War and the Future (MP3) H.G. Wells sets forth an intriguing first-hand observation of Italy, France and Britain under severe duress during the "War to End All Wars", World War I. He insightfully examines the technological effects of modern warfare, parti ...
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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 ...
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2005
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ( MP3) French Professor Aronnax and his servant join the Abraham Lincoln, an American frigate, on a mission to find and destroy a "sea-unicorn of colossal dimensions, armed not with a halberd, but with a real spur, as the armored frigate ...
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A Princess of Mars (MP3) Ex-confederate army captain John Carter finds himself unwittingly transported to Mars, while fleeing Apache Indians. This new world is populated by a race of monstrous Martians, whose culture is based on the ability to fight for t ...
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2005
The World Set Free (MP3) In this thought-provoking masterpiece, H.G. Wells predicts the inventions that will inadvertently lead to mass destruction, forcing the world to "start over". You will see many similarities between H.G. Wells' new world and today' ...
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2005
The Metamorphosis and other short Stories (MP3) THE METAMORPHOSIS begins as its protagonist, Gregor Samsa, wakes up one morning to find that he has become a huge insect. This change is understandably difficult for Gregor, not to mention his family and business. It ends up costi ...
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2005
Prophet and Other Writings, The (MP3) Unabridged
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This collection includes The Prophet, The Forerunner, and The Madman.
Published in 1923, The Prophet was a best-seller and has been translated into more than twenty languages. A series of twenty-eigh ...
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Mutiny of the Elsinore, The (MP3) Life has lost its savor for Mr. Pathurst. New York, fame, women, the arts, have all become tedious. Searching for excitement, he books passage on a cargo vessel sailing from Baltimore to Seattle on a route that travels around the ...
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2005
Lost Triumph (MP3) A fascinating narrative-and a bold new thesis in the study of the Civil War-that suggests Robert E. Lee had a heretofore undiscovered strategy at Gettysburg that, if successful, could have crushed the Union forces and changed the ...
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2005
Controlled Burn (MP3) Stories of Prison, Crime, and Men:
Once or twice a decade, an unknown short-story writer blazes onto the literary scene with work that is thrilling and new. Scott Wolven is such a talent, and his raw, blistering tales of hard- ...
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2005
The Devil of Nanking (MP3) With the redolent atmosphere of Ian Rankin and the spine-chilling characters of Thomas Harris, Mo Hayder's The Devil of Nanking, takes the reader on an electrifying literary ride from the palatial apartments of yakuza kingpins to ...
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The Valley of Fear (MP3) Only Holmes and Watson can get to the bottom of this baffling murder mystery. John Douglas is found in his study blasted faceless with a sawn-off shotgun. There is no obvious motive or suspect. Douglas and his wife, Ivy, a rich an ...
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Last Coyote, The (MP3) Harry attacked his commanding officer and is suspended indefinitely, pending a psychiatric evaluation. At first he resists the LAPD shrink, but finally recognizes that something is troubling him and has for a long time. In 1961, w ...
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2005
A Spy at the Heart of the Third Reich (MP3) A work of remarkable scholarship that moves with the swift pace of a John le Carre thriller, A Spy at the Heart of the Third Reich is a chilling addition to the literature of espionage. In 1943, a young official named Fritz Kolbe ...
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Market Forces (MP3) Disc 2 of 2 A blistering near-future thriller that will propel Richard Morgan onto the bestseller lists - a novel that will be enjoyed by any thriller reader.
What do you buy and sell when the global markets reach saturation point? The ma ...
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2005
All The Shah's Men (MP3) An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror:
Half a century ago, the United States overthrew the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, whose "crime" was nationalizing the country's oil indu ...
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2005
Coal (MP3) The fascinating, often surprising story of how a simple black rock has altered the course of history. Prized as "the best stone in Britain" by Roman invaders who carved jewelry out of it, coal has transformed societies, powered na ...
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2005
Anne of Avonlea (MP3) In the first sequel to Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Montgomery's feisty red-headed heroine is now sixteen and a school teacher in the small village of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island. Although older, she isn't necessarily wiser - an ...
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Havana: A Swagger Family Novel (MP3) High summer in Cuba, 1953, and Havana gleams with possibility. Flush with booming casinos, sex and drugs, Havana is a lucrative paradise for everyone from the Mafia, Domino Sugar, and United Fruit to pimps, porn-makers, and anyone ...
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The Man Who Would be King (MP3) Kipling, a Nobel prize winner, tells the story of two Englishmen, with twenty rifle and two donkeys, setting off from India into the wild unknown to win a kingdom. Added to the adventure is a surprise ending and an authentic pictu ...
