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1) The jungle book

Author

Kipling, Rudyard

Series

Project Gutenberg etext volume no. 236
Timeless Classics
Jungle book
Puffin classics
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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook

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Selected stories from Kipling's two "Jungle Books" chronicle the adventures of Mowgli, the boy reared by a pack of wolves in an Indian jungle. Also includes "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi."

2) A history of the world in 100 objects

Author

MacGregor, Neil

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD

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Traces the stories of one hundred human innovations to explain their pivotal role in shaping civilization, from weapons and the domestication of cows to currency and music.

3) Nicholas Nickleby

Author

Dickens, Charles

Series

Tor Classics
Penguin classics

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD

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Suddenly fatherless and penniless, young Nicholas Nickleby can find no help for himself and his family. His uncle Ralph may be rich, but he is neither a kind nor an honorable man, so it is up to Nicholas to take responsibility. His adventures in Victorian England will take Nicholas to a job at a boys' school run by a brutal and dictatorial headmaster, a London slum, and a theater troupe where he works under an assumed name and into a web of revenge,...

4) South Riding

Author

Holtby, Winifred

Publisher

AudioGO

Pub. Date

[2012], p2011

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5) The complete Miss Marple collection: Volume 4,The moving finger.Sleeping murder.They do it with mirrors

Author

Christie, Agatha

Publisher

BBC Audiobooks America

Pub. Date

2006

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The moving finger. In the quiet town of Lymstock, a brother and sister receive a harassing letter. They soon discover other town residents have received similar letters and when one recipient commits suicide, Miss Marple helps cast light on the matter. Sleeping murder. When Gwenda Reed finds a house for her and her husband in the town of Dillmouth, she experiences a strange sense of déjà vu. MIss Marple realizes that an unsolved murder is behind...

6) Fry's English delight: Series 5

Author

Fry, Stephen

Publisher

AudioGO

Pub. Date

[2013], p2012

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Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English language in these four programs, as heard on BBC Radio 4.

7) No nightingales, no snakes

Author

Binchy, Maeve

Publisher

BBC Audio

Pub. Date

[2010], p2007

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The night people come in for something that was no trouble: Cara's envy of another couple's disingenous ease at giving dinner parties spurs her to plan the perfect "casual" evening down to the last detail--but things don't go as she had intended. The stepson: Clare is walking on eggshells taking great care not to try and replace her stepson Simon's dead mother, until she finally attempts to break through his hostile diffidence. Decisions at sea:...

8) Stephen Fry does the knowledge

Author

Fry, Stephen

Publisher

AudioGO

Pub. Date

[2012], p2011

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Stephen Fry presents this intriguing program charting the history of knowledge, how technology changes our relationship with it, and how we know what we know.

9) The complete Miss Marple collection: Volume 2,4.50 from Paddington.At Bertram's Hotel.Nemesis

Author

Christie, Agatha

Publisher

BBC Audiobooks America

Pub. Date

2005

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4.50 from Paddington. As Elspeth McGillicuddy travels by train to visit Miss Marple, she witnesses a man strangling a woman on another train. Only Miss Marple believes her and sets about uncovering what happened. At Bertram's Hotel. Something sinister lurks beneath the Bertram Hotel's polished veneer. Nemesis. Mr. Rafiel, the financier who had been Miss Marple's ally in solving a murder on the Caribbean island of St. Honoré, has died. Miss Marple...

10) Fry's English delight: Series 4

Author

Fry, Stephen

Publisher

AudioGO

Pub. Date

[2012], p2011

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The fourth collection of radio programs on the use of language, bought to you from the king of the spoken word.

11) The complete Miss Marple collection: Volume 1,A pocket full of rye.Murder at the vicarage.A Caribbean mystery

Author

Christie, Agatha

Publisher

BBC Audiobooks America

Pub. Date

2005

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A pocket full of rye. Wealthy businessman Rex Fortescue is found dead with rye grain in his pocket. Miss Marple soon discovers a murderer is dispatching his victims on the basis of the children's nursery rhyme. Murder at the vicarage. The most detested man in a small English village is shot in the head at the vicarage. Only Miss Marple can unravel the tangled web of clues. A Caribbean mystery. On the island of St. Honoré, old Major Palgrave tells...

12) The complete Miss Marple collection: Volume 3,The body in the library.A murder is announced.The mirror crack'd from side to side

Author

Christie, Agatha

Publisher

BBC Audiobooks America

Pub. Date

2005

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The body in the library. Who is the strange young blonde lying strangled on the library floor at Gossington Hall? Miss Marple must piece the clues together. A murder is announced. A murder is announced to take place at Little Paddocks. Is it a game? Miss Marple finds out. The mirror crack'd from side to side. When former film star Marina Gregg and her husband throw a benefit party for a local hospital, the day ends in tragedy when a guest has a poisoned...