Artists In Their World: Claude Monet
Author: Susie Hodge
Format: MP3 CD
Author Susie Hodge
Narrator Nicola Goodchild
Duration 1h 18m
Claude Monet was one of the greatest artists of his time. His paintings have changed the way people view the world and his style is famous around the world. Discover more about his life and work in this audio book.
View BookAuthor: Mary Norton
Format: MP3 CD
Author Mary Norton
Narrator Rowena Cooper
SeriesThe Borrowers Afloat, Book 3
Duration 4h 45m
The Borrowers are homeless again. The gamekeeper's cottage, their latest refuge, is being closed up. Luckily their friend Spiller comes to the rescue and introduces them to a new home by the river, in a kettle! Once more the Borrowers find themselves in the middle of a huge adventure.
View BookAuthor: John Finnemore
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Author John Finnemore
Narrator Various
Duration 27m
In this Christmas special 'Molokai'-It's Christmas morning, but when Carolyn schedules an extra stop-off to the Hawaiian island of Molokai, Arthur has just seven minutes to celebrate Christmas. Stephanie Cole, Benedict Cumberbatch & Roger Allam star in the second series of the hit sitcom about the tiny charter airline for whom no job is too sma...
View BookAuthor: Eoin Mcnamee
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Author Eoin Mcnamee
Narrator Various
Duration 43m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation written by Eoin McNamee, originally broadcast as the Afternoon Play on 23 March 2009. A truck driver in Ireland gives a lift to a female Asian hitchhiker but gets more than he bargained for, especially when his truck is stopped by immigration officers and he and his illegal occupant are taken in for questioning...
View BookAgatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener; Agatha Raisin Series, Book 3
Author: M. C. Beaton
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Author M. C. Beaton
Narrator Penelope Keith
SeriesAgatha Raisin Mystery, Book 3
Duration 4h 44m
A newcomer to the village, Mary Fortune, is discovered murdered. Agatha seizes the moment and immediately starts yanking up village secrets by their roots and digging the dirt on the victim. But the problem is, Agatha has an awkward secret of her own.
View BookAuthor: Roddy Doyle
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Author Roddy Doyle
Narrator Owen Clinton
Duration 9h 14m
In Roddy Doyle's Booker Prize-winning novel, an Irish lad named Paddy rampages through the streets of Barrytown with a pack of like-minded hooligans, playing cowboys and Indians, etching their names in wet concrete and setting fires. Paddy Clarke and his friends are not bad boys, they're just a little bit restless. They're always taking sides, bull...
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
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Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 37m
In this BBC full-cast production, King Lear tests his three daughters' love, to disastrous consequences.Some of the most stirring scenes Shakespeare ever wrote resonate powerfully in this dramatic radio production. Tortured madness, pure evil, and the fatal struggle for power grip the listener until the final, shockingly tragic conclusion.Starring&...
View BookAntarctica: Exploring A Fragile Eden
Author: Jonathan & Angela Scott
Format: MP3 CD
Author Jonathan & Angela Scott
Narrator Sarah Sherborne
Duration 8h 35m
Here Jonathan and Angela Scott tell the story of their modern day adventure to this extreme continent, a journey through the magnificent icy landscape, to explore the wildlife of this rare sanctuary, and reflect on the experiences of early explorers, and the relationship between man and wildlife in this remote spectacular environment.
View BookAuthor: Sylvia Green
Format: MP3 CD
Author Sylvia Green
Narrator Alison Reid
Duration 1h 25m
There are lots of birds living by the lake in Poppy's garden but Archie, a chick hatched by a mallard duck, can't find anyone who looks like him. Poppy feels sorry for the little chick, especially as she doesn't like her new life in the country - she can imagine how lonely Archie feels. And yet when disaster strikes the lake, it's Archie who comes...
View BookArtemis Fowl Series Book 5: Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony
Author: Eoin Colfer
Format: MP3 CD
Author Eoin Colfer
Narrator Nathaniel Parker
SeriesArtemis Fowl, Book 5
Duration 8h 24m
Ten millennia ago, the fairy people were defeated in a great battle with mankind, forcing them to move underground. Only the 8th family of fairies remained undefeated: the demons. But now one demon has discovered the secrets of the fairy world, and if humans get hold of this information, the fairies are in big trouble. Only one person can prevent t...
View BookNuclear Power (energy Forever?)
