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ID: 427776

Title: Shuttle

Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett

Narrator: Tabi That

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19:45:52

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

Smart and intuitive, Bettina is not fooled by Sir Nigel, the English aristocrat, who has come to New York to marry her sweet and naïve older sister Rosalie. And rightly so: Sir Nigel is cruel and selfish and only marries Rosalie for her money. But still a child, there is nothing much Bettina can do about it. When years have passed and the family has lost all contact with Rosalie, however, Bettina decides to sail across the Atlantic and save her sister. With `The Shuttle (1907), Author Frances Hodgson Burnett created one of those heroines whose presence it is immensely satisfying to be in. Betty is initiative and strong, and she refuses to be bullied by manipulative men. It is hard not to fall in love with her. Despite its dark plot, `The Shuttle is ultimately a romantic and uplifting story with lots of delicious drama.

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Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) was born in Manchester, England, but emigrated to the United States after her fathers death. She wrote stories for magazines to help her family financially, and would later write plays and novels. Her most famous works are `A Little Princess (1905) and `The Secret Garden (1911).

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ID: 427708

Title: Puck of Pook's Hill

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Narrator: Chris Booth

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:55:07

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

In this classic, the titular 'Puck of Pook's Hill' magically plucks stories out of history, to the amusement of two children. Vikings, knights, roman soldiers and seafarers turn up in this series of fantasy short stories, set in many different periods in history.

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Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English author, journalist, poet, and novelist. His most famous work is 'The Jungle Book' (1894), inspiring two Disney adaptations; the 1967 animated feature and the 2016 live-action film starring Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray, and Lupita Nyongo. In 1941, he became the first English-language writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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ID: 427731

Title: Millionaire Baby

Author: Anna Katharine Green

Narrator: Dawn Larsen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:27:41

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

Five thousand dollars is offered in reward to whomever finds the six-year-old heiress, Gwendolen Ocumpaugh, who has disappeared mysteriously from her home. Mr. Trevitt, a private detective, is on the case and when he discovers two lost shoes in the surrounding are both for the same foot! he suspects a conspiracy is at play. The Millionaire Baby (1905) is a story by American crime writer Anna Katharine Green; a delightful mystery with fascinating characters and twist after twist after twist.

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Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935) was an American poet and novelist. She is best known for her novel The Leavenworth Case (1878) with which she became one of the first American writers of detective fiction. Agatha Christie cited Green as an influence on her own writing.

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ID: 427667

Title: Fifty Famous Stories Retold

Author: James Baldwin

Narrator: Laura Caldwell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:16:28

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

Dive into history with this classic collection of fascinating stories, retold by the master childrens author James Baldwin at the turn of the century. Meet Alexander the Great and his horse Bucephalus, King Canute, Julius Caesar, Robin Hood, and many more famous kings and heroes. Exciting, fun, and educational, 'Fifty Famous Stories Retold' tells the most thrilling and legendary tales from history and myth.

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James Baldwin (1841-1925) was an American author of childrens books and textbook editor. His most famous most works include 'Fifty Famous Stories Retold' (1896) and 'Abraham Lincoln, a True Life' (1904).

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ID: 427762

Title: Typee

Author: Herman Melville

Narrator: Michael Scherer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:35:49

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

The young adventurous sailors, Tommo and Toby, abandon ship and flee into the jungle of an island in French Polynesia. But their feelings of victory will be short-lived. Because they are about to run straight into the hands of the Typee, the most feared of the battling cannibal tribes. Inspired by his own adventures, twenty-five-year-old Herman Melville wrote `Typee (1846) as a blend of creative memoir, cultural commentary, and good story-telling. He would later tell his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne (author of `The Scarlet Letter) that 'from my twenty-fifth year I date my life'. Despite being mostly recognized, today, as the author of the classic novel, `Moby Dick, `Typee was Melvilles best-selling novel in his life-time.

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Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American writer, best known for his whaling novel, `Moby Dick, which was poorly received at the time but considered a classic today.

