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ID: 316183

Title: GI Brides: The wartime girls who crossed the Atlantic for love

Author: Calvi , Duncan Barrett

Narrator: Tania Rodrigues

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:05:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-13

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, World, Women

Summary:

The Sunday Times bestseller

From the bestselling authors of The Sugar Girls, G.I. Brides weaves together the real-life stories of four women who crossed the ocean for love, providing a moving true tale of romance and resilience.

The friendly invasion of Britain by over a million American G.I.s caused a sensation amongst a generation of young women deprived of male company during the Second World War. With their exotic accents, smart uniforms and aura of Hollywood glamour, the G.I.s soon had the local girls queuing up for a date, and the British boys off fighting abroad turning green with envy.

But American soldiers offered something even more tantalising than a ready supply of chocolate, chewing gum and nylon stockings. Becoming a G.I. bride provided an escape route from Blitz-ravaged Britain, an opportunity for a whole new life in America a country that was more affluent, more modern and less class-ridden than home.

Some 70,000 G.I. brides crossed the Atlantic at the end of the war to join the men who had captured their hearts but the long voyage was just the beginning of a much bigger journey.

Once there, the women would have to adapt to a foreign culture and a new way of life thousands of miles away from family and friends, with a man they hardly knew out of uniform. Some struggled with the isolation of life in rural America, or found their heroic soldier was less appealing once he returned to Civvy Street. But most persevered, determined to turn their wartime romance into a lifelong love affair, and prove to those back home that it really was possible to have a Hollywood ending.

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ID: 316171

Title: Stuck

Author: Oliver Jeffers

Narrator: Terence Stamp

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:05:04

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-13

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Kids, General, Humor

Summary:

Chaos ensues when a young boy gets his kite stuck up a tree in this laugh-out-loud new picture book from award-winning, internationally best-selling author-illustrator Oliver Jeffers!

Floyd gets his kite stuck up a tree. He throws up his shoe to shift it, but that gets stuck too. So he throws up his other shoe and that got stuck, along with a ladder, a pot of paint, the kitchen sink, an orang-utan and a whale, amongst other things!

Will Floyd ever get his kite back?

A hilarious book with a wonderful surprise ending.

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ID: 316175

Title: Dark Lord of Derkholm

Author: Diana Wynne Jones

Narrator: Jonathan Broadbent

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:29:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-13

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Kids, Health & Family, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

A humorous fantasy adventure from the Godmother of fantasy, Diana Wynne Jones. Winner of the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Childrens Literature in 1999.

A humorous fantasy from Diana Wynne Jones. In a world next door to ours, the tourist industry is devastating the population by its desire to experience all the fantasy clichés Dark Lords, impoverished villages, dragons etc.

The Head of the University resolves to shut the tours down; the only problem being the ruthless tour-master and his all-powerful demons. To save them all, the incompetent wizard Derk is appointed as Dark Lord in the hope that he will ruin the tours, and sure enough proceeds to fail at everything due to his general uselessness. But can failing at everything lead to a win this time?

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ID: 316178

Title: Aristotle: Philosophy in an Hour

Author: Paul Strathern

Narrator: Jonathan Keeble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:10:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-13

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Non-Fiction, Philosophy

Summary:

Philosophy for busy people. Listen to this succinct account of the philosophy of Aristotle in just one hour.

The philosophy of Aristotle dominated Western thought for over a thousand years. He had a mind that mastered all disciplines from mathematics to politics and had a continuing impact on every sphere of knowledge he touched. Above all, Aristotle is credited with the founding of logic. He divided human knowledge into separate categories, and enabled our understanding of the world to develop in a systematic fashion.

This is an expert account of Aristotles life and philosophical ideas entertainingly written and is above all easy listening. Also included are selections from Aristotles work, suggested further reading, and chronologies that place Aristotle in the context of the broader scheme of philosophy.

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ID: 316181

Title: Descartes: Philosophy in an Hour

Author: Paul Strathern

Narrator: Jonathan Keeble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:04:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-13

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: History, Non-Fiction, Europe, Philosophy

Summary:

Philosophy for busy people. Listen to this succinct account of the philosophy of Descartes in just one hour.

Descartes was the first modern philosopher. His scepticism led him to doubt all certainties, until finally he arrived at his famous maxim 'I think therefore I am'. He would also apply his rationalism with great effect in science and mathematics, conceiving a scheme for scientific method and inventing Cartesian co-ordinates in geometry.

