Shelflist
19 May 2012
Shelflist19 May 2012 | |
A publication of the Dr. Geoff Gallop Braille and Talking Book Library of the Association for the Blind of Western Australia
This is a list of the talking books which have been produced into DAISY digital talking book format or available in downloadable Braille format by the Association for the Blind of Western Australia from 01 March 2012 to 19 May 2012 these books can be accessed from the association or online at http://www.guidedogswa.org/ or by printing order form at the end of this list, checking the box each title and returning book order to us by post or fax at:
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| ☐ S8150 | ☐ S8009 | ☐ G2542 | ☐ S4778 |
| ☐ S8079 | ☐ S4442 | ☐ S6971 | ☐ S8071 |
| ☐ S7909 | ☐ S7538 | ☐ S8068 | ☐ S8114 |
| ☐ S5283 | ☐ S8154 | ☐ S7906 | ☐ S8157 |
| ☐ S8148 | ☐ S8149 | ☐ S2792 | ☐ S8158 |
| ☐ S8151 | ☐ S4940 | ☐ G4745 | ☐ S8051 |
| ☐ S8141 | ☐ S8143 | ☐ S6717 | ☐ S7923 |
| ☐ S4725 | ☐ S8085 | ☐ S3817 | ☐ GG1751118 |
| ☐ S6246 | ☐ GG163903 | ☐ S7122 | ☐ S8133 |
| ☐ GG1751013 | ☐ S8082 | ☐ S1240 | ☐ S8097 |
| ☐ GG1751127 | ☐ S8116 | ☐ S2797 | ☐ G20516 |
| ☐ S5306 | ☐ S3719 | ☐ G24103 | ☐ GG1751137 |
| ☐ S0855 | ☐ S7826 | ☐ S8112 | ☐ S8109 |
| ☐ S8107 | ☐ GG1751146 | ☐ GG1551010 | ☐ S8105 |
| ☐ S7096 | ☐ S7083 | ☐ S6254 | ☐ GG1751215 |
| ☐ S6313 | ☐ S7931 | ☐ S8086 | ☐ G09617 |
| ☐ S5742 | ☐ S5571 | ☐ GG1751227 | ☐ G8072 |
| ☐ CD025 | ☐ S1805 | ☐ GG63905 | ☐ S0524 |
| ☐ GG1751234 | ☐ S0111 | ☐ G8070 | ☐ G33701 |
| ☐ S8014 | ☐ S0831 | ☐ S8090 | ☐ S8164 |
| ☐ G8121 | ☐ S8074 | ☐ G1400 | ☐ S6811 |
| ☐ S7121 | ☐ G4093 | ☐ S7600 | ☐ GG185901 |
| ☐ S6351 | ☐ S8073 | ☐ G38675 | ☐ S8087 |
| ☐ S7344 | ☐ S8095 | ☐ GG1851056 | ☐ GG8107 |
| ☐ GG124851 | ☐ S8069 | ☐ G19655 | ☐ S6187 |
| ☐ S3410 | ☐ S8117 | ☐ S6641 | ☐ G7942 |
| ☐ S5354 | ☐ S8103 | ☐ S4999 | ☐ S6775 |
| ☐ S2966 | ☐ S0442 | ☐ G29434 | ☐ S8100 |
| ☐ S5995 | ☐ S0188 | ☐ S1150 | ☐ S7944 |
| ☐ S5989 | ☐ S5501 | ☐ G0100021h | ☐ S4405 |
| ☐ GG013914 | ☐ S8132 | ☐ S5776 | ☐ S6379 |
| ☐ S6640 | ☐ S6772 | ☐ G20 | ☐ G58 |
| ☐ S6934 | ☐ GG124133 | ☐ S7126 | ☐ S8108 |
| ☐ S8135 | ☐ S8106 | ☐ S8091 | ☐ S8146 |
| ☐ S6255 | ☐ S7473 | ☐ S6680 | ☐ S6404 |
| ☐ S0563 | ☐ G2289 | ☐ S7832 | ☐ S6683 |
| ☐ G1745 | ☐ S7226 | ☐ S8102 | ☐ S3634 |
| ☐ GG274135 | ☐ S3261 | ☐ S8088 | ☐ S8101 |
| ☐ S3038 | ☐ S8084 | ☐ GG175103 | ☐ S8089 |
| ☐ G326 | ☐ S8159 | ☐ S8092 | ☐ G176111 |
| ☐ G176112 | ☐ G176113 | ☐ S0017 | ☐ S8061 |
| ☐ S8156 | ☐ S1106 | ☐ S8155 | ☐ S8070 |
| ☐ S7936 | ☐ G3413 | ☐ S4047 | ☐ S3334 |
| ☐ S3726 | ☐ S2790 | ☐ S0994 | ☐ GG11874 |
| ☐ CD022 | ☐ G1184 | ☐ G13384 | ☐ GG231232 |
| ☐ S1675 | ☐ S7495 | ☐ S2641 | ☐ S6197 |
| ☐ S7995 | ☐ S8094 | ☐ S4419 | ☐ S8104 |
| ☐ GG163910 | ☐ S7224 | ☐ S4025 | ☐ S3549 |
| ☐ GG163926 | ☐ S0598 | ☐ S8129 | ☐ S8005 |
| ☐ S8131 | ☐ S0232 | ☐ GG15117538 | ☐ G2057 |
| ☐ G9932 | ☐ S5910 | ☐ S3952 | ☐ S2690 |
| ☐ GG163955 | ☐ S8076 | ☐ G4070 | ☐ S7454 |
| ☐ G00601 | ☐ S8115 | ☐ S8120 | ☐ S6619 |
| ☐ G12436 | ☐ G34661 | ☐ S5303 | ☐ S3491 |
| ☐ S2780 | ☐ GG45108 | ☐ GG08058 | ☐ S8099 |
| ☐ GG1551152 | ☐ G1897 | ☐ S3357 | ☐ S6816 |
| ☐ S7846 | ☐ S5640 | ☐ GG1551050 | ☐ GG153941 |
| ☐ GG1141158 | ☐ S1221 | ☐ G25776 | ☐ S8060 |
| ☐ S6810 | ☐ S2570 | ☐ S2290 | ☐ GG1551214 |
| ☐ S1996 | ☐ G11093 | ☐ S8006 | ☐ S5034 |
| ☐ S8119 | ☐ S2564 | ☐ G23969 | ☐ G970 |
| ☐ S8056 | ☐ G9903 | ☐ S5658 | ☐ G23976 |
| ☐ S8055 | ☐ S8111 | ☐ S7034 | ☐ S1127 |
| ☐ S7601 | ☐ GG1241038 | ☐ GG175954 | ☐ GG63915 |
| ☐ S8083 | ☐ S8093 | ☐ GG264356 | ☐ S8046 |
| ☐ S8096 | ☐ G12004 | ☐ GG201 | ☐ G5682 |
| ☐ G1046 | ☐ S3199 | ☐ S8130 | ☐ GG8100 |
| ☐ S7140 | ☐ G19400 | ☐ G17322 | ☐ GG00500 |
| ☐ GG8103 | ☐ G16960 | ☐ GG1751022 | ☐ GG233911 |
| ☐ G336 | ☐ S8057 | ☐ GG8106 | ☐ G26131 |
| ☐ S8065 | ☐ S8064 | ☐ S8127 | ☐ S6773 |
| ☐ G38355 | ☐ S7180 | ☐ S8072 | ☐ G14400 |
| ☐ S8063 | ☐ S4964 | ☐ G0200601 | ☐ GG831029 |
| ☐ GG831038 | ☐ S7971 | ☐ GG153235 | ☐ S7203 |
| ☐ GG8055 | ☐ S8080 | ☐ S4447 | ☐ G35690 |
| ☐ GG330983 | ☐ GG130 | ☐ G33504 | ☐ G12809 |
| ☐ GG08054 | ☐ G08057 | ☐ G27692 | ☐ S2954 |
| ☐ GG8053 | ☐ GG131047 | ☐ G11673 | ☐ S8122 |
| ☐ G3076 | ☐ GG8054 | ☐ GG8101 | ☐ GG23208 |
| ☐ S1344 | ☐ GG8093 | ☐ GG8060 | ☐ GG7948 |
| ☐ G735 | ☐ G0731 | ☐ G736 | ☐ G733 |
| ☐ G734 | ☐ GG631159 | ☐ G8918 | ☐ S8137 |
| ☐ GG6498 | ☐ GG211053 | ☐ G10012 | ☐ G08056 |
| ☐ G24869 | ☐ GG8115 | ☐ G18359 | ☐ G27083 |
| ☐ GG1041240 | ☐ G27683 | ☐ G7091 | ☐ S8047 |
| ☐ G37065 | ☐ GG8102 | ☐ G7345 | ☐ S8139 |
| ☐ G11224 | ☐ GG231032 | ☐ S8075 | ☐ S5845 |
| ☐ S4109 | ☐ S8116 | ☐ S4802 | ☐ S6850 |
| ☐ S4567 | ☐ S6488 | ☐ S4979 | ☐ S1788 |
| ☐ G31318 | ☐ G1864 | ☐ G24570 | ☐ G17323 |
| ☐ G11688 | ☐ G7021 | ☐ G11643 | ☐ G1146 |
| ☐ S7014 | ☐ S7167 | ☐ G11915 | ☐ G1604 |
| ☐ G1162 | ☐ G01027 | ☐ G26247 | ☐ G17401 |
| ☐ GG2102906 | ☐ G24714 | ☐ GG00400 | ☐ S8160 |
| ☐ G34414 | ☐ G00421 | ☐ S8144 | ☐ S8123 |
| ☐ G17125 | ☐ GG153231 | ☐ G30017 | ☐ S8145 |
| ☐ GG133249 | ☐ S8147 | ☐ G37381 | ☐ GG133240 |
| ☐ G21721 | ☐ G20437 | ☐ GG153952 | ☐ G236 |
| ☐ GG1531025 | ☐ G23625 | ☐ GG1531032 | ☐ GG1531047 |
| ☐ GG153219 | ☐ G120 | ☐ S8161 | ☐ S7948 |
| ☐ S8054 | ☐ GG1241158 | ☐ G13384 | ☐ G38516 |
| ☐ S8124 | ☐ S8067 |
31 Dream Street
S8150 11 hours 52 minutes
by Jewell, Lisa.
In his old, rambling house, failed poet Toby Dobbs has created a refuge for lost souls. But when a quiet tragedy and an unwelcome letter interrupt Toby's sedate existence, he needs his housemates to find some direction in their lives. Leah Pilgrim has watched the tenants of the house over the road for several years, and when the owner of 31 Silversmith Road asks her for advice, he opens the door not only to the eccentric building across the street but to five lives in various stages of turmoil.
A Blue and Gray Christmas
S8009 06 hours 19 minutes
by Medlicott, Joan
After being moved by the letters of two Civil War soldiers--one Union and the other Confederate--Grace, Hannah, and Amelia track down the soldiers’ descendants and invite them to a Christmas reunion in Covington, where the letters will serve as holiday gifts.
A Doll's House
G2542 02 hours 30 minutes
by IBSEN, Henrik
A Doll’s House, written two years after The Pillars of Society, was the first of Ibsen’s plays to create a sensation and is now perhaps his most famous play, and required reading in many secondary schools and universities. The play was highly controversial when first published, as it is sharply critical of 19th Century marriage norms. It follows the formula of well-made play up until the final act, when it breaks convention by ending with a discussion, not an unravelling. It is often called the first true feminist play, although Ibsen denied this.
A duel of jewels
S4778 03 hours 14 minutes
by CARTLAND, Barbara
Betrothed against her wishes to an elderly Duke, Katarina falls in love with her neighbour Prince Michael. But true love rarely runs smoothly, and the pair soon find themselves in mortal danger.
A Fall of Moondust
S8079 08 hours 25 minutes
by CLARKE, Arthur C.
Time is running out for the passengers and crew of the tourist cruiser Selene, incarcerated in a sea of choking lunar dust. On the surface, her rescuers find their resources stretched to the limit by the mercilessly unpredictable conditions of a totally alien environment. A brilliantly imagined story of human ingenuity and survival, A FALL OF MOONDUST is a tour-de-force of psychological suspense and sustained dramatic tension by the field's foremost author.
A fence around the cuckoo
S4442 12 hours 30 minutes
by PARK, Ruth
The first volume of the author's autobiography. Written as vividly as any of her novels, this is a moving, passionate and funny account of her early childhood, living alone with her parents in the rainforests of New Zealand.
A forbidden embrace
S6971 08 hours 13 minutes
by JACOBS, Anna
When, after the death of her mother, Cassandra Trent is told that she must join her aunt and have a London Season, she is full of rage. She is convinced that she will never fit into polite society, but develops a close relationship with her cousin Susannah.
A forbidden loving /
S8071 04 hours 42 minutes
by Jordan, Penny.
Narrated by Apple Alex (synthetic)
Of course she hadn't fallen in love with him, Silas Jardine was only being pleasant to Hazel because she was Katie's mother. Katie was the one he cared about. It would be wrong of Hazel to think otherwise. The trouble was, she had forgotten how to behave in the company of an attractive man and was over-reacting. That was what Hazel told herself in an effort to convince all concerned that Silas's eruption into her life was something she could take in her stride.
A Highland Conquest
S7909 08 hours 28 minutes
by MACHIN, Jeannie
Miss Lauren Maitland was American born and bred, but felt quite at home in London society when she came to England to claim a vast inheritance. Only as a guest in Glenvane Castle in the Highlands did she learn how little she knew about sophisticated life and love. Darkly handsome Rory Ardmore, Earl of Glenvane, made her senses swim though he was openly involved with the gorgeous Lady Isabel Maxby. Meanwhile, Rory's wickedly attractive brother Jamie unleashed all his worldly wiles to make Lauren his.
A Kingdom for the Brave
S7538
by MCKINLEY, Tamara
A heartbreaking epic following the lives of pioneers, families, warriors and lovers all set against the rich tapestry of newly-colonised Australia
A mother's love
S8068 10 hours 57 minutes
by Harris, Rosie,
Julia leaves home when she discovers she is pregnant. She finds work in a hotel. Eunice, wife of the manager, is also expecting. Julia's baby is stillborn but Eunice has a healthy baby girl, Amanda. Although heartbroken at the death of her own baby, Julia helps to look after Amanda. But, the Hawkins hide a secret too terrible to reveal.
A Perfect Blood
S8114 17 hours 25 minutes
by Harrison, Kim
Narrated by Apple Alex (synthetic)
Ritually murdered corpses are appearing across Cincinnati, terrifying amalgams of human and other. Pulled in to help investigate by the Federal Inderland Bureau (FIB), former witch turned day-walking demon Rachel Morgan soon realizes a horrifying truth--a would-be creator is determined to make his (or her) own demons. But it can't be done without Rachel's blood. As a bounty hunter, Rachel has battled vampires, witches, werewolves, demons, and more--but humanity itself might be her toughest challenge.
A secret affair
S5283 03 hours 15 minutes
by BRADFORD, Barbara Taylor
American television foreign correspondent, Bill Fitzgerald, is war-weary and exhausted after a long stint in Bosnia. He travels to Venice for rest and to meet old friend Frankie Peterson, but falls for glass designer Vanessa Stewart, from New York.
A stranger in Burracombe
S8154 14 hours 09 minutes
by Harry, Lilian.
When Jennifer Tucker arrives in the sleepy Devonshire village of Burracombe, she's searching for more than a place to settle...Like the rest of the nation, the Burracombe villagers are shocked when King George VI dies suddenly. But the arrival of a stranger in the village on the very same day goes almost unnoticed - they all have their own concerns. As Jennifer Tucker looks for a family she hadn't even realised existed, the village gradually becomes involved in her search and more than one person is led to question their own ideas about families and what they mean.
Across the Blood-red Skies
S7906 11 hours 11 minutes
by Radcliffe, Robert
The story of two young pilots, George Duckworth a cynical Englishman determined to take the fight to the Germans and his Canadian friend, Mac, whose tally of kills rivals only those of the Red Baron, with whom he is fated to duel. There is also Emily, an ambulance driver who sees death daily and who both men see as their salvation.
After you'd gone
S8157
by O'Farrell, Maggie.
Alice Raikes remembers a tragic love affair as she lies in a coma. Meanwhile, Alice's family gathers at her bedside
All the pretty horses
S8148 10 hours 33 minutes
by McCarthy, Cormac,
John Grady Cole comes from a family of Texas Rangers. He becomes cut off from his family and runs off to Mexico with his friend.
Amy's honeymoon
S8149 08 hours 56 minutes
by Llewellyn, Julia.
A five-star honeymoon in Rome...what more could a girl want? In Amy's case, a husband might come in handy, but with no chance of a refund on the honeymoon, she's jetting off on her own. Except no one seems willing to leave her alone. If it's not nosy hotel guests, it's movie stars desperate to exchange suites. How's a girl supposed to wallow in misery when, under protest, she's dragged off to shop till she drops, or to film premieres or intimate picnics?But why was the wedding called off? Where is the absent groom? And can movie stars really fall in love with the girl next door?
An angel in hell
S2792 07 hours 30 minutes
by CARTLAND, Barbara
Lady Ancella Winn, after the death of her father, goes to Paris as a nurse-companion and falls in love with her mistress's son.
Angel uncovered
S8158 09 hours 41 minutes
by Price, Katie.
An explosive and highly charged tale of love, lies and celebrityAngel Summer looks as if she has found her happy ever after. She's married to the love of her life, sexy footballer Cal, they have a beautiful baby girl and Angel is Britain's top glamour model. But all is not as it seems and there is heartache in store. When Cal is transferred to AC Milan, Angel feels isolated so far away from her family and friends. Surrounded by beautiful people, will Angel and Cal pull together, or will they turn elsewhere to seek comfort? Angel's worst nightmares come to life when an old flame of Cal's comes back on the scene and suddenly Angel is fighting to save her marriage and herself.
Angels
S8151
by Keyes, Marian.
Unlike the rest of her family in Ireland, Maggie Walsh has always done the right thing - that is until the day she leaves her husband and takes refuge with her friend Emily, a screenwriter in Los Angeles - a city where even the palm trees are skinny. Soon Maggie's doing all sorts of things she's never done before, such as wearing sunglasses in the shower and pitching scripts to studio executives. And meeting a mysterious man named Troy, who is so non-stick he's known as human teflon.
Arian
S4940 16 hours 52 minutes
by GOWER, Iris
Fourth novel in the Cordwainers sequence. Will Arian be doomed to a loveless marriage with a man she despises?
At the Villa Rose
G4745 07 hours 19 minutes
by MASON, Alfred E. W.
Harry Wethermill, the brilliant young scientist, a graduate of Oxford and Munich, has made a fortune from his inventions, and is taking a vacation at Aix-les-Bains. There he meets, and immediately falls in love with, the young and beautiful Celia Harland, who serves as companion to the aging but warm-hearted Madam Dauvray of Paris. All this is observed by Julius Ricardo, a retired financier from the City of London, who spends every August at Aix, expecting there to find a pleasant and peaceful life. Imagine his consternation when he learns that Mme. Dauvray has been brutally murdered, and imagine Harry Wethermill's consternation when he learns that every finger of suspicion is pointed at the now vanished Celia Harland.
Away
S8051 02 hours 03 minutes
by Gow, Michael.
Three Australian families set out separately on their annual holidays but are driven together by a storm. Their journey becomes a theatrical metaphor for a spiritual quest, with the purpose of gaining self-knowledge and a new understanding of the world around them.
Bad luck and trouble /
S8141 12 hours 41 minutes
by Child, Lee.
When a man is killed by being thrown from a helicopter high over the California desert, loner Jack Reacher discovers that someone is targeting his old friends and teammates and launches a personal campaign to end the conspiracy before it claims any more lives.
Bad luck and trouble /
S8143 12 hours 41 minutes
by Child, Lee.
When a man is killed by being thrown from a helicopter high over the California desert, loner Jack Reacher discovers that someone is targeting his old friends and teammates and launches a personal campaign to end the conspiracy before it claims any more lives.
Bare bones
S6717 11 hours 38 minutes
by REICHS, Kathy
Dr Temperance Brennan has found the tiny skeleton of a newborn baby in a wood stove. Next, a Cessna plane crashes. The pilot and passengers are found covered in a strange black substance. Most puzzling is a cache of bones found in a remote corner of the country.
Beatrice and Virgil
S7923 05 hours 23 minutes
by Martel, Yann
Destiny can take many shapes. For Henry, a writer struggling to finish a book about the Holocaust, it arrives in the form of a puzzling envelope from a stranger. The envelope takes him into a taxidermist's workshop. Filled with lovingly preserved animals from all corners of the globe, this place is unlike anywhere he has ever been.
Ben Charron
S4725 05 hours 20 minutes
by DODGE, Emerson
Marshall Reece Ockendon is ordered to hunt down the outlaw gang led by Reb Shehadie, the man who has befriended broken down rancher Ben Charron and given him the chance to make a new life.
Blade Runner
S8085 09 hours 13 minutes
by DICK, Philip K.
War has left the Earth devastated. Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard stalks, in search of the renegade replicants who are his prey. When he isn't "retiring" them, he dreams of owning the ultimate status symbol - a live animal. Then Rick gets a big assignment: to kill six Nexus-6 targets for a huge reward. But things are never that simple, and Rick's life quickly turns into a nightmare kaleidoscope of subterfuge and deceit.
Blood knot
S3817 15 hours 10 minutes
by LLEWELLYN, Sam
Former journalist Bill Tyrrell charters his yacht to a charitable organisation which takes juveniles out of prison and out onto the sea. When a youth is killed and Tyrrell himself is attacked he begins to smell a rat and starts his own investigation.
Bloodletter
GG1751118 08 hours
by K. W. Jeter
Starfleet Command has learned that the Cardassians are planning to construct a base on the other side of the wormhole to establish a presence and claim the rich unexplored territory. Now, it falls to Commander Sisko, Major Kira, and the crew of "Deep Space Nine" TM to set up a Federation station there immediately.
Before Major Kira can deliver the new base, a fanatic from her violent past appears. Kira must engage in a life and death struggle with an enemy who will stop at nothing to destroy her, as the fate of Bajor, the wormhole, and possibly the entire Federation hangs in the balance.
Boothill is anywhere
S6246 04 hours 30 minutes
by COLE, Sheldon B
Blake Durant was a man with things to forget and he had to keep moving. After taking shelter from a storm with a group of strangers he finds himself in trouble again.
Brave New World
GG163903 08 hours 01 minutes
by Aldous Huxley
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress.
