Spanish Short Stories for Beginners
Author International Language School
Narrator Eleonora Venti
Duration 3h 9m
Improve your reading, pronunciation, and overall skills in Spanish. Make learning new vocabulary and improving your pronunciation much easier with 10-plus fun and motivating Spanish stories. Learning Spanish with this book is the most rewarding and effective way to learn this magnificent language. The vocabulary that you already know is refreshed,...
View BookAuthor Christopher Lloyd
Narrator Christopher Lloyd
Duration 6h 31m
Buckle up for an extraordinary ride through the 14-billion year history of absolutely everything! Written and narrated by best-selling world history author Christopher Lloyd, this remarkable story (which is far more amazing than anything you can make up) sweeps through natural history with the creation of planet Earth, the beginning of life, the ag...
View BookAuthor Shabazz Larkin
Narrator Various
Duration 11m
An exploration of the importance of bees in our world is offered through the author's lyrical observations to his young sons, often with analogies between the insects and children, and always beautifully presented with unconditional love for them both.
View BookThomas Kydd Book 8: The Admiral's Daughter
Author Julian Stockwin
Narrator Christian Rodska
SeriesThomas Kydd, Book 8
Duration 11h 11m
1803. Tensions are escalating again between England and France. Smugglers, perilous storms and a treacherous coastline all threaten to overcome HMS Teazer as her men fight to gain control of the seas. Meanwhile an unlikely rival is seeking her captain's heart. The beautiful admiral's daughter could be the key to realising all Kydd's career ambition...
View BookCaptain Underpants Book 1: The Adventures of Captain Underpants
Author Dav Pikey
Narrator Various
SeriesCaptain Underpants, Book 1
Duration 1h
The first book in Dav Pilkey's mega-bestselling Captain Underpants series, now available in Sound-O-Rama! Fourth graders George Beard and Harold Hutchins are a couple of class clowns. The only thing they enjoy more than playing practical jokes is creating their own comic books. And together they've created the greatest superhero in the history of...
View BookAuthor Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner
Narrator Ali Stroker
Duration 6h 38m
One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human.A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn’t built for all of us and of one woman’s activism—from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to insid...
View BookAuthor John Ryan
Narrator Jim Broadbent
Duration 14m
There's nothing more likely to prompt our hero into action than the prospect of treasure. So when the valiant cabin boy Tom sees a mound of yellow stuff aboard a nearby ship, the Captain sets off in hot pursuit. Unfortunately, his villainous arch-enemy, the horrible Cut-throat Jake, is not far away. Will the Captain be trapped by Jake's dastardly p...
View BookCaptain Underpants Book 2: Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets
Author Dav Pikey
Narrator Various
SeriesCaptain Underpants, Book 2
Duration 1h
The second book in Dav Pilkey's mega-bestselling Captain Underpants series, now available in Sound-O-Rama! George and Harold are usually responsible kids—whenever anything bad happens, George and Harold are usually responsible! This time, their latest prank backfires, and they accidentally invent an army of terrifying talking toilets. Luckily...
View BookAuthor Dav Pikey
Narrator Various
SeriesCaptain Underpants, Book 3
Duration 55m
The third book in Dav Pilkey's mega-bestselling Captain Underpants series, now available in Sound-O-Rama! George and Harold have played a trick or two on nearly everyone at Jerome Horwitz Elementary. When their latest prank causes the school's cranky cafeteria ladies to quit, Mr. Krupp hires a trio of unusual replacements—who happen to look...
View BookAuthor Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Narrator The Author
Duration 8h 8m
In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all. Car...
View BookAuthor E.B. White
Narrator Various
Duration 4h 2m
Brought to life by Meryl Streep and a full cast, this beloved book by E. B. White, author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children's literature that is "just about perfect."Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These are the words in Charlotte's Web, high up in Zuckerman's barn. Charlotte's spider web tells of...
