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ID: 308750

Title: Keeping Place: Reflections on the Meaning of Home

Author: Jen Pollock Michel

Narrator: Jen Pollock Michel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:41:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-07-17

Publisher: Christianaudio.com

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Counseling & Inspirational

Summary:

To be human is to long for home. Home is our most fundamental human longing. And for many of us homesickness is a nagging place of grief. This book connects that desire and disappointment with the story of the Bible, helping us to see that there is a homemaking God with wide arms of welcome?and a church commissioned with this same work. 'Many of us seem to be recovering the sacred, if ordinary, beauty of place,' writes author Jen Pollock Michel. 'Perhaps we're reading along with Wendell Berry, falling in love with Berry's small-town barber and Jayber Crow's small-town life. . . . Or maybe we're simply reading our Bibles better, discovering that while we might wish to flatten Scripture to serve our didactic purposes, it rises up in flesh and sinew, muscle and bone: God's holy story is written in the lives of people and their places.' Including a five-session discussion guide and paired with a companion DVD, Keeping Place offers hope to the wanderer, help to the stranded, and a new vision of what it means to live today with our longings for eternal home.

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ID: 308869

Title: When Changing Nothing Changes Everything

Author: Laurie Polich Short

Narrator: Laurie Polich Short

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:04:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-07-17

Publisher: Christianaudio.com

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Self Development, Health & Wellness, Counseling & Inspirational

Summary:

Reframing your perspective can transform your life. We often face circumstances that we cannot change?a job we are forced to keep, a relationship that did not work out, a decision we cannot take back. The stress of life can overwhelm us, and we may not see past the obstacles in our path. In the face of unwanted challenges, we may despair over our lack of control and long for an easier way out. Laurie Short offers a simple but revolutionary idea: change nothing that is around you yet still change everything about your life. With the help of four different lenses, Laurie shows how the way you see can have an impact on how you live. If you put on the right lenses, you can reframe whatever comes your way and embrace both the good and the bad, recognizing that every detail of your life is fully in God's sovereign hands. Jesus indicates the power of focus when he says, 'The eye is the lamp of the body, if the eye is good then the whole body will be full of light.' It's the easiest way to find lasting meaning and purpose. Change nothing, but see differently. Your perspective has more power than you think to determine the course of your life.

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ID: 297500

Title: Edith Nesbit: The Poetry

Author: Edith Nesbit

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:53:25

Language: English

Release date: 05-04-17

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

Edith Nesbit, The Poetry - An Introduction. Edith Nesbit is more famously known as a writer of children's stories and ghost stories some of which are available in other volumes. But in this volume we explore her poetry. Born in 1858 in Kennington, then part of Surrey and now London. Her early life was one of constant house changes before meeting, age 17, Hubert Bland who she was to marry three years later - whilst she was 7 months pregnant. Additionally Bland kept his affair with another woman going throughout. The two children of this relationship were raised by Edith as her own as well as their own three. They founded the Fabian Society in 1884. Thought of as the first modern writer for children she also wrote for adults producing over 50 books in total. Like many consummate writers who yearn to be recognised as poets their other works are given greater recognition. Now in this volume you be the judge. These poems are brought to your ears by Ghizela Rowe and Richard Mitchley.

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ID: 297196

Title: Story of Shakespeare's Timon of Athens

Author: William Shakespeare

Narrator: Richard Mitchley

Format: Abridged

Length: 00:29:24

Language: English

Release date: 05-04-17

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

Summary:

Timon Of Athens. This Shakespeare play is often regarded as the most difficult and obscure of all his plays and certainly his tragedies.

Our version is a very simplified form that focuses on the story of the play itself and does not use any of the original text. It is therefore suitable for all listeners including children which is further reinforced by the clarity of our reader Richard Mitchley.

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ID: 296885

Title: Elizabeth Gaskell: The Short Stories

Author: Elizabeth Gaskell

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:43:59

Language: English

Release date: 05-04-17

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories

Summary:

Elizabeth Gaskell is equally well known as Mrs Gaskell. When her mother died, she was three months old and she was sent to live in Knutsford, Cheshire with her Aunt Hannah, this setting would become the basis for her novel Cranford. At 22 she married and settled in Manchester to raise her family. Friends with Charlotte Bronte she went on to write her biography and was also highly regarded by a certain Charles Dickens who published her ghost stories in his magazine. Much of her work views the emerging industrial society of Victorian England through her own moral and religious values and has an uncanny ability to look at and report on the many strata of society. This collection of Stories; Right At Last, Sexton's Hero, The Old Nurse's Story & Hand And Heart are read for you by Richard Mitchley, Eve Karpf and Ghizela Rowe.