Bright Day Dawning
S7122 13 hours 16 minutes
by JACOBS, Anna
Gwynna had fallen from grace once, bearing a stillborn child out of wedlock. Determined to have a respectable future, she finds a position for herself as a nursemaid at Hungerton House. But just as she begins to find her feet, the secrets of her past are revealed. She is swiftly dismissed but not before she becomes the target of a lascivious groom. And even after she leaves, she is pursued by Hungerton himself, an evil old man who wishes to send her back to the gutters. She returns home to Hedderby and the family who have befriended her. They have their own problems after an arson attack has destroyed their pub and music hall. Gwynna finds herself attracted to a talented carpenter, who was also once employed by Hungerton. His former employer will stop at nothing, however, to bring him back to the estate.Will money buy revenge and destroy two lives, or will the young lovers find a way to achieve their dreams?
Burnt shadows
S8133 11 hours 58 minutes
by Shamsie, Kamila,
Narrated by Apple Alex (synthetic)
Two years after her prospects are shattered by the bombing of Nagasaki, Hiroko Tanaka travels to Delhi in search of new beginnings and arrives in the home of her ex-fiance's half-sister, but she finds her circumstances halted by conflicts in the Middle East that prompt her family's eventual relocation to America.
Can Such Things Be?
GG1751013 07 hours 28 minutes
by Bierce, Ambrose,
24 short stories in fairly typical Bierce fashion - ghostly, spooky, to be read (or listened to) in the dark, perhaps with a light crackling fire burning dimly in the background. Stories of ghosts, apparitions, and strange, inexplicable occurrences are prevalent in these tales, some of which occur on or near Civil War fields of battle, some in country cottages, and some within urban areas. Can Such Things Be? implies and relates that anything is possible, at any time.
Can't Never Tell
S8082 07 hours 09 minutes
by Pickens, Cathy
"It's another Fourth of July in Dacus, South Carolina, and the carnival fright house isn't impressing Avery's seven-year-old niece, Emma. That is, until the leg falls off a mannequin posed with a chainsaw. Then even Emma recognizes the human leg bone protruding from the wizened limb." "The next day, Avery joins her sister Lydia and her brother-in-law at a faculty picnic up on the mountain, but the festivities are interrupted when one of the faculty wives disappears off the waterfall." "Between the owners of the fright house wanting Avery to help them get reopened before they miss out on the holiday crowd, and the widower's new protective lady friend insisting that someone needs to be safeguarding his financial interests, Avery has her work cut out for her. She finds herself following the money as she pieces together a very cold case and a very cold-blooded murder."
Carry on, Jeeves
S1240 05 hours 49 minutes
by WODEHOUSE, P. G
A humorous collection of the exploits of that most unflappable of butlers, Jeeves.
Catching fire
S8097 10 hours 27 minutes
by Collins, Suzanne.
Narrated by Apple Alex (synthetic)
By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.
Chains of Command
GG1751127 06 hours 33 minutes
by Bill McCay and Eloise Flood
After discovering a group of human slaves on a forbidding planet, Captain Picard and his crew sympathize with the slaves' plight but cannot interfere in a brutal slave revolt. When the "owners" return to reclaim their property, Picard and Counsellor Troi are drawn into their deadly plan of vengeance.
Child of silence
S8116 05 hours 24 minutes
by Padgett, Abigail.
Narrated by Apple Alex (synthetic)
She might be crazy, but she was still Barbara Joan Bradley whose deaf little sister had named her Bo, and she was not going to walk away from reality and a little boy with almost no time left.
Children of tender years
S2797 10 hours 30 minutes
by ALLBEURY, Ted
Mark, an intelligence officer, once an Auschwitz victim, is sent to Germany on assignment. The case involves neo-Nazism and anti-semitism. He once again meets the only woman he ever loved.
Christmas, A Story
G20516 03 hours 54 minutes
by GALE, Zona
This is a gentle Christmas story, whose message is that if we didn't already have Christmas, we'd find a way to invent it. It's hard times in Old Trail Town as the Season of Giving approaches. The factory that employs most of the town is closed and not likely to re-open, and town merchants fear that people will try to shop on credit. Unwilling to carry the debt, the merchants work out a scheme to get everybody in town to agree not to have Christmas that year. What happens next proves that Christmas can't be banned from the hearts of those who truly believe in it.
Cold blood
S5306 16 hours 39 minutes
by LA PLANTE, Lynda
Suspicion and fear surround the disappearance of a movie star's daughter, and the race to claim the reward for finding her spirals into a deadly trail of voodoo in the French quarter of New Orleans. Policewoman Lorraine Page is on the case.
Confessional
S3719 08 hours 59 minutes
by HIGGINS, Jack
In 1982, British spymaster Ferguson learns from a Soviet defector that there is a special KGB agent at work in Ireland. Could this deep-cover agent, code-named `Cuchalain', be the ruthless assassin who has been heightening Catholic-Protestant tensions?
Cousin Henry
G24103 05 hours 43 minutes
by TROLLOPE, Anthony
Henry Jones, an insurance clerk, knows that his uncle has disinherited him. The will, made out at the last minute in favour of Henry's charming cousin, lies neatly folded in a volume of sermons in the uncle's book-room. Only Henry knows where it is - and he stands to lose everything if he makes the knowledge public.
Dark Mirror
GG1751137 10 hours 56 minutes
by Diane Duane
Stardate 44010.2: the twenty-fourth century. Humanity's greatest dreams have become reality. Along with dozens of other sentient races, the people of Earth have formed the United Federation of Planets - a galactic civilization that governs much of the known universe for the good of all. Over the past two centuries, mankind has tamed its basest instincts, and reached the stars... But suppose it hadn't happened that way at all? Suppose instead humanity's darkest impulses, its most savage, animalistic desires had triumphed? Suppose that the empire mankind made out in the stars was one ruled by terror, where only those willing to brutalize their own kind and their neighbors could survive? One hundred years ago, four crewmembers of the U.S.S. Enterprise crossed the dimensional barrier and found just such an empire. A mirror image of their own universe, populated by nightmare duplicates of their shipmates. Barely able to escape with their lives, they returned thankful that the accident that brought them there could not be duplicated. Or so they thought. But now the scientists of that empire have found a doorway into our universe. Their plan: to destroy from within, to replace one of our starships with one of theirs. Their victims: the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC 1701-D.
Day of judgement
S0855 09 hours
by HIGGINS, Jack
An old Irish priest is held in an impregnable fortress by the Communists until he recants. It takes a strange mix of rescuers to try to free him.
Dead Fishy
S7826 14 hours 37 minutes
by HANSEN, Derek
Funny, frightening, fascinating and always fishy. A highly original collection of stories with a watery theme.
Deadly, unna?
S8112 05 hours 59 minutes
by Gwynne, Phillip.
Narrated by Apple Alex (synthetic)
Fourteen-year-old Gary Black's life in Australia centers around his large family and footy (Australian football), until he becomes friends with an Aborigine boy and realizes how horrible prejudice can be.
Death of a dustman
S8109 05 hours 35 minutes
by Beaton, M. C.
Narrated by Apple Alex (synthetic)
Scottish sleuth Hamish Macbeth investigates the murder of Fergus Macleod, the tyrannical head of Lochdubh's new recycling center, while coping with the bizarre edicts of a member of the Strathbane Council and his lazy new constable.
Death of a poison pen
S8107 05 hours 57 minutes
by Beaton, M. C.
Narrated by Apple Alex (synthetic)
Constable Hamish Macbeth loves his quiet life in the Highlands with his dog, cottage, and an unhurried cup of tea. Yetno copper in Scotland is faster when it comes to spotting a clue or a criminal.
Debtors Planet
GG1751146 07 hours 20 minutes
by W.R. Thompson
When a Vulcan space probe reports that the Ferengi are advancing the people of the planet Megara from a primitive agricultural state to a sophisticated technological society, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the Starship Enterprise™ are ordered to transport an unlikely passenger to the system, a ruthless twentieth-century businessman who is now a Federation ambassador. The Ferengi have been changing Megaran culture, turning a hard working and horoable people into vicious xenophobic killers. But the Ferengi are only hired hands. They have hidden masters, with plans to use the Magaran people as a powerful weapon against the Federation. Now Picard must find a way to use the talents of this new ambassador to free the Megarans. But the ambassador is hididng a deadly secret of his own -- a secret that could unleash an unstoppable destructive force on the Federation.
Deep France:
GG1551010 11 hours 39 minutes
by Celia Brayfield
Novelist Celia Brayfield had never lived more than a taxi ride from Soho, until one day she decided to take a year off. With the computer and the cats in the back of the car, and the blessing of her student daughter, she drove South until the dawn came up in the Bearn, the most romantic, remote and rustic region of France. DEEP FRANCE is the diary of a writer's year in a tiny French village, trying to meet her deadlines when a good thunderstorm could blow out the computer and there were always artichokes to pick. It's a walk in the swashbuckling footsteps of The Three Musketeers and King Henri IV, full of funny and perceptive anecdotes about the year in which France had to face the euro, the World Cup and Le Pen's presidential campaign. DEEP FRANCE is also about the love affair between the British and the Australians, the New Zealanders, the South Africans, the Canadians, the Americans, the Irish, and even the Russians and rural France. Grand passion or sad delusion? Mutual adoration or unrequited love? An author who writes living, breathing novels capable of making us laugh, weep and marvel' The Times 'Her writing glitters: the humour is as sharp as a Sabatier knife' Image
Defending Jacob :
S8105 12 hours 56 minutes
by Landay, William.
Narrated by Apple Alex (synthetic)
Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. When a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: his fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student. As the crisis reveals how little a father knows about his son, Andy will face a trial of his own-- between loyalty and justice, between truth and allegation, between a past he's tried to bury and a future he cannot conceive.
Devil's food
S7096 10 hours 30 minutes
by GREENWOOD, Kerry
If there's one thing Corinna Chapman, baker extraordinaire can't abide, it's people not eating well. So when a strange cult, which denies the flesh and eats only famine bread turns up, along with a body found in a park dead of malnutrition, Corinna is very disturbed indeed.
Doctor in flight
S7083 06 hours
by WEBBER, Meredith
Doctor Hillary Green never wanted to work in the Outback. But now she has been appointed to the Flying Obstetrics and Gynaecology Service, along with a new anaesthetist and a boss who hates female registrars. Hillary doesn't like him much either - even if his touch does send needles of excitement shooting up her arm.
Don Diablo
S6254 09 hours 30 minutes
by BRAND, Max
The adventures of Jim Tyler, an outlaw who has earned a reputation on both sides of the border for boldness and daring, are presented in three related short novels.
Double, Double
GG1751215 08 hours 59 minutes
by Michael Jan Friedman
On a routine exploratory mission, the Starship U.S.S. Hood picks up a distress signal from a research expedition thought lost long ago -- the expedition of Dr. Roger Korby, one of the centuries' greatest scientific minds. Korby himself is dead, it seems, but his colleagues have made a most incredible discover -- a discovery they insist the Hood's captain see for himself. Reluctantly, the captain agrees to beam down... Meanwhile, the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise™ begins long-overdue shore leave on Tranquility Seven. James T. Kirk is looking forward to a few days of rest and relaxation....until what seems like a bizarre case of mistaken identity plunges Kirk into a whirlpool of mayhem and murder. And puts an inhuman stranger with his memories and anilities in command of the Enterprise.
Down Weavers Lane
S6313 14 hours 20 minutes
by JACOBS, Anna
Years of sitting on the stairs while her mother entertains her 'visitors' in their house in Weavers Lane have taught Emmy Carter that prostitution is a life she must avoid at all costs.
Drink the Tea
S7931 07 hours 44 minutes
by Kaufman. Thomas
Willis Gidney was a born liar and rip-off artist until he met Captain Shadrack Davies and learnt just enough ethics to bother a kid from the streets. Now Gidney is a PI and when a friend asks him to find his daughter feels compelled to say yes. His investigation puts him up against a ruthless corporation and a young woman concealing her past.
Dune
S8086 26 hours 09 minutes
by HERBERT, Frank
The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the Harkonnen Noble House to House Atreides. The Harkonnens don't want to give up their privileges, however, and through sabotage and treachery they cast young Duke Paul Atreides out into the planet's harsh environment to die. There he falls in with the Fremen, a tribe of desert dwellers who become the basis of the army with which he will reclaim what's rightfully his. Paul Atreides, though, is far more than just a usurped duke. He might be the end product of a very long-term genetic experiment designed to breed a super human; he might be a messiah. His struggle is at the center of a nexus of powerful people and events, and the repercussions will be felt throughout the Imperium.
Echoes of the War
G09617
by BARRIE, James M.
The Old Lady Shows her Medals; The New Word; Barbara's Wedding; A Well-Remembered Voice
Entwined
S5742 24 hours 18 minutes
by LA PLANTE, Lynda
Twins Rebekka and Ruda have not seen each other since they were separated in Auschwitz, both to suffer at the hands of Dr. Josef Mengels. Following a brutal murder, they are drawn into a startling web of coincidence and fear.
Everything to Gain
S5571 13 hours
by BRADFORD, Barbara Taylor
Mallory Keswick can't imagine how her life could possibly be better. She has a wonderful, fulfilling marriage to a man who loves, supports and nurtures her. She has beautiful twins who bring joy to her days and a lovely home, to all of which she devotes herself wholeheartedly. Mallory feels she has finally found the elusive sense of family that never quite rang true in her own childhood. Life seems almost perfect until an exceptionally cruel act of random violence tears apart the fabric of her happiness, leaving her wondering how to go on.
Slowly, Mallory begins to accept that her life has changed, and eventually she comes to know that she must rebuild it. With the help of her dear friend Sarah and her loving mother-in-law, she finds resources she didn't know she had and starts a business, finally believing she can overcome her grief and feel whole again. As for love, she dares not hope. Speaking in the voice of her heroine, Barbara Taylor Bradford tells the story of a remarkable woman who has yet to discover her own strength, a woman who doesn't yet realize that if she has the courage to take it, she has everything to gain.
Exiles
GG1751227 07 hours 36 minutes
by Howard Weinstein
For three centuries the people of Alaj and the people of Etolos have been bitter enemies. However, when crippling disasters strike both worlds, each planet becomes the other's hope for survival. With time running out, Captain Picard and his crew are called to negotiate a peaceful settlement and begin rescue efforts. But some factions would rather see both planets perish and will stop at nothing to prevent peace. Soon the U.S.S. "Enterprise(TM)" crew is caught up in a web of intrigue and terrorism that culminates with an act of ultimate revenge against bother peoples -- revenge that will meant he destruction of two worlds and the U.S.S. "Enterprise."
Faery Lands of the South Seas
G8072 10 hours 19 minutes
by HALL, James Norman
Returning from the horrors of World War I James Hall and Charles Nordhoff follow a dream to tour the South Pacific. They later co authored “Mutiny on the Bounty”. This is a love story. A travelogue and an adventure rolled into one. This book just went into the public domain, so enjoy an early 20th Century look at paradise.
Family connections
CD025 10 hours 03 minutes
by JACOBS, Anna
Two woman embark on separate personal voyages of self-discovery, they meet new people and forge bonds that will reinforce for both of them the value of family connections.
Farewell to winter
S1805 06 hours
by BROMIGE, Iris
Emma was thrilled to get a job on a small Cornish newspaper where she met Paul, a cynical but charming young man. At first misunderstanding clouded their relationship but love finally won through.
Flat 9
GG63905 03 hours 02 minutes
by Mariam Akabor
A collection of short stories.
Flowers from the doctor
S0524 07 hours 30 minutes
by ANDREWS, Lucilla
Nurse Francis finds that it takes a bad accident to help her sort out her life.
Fortune's Light
GG1751234 07 hours 26 minutes
by Michael Jan Friedman
Dante Maxima Seven -- a world known to its inhabitants as Imprima. A world where "Madragi" -- huge social/economic entities wealthy beyond compare -- control the fate of millions.. Years ago, William Riker was part of the Starfleet delegation that opened Imprima to the Federation. Now the disappearance of an old friend -- Teller Conlon, who also served on that team -- draws Riker and the Enterprise(TM) across the galaxy, back to Imprima. Because the jewel known as Fortune's Light -- one of " Madraga" Criathis's most priceless possessions -- has been stolen. And Teller Conlon stands accused of its theft. Now Riker must discover the truth behind the disappearance of both his friend and Fortune's Light, no easy task on a world where treachery and intrigue are commonplace...and where even an old friend's embrace may conceal the deadly bite of a dagger's blade.
Foundation
S0111 08 hours 41 minutes
by ASIMOV, Isaac
For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire had ruled supreme. Now it is dying a slow death from entropy and corruption. Only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future - a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare. Knowledge will decay and order will vanish. Interstellar wars will be endless; interstellar trade will come to a halt. Populations will suffer catastrophic declines and worlds will lose touch with the main body of the Galaxy." "So to preserve the accumulated wisdom of the ages and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire - both scientists and scholars - and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation.". "But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. Mankind's last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice. They can either submit to the barbarians and live as slaves - or take a stand for freedom and risk total destruction.
Frankenstein
G8070 07 hours 54 minutes
by SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft
A student discovers the secret of animating lifeless matter and, by assembling body parts, creates the monster Frankenstein. Rejected by society, Frankenstein vows revenge on his creator.
Fraternal Charity
G33701 01 hours 36 minutes
by Father Benoit Valuy
This short treatise comes from a work by the Roman Catholic priest Father Valuy, S.J., and bears an imprimatur. It was written for members of religious orders; yet, as the translator notes, it may be of interest to others, for "love, the sunshine of existence, is wanted everywhere." The first five chapters cover the fundamentals of fraternal charity. Chapters 6 through 17 discuss twelve characteristics of fraternal charity. Chapters 18 and 19 show how God manifests the virtue of charity to us most perfectly. Chapters 20 through 30 list eleven ways to preserve charity in a community. Chapters 31 and 32 give advice on how to persevere in charity under difficult circumstances. The appendix includes a few points from the pen of Father Faber on the practice of fraternal charity and a list of the exemplary characteristics of religious members who manifest this important virtue.
From Tyranny to Freedom
S8014 07 hours 19 minutes
by KESSLER, Leo
This is an SS Wotan Adventure featuring Kuno von Dodenburg.'I do not ask you to love me, soldiers. I do not ask you to respect me. All I ask is that you respect my orders with unquestioning obedience. If you fail to do that I shall be merciless. Soldiers, I welcome you to SS Assault Battalion Wotan.'Such was the welcome to the elite of the elite, who fought and whored and died on the battlefields of Europe, eternally loyal to their Fuhrer, but above all to one another. Their brutal efficiency became the stuff of legends. They were Nazi Germany's storm-troopers, and they stopped at nothing. This is their story.
Full moon
S0831 09 hours
by WODEHOUSE, P. G
Domineering aunts, nieces wishing to marry and a painting of a prize pig provide problems for the Hon. Galahad Threepwood.
Garden Of Rama -
S8090 15 hours 25 minutes
by LEE, Gentry
Rama II is on its way out of the solar system. Abroad it are three humans, two men and a woman, left behind when the expedition departed. Ahead of them lies the unknown, a voyage no human has ever experienced. And at the end of it may lie the truth about Rama ...
Getting Started with the iPhone
S8164 05 hours 51 minutes
by National Braille Press
An introduction to the iPhone and other iOS 5 devices.
Ghosts
G8121 02 hours 08 minutes
by IBSEN, Henrik
In this drama Ibsen has touched issues that were severely sensitive. The characters drawn in detail are deeply embedded in the plot. The themes of infidelity, illegitimate children and incest have been touched upon that were taboo topics of the time. He proved his mettle as a brilliant and bold writer as he delves into the psychology of the main characters and discusses their troubles.
Gone Fishing
S8074 05 hours 09 minutes
by O'GRADY, John
A book of short stories about fishing.
Great Expectations
G1400 19 hours 57 minutes
by DICKENS, Charles
This classic tale tells of an orphan, Pip, who through a series of strange circumstances first finds a trade as a blacksmith’s apprentice and then learns that he has “great expectations” of a future inheritance from an anonymous benefactor. He soon learns to live the profligate life of a gentleman as he gradually sheds his associations with the gentle souls of his past, Joe (the blacksmith) and Biddy (a level-headed young lady). He throws his money at improving the prospects of his roommate and friend Herbert and his heart at an “ice princess” whose heart will never respond. But then an escaped convict from his distant past comes calling, and all Pip’s hopes dissolve.
Hallam square
S6811 14 hours 30 minutes
by JACOBS, Anna
Lancashire, 1858. Annie Hallam has at last found complete happiness. She has three healthy children and adores her husband Frederick. After years of struggling to make a living in Blisden, Annie knows she deserves to enjoy her life. But worries are imminent.
Heart of the town
S7121 12 hours 30 minutes
by JACOBS, Anna
Gideon, recently discharged from the Army, has arrived in Hedderby only to discover another man has stolen his name and inheritance. Would it be fair to court the lovely and impulsive Dora, when he can offer her so little?
Hedda Gabler
G4093 02 hours 42 minutes
by IBSEN, Henrik
Hedda Gabler is a play first published in 1890 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. In it, Hedda Gabler, daughter of an aristocratic General, has just returned from her honeymoon with George Tesman, an aspiring young academic, reliable but not brilliant, who has combined research with their honeymoon. The reappearance of Tesman’s academic rival, Eilert Lovborg, throws their lives into disarray.
Heller with a Gun
S7600 05 hours 13 minutes
by L'AMOUR, Louis
The Healey Dramatic Company is an itinerant theatrical troupe struggling to stay one step ahead of the bill collector as it travels from mining camps to cow towns. When the troupe decides to head to their next show during a snowstorm, King Mabry is concerned for their safety. His fears aren.t completely alleviated when the performers hire a man to guide them through the Wyoming wilderness, so he follows the unsuspected troupe and their guide. Soon all his misgivings turn to full-fledged alarm when Mabry realizes that the guide is much more dangerous than a snowstorm! King Mabry was as merciless as the frontier that bred him. He was a man who survived by his guns, and not blizzards, nor Indians, nor a wily guide would stop him from seeing the troupe to Wyoming safely.
Here There Be Dragons
GG185901 06 hours 58 minutes
by John Peel
When captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise™ receive news of a human planet hidden in the center of an immense stellar cloud, they immediately investigate. Penetrating the cloud, the Starship crew is shocked to discover a world of knights and serfs lifted right out of Earth's Middle Ages. Ruthlessly exploiting the planet is a ring of intersellar trophy hunters preying on the immense, native dragon-lizards twentey-feet tall and armored like tanks. <p> Beaming down, an away team soon becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder. Taken prisoner, Picard, Riker, Data and Ro must somehow escape and stop the hunters or face destruction from the hunters' weapon, based on an advanced technoloy capable of utterly annihilating the Starship Enterprise™.
High Street
S6351 15 hours 30 minutes
by JACOBS, Anna
In 1845 Annie Gibson can finally leave Salem Street. Her dreams of an elegant dressmaking salon in Bilsden, have come true. She is taking her father and the family away from poverty and the Rows. Trouble follows with several men trying to win favour.
