Audiobooks
Cyrano de Bergerac
Summary
One of the most enduring love stories of all time. Cyrano de Bergerac is the Platonic ideal of the fearless warrior who is paralyzed by romantic yearning. Confident in battle, but relentlessly self-doubting in love, Cyrano is unable to express his devotion to the beautiful Roxane. And when she falls in love with a handsome young cadet named Christian, Cyrano seizes the opportunity to use Christian as a proxy for his own unrequited feelings. An L.A. Theatre Works full cast recording featuring: Caroline Aaron as Lise/Mother Marguerite Hugo Armstrong as Le Bret Kalen Harriman as Foodseller/Others Gregory Itzin as Comte De Guiche Hamish Linklater as Cyrano Anna Mathias as Duenna/Others Morgan Ritchie as Valvert/Bellerose/Others Jason Ritter as Christian André Sogliuzzo as Ragueneau/Ligniere/Others Devon Sorvari as Roxane Matthew Wolf as Cuigy/Others Original music composed by Mark Holden. Includes a conversation with Sue Lloyd, author of The Man Who Was Cyrano: A Life of Edmond Rostand. Directed and adapted for radio by Barry Creyton. Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA in December of 2014.
Public Domain (P)2014 L.A Theatre Works
A Forest Divided
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Discover the origins of the Warrior Clans in this thrilling prequel to Erin Hunter’s number one nationally best-selling Warriors series. The fifth book in the Dawn of the Clans series takes listeners back to the earliest days of the Clans, when the cats first settled in the forest and began to forge the warrior code. The spirit-cats have spoken: To survive, the cats from the mountains must grow and spread like the Blazing Star. Clear Sky believes the only way to grow is to band together again, but few cats are willing to ally with him. While Tall Shadow plans to establish a new camp in the pine forest, River Ripple is content by the water, and Wind Runner has made her own home on the moor. The time has now come for all cats to decide where they will live - and where their allegiances truly lie.
©2015 Erin Hunter (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers
Bedtime Stories for Kids: Collection of Meditation Stories for Children of All Ages with Unicorns, Astronauts, Pirates, Funny Animals, Mermaids, Tales to Fall Asleep and Learn Mindfulness
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Do you have trouble putting your kids to bed, and are you looking for a fun way to do it? In this bundle, discover over 110 relaxing and enjoyable bedtime stories for your children - boys and girls! Inside this collection of bedtime stories, your child will meet various friends in fun and different adventures! Your kid will listen along as the narrator takes them on a magical journey into a peaceful and natural sleep. Each story has a moral, and your child will learn valuable lessons while relieving stress and learning valuable life lessons. The earliest years of life are the best opportunity to help your child grow into a wise and gentle adult. Through empowering stories, they can learn how to improve their self-esteem and self-confidence. They will understand how to deal with their emotions and communicate them effectively. All of which is shared with you, while getting to share laughter and incredible moments together. Here you will find: Astronauts and aliens short stories: Tales of distant planets and galaxies - journey to the dark side of the moon and to alien planets for intergalactic adventures! Princess in the magic realm short stories: Let yourself be transported to a magical city where everything is possible. Mermaids and unicorns short stories: Have fun exploring explore the depths of the sea and the enchanted forests with your new magical friends! Hippos and rhinos short stories: The African jungle is full of mystery and intrigue - these stories bring the jungle to life. Dragons and dinosaurs short stories: Learn valuable lessons with a kind dragon and funny dinosaur. Christmas short stories: Christmas magic is everywhere! This is the one time of year where magic comes to life. So why not share it with your kids? Pirates and sea creatures: Incredible adventures on the Seven Seas with friendly pirates! Variety of meditation stories and positive affirmations! Download this audiobook now to start your great experience with your child!
