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Saki's blend of stories, featuring the witty and sometimes Machiavellian Clovis, range from supernatural and sinister to hilarious comedy.

These eerie tales include "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allan Poe, "The Adventure of Silver Blaze" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Old House On Vauxhall Walk" by Charlotte Riddle, "Levison's Victim" by Mary Braddon, and "The Woman With the Yellow Hair" by Anonymous.

The debonaire criminal hero lures us into madcap adventures in "A Costume Piece", "Le Premier Pas", "The Return Match", and "The Gift of the Emperor".

In 1899, publisher Henry Altemus released a series of classic books that were "re-written" using one-syllable words so that the stories would be more accessible. This recording is the Altemus version of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. It is a compelling tale of adventure, courage, ingenuity, and the eternal urge to find a distant land where the perfect life can be built from nothing.

The Fae spirit felt the great ship above it. There was so much love there, so much kinship. All who breathed on the ship had someone in their life that mattered. All, but one. That must be the one that the summoner meant. The spirit swam around the ship and gathered the heartbreak and sorrow from those who had lost. Then, it drew the sadness and pain away, as requested. It swam off, making a vacuum that would be filled with the caring it could sense was there.

While pretending to be an account of an epic journey rowing a boat up the Thames, this hilarious audiobook makes memorable side trips into such matters as hypochondria, the charms of graves and epitaphs, being lost in a maze, and how to sing a comic song - all explored with wit and elegance.

Wealthy black man leaves his money to a person who is a surprise to the community because of his sexual orientation. Fear, jealousy, love, are intertwined with race, racism, and suspicion.

Accompanying a major BBC1 series presented by David Dimbleby, and an exhibition at Tate Britain, A Picture of Britain is a celebration of the British landscape and the art that it has inspired, from Constable to Lowry, from Turner to Nash. From the slopes of Snowdonia to the industrial Black Country, from the grandeur of the Scottish Highlands to the meadows of Suffolk, the British landscape has inspired artists and writers for generations.

"I was born with the choice to pass as Black or White. Everyday I ask myself whose blood is it that rushes through my veins? My own blood is making me hate who I really am. I feel two opposing ancestors at war within me - one fighting to be free, the other fighting to control me by denying me my true identity. When I visit my family in Mississippi, I'm Black. When I return to Chicago, I'm White again. I find myself taking on the values of the people who would squash me if the knew. I find no wholeness in either role."

The selections in this collection include classic short stories "Bartelby the Scrivener" by Herman Melville, "The Truth About Pyecraft" by H. G. Wells, "The Angel Child" by Stephen Crane, "A Journey" by Edith Wharton, "Phyllis and Rosamond" by Vriginia Woolf, and "The Flight of Betsey Lane" by Sarah Orne Jewett.

Wordmaps hace asociaciones constantes con una serie de palabras que conseguirán que grabes su significado y sus aplicaciones de forma automática. Una sola palabra se enseñará como verbo, adjetivo, sustantivo, adverbio o phrasal verb además de proporcionar expresiones, curiosidades, pronunciación y mucho más. Este audio ayuda a adentrarse en las curiosidades del idioma y muestra de qué manera palabras como flip, fiddle, grip, keen o path tienen innumerables usos y conectan con diferentes significados.

Conversaciones en inglés 3 es el tercero y último de los 3 audios (1 = principiante, 2= intermedio y 3 =avanzado) sobre conversaciones en inglés. Cada capitulo presenta una conversación donde se destacan palabras clave y se trabaja la comprensión auditiiva del inglés de una manera pactica. Este audio tiene un valor añadido respcto a sus dos niveles inferiores y es que los audios vienen por duplicado, ya que además del capitulo de la conversación habitual, tiene una igual, pero con ruidos de fondo para afinar más el oido.

Conversaciones en inglés 2 es el primero de los 3 Audios (1 es principiante, 2 es intermedio y 3 es avanzado) sobre conversaciones en inglés. Cada capitilo presenta una conversación donde se destacan palabras clave y se trabaja la comprensión auditu¡iva del inglés de una manera pactica y asentar el nivel intermedio.

Conversaciones en inglés 1 es el primero de los 3 audios (1 = principiante, 2= intermedio y 3 =avanzado) sobre conversaciones en inglés. Cada capitilo presenta una conversación donde se destacan palabras clave y se trabaja la comprensión auditiva del inglés de una manera pactica.

In the Texas backlands in 1885, 12-year-old Joey Shipman's father dies under mysterious circumstances, and the boy is forced to live with his stepmother and Blair Meacham, a hanger-on at the farm. After the death of a black farmhand and friend, and another "accident" that almost takes Joey's life, the boy runs away and joins forces with his only kin - Beau Shipman, a drunk and a jailbird. Beau, along with an outlaw, a San Antonio prostitute, and a sheepman, become Joey's unlikely partners as he is trailed by a murderous villain in a scheme to inherit the Shipman farm.

With his tongue unobtrusively tucked in his cheek, Doyle assists an imaginary French Brigadier in recalling his deeds of valor and gallantry while a young officer in Napoleon's army. Swords are brandished, villains are vanquished, and beautiful ladies swoon when Brigadier Gerard comes to town!