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ID: 296471

Title: Tagore - A Selection Of His Poems

Author: Rabindranath Tagore

Narrator: Shyama Perera

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:44:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-04-17

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

Tagore was a true Renaissance man, distinguishing himself as a gifted philosopher, social and political reformer as well as a popular author in all literary genres. His most famous poem, extracts of which are recorded here, is Gitanjali which earned him the distinction of the first Asian writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. His songs include both the Indian and Bangladeshi national anthems. This selection of his poems is read for you by Shyama Perera a gifted journalist, broadcaster and novelist.

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ID: 297506

Title: Femme Fatales of Horror

Author: Edith Nesbit, Elizabeth Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Abridged

Length: 03:23:44

Language: English

Release date: 05-04-17

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories

Summary:

The Femme Fatales Of Horror. Women, so often referred to as the gentler sex, in this volume at least, is an unfounded and unlikely description. From their minds and pens comes a series of macabre, twisted, tales that are anything but gentle. But as they weave their magic, usually black, and mesh you into their narrative you just know "sugar and spice and all things nice" are not likely to be what little girls really are made of and certainly not these Femme Fatales......

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ID: 296953

Title: Beastly Chronicles of Saki

Author: H M Munro

Narrator: Jermyn Street Theatre

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:49:32

Language: English

Release date: 05-04-17

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody

Summary:

The Beastly Chronicles Of Saki. The stories of HH Munro - better known by his pen name of Saki - have scarcely been out of print since they were first published nearly a century ago. Yet it often seems that their particular delights are reserved for the private pleasure of his coterie of admirers. It has to be admitted that a taste for Saki is something of an addiction. And, like all addictions, once acquired, it is hard to shake off. In the years since his tragically early death in the trenches at the hands of a German sniper, fellow addicts have included Graham Greene, Noel Coward and Tom Sharpe. All of us take a slightly wicked satisfaction from his biting wit and the subversive way in which he undermines the staid Edwardian Society he purports to observe. But to a much greater extent than his near-contemporaries, Wilde and Kipling, there is something dark and menacing at the heart of Saki's writing. Behind the refined twinkle of tea cups on an Edwardian lawn can be heard the distant howling of a wolf. Hidden among the shrubbery in a carefully manicured garden lurk all kinds of Beasts and Superbeasts, ready to wreak Nature's revenge on an uncaring mankind with its arrogant belief in materialism, progress and the innate respectability of middle class values. Where Kipling's menagerie tends to simple analogues of human types, Saki's animals can rise up with the full power of Pan himself. This is not to ignore Saki's ability to turn an aphorism with all the facility and wit of the divine Oscar at his best. Nor does it forget his ability to prick the inflated egos of louche young men with too much time and money on their hands or deliciously dotty aunts and duchesses with their minds firmly fixed on Empire and Imperial responsibilities. It would be easy to forget that Munro foresaw the imminent collapse of this society into the cataclysm of the Great War. With his experience as a political journalist in the Balkans and Eastern Europe, he was probably more aware than most of the storm that was brewing. But, essentially, he was an observer of his fellow-man. And it is for the humour of his observations, for the dazzling twists and turns his tales take and for the fact that he makes us laugh inordinately that he is to be treasured and shared with those who have not yet acquired the addiction.

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ID: 296973

Title: Tom Jones

Author: Henry Fielding

Narrator: Nigel Davenport

Format: Abridged

Length: 02:23:46

Language: English

Release date: 05-04-17

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Summary:

Henry Fielding's great novel is a masterpiece of the picaresque. It has a lovable rogue for a hero, whose all too recognisable human faults involve him in many a scrape. The story bounds along from the opening scene in which an unknown baby is discovered in Allworthy's bed, through all Tom's trials and tribulations. But the novel's exuberant tone never lets the reader fear that's its erring hero will come to any real harm, despite the machinations of the devious Blifils, who so nearly come between Tom and his true birthright. All comes right in the end, as Tom win the hands of his beloved Sophia, whose common-sense and virtue match her beauty.

1. BIRTH AND MARRIAGE. Returning to his home in Somerset after an absence of several months, the wealthy Mr Allworthy, a kindly man, decides to bring the child up himself. Inquiries suggest that Jenny Jones, a maidservant, is the child's mother: Allworthy forgives her and send her away to make a fresh start. His sister Bridget accepts a proposal of marriage of Captain Blifil, brother of a local doctor. She bears a son, who becomes heir to Allworth's estate.

