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- Thomas Hardy Audiobook by Claire TomalinListen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 295658Title: Thomas HardyAuthor: Claire TomalinNarrator: Josephine BaileyFormat: UnabridgedLength: 14:21:00Language: EnglishRelease date: 01-11-07Publisher: Tantor MediaGenres: History, Biography & Memoir, Literary, WorldSummary:Whitbread Award winner Claire Tomalin's seminal biography of the enigmatic novelist and poet Thomas Hardy.Today Thomas Hardy is best known for creating the great Wessex landscape as the backdrop to his rural stories, starting with Far from the Madding Crowd, and making them classics. But his true legacy is that of a progressive thinker. When he published Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure late in his career, Hardy explored a very different world than that of his rural tales, one in which the plight of lower classes and women take center stage while the higher classes are damned. Ironically, though, Hardy remained cloaked in the arms of this very upper class during the publication of these books, acting at all times in complete convention with the rules of society. Was he using his books to express himself in a way he felt unable to do in the company he kept, or did he know sensationalism would sell? Award-winning author Claire Tomalin expertly reconstructs the life that led Hardy to maintain conventionality and write revolution.Born in Dorset in 1840, Hardy came of age in rather meager circumstances. At sixteen, he left home for London and slowly worked his way through many rejections to become a published writer. Despite his mother's admonitions to never marry, he wed Emma Lavinia Gifford in 1874 and, even though he fell easily in love, stayed true to her till her death in 1912. He frequently toured London society, but few felt they knew the true Hardy, and it is this very core of self that Tomalin elegantly brings us to know so completely.Hardy's work consistently challenged sexual and religious conventions in a way that few other books of his time did. Though his personal modesty and kindness allowed some to underestimate him or even to pity him, they did not prevent him from taking on the central themes of human experience-time, memory, loss, love, fear, grief, anger, uncertainty, death. And it was exactly his quiet life, full of the small, personal dramas of family quarrels, rivalries, and at times, despair, that infuses his works with the rich detail that sets them apart as masterpieces. In this engrossing biography, Tomalin skillfully identifies the inner demons and the outer mores that drove Hardy and presents a rich and complex portrait of one of the greatest figures in English literature.Contact: [email protected]14 hr 21 min
- Seven Years to Seven Figures: The Fast-Track Plan to Becoming a Millionaire Audiobook by Michael MastersonListen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 295705Title: Seven Years to Seven Figures: The Fast-Track Plan to Becoming a MillionaireAuthor: Michael MastersonNarrator: Norman DietzFormat: UnabridgedLength: 09:50:36Language: EnglishRelease date: 01-01-07Publisher: Tantor MediaGenres: Business & Economics, Career Development, Personal Finance, Business DevelopmentSummary:Masterson, a self-made millionaire, draws upon his own experiences to offer a complete program for readers to reach seven figures within seven years. The author shows readers how to set target nest egg lifestyles for themselves and then goes into detail on how to increase their income and continue to save for the future-to achieve the target. Methods discussed will be how to gain equity in a business that will provide an income stream for the future; how to buy real estate and how to invest the rest of your money and more.Contact: [email protected]9 hr 51 min
- Dog Tails Audiobook by Albert Payson TerhuneListen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 129539Title: Dog TailsAuthor: Albert Payson Terhune, David Thorn, Jack LondonNarrator: Bobbie Frohman, David ThornFormat: UnabridgedLength: 04:34:00Language: EnglishRelease date: 01-01-07Publisher: Alcazar AudioWorksGenres: Kids, GeneralSummary:Three very different, heartwarming stories about man's best friend. ""Dollypogs"" by David Thorn, ""Brown Wolf"" by Jack London and ""His Dog"" by Albert Payson Terhune. Dog lovers will love the variety of stories, each touching the heart in a different way.Dolly is sweet and endearing from coming in as a tiny puppy and becoming the first in the family to be followed by two others who form a loving family with their kind and understanding master. ""Brown Wolf"" brings us to faithfulness while offering real suspense. And ""His Dog"" brings us a dog who is so smart he saves his master from himself in a suspenseful story with many turns.AUTHORDavid Thorn, Jack London,Albert Payson TerhuneDavid ThornHaving spent his early childhood in the picturesque Channel Islands off the French coast, David Thorn went to school in England followed by Law School in London. Later, he joined a major American corporation first in London and was then transferred to the United States.Nominated for an "Audie" in the classics category in 2006 for Dicken's The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Blackstone