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Modern Patriarch 2
- A Xianxia Cultivation Progression Fantasy
- By: Daoist Enigma
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
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Yao Shen, Grand Patriarch of the Modern Sect, succeeds in his bold attempt to unify the Azlak Plains. The construction of the Mortal Capital, All Haven is well underway. Under the rule of Soul Emperor Yao Shen, the Azlak Plains seems to be on the verge of stepping into a new era, a time when old grievances and festering wounds are set aside and given time to heal in favour of unprecedented progress and growth. All is going well until the mighty demonic path sect, The Ancient Codex takes note of Yao Shen's actions.
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Modern Patriarch 2
- A Xianxia Cultivation Progression Fantasy
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Series: Modern Patriarch, Book 2
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 16-10-24
- Language: English
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Yao Shen, Grand Patriarch of the Modern Sect, succeeds in his bold attempt to unify the Azlak Plains.
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Alchemy and Argent
- Modern Magick, Book 9
- By: Charlotte E. English
- Narrated by: Diana Croft
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s all very well deciding to build the means to save British magick. Top marks for ambitious goals! ...But there are one or two obstacles in the way. For one, said means does not yet exist, and it’ll take a genius to sort that one out. Luckily, we’ve got one of those. We call him Orlando. For another, nothing at all can be built without materials, and no common-or-garden commodities will do. It’s got to be silver. The impossibly rare, virtually extinct kind. This one’s on me, Val and Jay.
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Alchemy and Argent
- Modern Magick, Book 9
- Narrated by: Diana Croft
- Series: Modern Magick, Book 9
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 20-09-24
- Language: English
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It’s all very well deciding to build the means to save British magick. Top marks for ambitious goals! ...But there are one or two obstacles in the way. For one, said means does not yet exist, and it’ll take a genius to sort that one out. Luckily, we’ve got one of those. We call him Orlando.
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Toil and Trouble
- Modern Magick, Book 2
- By: Charlotte E. English
- Narrated by: Diana Croft
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
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As an agent of the Society for Magickal Heritage, I, Cordelia Vesper, have an important job: rescue endangered creatures, artefacts, books and spells wherever they are to be found. It’s a tough job, but somebody’s got to keep British magick alive. So we rescued a valuable book from a long-lost library, only it proved to be unusually... chatty. And it's got a foul mouth, too. What manner of weird magick is this? Somebody else thinks it's pretty interesting, too. Ancestria Magicka, they call themselves. Brand new. Big trouble.
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Toil and Trouble
- Modern Magick, Book 2
- Narrated by: Diana Croft
- Series: Modern Magick, Book 2
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 20-09-24
- Language: English
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As an agent of the Society for Magickal Heritage, I, Cordelia Vesper, have an important job: rescue endangered creatures, artefacts, books and spells wherever they are to be found. It’s a tough job, but somebody’s got to keep British magick alive.
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The Striding Spire
- Modern Magick, Book 3
- By: Charlotte E. English
- Narrated by: Diana Croft
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
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Fresh from an involuntary crash course in the Stranger Arts, I've a new mystery on my plate: the inexplicable reappearance of a particularly fantastic magickal species. Which is great, don't get me wrong. Rescuing magickal beasts is what we do around here. But the Dappledok Pup hasn't been seen since the seventeen hundreds; so how did we find one, alive and kicking, over two hundred years later? And this beast has a talent for sniffing out treasure, no less. Happenstance? Maybe not.
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The Striding Spire
- Modern Magick, Book 3
- Narrated by: Diana Croft
- Series: Modern Magick, Book 3
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 20-09-24
- Language: English
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Fresh from an involuntary crash course in the Stranger Arts, I've a new mystery on my plate: the inexplicable reappearance of a particularly fantastic magickal species. Which is great, don't get me wrong. Rescuing magickal beasts is what we do around here.
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The Heart of Hyndorin
- Modern Magick, Book 8
- By: Charlotte E. English
- Narrated by: Diana Croft
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
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Stranded far from home, and unable to return, I am in bigger trouble than ever. I know I say that a lot, but this time it's really true. Not that there aren’t advantages to my particular predicament. If one must put up with a dangerous degree of magickal potency, one is duty-bound to… put it to use, no? Certainly nothing insane, irresponsible and potentially life-threatening. As if. But we'll need every possible advantage in the Hyndorin Mountains. For there, hidden behind layers of secrets, could be the answers we are looking for.
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The Heart of Hyndorin
- Modern Magick, Book 8
- Narrated by: Diana Croft
- Series: Modern Magick, Book 8
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 20-09-24
- Language: English
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Stranded far from home, and unable to return, I am in bigger trouble than ever. I know I say that a lot, but this time it's really true. If one must put up with a dangerous degree of magickal potency, one is duty-bound to… put it to use, no?
