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ID: 334596

Title: Lightning-Rod Man

Author: Herman Melville

Narrator: Mark Owen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:20:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-26-18

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Literary Fiction, Classics

Summary:

Chosen for inclusion in William Evans Burton's Cyclopediae of Wit and Humor of 1857, with an illustration by Henry Louis Stephens, The Lightning-Rod Man was the one Melville tale to be available throughout his lifetime, thanks to reissues of this volume. More a parable than a character-driven story, The Lightning-rod man is a charlatan who tries to profit by selling fearful people lightning-rods during thunderstorms. The narrator has a difficult encounter with the Lightning-Rod man in this story about overcoming fear and superstition.

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ID: 334591

Title: Buried in Books

Author: Kate Carlisle

Narrator: Susie Berneis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:35:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-26-18

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Cozy Mystery

Summary:

Brooklyn has done everything she can to prepare for her nuptials with Derek and simply can't wait to start her new life with him. But things don't go as planned when Brooklyn's college frenemies, Heather and Sara, surprise her with a last-minute bridal shower. However, Brooklyn is touched when the women gift her rare copies of The Three Musketeers and The Red Fairy Book. When one frenemy is found murdered and one of the rare books is deemed a forgery, Brooklyn can't help but wonder if the victim played a part in this fraud or if a murderer is still out there scamming and killing. Wedding jitters, counterfeit books, and a killer on the loose could ruin Brooklyn and Derek's big day. Can they make it down the aisle before more bodies start stacking up?

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ID: 334590

Title: Piazza Tales

Author: Herman Melville

Narrator: Mark Owen, Michael Lackey, Pete Cross

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:56:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-26-18

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Literary Fiction, Classics

Summary:

Written in seclusion following the intense negative public reaction to the publication of his novel Pierre, The Piazza Tales is Melville's accessible and entertaining collection of short stories concerning love, labor and loss. The collection includes the author's three most important achievements in the genre of short fiction, Bartleby, the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, and The Encantadas, his sketches of the Galapagos Islands. Melville had originally intended to entitle the volume Benito Cereno and Other Sketches, but settled on the definitive title after he had written the introductory story, which concerns the coincidental meeting of mutual long-distance admirers separated by a valley in the mountains.

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ID: 334594

Title: Bell-Tower

Author: Herman Melville

Narrator: Mark Owen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:44:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-26-18

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Literary Fiction, Classics

Summary:

Considered to be the least characteristic of Melville's stories, somewhat resembling the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe, The Bell-Tower is a dark literary work that explores, though never fully reveals, its central mystery. An eccentric artist and architect dreams up plans for a magnificent bell tower. After receiving approval from the city, he happily begins construction. When city residents begin to notice strange occurrences associated with the project, their complaints eventually force the city magistrates to investigate. Showing the magistrates around the tower, the artist proudly shows off his work and answers their questions, but one curiosity remains unanswered-what lies beneath the shroud in the bell-tower?

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ID: 334597

Title: Piazza

Author: Herman Melville

Narrator: Mark Owen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:38:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-26-18

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Literary Fiction, Classics

Summary:

Written as an introductory story to The Piazza Tales, the protagonist of The Piazza, idealizes a radiant spot on the mountain he looks upon from his piazza. Traveling to the spot he realizes it is a house, occupied by the unhappy girl Marianna, who longs to see the lucky individual who lives in the white house she looks upon from her window. The narrator realizes he has been the object of a fantasy alike to his own, and leaves thinking how all idealism is an illusion.

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ID: 337345

Title: Typee

Author: Herman Melville

Narrator: Eric G. Dove

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:37:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-26-18

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Classics

Summary:

Based on Melville's real-life experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands, his first novel was extremely popular, provoking public skepticism until the events within were corroborated by a fellow castaway. Typee is properly considered a work of fiction, as the three weeks stay on which the author based his story is here extended to four months, and the book is supplemented with imaginative reconstruction and adaptation of material from other Pacific exploration books of the time. The title refers to the province of Tai Pi Vai. Typee was Melville's most popular work during his lifetime; making him notorious as the man who lived among the cannibals.

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ID: 334599

Title: Purgatorio

Author: Dante Alighieri

Narrator: Charles Armstrong

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:55:04

Language: English

Release date: 06-26-18

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry, Literary Criticism

Summary:

Purgatorio is the second part of The Divine Comedy, Dante's epic poem describing man's progress from hell to paradise. Having escaped the Inferno, Dante and his guide, the classical Roman poet Virgil, ascend out of the underworld to the Mountain of Purgatory on an island on the far side of the world. The mountain has nine terraces, seven of which correspond to the seven deadly sins, and two of which constitute an Ante-Purgatory with the Garden of Eden at the summit. Dante writes about sin based on motives in Purgatory, rather than actions as in The Inferno, giving the book a more psychological aspect. Arriving on Easter Sunday, Purgatorio represents the time of human life on earth.

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ID: 334592

Title: Fight No More

Author: Lydia Millet

Narrator: Madeleine Lambert

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:53:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-19-18

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Family Life

Summary:

In her first story collection since Love in Infant Monkeys, which became a Pulitzer Prize finalist, Lydia Millet explores what it means to be home. Nina, a lonely real-estate broker estranged from her only relative, is at the center of a web of stories connecting fractured communities and families. She moves through the houses of L.A.'s wealthy elite and finds men and women both crass and tender, vicious and desperate. With wit and intellect, Millet offers profound insight into human behavior from the ordinary to the bizarre: strong-minded girls are beset by the helpless; myopic executives are tormented by their employees; and beastly men do beastly things. Fresh off the critical triumph of Sweet Lamb of Heaven (longlisted for the National Book Award), Millet is pioneering a new kind of satire-compassionate toward its victims and hilariously brutal in its depiction of modern American life.

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ID: 334593

Title: Equations of Life

Author: Charles S. Cockell

Narrator: Ian Porter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:43:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-19-18

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Science & Technology, Biology & Chemistry

Summary:

We are all familiar with the popular idea that strange alien life is wildly different from life on Earth. Maybe it's made of silicon! Maybe it has wheels! Or maybe it doesn't. In The Equations of Life, biologist Charles S. Cockell makes the forceful argument that the laws of physics narrowly constrain how life can evolve, making evolution's outcomes predictable. If we were to find something very much like a lady bug eating something very much like an aphid on a distant planet, we shouldn't be surprised. The forms of life are guided by a limited set of rules, and, as a result, there is a narrow set of solutions to the challenges of existence. A remarkable scientific contribution breathing new life into Darwin's theory of evolution, The Equations of Life makes a radical argument about what life can-and can't-be.

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ID: 333891

Title: Your Score

Author: Anthony Davenport, Matthew Rudy

Narrator: Qarie Marshall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:12:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-12-18

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Business & Economics, Career Development

Summary:

Like it or not, a healthy credit score is essential if you want to participate in today's financial world. But very few people actually understand how their credit score is determined. Worse yet, most don't know how their score is used by all kinds of companies and banks to dictate financial terms that will strongly affect their daily lives. When consumers interact with the world of credit, they do so from a position of weakness. In Your Score, Anthony Davenport aims to change that. Finally, there's a road map for navigating the confusing world of consumer credit. Drawing on real stories of his own firm's high-profile clients as well as the stories of middle-class Americans, he reveals the hidden credit pitfalls that await even the most careful consumer and shares smart strategies to avoid them.

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