Homefront
S8073 11 hours 58 minutes
by LOGAN, Chuck
The daughter of ex-cop Phil Broker and ex-army major/anti-terrorist operative Nina Pryce, Kit Broker is no ordinary eight-year-old. She has seen more - and survived more - than most grown-ups. And now she has inadvertently invited a nightmare into the lives of those she loves.
Phil Broker and his family moved to tiny Glacier Falls, Minnesota, to heal from the psychological wounds they received while helping to avert an inhuman act of terror. But young Kit chose the wrong adversary when she triumphed over local schoolyard bully Teddy Klumpe - for the boy's disreputable clan does unholy business from the darkest shadows of their small town ... and they do not forgive. What begins as a minor feud between neighbors quickly escalates into a major offensive of intimidation, destruction, fear ... and death. And the worst is yet to come - because terror has come home.
Hoof and Claw
G38675 05 hours 56 minutes
by ROBERTS, Charles G. D.
These 14 short stories about animals are superb examples of Roberts smooth storytelling style. Knows as the Father of Canadian Poetry, he loved to also write in prose about the wilderness and the personalities of the animals to be found there as well as the exciting things they are capable of. Bears, White Wolves, Lynxs, hawks and yes, cattle are just a few of the animals written about.
Hyperion
S8087 20 hours 46 minutes
by SIMMONS, Dan
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of Time Tombs, where huge brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of their lives. Each carries a desperate hope and a terrible secret. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands.
I capture the castle
S7344 13 hours
by SMITH, Dodie
Set in 1930's Suffolk, Cassandra and her family live in a crumbling castle. They are poor and eccentric. When 2 rich young Americans enter their lives, Cassandra records the daily events and adventures that occur. Funny, romantic and poignant.
I, Alex Cross
S8095 07 hours 47 minutes
by Patterson, James,
Detective Alex Cross is pulled out of a family celebration and given the awful news that a beloved relative has been found brutally murdered. Alex vows to hunt down the killer, and soon learns that she was mixed up in one of Washington's wildest scenes. And she was not this killer's only victim.
Imbalance
GG1851056 07 hours 31 minutes
by V.E. Mitchell
The Jarada are a mysterious race of insectoid being with an extreme devotion to protocol. When this usually reclusive race offer to open diplomatic relations with the Federation, Captain Picard and the U.S.S. Enterprise™ are quickly ordered to Jarada to negotiate the exchange of Ambassadors. When the ship arrives, the Jarada seem uncharacteristically friendly. They invite Picard to send down members of his crew and negotiations proceed both quickly and smoothly. Suddenly, however, the Jarada change. They cut off Commander Riker and his away team from the U.S.S. Enterprise and initiate an unprovoked attack on the ship, Now Picard must unravel the aliens' mystery before it's too late for the away team -- and the U.S.S. Enterprise.
Jerusalem
GG8107 06 hours 47 minutes
by BLAKE, William
The epic poem Jerusalem was in Blake's own opinion his masterpiece. It is the last of the great prophetic books. Originally produced as an engraved book of 100 pages (only one copy of which was every fully finished in the colouring), the poem develops and unifies many of the themes Blake had been exploring in earlier works. It is a complex and powerful work, full of dramatic imagery and sublime poetry. You might think of it like a poetic version of a Wagner opera. This is poetry as if your life depended on it. It is amazing how contemporary to us it feels if you compare it to what was being produced at the time. You can see in this work how it has inspired writers like Phillip Pullman in his Northern Lights trilogy. The edition read here is the first printed version of the poem - which was impossibly hard to read in the original. This then was the first opportunity to really explore it. In his introduction Blake implies that the way to experience this work is to read it aloud rather than in your head. I can only agree and this opens another dimension to what was alreay a textual and pictorial artwork.
Jurie Steyn's Post Office
GG124851 04 hours 05 minutes
by Herman Charles Bosman
•The budget•Ghost trouble.•White ant.•Home from finishing-school.•Young man in love.•New-year glad rags.•Black magic.•Laugh, clown, laugh.•Anxious to hear.•Student of divinity.•Go-slow strike.•Circumstantial evidence.•Border bad-man.•Monument to a hero.•Rolled gold.•Coffin in the loft.•Day of wrath.
Katherine
S8069
by Seton, Anya.
The story of the love affair between the Duke of Lancaster and the innocent, convent-bred girl which changed English history in the 14th century.
Kitchener's Mob
G19655 03 hours 53 minutes
by HALL, James Norman
“Pvt Ryan”, “Platoon”, “A Soldier’s Home”, “Kitchener’s Mob”. These aren’t happy stories, they are about the experience of War. War at different times, and although modern warfare may be more sanitized, the adventure, the horror, the emotions don’t change. James Norman Hall has been there. He “Saw the Elephant”, and his portrayal of his WWI experience is a tribute to those ordinary people who do such extraordinary things.
Those who have served will identify with at least some part if not all of this book, be it the rigors of training, the camaraderie, or possibly those memories that try as you may, you can never make go away. Those who haven’t may gain insight and possibly more respect for those who have.
Lancashire legacy
S6187 16 hours
by JACOBS, Anna
At eighteen Cathie longs for more than a life as a settler in the Australian bush. She accepts her uncle's offer to send her to England, not realising he is using her to wreak revenge on his sister Liza.
Lawman's justice
S3410 06 hours
by BOONE, James Calder
Marshal Ned Remington and his men attempt to halt the killing spree of three evil desperados. Remington himself has an old score to settle with one of them - his wife's murderer.
Leading with a limp
S8117 07 hours 23 minutes
by Allender, Dan B.
Narrated by Apple Alex (synthetic)
Reveals the weaknesses of today's new breed of leader, as well as the Bible's most famous ones. It supplies practical direction to anyone who aspires to be a more effective leader, showing that a limping leader is the person God uses to accomplish amazing things.
Like no other
S6641 12 hours 33 minutes
by JACOBS, Anna
Rachel Smedling is not like other women in her isolated Pennine village: she is taller, stronger and weaves cloth like a man. Without her, the household would fall apart, for her mother is ailing and her vicious drunkard father seems to hate her so much he would happily offer money to any man who would wed her.
Little Eyolf
G7942 01 hours 51 minutes
by IBSEN, Henrik
Henrik Ibsen's 1894 play Little Eyolf tells the story of the Allmers family: the father, Alfred, his wife Rita, their crippled nine-year-old son Eyolf, and Alfred's sister Asta. As the play begins, Alfred has just gotten back from a trip to the mountains, and resolves to spend more time with his son, rather than on intellectual pursuits. Asta is romantically pursued by Borgheim, an engineer, while the cracks in Alfred and Rita's marriage gradually reveal themselves. The family receives a visit from the Rat-Wife, and are never the same again.
Liverpool lamplight
S5354 13 hours 02 minutes
by ANDREWS, Lyn
Set in bomb-torn Liverpool where Katie Deegan fights to protect her family from the heartless ambition of not only Adolph Hitler, but of Georgie Deegan, the man born her brother.
Lone wolf :
S8103 11 hours 56 minutes
by Picoult, Jodi,
Narrated by Apple Alex (synthetic)
Twenty-four-year-old Edward Warren, has been living in Thailand for five years, a prodigal son who left his family after an irreparable fight with his father, Luke. But he gets a frantic phone call: his dad lies comatose, gravely injured in the same accident that has also injured his younger sister Cara. With her father's chances for recovery dwindling, Cara wants to wait for a miracle. But Edward wants to terminate life support and donate his father's organs. Is he motivated by altruism or revenge?
Love on the wind
S4999 05 hours 50 minutes
by CARTLAND, Barbara
Forced to accompany her uncle on a voyage to Calcutta, Sita attempts to throw herself overboard. She is saved by a mysterious stranger. They meet again when he rescues her from kidnappers and together they save the Nazim's life before her hero disappears
Master's mates
S6775 08 hours
by CORRIS, Peter
Lorraine Masters hires Cliff Hardy to investigate her husband's conviction for smuggling heroin from New Caledonia. Cliff welcomes the tropical assignment but Stewart Master's mates in Noumea prove to be a dangerous bunch. And the danger follows Hardy back to Sydney where he and his clients become targets of a conspiracy gone seriously wrong.
Mexico set
S2966 15 hours
by DEIGHTON, Len
In this second book of the trilogy which began with "Berlin game", Bernard attempts to enrol a counter-agent on his team in a deadly game of espionage involving old loyalties and betrayals.
Midnite:
S0442 03 hours
by STOW, Randolph
The adventures of a wild colonial boy of Western Australia advised by his Siamese cat to assume the name Midnite and become a bushranger.
Minor Works of Josephus
G29434 07 hours 07 minutes
by JOSEPHUS, Flavius
There are 3 parts to this collection.
(1) Against Apion is a two-volume defense of Judaism as classical religion and philosophy, stressing its antiquity, as opposed to what Josephus claimed was the relatively more recent tradition of the Greeks. Some anti-Judean allegations ascribed by Josephus to the Greek writer Apion, and myths accredited to Manetho are also addressed.
(2) Discourse To The Greeks Concerning Hades describes the author's views on the afterlife against the prevailing view of the "Greeks" (i.e., the Greco-Romans) of his day. Although generally still reprinted in editions of Whiston's Josephus, later scholars have realized that this attribution is incorrect. This brief discourse, at least in its original form, is now attributed to the church father Hippolytus.
(3) The Life of Josephus is an autobiographical text written by Josephus in approximately 94-99 CE – possibly as an appendix to his Antiquities of the Jews – where the author for the most part re-visits the events of the War, apparently in response to allegations made against him by Justus of Tiberias.
Mockingjay
S8100 10 hours 38 minutes
by Collins, Suzanne.
Narrated by Apple Alex (synthetic)
Katniss Everdeen's having survived the Hunter games twice makes her a target of the Capitol and President Snow, as well as a hero to the rebels who will succeed only if Katniss is willing to put aside her personal feelings and serve as their pawn.
Moment of truth
S5995 11 hours 27 minutes
by SCOTTOLINE, Lisa
When Jack discovers his wife's body, he decides to frame himself for her murder and confesses to the police. He hires Mary DiNunzio, an inexperienced associate at a Philly law firm. Early on she begins to suspect that she has an innocent client.
Murder must wait
S0188 06 hours 15 minutes
by UPFIELD, Arthur
Murder and baby abduction. Five boy babies, all less than 3 months old, have been taken. The local C.I.B. have given up, but Inspector Boneparte is determined to solve the case.
Murder on the links
S1150 09 hours
by CHRISTIE, Agatha
The corpse was lying face down in an open grave... a baffling mystery for all but Hercule Poirot.
My lady domino
S7944 08 hours 58 minutes
by MACHIN, Jeannie
Adele Russell was once a wealthy heiress, happily engaged to David, the Earl of Blaisdon, but when her father was ruined, she lost everything, including David. Now, working as a shop assistant in fashionable Milsom Street, she is shunned and scorned by the society that once embraced her. But when she finds an invitation to a forthcoming masked ball, Adele is tempted by the lures of her past once more. Both David and a mysterious Sir Mask attend the ball and Sir Mask is intent upon seducing her.
Never look back
S5989 11 hours 50 minutes
by ALLBEURY, Ted
David Collins comes back from World War II with new ideas about the established order. His wife Mary, yearning for a comfortable, ordinary marriage, is uneasy. But David is an honourable man and tries to allay his wife's fears. Until he meets Sally.
Nimitz class
S5501 13 hours 51 minutes
by ROBINSON, Patrick
In 2002 the Nimitz class carrier USS Thomas Jefferson and her crew of 6000, disappear from radar screens.
Nineteen Eighty-four
G0100021h 09 hours 36 minutes
by ORWELL, George
Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and liberty, Smith begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker Julia, but soon discovers the true price of freedom is betrayal.
O'Fear
S4405 06 hours 13 minutes
by CORRIS, Peter
When Barnes Todd is killed in a car smash south of Sydney, people are lining up to say how sorry they are. But Cliff Hardy, private investigator, soon discovers the accident was really murder.
On the Exercises of Piety
GG013914 02 hours 58 minutes
by Jean Guibert
In this book, Father Jean Guibert of the Society of St. Sulpice shows how piety permeates the spiritual life in mental and vocal prayer, in the sacraments, in various devotions, in spiritual reading, in the examination of one's conscience, and in spiritual retreats. This book is the sequel to Father Guibert's On Piety, wherein he explains the nature of piety and its effects.
One step forward
S8132 08 hours 08 minutes
by Harris, Rosie.
Life seems to be one step forward, two steps back, but Katie never gives up hope. When she is only a girl, her handsome but wicked father, Lewis, is imprisoned for theft, leaving Katie and her mother homeless and penniless. When Lewis is released years later, it seems that life must improve. But to Katies̉ horror, it becomes worse than she has ever known it. When she and her father are left alone together, Katie seeks happiness and love elsewhere but, as she struggles to make a new life for herself, there is difficulty and danger at every turn.
Orgoglio e pregiudizio {Italian}
S5776 02 hours
by AUSTEN, Jane
E forse il romanzo piu noto e piu amato di Jane Austen. E non e difficile indovinare perche: ognuno dei personaggi - da Elisabeth a Darcy, da Collins a Lady Catherine - e infatti abilmente tratteggiato e ogni frase, ogni osservazione, ogni sfumatura...
Our Eva
S6379 14 hours
by JACOBS, Anna
Eva Kershaw is happy living with her dear friend Alice, who has been like a mother to her. But Alice is dying and Eva is distressed by the unexpected arrival of Gus Blake, Alice's nephew.
Our Mary Ann
S6640 17 hours 14 minutes
by JACOBS, Anna
Life in 1905 is hard for the illegitimate Mary Ann. It rapidly becomes worse when her new stepfather begins to interfere with her. Sent away at fifteen to bear his child, she meets Gabriel Clough, who helps her escape to Blackpool after the birth.
Pacific
S6772 21 hours 20 minutes
by NUNN, Judy
On location in Vanuatu, young Australian actor Samantha Lindsay plays a character based on the life of 'Mamma Tack', a World War II heroine who was invaluable to both the US forces and the New Hebridean natives. Uncanny parallels between history and fiction emerge and Sam begins a quest for the truth. Who was Mamma Tack and what mysterious forces are at play?
Paradise Lost
G20 09 hours 30 minutes
by MILTON, John
Paradise Lost is the first epic of English literature written in the classical style. John Milton saw himself as the intellectual heir of Homer, Virgil, and Dante, and sought to create a work of art which fully represented the most basic tenets of the Protestant faith. His work, which was dictated from memory and transcribed by his daughter, remains as one of the most powerful English poems.
This is a recording of the text of Milton’s first edition of 1667, which had ten books, unlike the second edition (1674) which was redivided into twelve books in the manner of Virgil’s Aeneid.
Paradise Regained
G58 01 hours 40 minutes
by MILTON, John
Paradise Regained is a poem by the 17th century English poet John Milton, published in 1671. It is connected by name to his earlier and more famous epic poem Paradise Lost, with which it shares similar theological themes. Based on the Gospel of Luke’s version of the Temptation of Christ, Paradise Regained is more thoughtful in writing style, and thrives upon the imagery of Jesus’ perfection in contrast to the shame of Satan.
Parting breath
S6934 05 hours 48 minutes
by AIRD, Catherine
Det.Insp. C.D. Sloan knew there would be trouble when he was called in to the student sit-in at Calleshire University. The dons were nervous, the students excited - a clash of some kind seemed inevitable.
People of the book:
GG124133 12 hours 15 minutes
by Geraldine Brooks.
In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war. Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish volumes ever to be illuminated with images. When Hanna, a caustic loner with a passion for her work, discovers a series of tiny artefacts in its ancient binding - an insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair - she begins to unlock the book's mysteries. The reader is ushered into an exquisitely detailed and atmospheric past, tracing the book's journey from its salvation back to its creation. In Bosnia during World War II, a Muslim risks his life to protect the book from the Nazis. In the hedonistic salons of fin-de-sic̈le Vienna, the book becomes a pawn in the struggle against the city's rising anti-Semitism. In inquisition-era Venice, a Catholic priest saves it from burning. In Barcelona in 1492, the scribe who wrote the text sees his family destroyed by the agonies of enforced exile. And in Seville in 1480, the reason for the Haggadah's extraordinary illuminations is finally disclosed. Hanna's investigation unexpectedly plunges her into the intrigues of fine art forgers and ultra-nationalist fanatics. Her experiences will test her belief in herself and the man she has come to love. Inspired by a true story, People of the Book is at once a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity, an ambitious, electrifying work by an acclaimed and beloved author.
Pins & Needles
S7126 09 hours 13 minutes
by HARRIS, Rosie
Twins Tanwen and Donna Evans are as different as chalk and cheese. Tanwen is pretty, a bubbly extrovert - but selfish and as sharp as a needle. Donna is plain, placid and shy, although warm-hearted. 1924, when the girls are fourteen, their mother insists both become apprentices at The Cardiff Drapers. Donna meets tall, handsome Dylan Wallis and falls in love. However, Tanwen sets her heart on Dylan with disastrous consequences for them all.
Private Peaceful
S8108 04 hours 59 minutes
by Morpurgo, Michael.
Narrated by Apple Alex (synthetic)
When Thomas Peaceful's older brother is forced to join the British Army, Thomas decides to sign up as well, although he is only fourteen years old, to prove himself to his country, his family, his childhood love, Molly, and himself.
Project princess
S8135 01 hours 04 minutes
by Cabot, Meg.
Narrated by Apple Alex (synthetic)
Princess Mia and her friends volunteer to build a house for the less fortunate during their spring break.
Rachel & Leah
S8106 10 hours 09 minutes
by Card, Orson Scott.
Narrated by Apple Alex (synthetic)
Volume 3 in the "Women of Genesis" series tells the story of Leah, oldest daughter of Laban, and Rachel, the privileged beauty of the family whom Leah sees as spoiled. They and two other women vie for the attention of handsome and charismatic Jacob, who seems destined to be Rachel's husband.
Rama Revealed -
S8091 19 hours 22 minutes
by LEE, Gentry
On its mysterious voyage through interstellar space, a massive, alien starship carries its passengers to the end of a generations-long odyssey. For the great experiment conceived by the Ramans has failed. Rama III, with its carefully designed Earth habitat, as well as environments to house other intelligent species, has become a battleground. Instead of creating a utopia, the human contingent has brought forth a tyrant who seeks to conquer the other sectors of the vast Raman ark.
Read to tiger
S8146 00 hours 10 minutes
by Fore, S. J.
A little boy who wants to read his book keeps being distracted by a tiger who is busy chomping on gum, growling, and practicing karate kicks.
Rebecca's Tale
S6255 18 hours 43 minutes
by BEAUMAN, Sally
April 1951. It has been twenty years since the death of Rebecca, the hauntingly beautiful first wife of Maxim de Winter, and twenty years since Manderley, the de Winter family's estate, was destroyed by fire. But Rebecca's tale is just beginning.
Colonel Julyan, an old family friend, receives an anonymous package concerning Rebecca. An inquisitive young scholar named Terence Gray appears and stirs up the quiet seaside hamlet with questions about the past and the close ties he soon forges with the Colonel and his eligible daughter, Ellie. Amid bitter gossip and murky intrigue, the trio begins a search for the real Rebecca and the truth behind her mysterious death.
Rendezvous with Rama -
S7473 09 hours 02 minutes
by CLARKE, Arthur C
Rama is a vast alien spacecraft that enters the Solar System, A perfect cylinder some fifty kilometres long, spinning rapidly, racing through space, Rama is a technological marvel, a mysterious and deeply enigmatic alien artifact. It is Mankind's first visitor from the stars and must be investigated ...
Rider on the storm and other bits and Barrett
S6680 06 hours 45 minutes
by BARRETT, Robert G
For more than a decade now, Robert G. Barrett has been entertaining Australians with the cocky Queenslander Les Norton and his outrageous exploits. In this collection, he offers his views on getting published, getting famous, getting the dole, and getting a date.
Ridge Hill
S6404 14 hours 30 minutes
by JACOBS, Anna
Continues the mid-nineteenth-century Lancastrian saga of extraordinary heroine Annie Gibson, begun in 'Salem Street', and 'High Street'.
Ring o'roses
S0563 05 hours 51 minutes
by ANDREWS, Lucilla
The lives of the doctor, nurse and patients in a large hospital.
Rosmersholm
G2289 02 hours 39 minutes
by IBSEN, Henrik
Rosmersholm is a play written in 1886 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. In the estimation of many critics the piece is Ibsen’s masterwork, only equalled by The Wild Duck of 1884. As expressed by the protagonist, Rosmer, the theme of the play is social and political change, in which the traditional ruling classes relinquish their right to impose their ideals on the rest of society, but the action is entirely personal, resting on the conduct of the immoral, or amoral, “free thinking” heroine, Rebecca, who sets herself to undermine Rosmer’s religious and political beliefs because of his influential position in the community. Rebecca has abandoned not only Christianity but, unlike Rosmer, she has abandoned the whole ethical system of Christianity as well. Possibly she may be taken as Ibsen’s answer to the question of whether or not Christian ethics can be expected to survive the death of the Christian religion.
Ruby's spoon
S7832 15 hours 21 minutes
by PIETRONI, Anna Lawrence
This is the tale of three women, one witch, one mermaid and one missing and how Ruby was caught up in between. When Isa Fly appears in the doorway of Captin Len's Fried Fish Shop, fourteen year-old Ruby is entranced. Isa comes from the coast where the air is fresh; unlike Ruby's home in Cradle Cross, its factory furnaces pumping and filthy slits of canal water sending up a stink. Isa is on the hunt for a missing person, and Ruby is eager to help, convinced she will be repaid with an adventure at sea. But some of the townsfolk are instantly suspicious of the outsider with her shock of white hair and glinting mirrored skirts.
Salt and blood
S6683 05 hours 40 minutes
by CORRIS, Peter
An old flame, Glen Withers, has come back into Cliff Hardy's life - but this time it's strictly business.
Samson Agonistes
G1745 02 hours 33 minutes
by MILTON, John
Milton composes his last extended work as a tragedy according to the classical Unities of Time, Place and Action. Nevertheless it “never was intended for the stage” and is here declaimed by a single reader.
Samson the blinded captive, in company with the Chorus of friends and countrymen, receives his visitors on their varying missions and through them his violent story is vividly recalled. Then he is summoned to give a final demonstration of God-given strength to entertain the Philistines, his captors. Famously – and of course, offstage – his performance brings the house down.
Scream Black Murder
S7226 05 hours 25 minutes
by McLAREN, Philip
New Year's Day in Sydney. The bodies of an aboriginal woman and her boyfriend are found, brutally murdered. Koori detectives Gary Leslie and Lisa Fuller are assigned to catch the serial killer before he strikes again but to no avail. The pressure is on in this taut, pacy novel.