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Dancing and Disaster
- Modern Magick, Book 11
- By: Charlotte E. English
- Narrated by: Diana Croft
- Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
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Rumour’s got a lot to say for itself, and the message is clear: the regulator’s ready. You know. The magickal regulator. The bright and shiny thing with which we, Team Improbable, propose to restore magick to a fading Britain. Somebody’s got to test it, and that somebody is us. Which means wading into the depths of a long-dead realm that nobody’s entered in centuries. And I may have had some practice at that, but this time it’s different. This time, somebody’s still home. And they really aren’t happy about trespassers. Looks like disaster’s on the agenda. Again.
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Dancing and Disaster
- Modern Magick, Book 11
- Narrated by: Diana Croft
- Series: Modern Magick, Book 11
- Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 20-09-24
- Language: English
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Rumour’s got a lot to say for itself, and the message is clear: the regulator’s ready. You know. The magickal regulator. The bright and shiny thing with which we, Team Improbable, propose to restore magick to a fading Britain. Somebody’s got to test it, and that somebody is us.
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The Magick of Merlin
- Modern Magick, Book 10
- By: Charlotte E. English
- Narrated by: Diana Croft
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
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Four years ago, somebody pinched perhaps the most valuable book in existence. Merlin’s personal grimoire. And the price they’re offering for its return is the kind we can’t refuse, so it’s Ves and Jay on the case. Except that there aren’t any clues. Seriously, not even a little one. Nothing’s going to solve this case but a Vesper-patented Crazy Plan, and it had better be a good one, for complications are sprouting like daisies. At least it’s a straightforward mission. There’s no earthly way this one’s going to turn my entire life upside down... right?
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The Magick of Merlin
- Modern Magick, Book 10
- Narrated by: Diana Croft
- Series: Modern Magick, Book 10
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 20-09-24
- Language: English
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Four years ago, somebody pinched perhaps the most valuable book in existence. Merlin’s personal grimoire. And the price they’re offering for its return is the kind we can’t refuse, so it’s Ves and Jay on the case.
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The Wonders of Vale
- Modern Magick, Book 7
- By: Charlotte E. English
- Narrated by: Diana Croft
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
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Dispatched overseas — far, far overseas — we're in hot water. Again. Following in the footsteps of a long-lost king, we're on the road to the mysterious Vales of Wonder. The upside? It's a hot-bed of magickal marvels, the likes of which we've literally never seen before. The downside? Danger. Because who ever said adventure would be easy? Fortunately, we have help. One reviled but aggravatingly handy beast specialist: check. One world-famous, awe-inspiring, purple-clad troll scholar: check. One perambulatory, half-mad house with a crush on Jay: check.
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The Wonders of Vale
- Modern Magick, Book 7
- Narrated by: Diana Croft
- Series: Modern Magick, Book 7
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 20-09-24
- Language: English
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Dispatched overseas — far, far overseas — we're in hot water. Again. Following in the footsteps of a long-lost king, we're on the road to the mysterious Vales of Wonder. The upside? It's a hot-bed of magickal marvels, the likes of which we've literally never seen before.
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The Fate of Farringale
- Modern Magick, Book 12
- By: Charlotte E. English
- Narrated by: Diana Croft
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
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Things have been quiet at the Society lately. Too quiet. It couldn’t possibly last. When a griffin appeared in the Yorkshire skies, it could only mean bad news. There’s only one place in Britain it could have come from and that’s the lost kingdom of Farringale. It’s a dire warning, and there’s worse to come. Turns out we aren’t the only people with an interest in the age-old city of the trolls. Farringale lies under attack—and these people will stop at nothing to take control of its treasures. It’s time for a showdown—the deathly serious kind.
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The Fate of Farringale
- Modern Magick, Book 12
- Narrated by: Diana Croft
- Series: Modern Magick, Book 12
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 20-09-24
- Language: English
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Things have been quiet at the Society lately. Too quiet. It couldn’t possibly last. When a griffin appeared in the Yorkshire skies, it could only mean bad news. There’s only one place in Britain it could have come from and that’s the lost kingdom of Farringale.
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Music and Misadventure
- Modern Magick, Book 6
- By: Charlotte E. English
- Narrated by: Diana Croft
- Length: 5 hrs
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I haven't heard from my mother in six years—which is why I was surprised to receive a summons from her. The peremptory kind. With nothing but a set of map coordinates to guide me, what exactly was I to expect? The short answer? Trouble, for Mother Dearest is in rather a lot of it. And like daughter, like mother, for there’s a shiny artefact in the offing, and only a few gigantic lindworms in the way. Who isn’t up for a minor little challenge like that?