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ID: 456139

Title: At the Bay

Author: Katherine Mansfield

Narrator: Luci Burgoyne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:29:44

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Classics

Summary:

'The other ladies consider her 'very, very fast. Her lack of vanity, her slang, the way she treated men as though she was one of them, and the fact that she didn't care twopence about her house and called the servant Gladys 'Glad-eyes', was disgraceful.' Like her friend Virginia Woolf's 'Mrs. Dalloway' (1925), 'At the Bay' (1922) by Katherine Mansfield covers a single day from different points of view. In this beautifully written short story filled with rich characters and vivid imagery, we visit or revisit the Burnell family in a story about nothing and everything.

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Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was short story writer and poet from New Zealand, who settled in England at the age of 19. Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence were among her literary friends and admirers. She died of tuberculosis at the age of 34.

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ID: 427759

Title: That Affair Next Door

Author: Anna Katharine Green

Narrator: Dawn Larsen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:03:49

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

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

Summary:

The dead body of a strange woman is found in an empty house next door to Amelia Butterworth, a single old lady with a formidable curiosity and lots of free time. When Detective Gryce gets on the case, he has a hard time persuading her to mind her own business, but soon Miss Butterworths female intuition and knack for interrogating witnesses through small talk proves invaluable to the investigation. In fact, she outsmarts all the professional men. That Affair Next Door (1897) is Anna Katharine Greens eighth in the Detective Gryce series, but the first of several in which the unlikely pair, Miss Butterworth and EbenezerGryce, team up to solve crimes despite the (quite entertaining) tension between them. It is worth noting that Agatha Christie found the inspiration for her famous Miss Marple character in none other than Miss Butterworth.

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Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935) was an American poet and novelist. She is best known for her novel The Leavenworth Case (1878) with which she became one of the first American writers of detective fiction. Agatha Christie cited Green as an influence on her own writing.

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ID: 427767

Title: American

Author: Henry James

Narrator: Nicholas Clifford

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:58:07

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

Christopher Newman, a somewhat awkward but well-meaning American businessman traveling in Europe for the first time, meets and falls in love with the aristocratic young widow Claire de Bellegarde. But her French family does not like his American ways and oppose his offer of marriage. When he discovers a dirty family secret, however, the tables are suddenly turned. But what should he do with upper hand? Despite being one of Henry James earliest works, `The American (1877) flows more like a contemporary novel than his later work, mixing social comedy and melodrama to perfection.

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Henry James (1843-1916) was an American author who already by his mid-20s was regarded as one of the most skilful short story writers of his time. Later he would write several classic novels including `Daisy Miller (1878) and `The Portrait of a Lady (1881). He spent much of his life in Europe and became and British citizen shortly before his death.

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ID: 427704

Title: Black Beauty

Author: Anne Sewell

Narrator: Cori Samuel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:38:51

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Kids, Classics

Summary:

Told from the perspective of a horse, Black Beauty (1877) dives into the topic of animal rights like no other novel. Black Beauty is raised by a caring mother on an idyllic farm, not knowing that he will never be as free again. Tossed from owner to owner, he encounters mistreatment in many forms, but luckily, his journey is not without love either. Being herself an invalid, author Anna Sewell (1820-1878) seemed particularly aware of the importance of kindness toward all living creatures. She wrote Black Beauty her only novel in the final years of her life, and lived just long enough to see its positive reception. In the years after her death, Black Beauty would become the foundation for change in horse welfare in both England and the US.

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Anna Sewell (1820-1878) was the author of the classic novel, Black Beauty (1877), a heart-wrenching story told from the perspective of a horse. At the age of 14, Sewell fell and injured both ankles while walking home from school, an accident from which she never recovered.

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ID: 427730

Title: Princess of Mars

Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrator: Mark Nelson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:23:35

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics

Summary:

John Carter is catapulted to Mars! Or Barsoom, as the locals call the dying planet. Suddenly he is surrounded by strange, towering cities, colossal, four-armed savage green hordes and hideous monsters. When he falls in love with Dejah Thoris, a beautiful red Martian princess who is in mortal danger, his newfound superhuman powers might come in handy... A trailblazing classic of the science fiction genre, 'A Princess of Mars' is the first book in Edgar Rice Burroughs's beloved Mars series and the basis for the 2012 feature film 'John Carter'.

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Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) was an American novelist. His most notable creations include the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter, who first appeared in 'A Princess of Mars', and the jungle hero Tarzan, also known from the now classic 1999 Disney adaption, voiced by Tony Goldwyn, Minnie Driver, Glenn Close, and Rosie ODonnell.

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