Sea of Silver Light
S8102 43 hours 15 minutes
by WILLIAMS, Tad
Theo Vilmos is a thirty-year-old lead singer in a not terribly successful rock band. Once, he had enormous, almost magical, charisma both onstage and off--but now, life has taken its toll on Theo. Hitting an all-time low, he seeks refuge in a islolated cabin in the woods--and reads an odd memoir written by a dead relative who believed he had visited the magical world of Faerie. And before Theo can disregard the account as the writings of a madman, he, too, is drawn to a place beyond his wildest dreams...a place filled with bizarre creatures and impossible dangers...a place that will be, and has always been, his destiny.
September
S3634 19 hours 18 minutes
by PILCHER, Rosamunde
A novel set in Scotland and revolving around a group of people whose lives will be profoundly affected by the party they are to attend in September. A wonderfully crafted story of people and Scotland by the author of "The shell seekers".
Shout at the devil
GG274135 12 hours 30 minutes
by SMITH, Wilbur,
Sebastian becomes involved in ivory poaching and the events leading to the invasion, by the Germans, of East Africa, at the time of the second World War.
Showdown at Comanche Butte
S3261 06 hours
by BOONE, James Calder
Riding roughshod into the Indian nation to collar a Comanche cattle rustler is child's play for Ned and his men. But once they bag their quarry, the real fun begins...
Slaughterhouse Five
S8088 05 hours 44 minutes
by VONNEGUT, Kurt
"All this happened, more of less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true... I've changed all the names..." The destruction of Dresden by bombs and a fire storm was a catastrophe that Vonnegut himself witnessed as a prisoner of war and forms the basis of this, perhaps his most powerful novel. Billy Pilgrim's liberating insights into the tragic realities of human history are the result of his release from the prison of time and, as a result, he sees the past, present and future as one.
Snow Crash
S8101 17 hours 13 minutes
by STEPHENSON, Neal
The only relief from the sea of logos is within the well-guarded borders of the Burbclaves. Is it any wonder that most sane folks have forsaken the real world and chosen to live in the computer-generated universe of virtual reality? In a major city, the size of a dozen Manhattans, is a domain of pleasures limited only by the imagination. But now a strange new computer virus called Snow Crash is striking down hackers everywhere, leaving an unlikely young man as humankind's last best hope.
Songs of war
S3038 13 hours 30 minutes
by ALEXANDER, Kate
Stephanie, a Hollywood star, and Luke, a war correspondent, fall in love on their way to Europe during World War Two. Later Stephanie is drawn to a half German member of the group and Luke suspects treachery.
Sophie's choice
S8084 25 hours 20 minutes
by Styron, William
Narrated by Apple Alex (synthetic)
The time is 1947. Sophie, a Polish Catholic beauty who survived Auschwitz, has settled in America. Stingo, a 22 year-old aspiring writer from Virginia, is drawn to Sophie and Nathan--a madly romantic couple whose instability and flamboyance utterly capture his imagination. The deeper Stingo sinks into these people's lives, the more he learns that each harbors terrible secrets.
Star Trek Generations
GG175103 07 hours 24 minutes
by J.M. Dillard
Action-packed novel of the first Star Trek: The next generation feature film, in which Captain Picard and Captain Kirk meet at last!.
Starship Troopers
S8089 09 hours 55 minutes
by HEINLEIN, Robert A.
With Earth embroiled in a vast interplanetary war with the "Bugs," a young recruit in the Federal Reserves relates his experiences training in boot camp and as a junior officer in the Terran Mobile Infantry.
Steep Trails
G326 09 hours 02 minutes
by John Muir
Wild wool.--A geologist’s winter walk.--Summer days at Mount Shasta.--A perilous night on Shasta’s summit.--Shasta rambles and Modoc memories.--The city of the Saints.--A great storm in Utah.--Bathing in Salt Lake.--Mormon lilies.--The San Gabriel Valley.--The San Gabriel Mountains.--Nevada farms.--Nevada forests.--Nevada’s timber belt.--Glacial phenomena in Nevada.--Nevada’s dead towns.--Puget Sound.--The forests of Washington.--People and towns of Puget Sound.--An ascent of Mount Rainier.--The physical and climatic characteristics of Oregon.--The forests of Oregon and their inhabitants.--The rivers of Oregon.--The Grand Cañon of the Colorado.
Storm over Burracombe
S8159 13 hours 16 minutes
by Harry, Lilian.
Hilary Napier is upset and angry when her father brings in a new manager for the family estate, which she's been running for the past year. Even though she resents his presence, she cannot help liking Travis Kellaway. When her defences are broken down by the illness of her brother's much-loved horse, she realises Travis's strength and compassion. It isn't long before their relationship moves to a new footing. Meanwhile, village life in Burracombe is enlivened by the new Drama Club, formed by the energetic young curate Felix Copley. Almost everyone becomes involved in the pantomime he decides to organise, with some hilarious results - and a tragic issue.
Stranger in a Strange Land
S8092 16 hours 09 minutes
by HEINLEIN, Robert A.
The epic saga of an earthling, born and educated on Mars, who arrives on our planet with superhuman powers and a total ignorance of the mores of man.
Summa Theologica Part I-I
G176111 13 hours 09 minutes
by AQUINAS, Saint Thomas
The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written between 1265 and 1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274) although it was never finished. It was intended as a manual for beginners as a compilation of all of the main theological teachings of that time. It summarizes the reasonings for almost all points of Christian theology in the West, which, before the Protestant Reformation, subsisted solely in the Roman Catholic Church. The Summa’s topics follow a cycle: the existence of God, God’s creation, Man, Man’s purpose, Christ, the Sacraments, and back to God.
Summa Theologica Part I-II
G176112 10 hours 27 minutes
by AQUINAS, Saint Thomas
The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274) although it was never finished. It was intended as a manual for beginners as a compilation of all of the main theological teachings of that time. It summarizes the reasonings for almost all points of Christian theology in the West, which, before the Protestant Reformation, subsisted solely in the Roman Catholic Church. The Summa’s topics follow a cycle: the existence of God, God’s creation, Man, Man’s purpose, Christ, the Sacraments, and back to God.
This is part two of six parts of the Prima Pars, consisting of questions regarding the Trinity and Creation.
Summa Theologica Part I-III
G176113 10 hours 22 minutes
by AQUINAS, Saint Thomas
The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274) although it was never finished. It was intended as a manual for beginners as a compilation of all of the main theological teachings of that time. It summarizes the reasonings for almost all points of Christian theology in the West, which, before the Protestant Reformation, subsisted solely in the Roman Catholic Church. The Summa's topics follow a cycle: the existence of God, God's creation, Man, Man's purpose, Christ, the Sacraments, and back to God.
These are parts three and four of six parts of the Pars Prima, consisting of questions regarding the Angels, and the Work of the Six Days.
Ten little niggers
S0017 07 hours 30 minutes
by CHRISTIE, Agatha
Ten people gather for a weekend party at their hosts mansion on a remote island, and one-by-one they begin turning up dead.
The Adventures of Father Floppy-Feet & His Fabulous Family
S8061 03 hours 57 minutes
by MAY, Father Barry
An Anglican priest is invited by his Bishop, the Right-Reverend Gaylord Gaiters, to become the Incumbant of Saint Whistlebritches, at Good-grief-by-the-sea. Here he and his family experience numerous adventures and misadventures. The wry humour of this story will have an appeal for children of all ages, from eight to eighty!
The assassination of Jesse James by the coward, Robert Ford /
S8156 13 hours 11 minutes
by Hansen, Ron,
Jesse James was a fabled outlaw, a charismatic, spiritual, larger-than-life bad man whose bloody exploits captured the imagination and admiration of a nation hungry for antiheroes. Robert Ford was a young upstart nobody torn between dedicated worship and murderous jealousy, the "dirty little coward" who coveted Jesse's legend. The powerful, strange, and unforgettable story of their interweaving paths--and twin destinies that would collide in a rain of blood and betrayal, is a story of America in all her rough, conflicted glory and the myths that made her
The bad bunch
S1106 07 hours 30 minutes
by EDSON, J. T
The pattern was always the same when the Bad Bunch made their raids. They chose a time when there was a County Fair or some such diversion.
The bells of Burracombe
S8155 11 hours 44 minutes
by Harry, Lilian.
When Stella Simmons comes to the Devonshire village of Burracombe to start her teaching career, she is alone in the world. This book begins with the story of life in a Devonshire village in the 1950s and shows us a picture of Britain coming to terms with the aftermath of the Second World War and entering a new decade.
The bird artist
S8070
by Norman, Howard A.
Narrated by Apple Alex (synthetic)
The setting is the bleak coastline of Newfoundland and the protagonist is Fabian Bass, an artistic type who paints birds when he is not building boats. Forced by his parents to abandon the woman he loves in order to marry a cousin, he revenges himself by murdering his mother's lover.
The Black Monastery
S7936 10 hours 06 minutes
by SHEREZ, Stav
When Nikos, a detective in the final years of his career, is persuaded back to his home town he is faced with the gory murder of a young boy near the old monastery, echoing two murders committed 33 years previously in the exact same spot, and a mass cult suicide.
The Blazed Trail
G3413 11 hours 18 minutes
by WHITE, Stewart Edward
The Blazed Trail is the story of early lumbermen in the northern woods of Michigan. The novel portrays the challenges faced by the workers focusing on one, Harry Thorpe, as he endeavors to be successful though completely unskilled when he enters the woods. The author mixes the splendor of nature with suspense, danger, and romance and provides glimpses into corrupt practices in the lumber industry at the time.
The blue list
S4047 10 hours 30 minutes
by WEST, Nigel
After forty years a recovered German cipher reveals a list of fifth columnists, implicating some now-senior British officials. Who can be trusted to help weed out the traitors?
The broken gun
S3334 06 hours
by L'AMOUR, Louis
Five men and a woman, as deadly as any, were hunting Reece. Within the hour he would be dead, yet as long as the odds were against him, his gun and fierce desire to survive would make a difference.
The burning shore
S3726 25 hours
by SMITH, Wilbur,
An epic of courage and love that moves from war-torn France to the secret heart of the African wilderness. It is the odyssey of a beautiful young woman of aristocratic birth, Centaine de Thiry, in search of love and fortune.
The castle made for love
S2790 07 hours 30 minutes
by CARTLAND, Barbara
A wealthy young French comptesse, fearful of the man she is expected to marry, embarks on a dangerous masquerade before learning the truth.
The challenge
S0994 10 hours 30 minutes
by TIMMS, E. V
Susan Melrose, unwanted child of notorious straitswoman, Jenny Leigh, faces challenges in proving her legitimacy and her love for Johnny Harpoon.
The City at World's End
GG11874 07 hours
by HAMILTON, Edmond
The pleasant little American city of Middletown is the first target in an atomic war - but instead of blowing Middletown to smithereens, the super-hydrogen bomb blows it right off the map - to somewhere else! First there is the new thin coldness of the air, the blazing corona and dullness of the sun, the visibility of the stars in high daylight. Then comes the inhabitant's terrifying discovery that Middletown is a twentieth-century oasis of paved streets and houses in a desolate brown world without trees, without water, apparently without life, in the unimaginably far-distant future.
The Corrigan Legacy
CD022 10 hours 46 minutes
by JACOBS, Anna
Meet the Corrigans. Childless Maeve, rich and successful, is dying of cancer. She wants to leave her business empire to one of the offspring of her two estranged brothers, Des and Leo. But which young relative should she choose? As the younger generation begin to gather around Maeve, old secrets are revealed and new allegiances are made - the Corrigan Legacy isn't what it first seems.
The Count of Monte Cristo
G1184 49 hours 02 minutes
by DUMAS, Alexandre
Imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, Edmond Dantes spends fourteen bitter years in a dungeon. When his daring escape plan works he uses all he has learnt during his incarceration to mastermind an elaborate plan of revenge that will bring punishment to those he holds responsible for his fate. No longer the naive sailor who disappeared into the dark fortress all those years ago, he reinvents himself as the charming, mysterious and powerful Count of Monte Cristo.
The Covered Wagon
G13384 09 hours 09 minutes
by Hough, Emerson,
Narrated by Apple Alex (synthetic)
The story of a great migration of two thousand men, women and children from Missouri to Oregon in 1848
The Defense of the Augsburg Confession
GG231232 11 hours 57 minutes
by Philip Melanchthon
The Apology of the Augsburg Confession was written by Philip Melanchthon during and after the 1530 Diet of Augsburg as a response to the Pontifical Confutation of the Augsburg Confession, Charles V's commissioned official Roman Catholic response to the Lutheran Augsburg Confession of June 25, 1530. It was intended to be a defense of the Augsburg Confession and a refutation of the Confutation. It was signed as a confession of faith by leading Lutheran magnates and clergy at the meeting of the Smalcald League in February, 1537, and subsequently included in the German [1580] and Latin [1584] Book of Concord. As the longest document in the Book of Concord, it offers the most detailed Lutheran response to the Roman Catholicism of that day as well as an extensive Lutheran exposition of the doctrine of Justification.
The Diamond Hunters
S1675 07 hours 30 minutes
by SMITH, Wilbur
The Van Der Byl Diamond Company, willed by its founder to his son Benedict, daughter Tracey and estranged foster-child Johnny Lance, turns out to be a bequest not of love, but of hatred. For it is couched in such terms as to offer Benedict an instrument of destruction of his bitterest rival. 'Destroy Johnny' was the old man's implacable message to his son, and, obsessively jealous of his foster-brother, Benedict sets out in ruthless pursuit of this goal.
The Doria Rafe case
S7495 05 hours 03 minutes
by WAUGH, Hillary
A first class detective mystery murder. Thrilling to the last page and full of humour.
The dying trade
S2641 09 hours
by CORRIS, Peter
A detective thriller set in Sydney and introducing Cliff Hardy, private investigator, who is paid to unravel problems the police can't or won't handle.
The end of summer
S6197 04 hours 30 minutes
by PILCHER, Rosamunde
Sitting on a California beach at summer's end, Jane Marsh thought back to her childhood at the estate called Elvie. She remembered not only the heather-covered hills, her grandmother and how she had secretly dreamed of marrying Sinclair.
The Finkler question
S7995 11 hours 36 minutes
by Jacobson, Howard.
Narrated by Apple Alex (synthetic)
Julian Treslove, a radio producer, and Samuel Finkler, a Jewish philosopher, have been friends since childhood and, as they enter middle age, they reminisce over their struggles with self-identity, anti-Semitism, women, love, and the past.
The Forever War
S8094 09 hours 22 minutes
by HALDEMAN, Joe
Private William Mandella is a reluctant hero in an interstellar war against an unknowable and unconquerable alien enemy. But his greatest test will be when he returns home. Relativity means that for every few months' tour of duty centuries have passed on Earth, isolating the combatants ever more from the world for whose future they are fighting.
The fortune
S4419 30 hours
by KORDA, Michael
When sixty-four year old Arthur Bannerman, head of America's richest family, dies in bed with his new bride, twenty-four year old Alexa, his family are determined that she will not inherit his billions.
The funhouse.
S8104 07 hours 51 minutes
by Koontz, Dean R.
Narrated by Apple Alex (synthetic)
Once there was a girl who ran away and joined a traveling carnival. She married a man she hated and begat a child she could never love. Now Ellen has a new life, a new husband and two normal children. Memory is drowned in alcohol and prayers-neither of which will save her kids when the carnival comes back to town.
The Girl Who Played With Fire
GG163910 18 hours 36 minutes
by Stieg Larsson
Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. Two Millennium journalists about to expose the truth about the sex trade in Sweden are brutally murdered, and Salander's prints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable and vengeful behaviour makes her an official danger to society - but no-one can find her anywhere. Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. Two Millennium journalists about to expose the truth about sex trafficking in Sweden are murdered, and Salander’s prints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable and vengeful behaviour makes her an official danger to society – but no-one can find her. Mikael Blomkvist, editor-in-chief of Millennium, does not believe the police. Using all his magazine staff and resources to prove Salander’s innocence, Blomkvist also uncovers her terrible past, spent in criminally corrupt institutions. Yet Salander is more avenging angel than helpless victim. She may be an expert at staying out of sight – but she has ways of tracking down her most elusive enemies.
The Glittering Prizes
S7224 09 hours
by RAPHAEL, Frederic
Adam Morris, Alan Parks, Mike Clode, Anna Cunnginham, Barbara Ransome and the others leave Cambridge University to discover varying degrees of satisfaction, success and material comfort. But over all of them lies the common memory of those heady, golden days spent in unravelling the knots of friendship, in exploratory sex and in Badinage, that none of them will ever quite forget.A compelling story, "The Glittering Prizes" reflects the changing attitudes and styles of a generaton that went to Cambridge in the fifties.The subject of a highly acclaimed television series starring Tom Conti, "The Glitter Prizes" is a witty, incisive, beautifully written evocation of an era and its children.
The grapes of wrath
S4025 18 hours 47 minutes
by STEINBECK, John
Narrated by Apple Alex (synthetic)
The classic American saga of a family of small farmers and share-croppers driven from their home by the Depression and heading westward with their families to California, their worldly goods piled on top of their old car.
The Gulliver fortune
S3549 15 hours
by CORRIS, Peter
John Gulliver, fly-by-night publisher, leaves Britain for Australia with his family, in 1910. Aboard ship catastrophe strikes and they are scattered with a famous painting their only link.
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
GG163926 04 hours 57 minutes
by Douglas Adams
After Earth is demolished to make way for a new hyperspatial expressway, Arthur Dent begins to hitch-hike through space.
The hound of death and other stories
S0598 09 hours
by CHRISTIE, Agatha
Twelve short stories, each underlining the remarkable versatility of the writer. Some will make you shift uneasily in your chair, others will give satisfaction.
The Human Mind
S8129 17 hours 40 minutes
by WINSTON, Robert
New technological developments help us understand how the brain gives rise to the human mind. We can now see the extraordinary complexity of the brain's circuits, watch which regions use energy and which nerve cells generate electricity as we fall in love, tell a lie or dream of a lottery win. And inside the 100 billion cells of this rubbery network is something remarkable: you. In this entertaining and accessible book, Robert Winston takes us deep into the workings of the human mind, revealing how our senses, emotions and personality are the result of a ballet of genes and environment that shapes the path of our lives. Here, as he explains how memories are formed and lost, and how the everchanging brain is responsible for toddler tantrums, teenage angst and the battle of the sexes, he also reveals the truth behind extrasensory perception, deja vu and out-of-body experiences. And as we discover how we can boost our intelligence, tap into creative powers we never knew we had, break old habits and keep our brains fit and active as we enter old age, we also face one great paradox. Because the human mind is all we have to enable us to understand it, it is perfectly possible that science may never quite explain everything about the remarkable mechanism that makes each of us unique.
The Hundred-Foot Journey
S8005 09 hours 19 minutes
by Morais, Richard C
The story of Hassan Haji, a boy from Mumbai, who ends up opening a restaurant in a quiet French village thus triggering a culinary war with the fancy haute cuisine place opposite.
The hypnotist's love story
S8131 16 hours 32 minutes
by Moriarty, Liane.
A novel about a hypnotherapist who falls in love with a man whose ex-girlfriend is stalking him
The judgement of love
S0232 06 hours
by CARTLAND, Barbara
How will Astaria choose between three cousins offered to her as husbands?
The Lady from Nowhere
GG15117538 06 hours 01 minutes
by HUME, Fergus
A mysterious woman is found murdered in a yellow boudoir. Who is she and where does she come from? Detective Absalom Gebb is on the case.
The Last of the Plainsmen
G2057 07 hours 05 minutes
by GREY, Zane
"He'd rope the devil and tie him down-if the lasso didn't burn," it was said of Buffalo Jones, one of the last of the famous plainsmen who trod the trails of the Old West. Killing was repulsive to him and the passion of his life was to capture wild beasts alive. When he saw that the extinction of the buffalo was inevitable, he labored for ten years pursuing, capturing and taming the noble beasts, for which the West gave him fame and the name Preserver of the American Bison.
The Last Trail
G9932 07 hours 49 minutes
by GREY, Zane
A woman is kidnapped from Fort Henry by a band of renegades and hostile Ohio Valley Indians, and Lewis Wetzel (known by the Indians as Death Wind) with his partner Jonathan Zane set out in pursuit, with little hope of survival.
The legend of broken saddle
S5910 03 hours 05 minutes
by BLACK, Will
The journey west from Boston to California was reputed to be a treacherous ride and three families had their wagon train attacked by outlaws. Upon reaching the promised land with only one wagon surviving their troubles continue to pursue them.
The mammoth hunters
S3952 32 hours 17 minutes
by AUEL, Jean M
When Ayla and Jondalar leave their valley they meet and are befriended by the Mamutoi and become part of their camp. Ayla is soon drawn to the magnetic Ranec. She finds herself torn between her strong feelings for him and her love for Jondalar.
The man from St. Petersberg
S2690 12 hours
by FOLLETT, Ken
The story of a blazing star-crossed love affair and a dangerous game involving the fate of nations. Suspense stretched almost to breaking point.
The Martian Chronicles
GG163955 07 hours 41 minutes
by Ray Bradbury
The first Earth people to attempt the colonization of Mars try to build their new world in the image of the civilization they left behind.
The master bedroom
S8076 08 hours 08 minutes
by Hadley, Tessa.
Narrated by Apple Alex (synthetic)
When she abandons an academic career and returns home to Wales to care for her ailing mother, Kate Flynn finds her life at loose ends, until she meets childhood friend David Roberts and David's teenage son, Jamie.
The Master Builder
G4070 02 hours 22 minutes
by IBSEN, Henrik
Henrik Ibsen's The Master Builder, first published in 1892, is about architect Halvard Solness, who despite personal tragedy (including the death of his two sons) has risen to the top of his profession. He has succeeded partly through ruthless competition and exploitation and partly through a seeming ability to force his will on others. His unhappy wife Aline mourns for their lost life, and resents his interest in various young women, including his bookkeeper Kaia Fosli. Solness disregards the ambitions of other architects, including Knut Brovik and his son Ragnar, and seeks solace in the advice of family physician and friend Dr. Herdal. With the entrance of Hilda Wangel, a young woman whom he met as a child ten years ago, his life acquires a new focal point, one that will mean the end of him.
The mesmerist's apprentice
S7454 10 hours 24 minutes
by JACKSON, L. M.
When the enigmatic Sarah Tanner re-opens her Dining and Coffee Rooms soon after a disastrous fire, the gossips of Leather Lane grudgingly admit she has 'the luck of the devil'. Yet when a local butcher is falsely accused of a heinous offence, selling horse-meat, it seems her luck has run out...Drawn into an ever more dangerous series of confrontations with a gang of youths who seem determined to put an innocent man out of business, Sarah Tanner's own livelihood looks set for ruin into the bargain.
The Monk: a romance
G00601 16 hours 04 minutes
by LEWIS, Matthew G.
