Favorite Audiobooks of Romantica

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Title: Cat of Bubastes

Author: George Alfred Henty

Narrator: Jim Hodges

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2017-05-16

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Kids, Classics

Publisher's Summary:

The Henty Historical Novel Collection

In this, the Henty novel covering the oldest time period of any, listeners will learn much about the domestic life, customs, religion, and military system of ancient Egypt.

Amuba, a prince of the Rebu nation on the shores of the Caspian Sea, with his charioteer Jethro, is carried into slavery after losing a battle with the Egyptians. They become servants of the house of Ameres, an Egyptian high priest, and are quite happy there, until the priest's son accidentally kills the sacred cat of Bubastes. The locals rise up in rage and kill Ameres, and Jethro and Amuba must escape with the high priest's son and daughter. After crossing the desert to the Red Sea, they eventually make their way back to freedom.

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Title: Lilli de Jong: A Novel

Author: Janet Benton

Narrator: Erin Moon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2017-05-16

Publisher: HighBridge Company

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, General

Publisher's Summary:

Pregnant, abandoned by her lover, and banished from her Quaker home and teaching position, Lilli de Jong enters a charity for wronged women to deliver her child. She is stunned at how much her infant needs her and at how quickly their bond overpowers her heart. Mothers in her position have no sensible alternative to giving up their children, but Lilli can't bear such an outcome. Determined to chart a path toward an independent life, Lilli braves moral condemnation and financial ruin in a quest to keep herself and her baby alive. Confiding their story to her diary as it unfolds, Lilli takes readers from an impoverished charity to a wealthy family's home to the perilous streets of a burgeoning American city. Lilli de Jong is at once a historical saga, an intimate romance, and a lasting testament to the work of mothers. So little is permissible for a woman, writes Lilli, yet on her back every human climbs to adulthood.

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Title: Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon's Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table

Author: Stephen Westaby

Narrator: Gordon Griffin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2017-02-09

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Biography & Memoir, History & Culture

Publisher's Summary:

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE

THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.2 BESTSELLER

WINNER OF THE BMA PRESIDENT'S AWARD 2017

An incredible memoir from one of the world's most eminent heart surgeons, recalling some of the most remarkable and poignant cases he's worked on.

Grim Reaper sits on the heart surgeon's shoulder. A slip of the hand and life ebbs away.

The balance between life and death is so delicate, and the heart surgeon walks that rope between the two. In the operating room there is no time for doubt. It is flesh, blood, rib-retractors and pumping the vital organ with your bare hand to squeeze the life back into it. An off-day can have dire consequences - this job has a steep learning curve, and the cost is measured in human life. Cardiac surgery is not for the faint of heart.

Professor Stephen Westaby took chances and pushed the boundaries of heart surgery. He saved hundreds of lives over the course of a thirty-five year career and now, in his astounding memoir, Westaby details some of his most remarkable and poignant cases - such as the baby who had suffered multiple heart attacks by six months old, a woman who lived the nightmare of locked-in syndrome, and a man whose life was powered by a battery for eight years.

A powerful, important and incredibly moving book, Fragile Lives offers an exceptional insight into the exhilarating and sometimes tragic world of heart surgery, and how it feels to hold someone's life in your hands.

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Title: Tale of Daddy Long Legs

Author: Arthur Scott Bailey

Narrator: Lucy Burgoyne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 2017-01-12

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Kids, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

Arthur Scott Bailey (1877 1949) was author of more than forty children's books. He was born on November 15, 1877, in St. Albans, Vermont, United States, the second child of Winfield Scott Bailey and Harriet Sarah Goodhue. THERE was great excitement in the neighborhood of Farmer Green's house. Rusty Wren had found some strange tracks. And nobody knew whose they were. Now, when they were puzzled like that the field- and forest-folk usually went straight to Mr. Crow for advice. But this time it happened that the old gentleman had gone on an excursion to the further side of Blue Mountain, where Brownie Beaver lived. And there seemed to be no one else at hand who was likely to be able to explain the mystery.

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Title: Against Indifference

Author: Charles Webbe

Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2017-01-01

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Publisher's Summary:

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 different recordings of Against Indifference by Charles Webbe. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of January 20th, 2008.