Audio), he has recorded Novick's His Majesty's Dragon (and others), Stroud's Heroes of the Valley (Random House), Thomas Wolsey: His Life and Death (Alcazar Audioworks/Blackstone) among many other.One Audiofile Magazine reviewer referred to him as "a masterful narrator," while another wrote "Thorn's narration is precise and captivating". Presently, his life is dictated by the daily whims of one Mr. Benjamin - a certain young French Bulldog with a mind of his own.Jack LondonJohn Griffith ""Jack"" London (1876-1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, London traveled extensively as both a hobo and sailor creating a enormous body of experience to draw on as a writer.London spent a great deal of time mining for gold in Alaska, to the detriment of his health, but inspiring the works that brought him the greatest fame.Albert Payson TerhuneAlbert Payson Terhune (1872 - 1942) was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of two writers, his Father also a prominent minister. Terhune had great success in two endeavors, writing and dog breeding.Originally a journalist, Terhune turned his family's summer home into a successful Collie breeding Kennel and devoted himself to writing fiction, mostly dog-themed."Contact: [email protected]4 hr 34 min
- Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court Audiobook by Mark TwainListen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 59182Title: Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's CourtAuthor: Mark TwainNarrator: Richard HenzelFormat: UnabridgedLength: 13:12:00Language: EnglishRelease date: 01-01-07Publisher: Big Happy Family AudioGenres: Fiction & Literature, ClassicsSummary:Hank Morgan is a mechanic, an engineer, and a foreman at the Colt Arms Factory. One day he gets into an argument, "conducted with crowbars," with an employee known as "Hercules." A blow to Hank's head sends him back to King Arthur's England in the Sixth Century. Quickly becoming a newspaper tycoon, an inventor, a showman, politician, and one-man military industrial complex, Hank rises to a position of power second only to King Arthur himself, ultimately challenging all of knight errantry and even the established Church. A remarkably prescient tale, replete with brilliant humor, exciting action, biting satire, and awe-inspiring philosophy, this book shows off Mark Twain's full range of incredible storytelling gifts and his remarkable philosophies of economics, religion, and politics. This Mark Twain In Person Library recording is an approximation of Mark Twain's own voice, just as his family might have heard the story for the first time in the family library.Contact: [email protected]13 hr 12 min
- Those Extraordinary Twins Audiobook by Mark TwainListen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 59183Title: Those Extraordinary TwinsAuthor: Mark TwainNarrator: Richard HenzelFormat: UnabridgedLength: 02:18:00Language: EnglishRelease date: 01-01-07Publisher: Big Happy Family AudioGenres: Fiction & Literature, Comedy, Essays & Memoirs, Literary Fiction, ClassicsSummary:A man of many firsts, Mark Twain was the first author to use a typewriter, as well as the first person to have a telephone in his home (which no doubt made him the first person to swear at tech support!). He also patented the accordion file, the fountain pen, and adjustable suspenders. And when he published "deleted scenes" from "Pudd'nhead Wilson" as "Those Extraordinary Twins" he became the first publisher to include "bonus tracks" along with the finished work. I hope you get as many laughs listening to this little book as I did narrating it. This Mark Twain In Person Library recording is an approximation of Mark Twain's own voice, just as his family might have heard the story for the first time in the family library.Contact: [email protected]2 hr 18 min
- Cossacks Audiobook by Leo TolstoyListen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 129534Title: CossacksAuthor: Leo TolstoyNarrator: David ThornFormat: UnabridgedLength: 07:20:00Language: EnglishRelease date: 01-01-07Publisher: Alcazar AudioWorksGenres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, ClassicsSummary:Tolstoy's first novel and acknowledged as one of his best. The Cossacks is based on Tolstoy's own forays into the Caucasus, abandoning his aristocrat life of gambling and carousing in Moscow and volunteering to be attached to the regular army. Leo Tolstoy's firsthand insight to the magnificent landscape and the colorful Cossack way of life is lushly descriptive, in a text translated from his manuscript by close friends.Olenin is an aimless young nobleman who is disenchanted with city life. Taking a post as a Cadet in the army, he finds himself assigned to the remote Cossack outpost in the Caucasus. It is here, among the Tatars, the Chechens, and the Old Believers, that he will fall in love with a beautiful Cossack girl. The only problem is that she is promised to a Cossack warrior.In the setting of what is present-day Kazakhstan, Tolstoy examines two psychological problems. The first is the dilemma of a young man who desires both fulfilling love and a place as a respected member of society. The other is the difficulty of a primitive society to