Alexander the Great and His Time (MP3)(English) "To be mystical and intensely practical, to dream greatly and to do greatly, is not," says Agnes Savill, "given to many men; it is this combination which gives Alexander his place apart in history. Aristotle had taught him that ma ...
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2004
A Personal Devil (MP3)(English) Unabridged
In twelfth-century London, Magdalene la Bâtarde is the madam of the Old Priory Guesthouse in Southwark. She is not in the least bit sorry to learn that Bertrild, the unpleasant wife of Master Mainard, is dead. Be ...
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2005
Bachelors, The (MP3)(English) A barrister, a "priest," a detective, a lovelorn Irishman, a handwriting expert, a heinous spiritual medium-the very British bachelors of Muriel Spark's supreme 1960 novel come in every stripe.
First found contentedly chatting ...
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2003
Before Lunch (MP3)(English) For those who have read and reread Austen, Trollope, and Dickens, discovering a novel by Angela Thirkell is akin to finding gold in an abandoned mine. Long out of print, her novels are currently enjoying a minor renaissance.
As ...
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2003
Bin Laden:The Man who declares War on America Disk 1/2 (MP3)(English) Who is Osama bin Laden—the only terrorist leader ever to have declared a holy war? What drives him and those he leads to hate a West that helped enrich and arm them? Bin Laden's name has been linked to a number of incidents that h ...
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2003
Bin Laden:The Man who declares War on America Disk 2/2 (MP3)(English) Who is Osama bin Laden—the only terrorist leader ever to have declared a holy war? What drives him and those he leads to hate a West that helped enrich and arm them? Bin Laden's name has been linked to a number of incidents that h ...
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2003
Bone of Contention (MP3)(English) Magdalene la Bâtarde knows there is trouble brewing in Oxford, with King Stephen bringing together his great council and her patron, William of Ypres, immed-iately summoning her. But she never expected it would involve murder.
A ...
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2004
Canapes for the Kitties (MP3)(English) Canapes for the Kitties
by Marian Babson
read by Nadia May
Unabridged
The outcry when Conan Doyle pushed Sherlock Holmes over the Reichenbach Falls and the dismay when Freeling shot Van der Valk are as nothing compared t ...
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2007
Cheerfulness Breaks In (MP3)(English) In this wartime episode in Thirkell's saga of the imaginary village of Barsetshire, the highlights include Rose Birkett's wedding, Geraldine Birkett's infatuation with Fritz Gissing, and a romance between Octavia Crawley and Tommy ...
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2003
Divine Comedy, The (MP3)(English) Unabridged
The Carlyle-Wicksteed translation
No words can describe the greatness of this work, a greatness both of theme and artistry. The theme that Dante treats is universal; it involves the greatest concepts which man ha ...
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2004
Ireland (MP3)(English) Ireland
by Paul Johnson
read by Nadia May
Unabridged
No one will gainsay that Ireland is a beautiful, enchanted place. But Ireland has a history more varied, turbulent, fascinating and terrible than any other. From the f ...
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2007
Islam: Questi. About The World's Fastet Growing Faith (MP3)(English) Going beyond the shallow distinction between a "true" peaceful Islam and the "hijacked" Islam of terrorist groups, Robert Spencer probes the Qur'an and other sacred documents, as well as Islamic traditions and history and the pres ...
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2003
Longest Journey, The (MP3)(English) In this searching tragicomedy of manners, personalities, and world views, E.M. Forster explores the "idea of England" he would later develop in Howards End. Bookish, sensitive, and given to wild enthusiasms, Rickie Elliot is virtu ...
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2003
Matisse Stories, The (MP3)(English) The Matisse Stories
by A.S. Byatt
read by Nadia May
Unabridged
This brilliant new collection by A.S. Byatt has been called "a masterpiece" by The Sunday Telegraph and The Observer has proclaimed, "These stories show us B ...
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2007
Oliver Twist (MP3)(English) Unabridged
With the publication of this fiercely comic second novel, Charles Dickens's eminent literary reputation was firmly established. Oliver Twist was, according to Edgar Johnson, "a clarion peal announcing to the world th ...
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2005
Parnassus on Wheels (MP3)(English) on Wheels is the story of a marvelous man, small in stature, wiry as a cat, yet Olympic in personality. Roger Mifflin is part pixie, part sage, part noble savage, and all God's creature. With his traveling book wagon named Parnass ...
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2003
Pointing From The Grave: A True Story Of Murder & Dna (MP3)(English) This is the true story of thirty-five-year-old Helena Greenwood, a doctor with a Ph.D. in chemical pathology, who had recently moved with her husband from England to California and was embarking on a new, exciting career in biotec ...
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2003
Proud Tower, The - Vol 1 of 2 (MP3)(English) Unabridged
Audio Sample
The fateful quarter century leading up to World War I was a time when the world of privilege still existed in Olympian luxury and the world of protest was "heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate." ...
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2005
Proud Tower, The - Vol 2 of 2 (MP3)(English) Unabridged
Audio Sample
The fateful quarter century leading up to World War I was a time when the world of privilege still existed in Olympian luxury and the world of protest was "heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate." ...
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2005
Queen's Ransom (MP3)(English) Lady-in-Waiting Ursula Blanchard has a mandate from the Secretary of State to spy on behalf of Queen Elizabeth I. Although she has already proven herself worthy of the Queen's gratitude, Ursula now must travel to France, where civ ...