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Title: 12 Huia Birds

Author: Julian Stokoe

Narrator: George Henare

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2017-01-01

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

12 beautiful Huia birds play and sing in the forest. But is that a canoe arriving? A rat sniffling? A ship on the horizon? One by one, the huia start to disappear - what will remain? 12 Huia Birds is a captivating and uplifting celebration of one of our loveliest birds by an exciting author-illustrator team. Through gentle rhyme and colourful imagery, it subtly conveys an environmental message.Additional CreditsOriginal Sound Design:Vic SpectrumSound Recordings:David LiversideAudio Book mastering:Ora Simpson

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Title: Oedipus at Colonus (Jebb Translation)

Author: Sophocles

Narrator: Expatriate

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2017-01-01

Publisher: LibriVox

Genres: Audio Theatre, Drama

Publisher's Summary:

Oedipus at Colonus (also Oedipus Coloneus, Ancient Greek: , Oidipous epi Koln) is one of the three Theban plays of the Athenian tragedian Sophocles. It was written shortly before Sophocles' death in 406 BC and produced by his grandson (also called Sophocles) at the Festival of Dionysus in 401 BC. In the timeline of the plays, the events of Oedipus at Colonus occur after Oedipus the King and before Antigone; however, it was the last of Sophocles' three Theban plays to be written. The play describes the end of Oedipus' tragic life. Legends differ as to the site of Oedipus' death; Sophocles set the place at Colonus, a village near Athens and also Sophocles' own birthplace, where the blinded Oedipus has come with his daughters Antigone and Ismene as suppliants of the Erinyes and of Theseus, the king of Athens. Summary by Wikipedia

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Title: Apprendre la sagesse avec les philosophes classiques grecs 400 citations

Author: Platon , Aristote , Euripide , Epictète

Narrator: Nicolas Planchais, Patrick Blandin, Patrick Martinez-Bournat

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2017-01-01

Publisher: Compagnie du Savoir

Genres: Non-Fiction, Philosophy

Publisher's Summary:

La pensée antique est au fondement de l'histoire des idées et de la philosophie occidentale. Fondamentalement pratique et axée sur le quotidien, elle est marquée par le stoïcisme et la recherche de la sagesse sous toutes ses formes. Découvrez-en toute la profondeur en 400 citations soigneusement choisies pour présenter sous forme condensée les enseignements majeurs des figures incontournables de la Grèce antique. Platon met en scène le geste primordial de l'interrogation de soi, pour se débarrasser des préjugés et de l'illusion ; son élève Aristote est l'un des penseurs les plus influents que le monde ait connus, et il dirigea la philosophie comme une recherche du savoir pour lui-même, interrogation sur le monde et science des sciences. Euripide est un des trois grands auteurs tragiques de l'Athènes classique, avec Eschyle et Sophocle, et connut un immense succès auprès de ses contemporains qui le rangeaient aux côtés de Socrate ; enfin, l'esclave Epictète resta dans l'histoire aux côtés des empereurs pour son enseignement stoïque, pensé pour alléger le quotidien en présentant les attitudes les plus sages. Chaque philosophe voit sa pensée résumée en 100 citations essentielles, marquantes et faciles à mémoriser. Ce format concis et accessible est idéal pour la préparation aux examens et aux concours (bac, capes, agrégation...), la culture générale et le développement personnel.

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Title: Jack and the Beanstalk

Author: James Gardner

Narrator: Katie Haigh

Format: Unabridged

Length: 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2017-01-01

Publisher: Compagnie du Savoir

Genres: Kids, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

Jack and the Beanstalk is an English fairy tale, the best known of the Jack tales, a series of stories featuring an archetypal English hero. According to scholarly research, this particular tale takes its roots in ancient stories told more than 5000 years ago, in which a boy steals an ogre's treasure. In this tale, Jack is a poor boy sent by his mother to the market to sell their dairy cow. He encounters a bean dealer who sells him magic beans; upon seeing him return with a few beans and no money, his mother is desperate, throws the beans on the ground and sends him to bed without supper. In the morning, they discover the beans have sprouted a fabulous beanstalk that would lead a climber to a land high in the sky... This classic tale is told by Katie Haigh, for the pleasure of children and adults alike.

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Title: Le rossignol

Author: Hans Christian Andersen

Narrator: Fabienne Prost

Format: Unabridged

Length: 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2017-01-01

Publisher: Compagnie du Savoir

Genres: Kids, General

Publisher's Summary:

Le Rossignol et l'Empereur de Chine est un conte d'Hans Christian Andersen. L'éloignement de la Chine permet à Andersen d'inventer un monde plein de chinoiseries et de règles formelles et rigoureuses. Le palais de l'empereur est en porcelaine et à certaines occasions, il est poli de telle sorte que les murs et sols étincellent à la lumière de milliers de lampes d'or. Le siège de l'empereur est en or... C'est à ce monde artificiel que le rossignol est censé s'adapter. Mais le conte est aussi une métaphore : nul ne peut s'approprier, même artificiellement, un talent qu'il ne possède pas...