accept domination by a higher culture that has no understanding of the traditions it asks its colonists to cast aside.AUTHORLeo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was born in 1828 about two hundred miles from Moscow. His mother died when he was two, his father when he was nine. His parents were of noble birth, and Tolstoy remained acutely aware of his aristocratic roots, even when he later embraced doctrines of equality and the brotherhood of man. After serving in the army in the Caucasus and Crimea, where he wrote his first stories, he traveled and studied educational theories. In 1862 he married Sophia Behrs and for the next fifteen years lived a tranquil, productive life, finishing War and Peace in 1869 and Anna Karenina in 1877. In 1879 he underwent a spiritual crisis. Tolstoy then sought to propagate his beliefs on faith, morality, and nonviolence, writing mostly parables, tracts, and morality plays. He died of pneumonia in 1910 at the age of eighty-two.COMMENTARYQuotes about The Cossacks"The best story that has been written in our language."-Ivan Turgenev""It was with a kind of amaze that I read [The Cossacks] and felt, word by word and line by line, the truth of a new art in it.""-William Dean Howells"Contact: [email protected]7 hr 20 min
- Love, It's an Inside Job Audiobook by Miles O'Brien RileyListen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 132008Title: Love, It's an Inside JobAuthor: Miles O'Brien RileyNarrator: Miles O'Brien RileyFormat: UnabridgedLength: 01:00:00Language: EnglishRelease date: 01-01-07Publisher: Alcazar AudioWorksGenres: Self Development, Health & WellnessSummary:This is the first in a series by Dr. Dr. Miles O'Brien Riley, PhD. This series is devoted to ""Being Happy and Being Loved. Dr. Miles brings many years of Marriage and Family Counseling experience to the topic of LOVE, It's an Inside Job. His style is full of humor and fun and brings us to a greater understanding of how love works in our lives, or can work. Join him for a new look at love, with many ideas for understanding and furthering one's growth in the practice of love.AUTHORDr. Miles O'Brien Riley, PhD.Dr. Miles O'Brien Riley completed doctoral studies in communication at the Univ. of California at Berkeley, founded the Communication Center in S.F. and spent 30 years as a Communications Director. During that time, he produced a dozen films, wrote and directed 5 musical comedies, published 13 books and hosted over 1500 televison and 4000 radio programs. He has received 3 Emmy Awards and 10 National Gabriel Awards, and 4 Proclaim Awards for outstanding TV and Radio productions. During his almost 50 years as a Marriage and Family Counselor, Dr. Miles has conducted hundreds of communication training workshops throughout the U.S. and 50 countries worldwide.COMMENTARYReviews for Alcazar AudioWorks' production of Love, It's an Inside JobSweet words to remind us of what we have got. Simple short book that really tugs at your heart and lets you realize all the great loves we have and forget to appreciate.Listener Review - Audible.comQuotes about Dr. MilesThe San Francisco Chronicle has called Dr. Miles O'Brien Riley, PhD., "The Great Communicator.""Contact: [email protected]1 hr
- Crimson Portrait Audiobook by Jody ShieldsListen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 115661Title: Crimson PortraitAuthor: Jody ShieldsNarrator: Josephine BaileyFormat: UnabridgedLength: 09:00:00Language: EnglishRelease date: 01-01-07Publisher: Tantor MediaGenres: Fiction & Literature, Historical FictionSummary:This haunting love story-the magnificent new historical novel by the author of the national bestseller The Fig Eater-makes unforgettably real the ravages of love and war. Spring 1915. On a sprawling country estate not far from London, a young woman mourns her husband, fallen on a distant battlefield. The eerie stillness in which she grieves is abruptly shattered as her home is transformed into a bustling military hospital. Recoiling from the chaos, unhinged by grief, the young widow finds unexpected refuge in a tender young soldier whose face, concealed by bandages, she cannot see. Their affair takes a fateful turn when she confronts-and seizes upon-the opportunity to remake her lover in the image of her lost husband.The Crimson Portrait is a novel of glittering surfaces that belie dark truths. Its rich cast comes into focus as the novel peels back layers of suspense and intrigue to illuminate the abiding mysteries of affinity and desire.'Shields's writing weaves dark mythical symbolism with matter-of-fact medical nitty-gritty to reveal what happens when class, ignorance, hopefulness and despair coalesce.'-Publishers Weekly'Lovely writing...'-KirkusContact: [email protected]9 hr
