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  Horrid Henry's Family Fortunes

  Lucinda Whiteley

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  Join Horrid Henry on his adventures with his family! Contains 5 Horrid Henry stories, performed by the show's full cast. Catch up with Henry and family in "Home Improvement", "How To Be Good", "My Life", "Planet Of The Grapes" and "Grown Ups".

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  The Open Boat

  Stephen Crane

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  As a well-paid war correspondent, Crane was shipwrecked en route to Cuba in early 1897. 
  He and a small party of passengers spent 30 hours adrift off the coast of Florida, an experience which Crane would later transform into his most famous short story, The Open Boat, in 1898. 
  (P)2007 Listen and Live Audio, Inc.

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  Her First Ball - A Timeless...

  Katherine Mansfield

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  What if your very first dance could sweep you into a world of dazzling lights, laughter, and unforgettable magic? In "Her First Ball", Katherine Mansfield tells the enchanting story of eighteen-year-old Leila, a wide-eyed country girl visiting the city for the first time. Stepping into her cousin’s grand ball, she is mesmerized by swirling gowns, sparkling chandeliers, and the thrill of being noticed. Every smile, every dance, every glittering detail overwhelms her with joy and wonder - until a cynical older man delivers a sharp reminder that youth and beauty are fleeting. Brimming with charm, elegance, and emotional depth, this timeless short story captures the thrill of first experiences, the bittersweet sweetness of growing up, and the fleeting but unforgettable sparkle of life’s earliest joys. Press play and join Leila on a journey through music, laughter, and wonder - an audiobook experience that will leave your heart dancing long after the final note.

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  The Man Without a Body - From...

  Edward Page Mitchell

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  Edward Page Mitchell was born in Bath, Maine on 24th March 1852 into a wealthy family.  When he was eight the family moved to a house on New York’s famed Fifth Avenue. 
  In 1863 he witnessed the Draft Riots and in the aftermath Mitchell's father moved the family to Tar River, North Carolina. It was there, at the age of fourteen, that his letters were first published in the local newspaper The Bath Times. 
  In 1872, at age twenty, whilst on a train journey to Bath, Maine, a hot cinder from the engine's smokestack flew in through the window blinding his left eye.  After several weeks, while doctors attempted to restore his sight, his uninjured right eye underwent sympathetic blindness.  He was now completely blind. His burnt left eye eventually regained its sight, but his uninjured right eye remained blind and was later replaced with a prosthetic glass eye. While recovering from this surgery, Mitchell wrote his dazzling story ‘The Tachypomp’. 
  Mitchell’s influence on science fiction writing is incredible and pre-dated many major themes. He wrote about a man made invisible, a time-travel machine, a thinking computer, teleportation, superior mutants and mind transfer. Add to this other stories which predicted travel by pneumatic tube, electrical heating, newspapers printed at home, food-pellet concentrates, international broadcasts, and suspended animation through cryogenics and they amount to talents that are not as publicly lauded as they should be. 
  Edward Page Mitchell died of a cerebral hemorrhage in New London, Connecticut on 22nd January 1927.  He was 76.

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  The Whale - (or Moby Dick)

  Herman Melville

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  "Moby Dick" (or "The Whale" as it was one known) is the unforgettable story of Captain Ahab’s quest to avenge the whale that ‘reaped’ his leg.  The quest and the novel is a story of how man can become blindly obsessed.  The tale is also a testament to democracy and liberation, as the ship's crew work together for a common end. 
  Ishmael, the novel’s narrator is a young, ordinary sailor learning the practice of whaling. 
  Moby Dick is one of the greatest novels ever written and a timeless classic.

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  Nobody Saw the Ship

  Murray Leinster

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  Nobody Saw the Ship by Murray Leinster is a tense and quietly unsettling science fiction novelet that explores first contact from a chillingly indifferent perspective. When a small alien scout ship lands on Earth completely unnoticed, its lone occupant—an advanced being known as the Qul-En—begins a covert biological mission essential to its species’ survival. What follows is a methodical and increasingly disturbing search for a rare hormone, extracted through brutal experimentation on Earth’s wildlife. 
  With mounting dread and a brilliant ironic twist, Nobody Saw the Ship delivers a powerful meditation on alien morality, unintended consequences, and humanity’s fragile place in a vast, uncaring universe. A classic of mid-20th-century science fiction, this story remains as gripping and thought-provoking today as when it was first published.

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