Author: Ian Graham
Format: MP3 CD
Author Ian Graham
Narrator Chris Johnston
Duration 57m
A comprehensive look at how we utilize nuclear power to produce one-fifth of the world's electricity. This book concentrates on nuclear power and how the atomic energy is turned into electricity, how nuclear radiation can affect humans, how nuclear waste is stored and how power can be created from heavy water.
View BookAuthor: Jen Petro-Roy
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Author Jen Petro-Roy
Narrator Suzie Althens
Duration 6h 2m
This nonfiction self-help book for young listeners with disordered eating and body-image problems delivers real talk about eating disorders and body image, tools and information for recovery, and suggestions for dealing with the media messages that contribute so much to disordered eating. You Are Enough answers questions like these: What are eating...
View BookFirebird Trilogy Series Book 3: A Million Worlds With You
Author: Claudia Gray
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Author Claudia Gray
Narrator Tavia Gilbert
SeriesFirebird Trilogy, Book 3
Duration 11h 13m
The fate of the multiverse rests in Marguerite's hands in the final installment of the Firebird trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray. Ever since she used the Firebird, her parent's invention, to cross through alternate dimensions, Marguerite has been at the center of a cross-dimensional feud. Now she has learned that the evil T...
View BookAuthor: Tess Stimson
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Author Tess Stimson
Narrator Penelope Rawlins
Duration 9h 21m
Harriet Lockwood has never really bonded with her daughter the way she has with her three sons. Then one day, she discovers why. The girl she's raised for the last fifteen years is not her biological child. As a consequence, two families are plunged into a storm of bitter rivalries and unexpected alliances.
View BookAurora Teagarden Mysteries Book 6: A Fool and His Honey
Author: Charlaine Harris
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Author Charlaine Harris
Narrator Therese Plummer
SeriesAurora Teagarden, Book 6
Duration 6h 12m
Best-seller number five from Charlaine Harris' beloved Aurora Teagarden series places the amateur sleuth directly in harm's way. Detective Sergeant Jack Burns and Aurora never got along, and now Jack's dead body has been dropped from a plane directly into Aurora's back yard. Murder is personal this time for Aurora-but has she received a message, or...
View BookAuthor: David Alric
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Author David Alric
Narrator Bronwen Price
Duration 9h 23m
Lucy, a schoolgirl of 11, finds that the animals of the world have been expecting her for more than a million years. She is The Promised One - the only person on earth with her awesome and extraordinary powers of communication with animals - and her destiny is to save the planet. Her adventures take her to the heart of the greatest jungle on earth,...
View BookAuthor: Nicholas Searle
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Author Nicholas Searle
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 11h 15m
This is a life told back to front. This is a man who has lied all his life. Roy is a conman living in a small English town, about to pull off his final con. He is going to meet and woo a beautiful woman and slip away with her life savings. But who is the man behind the con and what has he had to do to survive this life of lies? And why is this beau...
View BookInventors and Their Bright Ideas
Author: Mike Goldsmith
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Author Mike Goldsmith
Narrator Richard K. Hodson
Duration 3h
You've probably heard of a few inventors and their bright ideas...* Alexander Graham Bell and his telephone * George Stevenson and his Rocket (which was really a train) * John Logie Baird and hi television. But have you heard that... * Bell didn't invent th phone, but he did make a weird machine out of hay and a human ear * Stevenson didn't invent...
View BookAuthor: Alexandre Dumas
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Author Alexandre Dumas
Narrator Peter Joyce
Duration 8h 57m
When tulip-grower Cornelius van Baerle is framed for treason and sentenced to death, he is powerless against the brutal factional politics that put him in prison. But Rosa, the jailer's daughter, is beautiful and strong-willed, and when they fall in love she determines not only to save him but also to grow the near mythical flower: the black tulip....
View BookAuthor: Anthony Horowitz
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Author Anthony Horowitz
Narrator Derek Jacobi, Julian Rhind-Tutt
Duration 10h 46m
Sherlock Holmes is dead.Days after Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. The death of Moriarty has created a poisonous vacuum which has been swiftly filled by a fiendish new criminal mastermind who has risen to take his place. Ably assisted by...
View BookAuthor: Nicholas Sparks
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Author Nicholas Sparks
Narrator
Duration 13h 10m
Ira Levinson is in trouble. At ninety-one years old, in poor health and alone in the world, he finds himself stranded on an isolated embankment after a car crash. Suffering multiple injuries, he struggles to retain consciousness until a blurry image materializes and comes into focus beside him: his beloved wife Ruth, who passed away nine years ago....
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