The season had begun. Debutantes and chaperones were planning their luncheons, teas, dinners, balls. And the blackmailer was planning his strategies, stalking his next victim. But Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn knew that something was up. He had already planted his friend Lord Robert Gospell at the scene. But someone else got there first...

Shade is a young silverwing bat, the runt of his colony. But he's determined to prove himself on the long, dangerous winter migration to Hibernaculum, millions of wingbeats to the south. During a fierce storm, he loses the others and soon faces the most incredible journey of his young life. Desperately searching for a way to rejoin his flock, Shade meets a remarkable cast of characters: Marina, a Brightwing bat with a strange metal band on her leg; Zephyr, a mystical albino bat with an unusual gift; and Goth, a gigantic carnivorous vampire bat. But which ones are friends and which ones are enemies? In this epic story of adventure and suspense, Shade is going to need all the help he can find -- if he hopes to ever see his family again.

1725 to Italian and Spanish parentage, Giacomo Casanova lived a long and exciting life. A scholar and an adventurer, Casanova traveled widely throughout Europe and Russia associating with rulers and Kings. Of course Casanova is most well-known for his womanizing and he reveals time after time how he just couldn’t help falling in love! His eloquence and charm will not be lost on the listener either: the writing is remarkably modern, accessible and funny, too. It took Casanova eighteen years to write his memoirs and a further one hundred for them to be classified as genuine. In this audio recording, Casanova charts his childhood and life as a young man in Venice and Italy. A tie-in Recording to the Heath Ledger film Casanova in 2005 Read By Benedict Cumberbatch Abridged Recording Date: 2006 mp3/64Kbps

Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch (born 1976) is an English film, television, and theatre actor. His most acclaimed roles include Stephen Hawking in the BBC drama Hawking (2004); William Pitt in the historical film Amazing Grace (2006); the protagonist Stephen Ezard in the miniseries thriller The Last Enemy (2008); Paul Marshall in Atonement (2007); Bernard in Small Island (2009); and Sherlock Holmes in the modern BBC adaptation series Sherlock (2010). He will also portray Smaug the Dragon through motion capture and voice the Necromancer in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and The Hobbit: There and Back Again. This book is your ultimate resource for Benedict Cumberbatch. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about his Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Benedict Cumberbatch, Starter for 10 (film), Amazing Grace (2006 film), Atonement (film), The Other Boleyn Girl (2008 film), Creation (2009 film), Four Lions, Third Star, The Whistleblower, War Horse (film), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (film), The Hobbit (2012 film), Tipping the Velvet (TV series), Cambridge Spies, Fortysomething (TV series), Dunkirk (TV series), Hawking (TV film), To the Ends of the Earth, Stuart: A Life Backwards, The Last Enemy (TV series), Murder Is Easy, Small Island (television drama). 引自：http://www.amazon.co.uk/Benedict-Cumberbatch-Handbook-Everything-About/dp/1743385986/ref=reg_hu-rd_add_1_dp

Parade's End is a tetralogy (four related novels) by Ford Madox Ford published between 1924 and 1928. It is set in England and on the Western Front in World War I, where Ford served as an officer in the Royal Welch Fusiliers, a life vividly depicted in the novels.