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Games at Twilight and Other Stories
Author: Anita Desai
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Author Anita Desai
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 4h 45m
A collection of stories peopled with intensely individual characters. Meet the man spiritually transformed by the surface texture of melon; the American wife who, homesick for the farmlands of Vermont, turns to the hippies in the Indian hills; and the painter living in a slum who fills his canvasses with flowers, birds and landscapes he has never s...
View BookWould You Believe... the Losers Were Killed In Mayan Football?! and Other Perilous Pastimes
Author: Richard Platt
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Author Richard Platt
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 1h 6m
This audiobook looks at the outlandish history of sport and leisure around the world. Discover the story behind the games we play like never before as we examine the amazing peculiarities of international sport and leisure activities past and present. Learn about the wacky and often bloodthirsty games that our ancestors liked such as fierce gladiat...
View BookAuthor: Alex Woolf
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Author Alex Woolf
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 1h 35m
How and what you buy in shops has repercussions that impact on people worldwide. This audiobook examines the fundamental questions surrounding the issue of consumerism today. What is consumerism? When did consumerism begin? Why do businesses advertise? And are children affected by consumerism?
View BookAuthor: Verna Wilkins
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Author Verna Wilkins
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 42m
Stephen Lawrence was a bright, athletic young man with high hopes for the future. He lived in South East London with both of his parents, one younger brother and sister. On April 22nd 1993 he was brutally murdered while waiting for the bus. He was 18 years old. This is the story of his life.
View BookTwentieth Century History Makers: Winston Churchill
Author: Simon Adams
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Author Simon Adams
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 2h 26m
Churchill is considered by many to be one of the greatest world leaders. But how did he make the transition from young army officer to political statesman? Find out all about his life in this clear and informative guide.
View BookAuthor: Janine Burke
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Author Janine Burke
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 36m
Everything is fine at Claudine's house until La Petite arrives and strange things start happening. Before Claudine knows what has hit her, her mother is rushed to hospital and her baby sister is in danger. But La Petite is only a doll.isn't she? Part of the Franklin Watts `After Dark' series for reluctant readers.
View BookAuthor: Anita Jackson
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Author Anita Jackson
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 55m
Helen felt as if she'd come home when she saw Bennet Manor, little did she know that terrible danger lay ahead. In a house that seems to be stuck in the past, who will keep her safe?
View BookAuthor: Jim Alderson
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Author Jim Alderson
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 40m
On 24 December 1971, at 9000 feet above the Amazon Jungle, a plane blew up. Only one person - Juliane Koepcke - survived. This is the amazing story of her miraculous survival.
View BookAuthor: Jonathan Harlen
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Author Jonathan Harlen
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 42m
Nobody believes that the old man in the petshop has bitten Will Noonan after all the bite marks have mysteriously disappeared. Too much sun, the Doctor says, but Will knows different. He knows he's carrying something fatal...fatal for everybody. Part of the 'After Dark' series from Franklin Watts.
View BookAuthor: Linda Melvern
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Author Linda Melvern
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 45m
This audiobook describes the ways in which the UN helps to bring peace and resolve conflict around the world. It is part of the 'World Organisations' series from Franklin Watts.
View BookAuthor: Gillian Clarke
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Author Gillian Clarke
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 3h
A beautiful collection of poems by Gillian Clarke.
View BookGCSE History: The American West & Medicine Through Time - the Revision Guide
Author: CGP Publications
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Author CGP Publications
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 4h 37m
This audiobook covers the AQA A, OCR A and Edexcel C courses for the American West and Medicine Through Time. Each module has its own section including all the facts, and plenty of hints and tips to help students stay one step ahead of the examiners! GCSE history courses are changing in 2010 - so this book's ideal for students taking their exams in...
View BookCan Science Solve? the Mystery of Vampires and Werewolves
Author: Chris Oxlade
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Author Chris Oxlade
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 34m
The mystery of vampires and werewolves has puzzled people for hundreds of years. Do some people really transform into blood-hunting creatures at night? If so, what sort of creatures are they? Can Science Solve? explores some of the world's most baffling mysteries. Can we get to the bottom of them using science and logic, or will they continue to my...
View BookAuthor: Terry Deary
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Author Terry Deary
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 1h 36m
It's history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: Why the Aztecs liked to eat scum? When the world is going to end? How to play a really violent ball game? Discover all the foul facts about the Angry Aztecs - all the gore and more!
View BookWhat's Your View? the Impact of Big Business
Author: Melanie Jarman
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Author Melanie Jarman
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 1h 22m
Topics in this audiobook include: are oil companies too powerful? do supermarkets offer choice and value? does the arms trade have benefits for anyone? and should big businesses be allowed into schools?
View BookAuthor: William Trevor
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Author William Trevor
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 8h 27m
'You're beautiful', Johnny told her, and so, full of hope, seventeen-year-old Felicia crosses the Irish Sea to England to find her lover and tell him she is pregnant. Desperately searching for Johnny in the bleak post-industrial Midlands, she is, instead, found by Mr Hilditch, a strange and lonely man, a collector and befriender of homeless young g...
View BookScience World: Energy and Heat
Author: Kathryn Whyman
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Author Kathryn Whyman
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 25m
Energy and heat work together. Heat is a way of moving energy from one place to another. This audiobook looks at the scientific priciples of energy - how it changes and how it is stored, how heat travels quickly through conductors but slowly through insulators, and the way in which burning transfers energy as heat.
View BookAuthor: Catherine Chambers
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Author Catherine Chambers
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 46m
A look at the history of the large-scale movement of peoples from Africa to all parts of the globe. This series discusses the creation of the rich cultural and racial mix of our modern world.
View BookHorrible Histories: The Smashing Saxons
Author: Terry Deary
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Author Terry Deary
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 1h 32m
Readers can discover all the foul facts about the Smashing Saxons, including who got cow pats as Christmas presents, why wearing a pig on your head is lucky and how to make a dead Saxon happy.
View BookThe Commonwealth: A Family of Nations
Author: Liz Paren, Caroline Coxon, Cheryl Dorall
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Author Liz Paren, Caroline Coxon, Cheryl Dorall
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 4h 14m
This audiobook explains how the the commonwealth came into being, how it developed into what it is today, why it matters, what it does for ordinary people and especially its relationship with young people. It's an invaluable resource for citizenship.
View BookGreat Events: The Battle of Hastings
Author: Gillian Clements
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Author Gillian Clements
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 21m
The Battle of Hastings retells the defeat of Harold in 1066 and the start of the Norman conquest. Each book in the 'Great Events' series has been thoroughly checked by a history educationalist for accuracy, language levels and appropriate content, and a timeline and glossary are included. These simple, gently-humorous stories give readers the infor...
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