2. LOVE AND FISTICUFFS. Tom grows up riotous but good-willed, unlike young Blifil, a smooth-tongued schemer. Tom falls in love with the beautiful Sophia, daughter of their neighbour Squire Western. When Sophia falls from her horse, Tom catches her and breaks his arm - and Sophia returns his love. Allworthy falls ill but, despite the news of his sister's death, soon recovers. Tom celebrates by getting drunk and Blifil starts a quarrel. Tom leaves the house in order to cool down, dreaming of Sophia. But he is seduced by Molly Seagrim, in whose arms his discovered by Blifil and his tutor, Thwackum. A fight breaks out; Western comes across them and joins in to help Tom. Sophia arrives shortly afterwards and faints with shock.

3. A MERCENARY UNION. Sophia's aunt, Mrs Western, tells the Squire that she believes her to be in love with Blifil. Both are pleased by such an advantageous match. When Mrs Western tells Sophia that she has guessed her true love, the girl admits that she loves Tom. Mrs Western is horrified and forces her to accept Blifil as a suitor. Blifil then makes a laughable attempt to woo Sophia - he feels nothing for her, but finds her father's wealth more than attractive.

4. DECEIT TRIUMPHS. Sophia pleads with her father, asking him not to marry her to Blifil; Western is enraged. Tom daringly requests to be allowed to reason with her, so that he can see her alone. While they declare their love for each other, Mrs Western tells the Squire the truth. He then surprises the lovers in one another's arm and throws Tom out. On hearing this, Blifil tells Allworthy a slanderously slanted version of Tom's behaviour on the evening of the fight. Allworthy is deeply upset; he summons Tom and banishes him. Distressed at losing Sophia, Tom sets out for Bristol, planning to go to sea.

5. A NIGHT ILL SPENT. Sophia flees with her maid Honour, to escape her imminent marriage. Tom, meanwhile, is attended by a barber; on hearing his story, the barber explains that he is Partridge, wrongly thought to be Tom's father. Tom rescues an older woman, Mrs Waters, from an attack. They go to an inn and she invites him into her bed, where they are disturbed by a stranger named Fitzpatrick, who thinks she is his wife, Sophia arrives at the same inn and her maid learns of Tom's infidelity.

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ID: 297226

Title: Peculiar Lives

Author: Phillip Purser-Hallard

Narrator: John Leeson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:16:25

Language: English

Release date: 05-04-17

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

Peculiar Lives. Synopsis: "From the pen of Mr Erik Clevedon, Peculiar Lives is another 'scientific romance' along the lines of The Coming Times and The Star Beasts. Exotic colour is added by the character of an American Negro detective, Honoré Lechasseur, and his delightful English companion Miss Blandish." Once a celebrated author of 'scientific romances', Erik Clevedon is an old man now. But his fiction conceals a dangerous truth, as Honoré Lechasseur and Emily Blandish discover after a chance encounter with a strangely gifted young pickpocket. Born between the Wars, the superhuman children known as 'the Peculiar' are reaching adulthood - and they believe that humanity is making a poor job of looking after the world they plan to inherit... Part mystery, part detective story, part dark fantasy, part science fiction... original adventures in time and space.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Philip Purser-Hallard has written science fiction, criticism, comedy sketches and an inordinate number of emails. His first novel, Of the City of the Saved..., was published in 2004. His other published works include short fiction in The Book of the War, A Life Worth Living and Wildthyme on Top. A long-term reader, fan and critic of science fiction, he gained his doctorate from Oxford University by writing on The Relationship between Creator and Creature in Science Fiction. This thesis, which examined the work of Olaf Stapledon, George Bernard Shaw and HG Wells among others, earned him the right to put the very appropriate initials 'MA D Phil' after his name. He has been employed as a tutor, secretary, church caretaker and researcher for the revised edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. You can find out more about Philip and Peculiar Lives on his website www.infinitarian.com. ABOUT THE READER: John Leeson starred in over 60 episodes of classic Doctor Who as mechanical hound K9. He has since returned to the role in several audio adventures as well as the new series of Doctor Who alongside David Tennent and Elisabeth Sladen in School Reunion and Journey's End, with regular appearances in The Sarah-Jane Adventures and his very own spin off series. Directed by Cliff Chapman.

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