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ID: 319610

Title: Remarkable Creatures

Author: Tracy Chevalier

Narrator: Sarah Le Fevre

Format: Abridged

Length: 06:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-24-09

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Classics

Summary:

It is a stunning story, compassionately reimagined Guardian

Tracy Chevaliers stunning novel of how one womans gift transcends class and gender to lead to some of the most important discoveries of the nineteenth century.

A revealing portrait of the intricate and resilient nature of female friendship.

In the early nineteenth century, a windswept beach along the English coast brims with fossils for those with the eye

From the moment shes struck by lightning as a baby, it is clear Mary Anning is marked for greatness. When she uncovers unknown dinosaur fossils in the cliffs near her home, she sets the scientific world alight, challenging ideas about the worlds creation and stimulating debate over our origins. In an arena dominated by men, however, Mary is soon reduced to a serving role, facing prejudice from the academic community, vicious gossip from neighbours, and the heartbreak of forbidden love. Even nature is a threat, throwing bitter cold, storms, and landslips at her.

Luckily Mary finds an unlikely champion in prickly, intelligent Elizabeth Philpot, a middle-class spinster who is also fossil-obsessed. Their relationship strikes a delicate balance between fierce loyalty and barely suppressed envy. Despite their differences in age and background, Mary and Elizabeth discover that, in struggling for recognition, friendship is their strongest weapon.

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ID: 319871

Title: Some Sunny Day

Author: Dame Vera Lynn

Narrator: Dame Vera Lynne, Virginia Lewis-Jones

Format: Abridged

Length: 03:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-20-09

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

READ BY DAME VERA LYNN AND HER DAUGHTER VIRGINIA LEWIS-JONES. Forbidden love and family secrets In World War Two Liverpool in the heartrending new saga from the author of Goodnight Sweetheart.

Born Vera Welch on 20 March, 1917 in the East End of London, Dame Vera Lynns career was set from an early age along with her father, who also did a turn, she sang in Working Mens Clubs from just seven years old. She had a successful radio career with Joe Loss and Charlie Kunz in the 1920s and 30s, but it was with World War II that she became the iconic figure that captured the imagination of the national public.

Her spirit and verve, along with her ability to connect with the men fighting for their country and those left behind praying for their loved ones, made her the Forces sweetheart. Performing the songs that she will always be associated with, such as Well Meet Again and Yours, Vera toured Egypt, India and Burma to entertain the troops and bring them a sense of back home.

Her career after the war flourished, with hits in the US and the UK, but Vera was never able to leave behind her wartime role and was deeply affected by what she had seen. Still heavily involved with veteran and other charities, this is Dame Veras vivid story of her life and her war from bombs and rations to dance halls and the searing heat of her appearances abroad. Epitomising British fortitude and hope, Dame Vera gives a vivid portrait of Britain at war, and a unique story of one woman who came to symbolize a nation.

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ID: 319962

Title: Macbeth

Author: William Shakespeare

Narrator: Robert Hardy, Sir Anthony Quayle

Format: Abridged

Length: 02:10:59

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-09

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Summary:

Macbeth is a tragedy by William Shakespeare about a regicide and its aftermath. It is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and is believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1606. This is a classic audiobook recording read by Sir Anthony Quayle, Robert Hardy and other cast members.

Promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland by three sinister witches, Macbeth murders the king to ensure his ambitions come true. But he soon learns the meaning of terror killing once, he must kill again and again, and the dead return to haunt him. A story of war, witchcraft and bloodshed, Macbeth also depicts the relationship between husbands and wives, and the risks they are prepared to take to achieve their desires.

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ID: 319872

Title: Romeo and Juliet

Author: Dame Edith Evans, William Shakespeare

Narrator: Albert Finney, Claire Bloom

Format: Abridged

Length: 02:45:51

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-09

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Historical Fiction, Action & Adventure

Summary:

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young 'star-cross'd lovers' whose untimely deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. Read by an all star cast that include Albert Finney and Claire Bloom this audio recording is a fantastic piece of literature to ass to your collection.

The tragic feud between 'Two households, both alike in dignity/In fair Verona', the Montagues and Capulets, which ultimately kills the two young 'star-crossed lovers' and their 'death-marked love' creates issues which have fascinated subsequent generations. The play deals with issues of intergenerational and familial conflict, as well as the power of language and the compelling relationship between sex and death, all of which makes it an incredibly modern play. It is also an early example of Shakespeare fusing poetry with dramatic action, as he moves from Romeo's lyrical account of Juliet'she doth teach the torches to burn bright!' to the bustle and action of a 16th-century household (the play containsmore scenes of ordinary working people than any of Shakespeare's other works). It also represents an experimental attempt to fuse comedy with tragedy. Up to the third act, the play proceeds along the lines of a classic romantic comedy. The turning point comes with the death of one of one Shakespeares finest early dramatic creations Romeos sexually ambivalent friend Mercutio whose plague oboth your houses begins the plays descent into tragedy. For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

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ID: 319875

Title: Dancing Backwards

Author: Salley Vickers

Narrator: Jilly Bond

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:55:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-06-09

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Literary Fiction, Psychological

Summary:

The brilliant new work from the bestselling author of Miss Garnets Angel and The Other Side of You.