Prepare to be shocked. This novel, written in 1796, is a gothic festival of sex, magic and ghastly, ghostly violence rarely seen in literature. The Monk is remarkably modern in style and tells a breathless tale of temptation, imprisonment and betrayal. Matthew Lewis recounts the downfall of Ambrosio, the holier than thou monk seduced within the walls of a Madrid abbey until he heads for the utter corruption of the soul.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
S8115 14 hours 20 minutes
by HEINLEIN, Robert A.
In 2075, underground colonies are scattered across the Moon (Luna), of whom most inhabitants (called "Loonies") are criminals, political exiles, or descendants thereof. The total population is about three million, with men outnumbering women 2:1, so that polyandry is the norm. Although Earth's Protector of the Lunar Colonies (called the 'Warden') holds power, in practice there is little intervention in the loose Lunar society.
HOLMES IV ("High-Optional, Logical, Multi-Evaluating Supervisor, Mark IV") is the Lunar Authority's master computer, having almost total control of Luna's machinery on grounds that a single computer is cheaper (though not as safe) than multiple independent systems.
The story is narrated by Manuel Garcia "Mannie" O'Kelly-Davis, a computer technician who discovers HOLMES IV has achieved self-awareness and has developed a sense of humor. Mannie names it "Mike" after Mycroft Holmes, brother of Sherlock Holmes, and they become friends.
The Mote in God's Eye
S8120 20 hours 29 minutes
by NIVEN, Larry
In the year 3016, the Second Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to the faster-than-light Alderson Drive. No other intelligent beings have ever been encountered, not until a light sail probe enters a human system carrying a dead alien. The probe is traced to the Mote, an isolated star in a thick dust cloud, and an expedition is dispatched.
In the Mote the humans find an ancient civilization--at least one million years old--that has always been bottled up in their cloistered solar system for lack of a star drive. The Moties are welcoming and kind, yet rather evasive about certain aspects of their society. It seems the Moties have a dark problem, one they've been unable to solve in over a million years.
The mustang herder
S6619 07 hours
by BRAND, Max
Sammy Gregg wasn't a bit more than eight inches above five feet, but there was no fear in him. Sammy didn't come out West to raise cattle or mine for gold. He didn't care what he did, just as long as he made lots of money. After some consideration, Sammy decided the best money could be made buying horses cheap in Texas and selling them for a profit up North.
The Night Horseman
G12436 09 hours 36 minutes
by BRAND, Max
A man, a dog, and a horse. The call of the wild geese. A very smart doctor from the east who finds there is a lot to learn from these desert people. A woman loved by three men. A gunslinger who has a debt to settle. Max Brand brings them all together in another one of his over three hundred exciting western tales.
The Pioneers
G34661 08 hours 06 minutes
by PRICHARD, Katharine S.
The Pioneers is set against the background of pioneering life in the Gippsland region of Victoria in pre-Federation Australia. Mary and Donald Cameron are free-settlers who make a home in the wilderness and grow a prosperous cattle operation that establishes their position as prominent members of the new settlement.
At first, the novel privileges Mary’s perspective as she encounters escaped convicts, bush fires, and raising a son in a remote community. Later, it follows her son, Davey, as he struggles for independence against his father’s harsh authority. Davey encounters further obstacles in the figure of local hotel owner, Thad McNab, who is determined that Davey’s childhood sweetheart, Deirdre, should be his own bride.
The Ponderosa empire
S5303 08 hours 01 minutes
by CALDER, Stephen
Ben Cartwright possessed courage and a big heart. He refused his neighbours nothing, treated his friends like family. When Ben travels to San Francisco, he crosses the path of Bay City's king of crime, an encounter having consequences back at the ranch.
The power of one
S3491 25 hours 30 minutes
by COURTENAY, Bryce
A novel of a small boy's triumph over cruelty and loneliness. Set in the turbulent 1940's in Southern Africa. An epic of survival in the best of dramatic traditions.
The print petticoat
S2780 07 hours 30 minutes
by ANDREWS, Lucilla
Set in a hospital, this is the story of Joanna Anthony and the three men in her life. A serious illness causes her to face reality.
The Rain Goddess
GG45108 09 hours 55 minutes
by Peter Stiff
This title is an explosive novel set in the highly volatile area of Senga on the North-Eastern border of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in the mid 1960s and early 1970s. The powerful dram erupts as the British South Africa Police, later joined by the Rhodesian Army and supported by the Air Force, struggle against communist backed guerrillas who use violence and torture to intimidate tribesmen to follow their cause. They fight to restore peace - a peace that is governed as much by force of arms as by the tribesmens' faith in the uncanny predictions of their tribal spirit medium who communes with the spirit of the rain goddess.
The Riddle Ring
GG08058 11 hours 19 minutes
by MCCARTHY, Justin
This romantic mystery - or mysterious romance - tells the tale of jilted lover, Jim Conrad, who discovers an unusual gold ring while on a visit to Paris. What is the story of the ring? Why is Clelia Vine so sad? Who is the nameless 'chief'? And how is a dour English barber in a Parisian salon mixed up in all this?
The romance reader
S8099 08 hours 42 minutes
by Abraham, Pearl,
Narrated by Apple Alex (synthetic)
A Jewish girl's struggle to gain independence from her ultra-orthodox parents. She is Rachel who wants to be like other girls, wear seamless stockings, not have to cover her bathing suit, speak English and have a library card so she can read romances. Rachel is one of six children and her modern ways spoil her brother's marriage prospects.
The Secret Sharer
GG1551152 01 hours 40 minutes
by Conrad, Joseph,
This edition of Conrad's classic 1912 short story reprints the authoritative text of the 1924 Doubleday Edition together with five critical essays - all newly commissioned - that read "The Secret Sharer" from five contemporary critical perspectives: Psychoanalytic Criticism by Daniel R. Schwarz, Reader-Response Criticism by James Phelan, New Historicist Criticism by Michael Levenson, Feminist and Gender Criticism by Bonnie Kime Scott, and Deconstruction by J. Hillis Miller. Each critical essay is accompanied by a succinct introduction to the history, principles, and practice of the critical perspective and by a bibliography that promotes further exploration of that approach. In addition, the text and essays are complemented by an introduction providing biographical and historical contexts for Conrad and "The Secret Sharer," a survey of critical responses to the work since its initial publication, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms.
The Seventh Man
G1897 07 hours 52 minutes
by BRAND, Max,
The Seventh Man by Max Brand, tells part of the story of the larger-than-life western character, Dan Barry, known as “Whistling Dan,” and his alter-ego companions, Black Bart, the wolf-dog, and Satan, the indomitable black stallion. It’s also the story of Kate Cumberland and the incredible five-year-old daughter of Kate and Dan, Joan. We first see Dan as a gentle, caring man with a deep sense of fairness. But then, after six years of a peaceful life in their mountain cabin Dan, more feral than human, sets out to revenge an injustice by killing seven men. Ultimately, it is his devotion to his daughter and Kate’s love for the child that brings about the climax of the tale.
The shell seekers
S3357 27 hours
by PILCHER, Rosamunde
Set in London and Cornwall from WWII to the present day, this is the story of the Keeling family and of the passions and heartbreak that have held them together for three generations.
The Shelters of Stone
S6816 29 hours 54 minutes
by AUEL, Jean M
The Shelters of Stone opens as Ayla and Jondalar, along with their animal friends, Wolf, Whinney, and Racer, complete their epic journey across Europe and are greeted by Jondalar's people: the Zelandonii. The people of the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii fascinate Ayla. Their clothes, customs, artifacts, even their homes - formed in great cliffs of vertical limestone - are a source of wonder to her. And in the woman Zelandoni, the spiritual leader of the Ninth Cave (and the one who initiated Jondalar into the Gift of Pleasure), she meets a fellow healer with whom to share her knowledge and skills.
But as Ayla and Jondalar prepare for the formal mating at the Summer Meeting, there are difficulties. Not all the Zelandonii are welcoming. Some fear Ayla's unfamiliar ways and abhor her relationship with those they call flatheads and she calls Clan. Some even oppose her mating with Jondalar, and make their displeasure known. Ayla has to call on all her skills, intelligence, knowledge, and instincts to find her way in this complicated society, to prepare for the birth of her child, and to decide whether she will accept new challenges and play a significant role in the destiny of the Zelandonii.
The Shroud
S7846 11 hours 20 minutes
by Robbins, Harold; Podrug, Junius
"The man on the other end of the phone should be dead. Sir Henri Lipton, wanted on three continents for looting and smuggling art and precious antiques, had destroyed Madison Dupre's career before supposedly kicking the bucket. Dupre, a drop dead gorgeous art investigator, had hoped he was buring in hell." "With her reputation in shreds, her bank accounts empty, and creditors pounding down her door, Dupre has no choice but to listen. Twenty-thousand-dollors cash - upfront - just a little trip to Dubai, he tells her, a quick look at a piece of art. And then he makes the offer truly irresistible: the art is two thousand years old and was "buried with Christ." Dupre is hooked ... even though her gut tells here there has to be a catch.". "Dubai, so-called called Las Vegas on steroids, is just the first stop on a quest that takes Madison Dupre to an ancient Mesopotamian city, from the dark streets of exotic Istanbul, Venice at carnival time, and to a cathedral where the most sacred object of Christendom is stored. Along the way, she finds danger, cheap thrills and a smoldering desire for a Russian agent she doesn't trust - and can't resist."
The things we do for love
S5640 14 hours 31 minutes
by APPIGNANESI, Lisa
How well do you know the person you're married to? This is the central theme of this romantic thriller.
The Trail of the Axe:
GG1551050 12 hours 01 minutes
by Cullum, Ridgwell,
There is plenty of action, suspense, and personal introspection combined with a love story in The Trail of the Axe, and many a surprise awaits every turn.
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader:
GG153941 05 hours 50 minutes
by LEWIS, C. S
Edmund and Lucy, and their not-so-nice cousin Eustace, are transported back to Narnia and find themselves aboard Prince Caspian's ship as he sails to find the end of the world.
The Well-Beloved
GG1141158 06 hours 21 minutes
by Hardy, Thomas,
Jocelyn Pierston, a sculptor is detemined to find his ideal in womanhood. Just as it seems that he has found his heart's desire, disillusionment sets in and his burning love turns to ashes. Returning to Portland, he meets the young, Avice Caro. They are betrothed until a fateful meeting with the self-assured Marcia Bencomb changes the course of his life yet again.
They came to Baghdad
S1221 07 hours 31 minutes
by CHRISTIE, Agatha
Victoria Jones, a resourceful London typist, helps to thwart an attempt by an international network to split the civilised world into two factions.
This Crowded Earth /
G25776 04 hours 04 minutes
by Bloch, Robert
Narrated by Apple Alex (synthetic)
This Crowded Earth is a taut and compelling story about an all too possible future. Earth is overcrowded and its resources are being taxed to the limit. The government has a desperate plan, but will it work and at what price?
This present darkness
S8060 16 hours 35 minutes
by Peretti, Frank E.
Narrated by Apple Alex (synthetic)
In this trail-blazing novel on spiritual warfare, a prayerful pastor and a hard-boiled reporter compare notes and find themselves fighting a plot to subjugate the human race.
Threepenny dreams
S6810 12 hours 30 minutes
by JACOBS, Anna
Recently widowed, Hannah Firth is still young enough to dream of a new life. When her spiteful daughter-in-law uses her as an unpaid servant, Hannah tries to leave, but she is unaware of the nastiness that Patty's malice will lead to.
Tilly Trotter wed
S2570 15 hours
by COOKSON, Catherine
Tilly Trotter, unwed and 5 months pregnant when Mark Sopwith died, crossed the world to a strange new land and the perils that awaited her there.
Tilly Trotter widowed
S2290 13 hours 30 minutes
by COOKSON, Catherine
With her two children and adopted daughter, Tilly returns to Highfield Manor. There, as mistress, she finds little changed, old loves and enmities provide fresh challenges until her final destiny prevails.
Toll for the Brave
GG1551214 04 hours 59 minutes
by Jack Higgins
Surviving a helicopter crash, Ellis Jackson is taken prisoner in Vietnam and placed in a special camp designed specifically for brainwashing. His beautiful Chinese "instructor", Madame NY, seduces him into confusion, but fellow prison Brigadier General James Maxwell St. Clair, a.k.a. Black Max, provides him with his only link to sanity and, ultimately, his escape. Twenty years later, Jackson's nightmares reach a point where only the sensuous Sheila Ward can break through to the present. But with Max's disappearance, Jackson must discover the truth about his nightmares and the lies about his life as a Vietnam POW.
Tombstone
S1996 06 hours 52 minutes
by BRAUN, Matt
This is the story of Luke Starbuck, a man whose mission it is to kill Wyatt Earp. Earp is a man who lives his life existing outside the laws that govern human life, surviving an ambrush unscathed. Starbuck begins to wonder if there is more to this desperado than meets the eye. But come hell or hight water he is going to finish his job.
Trailin'!
G11093 07 hours 01 minutes
by BRAND, Max
Trailin’! tells the story of Anthony Bard, a young aristocract from the east with a hunger for adventure, who sees his father murdered in the yard of their home. This starts young Anthony on a trail of vengeance that leads him to the far west. Here, Anthony, a tenderfoot with a knack for survival must track down a legendary outlaw who waits for him, not with a gun, but with a story. Along the way he braves the elements, resists a band of cold-blooded killers and finds love. A classic western revenge plot… with a twist.
Transgression
S8006 06 hours 46 minutes
by Wooller, Geraldine
Eleanor is returning to Italy after a fifteen-year absence. She is out to lay old ghosts to rest and to examine at a distance the grief that stalks her. The journey leads her to seek out old acquaintances: some she can take up with again but others have moved on and attempts to re-kindle an old relationship prove futile. Eleanor's old and new escapades reveal that she is still a risk-taker, as she embraces her sexual identity and makes her peace with her child's father and with herself.
True betrayals
S5034 14 hours 56 minutes
by ROBERTS, Nora
Kelsey Byden's family had always told her that her mother was dead, but she discovers on the same day her divorce becomes final, that she is in prison for murder. Hurt from the betrayal of her father, Kelsey decides to visit her mother's stables.
Ttyl
S8119 06 hours 14 minutes
by Myracle, Lauren,
Narrated by Apple Alex (synthetic)
Chronicles, in "instant message" format, the day-to-day experiences, feelings, and plans of three friends, Zoe, Maddie, and Angela, as they begin tenth grade.
Two for the tall trees
S2564 06 hours
by DENVER, Shad
Sheriff Whelchan finds two men hanging in the tall tree and sets about unravelling the mystery.
Typee
G23969 11 hours 33 minutes
by MELVILLE, Herman
Typee is Herman Melville’s first book, recounting his experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands in 1842, and becoming a captive of a cannibal island tribe. It was an immediate success in America and England, and was Melville’s most popular work during his lifetime. It was not until the end of the 1930’s that it was surpassed in popularity by Moby Dick, more than thirty years after his death. The story provoked harsh criticism for its condemnation of missionary efforts in the Pacific Islands. Many sought to discredit the book, claiming that it was a work of fiction, but this criticism ended when the events it described were corroborated by Melville’s fellow castaway, Richard T. Greene, who appears in the story as the character Toby.
Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories
G970 02 hours 17 minutes
by STEWART, Cal
"Folks at home said I'd be buncoed or have my pockets picked fore I'd bin here mor'n half an hour; wall, I fooled 'em a little bit, I wuz here three days afore they buncoed me. I spose as how there are a good many of them thar bunco fellers around New York." A collection of comedic short stories from the perspective of an old country man.
Utopai
S8056 18 hours 04 minutes
by CHILD, Lincoln
Rising out of the stony canyons of Nevada, Utopia is a place known for its cutting-edge robots, awe-inspiring holographics, and white-knuckle thrills. Attracting 65,000 visitors each day, it embodies a new generation of entertainment. But serious mishaps are beginning to disrupt the once-flawless technology. A friendly robot goes haywire, causing panic in the crowds, and a popular rollercoaster malfunctions, nearly killing a teenaged rider. Dr. Andrew Warne, the brilliant computer engineer who designed much of the park's robotics, is summoned from the East Coast to get things back on track. On the day Warne arrives, however, Utopia finds itself caught in the grip of something far more sinister. A group of ruthless mercenaries have infiltrated the park's computerized infrastructure, gaining complete control over all its systems. Their communication begins with a simple and dire warning: if their demands are met, none of the park's visitors that day will ever know they were there; if not, chaos will descend on Utopia and every man woman, and child will become a target. Warne finds himself thrust into a role he never imagined - using his expertise to try to protect the lives of thousands of innocent people. As the minutes tick away, Warne's struggle to outsmart his opponents becomes more urgent - for his only daughter is among the unsuspecting crowd in the park.
Way of the Lawless
G9903 07 hours 30 minutes
by BRAND, Max
Young Andrew Lanning made one mistake in the beginning, and now the most feared lawman in the mountain desert, Hal Dozier, is on his trail and will stop at nothing to bring the outlaw Lanning to justice. But is Andrew guilty of all the things he is being accused of? There is one, a pretty young girl, who doesn't believe all she hears about him.
Wet Graves
S5658 05 hours 30 minutes
by CORRIS, Peter
Someone's trying to cancel Cliff Hardy's licence, and he needs to find out why. He also need to find out why the case of missing schoolteacher Brian Madden keeps leading him back over fifty years to the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
White Fang
G23976 07 hours 34 minutes
by LONDON, Jack
Jack London's novel White Fang (1906) deals with the violent world of wild animals also of ostensibly civilized humans. It explores morality and redemption. Set in the Yukon Territory, the story concerns a crossbreed wolf-dog, White Fang, who grows up a deadly fighter. When White Fang is sold to a dog-fighter, Beauty Smith, he is deadly and defeats all opponents. But while fighting a bulldog, he is nearly suffocated and is rescued by a gold hunter, Scott who keeps him as a pet.
Why call them back from Heaven?
S8055 06 hours 21 minutes
by SIMAK, Clifford D.
Imagine a future where cryogenics has become commonplace... Imagine a future where one dominant corporation has a monopoly on the process: freezing and preserving everyone in the world, until either a cure for their disease - or for ageing itself - is discovered... Imagine a future in which people work their entire lives to scrape together enough money for the corporate 'trust fund' required to maintain their frozen bodies... Now, imagine that all of this is a giant scam. No one has ever been revived - and no one ever will be. Imagine that you have unwittingly stumbled over the great lie at the heart of this future - and the corporation knows that you know...
Will
S8111 07 hours 18 minutes
by Boyd, Maria.
Narrated by Apple Alex (synthetic)
Seventeen-year-old Will's behavior has been getting him in trouble at his all-boys school in Sydney, Australia, but his latest punishment, playing in the band for a musical production, gives him new insights into his fellow students and helps him cope with an incident he has tried to forget.
Winnie of the waterfront
S7034 08 hours 57 minutes
by HARRIS, Rosie
Crippled by polio, young Winnie Molly has little to look forward to in life. Her father, Trevor, adores her but she is neglected by her feckless mother, Grace. When war comes, Trevor is called up. He fears for Winnie, yet Sandy, who is two years older than her sticks up for Winnie and promises to be her lifelong friend.
About my father's business
S1127 07 hours 30 minutes
by BECKWITH, Lillian
A charming, sentimental account about a local corner store, where doing the shopping was an unhurried process and the gossip flowed freely.
Agatha Christie : an autobiography
S7601 29 hours
by CHRISTIE, Agatha
With total honesty and lucidity, Agatha Christie records the story of her life and astonishing career.
An Englishman Abroad:
GG1241038 09 hours 52 minutes
by Philip Ball
The latest act of David Beckham's career, played out on foreign fields, has outshone all previous drama: His falling out with Ferguson and leaving Old Trafford; the bitter power struggle for his signature betweenBarca and Real; the hype of his inauguration and medical (watched by a live TV audience of 2 billion); the star-studded tour of the Far East; the behind the scenes politics of marketing and spin and accusations that he was being bought not to play but to sell shirts, and silencing his critics with performances on the pitch that have made him the fulcrum of Real's 'Galacticos' and the darling of the Spanish media. This is the story of that season finally told in full through Spanish eyes - the players, agents, pundits and ordinary fans - by a man who was there as it happened.
Arctic Diary
GG175954 07 hours 42 minutes
by Sir Richard Branson and Sam Branson
It's hardly a surprise to discover that Sam Branson has a love of adventure and a real concern about our future in a world where the climate is changing rapidly. Journeying into the heart of the Arctic wilderness with his father and a film crew, Sam explores the changing landscape and the lives of the native Inuit people who have survived in a relentlessly inhospitable environment for 5000 years.
Sleeping on frozen seas and encountering majestic polar bears, Sam and his father embark together on a winter expedition which Sam must ultimately complete on his own, finding new depths of resilience and courage in a formidable and breathtaking landscape.
As I have loved you
GG63915 01 hours 37 minutes
by De Ruyter, Kitty
Clapton :
S8083
by Clapton, Eric.
Narrated by Apple Alex (synthetic)
The legendary guitarist recounts the story of his life and his career, recalling his work with the Yardbirds, Cream, and as a solo artist; years of drug and alcohol abuse; failed marriage to Patti Boyd; and the accidental death of his young son.
Complete Surrender:
S8093 06 hours 48 minutes
by SHARP, Dave
Approximately sixty years after the event, Dave Sharp discovered that he had been given away at the age of one month. This sent him on a quest to discover the truth behind his mysterious abandonment, and finally reunited him with his brother.
Dinner With Mugabe:
GG264356 10 hours 42 minutes
by Heidi Holland
Probing the mystery of Africa’s loyalty to one of its worst dictators, Holland explores the contraditctions that cloud the life of the man who had embodied a continent’s promise.
Easy Cook Health Oven
S8046 03 hours 56 minutes
by Easy-cook and Luminarc Pty Ltd
Entirely Up To You, Darling
S8096 14 hours 03 minutes
by ATTENBOROUGH, Richard
Richard Attenborough and Diana Hawkins have been friends and colleagues for nearly 50 years.They have now teamed up to write this frank and funny account of their unlikely partnership and his extraordinary life. Attenborough is the octogenarian celebrity peer, happily married since 1945, describing a lifetime of ceaseless activity as film star, director, producer, company chairman and indefatigable campaigner. Hawkins, 70, a twice divorced author and single parent who lived for a time on benefits, went on to become Attenborough's publicist, business partner and, ultimately, his co-producer. He is staunch Labour, she is a committed Conservative. His glass is always half full, hers obstinately half empty. Together, laughing and squabbling, they have travelled the world, meeting people and making films. Prompted by his adventures in the movie business, Attenborough goes on to reflect on the highs and lows of a long life, both in and out of the public gaze. He writes revealingly of his passion for football and politics, of his avuncular relationship with Princess Diana and finally about the tsunami tragedy which engulfed his family in December 2004.
