After House, The (MP3) Just out of the hospital and totally out of funds, Ralph Leslie jumped at the chance to sign aboard millionaire Marshall Turner's luxurious super-yacht as steward to the passengers lodged in its after house. His job was easy saili ...
English
2005
Adventures of Gerard, The (MP3) Napoleon's presumptuous, but unsung hero, the Brigadier Gerard faces certain death at every turn while outwitting the enemies of France! Gerard careens across Europe, swept along in the ebb and flow of the Napoleonic wars. This se ...
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2005
800 Leagues on the Amazon (MP3) Take a journey on a giant raft with Joam Garral down 800 Leagues on the Amazon. Garral, a Brazilian, lives on a thriving fazenda (plantation) in the Peruvian frontier with his loving family. But, his daughter's imminent marriage t ...
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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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2005
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
Tarzan of the Apes (MP3) Born of noble stock to parents marooned on the savage West African coast, the young lord Greystoke is orphaned in his first year of life. Named Tarzan by the great apes that raise him, he must learn the law of the jungle to surviv ...
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2005
Prince, The (MP3) Machiavelli lived in Renaissance Italy in a time marked by violent hatred between the Italian city states. His masterpiece, though often misunderstood in recent times, was highly esteemed by his contemporaries. Machiavelli was a p ...
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2006
Barchester Towers D2 of 2 (MP3) Barchester Towers
by Anthony Trollope
read by Simon Vance
Unabridged
This magnificent novel, sequel to The Warden and second in the Chronicles of Barsetshire, satirizes the struggle for ascendancy among the clergy of ...
English
2006
Ugly Duckling and other stories, The (MP3) The Ugly Duckling
and Other Stories
By Hans Christian Anderson
Narrated by Rebecca Burns
Follow one large ungainly “duck” as he is laughed at, kicked, and pecked for being different. Hans Christian Andersen shows that ...
English
2006
The Swiss Family Robinson (MP3) The Swiss Family Robinson recounts the adventures of a father, mother, and four sons marooned on a tropical island. The story unfolds beginning with the tragic storm that claims their ship and the lives of the captain and crew, co ...
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2006
Therese Raquin (MP3) “Zola's blunt, unprettified representation of the most sordid elements of life—infidelity, murder, madness and suicide—seemed revolutionary in the context of his time. Especially remarkable was Zola's gritty portrayal of his ...
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2006
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar (MP3) A spy, Albert Werper, has been sent by Tarzan's long time foe, Achmet Zek, to abduct Jane. His plan changes when he discovers that Tarzan is bankrupt and must return to the lost city of Opar to bring back more gold. While Tarzan a ...
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2006
Mystery of Edwin Drood, The (MP3) Against a background of opium dens, nocturnal graveyard visits, and moldering monastic crypts, Dickens weaves a tightly knit plot centered on the ominous disappearance of young Edwin Drood. Suspected of foul murder are John Jasper ...
English
2006
Man of Property, The (MP3) The Man of Property
by John Galsworthy
read by David Case
Unabridged
Audio Sample
Galsworthy won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932 “for his distinguished art of narration, which takes its highest form in The Forsyte S ...
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2006
Making of a Marchioness, The (MP3) In this two-part adult Cinderella tale, Emily Fox-Seton, a poor, distant descendant of aristocracy, accepts a serving position in one of their garden estates, where she is surprised to receive the attentions of the rich, eligible ...
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2006
Freckles (MP3) Freckles, a plucky young man, lands a job as a watchman for a lumber company that logs timber in a mysterious forest swamp called the Limberlost. Read by Mary Starkey. 8 Hrs.
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2006
Cinderella, Rumpelstiltskin and other stories (MP3) Cinderella, Rumpelstiltskin
and Other Stories
By Charles Perrault, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
Narrated by Rebecca Burns
Through the ages children have been enthralled by Cinderella, the glass slipper, and the evil stepmoth ...
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2006
Castle of Otranto, The (MP3) “[Walpole] is the father of the first romance and surely worthy of a higher place than any living writer.”—Lord Byron
On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed under mysterious circumstance ...
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2006
Barchester Towers D1 of 2 (MP3) Barchester Towers
by Anthony Trollope
read by Simon Vance
Unabridged
This magnificent novel, sequel to The Warden and second in the Chronicles of Barsetshire, satirizes the struggle for ascendancy among the clergy of ...
English
2006
A Girl of the Limberlost (MP3) Sequel to Freckles. The moving story of a young girl whose kindness and wholesome philosophy brightens the lives of everyone she meets. Read by Mary Starkey. 11 Hrs.