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Caryn's New World, The Valley of New Beginnings - Human Narration - An Audio Book about a single mother's courage, persistence and ingenuity. They survived the war but now face mysterious challanges, riddles and a strange new life in a land where reality and fantasy are the same.

Caryn's hard work and talent had paid off until 2012 when a horrendous event destroyed everything except her will to survive. War, with man's most powerful weapons, incinerated their city and society itself. She and her two young daughters hid, scavanged, snuck away from the debris and traveled through the burnt barren wilderness hoping to find refuge in some unscathed place. Their journey takes them to "The Valley" but, it's unlike any other; surprising, etherial, mystical and magical. What kind of place is this... a paranormal reality or just a strange dream? Are they still alive or is this life after death?

A podcast novel. There is a Tavern with a hole in its floor that leads to Hell. Sometimes things crawl out. Scary things. Dangerous things. Sometimes people die. The Hell-gods laugh and plot. They are tired of Hell. It is almost time to leave. Heroes are needed, but there are no heroes...yet.

GraphicAudio is intended for adult audiences over 18. An audio book is a book, read to you by a narrator. Graphic Audio is more than just an audio book. Brought to life with professional actors, scoring, and sound effects, Graphic Audio is a unique storytelling experience, unlike anything you have ever heard before. Take a listen. You won't believe your ears! Current series in production are "The Destroyer", "Stony Man", "The Executioner", "Deathlands", "Outlanders", "Deathstalker" and "Mack Bolan".

1886 Melbourne is agog as one of its brightest young men is implicated in a murder! One of the first international bestsellers, this charming (but deadly) tale has lost none of its page-turning power.

If you love books, the SimonSays Podcast is for you. Professionally produced in our Rockefeller Center studio, it features interviews with bestselling and up-and-coming authors and includes excerpts read from their audiobooks. Stay informed of the latest books and audiobooks from Simon and Schuster, a global leader in the field of general interest publishing.

D.H. Lawrence's seminal banned-in-America novel "Lady Chatterly's Lover" read by dulcet-voiced Jan McLaughlin

1874 Near Weatherbury (in Hardy's mythical Wessex), Bathsheba Everdene is loved by three men. Published anonymously in the Cornhill, it at once secured the writer a foremost position among popular authors.

1895 Serial first published in Illustrated London News. After an unexpected windfall, a man goes in quest of a woman he knows only from a picture in his landlady's photo-album.

1911 Filled with details from his own life and those of his sisters, the successor to Sister Carrie is "full of a rugged sincerity, a fearless devotion to the truth, and undisguised pity for the impotence of human nature."

1879 The heartbreaks of Sir Willoughby make for a delightful listen, both charming and bitterly ironic.

1909 Too bright for any school or job that his Victorian lower-middle class upbringing can offer, George throws in with his Uncle Teddy -- failed pharmacist but successful inventor of an utterly worthless patent medicine; and becomes "the stick of his uncle's rocket."

The New Testament, narrated in "today's English" and accompanied by music.

1882 Of all firsthand accounts of lawlessness in the old Southwest, none is more fascinating than Pat F. Garrett's Life of "The Kid." Sheriff Garrett was Billy's friend -- and the man who eventually sent him to the last roundup.

1915 Three adventurers discover a strange, garden-like upland country, inhabited solely by women.

1896 A small-town minister of many foibles is skewered in this acid satire.

2006 The growing popularity of cultural commons thinking sets new and provocative challenges for traditional copyright law. Subtitled "A Guide to Creative Commons Thinking for Cultural Organizations," this book has an evangelical flavour, advocating the adoption of Creative Commons licenses.

1860 Two gentlemen seek Clara Desmond's hand, and each has a claim to Castle Richmond. Another story of love and law from Trollope, this time set in Ireland during the famine of the 1840's.

The world's great literature narrated in mp3, one chapter at a time.

1881 A judicious account of the great Southern victory of 1863, colored by the personal observations of a historian who served personally with the Eleventh Corp, famously routed by Stonewall Jackson.

1764 Walpole introduced and named the genre with The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story -- which was to influence Matthew G. Lewis, Radcliffe and Shelley.

1848 The life and love of an English governess.

1915 One man is handed the mysterious key to the threat from Germany. (No, the earlier threat from Germany.)

From the "hard realism" school of Chicago novelists, this fictional account of a rise to power.

1912 Tale of the London Clubs and drawing-rooms, with young man-about-town Comus Bassington. "There is no greater compliment to be paid the right kind of friend than to [email them a link to] Saki, without comment." - Christopher Morley (slightly updated)

1912 A groundbreaking work of modern fiction that powerfully describes a man's struggle against the constraints of racism -- as well as honestly addressing the temptations of passing as white.