Essays on some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy
G12004 05 hours 21 minutes
by MILL, John Stuart
This is Mill’s first work on economics. It foreshadows his Political Economy which was the standard Anglo-American Economics textbook of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Mill’s economic theory moved from free market capitalism, to government intervention within the precepts of Utilitarianism, and finally to Socialism.
Eusebius’ History of the Christian Church
GG201 14 hours 30 minutes
by Eusebius of Caesarea
Eusebius presents the history of the Church from the apostles to his own time, with special regard to the following points:
1. the successions of bishops in the principal sees
2. the history of Christian teachers
3. the history of heresies
4. the history of the Jews
5. the relations to the heathen
6. the martyrdoms.
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
G5682 03 hours 19 minutes
by KANT, Immanuel
The Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, also known as The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals or Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals or Grounding of the Metaphysics of Morals, is Immanuel Kant's first contribution to moral philosophy. It argues for an a priori basis for morality. Where the Critique of Pure Reason laid out Kant's metaphysical and epistemological ideas, this relatively short, primarily meta-ethical, work was intended to outline and define the concepts and arguments shaping his future work The Metaphysics of Morals. However, the latter work is much less readable than the Fundamental Principles.
God, the Invisible King
G1046 04 hours 25 minutes
by WELLS, Herbert G.
Wells wrote in his book God the Invisible King that his idea of God did not draw upon the traditional religions of the world: "This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer. [Which] is a profound belief in a personal and intimate God." Later in the work he aligns himself with a "renascent or modern religion ... neither atheist nor Buddhist nor Mohammedan nor Christian ... [that] he has found growing up in himself."
Happy days
S3199 03 hours
by BURRELL, Kath
An account of a pre-war girlhood in a little English village, the migration of a family to Australia and the joys and sorrows attendant upon such a move.
Heaven is for real
S8130 04 hours 14 minutes
by Burpo, Todd.
Narrated by Apple Alex (synthetic)
Presents the story of the four-year old son of a Nebraska pastor who during emergency surgery slips from consciousness and enters heaven.
Henry Ford's Own Story:
GG8100 04 hours 14 minutes
by LANE, Rose Wilder
Rose Wilder Lane was a newspaper reporter, free-lance writer, political activist, and the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the "Little House" series of popular children's books. In this biography of Henry Ford, Ms. Lane worked directly with Ford to tell his story from his birth to his founding of the Ford Motor Company and his use of modern assembly lines to mass produce his cars.
High hopes
S7140 09 hours 30 minutes
by CORBETT, Ronnie
An hilarious autobiography of one of Britain's funniest men, read by the author himself.
History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria
G19400 07 hours 03 minutes
by MASPERO, Gaston
History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria is the masterwork of one of the fathers of modern egyptology. This work, in twelve volumes, was translated from the French original, “Histoire ancienne des peuples de l’Orient classique” and published in 1903-1904. Maspero was a largely self-taught master of hieroglyphic translation. In November 1880, he was placed at the head of a French archeological mission, which developed later into the Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale. Maspero then succeeded Mariette as director-general of excavations and of the antiquities of Egypt.
History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria
G17322 07 hours 37 minutes
by MASPERO, Gaston
History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria is the masterwork of one of the fathers of modern egyptology. This work, in twelve volumes, was translated from the French original by M. L. McClure (d1918), “Histoire ancienne des peuples de l’Orient classique” and published in 1903-1904. Maspero was a largely self-taught master of hieroglyphic translation. In November 1880, he was placed at the head of a French archeological mission, which developed later into the Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale. Maspero then succeeded Mariette as director-general of excavations and of the antiquities of Egypt.
History of the Christian Church During The First Six Centuries
GG00500 14 hours 53 minutes
by CHEETHAM, Samuel
The intention of this work is to provide a sketch of the History of the Church in the first six centuries of its existence, resting throughout on original authorities, and also giving references to the principal modern works which have dealt specially with its several portions. It is hoped that it may be found to supply a convenient summary for those who can give but little time to the study, and also to serve as a guide for those who desire to make themselves acquainted with the principal documents from which the History is drawn.
History of the Conquest of Mexico
GG8103 23 hours 56 minutes
by PRESCOTT, William H.
Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
That deep-brow’d Homer ruled as his demesne;
Yet never did I breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold.
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes
He star’d at the Pacific – and all his men
Look’d at each other with a wild surmise -
Silent, upon a peak in Darien. – Keats.
Prescott’s classic and beautifully written work describes what Cortez and his men went on to do, and how it was that they came to destroy the empire of the Aztecs –
History of the United States:
G16960 18 hours 37 minutes
by BEARD, Charles A. & Mary R.
In 1921, Charles and Mary Beard published their History of the United States. A contemporaneous review stated: “The authors… assume enough maturity in high school students to justify a topical rather than a chronological treatment. They have dealt with movements, have sketched large backgrounds, have traced causes, and have discussed the interrelation of social and economic forces and politics. All this has been directed to the large purpose of helping the student to understand American today in all its national characteristics and as part of world civilization as well…The literary style is exceptionally clear and crisp, and the whole approach… is thought producing. As a textbook or handbook for the average citizen it ranks with very best.”
Hotel Babylon
GG1751022 08 hours 52 minutes
by Imogen Edwards-Jones AND Anonymous
From chambermaids' tips, to doormen making 2000 pounds a week, to the concierge taking backhanders--everyone in the hotel trade is on the take. Here is a trawl through the highs and lows, the extremes, tragedies, the miseries, the decadence and the debauchery of the ultimate service industry--where money not only talks, but gets you the best room, the best service, and also entitles you to behave in any way you please.
Hunger for the Wild:
GG233911 23 hours 53 minutes
by Johnson, Michael L
"Americans have had an enduring yet ambivalent obsession with the West as both a place and a state of mind. Michael L. Johnson considers how that obsession originated, how it has determined attitudes toward and activities in the West, and how it has changed over the centuries."
Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains
G336 04 hours 03 minutes
by EASTMAN, Charles A.
EVERY age, every race, has its leaders and heroes. There were over sixty distinct tribes of Indians on this continent, each of which boasted its notable men. The names and deeds of some of these men will live in American history, yet in the true sense they are unknown, because misunderstood. I should like to present some of the greatest chiefs of modern times in the light of the native character and ideals, believing that the American people will gladly do them tardy justice.
Innovation
S8057 04 hours 36 minutes
by Dodgson, Mark,
Narrated by Apple Alex (synthetic)
A short review of innovations as undertaken by Wedgwood, Edison and others.
Institutes of the Christian Religion
GG8106 74 hours 40 minutes
by CALVIN, Jean
Institutes of the Christian Religion is Jean Calvin’s seminal work on Protestant systematic theology. Highly influential in the Western world and still widely read by theological students today, it was published in Latin in 1536 and in his native French in 1541, with the definitive editions appearing in 1559 (Latin) and in 1560 (French).
The book was written as an introductory textbook on the Protestant faith for those with some learning already and covered a broad range of theological topics from the doctrines of church and sacraments to justification by faith alone and Christian liberty, and it vigorously attacked the teachings of those Calvin considered unorthodox, particularly Roman Catholicism to which Calvin says he had been “strongly devoted” before his conversion to Protestantism. The over-arching theme of the book – and Calvin’s greatest theological legacy – is the idea of God’s total sovereignty, particularly in salvation and election.
James Watt
G26131 05 hours 46 minutes
by Carnegie, Andrew
This biography of the inventor James Watt covers his early years, successes and failures, and legacy.
John F. Kennedy :
S8065 40 hours 41 minutes
by Dallek, Robert.
Narrated by Apple Alex (synthetic)
"Robert Dallek's masterful John F. Kennedy : an unfinished life was a number one national bestseller, and it remains the most widely read one-volume biography of the 35th president. Now, in this marvelous short biography of John F. Kennedy, Dallek achieves a miracle of compression, capturing in a small space the essence of his renowned full-length masterpiece. Here readers will find the fascinating insights and groundbreaking revelations found in An unfinished life. The heart of the book focuses on Kennedy's political career, especially the presidency. The book sheds light on key foreign affairs issues such as the Bay of Pigs debacle, Khrushchev's misguided bullying of Kennedy in Vienna, the Cuban Missile crisis, the nuclear test ban, the race for space, and the initial dealings with Southeast Asia, especially Laos. It also highlights the difficulties Kennedy faced getting a domestic agenda passed, from a tax cut to spur the economy, to federal aid to education, Medicare, and civil rights. Dallek reveals the thinking behind Robert Kennedy's appointment as attorney general and convincingly argues that Kennedy would never have expanded the war in Vietnam the way that Lyndon Johnson did. The book also addresses questions about Kennedy's assassination and concludes with his presidential legacy and why he remains so popular despite serving only a thousand days in office. Based upon the definitive biography, John F. Kennedy offers readers a concise, authoritative, and highly readable life of one of our best-loved presidents"--Provided by publisher.
John Winston Howard
S8064 20 hours 42 minutes
by Errington, Wayne.
Biography of former Australian Prime Minister John Howard.
Just as I am
S8127 06 hours 01 minutes
by GRAHAM, Billy
In Just As I Am, Billy Graham looks back at it all - remembering his dairy farm upbringing, his early preaching experiences, and the overwhelming international response to his public ministry based on his unshakable belief in Christ. Billy Graham Crusades have reached more than 200 million people in person, and millions more have heard him on radio, television, and film. He has been welcomed behind the Iron Curtain, into China and North Korea, and on every continent. And, at a time when many public figures seem scandal-prone, Dr. Graham maintains an unimpeachable reputation and powerful presence by managing his organization scrupulously, limiting his personal earnings, and urging cooperation rather than competition among all religious people. Discussing his relationship with heads of state as diverse as Queen Elizabeth II, the Shah of Iran, and Kim Il Sung, Dr. Graham also shares such memorable encounters as his plane trip with civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., when an engine caught fire, and his tragic unsuccessful attempt to warn President John F. Kennedy, Jr., about the danger of his trip to Dallas. Dr. Graham details his friendships with nine U.S. presidents, beginning with Eisenhower and including Johnson and Nixon and continuing to this day with Bill Clinton.
Kate remembered
S6773 10 hours 40 minutes
by BERG, A. Scott
The remarkable memoir of screen legend and great theatrical personality Katherine Hepburn, as told to her chosen chronicler, Scott Berg. It is the culmination of 20 years of intimate conversations between author and subject, who requested that it should not appear until after her death.
Light and Peace:
G38355 04 hours 30 minutes
by Quadrupani, Carlo Giuseppe
Padre Quadrupani was an Italian priest and member of the Clerics Regular of St. Paul, also known as the Barnabites, from their association with St. Barnabas Catholic Church in Milan, Italy. Quadrupani's spirituality is based on that of the illustrious Doctor of the Church, St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622). Like St. Francis, the Padre offers spiritual advice that is practical and balanced. Perhaps it is owing to this that Quadrupani's treatise has been so well received by Catholic laypersons and has been recommended by numerous bishops over the years. This English edition, Light and Peace, is introduced by The Most Rev. Patrick John Ryan, Archbishop of Philadelphia, and bears an imprimatur. It is generously augmented with excerpts from the writings of St. Francis de Sales, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Bernard, Pope St. Gregory the Great, St. Philip Neri, Archbishop Francois Fenelon, Father Lorenzo Scupoli, and other spiritual authorities.
Likely lads and lasses
S7180 13 hours 30 minutes
by GILL, Alan
Some 50,000 young people were brought to Australia under the youth migration scheme. Its aim was simply to fill Australia's empty space with young people of white, essentially Angol-Saxon stock. This book tells their collective story.
Machine Gun Kelly's Last Stand
S8072 08 hours 28 minutes
by HAMILTON, Stanley
This story of a 1933 kidnapping gone terribly wrong recreates the lawlessness of the era, and discusses how this case-followed breathlessly by the media and a fascinated public-became the first high-profile success of a fledgling FBI.
Manual Of Egyptian Archaeology
G14400 06 hours 43 minutes
by MASPERO, Gaston Camille Charles
A handbook of Egyptian archaeology, issued by the British Museum, considered suitable for British tourists travelling to Egypt in the 19th Century.
Marilyn Monroe
S8063 02 hours 02 minutes
by Morley, Sheridan,
Biography of film actress Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe
S4964 28 hours 09 minutes
by SPOTO, Donald
This biography taken from papers, files, medical reports casts new light on every aspect of Marilyn Monroe's thirty-six years; her dramatic childhood and adolescence; her marriages and relationships with movie stars, politicians and artists.
Mein Kampf
G0200601 19 hours 59 minutes
by HITLER, Adolf
Mein Kampf is a book by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. It combines elements of autobiography with an exposition of Hitler's political ideology. Hitler began the dictation of the book while imprisoned for what he considered to be "political crimes" after his failed Putsch in Munich in November 1923. Though Hitler received many visitors earlier on, he soon devoted himself entirely to the book. As he continued, Hitler realized that it would have to be a two-volume work, with the first volume scheduled for release in early 1925. The prison governor of Landsberg noted at the time that "he [Hitler] hopes the book will run into many editions, thus enabling him to fulfil his financial obligations and to defray the expenses incurred at the time of his trial."
Memoirs of a Revolutionist
GG831029 07 hours 26 minutes
by Peter Kropotkin
Oscar Wilde deemed his life "perfect," and described him as a man with "a soul of that beautiful white Christ which seems coming out of Russia." He is PETER ALEXEYEVICH KROPOTKIN (1842-1921), communist advocate and "anarchist prince." A member of the Russian aristocracy and the best known of the revolutionaries before Lenin, Kropotkin originally serialized the story of his life and work for The Atlantic Monthly magazine, from September 1898 through September 1899, and when published in book form, it became his best known work. From his privileged childhood to his role in upending the social order during the turmoil of the late-19th-century Europe, this is an extraordinary firsthand account of a fabled time and place, told by a writer of exquisite insight and talent.
Memoirs of a Revolutionist
GG831038 09 hours 01 minutes
by Peter Kropotkin
Oscar Wilde deemed his life "perfect," and described him as a man with "a soul of that beautiful white Christ which seems coming out of Russia." He is PETER ALEXEYEVICH KROPOTKIN (1842-1921), communist advocate and "anarchist prince." A member of the Russian aristocracy and the best known of the revolutionaries before Lenin, Kropotkin originally serialized the story of his life and work for The Atlantic Monthly magazine, from September 1898 through September 1899, and when published in book form, it became his best known work. From his privileged childhood to his role in upending the social order during the turmoil of the late-19th-century Europe, this is an extraordinary firsthand account of a fabled time and place, told by a writer of exquisite insight and talent.
Murder for hire: my life as the country's most successful undercover agent
S7971 08 hours 40 minutes
by BALLENTINE, Jack
Jack Ballentine became a police officer in 1978 and quickly rose to the top of his field as the US most successful undercover operative. Assuming the identity of a biker and hitman, he developed a network of sources that included vigilantes, prostitutes, strippers, and junkies, all who introduced him to clients. Over the span of 15 years, the author went a perfect 24 for 24 in getting convictions on murder conspiracy charges.
My First Summer in the Sierra
GG153235 07 hours 06 minutes
by Muir, John
Famed naturalist John Muir (1838-1914) came to Wisconsin as a boy and studied at the University of Wisconsin. He first came to California in 1868 and devoted six years to the study of the Yosemite Valley. After work in Nevada, Utah, and Colorado, he returned to California in 1880 and made the state his home. One of the heroes of America's conservaton movement, Muir deserves much of the credit for making the Yosemite Valley a protected national park and for alerting Americans to the need to protect this and other natural wonders. My first summer in the Sierra (1911) is based on Muir's original journals and sketches of his 1869 stay in the Sierras. Hired to supervise a San Joaquin sheep owner's flock at the headwaters of the Merced and Tulomne Rivers, Muir sets out for the mountains in June, returning to the Valley in September. He describes the flora and fauna of the mountains as well as his visits to Yosemite and his climbs of Mt. Hoffman and other peaks in the range.
My husband, my killer
S7203 09 hours
by SIMPSON, Lindsay
The chilling, true story of the murder of Megan Kalajzich that was planned by her husband.
Mysticism
GG8055 21 hours 46 minutes
by UNDERHILL, Evelyn
The book provides an introduction to the subject of mysticism, presenting it from the point of view of metaphysics, psychology, and symbolism. It examines the different stages of development a mystic typically experiences.
Neuromancer
S8080 08 hours 45 minutes
by GIBSON, William
Case was burnt-out, useless, suicidal - his nervous system maimed by a wartime Russian mycotoxin. Then Case met a man who could cure him - in return Case was forced to do a job. Bonded to his artery walls were tiny sacs of mycotoxin, slowly melting ...
No Sundays in the bush
S4447 08 hours
by CARTER, Tom
Tom Carter, a young Englishman with a taste for adventure and ornithology, stepped ashore at Carnarvon in 1887 to begin work as a jackeroo. His story is rich with the adventure and incidents of his two years in the bush, and full of lively humour.
Omens and Superstitions of Southern India
G35690 09 hours 19 minutes
by THURSTON, Edgar
This book deals mainly with some aspects of what may be termed the psychical life of the inhabitants of the Madras Presidency, and the Native States of Travancore and Cochin.
On Generation and Corruption
GG330983 03 hours 28 minutes
by ARISTOTLE
On Generation and Corruption (Ancient Greek: Περὶ γενέσεως καὶ φθορᾶς, Latin: De Generatione et Corruptione, also known as On Coming to Be and Passing Away) is a treatise by Aristotle. Like many of his texts, it is both scientific and philosophic (although not necessarily scientific in the modern sense). The philosophy, though, is essentially empirical; as in all Aristotle's works, the deductions made about the unexperienced and unobservable are based on observations and real experiences. The question raised at the beginning of the text builds on an idea from Aristotle's earlier work The Physics. Namely, whether things come into being through causes, through some prime material, or whether everything is generated purely through "alteration." From this important work Aristotle gives us two of his most remembered contributions. First, the Four Causes and also the Four Elements (earth, wind, fire and water).
On Liberty
GG130 05 hours 18 minutes
by MILL, John Stuart
Published in 1859, On Liberty details Mill’s view that individuals should be left wholly free to engage in any activity, thought or belief that does not harm others. Simple though it sounds, it is a position that challenges our ideas on the very nature of government and society, and sheds light on some of the key issues we face today. A key text of political philosophy, On Liberty has been continuously in print since its first publication.
Opticks
G33504 11 hours 53 minutes
by NEWTON, Isaac, Sir
The famous physicist Sir Isaac Newton lectured on optics from 1670 - 1672. He worked on the refraction of light into colored beams using prisms and discovered chromatic aberration. He also postulated the corpuscular form of light and an ether to transmit forces between the corpuscles. His "Opticks", first published 1704 contains his postulates about the topic. This is the fourth edition in English, from 1730, which Newton corrected from the third edition before his death.
Quiet Talks about Jesus
G12809 08 hours 08 minutes
by GORDON, Samuel Dickey
So far as I can find out, I have no theory about Jesus to make these talks fit into. I have tried to find out for myself what the old Book of God tells about Him. And here I am trying to tell to others, as simply as I can, what I found. It was by the tedious, twisting path of doubt that I climbed the hill of truth up to some of its summits of certainty. I am free to confess that I am ignorant of the subject treated here save for the statements of that Book, and for the assent within my own spirit to these statements, which has greatly deepened the impression they made, and make. There is no question raised here about that Book itself, but simply a taking and grouping up together of what it says.
Report of the Inquiry into the Role and Oversight of Private Security Contractors in Afghanistan
GG08054 05 hours 55 minutes
by United States Senate Committee on Armed Services
The Inquiry into the Role and Oversight of Private Security Contractors in Afghanistan, which reported in September 2010, was precipitated by events in August 2008, when US forces bombed the Afghan village of Azizabad. This gave rise to a public dispute between the US Government and the United Nations about the level of fatalities caused by the attack and about whether those killed had been civilians or Taliban-linked insurgents. Allegations soon emerged that the attack had been based on false information deliberately fed to the US military by Afghan employees of ArmorGroup, a private security contractor, and that these employees were engaged in murder and anti-coalition activities. A key local contact of ArmorGroup, who they dubbed "Mr Pink", was subsequently convicted of espionage and sentenced to death, but was later freed.
According to the committee's chair, Carl Levin, the investigation "uncovered a significant amount of evidence that a number of security contractors working under Department of Defense contracts and subcontracts funneled US taxpayer dollars to Afghan warlords and strongmen linked to murder, kidnapping and bribery, as well as to Taliban and anti-coalition activities".
Rocks and their Origins
G08057 03 hours 32 minutes
by COLE, Grenville A. J.
Do you know the difference between sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks? Are you interested in their geologic origin, chemical composition or how each type affects the landscape? Do you know the differences between limestone, granite and marble as building materials? You will find these and lots of other interesting facts about rocks in this second edition of "Rocks and Their Origins" published in 1922. The author, Grenville A. J. Cole, was an English geologist, Professor of Geology in the Royal College of Science for Ireland and an avid cyclist.
Romulus
G27692 06 hours 25 minutes
by ABBOTT, Jacob
Jacob Abbott wrote many historical books for children. He was careful to ensure historical accuracy, and as he said himself in the preface to this book "Whatever of interest ... these stories may possess is due solely to the facts themselves which are recorded in them, and to their being brought together in a plain, simple, and connected narrative."
This is the story of Romulus, the founding of Rome and the early years of its history, written in a way both readable and enjoyable for adults and children alike.
Royal service
S2954 09 hours
by BARRY, Stephen
Prince Charles' valet reveals what it was really like to be a commoner living and working side by side with royalty.
Saint Charles Borromeo
GG8053 05 hours 21 minutes
by STACPOOLE-KENNY, Louis M.
Charles Borromeo was the cardinal archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Milan from 1564 to 1584. He was a leading figure during the Counter-Reformation and was responsible for significant reforms in the Catholic Church, including the founding of seminaries for the education of priests. He is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church and his feast day is November 4.
Steps to Christ
GG131047 03 hours 02 minutes
by Ellen White
•God's love for man • The sinner's need of Christ • Repentence • Confession • Consecration • Faith and acceptance • The test of discipleship • Growing up in Christ • The work and the life • A knowledge of God
• The privilege of prayer • What to do with doubt • Rejoicing in the Lord
Stickeen:
G11673 00 hours 51 minutes
by Muir, John,
Describes an episode in the life of conservationist John Muir when he was stranded on a glacier with a brave dog, Stickeen.
Sugar in the Blood
S8122 03 hours 09 minutes
by OLIVER, Bill
Presents Bill Oliver's memoir, tracing his life from Bombay to Broadwater, Narrandera to North Queensland, Cuba to China, and places in between. He recounts hilarious stories of life in the sugar industry during a time of huge growth in the world sugar trade in New South Wales.
