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ID: 320344

Title: Hobbit

Author: J. R. R. Tolkien

Narrator: Martin Shaw

Format: Abridged

Length: 05:50:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure, Epic Fantasy

Summary:

Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable and quiet life. His contentment is disturbed one day when the wizard, Gandalf, and the dwarves arrive to take him away on an adventure.

Smaug certainly looked fast asleep, when Bilbo peeped once more from the entrance. He was just about to step out on to the floor when he casught a sudden thin ray of red from under the drooping lid of Smaugs left eye. He was only pretending to sleep! He was watching the tunnel entrance!

Whisked from his comfortable hobbit-hole by Gandalf the wizard and a band of dwarves. Bilbo Baggins finds himself caught up in a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon

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ID: 320348

Title: Pale Horseman

Author: Bernard Cornwell

Narrator: Jamie Glover

Format: Abridged

Length: 05:20:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-03-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

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

Summary:

Continuing the outstanding success of The Last Kingdom, The Pale Horseman is the second installment of Bernard Cornwells fantastic series, following the fate of Alfred the Great ,and the forging of Britain

It is the lowest time for the Saxons. Defeated comprehensively by the Vikings who now occupy most of England, Alfred and his very small group of surviving followers retreat to the trackless marshlands of Somerset. There, forced to move restlessly to escape betrayal or detection, using the marsh mists for cover, they travel by small boats from one island refuge to another, hoping that they can regroup and find some more strength and support.

Only Uhtred remains resolute. Determined to discover the enemy's strategies, he draws once again on his Viking upbringing, and attempts to enter the Viking camps. His plan is to become accepted enough by their leaders to be able to sit in their councils and uncover their plans. But once there, the attractions of his many friends among the Vikings coupled with his disillusion with the Saxons' leadership and anger at Alfred's criticism of his own conduct, draws him back again to his allegiance to the Vikings, aided by his passion for one of them, the shadow queen of the title.

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ID: 320410

Title: Straw Men

Author: Michael Marshall

Narrator: Kerry Shale

Format: Abridged

Length: 03:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-21-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

The first in an explosive trilogy of thrillers from Michael Marshall. This book takes the serial-killer book ands adds a chilling new dimension, combining pace, narrative and a genuinely disturbing conspiracy story.

Sarah tries to struggle, but the man holds her. The scream never makes it out of her throat. 'Nobody watching,' the man says with hateful calm. 'I made it this way. I can walk where nobody sees.

Sarah Becker is the fifth girl to be abducted by this maniac. Judging from the state of the bodies that have been found, her long hair will be hacked off and she will be tortured. She has about a week to live.

Former LA homicide detective John Zandt has an inside track on the perpetrator his own daughter was one of his victims two years ago.

But the key to Sarah's whereabouts lies with Ward Hopkins, a man with a past so secret not even he knows about it. His parents have just died in a car accident, but they leave Ward a bizarre message that leads him to question everything he once believed to be true.

As he begins to investigate his own past Ward finds himself drawn into the shadowy, sinister world of the Straw Men and into the desperate race to find Sarah, before her time runs out

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ID: 320416

Title: Prey

Author: Michael Crichton

Narrator: Robert Sean Leonard

Format: Abridged

Length: 05:40:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-21-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

From the Number One international bestselling author of Jurassic Park comes this classic Crichton page-turner, weaving together heart-pounding thrills with cutting-edge technology.

In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles micro-robots has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive. It has been programmed as a predator. It is evolving swiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour. Every attempt to destroy it has failed. And we are the prey.

As fresh as todays headlines, Michael Crichtons most compelling novel yet tells the story of a mechanical plague, and the desperate efforts of a handful of scientists to stop it. Drawing on up-to-the-minute science fact, PREY takes us into the emerging realms of nanotechnology and artificial distributed intelligence in a story of breathtaking suspense.

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ID: 320412

Title: Lonely Dead

Author: Michael Marshall

Narrator: Kerry Shale

Format: Abridged

Length: 03:35:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-21-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

Grotesquely arranged corpses are turning up in remote locations across America: is it the work of a bizarre sect or a solitary serial killer? An electrifying thriller from the author of The Straw Men.

A guilty man walks alone into the cold mountain forests of Washington State, aiming never to return. What he finds there starts a chain of events that will quickly spiral out of control.

Meanwhile in Los Angeles a woman's body is discovered, sitting bolt upright in a motel bedroom. She is dead, and her killer has left his mark. It soon becomes clear he has something to say, and a lot more work to do.

And Ward Hopkins, an ex-CIA agent recovering from the recent shocking deaths of his parents, is on the trail of his past, tracking down the men who destroyed everything he once held dear, and the murderer whose face he sees every time he looks in the mirror.