©2020 Amanda Dreams (P)2020 Amanda Dreams
The Virginia Woolf Collection
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Four books...one groundbreaking author. Mrs Dalloway (1925) One day; two lives. Mrs Dalloway prepares for a party, whilst a First World War veteran treads the same streets. Follow 24 hours in the lives of two extraordinary people, each of them recovering from the First World War. A hostess and a soldier come together...in the most unexpected of ways. Kristin Scott Thomas performs. To the Lighthouse (1927) A family’s summer holidays see them return to the Isle of Skye over days and years, sailing boats and enduring wars. As we follow the slow unfolding of the Ramsays' fortunes, both children and adults grow, love, lose. Listed as one of the best novels of the 20th century. Jessie Buckley performs. A Room of One’s Own (1929) Based on a series of lectures to women’s colleges, this collection of essays first published in 1929 explores a female’s need to have space to create, exist...survive. A must-listen for anyone exploring the roots of feminism - or simply what it is to be a woman. A provocative and pervasive listen that remains relevant to listeners of any age. Tilda Swinton performs. The Waves (1931) A dreamscape novel that follows six characters united by a single friend. Set against a stunning English coastal landscape, the novel dares to be one of Woolf’s most inventive narratives as it explores the journey from childhood to adulthood and beyond that - death, and all that we may learn. Vanessa Kirby, Adetomiwa Edun, Andrea Riseborough, Tracy Ifeachor, Samuel Barnett, Johnny Flynn and Juliet Stevenson perform.
Public Domain (P)2021 Audible, Ltd
The Agony of Victory
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What makes some men drive themselves to succeed in their chosen sport, no matter how daunting the odds? And what are the struggles that victory almost inevitably brings? Meet the swiftest and saddest cyclist of his time, a man whose craving for speed was outstripped by a terrible urge toward self-annihilation. Try to understand the most accomplished high-school runner in American history, whose long-distance records still astound and who, a few years later, abruptly abandoned his wife and three small children. Learn about the briefly glorious life of the leading scorer in Division I college basketball, one of the inner city’s great success stories . . . while it lasted. This superbly narrated and insightful audiobook follows the paths of thirteen ravaged champions in solitary crafts such as cycling and running, bowling and boxing, hiking and golf. These men work at and master their sports, driven only by a burning need to prove themselves. Movingly detailed here are their painful journeys to grace, and their eventual realization that no victory brings lasting happiness. In short, here is the human experience, told in seconds and miles, scorecards and records.
©2013 Steve Friedman (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
A Mind for Trade
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The Solar Queen and its new sister ship, North Star, have embarked on a mission to a planet rich in lucrative ore. Armed with their experience on the galactic rim, the independent traders descend to the surface to discover a bizarre set of dangers. A strange electromagnetic force is killing miners stranded from the former crew of the North Star. Weather is terrible, with enormous disturbances throughout the atmosphere of the entire planet. Dane Thorson and the rest of the embattled crew use all of their traders' ingenuity to untangle the mystery of Hesprid IV's deadly lifeforms. Finally, they take a desperate gamble to communicate with the planet's creatures - their last chance to survive the planet's many perils.
©1997 Andre Norton, Ltd. (P)2015 Audible, Inc.
Echoing Hope
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Where is Jesus when we need him most? An influential pastor shares how despair can lead us to discover true hope and a deeper relationship with God, helping us emerge stronger and more joyful from times of crisis. “May this careful look at pain in the context of Jesus’s life open up avenues of discovery and healing.” (Mindy Caliguire, cofounder and president of Soul Care) We all experience difficulties and hardships. But how can we learn to live richly in the midst of them? And even grow spiritually because of them? The answer is found in the hopeful humanity of Jesus. As the son of God, Jesus wasn’t exempt from suffering, disappointment, or injustice. He lived in the real world as a real person. He wept for those he loved. He felt hunger and thirst. He endured temptation, betrayal, and ridicule. He died after being unjustly tortured. And somehow through it all, he embodied hope - by defeating death and opening a new world of life for us. In Echoing Hope, influential pastor and blogger Kurt Willems reveals how understanding the humanity of Jesus can radically transform our identity and empower us to step into our pain-filled world in a new way. Combining rich theological insight with personal stories and practices for response, he shows how we can overcome despair and encounter the beautiful potential of our lives.