Ten Days That Shook the World
G3076 14 hours 29 minutes
by REED, John
"Ten Days That Shook the World" is American journalist and socialist John Reed's first-hand account of the Russian October Revolution of 1917. While it is intended as an impartial and unbiased historical account, by Reed's own admission, "in the struggle [his] sympathies were not neutral". An important historical document of an event that would shape the political landscape for most of the 20th century, "Ten Days That Shook the World" is a must read for those interested in the socialistic movement and how it shaped Russian history.
The Annals
GG8054 17 hours 39 minutes
by TACITUS, Publius Cornelius
a history of the reigns of the four Roman Emperors succeeding Caesar Augustus. The surviving parts of the Annals extensively cover most of the reigns of Tiberius and Nero. The title Annals was probably not given by Tacitus, but derives from the fact that he treated this history in a year-by-year form.
The Atrocities of the Pirates
GG8101 03 hours 33 minutes
by SMITH, Aaron
In 1822, Aaron Smith, a young English seaman, was taken captive by Cuban pirates when his ship was boarded en route from Jamaica to England. Forced to work as a navigator and as a member of pirate boarding parties, he witnessed unspeakable acts of murder and torture. Befriended by a young Cuban woman, he managed to escape with his life, but was arrested as a pirate in Havana and sent back to England in chains. There, he found himself on trial for his life at the Old Bailey courthouse—with the attorney general himself leading the prosecution. Smith's dramatic account of his personal experience is a brutally honest, unromanticized [sic] look at piracy in the 19th century.
The Book of Lieh-Tzu
GG23208 02 hours 52 minutes
by Lieh-Tzu
"The "Lieh-tzu" ranks with the "Lao Tzu" and "Chuang Tzu" as one of the most eloquent and influential expositions of Taois philosophy. This definitive translation by Professor Graham does full justice to the subtlety of thought and literary effectiveness of the text." -- Burton Watson
The cruise of the Acheron
S1344 06 hours
by NATUSCH, Sheila
The story of the survey voyage of H.M.S.V. Acheron in New Zealand Waters, 1848 - 1851.
The Deeper Christian Life
GG8093 02 hours 35 minutes
by MURRAY, Andrew
If you were put on trial for being a Christian, would you be convicted? Christians have asked themselves this question, or ones like it, for millennia. In his book, The Deeper Christian Life, Andrew Murray helps us come to grips with those nagging insecurities in our Christian walk. A shallow relationship with God leads us down a road of doubt and insecurities. Can I be forgiven? How can I forgive? Murray tells us that we can go deeper in our relationship with God, and with that deeper relationship comes growing confidence and joy in the gospel. That joy springs from the knowledge of God's grace in forgiving us, and enables us to extend that grace to others in our lives.
The Desert
GG8060 05 hours 54 minutes
by VAN DYKE, John Charles
The Desert by John Charles Van Dyke, published in 1901, is a lush, poetic description of the natural beauty of the American Southwest. "What land can equal the desert with its wide plains, its grim mountains, and its expanding canopy of sky!" Van Dyke, a cultivated art historian, saw "sublimity" in the desert's "lonely desolation," which previous generations had perceived only as a wasteland, and his book has a conservationist flavor which seems distinctly modern. "The deserts should never be reclaimed," he writes. "They are the breathing spaces of the west and should be preserved for ever." The changing colors of the sky, hills, and sand impress Van Dyke, as do the mirages. He celebrates the "long overlooked commonplace things of nature"-- cactus and grease wood, desert animals, and "winged life," the birds and insects. His writing has a philosophical undertone. "Not in vain these wastes of sand ... simply because they are beautiful in themselves and good to look upon whether they be life or death." Anyone who views with equal awe fiery sunrises and weeds growing out of pavement cracks will enjoy this reading of Van Dyke's The Desert.
The Doctrine and Covenants
GG7948 12 hours 40 minutes
by SMITH, Joseph Jr.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
G735 20 hours 03 minutes
by GIBBON, Edward
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was written by the celebrated English historian Edward Gibbon. The books cover the period of the Roman Empire after Marcus Aurelius, from just before 180 to 1453 and beyond, concluding in 1590. They take as their material the behavior and decisions that led to the decay and eventual fall of the Roman Empire in the East and West, offering an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell. Gibbon is sometimes called the first “modern historian of ancient Rome.” By virtue of its mostly objective approach and highly accurate use of reference material, Gibbon’s work was adopted as a model for the methodologies of 19th and 20th century historians.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
G0731 19 hours 18 minutes
by GIBBON, Edward
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was written by the celebrated English historian Edward Gibbon. Volume I was published in 1776, and went through six printings (a remarkable feat for its time). Volumes II and III were published in 1781; volumes IV, V, VI in 1788-89. The original volumes were published as quartos, a common publishing practice of the time.The books cover the period of the Roman Empire after Marcus Aurelius, from just before 180 to 1453 and beyond, concluding in 1590. They take as their material the behaviour and decisions that led to the decay and eventual fall of the Roman Empire in the East and West, offering an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell.Gibbon is sometimes called the first modern historian of ancient Rome. By virtue of its mostly objective approach and highly accurate use of reference material, Gibbon's work was adopted as a model for the methodologies of 19th and 20th century historians.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
G736
by GIBBON, Edward
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was written by the celebrated English historian Edward Gibbon. The books cover the period of the Roman Empire after Marcus Aurelius, from just before 180 to 1453 and beyond, concluding in 1590. They take as their material the behavior and decisions that led to the decay and eventual fall of the Roman Empire in the East and West, offering an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell. Gibbon is sometimes called the first “modern historian of ancient Rome.” By virtue of its mostly objective approach and highly accurate use of reference material, Gibbon’s work was adopted as a model for the methodologies of 19th and 20th century historians.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
G733 17 hours 42 minutes
by GIBBON, Edward
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was written by the celebrated English historian Edward Gibbon. Volume I was published in 1776, and went through six printings (a remarkable feat for its time). Volumes II and III were published in 1781; volumes IV, V, VI in 1788-89. The original volumes were published as quartos, a common publishing practice of the time.The books cover the period of the Roman Empire after Marcus Aurelius, from just before 180 to 1453 and beyond, concluding in 1590. They take as their material the behavior and decisions that led to the decay and eventual fall of the Roman Empire in the East and West, offering an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell.Gibbon is sometimes called the first “modern historian of ancient Rome.” By virtue of its mostly objective approach and highly accurate use of reference material, Gibbon’s work was adopted as a model for the methodologies of 19th and 20th century historians.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
G734 20 hours 58 minutes
by GIBBON, Edward
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was written by the celebrated English historian Edward Gibbon. Volume I was published in 1776, and went through six printings (a remarkable feat for its time). Volumes II and III were published in 1781; volumes IV, V, VI in 1788-89. The original volumes were published as quartos, a common publishing practice of the time.The books cover the period of the Roman Empire after Marcus Aurelius, from just before 180 to 1453 and beyond, concluding in 1590. They take as their material the behavior and decisions that led to the decay and eventual fall of the Roman Empire in the East and West, offering an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell.Gibbon is sometimes called the first “modern historian of ancient Rome.” By virtue of its mostly objective approach and highly accurate use of reference material, Gibbon’s work was adopted as a model for the methodologies of 19th and 20th century historians.
The Life of Samuel Johnson Vol. 2
GG631159 13 hours 55 minutes
by James Boswell
Poet, lexicographer, critic, moralist and Great Cham, Dr. Johnson had in his friend Boswell the ideal biographer.
Notoriously and self-confessedly intemperate, Boswell shared with Johnson a huge appetite for life and threw equal energy into recording its every aspect in minute but telling detail. This irrepressible Scotsman was 'always studying human nature and making experiments', and the marvelously vivacious Journals he wrote daily furnished him with first-rate material when he came to write his biography.
The result is a masterpiece that brims over with wit, anecdote and originality. Hailed by Macaulay as the best biography ever written and by Carlyle as a book 'beyond any other product of the eighteenth century', The Life of Samuel Johnson today continues to enjoy its status as a classic of the language.
The Life of Samuel Johnson Vol. I
G8918 13 hours 43 minutes
by Boswell, James
Notoriously and self-confessedly intemperate, Boswell shared with Johnson a huge appetite for life and threw equal energy into recording its every aspect in minute but telling detail. This irrepressible Scotsman was 'always studying human nature and making experiments', and the marvelously vivacious Journals he wrote daily furnished him with first-rate material when he came to write his biography.
The little red yellow black book :
S8137 03 hours 57 minutes
by Pascoe, Bruce.
The Little Red Yellow Black Book is an accessible and highly illustrated pocket-sized guide. It?s an invaluable introduction to Australia?s rich Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and culture. It takes a non-chronological approach and is written from an Indigenous viewpoint. The themes that emerge are the importance of identity, and adaptation and continuity. If you want to read stories the media don?t tell you, mini-essays on famous as well as everyday individuals and organisations will provide insights into a range of Australian Indigenous experiences.
The Lord's Table
GG6498 02 hours 34 minutes
by MURRAY, Andrew
Murray suggests that his devotional, The Lord's Table, is not meant to replace scripture, but rather to strengthen believers' appreciation of God's word. Murray's meditations provide a thoughtful guide for believers who desire to develop a deeper understanding of the Lord's Holy Supper. The devotional covers the week before, during, and after the Supper, and each entry is labeled with the day of the week so that readers can manage devotions with ease. Murray first explains how believers can prepare to receive God's blessing during the weeks before the Supper. Murray further encourages believers to be filled with God's love, repent of sinful deeds, and meditate on his grace. During the day of Holy Communion, we are called to pour out our hearts to Christ as he strengthens us through his body and blood, which quenches our thirst and feeds our souls. In the days after communion, Murray tenderly urges us to dwell on the redeeming power of sanctification. Murray's text is an excellent resource for those who desire to grow in their faith through Communion.
The Marvels of Divine Grace
GG211053 04 hours 03 minutes
by Alice Lady Lovat
These are Alice Lady Lovat's meditations on the treatise "Del Aprecio y Estima de la Divina Gracia," written by the prolific Roman Catholic theologian and mystic Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, S.J. (1595-1658). Nieremberg's treatise was published in 1638 in Madrid, where he taught Sacred Scripture at the Jesuit Colegio Imperial. Abbot Oswald Hunter-Blair, O.S.B. wrote the preface for Lovat's book, which bears an imprimatur.
The Mountains of California
G10012 10 hours 08 minutes
by Muir, John,
Famed naturalist John Muir (1838-1914) came to Wisconsin as a boy and studied at the University of Wisconsin. He first came to California in 1868 and devoted six years to the study of the Yosemite Valley. After work in Nevada, Utah, and Colorado, he returned to California in 1880 and made the state his home. One of the heroes of America's conservation movement, Muir deserves much of the credit for making the Yosemite Valley a protected national park and for alerting Americans to the need to protect this and other natural wonders. The mountains of California (1894) is his book length tribute to the beauties of the Sierras. He recounts not only his own journeys by foot through the mountains, glaciers, forests, and valleys, but also the geological and natural history of the region, ranging from the history of glaciers, the patterns of tree growth, and the daily life of animals and insects. While Yosemite naturally receives great attention, Muir also expounds on less well known beauty spots.
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
G08056 07 hours 10 minutes
by FREUD, Sigmund
Professor Freud developed his system of psychoanalysis while studying the so-called borderline cases of mental diseases, such as hysteria and compulsion neurosis. By discarding the old methods of treatment and strictly applying himself to a study of the patient's life he discovered that the hitherto puzzling symptoms had a definite meaning, and that there was nothing arbitrary in any morbid manifestation. Psychoanalysis always showed that they referred to some definite problem or conflict of the person concerned. It was while tracing back the abnormal to the normal state that Professor Freud found how faint the line of demarcation was between the normal and neurotic person, and that the psychopathologic mechanisms so glaringly observed in the psychoneuroses and psychoses could usually be demonstrated in a lesser degree in normal persons. This led to a study of the faulty actions of everyday life and later to the publication of the Psychopathology of Everyday Life, a book which passed through four editions in Germany and is considered the author's most popular work. With great ingenuity and penetration the author throws much light on the complex problems of human behavior, and clearly demonstrates that the hitherto considered impassable gap between normal and abnormal mental states is more apparent than real. This translation is made of the fourth German edition, and while the original text was strictly followed, linguistic difficulties often made it necessary to modify or substitute some of the author's cases by examples comprehensible to the English-speaking reader.
The Ramayana - Book 1
G24869 06 hours 41 minutes
by VALMIKI
The Ramayana is an ancient Sanskrit epic. It is attributed to the Hindu sage Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon (smṛti). The Ramayana is one of the two great epics of India, the other being Mahabharata. It depicts the duties of relationships, portraying ideal characters like the ideal servant, the ideal brother, the ideal wife and the ideal king.
The Science of Being Great
GG8115 02 hours 15 minutes
by WATTLES, Wallace D.
The Science of Being Great is the second book of Wattles' triology. In this volume he argues that the power of thought and positive self-esteem is the only true measure of a person's greatness.
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth /
G18359 05 hours 22 minutes
by Muir, John
John Muir (1838-1914), whose writings about the natural world have shaped the conservation and environmental movements for more than a century, wrote this autobiographical account near the end of his life about his childhood in Dunbar, Scotland, his immigration to America (1849), his adolescence on a pioneer farmstead near Kingston, Wisconsin, and his student years at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth reveals the evolution of Muir's scientific curiosity and the beginnings of his reverential attitude towards nature. Treating his encounters with wildlife as high adventure, he gives especially informed attention to bird life in both Scotland and Wisconsin.
The Subjection of Women
G27083 04 hours 43 minutes
by MILL, John Stuart
The Subjection of Women is the title of an essay written by John Stuart Mill in 1869, possibly jointly with his wife Harriet Taylor Mill, stating an argument in favor of equality between the sexes. It offers both detailed argumentation and passionate eloquence in opposition to the social and legal inequalities commonly imposed upon women by a patriarchal culture. Just as in “On Liberty,” Mill defends the emancipation of women on utilitarian grounds, convinced that the moral and intellectual advancement of women would result in greater happiness for everybody.
The True Vine
GG1041240 02 hours 23 minutes
by Andrew Murray
1. The Vine John 15:1 11 • 2. The Husbandman John 15:1 14 • 3. The Branch John 15:2 17 • 4. The Fruit John 15:2 20 • 5. More Fruit John 15:2 23 • 6. The Cleansing John 15:2 26 • 7. The Pruning Knife John 15:3 29 • 8. Abide John 15:4 32 • 9. Except Ye Abide John 15:4 35 • 10. I the Vine John 15:5 39 • 11. Ye the Branches John 15:5 43 • 12. Much Fruit John 15:5 46• 13. Ye Can Do Nothing John 15:5 49 • 14. Withered Branches John 15:6 52 • 15. What Ye Will John 15:7 55 • 16. If Ye Abide John 15:7 58 • 17. The Father Glorified John 15:8 61 • 18. True Disciples John 15:8 64 • 19. The Wonderful Love John 15:9 67 • 20. Abide in My Love John 15:9 70 • 21. Obey and Abide John 15:10 73 • 22. Ye, Even As I John 15:10 76 • 23. Joy John 15:11 79 • 24. Love One Another John 15:12 82 • 25. As I Have Loved You John 15:12 85 • 26. Christ's Friendship: • Its Origin John 15:13 88 • 27. Christ's Friendship: • Its Evidence John 15:14 91 • 28. Christ's Friendship: • Its Intimacy John 15:15 94 • 29. Election John 15:16 97 • 30. Abiding Fruit John 15:16 100 • 31. Prevailing Prayer John 15:16 103.
The World I Live In
G27683 02 hours 47 minutes
by Keller, Helen
The World I Live In by Helen Keller is a collection of essays that poignantly tells of her impressions of the world, through her sense of touch, smell, her imagination and dreams.
My hand is to me what your hearing and sight together are to you. In large measure we travel the same highways, read the same books, speak the same language, yet our experiences are different. All my comings and goings turn on the hand as on a pivot. It is the hand that binds me to the world of men and women. The hand is my feeler with which I reach through isolation and darkness and seize every pleasure, every activity that my fingers encounter. With the dropping of a little word from another’s hand into mine, a slight flutter of the fingers, began the intelligence, the joy, the fullness of my life. Helen Keller, quoted from her essay, The Seeing Hand
The Yosemite
G7091 06 hours 46 minutes
by John Muir
Three Ways to Capsize a Boat
S8047 04 hours 54 minutes
by Stewart, Chris
If you're wondering what Chris Stewart did before he and Ana moved to El Valero, their Spanish farm, here's one of the answers. He took to the sea, landing a job as skipper for the summer, sailing on a Cornish Crabber around the Greek islands. It was his dream job; but there was only one tiny problem. He had never sailed before!
Totem and Taboo:
G37065 06 hours 20 minutes
by FREUD, Sigmund
Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics is a book by Sigmund Freud, published in German in 1913. It is a collection of four essays first published in the journal Imago (1912–13), employing the application of psychoanalysis to the fields of archaeology, anthropology, and the study of religion. The four essays are entitled: The Horror of Incest; Taboo and Emotional Ambivalence; Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thoughts; and The Return of Totemism in Childhood.
Toussaint L’Ouverture
GG8102 13 hours 19 minutes
by BEARD, John Relly
François-Dominique Toussaint L’Ouverture (1743-1803) rose to fame in 1791 during the Haitian struggle for independence. In this revolt, he led thousands of slaves on the island of Hispañola to fight against the colonial European powers of France, Spain and England. The former slaves ultimately established the independent state of Haiti and expelled the Europeans. L’Ouverture eventually became the governor and Commander-In-Chief of Haiti before recognizing and submitting to French rule in 1801. In June of 1802, L’Ouverture was arrested by French forces and taken to France where he was imprisoned at Joux. There he penned his autobiography “. . . to render to the French government an exact account of my conduct.” L’Ouverture died in prison on April 7, 1803 from pneumonia.
Although L’Ouverture died a captive of the French, the revolution he led was historically perhaps the most significant world event opposing slavery. It precipitated a re-examination--among the major European powers as well as those in the new world--of the right of all mankind to be free and self-governing.
John Relly Beard, an English minister, wrote The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture and published it in London in 1853. Ten years later, the biography was re-published and augmented to include L’Ouverture’s 35-page translated autobiography--along with other documents and contributions by public officials--and was re-published in Boston. This reconstituted edition was titled, Toussaint L’Ouverture: A Biography and Autobiography.
Travels in Alaska
G7345 08 hours 56 minutes
by Muir, John,
John Muir first saw Alaska in 1879, only twelve years after it was purchased from Russia by the United States. Four more times, in 1880, 1881, 1890, and 1899, he was drawn back to this land of rivers and glaciers, sunsets and northern lights, campfires and Arctic stars. Few people have lived so many adventures, yet Muir was not a mere collector of adventure; the hazards he encountered - and many were spine tingling - came as a result of his intense desire to examine new aspects of the natural world.
Two Old Women - An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Wallis, Velma /
S8139 02 hours 05 minutes
by Wallis, Velma
The story of the survival of two elderly women abandoned by a migrating tribe in the Arctic.
Utilitarianism
G11224 03 hours 23 minutes
by MILL, John Stuart
John Stuart Mill’s book Utilitarianism is one of the most influential and widely-read philosophical defenses of utilitarianism in ethics. The essay first appeared as a series of three articles published in Fraser’s Magazine in 1861; the articles were collected and reprinted as a single book in 1863. It went through four editions during Mill’s lifetime with minor additions and revisions.
Although Mill includes discussions of utilitarian ethical principles in other works such as On Liberty and The Subjection of Women, Utilitarianism contains Mill’s only major discussion of the fundamental grounds for utilitarian ethical theory.
Yang Chu’s Garden of Pleasures
GG231032 01 hours 37 minutes
by Lieh Tzu
Yang Chu was a philosopher of the classic age of Chinese thought who probably lived in the 300's B.C.E. He has been associated with the Taoists since the rise of official Confucianism and the consolidation of what we now call 'Taoism', although this term is problematic, as thinkers like Yang Chu, Chuang Tzu, and Lao Tzu are quite different and were not considered to be members of a single school in ancient times. In addition, the text that we still have which is attributed to Yang Chu is from a somewhat later period, preserved in the Lieh Tzu (other extracts of which are also available at sacred-texts in the book Taoist Teachings), which did not reach its final form until perhaps 400 C.E. or so. In this text, Yang Chu is far from being a mystic, and is concerned mainly with enjoying life to its fullest, allowing a person's individual character the fullest expression possible and not interfering with natural processes.
Basket case
S8075
by CHIRNSIDE, Douglas
Sixteen years ago, Karen Myhill's one night stand resulted in her precious baby boy Max. Now, as head of an independent television production company, she needs help keeping her organisation afloat. She calls on Duncan Cairns, a sharp young advertising executive who knows nothing of Karen's past or the story behind her child's conception.
Bittersweet
S5845 10 hours 40 minutes
by STEEL, Danielle
India Taylor lives in a world of manicured lawns, summers at Cape Cod and a life of luxury. This is the life she has chosen - not the award-winning career as a photo-journalist she once had. It is a choice she has never regretted - until now.
Border trouble
S4109 05 hours
by BOONE, James Calder
Marshall Ned Remington must cut off the supply of moonshine which is being supplied to the illegal drinking houses and is causing trouble among the Chickaway Indians.
Bosman at his best:
S8116 08 hours 03 minutes
by BOSMAN, Herman Charles
The 33 tales in this book were taken from Mafeking Road, Cold Stone Jug, A Cask of Jerepigo and Unto Dust. Vintage Bosman.
Bounty war
S4802 04 hours 30 minutes
by BAKER, A. A
After the war between the states, many small skirmishes still exist. When some guerillas steal into Pinetree, robbing the mercantile of ammunition and horses, Marshall Orion Tibbs is faced with a difficult situation. But Tibbs has a plan.
Calico Road
S6850 12 hours 32 minutes
by JACOBS, Anna
Calico Road runs through a tiny Lancashire hamlet up on the edge of the moors, miles from anywhere. Its folk are an independent breed - and in 1827 they are a thorn in the side of the vicious mill owner in the valley below.
Clawhammer
S4567 14 hours 25 minutes
by LLEWELLYN, Sam
When Camille, the sister of poet and bird artist, George Devis, is murdered whilst working for an aid project in Ethiopia, George is forced to get involved. Things get very deadly when, whilst sailing across the Atlantic, someone tries to kill him too.
Equal rites
S6488 07 hours 55 minutes
by PRATCHETT, Terry
Another comic fantasy from the Discworld which concerns men and women, magic and mayhem which occur when these get mixed up.