- Four Great Americans Audiobook by James BaldwinListen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 131965Title: Four Great AmericansAuthor: James BaldwinNarrator: Bobbie Frohman, David ThornFormat: UnabridgedLength: 04:11:00Language: EnglishRelease date: 01-01-07Publisher: Alcazar AudioWorksGenres: Kids, HistoricalSummary:Essential learning for any young student of American History, biographies of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Webster and Abraham Lincoln.These stories help us get to know the gentleman as people and then take us through their great accomplishments that make us appreciate their place in American history.Table of Contents:The Story of George WashingtonChapter 01. When Washington was a BoyChapter 02. His HomesChapter 03. His Schools and SchoolmastersChapter 04. Going to SeaChapter 05. The Young SurveyorChapter 06. The Ohio CountryChapter 07. A Change of CircumstancesChapter 08. A Perilous JourneyChapter 09. His First BattleChapter 10. The French and Indian WarChapter 11. The Mutterings of the StormChapter 12. The Beginning of the WarChapter 13. IndependenceChapter 14. The First PresidentChapter 15. ""First in the Hearts of His Countrymen""The Story of Benjamin FranklinChapter 01. The WhistleChapter 02. SchooldaysChapter 03. The Boys and the WharfChapter 04. Choosing a TradeChapter 05. How Franklin Educated HimselfChapter 06. Farewell to BostonChapter 07. The First Day in PhiladelphiaChapter 08. Governor William KeithChapter 09. The Return to PhiladelphiaChapter 10. The First Visit to EnglandChapter 11. A Leading Man in PhiladelphiaChapter 12. Franklin's Rules of LifeChapter 13. Franklin's Services to the ColoniesChapter 14. Franklin's Wonderful KiteChapter 15. The Last YearsThe Story of Daniel WebsterChapter 01. Captain WebsterChapter 02. The Youngest SonChapter 03. Ezekiel and DanielChapter 04. Plans For the FutureChapter 05. At Exeter AcademyChapter 06. Getting Ready for CollegeChapter 07. At Dartmouth CollegeChapter 08. How Daniel Taught SchoolChapter 09. Daniel Goes to BostonChapter 10. Lawyer and CongressmanChapter 11. The Dartmouth College CaseChapter 12. Webster's Great OrationsChapter 13. Mr. Webster in the SenateChapter 14. Mr. Webster in Private LifeChapter 15. The Last YearsThe Story Of Abraham LincolnChapter 01. The Kentucky HomeChapter 02. Work and SorrowChapter 03. The New MotherChapter 04. School and BooksChapter 05. Life in the BackwoodsChapter 06. The BoatmanChapter 07. The First Years in IllinoisChapter 08. The Black Hawk WarChapter 09. In the LegislatureChapter 10. Politics and MarriageChapter 11. Congressman and LawyerChapter 12. The Question of SlaveryChapter 13. Lincoln and DouglasChapter 14. President of The United StatesChapter 15. The End of a Great LifeAUTHORJames Baldwin (1841 - 1925) was a pioneer of primary education, a teacher for many years and eventually an administrator and finally Editor-in-Chief of the American Book Company, specializing in educational text.James Baldwin's lasting fame is for the children's literature he wrote, over 50 books, selling in the millions.COMMENTARYReviews for Alcazar AudioWorks' production of Four Great AmericansFour Famous Americans is an audiobook by author James Baldwin, read by Bobbie Frohman and David Thorn, produced by Alcazar AudioWorks. The four Americans are Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Webster, and George Washington. Each CD is approximately an hour in length, bookmarked every 3 minutes for an easy return to the story after a break.The story of Abraham Lincoln begins at the beginning, in Kentucky. His family was a pioneer family that lived off the land.4 hr 11 min
- Sky People Audiobook by S. M. StirlingListen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 115663Title: Sky PeopleAuthor: S. M. StirlingNarrator: Todd McLarenFormat: UnabridgedLength: 10:30:00Language: EnglishRelease date: 01-01-07Publisher: Tantor MediaGenres: Science Fiction & FantasySummary:Marc Vitrac was born in Louisiana in the early 1960's, about the time the first interplanetary probes delivered the news that Mars and Venus were teeming with life-even human life. At that point, the 'Space Race' became the central preoccupation of the great powers of the world.Now, in 1988, Marc has been assigned to Jamestown, the US-Commonwealth base on Venus, near the great Venusian city of Kartahown. Set in a countryside swarming with sabertooths and dinosaurs, Jamestown is home to a small band of American and allied scientist-adventurers.But there are flies in this ointment-and not only the Venusian dragonflies, with their yard-wide wings. The biologists studying Venus's life are puzzled by the way it not only resembles that on Earth, but is virtually identical to it. The EastBloc has its own base at Cosmograd, in the highlands to the south, and relations are frosty. And attractive young geologist Cynthia Whitlock seems impervious to Marc's Cajun charm.Meanwhile, at the western end of the continent, Teesa of the Cloud Mountain People leads her tribe in a conflict with the Neanderthal-like beastmen who have seized her folk's sacred caves. Then an EastBloc shuttle crashes nearby, and the beastmen acquire new knowledge... and AK47's.Jamestown sends its long-range blimp to rescue the downed EastBloc cosmonauts, little suspecting that the answer to the jungle planet's mysteries may lie there, among tribal conflicts and traces of a power that made Earth's vaunted science seem as primitive as the tribesfolk's blowguns. As if that weren't enough, there's an enemy agent on board the airship...Extravagant and effervescent, The Sky People is alternate-history SF adventure at its best.Contact: [email protected]10 hr 30 min
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