Publisher: Sovereign
Kidnapped is a historical adventure novel set around 18th-century Scottish events, notably the Appin Murder, which occurred near Ballachulish in the aftermath of the Jacobite Rising. Many of the characters, and one of the principals, Alan Breck Stewart, were real people.
Cosmo Hamilton (1870 - 1942) was the nom de plume of Henry Charles Hamilton Gibbs, was a popular English novelist, playwright and writer of short stories.A Keen Sense of Rumour is a tongue-in-cheek love story with strong elements of a bedroom farce. Kenneth Harvey, a notorious philanderer and proficient golfer is on holiday with a group of friends. His roving eye is drawn to a pretty girl who is staying at the same hotel.After a day of golf, Kenneth leaves the billiard room to have an early night - though his friends think it more likely that this is a pretext for some amorous adventure and take it upon themselves to catch him out. And then the pretty girl, returning from her bath, accidentally goes into the wrong room and jumps into Kenneth's bed. With the three pals already in the corridor, it seems it will take a miracle to avoid a terrible scandal....Show book
"Little Men" is a classic novel that continues the story of the March family from "Little Women." The focus shifts to Jo March, who is now married to Professor Bhaer and runs a school for boys called Plumfield. The novel explores the lives, adventures, and moral lessons of the boys at Plumfield, providing a heartwarming and insightful look into childhood and adolescence.Show book
When a world-renowned big-game hunter becomes stranded on a mad Russian's private island, the hunter quickly becomes the hunted. Rainsford has always held that the animals he has hunted are simply emotionless beasts, but he will soon find that fear is not only primal but universal in the animal kingdom. Man is not the exception. Listen now for only $1Show book
Plato’s most famous work and the bedrock of Western philosophyWritten in the form of a Socratic dialogue, The Republic is an investigation into the nature of an ideal society. In this far-reaching and profoundly influential treatise, Plato explores the concept of justice, the connection between politics and psychology, the difference between words and what they represent, and the roles of art and education, among many other topics. A towering achievement of philosophical insight, The Republic is as relevant to readers today as it was to the citizens of ancient Athens.Show book
Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction and a close associate of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf.The Apple Tree is a delightful story narrated from the perspective of a child whose father discovers that he has a rare and valuable apple tree growing in his orchard. The family wait impatiently for the first crop of the magical and splendid apples. Finally the day arrives when they can taste the wonderful red fruits...Show book
"You can be woke without waking to the news." Madam BlavatskyAstral projection is a term used in esotericism to describe an intentional out-of-body experience that assumes the existence of a soul called an "astral body" that is separate from the physical body and capable of traveling outside it throughout the universe. Here is the definitive classical Theosophical audiobook on a subject which has enthralled humankind since near the beginning of time. The author, Madam Helena Blavatsky was a Russian philosopher and author who co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875. She gained an international following as the leading theoretician of this stirring faith. Here is everything you need to know about the ability of a person's spirit to travel to distant places - including a step-by-step guide of how to do it. Geoffrey Giuliano is the author of some thirty-two international best-selling biographies on the Beatles and other iconic rock groups of the 1960s. He is also a well know Hollywood screenwriter, the voice on over five hundred popular audiobooks as well as an in-demand character actor in some twenty-five classic films.Show book