1724 A woman makes her way in the world using her beauty, plus a few disguises.

1851 Virtue triumphs over human pretension in this richly poetic story of good and bad brothers, a classic Victorian fairy tale.

Generosity Incorporated is a distinctive publishing company that combines spiritual practice, ecological accountability, and professional ethics. Our podcast will offer free excerpts from our audio books, which explore author Connie Kaplan's philosophy of dreaming as a spiritual practice.

1901 Freed from slavery in his youth to become an educator and spokesman for his race, Washington tells his own story in this acclaimed work.

1880 "A Tragedy of the Sierra" -- The first and best source concerning a grim episode in the annals of the settlement of California.

1912 A thrilling tale of the abandoned infant Lord Greystoke, his upbringing by Kala the ape, and his rediscovery by humankind -- all hinging on a race for pirates' treasure!

1898 A tour de force that recreates the magical thinking of children. By the author of The Wind in the Willows.

1899 How the town synonymous with "honesty" got its comeuppance.

1919 A perennial best seller, this is Maugham's fascinating fictional exploration of the career of Paul Gauguin.

1901 Australian coming-of-age tale, featuring the exuberant, impetuous Miss Sybylla Melvyn.

1912 An unforgettable tale of love and jealousy, by the modern master who, above all others, locates the universal in the exotic.

1912 One of the enduring comic treats, a picture of life in the fictional Canadian town of Mariposa.

1778 A beautiful "country cousin" comes out in society, in this wickedly funny novel-in-letters. First-rate comic characters and lively action.

1909 masterpiece about the terrorists of the early 20th century. A stark and believable narrative.

1751 Cleland's second novel, after the enormously successful (and notorious) Fanny Hill.

1844 An Irish knave progresses to rogue. His rollicking, wildly funny memoirs recount battles, card-playing and court intrigues.

1875 romance that Trollope called "the best novel I ever wrote."

1922 Adventure on the high seas, with physician turned slave (turned pirate), Peter Blood. Fast-paced, exciting and satisfying.

When a young governess, unemployed and desperate for a position, accepts a job with a couple living in a remote country home, her positive first impressions of the man and his family begin to change. With a mixure of fear and uncertainty, she asks Sherlock Holmes to investigate the increasingly disturbing events that have begun to unfold around her.

Quite a stir is caused in Croydon when a 50-year-old spinster, Miss Susan Cushing, receives a parcel in the post which turns out to contain two severed human ears packed in coarse salt. The indefatigable though unimaginative Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard suspects a prank by three medical students whom Miss Cushing was forced to evict, owing to their unruly behaviour.

The monotony of pea-soup-fog-shrouded London is broken by a sudden visit from Holmes’s brother Mycroft. He has come about some missing, secret submarine plans. Seven of the ten pages — three are still missing — were found with Arthur Cadogan West’s body. He was a young clerk in a government office at Woolwich Arsenal whose body was found next to the Underground tracks near Aldgate, his head crushed. He had little money with him (although there appears to have been no robbery), theatre tickets, and curiously, no Underground ticket. The three missing pages by themselves could enable one of Britain’s enemies to build a Bruce-Partington submarine.

When a young man's recent comrade-in-arms becomes strangely inaccessible, Sherlock Holmes comes to his aid. But the more deeply the detective investigates the missing man's whereabouts, the more adament become the measures of his immediate family to block all attempts to communicate with the soldier's friend. The father insists his son has left on a trip around the world, and the people in the surrounding town seem to support the father's story. But there is something amiss, and Holmes shall get to the truth, whatever the consequences.

A banker, Mr. Alexander Holder of Streatham makes a loan of £50,000 to a socially prominent client, who leaves the Beryl Coronet — one of the most valuable public possessions in existence — as security. Holder feels that he must not leave this rare and precious piece of jewellery in his personal safe at the bank, and so he takes it home with him to lock it up there. He is awoken in the night by a noise, enters his dressing room, and is horrified to see his son Arthur with the coronet in his hands, apparently trying to bend it. Holder's niece Mary comes at the sound of all the shouting and, seeing the damaged coronet, faints dead away. Three beryls are missing from it. In a panic, he travels to see Holmes, who agrees to take the case.

