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Short Stories Set on The Sea

Classic tales of adventures, shipwrecks, sea monsters, haunted ships and more

by Arthur Conan Doyle, H G Wells, Anthony Trollope, Charles Lamb, Edward Everett Hale, Guy de Maupassant, Izola Forrester, Kenneth Grahame, Stephen Crane, Victor Hugo, W W Jacobs, William Hope Hodgson ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Eric Meyers, Ian Holm ...

Unabridged

7 hours 47 min

From placid and glimmering to foaming and raging the sea is a perfect mirror of the human condition. Our authors often place their characters on or about this vast mass that can be either friend or foe. This liquid character has many dimensions, many ways of speaking.01 - Short Stories Set on the Sea - An Introduction02 - The Striped Chest by Arthur Conan Doyle03 - The Sea Raiders by H G Wells04 - ... Read more

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From placid and glimmering to foaming and raging the sea is a perfect mirror of the human condition. Our authors often place their characters on or about this vast mass that can be either friend or foe. This liquid character has many dimensions, many ways of speaking.01 - Short Stories Set on the Sea - An Introduction02 - The Striped Chest by Arthur Conan Doyle03 - The Sea Raiders by H G Wells04 -
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - The English

The top ten Short Stories of all time written by English authors

by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, D H Lawrence, Elizabeth Gaskell, Joseph Conrad, Mary Shelley, Rudyard Kipling, Saki the pseudonym for H H Munro, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf ...

Narrated by Ian Holm, Nigel Lambert, Richard Mitchley ...

Unabridged

7 hours 41 min

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

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Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - 1910s

The top ten short stories of the 1910's.

by James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Sherwood Anderson, M R James, Bram Stoker, D H Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Saki, Virginia Woolf, W F Harvey ...

Narrated by Jim Norton, Ian Holm, David Shaw-Parker ...

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6 hours 13 min

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

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Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will
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Diary of a Strong Black Woman

Part Two

by Holmes ...

This book is my story where I was and where I am going. From the first you saw things and read, I had to grow into the woman I am today. Yes I have skeletons and flaws. I’m not perfect nor will I ever be. People are quit to judge you by what others say when they have the same speck in their life. In life, you can’t be quick to judge and condemn someone because you dislike this person over what ... Read more

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This book is my story where I was and where I am going. From the first you saw things and read, I had to grow into the woman I am today. Yes I have skeletons and flaws. I’m not perfect nor will I ever be. People are quit to judge you by what others say when they have the same speck in their life. In life, you can’t be quick to judge and condemn someone because you dislike this person over what
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Ancient and Modern Ships

Part 1 : Wooden Sailing Ships

by Holmes ...

Ancient and Modern Ships Part 1: Wooden Sailing Ships by Sir George C. V. Holmes is a comprehensive exploration of the evolution, design, and construction of wooden sailing vessels from antiquity through the early modern era. Drawing on archaeological discoveries, historical records, and technical analysis, the book traces the development of shipbuilding from the earliest Egyptian and Phoenician ... Read more

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Ancient and Modern Ships Part 1: Wooden Sailing Ships by Sir George C. V. Holmes is a comprehensive exploration of the evolution, design, and construction of wooden sailing vessels from antiquity through the early modern era. Drawing on archaeological discoveries, historical records, and technical analysis, the book traces the development of shipbuilding from the earliest Egyptian and Phoenician
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Off the Air

by L.H. Cosway ...

Narrated by Will M. Watt, Stacey Holmes ...

Unabridged

8 hours 58 min

Spending a month filming a reality TV show with your ex is no picnic.Especially when you’ve signed a contract stating that the two of you will not, under any circumstances, have romantic relations while filming.Leanne Simmons and Callum Davidson never had an easy relationship. From enemies to lovers and back to enemies, they’ve been on again/off again for years. Things come to a head when Callum ... Read more

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Spending a month filming a reality TV show with your ex is no picnic.Especially when you’ve signed a contract stating that the two of you will not, under any circumstances, have romantic relations while filming.Leanne Simmons and Callum Davidson never had an easy relationship. From enemies to lovers and back to enemies, they’ve been on again/off again for years. Things come to a head when Callum
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Cosmic Cyclone: The Silent Planet - A Space Opera

by G.H. Holmes ...