©2021 Kurt Willems (P)2021 Random House Audio
Malice Masterpieces: The First Five Books
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Box set of all five of the first five Malice books of the series, including Mysterious Malice (Book 1), Meticulous Malice (Book 2), Mistaken Malice (Book 3), Malicious Malice (Book 4), Masterful Malice (Book 5).
©2012, 2021 K'Anne Meinel (P)2021 K'Anne Meinel
Nicotine
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The "wonderfully talented" (Dwight Garner, New York Times) author of Mislaid returns with a fierce and audaciously funny novel of families - both the ones we're born into and the ones we create, a story of obsession, idealism, and ownership centered around a young woman who inherits her late bohemian father's childhood home. Recent business school graduate Penny Baker has rebelled against her family her whole life - by being the conventional one. Her mother, Amalia, was a member of a South American tribe called the Kogi; her much older father, Norm, long ago attained cultlike deity status among a certain cohort of aging hippies while operating a psychedelic "healing center". And she's never felt particularly close to her much older half-brothers from Norm's previous marriage - one wickedly charming and obscenely rich (but mostly just wicked), one a photographer on a distant tropical island. But all that changes when her father dies, and Penny inherits his childhood home in New Jersey. She goes to investigate the property and finds it not overgrown and abandoned, but rather occupied by a group of friendly anarchist squatters whom she finds unexpectedly charming and who have renamed the property "Nicotine". The Nicotine residents (united in defense of smokers' rights) possess the type of passion and fervor Penny feels she's desperately lacking, and the other squatter houses in the neighborhood provide a sense of community she has never felt before. She soon moves into a nearby residence, becoming enmeshed in the political fervor and commitment of her fellow squatters. As the Baker family's lives begin to converge around the fate of the house now called Nicotine, Penny grows ever bolder and more desperate to protect it - and its residents - until a fateful night when a reckless confrontation between her old family and her new one changes everything. Nell Zink exquisitely captures the clash between baby boomer idealism and millennial pragmatism, between the have-nots and want-mores, in a riotous yet tender novel that brilliantly encapsulates our time.
©2016 Nell Zink (P)2016 HarperCollins Publishers
Close to You
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Caitlin Prescott was only a baby when her parents disappeared. Adopted by a wealthy Texas oil family, she became Kate Montgomery, and grew up with no memory of her parents or her two older sisters and brother, who have been searching for her, hoping to right a terrible wrong that was committed 22 years ago in a small Texas town. Now an ambitious young news reporter, Kate realizes she is being stalked soon after landing her dream job at an Austin TV station. Why did a car try to run her down? Who would want to kill her? Turning her precarious situation into a story, she takes on a bodyguard and follows him on the job. But she didn’t plan on the cool, blade-sharp strength of Teague Ramos or the attraction that sizzles between them.When Teague connects the death of an Austin socialite to unanswered questions about Kate’s childhood, she finds herself unlocking dangerous doors to her past. Now, with only her mysterious bodyguard to protect her, Kate is on a high-stakes chase that may lead her to the family she has never known - or into the trap of a ruthless killer.
©2010 Christina Dodd (P)2010 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
The Hollow Men
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Immerse yourself in T.S. Eliot's thought-provoking poem as award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti reads "The Hollow Men". "This is the way the world ends", T. S. Eliot tells us at the end of his 1925 poem, "The Hollow Men": "not with a bang but a whimper".
