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ID: 483241

Title: Passing

Author: Nella Larsen

Narrator: Margaret Melosh

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:39:06

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Black Literature

Summary:

Light-skinned black woman Irene Redfield encounters an old childhood friend - Claire- who is now 'passing' as a white woman. Claire is married to a racist white man, who doesn't know she has African American blood. In spite of the danger of being found out by her husband and society at large; she finds herself helplessly drawn to Irene's world... 'Passing' is a fascinating listening experience on many simultaneous levels.

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ID: 483448

Title: Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

Author: Hugh Lofting

Narrator: Alice Marti

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:03:56

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature, Classics

Summary:

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle - Doctor Dolittle meets Tommy Stubbins, the young son of the local cobbler, who becomes his new assistant. Tommy learns how to speak animal languages and becomes involved in the Doctor's quest to find Long Arrow, the greatest naturalist in the world. This novel takes us to the Mediterranean, South America, and even under the sea. He faces many problems while taking care of these animals.

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ID: 483158

Title: Story of Doctor Dolittle

Author: Hugh Lofting

Narrator: Alice Marti

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:35:58

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature, Classics

Summary:

John Dolittle, MD. is a respected physician and quiet bachelor living with his sister in the small English village of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh. His love of animals grows over the years and his household menagerie eventually scares off his human customers, leading to loss of wealth. But after learning the secrets of speaking to all animals from his parrot Polynesia, he takes up veterinary practice...

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ID: 483525

Title: Rupert of Hentzau

Author: Anthony Hope

Narrator: John Roland

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:15:05

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Romance, General, Mystery

Summary:

The story of 'Rupert of Hentzau' is set in the kingdom of Ruritania, in Germanic Middle Europe. There is Rudolf Elphberg, the dissolute absolute monarch of Ruritania; Rudolf Rassendyll, the English gentleman who had acted as his political decoy, being his distant cousin and look alike; Flavia, the princess, now queen; Rupert of Hentzau, the dashing well-born villain; Fritz von Tarlenheim, the loyal courtier. Queen Flavia, dutifully but unhappily married to her cousin Rudolf V, writes to her true love Rudolf Rassendyll. The letter is carried by von Tarlenheim to be delivered by hand, but it is stolen by the exiled Rupert of Hentzau, who sees in it a chance to return to favor by informing the regularly jealous and paranoid King...

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ID: 483341

Title: Moving the Mountain

Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Narrator: Margaret Melosh

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:13:00

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Contemporary Women

Summary:

Moving the Mountain is a feminist utopian novel. The book was one element in the major wave of utopian and dystopian literature that marked the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Perkins sends a man forward in time to a better world, but gives him deep difficulties in adjusting to it.

Herland describes an isolated society composed entirely of women who reproduce via parthenogenesis. The result is an ideal social order, free of war, conflict and domination. The story is told from the perspective of Van Jennings, a student of sociology who, along with two friends, Terry O. Nicholson and Jeff Margrave, forms an expedition party to explore an area of unchartered land where it is rumored lives a society consisting entirely of women. The three friends do not really believe the rumors as they are unable to conceive of how human reproduction could occur without males. The men speculate about what a society of women would be like, each guessing differently based on the stereotype of women which he holds most dear...

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ID: 483411

Title: Bladys of the Stewponey

Author: Sabine Baring-Gould

Narrator: John Roland

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:23:40

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Historical Romance

Summary:

This novel comprises parts of romance, historical novel and horror story - depicting a young lady being offered as a prize in a bowling match, a wife-burning, highwaymen and a buried treasure.

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ID: 483649

Title: George and Robert Stephenson

Author: Samuel Smiles

Narrator: John Roland

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:08:55

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Science & Technology, Technology & Engineering

Summary:

George Stephenson, known as 'Father of the Railways' is considered as a genius in steam locomotive engineering. George and his son Robert worked very closely together and it is often difficult to separate their works. They both made remarkable contributions to development of railway.

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ID: 483557

Title: Tales from Shakespeare

Author: Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb

Narrator: Alice Marti

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:54:10

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Kids, Historical, Classics

Summary:

Tales from Shakespeare is a children's book which makes the stories of Shakespeare's plays familiar to the young. Shakespeare's exact words are used whenever it seemed possible to bring them in, meticulous care has been taken to select such words as might least disturb the effect of the beautiful English tongue in which he wrote. The book contains: Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, As You Like It, Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merchant of Venice, Cymbeline, Macbeth, All's Well That Ends Well, The Taming of the Shrew, The Comedy of Errors, Measure for Measure, Twelfth Night, Timon of Athens, Hamlet, Othello & Pericles, Prince of Tyre.

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ID: 483141

Title: Bowser the Hound

Author: Thornton Burgess

Narrator: Casey Robertson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:23:56

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Kids, General, Animals & Nature

Summary:

One day, Bowser (the hound), gets fooled by Old Man Coyote; making Bowser run and run until Bowser is out of the forest and the old pasture, far from home. But with the caring aid of Blacky the Crow and other helpers; Bowser finally gets even with the old coyote. Young readers, nature and animal lovers of all ages will applaud this delightful story of life in the Green Forest. Part of a series by the author, featuring the beloved animals of the Green Forest (as well as some humans). Welcome to a wonderful world of animal fiction!

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ID: 483350

Title: Railway Children

Author: Edith Nesbit

Narrator: Alice Marti

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:17:50

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-19

Publisher: Bookwire USD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Teen, General, Coming of Age

Summary:

The Railway Children tells the story of a family who move from London to 'The Three Chimneys', a house near the railway in Yorkshire, after the father, who works at the Foreign Office, is imprisoned after being falsely accused of spying. The children befriend an Old Gentleman who regularly takes the 9:15 train near their home, and he tries to help them prove their father's innocence. The family takes care of a Russian exile who came to England looking for his family and Jim, the grandson of the Old Gentleman.

Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) was the author of world famous books for children - the tales of fantastical adventures, journeys back in time and travel to magical worlds.

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