Ben Harrow and Charity Jones in Book One of the COSMIC CYCLONE Series: The Silent Planet.A Cosmic Cyclone is about to break!The Human Union has a mysterious enemy it knows nothing about—and the enemy is ready to pounce. To clear the way, it has to destroy the one person standing in its way: Ben Harrow.The COSMIC CYCLONE series tells the tale of the greatest war mankind has ever fought.The enemy ... Read more

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Ben Harrow and Charity Jones in Book One of the COSMIC CYCLONE Series: The Silent Planet.A Cosmic Cyclone is about to break!The Human Union has a mysterious enemy it knows nothing about—and the enemy is ready to pounce. To clear the way, it has to destroy the one person standing in its way: Ben Harrow.The COSMIC CYCLONE series tells the tale of the greatest war mankind has ever fought.The enemy
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The Ultimate Textile Library: 23 Essential Reads

Weaving, Dyeing, Design, and the Cultural History of Cloth

by John T. Taylor, T. F. Bell, Kate Heintz Watson, William H. Dooley, Peter Kilgour, Thomas Woodhouse, Washington Matthews, William Henry Holmes, Candace Wheeler, Grace Rogers Cooper, Broadus Mitchell, Arnold Wolfensberger, H. D. Buck, Frederic Kenyon Brown, William M.A. Davis, Samuel Brown, Thomas Packer, Margaret Smith Furry, H. William Nelson, Lila M. O'Neale, A. C. Whitford, Clinton G. Gilroy ...

The Ultimate Textile Library: 23 Essential Reads gathers a capacious body of writing on cloth, dress, manufacture, ornament, and material culture. Ranging from technical instruction and historical description to criticism, design theory, ethnographic observation, and social analysis, the volume reveals textiles as both crafted objects and records of human exchange. Its juxtaposition of studies of ... Read more

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The Ultimate Textile Library: 23 Essential Reads gathers a capacious body of writing on cloth, dress, manufacture, ornament, and material culture. Ranging from technical instruction and historical description to criticism, design theory, ethnographic observation, and social analysis, the volume reveals textiles as both crafted objects and records of human exchange. Its juxtaposition of studies of
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The Fathers on the Sunday Gospels

by Holmes ...

Now, the fathers of the church speak from across the ages each week: The Fathers on the Sunday Gospels provides rich reflections on every Sunday gospel reading in the three-year Lectionary from Augustine, Bede, Ambrose, Gregory the Great, Aelred, John Scotus Erigena, Origen, Cyril of Alexandria, and many more. This unique volume will prove to be an invaluable companion for preachers and for ... Read more

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Now, the fathers of the church speak from across the ages each week: The Fathers on the Sunday Gospels provides rich reflections on every Sunday gospel reading in the three-year Lectionary from Augustine, Bede, Ambrose, Gregory the Great, Aelred, John Scotus Erigena, Origen, Cyril of Alexandria, and many more. This unique volume will prove to be an invaluable companion for preachers and for
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Something in the Air

by L.H. Cosway ...

Narrated by Will M. Watt, Stacey Holmes ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Running on Air
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8 hours 48 min

Michaela Olsson has found her soulmate in James Khan. There are just a few teeny, tiny problems…One, he’s her boss, two, he’s too old for her, and three, well, he happens to be engaged to somebody else.She’ll take this crush and bury it deep. She’ll take it to her grave. James already belongs to another, so she’ll lock her secret up so tight it’ll be deprived of oxygen, suffocate and die.Too dark ... Read more

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Michaela Olsson has found her soulmate in James Khan. There are just a few teeny, tiny problems…One, he’s her boss, two, he’s too old for her, and three, well, he happens to be engaged to somebody else.She’ll take this crush and bury it deep. She’ll take it to her grave. James already belongs to another, so she’ll lock her secret up so tight it’ll be deprived of oxygen, suffocate and die.Too dark
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The Ghost of Marlow House

by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre ...

Series Book 1 - Haunting Danielle
When Danielle Boatman inherits Marlow House, she dreams of turning it into a seaside bed and breakfast. Since she’s never visited the property, Danielle’s not sure what awaits her in Oregon. She certainly doesn’t expect to find one of the house’s previous owners still in residence. After all, the man has been dead for almost ninety years—shouldn’t he have moved on by now?Charming Walt Marlow ... Read more

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When Danielle Boatman inherits Marlow House, she dreams of turning it into a seaside bed and breakfast. Since she’s never visited the property, Danielle’s not sure what awaits her in Oregon. She certainly doesn’t expect to find one of the house’s previous owners still in residence. After all, the man has been dead for almost ninety years—shouldn’t he have moved on by now?Charming Walt Marlow
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Murder Your Employer

The McMasters Guide to Homicide

by Rupert Holmes ...

A New York Times bestseller! From Edgar Award–winning novelist, playwright, and story-songwriter Rupert Holmes comes a diabolical thriller with a killer concept: The McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts, “a fantasy academy laid out like a combination of Hogwarts, Downton Abbey, and a White Lotus–style resort” (Los Angeles Times) dedicated to the art of murder where students study how best ... Read more

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A New York Times bestseller! From Edgar Award–winning novelist, playwright, and story-songwriter Rupert Holmes comes a diabolical thriller with a killer concept: The McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts, “a fantasy academy laid out like a combination of Hogwarts, Downton Abbey, and a White Lotus–style resort” (Los Angeles Times) dedicated to the art of murder where students study how best
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