Public Domain (P)2021 Mike Vendetti
Eat and Run
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For nearly two decades, Scott Jurek has been a dominant force - and darling - in the grueling and growing sport of ultrarunning. In 1999, as a complete unknown, he took the lead of the Western States Endurance Run, a 100-mile traverse over the old Gold Rush trails of the California Sierra Nevada. He won that race seven years in a row, setting a course record along the way. Twice he won the Badwater Ultramarathon, a 135-mile “jaunt” through Death Valley. Recently he set an American record of 165.7 miles in 24 hours - six and a half marathons in one day. And he was one of the elite runners who traveled to Mexico to run with the Tarahumara Indians, as profiled in the bestseller Born to Run. His accomplishments are nothing short of extraordinary, but that he has achieved all of this on a plant-based diet makes his story all the more so. In Eat and Run, Scott Jurek opens up about his life and career - as an elite athlete and a vegan - and inspires runners at every level. From his Midwestern childhood hunting, fishing, and cooking for his meat-and-potatoes family, to his early beginnings in running (he hated it), to his slow transition to ultrarunning and veganism, to his world-spanning, record-breaking races, Scott’s story shows the power of an iron will and blows apart all the stereotypes of what athletes should eat to fuel optimal performance. Chock-full of incredible, on-the-brink stories of endurance and competition, fascinating science, and accessible practical advice - including his own favorite plant-based recipes - Eat and Run will motivate everyone to “go the distance”, whether that means getting out for that first run, expanding your food horizons, or simply exploring the limits of your own potential. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2012 Scott Jurek (P)2020 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Leopardi e la crisi del Romanticismo
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I podcast di BeReady Letteratura, a cura di Frame, sono pensati per gli studenti dell'ultimo anno delle superiori che possono utilizzarli per ripassare e fissare i concetti chiave della letteratura italiana in vista dell'interrogazione, di una verifica, dell'esame di Stato. La piacevolezza dell'ascolto li rende potenzialmente interessanti anche a un pubblico generico che abbia voglia di rispolverare conoscenze scolastiche assopite. 1 - Leopardi e la crisi del Romanticismo: La vita, le opere, le passioni e i tormenti di uno maggiori intellettuali dell'Ottocento italiano che è riuscito a fare della propria esperienza poetica un caso unico: il classicismo che permea la sua dimensione umana e culturale si intreccia con il vissuto personale e sboccia nel romaticismo della sua produzione poetica.
©2020 Audible Originals (P)2020 Audible Originals
The Anti-Anxiety Diet
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Eat meals that calm your thoughts and stop anxiety for good! Your diet plays a dynamic role on mood, emotions, and brain-signaling pathways. Since brain chemistry is complicated, The Anti-Anxiety Diet breaks down exactly what you need to know and how to achieve positive results. Integrative dietitian and food-as-medicine guru Ali Miller applies science-based functional medicine to create a system that addresses anxiety while applying a ketogenic low-carb approach. By adopting the anti-anxiety diet, you will reduce inflammation, repair gut integrity, and provide your body with necessary nutrients in abundance. This plan balances your hormones and stress chemicals to help you feel even-keeled and relaxed. The audiobook provides advanced lab and supplement recommendations to help you discover and address the root causes of your body’s imbalances. The Anti-Anxiety Diet’s healthy approach supports your brain signaling while satiating cravings. And it features 50 delicious recipes, including: Sweet potato avocado toast Zesty creamy carrot soup Chai panna cotta Matcha green smoothie Carnitas burrito bowl Curry roasted cauliflower Seaweed turkey roll-ups Greek deviled eggs Please note that this is audio only, and recipes will be read.
©2018 Ali Miller (P)2018 Audible, Inc.
Junie B. Jones Is a Party Animal
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A slumber party over at Lucille's richie nanna's big giant house is sure to be a dream come true for Junie B.! 'Cause what could possibly go wrong?