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Music and Misadventure
- Modern Magick, Book 6
- Narrated by: Diana Croft
- Series: Modern Magick, Book 6
- Length: 5 hrs
- Release date: 20-09-24
- Language: English
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I haven't heard from my mother in six years—which is why I was surprised to receive a summons from her. The peremptory kind. With nothing but a set of map coordinates to guide me, what exactly was I to expect?
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Royalty and Ruin
- Modern Magick, Book 5
- By: Charlotte E. English
- Narrated by: Diana Croft
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
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Somebody thought it would be a great idea to send us to the Troll Court. Because somebody imagined I might be the perfect person to help with a certain wild and crazy plan of Their Majesties' concoction. They want to restore the lost city of Farringale. I can only say that I heartily approve. There is the tiny problem of how, of course; but who better to dig up the truth than the Society’s most colourful agents? Off questing we go, armed with a long list of questions, two winning smiles (well, three, if you count the Baron’s — and who wouldn’t?) and a certain Dappledok pup.
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Royalty and Ruin
- Modern Magick, Book 5
- Narrated by: Diana Croft
- Series: Modern Magick, Book 5
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 20-09-24
- Language: English
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Somebody thought it would be a great idea to send us to the Troll Court. Because somebody imagined I might be the perfect person to help with a certain wild and crazy plan of Their Majesties' concoction. They want to restore the lost city of Farringale. I can only say that I heartily approve.
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The Fifth Britain
- Modern Magick, Book 4
- By: Charlotte E. English
- Narrated by: Diana Croft
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
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Cast away from the Society (sort of) and out on our own, we've got a big problem on our hands - and an exciting prospect, too. They call it time travel on TV. Is this the big, fat secret the Hidden Ministry's been keeping? What's the real truth behind that wandering tower? Answers must be found — in the face of severe opposition from the Ministry, from Ancestria Magicka, and from every Fae Court in existence. Simple. If only everything wouldn’t keep going wrong.
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The Fifth Britain
- Modern Magick, Book 4
- Narrated by: Diana Croft
- Series: Modern Magick, Book 4
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 20-09-24
- Language: English
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Cast away from the Society (sort of) and out on our own, we've got a big problem on our hands - and an exciting prospect, too. They call it time travel on TV.
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The Road to Farringale
- Modern Magick, Book 1
- By: Charlotte E. English
- Narrated by: Diana Croft
- Length: 5 hrs
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Imagine modern Britain without magick. No fae enclaves. No flying chairs. No magick wands. Giddy gods, no unicorns. Who wants to live in that world? Me neither. But with magick on the decline, that's the world we're ending up with. Meet the Society for Magickal Heritage. Our boss is a disembodied voice. Our headquarters is a sentient house. You could say we've a vested interest in keeping magick alive. Can a ragtag bunch of magicians, necromancers and fae prevail against inevitable ruin and decline? Hell yes. Try and stop us.
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The Road to Farringale
- Modern Magick, Book 1
- Narrated by: Diana Croft
- Series: Modern Magick, Book 1
- Length: 5 hrs
- Release date: 20-09-24
- Language: English
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Imagine modern Britain without magick. No fae enclaves. No flying chairs. No magick wands. Giddy gods, no unicorns. Who wants to live in that world? Me neither. But with magick on the decline, that's the world we're ending up with.
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Dead Guilty
- Calladine and Bayliss, Book 9
- By: Helen H. Durrant
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
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Detectives Calladine and Bayliss hunt for a missing child in a mystery with a shocking ending. Sophie Alder is the three-year-old daughter of local factory owner, Richard Alder. Richard and his wife Annie are locals from the rough housing estate who’ve made it big. Plus, there’s a crime wave in Leesworth and the police can’t cope. One thief even dares to break into Calladine’s house. A number of local men have formed a vigilante group. On one of their patrols they catch the burglar and he ends up dead....
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Another excellent book in a great series
- By SandraL on 07-10-20
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Dead Guilty
- Calladine and Bayliss, Book 9
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Series: Calladine and Bayliss, Book 9
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 24-09-20
- Language: English
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Detectives Calladine and Bayliss hunt for a missing child in a mystery with a shocking ending....
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And Then She Vanished
- Joseph Bridgeman, Book 1
- By: Nick Jones
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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Still haunted by the disappearance of his little sister, Amy, over 20 years ago, Joseph Bridgeman’s life has fallen apart. When a friend talks him into seeing hypnotherapist Alexia Finch to help with his insomnia, Joseph accidentally discovers he can time travel. His first trip only takes him back a few minutes, but his new-found ability gives him something he hasn’t felt for the longest time: hope.
