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    The Water-Babies

    by Charles Kingsley, Charles Kingsley ...
    Narrated by Cori Samuel ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 1 min

    Tom, a poor orphan, is employed by the villainous chimney-sweep, Grimes, to climb up inside flues to clear away the soot. While engaged in this dreadful task, he loses his way and emerges in the bedroom of Ellie, the young daughter of the house who mistakes him for a thief. He runs away, and, hot and bothered, he slips into a cooling stream, falls fast asleep, and becomes a water baby. In this new ... Read more

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    Also available as: eBooks

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    The Water-Babies (Unabriged)

    by Charles Kingsley ...
    Narrated by Cori Samuel ...
    Series series Svenska Ljud Classica

    Unabridged

    7 hours 2 min

    Drowning was the best thing that ever happened to Tom. Before, he was just another poor orphan, employed by the evil chimney-sweep, Grimes, who beat and overworked him. But now, he has escaped that life and become a water baby. From the river to the ocean, "The Water Babies" follows Tom's fun and moving adventures as he meets all sorts of unique, aquatic creatures. A wonder of Victorian fantasy, ... Read more

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  • My Wonderful World Of Slapstick

    by Buster Keaton, Charles Samuels ...
    Over half century ago the society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children complained to Mayor Van Wyck, of New York, that Joe Keaton, a vaudeville actor, was brutally mistreating his five-year old son. At each afternoon and evening performance the child, billed as "The Human Mop", was slammed on the floor, hurled into the wings, and sometimes banged into bass drums. Unable to find a bruise or ... Read more

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    Watchers of Time

    by Charles Todd ...
    Narrated by Samuel Gillies ...
    Series series Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries

    Unabridged

    13 hours 49 min

    Charles Todd brings his classic mystery series to a new level of intensity and intrigue. The year is 1919, and Ian Rutledge is a fragile yet courageous former soldier searching for his place in a post-war world. Now a Scotland Yard detective, Rutledge is called upon to probe a murder in the small Norfolk town of Osterley- but he soon discovers that the crime may be connected to one of the greatest ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    A Long Shadow

    by Charles Todd ...
    Narrated by Samuel Gillies ...
    Series series Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries

    Unabridged

    11 hours 20 min

    Scotland Yard's Inspector Ian Rutledge brought the Great War home with him, and its horrors haunt him still. On New Year's Eve 1919, he finds a brass cartridge casing, similar to countless others he'd seen on the battlefield, on the steps of a friend's house. Soon there are more, purposely placed where he is sure to discover them. Unexpectedly drawn away from London to a small Northamptonshire ... Read more

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    Wings of Fire

    by Charles Todd ...
    Narrated by Samuel Gillies ...
    Series series Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries

    Unabridged

    11 hours 9 min

    When reclusive war poet Olivia Marlowe and her half brother Nicholas Cheney die together in their ancestral home on the Cornish coast, it looks like suicide. The grieving relatives gather together to discuss the fate of Barcombe Hall, when another shocking death occurs. Inspector Rutledge, who is still shell-shocked from his experiences in the Great War, is sent from Scotland Yard to investigate. ... Read more

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    A False Mirror

    by Charles Todd ...
    Narrated by Samuel Gillies ...
    Series series Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries

    Unabridged

    13 hours 9 min

    Unhealed scars of the Great War still torment Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge. A haunted, damaged shell of a man, he has been sent to the small coastal town of Hampton Regis to solve a violent crime and to confront his own tragic past. An officer who served with Rutledge in the trenches of France before being sent backto England under suspicious circumstances has now been accused of savagely ... Read more

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  • The King

    A Biography of Clark Gable

    by Charles Samuels ...
    The King was first published in 1961, shortly after the death of Hollywood legend Clark Gable in 1960. The book traces Gable's life from its humble, hard-scrabble beginnings in Ohio, to his hard-work and determined efforts to achieve success on Broadway, to his meteoric rise to stardom in Hollywood, his time spent in the Army Air Force in Europe, and his many loves, including Carole Lombard who ... Read more

