gates? His investigation intensifies Hester's paranoia, and she grows certain that the young orphan, Sara, knows something about the disappearance.
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Picnic at Hanging Rock volume 2
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English
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Hester's three star pupils and a governess have disappeared. Led by a dogged sergeant, local men search for the missing. Has something supernatural befallen them? Or has a human outrage occurred? An aristocratic young Englishman, Michael Fitzhubert, was the last person to see the girls, and when the search is abandoned, he is compelled to return to the Rock, where he makes a shocking discovery.
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The history of magic is as long as time and as wide as the world. In every culture, in every age, in every place and, probably, in every heart, there is magic.
Harry Potter: A History of Magic reveals some of the hidden stories behind real-world magic and explores some of J.K. Rowling's magical inventions alongside their folkloric, cultural and historical forebears.
Narrator Natalie Dormer and a host of experts will take you on an audio journey...
10) In Darkness
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Blind pianist Sofia overhears the death of her upstairs neighbor Veronique. Soon she is drawn into a dangerous world of corruption, hitmen and the Russian mafia — connecting Sofia's own hidden past and secret path of revenge.