Evidence of murder, ransacked ancient mummies, giving away a beloved dog, and a horse race upon which a man's life and future depend are just four of the elements of this Holmes story, making it one of the most memorable (and chilling) cases in the Sherlockian Canon. Head trainer John Mason from Shoscombe Old Place, a racing stable in Berkshire, comes to Holmes about his master, Sir Robert Norberton. Mason thinks he has gone mad. Sir Robert’s sister, Lady Beatrice Falder owns Shoscombe, but it will revert to her late husband’s brother when she dies. The stable has a horse, Shoscombe Prince, who Sir Robert hopes will win the Derby. He would be out of debt if that actually happened.

The beginnings starts with World War One and opens with the clandestined meeting between agents of the German Empire -- one a sleeper who has established himself in England for the purpose of gathering military intelligence, one the chief secretary of the legation, here to collect that intelligence that will lead to the invasion and overthrow of England. These are details which will compromise civil defense, British weapons, coastal defenses, and military forces. The impending meeting with an anti-British American of Irish descent shall complete their plans for a successful invasion of the British Isles that will help bring the free world under German domination. This topical, suspenseful story is one of the most intense Holmes stories written by the master, A. Conan Doyle, and will have the listener holding their breath for the startling conclusion.

Holmes wakes Dr. Watson up early one morning to rush to a murder scene at the Abbey Grange near Chislehurst. Sir Eustace Brackenstall has been killed, apparently by a gang of burglars. Inspector Stanley Hopkins believes that it was the well-known Randall gang, a father and two sons. Upon arrival at the Abbey Grange, Lady Brackenstall is found resting with a purple swelling over one eye, the result of a blow during the foregoing night’s business. There are also two red spots on her arm. Her maid later tells Holmes that Sir Eustace inflicted those with a hatpin. Lady Brackenstall tells Holmes that her marriage was not happy. Sir Eustace Brackenstall was a violent, abusive alcoholic. Moreover, Lady Brackenstall found it hard to adjust to life in England after the freedom that she enjoyed in her native Australia, which she left only 18 months ago. She was married for about a year. The Adventure of the Abbey Grange, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

One of the most dangerous classes in the world," says Holmes, "is the drifting and friendless woman. And Lady Frances Carfax is such, and who has fallen into the clutches of a phony preacher." Holmes sends Dr. Watson to Lausanne to investigate Lady Frances Carfax’s disappearance. Holmes is too busy in London. Lady Frances is a lone, unwed woman denied a rich inheritance because of her sex. She does, however, carry valuable jewels with her. It is also her habit to write to her old governess, Miss Dobney, every other week, but for the past five weeks, there has not been a word from her. She has left the Hôtel National for parts unknown. Her last two bank transactions were cheques, one to pay her hotel bill, and another for £50 to her maid, Miss Marie Devine. In Switzerland, Watson finds out that Lady Frances stayed at the Hôtel International for several weeks, but then suddenly left in a hurry one day. Only one witness could suggest an explanation, one involving a big, bearded man who kept hounding her. It also emerges that Lady Frances’s maid has left her employ, although it is not known why.

Holmes is brought into the investigation of what appears a simple, obvious case of a son murdering his father shortly after the son was seen by witnesses near, and at, the scene of the man's death. Set in 1888, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are called down to Boscombe Valley (a fictitious place in Herefordshire) to investigate the death of Mr. Charles McCarthy. Lestrade, a detective from Scotland Yard whose meagre abilities are often upstaged by Holmes's brilliant deductions, has concluded without much ado that it is a murder, and that McCarthy's son James is the killer. James was seen by one witness following his father to the nearby pond, and another, a young girl, saw the two remonstrating with each other by the pond. Holmes will not accept Lestrade's conclusions, however, as there are some facts that simply do not seem to fit. Whom was McCarthy going to the pond to meet? He had told his serving-man that he had to keep an appointment there, from which he never came back alive.

Forest Row in the Weald is the scene of a gruesome harpoon murder, and a young police inspector, Stanley Hopkins, asks Holmes, whom he greatly admires as a mentor, for some help. Holmes has already determined that it would take a great deal of strength and skill to run a man through with a harpoon and embed it in the wall behind him besides. Peter Carey, the 50-year-old victim and former master of the Sea Unicorn of Dundee, was a most unpleasant man, especially when he was drunk. He had a reputation for being violent, even having been prosecuted once for assaulting the local vicar. His daughter is actually glad that he is dead. She and her mother have endured years of abuse from the old whaler and sealer, who moreover had some remarkably peculiar habits. He did not sleep in the family house, but in an outhouse that he built some distance from the house, and which he decorated to look like a sailor’s cabin on a ship. This is where he was found harpooned. Hopkins could find no footprints or other physical evidence.

