Shanghai: 1842-1949 (MP3) Stella Dong’s wonderfully readable biography of Shanghai explains precisely why a missionary once declared, "If God lets Shanghai endure, he owes an apology to Sodom and Gomorrah." The greatest metropolis in Asia during its heyday ...
English
2003
Sharpe's Gold (MP3) Only a year after its stunning victory at Talavera in July of 1809, Wellington's Peninsular army-vastly outnumbered, its coffers empty-is on the brink of collapse. The Spanish government has fallen, the last the French has crushed ...
English
2003
Sharpe's Rifles (MP3) It's 1809 and the powerful French juggernaut is sweeping across Spain. Lieutenant Sharpe is newly in command of the demoralized, distrustful men of the 95th Rifles. He must lead them to safety-and the only means of escape is a tre ...
English
2003
Sharpes Triumph (MP3) With the return of the brave English sergeant Richard Sharpe-here, to battle the mercenary forces of the Mahratta confederation in India in 1803-Bernard Cornwell claims his rightful place alongside Patrick O'Brian as a contemporar ...
English
2003
Shiloh (MP3) As the Civil War sweeps across the country, it finds the most wayfaring member of the Brannon family of Culpeper County, Virginia, working as a wharf rat at the Mississippi River port of New Madrid, Missouri. Caught up in a bar fi ...
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2003
Soundless (MP3) Nick Raze is a famous concert violinist who has crossed over from the black-tie, upper-crust symphony arena to the mainstream public, yet his dark past continually haunts him. He hides behind his photogenic face, his Raybans, and ...
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2003
Spring’s Gentle Promise (MP3) "In the dimness of the early morning I could see field after neighborhood field as I let my gaze wander around me. First there was ours—I supposed I would always think of the farm as ours—Grandpa’s, Uncle Charlie’s and mine, thoug ...
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2003
Strange Fiction: Stories by H.G. Wells (MP3) Nine stories including "The Door in the Wall," "The Country of the Blind," "The Truth About Pycraft," and "The Strange Orchid."
"Each piece of narration is invested with gristliness and wit." - Talking Book World
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2003
Summer in Tuscany (MP3) Gemma Jericho is an overworked New York doctor with a handful of a teenaged daughter and a mother who worries that Gemma has no life. So when her mother receives a mysterious letter telling her about an even more mysterious inheri ...
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2003
Shakespeare For Children (MP3) Introduce your children to the magic of Shakespeare with these twenty favorite tales. Although simplified, these animated stories don't underestimate young readers - they keep the complexity, twists of plot, and turns of fate foun ...
English
2005
Sharpe's Battle (MP3) by Bernard Cornwell
read by Frederick Davidson
Unabridged
As Napoleon threatens to crush Britain in battle, Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe leads a ragtag army to exact a personal revenge.
In the spring of 1811, one of the most ...
English
2005
Sharpe's Eagle (MP3) by Bernard Cornwell
read by Frederick Davidson
Unabridged
Here is one of those rare novels-the first in an epic series-that completely transports the reader to an unforgettable time and place in history. At Talavera in Jul ...
English
2005
Sharpe's Enemy (MP3) by Bernard Cornwell
read by Frederick Davidson
Unabridged
A band of renegades led by Sharpe's vicious mortal enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, holds a group of British and French women hostage in a strategic mountain pass. On the ...
English
2005
Some Like It Haute (MP3) Meet Alexandra, a small-town Texas girl turned fashion correspondent for the respected British Weekly. She wears all the right designers and knows all the right people, but can her reputation survive a collision with a six-foot-pl ...
English
2005
Stalky & Co. (MP3) Based on Kipling's own adolescent experiences, Stalky & Co. is a cunning story of mischievous 19th century British schoolboys attempting scholastic mutiny. The faculty and headmaster of a boys' private school repeatedly pursue a t ...
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2005
Swing (MP3) Two-time Edgar Award winner Rupert Holmes?author of the critically acclaimed Where the Truth Lies and creator of the Tony Award?winning musical whodunit The Mystery of Edwin Drood?now fuses gripping suspense and evocative music in ...
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2005
Scavengers - A Posadas County Mystery Book (MP3) Not one, but two dead bodies are found in the harsh New Mexico desert. The first man's face is smashed beyond indentification, and the second one appears to have been forced to dig his own grave before being murdered...execution s ...
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2006
Shadow of Doubt (MP3) Detective Stan Shepherd lies comatose in the hospital, a victim of arsenic poisoning. The New Pointe Police have Celia Shepherd, his wife, as the prime suspect. This isn't the first time she's heard such charges. Her first husband ...
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2006
Shantaram - Disk 1 of 3 (MP3) “[A] massive, thrillingly undomesticated potboiler. . . .Roberts, who wrote the first drafts of the novel in prison, has poured everything he knows into this book and it shows. It has a heartfelt, cinemascope feel. . . .A sensat ...
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2006
Shantaram - Disk 2 of 3 (MP3) “[A] massive, thrillingly undomesticated potboiler. . . .Roberts, who wrote the first drafts of the novel in prison, has poured everything he knows into this book and it shows. It has a heartfelt, cinemascope feel. . . .A sensat ...