Descartes: Philosophy in an Hour an audiobook with an expert account of Descartes life and philosophical ideas entertainingly written and above all easy listening. Also included are selections from Descartes work, suggested further reading, and chronologies that place Descartes in the context of the broader scheme of philosophy.

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ID: 316173

Title: Keeper

Author: Luke Delaney

Narrator: Robin Bowerman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:09:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-13

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Police Stories, General

Summary:

The second novel in the DI Sean Corrigan series authentic and terrifying crime fiction with a psychological edge, by an ex-Met detective. Perfect for fans of Mark Billingham, Peter James and Stuart MacBride.

Ive come to take you home, Sam. Just like I promised I would.

When Louise Russell disappears from her home without a trace, the police are stumped. But DI Sean Corrigan knows this isnt any ordinary abduction something much darker is at play.

Then a second womans body is discovered, and yet another goes missing. Sean knows time is running out for Louise.

As the clock ticks, can Sean and his team find her before its too late?

A gripping and twisty detective thriller perfect for fans of Peter James and John Grisham.

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ID: 316174

Title: Dancing Bear

Author: Michael Morpurgo

Narrator: Sir Ian McKellen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:47:18

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-13

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature

Summary:

A gentle and deeply moving story of a young girl and her bear, told with great charm by a master storyteller.

High in the mountains, in a tiny village, an abandoned bear cub is adopted by a lonely orphan child. Soon they are inseparable, beloved by the whole village safe, until the arrival of a glamorous film crew who need a dancing bear

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ID: 316186

Title: Third Kingdom

Author: Terry Goodkind

Narrator: Sam Tsoutsouvas

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17:07:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-22-13

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Epic Fantasy

Summary:

From the internationally bestselling author of the Sword of Truth series, comes a new Richard and Kahlan novel, sequel to The Omen Machine.

The bloodthirsty Jit is dead, and against all odds Richard and Kahlan have survived. But a new menace has attacked them in the Dark Lands. Infected with the essence of death itself, robbed of his power as a war wizard, Richard must race against time to uncover and stop the infernal conspiracy assembling itself behind the wall far to the north. His friends and allies are already captives of this fell combination, and Kahlan, also touched by death's power, will die completely if

Richard fails.

Bereft of magic, Richard has only his sword, his wits, his capacity for insight and an extraordinary companion, the young Samantha, a healer just coming into her powers.

Compelling, fast-moving, and intense, The Third Kingdom is a powerful tale that welcomes new readers to Terry Goodkind's world, while opening up new vistas of worldbuilding for longtime readers of the adventures of Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnell.

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ID: 316187

Title: Omen Machine

Author: Terry Goodkind

Narrator: Sam Tsoutsouvas

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-22-13

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Epic Fantasy

Summary:

A new Kahlan and Richard fantasy novel from bestselling author, Terry Goodkind.

An accident leads to the discovery of a mysterious machine that has rested hidden deep underground for countless millennia. The machine awakens to begin issuing a series of increasingly alarming, if minor, omens. The omens turn out to be astonishingly accurate, and ever more ominous.

As Zedd tries to figure out how to destroy the sinister device, the machine issues a cataclysmic omen involving Richard and Kahlan, foretelling an impending event beyond anyones ability to stop. As catastrophe approaches, the machine then reveals that it is within its power to withdraw the omen . . . In exchange for an impossible demand.

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ID: 316188

Title: Gravity of Birds

Author: Tracy Guzeman

Narrator: Eric Meyers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:08:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-15-13

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, New Adult, Coming of Age

Summary:

How do you find someone who wants to be lost?

Sisters Alice and Natalie were once close, but adolescence has wrenched them apart. Alice is a dreamer who loves books and birds; Natalie is headstrong, manipulative and beautiful.

On their lakeside family holiday, Alice falls under the thrall of a struggling young painter, Thomas Bayber. Natalie, however, seems strangely unmoved, tolerating sittings for a family portrait with surprising indifference. But by the end of the summer, three lives are shattered.

Decades later, Thomas, now a world-renowned artist, reveals the existence of a portrait of himself with Alice and Natalie from that fateful summer. The sisters themselves have disappeared without a trace. And Thomas is torn between taking the secrets of the girls to the grave, or using the painting to resurrect the past before it closes up on them all for good

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