View BookAuthor Ian Fleming
Narrator David Tennant
Duration 2h 13m
'Crackpot' is what everybody calls the Pott family. So when they go to buy a new car and come back with a wreck, nobody is surprised... except for the Potts themselves. First, the car has a name... Then they find out that she can fly and swim! Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a car on a mission to stop a criminal gang in its tracks — and she is tak...
View BookAuthor Esmé Weijun Wang
Narrator The Author
Duration 7h 51m
Brought to you by Penguin. 'I've inherited a love of a writing and a talent for the visual arts from my mother, as well as her long and tapered fingers; I've also inherited a tendency for madness' Esmé Weijun Wang was officially diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder in 2013, although the hallucinations and psychotic episodes had started ye...
View BookAuthor Frances Ryan
Narrator Georgie Morrell
Duration 7h 5m
Crippled is a damning indictment of a safety net gone wrong, and a passionate demand for an end to austerity measures hitting those most in need. In austerity Britain, disabled people have become the favourite target. From social care to the benefits system, politicians and media alike have made the case that Britain's 12 million disabled people ar...
View BookAuthor Alice Wong
Narrator Alejandra Ospina, The Author
Duration 8h 1m
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of conte...
View BookAuthor David Baddiel
Narrator Various
Duration 3h 59m
From million-copy bestselling author David Baddiel comes a laugh-out-loud and inspiring new adventure for all listeners of 8 and up that is ahead of its time – 1,001 years ahead, to be precise... The year is 3020. Pip@256X#YY.3_7 is lonely and bored: she goes to virtual school on her G-Glasses, she only has a talking cat and parrot to hang ou...
View BookAuthor Thomas Taylor
Narrator Alfie Allan
Duration 5h 12m
Nobody visits Eerie-on-Sea in the winter. Especially not when darkness falls and the wind howls around Maw Rocks and the wreck of the battleship Leviathan, where even now some swear they have seen the unctuous Malamander creep... Herbert Lemon, Lost-and-Founder at the Grand Nautilus Hotel, knows that returning lost things to their rightful owne...
View BookSinclair Mysteries Book 4: The Midnight Peacock
Author Katherine Woodfine
Narrator Jessica Preddy
SeriesSinclair Mysteries, Book 4
Duration 7h 43m
You are cordially invited to Sinclair's Midnight Peacock Ball! The festive season has come to Sinclair's and Sophie and Lil are spending the holidays at snowy Winter Hall. But it turns out that this is no ordinary house party . . . As sinister secrets come to light, our intrepid heroines find themselves faced with a more baffling mystery than ever...
View BookAuthor David Mccullough
Narrator Nelson Runger
Duration 19h 24m
This National Book Award winner by Pulitzer Prize winner David McCullough shows how sickly "Teedie" becomes the robust, energetic Teddy Roosevelt. Born in 1858, Teddy finds his priviledged Manhattan family isn't immune to pain and sorrow. Potts disease disables his older sister, and epilepsy haunts his brother. Crippled by deadly asthma, Teddy soon...
View BookSinclair Mysteries Book 2: The Mystery of the Jewelled Moth
Author Katherine Woodfine
Narrator Jessica Preddy
SeriesSinclair Mysteries, Book 2
Duration 7h 59m
Wonder at the puzzling disappearance of the Jewelled Moth! Marvel as our heroines, Sophie and Lil, don cunning disguises, mingle in high society and munch many cucumber sandwiches to solve this curious case! Applaud their bravery as they follow a trail of terrible secrets that leads straight to London's most dangerous criminal mastermind, and could...
View BookAuthor Bobby Duffy
Narrator Mark Topping
Duration 6h 56m
Do you eat too much sugar? What proportion of your country are immigrants? What does it cost to raise a child? How much tax do the rich pay? Are we more ignorant than we used to be? Take a minute to answer these questions. No matter how educated you are, this book suggests you are likely to be very wrong indeed. Informed by exclusive research a...
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