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Great book, bad choice of Narrator.
- By Harryworth on 12-10-21
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And Then She Vanished
- Joseph Bridgeman, Book 1
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Series: The Joseph Bridgeman Series, Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 02-02-21
- Language: English
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Still haunted by the disappearance of his little sister, Amy, over 20 years ago, Joseph Bridgeman’s life has fallen apart. When a friend talks him into seeing hypnotherapist Alexia Finch to help with his insomnia, Joseph accidentally discovers he can time travel....
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The Man Who Was Thursday
- By: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrated by: Toby Longworth
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
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Chesterton's allegorical masterpiece is a surreal, psychologically thrilling novel that centres on seven anarchists in turn of the century London who call themselves by the names of days of the week. The story begins when poet Gabriel Syme is recruited as a detective to a secret anarchist division of Scotland Yard by a shrouded, nameless person. Syme infiltrates a secret meeting of anarchists who are intent on destroying the world and becomes known as 'Thursday', one of the seven members of the Central Anarchist Council.
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The Man Who Was Thursday
- By Amazon Customer on 10-01-08
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The Man Who Was Thursday
- Narrated by: Toby Longworth
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 20-08-07
- Language: English
- Chesterton's allegorical masterpiece is a surreal, psychologically thrilling novel that centres on anarchists in turn of the century London who call themselves by the names of days of the week....
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Caffeine
- How Caffeine Created the Modern World
- By: Michael Pollan
- Narrated by: Michael Pollan
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
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Michael Pollan, known for his best-selling nonfiction audio, including The Omnivores Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind, conceived and wrote Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World as an Audible Original. In this controversial and exciting listen, Pollan explores caffeine’s power as the most-used drug in the world - and the only one we give to children (in soda pop) as a treat.
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Michael Pollan's relationship with caffeine
- By Laura on 31-05-20
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Caffeine
- How Caffeine Created the Modern World
- Narrated by: Michael Pollan
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 30-01-20
- Language: English
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Michael Pollan, known for his best-selling nonfiction audio, including The Omnivores Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind, conceived and wrote Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World as an Audible Original....
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Call Me Maybe
- By: Cara Bastone
- Narrated by: Luci Christian, Neil Hellegers
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
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Paint your toes. Pick up the wrong coffee and bagel order. Drive from Brooklyn to Jersey in traffic so slow you want to tear your hair out. It’s amazing all the useless things I can accomplish while on hold for three hours with customer service. Three hours when I should be getting the Date-in-a-Box website ready to launch at the big business expo in a few days. Except my shiny new website is glitching, and my inner rage-monster is ready to scorch some earth...when he finally picks up. Not the robot voice I expected but a real live human named Kal.
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O.M.G. !!!
- By Anonymous User on 31-07-21
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Call Me Maybe
- Narrated by: Luci Christian, Neil Hellegers
- Series: Love Lines
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 20-10-20
- Language: English
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Paint your toes. Pick up the wrong coffee and bagel order. Drive from Brooklyn to Jersey in traffic so slow you want to tear your hair out. It’s amazing all the useless things I can accomplish while on hold for three hours with customer service....
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Impurity
- DI Stewart Gardener, Book 1
- By: Ray Clark
- Narrated by: Greg Wagland
- Length: 9 hrs
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A murder with no weapon or motive. A detective on edge. A community that wants answers. Impurity is the first in a series of six books featuring Leeds based Detective Inspector Stewart Gardener. One fateful night, DI Stewart Gardener intervenes in a street brawl, and his wife is shot dead. Finding his wife’s murderer is never far from his mind, but with no leads and a hazy recollection of events, it seems hopeless. Soon he is presented with a shocking case. A man is found dead in a grubby apartment, and It is not long before another man meets the same fate.
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Ray Clark wow!
- By ELAINE TASKER on 27-09-24
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Impurity
- DI Stewart Gardener, Book 1
- Narrated by: Greg Wagland
- Series: DI Stewart Gardener, Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 30-04-20
- Language: English
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A murder with no weapon or motive. A detective on edge. A community that wants answers....
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East of Eden
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: John Steinbeck, David Wyatt - introduction
- Narrated by: Simon Manyonda
- Length: 26 hrs and 43 mins
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'There is only one book to a man,' Steinbeck wrote of East of Eden, his most ambitious novel. Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Here Steinbeck created some of his most memorable characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity; the inexplicability of love and the murderous consequences of love's absence.
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Amazing writing, the narration disappointed me
- By Roger on 09-03-22
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East of Eden
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Narrated by: Simon Manyonda
- Length: 26 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 24-02-22
- Language: English
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Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel....
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