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    Christian Hope

    by David Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Charles H. Spurgeon, Edward Payson, Samuel Davies ...
    Narrated by Terrel Jackson, Charles Manson, Duane Desalvo ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 45 min

    "Christian Hope" is a thought-provoking journey into the depths of faith, offering a beacon of light in the midst of life's uncertainties. This book is an invitation to explore the power of hope, as understood through the eyes of Christianity. Delving into biblical teachings and the experiences of believers, readers will gain a deeper understanding of what it means to have hope and how it can ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Magnificent Rube

    The Life and Gaudy Times of Tex Rickard

    by Charles Samuels ...
    "From the moment he was born, Tex Rickard seemed to be wherever the action was. He entered the world as a posse was riding by— the posse was after the James brothers. Rickard became a trail cowboy at eleven, and a town marshal in his early twenties. He was up in the Yukon Valley, working in gambling houses, two years before the Klondike gold rush started; there he prospected, made and lost several ... Read more

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  • Harvard Classics Anthology - Complete 51 Volumes

    The Greatest Works of World Literature - Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf

    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Thomas Carlyle, Plato, René Descartes, Immanuel Kant, Charles Darwin, Martin Luther, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri, Euripides, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charles Lamb, Henry David Thoreau, Samuel Johnson, John Stuart Mill, David Hume, Joseph Addison, John Locke, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont, Leigh Hunt, Epictetus, Thomas De Quincey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jonathan Swift, Christopher Marlowe, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, William Hazlitt, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Daniel Defoe, Aesop, Richard Henry Dana, John Dryden, Philip Massinger, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, John Ruskin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ernest Renan, Robert Burns, David Garrick, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Webster, Izaak Walton, John Bunyan, James Russell Lowell, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Homer, Edmund Burke, Plutarch, Molière, Aeschylus, Michael Faraday, Sophocles, William Makepeace Thackeray, Benjamin Franklin, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Voltaire, Robert Browning, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Dekker, John Milton, Aristophanes, Blaise Pascal, Virgil, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Simon Newcomb, William Penn, Walter Bigges, Philip Sidney, Herodotus, Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, Giuseppe Mazzini, Francis Pretty, George Berkeley, Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith, Alessandro Manzoni, Abraham Cowley, Michel de Montaigne, Ben Jonson, John Woolman, Benvenuto Cellini, Sydney Smith, Jean Froissart, William Henry Harrison, William Harvey, Marcus Aurelius, Hans Christian Andersen, Thomas Malory, George Gordon Byron, Thomas à Kempis, Richard Steele, Thomas Browne, Archibald Geikie, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Tacitus, William Roper, Hippocrates, Miguel de Cervantes, Thomas More, Friedrich von Schiller, Philip Nichols, Louis Pasteur, Joseph Lister, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Pliny the Younger, Edgar Alan Poe, Saint Augustine, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Francis Drake, Edward Haies, Niccolo Machiavelli, Ambroise Paré, William A. Neilson ...
    The 'Harvard Classics Anthology - Complete 51 Volumes' is a monumental collection that beckons readers into the depth and breadth of centuries' worth of wisdom and creative expression. This compendium embraces a variety of themes, ranging from the philosophical inquiries of existence and morality to the dazzling flights of literary imagination. Through essays, plays, poetry, and philosophical ... Read more

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  • My Wonderful World of Slapstick

    by Buster Keaton, Charles Samuels ...
    ''My Wonderful World of Slapstick'' is the intimate 1960 autobiography of legendary silent film comedian Buster Keaton, co-written alongside journalist Charles Samuels. The book offers a fascinating, firsthand glimpse behind "The Great Stone Face," tracing his 60-year journey across vaudeville, silent movies, talking pictures, and early television. Keaton details his chaotic childhood as the ... Read more

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