Lend me your eats. I read short stories of all genres aloud--fairy tales, folk tales, contemporary short fiction, poetry, horror--you name it. Just sit back and relax. Because no one is too old to be read to.

A world where the unicorns fled to escape the Hunters who have sworn to wipe them out, has dangers of its own as Cara discovers when she attempts to cross in a desperate effort to rescue her grandmother...

the adventures of Daine, a 13-year-old orphaned girl with an extraordinary talent for communicating with animals is on the edge of discovering her own magic. The teenager is swept up in the first skirmishes of a war, and is forced to master her fears...

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Power, poetry, and passion of one of the Bible's most moving stories as God and Satan contest for the soul of a good and faithful man a man whose faith is about to be tested in ways most of us can scarcely imagine...

Packed with humor, magic, fantasy, and thrilling action scenes, Tris and her friends are just learning to control their magic. They must use it to protect the coast of Emelan from a deadly pirate attack...

Four strange, and strangely talented, youngsters are brought to Winding Circle by master mage Niko. Finding themselves drawn together in a Circle of Magic that binds them despite their differences...

The magic is out of control! On a journey to Gold Ridge, the four young mages-in-training find their special magic overlapping, sometimes in frightening and destructive ways. One burst of this combined magic...

Holmes is hired by the King of Bohemia to recover blackmail evidence, held by the woman whom the king once promised to marry, but abandoned for a woman of noble birth...

Dr. Watson's introduction to the Holmes case among the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes called The Adventure of Silver Blaze (Strand magazine December 1892) is succinct and impossible to improve upon...

In the story that started it all, Holmes and Watson meet for the first time and Inspector Gregson of Scotland Yard asks the world's first consulting detective to assist in the investigation of a bizarre poisoning case...

Holmes and Watson push the limits of the law when they confront the machinations of a blackmailer whose victims either pay dearly or suffer life-destroying humilliation...

A precious stone with a history of murders and violence behind it is discovered in the crop of a Christmas goose after being reported stolen yet again, from its owner's jewel case, and the guilt placed upon a plumber who protests his innocence

This entry in Watson's journal takes place some time after Dr. Watson's marriage, and residence away from Baker Street. Watson arrives back at 221-B and is stunned to find his longtime friend Sherlock Holmes languishing in the throes of a terrible disease...

Holmes determination to destroy the powerful criminal organization of Professor Moriarty reaches its crisis as He and Watson attempt to track down and apprehend the criminal genius behind the most foul and evil events plaguing the good people of England...

Written based upon longstanding rural British folktales of demonic beasts unleashed from the pits of Hell upon the unjust, Conan Doyle places his sleuth upon the trail of a legendary Hound of Hell literally 'dogging' the House of Baskerville...

Holmes' search for Neville St. Clair has lead him to the opium dens of Upper Swandam Lane, where the 'disappearance' of many souls in this vile alley is a sobering fact of life...

Digging into his tin box of papers one day, Holmes recounts for Dr. Watson one of his earliest cases. In it, Holmes must decipher the ancient Musgrave Ritual to solve the mysterious disappearance of schoolmate Reginald Musgrave's butler and maid...

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The stunning conclusion to the Circle of Magic quartet finds the young mages Sandry, Daja, Tris, and Briar facing their greatest challenge yet a devastating plague that is sweeping Emelan...

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Learn to do what you love and love what you do. The long awaited follow up to the Best Seller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Acquire a new mindset, tools and habits to find your voice and your passion...

Learn the habit of effectiveness from the world-renowned expert in leadership and organization. Insightful and engaging. An in-depth, look at Habit 1 of The 7 Habits. Filled with never-before-released material...

How does the modern teenager know which decision to make.Sean Covey helps adolescents apply the principles and habits to a practical guide that helps them understand key issues they will face in their teen years...

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Proven principles of fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity. This special edition includes a new foreword and afterword exploring whether the 7 Habits are still relevant and answering some of the most common questions...

In his instant self-help classic, the international bestseller How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci, Michael J. Gelb identified seven aspects of Da Vinci's genius that contemporary readers can emulate and apply in their own lives..

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin offers Franklin's life story-at least the first few decades, as he died without finishing it-as he tries to identify and develop a formula for personal success...

Hear why Denis Waitley described Allen as "the Norman Vincent Peale or Earl Nightingale" of his time; his 1902 classic tells you that you already have what you need to achieve the life of your dreams: your mind...

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Neil and Dana Phillips were both working in education when they started doing a little direct selling on the side, almost 30 years ago. Their business quickly grew, and soon their income tax bill was more than Neil had earned as a tenured university profe...