©1997 Barbara Park (P)2001 Random House Inc. Listening Library, an imprint of the Random House Audio Publishing Group
Gods and Androids
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Was Andas an android - or the rightful emperor, held prisoner on a distant planet while an android impersonated him on the empire's throne world? Was Tallhassee Mitford a modern archaeologist suffering from strange delusions, or has an ancient Egyptian ankh somehow hurled her personality far back in the mists of time to a Nubian kingdom where she is now a warrior princess named Ashake, caught up in a struggle between the gods of Egypt? Two very different heroes in the grip of forces beyond control, beyond comprehension, both destined to be the only hope of doomed civilizations....
©2004 Andre Norton; Wraiths of Time copyright 1976 by Andre Norton; Android at Arms copyright 1971 by Andre Norton (P)2021 Tantor
Esther
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A 10-week study for women The book of Esther reads much like a fairy tale: a young Jewish queen, her wise older cousin, an evil royal servant, and a self-centered king. But Esther is no fairy tale. From the beginning of the book to the end, God is the main character of the story - even though he's never mentioned. Join Lydia Brownback as she digs deeper into the book of Esther and learn how God is faithful to keep his promises and deliver his people. This story ultimately points to the gospel, revealing the need for a better deliverer, a better king, and a better kingdom than any found in this world. The Flourish Bible Study series equips women to study the overarching storyline of the Bible book by book. Designed for individual or group use, each 10-week workbook features conversational teaching that aims to make in-depth Bible study accessible to women in all seasons of life.
©2020 Lydia Brownback (P)2021 eChristian
The Cock Is the Culprit
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‘The butterfly effect of the crowing of a rooster in the wrong place at the wrong time unleashes chaotic winds of change in a village. In this stunning tale, Unni R. holds up a mirror to Kerala society, with all its foibles and deceptions, and its recently acquired appetite for top-down bigotry. Masterly storytelling laced with wit and humaneness.’ (N.S. Madhavan) In a small village in Kerala, people begin to feel threatened by an invisible rooster that crows at odd hours. It is heard interrupting the morning and night prayers at the temple, the mass at the church, the azaan at the mosque and the martyrs’ day ceremony. When it hoots in the middle of the national anthem being sung at the local school, it is instantly labelled as a threat to national security. It offends the sentiments of all those who are religious, political, patriarchal, exploitative, fanatical and homophobic. Naturally, there are many baying for its blood. The witch-hunt that ensues fuels suspicions that the invisible cock might even be a human; an anarchist who is trying to destabilize the nation with help from outside. Incisive and hilarious by turns, The Cock Is the Culprit does an astute job of exposing the dark underbelly of Kerala society.
©2019 Unni R.; Translation copyright 2020 J. Devika (P)2021 Audible, Inc.
Novelle fatte a macchina
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E se gli extraterrestri atterrassero a Pisa per rubare la Torre pendente? E come fa Grillo, il postino di Civitavecchia, a portare tranquillamente una botte di vino sul suo dito pollice? E chi vincerà il duello sui monti della Tolfa: il solitario cowboy armato solo di un pianoforte o lo sceriffo? Scritte con fantasia e leggerezza, le novelle con i loro personaggi strampalati pongono interrogativi che ci spiazzano e, insieme, fanno riflettere.
©2018 Eredi di Gianni Rodari. Edizione audio pubblicata in accordo con Piergiorgio Nicolazzini Literary Agency (PNLA) (P)2018 Emons Italia S.r.l.
The Last Great Mountain
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The Last Great Mountain tells the story of the first ascent of Kangchenjunga the third highest but reputedly the hardest mountain in the world. It was an astonishing achievement for a British team led by Everest veteran Charles Evans. Drawing on interviews, diaries and unpublished accounts, Mick Conefrey begins his story in 1905 with the disastrous first attempt on the mountain by a team led by Aleister Crowley, explores the three dramatic German expeditions of the the late 1920s and brings it all to a climax 50 years later with the first ascent by Joe Brown and George Band. The Last Great Mountain is the final instalment of Mick Conefrey's acclaimed high-altitude trilogy.
©2020 Mick Conefrey (P)2021 Audible, Ltd