Flashman and the Angel of the Lord
S4979 13 hours 34 minutes
by FRASER, George Macdonald
If only Flashman had got on with his dinner and ignored the handkerchief dropped by a flirtatious hussy in a Calcutta hotel ... Well, American history would have been different, a disastrous civil war might have been avoided, and Flashman himself would have been spared one of the most hair-raising adventures of his misspent life. If only ... But, alas, the arch-rotter of the Victorian age could never resist the lure of a pretty foot and this latest extract of the Flashman Papers soon finds him careering towards the little Virginian town of Harper’s Ferry, where John Brown and his gang of rugged fanatics were to fire the first shot in the great war against slavery.
For Love Alone
S1788 09 hours 40 minutes
by ADAMS, Candice
For beautiful young engineer Kate Justin, recently appointed executive in the giant Dallas company Amalacorp. On her first assignment, supervising the construction of a dam in the English Costswolds, she meets handsome elegant Ian Nigel, Chairman of the Board of a British industrial firm.
But even as the magnetic attraction that drew them together the moment they met deepened into a passionate and sensual love, Kate realized that Ian didn't trust Amalacorp-and her own doubts about her dream job began to surface...
But it was not until disaster threatened the dam, that Kate would fight for both her integrity-and her love!
Geronimo's Story of His Life
G31318 03 hours 42 minutes
by GERONIMO
Geronimo’s Story of His Life is the oral life history of a legendary Apache warrior. Composed in 1905, while Geronimo was being held as a U.S. prisoner of war at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Geronimo’s story found audience and publication through the efforts of S. M. Barrett--Lawton, Oklahoma, Superintendent of Education, who wrote in his preface that “the initial idea of the compilation of this work was . . . to extend to Geronimo as a prisoner of war the courtesy due any captive, i.e. the right to state the causes which impelled him in his opposition to our civilization and laws.” Barrett, with the assistance of Asa Deklugie (1872-1955), son of Nedni chief Whoa as Apache translator, wrote down the story as Geronimo told it --beginning with an Apache creation myth. Geronimo recounted bloody battles with Mexican troopers, against whom he had vowed vengeance in 1858 after they murdered his mother, his wife, and his three small children. He told of treaties made between Apaches and the U.S. Army--and treaties broken. There were periods of confinement on the reservations, and escapes. And there were his final days on the run, when the U.S. Army put 5000 men in the field against his small band of 39 Apache.
Hero Tales from American History
G1864 05 hours 18 minutes
by LODGE, Henry Cabot
Its purpose … is to tell in simple fashion the story of some Americans who showed that they knew how to live and how to die; who proved their truth by their endeavor; and who joined to the stern and manly qualities which are essential to the well-being of a masterful race the virtues of gentleness, of patriotism, and of lofty adherence to an ideal.
It is a good thing for all Americans … to remember the men who have given their lives in war and peace to the service of their fellow-countrymen, and to keep in mind the feats of daring and personal prowess done in time past by some of the many champions of the nation in the various crises of her history.
High Adventure
G24570 04 hours 43 minutes
by HALL, James Norman
High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France by James Norman Hall; you will find this book although an exciting narrative has an unpolished feel because it was published in June of 1918 while Mr. Hall was a captive in a German POW camp. When he was captured behind enemy lines, the book was still a work in progress. The Armistice would not be reached until November of that year.
Although he does not mention it in this book, Mr. Hall had already served the better part of 15 months with the British Expeditionary Forces, surviving the battle of Loos in Sept – Oct 1915, and upon which his excellent work “Kitchener’s” Mob is Based.
The US did not enter the war until April 1917, and Hall had already served nearly three years as an American with British and French forces, as a machine gunner with the British, and as a pilot in the Lafayette Escadrille.
Pilot training in the French Air Corps was primarily a matter of survival. Visualize if you will, a class of “Penguins”, aircraft with wings too short for flight scurrying about the airfield as student pilots learn to control these machines with no instructor on board, and for that matter in Mr. Halls case there was never an instructor on board. Their solo flight was their first flight. They learned by doing.
History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria
G17323 07 hours 18 minutes
by MASPERO, Gaston
History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria is the masterwork of one of the fathers of modern egyptology. This work, in twelve volumes, was translated from the French original, “Histoire ancienne des peuples de l'Orient classique” by E. L. McClure and published in 1903-1904. Maspero was a largely self-taught master of hieroglyphic translation. In November 1880, he was placed at the head of a French archeological mission, which developed later into the Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale. Maspero then succeeded Mariette as director-general of excavations and of the antiquities of Egypt.
History of Julius Caesar
G11688 04 hours 42 minutes
by ABBOTT, Jacob
The book chronicles the extraordinary life and leadership of Rome’s Emperor Julius Caesar, from his early years to his assassination.
Indian Frontier Policy; an historical sketch
G7021 01 hours 36 minutes
by ADYE, Sir John Miller
The subject of our policy on the North-West frontier of India is one of great importance, as affecting the general welfare of our Eastern Empire, and is specially interesting at the present time, when military operations on a considerable scale are being conducted against a combination of the independent tribes along the frontier. It must be understood that the present condition of affairs is no mere sudden outbreak on the part of our turbulent neighbours. Its causes lie far deeper, and are the consequences of events in bygone years.
John Caldigate
G11643 19 hours 21 minutes
by TROLLOPE, Anthony
After a rather dissolute youth and having been disowned by his father, John Caldigate sets sail for Australia with his friend Dick Shand hoping to make his fortune in the goldfields in New South Wales. On the voyage, he meets Euphemia Smith and they conduct an indiscreet affair aboard. After various problems, Caldigate literally strikes gold and returns to Sydney where he meets Euphemia again and they settle, living as man and wife. After a time, they quarrel and Caldigate returns to England. On his return, Caldigate meets and marries a previous acquaintance, Hester Bolton, and they have a son. He sets himself up as his father’s heir and life seems perfect. However, Euphemia suddenly reappears and claims they were married in Australia, making Caldigate a bigamist and his son illegitimate.
Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
G1146 05 hours 17 minutes
by FIELDING, Henry
Sailing voyage from England to Portugal in the mid Eighteenth Century, by one of the premier humorists, satirists, novelists and playwrights of his age. It was to be his last work, as his failing health proved unable to persevere much longer after the voyage.
Pride of Lancashire
S7014 15 hours
by JACOBS, Anna
Carrie Preston is used to hard work - oldest of ten, with an imcompetent mother and a drunken father, she struggles to find food for the younger children. But nothing could have prepared her for the day fate deals her family the cruellest of hands, rendering the Prestons more helpless and desperate than ever.
Runaway
S7167 13 hours 07 minutes
by MUNRO, Alice
At the centre of Runaway are three stories connected into one marvellously rich, long narrative, about Juliet - who escapes from teaching at a girls' school into a wild and passionate love match; then returns to the home of her parents, whose life and curious marriage she finally begins to examine; while in the third part of her story, her vanished child turns up caught in the grip of a religious cult. The whole picture emerges only when all the pieces of the jigsaw are finally in place. The runaway of the disturbing title story is Carla, a congenital 'bolter', who has neighbourly fantasies that take on a frightening afterlife. Elsewhere, a stagestruck girl finds life is more Shakespearean than even she imagines; while Tessa, a young country woman with strange powers cannot foresee what will happen if she makes off with a plausible charmer. Munro's stories unravel layers of the past, and different versions of the truth: her characters learn that if you look too closely at anything - the past, the truth - it may crumble. Runaway is about the power and betrayals, and twists, of love, about lost children, lost chances. There is pain and desolation beneath the surface, like a needle in the heart, which makes them more powerful and compelling than anything she has written.
The Adventures of Mr. Mocker
G11915 01 hours 40 minutes
by BURGESS, Thornton W.
The residents of Green Forest are puzzled by strange sounds, such as Sticky-toes the Tree Toad hearing his own voice coming from another tree, or Sammy Jay keeping everyone awake by calling "Thief, thief!" when he, himself, was asleep.
The Ebb-Tide
G1604 05 hours 19 minutes
by STEVENSON, Robert Louis
Three men down on their luck in Tahiti agree to ship out on a vessel whose officers have died of smallpox. Their desperate venture inspires them to a further idea: they will steal the schooner and its cargo of champagne, sell them, and live a plentiful life. The thought is intoxicating... and so is the cargo, which they sample. Inattention nearly brings them to grief in a sudden storm. This sobering experience is followed by another - apparently the dead officers had a similar ambition! - and their dreams of riches vanish.
Then, nearly out of provisions and deep in the heart of the Pacific where the chart shows no land - they happen on a small isle only hinted at in the records and never mapped. Saved! But what is this? The island hides a pearl fishery?
In the ebb-tide of fortune, what new villainy will the three attempt?
The Jacket
G1162 10 hours 01 minutes
by LONDON, Jack
This book by Jack London was published under the name of "The Jacket" in the UK and "The Star Rover" in the US. A framing story is told in the first person by Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin State Prison for murder. Prison officials try to break his spirit by means of a torture device called "the jacket," a canvas jacket which can be tightly laced so as to compress the whole body, inducing angina. Standing discovers how to withstand the torture by entering a kind of trance state, in which he walks among the stars and experiences portions of past lives.
The jacket itself was actually used at San Quentin at the time and Jack London's descriptions of it were based on interviews with a former convict named Ed Morrell, which is also the name of a character in the novel. For his role in the Sontag and Evans gang which robbed the Southern Pacific Railroad in the 1890s, Morrell spent fourteen years in California prisons (1894-1908), five of them in solitary confinement. London championed his pardon. After his release, Morrell was a frequent guest at London's Beauty Ranch.
The Lone Star Ranger
G01027 11 hours
by GREY, Zane
Buck Duane, son of a famous gunfighter, falls prey to the old problem – called out by a cowboy who wants to make trouble, Duane kills him and then must ride off to the lawless country near the Neuces River to escape being arrested and perhaps, hanged. His brief encounter with deadly gunplay has ignited a deep urging to repeat the adrenaline rush but is tempered by ghosts that haunt his sleep. He only dares to release his inner demon when he is taking down an outlaw who is particularly known for his brutality.
He develops a reputation for killing the most notorious Texas outlaws, which draws an unexpected interest: a captain of the Texas Rangers offers him a pardon and a ranger’s badge if he will infiltrate the gang of the shadowy figure known as “Cheseldine” who wields vast power in West Texas, and make it possible for the Rangers to break the gang’s hold on the region’s towns. Duane accepts, never guessing in his wildest nightmares that he would sniff out this Cheseldine, his hideouts, his lieutenants… and fall in love with his daughter!
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
G26247 03 hours 10 minutes
by STEVENSON, Robert Louis
A lawyer in Victorian London tries to understand the nature of the strange relationship between his physician friend and the cruel and violent man he seems to protect.
The Time Machine
G17401 03 hours 06 minutes
by WELLS, Herbert. G.
n unnamed observer is the narrator of the story about the time traveler who uses his machine to travel to the future. The narrator relates the time traveler's adventures as told to him by the traveler upon his return. It includes travels to far distant futures and meetings with strange adaptations of humans like the Eloi and the Morlocks. The book contains a wealth of fascinating ideas and theories, many of which are still discussed today.
Camp-Fire Girls in the Country
GG2102906 03 hours 22 minutes
by FRANCIS, Stella M.
Teenager Hazel Edwards and the other twelve members of the Flamingo Camp-Fire Girls experience some real adventure when they are invited to spend part of their summer as guests of Hazel’s elderly aunt on her large country farm. Mrs. Hannah Hutchins is a widow living alone with a few servants and farming assistants in her home in the midwestern town of Fairberry. The girls set up camp on a section of Aunt Hannah’s farm but, before too long, an incident occurs during the annual Fourth of July celebration in Fairberry. What happens will have far-reaching consequences for Hazel’s Aunt Hannah and the girls of Flamingo Camp Fire as they must use the skills they’ve gained to fend off desperate characters and help Aunt Hannah to ‘remember’ what she forgot. This book, Camp-Fire Girls in the Country or The Secret Aunt Hannah Forgot, is one of numerous books written about the Camp-Fire Girls and their experiences.
Fairy Tales from Brazil
G24714 02 hours 07 minutes
by EELLS, Elsie Spicer
This book, subtitled "How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore", is a collection of short stories, most of them etiologial myths from Brazilian Indian Folklore.
His First and Last Appearance
GG00400 04 hours 30 minutes
by FINN, Francis J.
The scene of the story is laid partly in Milwaukee, partly in New York. It describes the trials of the orphaned Lachance children. The boy hero is of a loving and lovable disposition and wins the hearts of all. The author has combined pathetic incidents with religious consolations, and gives zest to the whole by diffusing his genial humor throughout.
Incy wincy spider /
S8160 00 hours 04 minutes
by Toms, Kate.
0-6 yrs.
Just William
G34414 05 hours 56 minutes
by CROMPTON, Richmal
William is a mischievous eleven year old who is puzzled by the adult world, which is no less puzzled by him. The humor is gentle and pleasing. The series of books is better known in the United Kingdom than in the U.S.
Kidnapped
G00421 08 hours 02 minutes
by STEVENSON, Robert Louis
David Balfour, a lad of seventeen and newly orphaned, is directed to go and live with his rich uncle, the master of the estate of Shaws in the lowlands of Scotland near Edinburgh. His uncle, Ebenezer (as close a miser as Dickens’ Ebenezer Scrooge), is shocked to suddenly have his young relative descend on him and tries to rid himself of David with an arranged accident. Failing that, he pays the captain of a brig to kidnap David and sell him into slavery in Carolina.
Llama Llama misses Mama
S8144 00 hours 05 minutes
by Dewdney, Anna.
Llama Llama experiences separation anxiety on his first day of nursery school.
Llama Llama red pajama
S8123 00 hours 08 minutes
by Dewdney, Anna.
Narrated by Apple Alex (synthetic)
At bedtime, a little llama worries after his mother puts him to bed and goes downstairs.
More William
G17125 05 hours 14 minutes
by CROMPTON, Richmal
The second of Crompton's series of 39 books about William Brown, our cheeky 11 year-old protagonist. A hero to some, a dastardly villain to others, this book is structured round a year in his life. Starting with William waking up on Christmas morning and ending with him going to sleep the following Christmas Eve, there are the usual round of misadventures, misunderstanding and general mayhem in between. When a boy like William wakes up under a motto that says "A Busy Day Is A Happy Day" alongside a copy of "Things A Boy Can Do", the chaos is just around the corner.
Mrs. Peter Rabbit
GG153231 02 hours 03 minutes
by Burgess, Thornton W.
My Father's Dragon
G30017 00 hours 48 minutes
by GANNETT, Ruth Stiles
A story about a boy who befriends a cat and then sets off on an adventure to rescue a dragon.
Old Bear and his cub
S8145 00 hours 10 minutes
by Dunrea, Olivier.
Although they love each other, Old Bear and his little Cub have a tug of war over which one knows best in a variety of situations.
Prince Caspian-
GG133249 04 hours 40 minutes
by LEWIS, C. S
Narnia has been at peace since Peter, Susan, Lucy and Edmund helped rid the kingdom of the evil White Witch. But the Sons of Adam and the Daughters of Eve have returned to their own world and a dark presence now rules this once harmonious land. Wicked King Miraz has imposed a pernicious new order of persecution and imprisonment, but the King's nephew and rightful heir, young Prince Caspian, realizing the evil of his Uncle's regime, vows to revive Narnia's glorious past. Fearing for his life, he is forced to flee and calls on the four children, the magic of the mighty lion Alsan and an army of fauns, dwarfs and woodland spirits to help him in his seemingly impossible task.
Roar of a snore
S8147 00 hours 09 minutes
by Arnold, Marsha Diane.
Disturbed by a deafening snore, Jack wakes up the family and animals one by one in search of the noisy culprit.
Snowdrop and Other Tales
G37381 04 hours 36 minutes
by GRIMM, Jacob and Wilhelm
Snowdrop; The Pink; Briar Rose; The Jew among the Thorns; Ashenputtel; The White Snake; The Wolf and the Seven Kids; The Queen Bee; The Elves and the Shoemaker; The Wolf and the Man; The Turnip; Clever Hans; The Three Languages; The Fox and the Cat; The Four Clever Brothers; The Lady and the Lion; The Fox and the Horse; The Blue Light; The Goosegirl; The Golden Goose; The Water of Life; Clever Grethel; The King of the Golden Mountain; Doctor Know-All; The Seven Ravens; The Marriage of Mrs. Reynard; The Salad; The Youth who could not Shudder; King Thrushbeard; Iron Hans.
The Chronicles of Narnia-
GG133240 04 hours 21 minutes
by C.S. Lewis
Four English school children find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter.
The Coral Island
G21721 10 hours 22 minutes
by BALLANTYNE, Robert Michael
Ralph Rover is a traveler at heart, and has always dreamed of shipping out to the South Seas islands. He finally convinces his aging parents to let him go and find his way in the world. But the islands that Ralph finds are not as idyllic as in his dreams. Shipwrecked on a large, uninhabited island, Ralph and his fellow survivors, Jim and Peterkin, discover a world of hostile natives and villainous pirates. Danger, high adventure, and wonders of the sea greet them at every turn. When all seems lost, they find help from an unexpected source.
The Frog Prince and Other Stories
G20437 00 hours 32 minutes
by CRANE, Walter
The Frog Prince; Princess Belle-Etoile; Aladdin and the wonderful lamp.
The Horse and His Boy
GG153952 04 hours 40 minutes
by C.S. Lewis
A boy and a talking horse share an adventurous and dangerous journey to Narnia to warn of invading barbarians.
The Jungle Book
G236 04 hours 53 minutes
by KIPLING, Rudyard
This classic children’s book by Rudyard Kipling tells the story of Mowgli, a young boy raised by wolves: his escapades and adventures with his dear friends Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear, his capture by the Monkey-People, his attempt at reintegration into human society, and his ultimate triumph over the lame tiger Shere Khan. The account of Mowgli’s adventures is followed by several short stories, including the tales of the brave white seal, Kotick, and the tenacious mongoose, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.
The last battle
GG1531025 04 hours 49 minutes
by LEWIS, C. S
When evil comes to Narnia, Jill and Eustace help fight the great last battle and Aslan leads his followers to a glorious new paradise.
The Magic Pudding:
G23625 02 hours
by LINDSAY, Norman
Bunyip Bluegum the koala sets out on his travels taking only a walking stick. At about lunchtime, feeling more than slightly peckish, he meets Bill Barnacle the sailor and Sam Sawnoff the penguin who are eating a pudding. The pudding is a magic one which, no matter how much you eat it, always reforms into a whole pudding again. He is called Albert, has thin arms and legs and is a bad-tempered, ill-mannered so-and-so into the bargain. His only pleasure is being eaten. The book is divided into four "slices" instead of chapters.
The Magician's Nephew
GG1531032 03 hours 55 minutes
by C.S. Lewis
When Digory and Polly try to return the wicked witch Jadis to her own world, the magic gets mixed up and they all land in Narnia where they witness Aslan blessing the animals with human speech.
The Silver Chair
GG1531047 05 hours 25 minutes
by LEWIS, C. S
King Caspian has grown old and sad in the ten years since the disappearance of his only son. With time running out, Jill and Eustace embark on a perilous quest to find the Prince and bring back tranquility to the magical land of Narnia.
The Wind in the Willows
GG153219 06 hours 42 minutes
by Grahame, Kenneth
The escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger.
Treasure Island
G120 07 hours 23 minutes
by STEVENSON, Robert Louis
A mysterious map, pirates, and pieces of eight! When young Jim Hawkins finds a map to pirates’ gold he starts on an adventure that takes him from his English village to a desert island with the murderous Black Dog, half-mad Ben Gunn, and (of course) Long John Silver. Arr Jim lad! R.L. Stevenson (1850-1894) was born in Scotland and travelled extensively in California and the south Pacific.
Where is the green sheep?
S8161 00 hours 02 minutes
by Fox, Mem,
A story about many different sheep, and one that seems to be missing.
Witch and Wizard: The Gift
S7948 06 hours 28 minutes
by Patterson, James
Since Whit and Wisty were torn from their home, soldiers of the New Order have relentlessly tried to capture and execute them. But this skilled witch and wizard have instead spearheaded the fight against the cruel and brutal regime. The villainous leader of the New Order is just a breath away from the ability to control the forces of nature and to manipulate his citizens on the most profound level imaginable - through their minds. There is only one more thing he needs to triumph in his evil quest: the Gifts of Whit and Wisty Allgood. And he will stop at nothing to seize them.
Wolfspell
S8054 03 hours 51 minutes
by CIDDOR, Anna
In the world of Viking Magica girl can heal sword cuts with nettle stingsa boy can weave a wolfspell or make the lightning strikean arrow of fire can end a disputeBut can two children stop the Sheriff from turning their families out of their homes?Oddo the farmer's son and Thora the spellworker's daughter are determined to stop the Sheriff. They set off to the Gula Thing to ask for help, never suspecting what dangers they're about to face. They will have to fight their way through raging rivers, wild wolves and treacherous swamps before they can return. And even then, it looks as though they may arrive too late...
African Animals – Rhymes and Recipes
GG1241158 01 hours 42 minutes
by Tracy Going
A is amazing, awesome animals found all around ; B is for Bison, big, boisterous, brazen, bold; C is for cheeky Cheetah. Join the author on a magical journey with the animals of the world - learn interesting facts about the animals and have fun making the recipes named in their honour. Each animal, from A to Z, has its own rhyme that will tell you about where and how it lives. Learn how fossa climb, where emu live and why it is so hard to see a quoll. The healthy vegetarian recipes are easy for children to make with a little help and guidance from an adult.
Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children, The
G13384
by Kingsley, Charles
Narrated by Apple Alex (synthetic)
The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children by Charles Kingsley is a collection of three Greek mythology stories: Perseus, The Argonauts, and Theseus. The author had a great fondness for Greek fairy tales and believed the adventures of the characters would inspire children to achieve higher goals with integrity.
The Children's Life of the Bee
G38516 02 hours 42 minutes
by MAETERLINCK, Maurice
Buzz, buzz, buzz. A fascinating and beautifully written explanation of the life of the honey bee. Is the queen the master of the hive or just a hard working servant? What is the purpose of the drones? Why do bees make honey? Do bees ever sleep? Why do bees swarm? Maeterlinck, who won the Noble Prize for Literature, wrote a more scholarly work called The Life of the Bee but then rewrote it in simpler terms so that children could appreciate what goes in a hive. The book describes in simple language the inner workings of a hive from its beginning with a swarm to the fully functional hive with thousands of workers, drones and a queen busily building, repairing and gathering.
The legend of the Indian paintbrush
S8124 00 hours 13 minutes
by DePaola, Tomie,
Narrated by Apple Alex (synthetic)
Little Gopher follows his destiny, as revealed in a Dream-Vision, of becoming an artist for his people and eventually is able to bring the colors of the sunset down to the earth.
Witch & wizard :
S8067 07 hours
by Patterson, James,
A sister and brother, along with thousands of young people, have been kidnapped and either thrown in prison or turned up missing after accusations of witchcraft were made against them, and the ruling regime will do anything in order to suppress life and liberty, music and books