These three are ominous strands in a web of deadly secrets, roads to a dark history that should never have been told. There are people who will do anything to protect it. Anything at all. As in life, it's not a matter of who dies. We're all going to die.

What matters is who dies last.

Michael Marshall's unique voice adds a chilling intensity to the serial-killer plot, combining dazzling narrative, a white-hot pace and a deeply disturbing backdrop of conspiracy.

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ID: 320414

Title: Blood of Angels

Author: Michael Marshall

Narrator: Kerry Shale

Format: Abridged

Length: 03:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-21-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

Tense and suspense-filled thriller from the author of The Straw Men and The Lonely Dead.

Since aiding in the capture of his brother, the serial killer known as the Upright Man, Ward Hopkins has been avoiding his demons holed up in a log cabin with his girlfriend, FBI agent Nina Baynam. But when Ninas boss turns up with an intriguing new serial-killer case for her, the couple realise they cant hide forever. Especially when they learn that the Upright Man has escaped from custody.

Wards brother must have had help. The most likely candidates are the Straw Men, the shadowy organisation founded on murder as a way of life that killed Wards parents. Former homicide cop John Zandt is obsessed with tracking them down following their murder of his daughter, and as he digs deeper he discovers extraordinary secrets about American history and society.

The shadows are gathering, and across America sinister forces are stirring. Only Ward, Nina and John stand against the Upright Man and his terrifying allies. Its just a question of when the next killings will start and whether they will ever stop.

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ID: 320443

Title: Man and Boy

Author: Tony Parsons

Narrator: Colin Buchanan

Format: Abridged

Length: 02:55:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Classics, General

Summary:

Wistful, touching and funny Mail on Sunday

Hilarious and tear-jerking in turns Express

A sharp, witty and wise book straight from the heart Daily Mail

Harry Silver has it all. A successful job in TV, a gorgeous wife, a lovely child. But in one moment of madness, he chucks it all away.

A modern classic, Man and Boy is a hilarious and touching novel about how Harry comes to terms with his life, brings up his son alone and, gradually, learns what words like love and family really mean.

Wistful, touching and funny Mail on Sunday

Hilarious and tear-jerking in turns Express

A sharp, witty and wise book straight from the heart Daily Mail

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ID: 320454

Title: Vagabond

Author: Bernard Cornwell

Narrator: Tim Pigott-Smith

Format: Abridged

Length: 06:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, War & Military

Summary:

The second installment in the Grail Quest series, from one of our bestselling authors.

In Harlequin, Thomas of Hookton travelled to France as an archer and there discovered a shadowy destiny, which linked him to a family of heretical French lords who sought Christendom's greatest relic: the Holy Grail.

Vagabond continues the story of a search that Thomas is reluctant to pursue. He doubts the grail's existence, and he has other promises to keep, promises that take him back to Brittany where a vicious civil war is about to reach its climax. But other folk, far more powerful than Thomas and his friends, fear the rumour of the grail's existence and force Thomas to pursue the relic, while his enemies, faceless and ruthless, fear Thomas's destiny and determine to destroy him. Thomas's allies are few and weak: a hedge priest, a renegade French knight, a Jewish adventurer and a crippled English soldier but now they must unite and find greater strengths to pierce the mysteries of Christendom.

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ID: 320470

Title: Bloody Ground

Author: Bernard Cornwell

Narrator: David Rintoul

Format: Abridged

Length: 03:10:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Historical Fiction, Family Life

Summary:

A superbly exciting novel which vividly captures the horror of the battlefield, The Bloody Ground is the fourth volume in the Starbuck Chronicles.

It is late summer 1862 and the Confederacy is invading the United States of America.

Nate Starbuck, a northern preachers son fighting for the rebel South, is given command of a punishment battalion a despised unit of shirkers and cowards. His enemies expect it to be his downfall, as Starbuck must lead this ramshackle unit into a battle that will prove to be the bloodiest of the Civil War.

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ID: 320508

Title: Falling Angels

Author: Tracy Chevalier

Narrator: Isla Blair, Jamie Glover

Format: Abridged

Length: 03:40:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

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

Summary:

Vividly imagined Sunday Telegraph

Sex and death meet again in [a] marvellous evocation of Edwardian England Daily Mail

Queen Victoria is dead. In January 1901, the day after her passing, two very different families visit neighbouring graves in a London cemetery. The traditional Waterhouses revere the late Queen where the Colemans have a more modern outlook, but both families are appalled by the friendship that springs up between their respective daughters, Lavinia and Maude.

As the girls grow up, their world changes almost beyond measure: cars are replacing horses, electric lighting is taking over from gas, and emancipation is fast approaching, to the delight of some and the dismay of others

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