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ID: 119321

Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin

Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Narrator: Richard Allen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 20:12:00

Language: English

Release date: 12-15-08

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Classics, Sagas

Summary:

Uncle Tom's Cabin opens with a Kentucky farmer named Arthur Shelby facing the loss of his farm because of debts. Even though he and his wife, Emily Shelby, believe that they have a benevolent relationship with their slaves, Shelby decides to raise the needed funds by selling two of them-Uncle Tom, a middle-aged man with a wife and children, and Harry, the son of Emily Shelby's maid Eliza-to a slave trader. Emily Shelby hates the idea of doing this because she had promised her maid that her child would never be sold; Emily's son, George Shelby, hates to see Tom go because he sees the old man as his friend and mentor.

When Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in 1852, it became an international blockbuster, selling more than 300,000 copies in the United States alone in its first year. Progressive for her time, Harriet Beecher Stowe was one of the earliest writers to offer a shockingly realistic depiction of slavery. Her stirring indictment and portrait of human dignity in the most inhumane circumstances enlightened hundreds of thousands of people by revealing the human costs of slavery, which had until then been cloaked and justified by the racist misperceptions of the time.

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ID: 118043

Title: Pollyanna

Author: Eleanor H. Porter

Narrator: Rebecca Burns

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 12-15-08

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Kids, Health & Family, Classics

Summary:

When Pollyanna Whittier goes to live with her sour-tempered aunt after her father's death, things seem bad enough. But then a dreadful accident ensues. However, Pollyanna's sunny nature and good humor prove to have an astonishing effect on all around her, and this wonderful tale of how cheerfulness can conquer adversity has remained one of the world's most popular children's books since its first publication in 1913.

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ID: 294055

Title: Sunshine

Author: Robin McKinley

Narrator: Laural Merlington

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:23:00

Language: English

Release date: 12-08-08

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror

Summary:

There are places in the world where darkness rules, where it's unwise to walk. Sunshine knew that. But there hadn't been any trouble out at the lake for years, and she needed a place to be alone for a while.

Unfortunately, she wasn't alone. She never heard them coming. Of course you don't, when they're vampires.

They took her clothes and sneakers. They dressed her in a long red gown. And they shackled her to the wall of an abandoned mansion-within easy reach of a figure stirring in the moonlight.

She knows that he is a vampire. She knows that she's to be his dinner and that when he is finished with her, she will be dead. Yet, as dawn breaks, she finds that he has not attempted to harm her. And now it is he who needs her to help him survive the day.

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ID: 118468

Title: Dracula

Author: Bram Stoker

Narrator: John Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 12-08-08

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Literary Fiction, Classics

Summary:

First published in 1897, Dracula by Bram Stoker has become the standard against which all other vampire stories are compared and the inspiration for countless film and stage adaptations. Indeed, the name 'Dracula' has been synonymous with the undead for at least a century, and the original novel still has the power to chill.

Come then to Castle Dracula, hidden in the forbidding peaks of the Carpathian Mountains, where an undying creature of evil casts his sights on unsuspecting England. Voyage on the doomed ship Demeter as it carries a monster out of ancient superstition in search of new life and new blood. Tremble as first one woman, then another succumbs to the unholy thirst of the nosferatu, and as a small band of men and women, horrified by the supernatural forces arrayed against them, risk their lives and their very souls to oppose the evil known only as...Dracula.

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ID: 119234

Title: Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements: The Search for the Company with a Durable Competitive Advantage

Author: David Clark, Mary Buffett

Narrator: Karen White

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 12-08-08

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Business & Economics, Personal Finance

Summary:

Mary Buffett and David Clark clearly outline Warren Buffett's strategies in a way that will appeal to newcomers and seasoned Buffettologists alike. Inspired by the seminal work of Buffett's mentor, Benjamin Graham (The Interpretation of Financial Statements, 1937), this book presents Buffett's interpretation of financial statements with anecdotes and quotes from the master investor himself.

Potential investors will discover:

-Buffett's time-tested dos and don'ts for interpreting an income statement and balance sheet

-Why high research and development costs can kill a great business

-How much debt Buffett thinks a company can carry before it becomes too dangerous to touch

-The financial ratios and calculations that Buffett uses to identify the company with a durable competitive advantage-which he believes makes for the winning long-term investment

-How Buffett uses financial statements to value a company

-What kinds of companies Warren stays away from no matter how cheap their selling price

Once audiences complete and master Buffett's simple financial calculations and methods for interpreting a company's financial statement, they will be well on their way to identifying which companies are going to be tomorrow's winners-and which will be the losers that should be avoided at all costs.

Destined to become a classic in the world of investment books, Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements is the perfect companion volume to The New Buffettology and The Tao of Warren Buffett.

