Pushkin and the Queen of Spades (MP3) This is a provocative, enormously entertaining novel about family, motherhood, and race from the history-making author of The Wind Done Gone.
Windsor Armstrong is a polished, Harvard-educated African-American professor of Russia ...
English
2004
Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians (MP3) Mark Twain began this sequel to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1885. Fifteen thousand words into the work, Twain stopped in the middle of a sentence, never to go back. The unfinished story sat on dusty shelves for more than ...
English
2004
Chronicles of Avonlea (MP3) The first thing every listener will want to know is whether Anne Shirley appears in these stories of Avonlea and Spencervale. She certainly does. As a matter of fact, page one starts off in this manner: "Anne Shirley was curled up ...
English
2004
Eagle's Cry - Disk 1 of 2 (MP3) Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, whose thirst for power cannot be quenched, has gained control of New Orleans, a move that gives him potential mastery of the Mississippi River Valley. A country as strong as France could stop America’s ...
English
2004
Book of Kings, The - Vol 1 of 3 (MP3) James Thackara's epic novel The Book of Kings is set across the entire continent of Europe, as well as North and South America and North Africa, in the years shortly before and during World War II and leading up to the present day ...
English
2004
Book of Kings, The - Vol 3 of 3 (MP3) James Thackara's epic novel The Book of Kings is set across the entire continent of Europe, as well as North and South America and North Africa, in the years shortly before and during World War II and leading up to the present day ...
English
2004
By the Grand Canal (MP3) Venice, 1919. In the aftermath of the First World War, Hugh Thurne, a senior British diplomat involved in the peace negotiations, decides to flee to his second home in Venice rather than return to his wife and the charade of his m ...
English
2004
Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre, The (MP3) In this luminous debut novel, Dominic Smith reinvents the life of one of photography’s founding fathers. In 1839, Louis Daguerre’s invention took Paris and the world by storm. A decade later, he is sinking deep into delusions ...
English
2005
Pattern Recognition (MP3) Cayce Pollard is a new kind of prophet - a world renowned "coolhunter" who predicts the hottest trends. While in London to evaluate the redesign of a famous corporate logo, she's offered a different assignment: find the creator of ...
English
2005
Darwin Conspiracy, The (MP3) A complex and intelligent novel that, like Darnton's first bestseller Neanderthal, brilliantly blends fact and fiction. This time the reader is transported to 19th Century England and around the world to solve a legendary mystery ...
English
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 ...
English
2005
Three Men on the Bummel (MP3) When three late-Victorian gentlemen escape from their claustrophobic suburban life to go on a cycling tour in the Black Forest of Germany, their trip turns into a comic expedition.
Many of their humorous adventures and mishaps ...
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
Hearing, The (MP3) The call comes at midnight. It looks like a tragic and petty murder - a rising star in San Francisco's legal firmament found shot in a dark alley. But for homicide lieutenant Abe Glitsky, the crime cuts horribly close to home - un ...
English
2005
Aesops Fables (MP3) J Kent By their nature, "fables" are "fabulous", larger than life, the characters often using wit and guile to save themselves from circumstances. Thus Brer Rabbit is more than a bunny in a briar patch, just as Mowgli is more than a wolf ...
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2005
Black Unicorn, The (MP3) A year has passed since Ben Holiday bought the Kingship of Landover from the Wizard Meeks, who set a series of pitfalls for him. Ben survived with the help of Questor Thews, an ill-trained wizard; Abernathy, talking dog and Scribe ...
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2005
Cut and Run (MP3) Six years ago, witness protection marshal Roland Larson did the unthinkable: he fell in love with a protected witness, Hope Stevens, whose testimony was to put away prominent members of the Romero crime family. When Hope's plan to ...
English
2005
First Law, The (MP3) John Lescroart - author of the New York Times bestseller The Oath and a "master" of the modern thriller (People)- returns with a spellbinding novel about events that force defense attorney Dismas Hardy and Lieutenant Abe Glitsky o ...
English
2005
Missing In The Boundary Waters (MP3) The early 1930?s were desperate times in America. As the country struggled through the Great Depression, many of its finest young men, unable to find work, turned to begging or stealing to get by. But others began to roam the coun ...
English
2005
Murders in the Rue Morgue (MP3) fourth floor room, a door locked with the key inside - no way in, no way out. Edgar Alan Poe is the true grandfather of the murder mystery. Decades before Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, Poe gave us C. Auguste Dupin, a man abl ...