Violet Hetherington has taken the rash step of joining a transatlantic cruise ship to New York to visit Edwin, an old friend. As she makes the six day crossing, she relives the traumatic events that led to her losing Edwin's friendship, and abandoning her career as a poet, for the safety of marriage and domesticity.

Despite her natural reserve, she meets a rich variety of passengers travelling with her, who affect her understanding of her own past. Most significantly, she meets Dino, the dance host, whose motives in befriending Vi are shady, but who teaches her to ballroom dance and inadvertently helps her to recover from her past.

Moving between the late sixties and the present day, Dancing Backwards is written with the lightness of touch and psychological insight which characterise Salley Vickers' acclaimed work. This bittersweet novel is subtle, poignant and wonderfully entertaining.

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ID: 319884

Title: More About Paddington

Author: Michael Bond

Narrator: Stephen Fry

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:38:39

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-09

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature

Summary:

Bears like Paddington are very rare, says Mrs Bird, and a good thing too, or it would cost us a small fortune in marmalade.

Stephen Fry returns to tell us the continuing saga of Paddington and the Browns.

READ BY STEPHEN FRY. The Brown Family first met Paddington on a railway station Paddington station, in fact and now he is just another member of their family, if a slightly unusual one.

As he says himself, Things happen to me Im that sort of bear. With his attempts at home decorating, detective work and photography, the Brown family soon find that Paddington causes his own particular brand of chaos.

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ID: 319878

Title: Paddington at the Zoo

Author: Michael Bond

Narrator: Jim Broadbent

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:07:41

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-09

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature

Summary:

When Paddington hears that he his going to visit the zoo he is very excited and makes 6 marmalade sandwiches to take with him in honour of the occasion.

But at the zoo things dont go to plan. There are some very fierce, not to mention hungry animals there. It is not Paddington they are after though, it is his elevenses!

Read beautifully by actor Jim Broadbent.

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ID: 319879

Title: Paddington and the Marmalade Maze

Author: Michael Bond

Narrator: Jim Broadbent

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:08:41

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-09

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature

Summary:

As usual, Paddington manages to turn a perfectly normal outing into an adventure. Mr Gruber and Paddington are just about to be followed home by a crowd of eager tourists, when Paddington manages to lose them all in the maze. But, mysteriously, Paddington and Mr Gruber manage to escape from the maze unscathed.

READ BY THE WONDERFUL JIM BROADBENT! As usual, Paddington manages to turn a perfectly normal outing into an adventure. Mr Gruber and Paddington are just about to be followed home by a crowd of eager tourists, when Paddington manages to lose them all in the maze. But, mysteriously, Paddington and Mr Gruber manage to escape from the maze unscathed.

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ID: 319886

Title: Bones of the Hills

Author: Conn Iggulden

Narrator: Rupert Farley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17:45:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-02-09

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, War & Military, Epic Fantasy

Summary:

The powerful and exhilarating third novel in Conn Igguldens No. 1 bestselling Conqueror series, following the life and adventures of the mighty Genghis Khan

The fatherless boy, exiled from his tribe, whom readers have been following in 'Wolf of the Plains' and 'Lords of the Bow', has grown into the great king, Genghis Khan. He has united the warring tribes and even taken his armies against the great cities of their oldest enemies. Now he finds trouble rising west of the Mongolian plains. His emissaries are mutilated or killed; his trading gestures rebuffed. So, dividing his armies, using his sons as generals of the various divisions, he sends them out simultaneously in many directions, ranging as far as modern Iran and Iraq.

As well as discovering new territories, exacting tribute from conquered peoples, laying waste the cities which resist, this policy is also a way of diffusing the rivalries between his sons and heirs and working out who should succeed the khan.

This, the third book in the Conqueror series, is once more an epic story. Genghis Khan is an exhilarating and heroic figure. The sense of his ambition and his power, the relationships with his wives, sons and trusted aides, the sweep of his conquests, is all brought together by a masterful storytelling. It is a compelling read. With each book, you are left, even more, longing for the next.

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ID: 319892

Title: Crow Stone

Author: Jenni Mills

Narrator: Eleanor David

Format: Abridged

Length: 04:19:00

Language: English

Release date: 07-01-09

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

A compulsively readable thriller that skillfully weaves together past and present to uncover the sinister secrets buried in the ancient stone quarries under Bath.

Kit Parry is reluctant to take the job shoring up the ancient quarries beneath her hometown of Bath a place as riddled with memories shed rather forget as it is with Roman ruins. The miners certainly dont want her there, and her burgeoning romance with lanky foreman Gary looks likely to complicate matters even further.

But when dark developments threaten the spa towns placid façade, Kit must face up to the past shes tried so desperately to bury. Someone wants her out of Bath that much is clear but who was it that brought her childhood to an abrupt end in the summer of her fourteenth year? Why has she never been back to Bath, and how did she escape her violent father? When Kit stumbles across evidence of a lost Mithraic temple, the mysteries in her own past become entangled with a search for what could be the archaeological discovery of the decade and what turns into a dangerous obsession

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