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ID: 119218

Title: Sashenka: A Novel

Author: Simon Montefiore

Narrator: Anne Flosnik

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19:29:00

Language: English

Release date: 12-08-08

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

Winter, 1917: In St. Petersburg snow is falling, and Russia is on the brink of revolution. Outside the Smolny Institute for Noble Young Ladies, an English governess is waiting for her young charge to be released from school. But so are the Tsar's secret police.

Beautiful and headstrong, Sashenka Zeitlin is just eighteen years old. In the evenings, when her banker father is doing deals and her mother is partying with Rasputin and her dissolute friends, Sashenka becomes Comrade Snowfox and slips into the frozen night to play her part in a game of conspiracy and seduction that will usher in a brave new Communist world.

Twenty years on, and Sashenka is married to a high-up apparatchik in Stalin's government. She seems to have everything-yet all around her, her friends are being arrested and people are disappearing. Then Stalin himself comes for dinner, and Sashenka falls passionately in love, thereby setting in motion a terrifying sequence of events that will result in her having to make the most agonizing choice of all: whether to sacrifice her own life or that of those she loves most dearly.

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ID: 118484

Title: Valor's Choice

Author: Tanya Huff

Narrator: Marguerite Gavin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 12-08-08

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, War & Military, Space Opera

Summary:

Staff Sergeant Tobin Kerr was a battle-hardened professional. So when she and those in her platoon who had survived the last deadly encounter with the Others were yanked from a well-deserved leave for what was supposed to be 'easy' duty as the honor guard for a diplomatic mission to the non-Confederation world of the Silsviss, she was ready for anything.

At first, it seemed that all she'd have to contend with was bored troops getting into mischief and breaking in the new second lieutenant who had been given command of her men

Sure, there had been rumors of the Others-the sworn enemies of the Confederation-being spotted in this sector of space. But there were always rumors. The key thing was to recruit the Silsviss into the Confederation before the Others either attacked or claimed this lizardlike race of warriors for their own side. And everything seemed to be going perfectly. Maybe too perfectly.

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ID: 119222

Title: Washington Square

Author: Henry James

Narrator: Lorna Raver

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 12-08-08

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Classics

Summary:

Washington Square is the story of Catherine Sloper, a young heiress who is wooed by Morris Townsend, a handsome gentleman who is more interested in Catherine's inheritance than he is in her. When the two get engaged against the wishes of her stubborn father, Catherine must make a choice between the only man she will ever love and the wealth that she will inherit.

Named for the upscale area of New York in which the novel is set, Washington Square is a classic examination of social class in mid-nineteenth-century New York.

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ID: 118459

Title: Kushiel's Scion

Author: Jacqueline Carey

Narrator: Simon Vance

Format: Unabridged

Length: 28:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 12-08-08

Publisher: Tantor Media

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Epic Fantasy

Summary:

Content Notice: This title may contain mature themes and adult content.

Imriel de la Courcel's birth parents are history's most reviled traitors, but his adoptive parents, the Comtesse Phèdre and the warrior-priest Joscelin, are Terre d'Ange's greatest champions.

Stolen, tortured, and enslaved as a young boy, Imriel is now a Prince of the Blood; third in line for the throne in a land that revels in art, beauty and desire. It is a court steeped in deeply laid conspiracies-and there are many who would see the young prince dead. Some despise him out of hatred for his mother, Melisande, who nearly destroyed the entire realm in her quest for power. Others because they fear he has inherited his mother's irresistible allure-and her dangerous gifts.

As he comes of age, plagued by unwanted desires, Imriel shares their fears. When a simple act of friendship traps Imriel in a besieged city where the infamous Melisande is worshiped as a goddess and where a dead man leads an army, the prince must face his greatest test: to find his true self.

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ID: 54236

Title: I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue: Humph in Wonderland

Author: Graeme Garden, Iain Pattinson

Narrator: Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Humphrey Lyttelton, Sandi Toksvig, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Tony Hawks, Various

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:06:20

Language: English

Release date: 12-01-08

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: General Comedy

Summary:

Humph in Wonderland stars chairman Humphrey Lyttelton in the title role, with Tony Hawks as the Narrator, Sandi Toksvig as the Queen of Hearts, Tim Brooke-Taylor as the Duchess, Graeme Garden as the Cook and Barry Cryer as Humpty Dumpty. Andy Hamilton also features as the Caterpillar, with Rob Brydon as the Mad Hatter, Jeremy Hardy as the March Hare, Jack Dee as the Cheshire Cat and Colin Sell as the White Rabbit. Among the fun and games are: 'Mornington Crescent', 'Swanee Kazoo', 'Cheddar Gorge', new definitions for the 'Uxbridge English Dictionary', as well as 'Recipes for Nigella Lawsons Saucy Mouthfuls' (she makes a great sticky tart). Including 20 minutes of bonus material not heard on transmission, this thoroughly daft take on Lewis Carroll is also a fitting tribute to the late, and much-missed, Humphrey Lyttelton.

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