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Title: Calendar of Crime

Author: Ellery Queen

Narrator: Traber Burns

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Release date: December 1, 2015

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

In the merry month of May, Ellery Queen made a trek to Gettysburg to witness an annual celebration—and an annual murder. February found the ingenious Ellery locked in a furious battle of wits with a dead US president. These are but two of the twelve appointments with crime that make up Queen's baffling calendar of conundrums. Each elegant enigma ticks off all the surprise and excitement that have made Queen the dean of American detective fiction. Stories include 'The Inner Circle,' 'The President's Half Dime,' 'The Ides of Michael Magoon,' 'The Emperor's Dice,' 'The Gettysburg Bugle,' 'The Medical Finger,' 'The Fallen Angel,' 'The Needle's Eye,' 'The Three R's,' 'The Dead Cat,' 'The Telltale Bottle,' and 'The Dauphin's Doll.'

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Title: The New Adventures of Ellery Queen

Series: #1940 of The Ellery Queen Mysteries

Author: Ellery Queen

Narrator: Robert Fass

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Release date: December 1, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Trick I—The first thing to vanish is a worthless doorstop. Then, in the twinkling of an eye, goes its rich and elderly owner. And, for the grand finale, both reappear—each as dead as the other. Trick II—From the House of Darkness issues more bafflement. In total darkness and from a distance of twelve feet, four bullets are pumped within an inch of each other into a spectator's back—a feat utterly impossible to perform yet brazenly and undeniably done. Trick III—The pi├¿ce de r├®sistance. This time it's an entire house, a real house, a solid house, which Ellery Queen had been in only the day before … vanished from the face of the earth. And in its place emerges one of the most incredible conundrums ever to face the master crime solver. Encores—The New Adventures of Ellery Queen is a classic collection of eight short mysteries and a remarkable short novel. First published in 1940, it has sold more than one million copies and continues to be 'as good as they come' (New York Times). Stories include 'The Lamp of God,' 'The Treasure Hunt,' 'The Hollow Dragon,' 'The House of Darkness,' 'The Bleeding Portrait,' 'Man Bites Dog,' 'Long Shot,' 'Mind over Matter,' and 'The Trojan Horse.'

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Title: The Periodic Table

Author: Primo Levi

Narrator: Neville Jason

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Release date: November 26, 2015

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

The Periodic Table by Primo Levi is an impassioned response to the Holocaust: consisting of twenty one short stories, each possessing the name of a chemical element, the collection tells of the author's experiences as a Jewish-Italian chemist before, during and after Auschwitz in luminous, clear, and unfailingly beautiful prose. It has been named the best science book ever by the Royal Institution of Great Britain and is considered to be Levi's crowning achievement.

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Title: Love of Life, and Other Stories

Author: Jack London

Narrator: Robertson Dean

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Release date: November 24, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

John Griffith “Jack” London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories “To Build a Fire,” “An Odyssey of the North,” and “Love of Life.” He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as “The Pearls of Parlay” and “The Heathen,” and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf. London was a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers and wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel. This collection includes “Love of Life,” “A Day’s Lodging,” “The White Man’s Way,” “The Story of Keesh,” “The Unexpected,” “Brown Wolf,” “The Sun-Dog Trail,” and “Negore, the Coward.”

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Title: Kew Gardens

Author: Virginia Woolf

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 17 minutes

Release date: November 10, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Adeline Virginia Woolf (January 1882-1941) was an English writer and one of the preeminent modernists of the 20th century. "Kew Gardens" is a short story set in the London botanic garden of the same name on a hot July day. The narrative consists of brief evocative snapshots of four groups of people as they pass by a flowerbed.

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Title: The Victorian Women Writers Collection

Author: Various Authors

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

Release date: November 10, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

A fascinating collection of short stories by some of the greatest Victorian female writers. This anthology covers every theme from spirits and the occult to love and sexuality to sentimentality and romance to social observation and critique. 'The Operation' by Violet Hunt 'Satan's Circus' by Eleanor Smith 'A Dream of Wild Bees' by Olive Schreiner 'A Dill Pickle' by Katherine Mansfield 'Squirrel in a Cage' by E. M. Delafield 'Afterward' by Edith Wharton 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin 'The Artist's Secret' by Olive Schreiner 'The Marquise' by George Sand 'Mansize in Marble' by Edith Nesbit 'In a Far off World' by Olive Schreiner 'The Lifted Veil' by George Eliot 'The Mortal Immortal' by Mary Shelley 'Mrs Raeburn's Waxwork' by Eleanor Smith 'The Dolls' House' by Katherine Mansfield 'The Violet Car' by Edith Nesbit 'The Apple Tree' by Katherine Mansfield 'The Eyes' by Edith Wharton 'The King Is Dead, Long Live the King' by Mary Coleridge 'An Idyll of London' by Beatrice Harraden 'The Singing Lesson' by Katherine Mansfield 'The Storm' by Kate Chopin 'The Sailor Uncle' by Mary Lamb 'The Hired Baby' by Marie Corelli

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Title: The Revolt of "Mother"

Author: Mary Wilkins-Freeman

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 37 minutes

Release date: November 10, 2015

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Mary Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) was an American writer, best known for her stories reflecting the world of women fighting for dignity and independence from men. Her tales typically describe domestic settings and intimate relationships and are told with sensitivity and a poignancy which illuminates a bygone era in vivid detail. "The Revolt of Mother" tells the story of a strong and self-reliant farm wife who defies her obstinate husband by moving her household into his newly built barn when he refuses to build her a proper house.

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Title: The Fiddler of the Reels

Author: Thomas Hardy

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 44 minutes

Release date: November 10, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an English novelist and poet whose work is best known for combining the traditions of Romanticism with a realistic portayal of a declining rural society in Victorian England. "The Fiddler of the Reels" tells the story of a love triangle. The enigmatic, brilliant and rakish violin player, Wat Ollamore, who arrives in the small South Wessex village of Mellstock, exercises a diabolical fascination with the young, impressionable Car'line Aspent. Car'line's beau, Ned Hipcroft, is unable to compete with Ollamore's sinister hold on her...but when four years later Car'line suddenly writes to Ned out of the blue and offers to marry him, things turn out to be very different than he could have ever imagined.

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Title: Room Number Ten

Author: Bessie Kyffin-Taylor

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Release date: November 10, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Lady Bessie Kyffin-Taylor was an English writer famous for her outstanding supernatural stories which were published in a single volume in 1920, just two years before her death. Room Number Ten tells the story of Peter Maxton, a literary gentleman invited to join a house party at a remote house in Scotland. The driver taking him to the house from the station comments that the house is full, and they may have to use room number 10, and he pities whoever has to sleep there. But he refuses to be drawn further on the subject. On arrival, Maxton finds he has been assigned to room number 10. It also appears that the rest of the party all know more about the room than they care to let on...and are singularly unwilling to set foot in it. On the first night, Maxton already has a foretaste of the strangeness of room number 10...and the second and third nights are more terrifying still....

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Title: When I was Dead

Author: Vincent O'Sullivan

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 10 minutes

Release date: November 10, 2015

Genres: Short Stories

Publisher's Summary:

Vincent O'Sullivan (1868-1940) was born in New York, son of an Irish-American family, and moved to London as a child. As a young man, he quickly established a reputation as a master of horror and decadent macabre stories. He was a close friend of Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley and other leaders of the aesthetic movement. "When I Was Dead" is the macabre story of a man who gradually realises he has died unexpectedly...and resists vigorously this awful turn of events.