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  Oliver Twist (Unabridged)

  Charles Dickens

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  The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath - shocked readers when it was published. After running away from the workhouse and pompous beadle Mr Bumble, Oliver finds himself lured into a den of thieves peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the Artful Dodger, vicious burglar Bill Sikes, his dog Bull's Eye, and prostitute Nancy, all watched over by cunning master-thief Fagin. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery.

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  Cambrian Pictures

  Ann Julia Hatton

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  Weaving together themes of gender, liberty, power and transgression, Ann Julia Hatton's Cambrian Pictures; or, Every One Has Errors (1810) is a comedy of manners and morals with serious intent.
  
  Notable for its inverse seduction plots, Cambrian Pictures is a witty and colourful courtship novel with a lively cast of characters: a cross-dressing Welsh girl duels with an unwelcome suitor, an ageing English aristocrat kidnaps the much-younger object of her lust.
  
  Mainly located in contemporary north Wales, Hatton explores idealised Welsh contexts in opposition to English-set metropolitan corruption. Featuring lyrical passages of description and sharply-observed domestic scenes, Cambrian Pictures is also stylistically interesting as a vehicle for poetry – in quotation and Hatton's own. Drawing on domestic travel writing and the emergence of the Gothic, Cambrian Pictures is one of the strongest Welsh-set novels of the Romantic period.

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  Roger Malvin's Burial

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in 1804 in the city of Salem, Massachusetts.  His father, a sea captain died when Nathaniel was 4 and Nathaniel always a shy child spent his early years with his Mother and two sisters.  Hit on the leg by a ball, doctors could finds nothing wrong but he went lame and was bedridden for a year. He entered Bowdoin College in 1821, and graduated in 1825. Hawthorne anonymously published his first work, the novel ‘Fanshawe’, in 1828. He continued to publish in various periodicals which he collected in 1837 as Twice-Told Tales. The next year, he became engaged to Sophia Peabody eventually marrying her in 1842. 
   
  His defining work ‘The Scarlet Letter’ was published in 1850, followed by a succession of other novels. The majority of his works centre on New England and have a Puritan inspiration and outlook with their inherent evil and sin of humanity.  A political appointment took Hawthorne and family to Europe before their return in 1860. Hawthorne died on May 19, 1864, leaving behind his wife and their three children.  This volume centres on his short stories which are beautifully crafted pieces layered with characters ill at ease with their path through life.

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  Raven The - Story Time Episode...

  Brothers Grimm

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  In the forest, a man heard a raven tell him she was an enchanted princess, and he could deliver her if he went to a certain cottage and accepted no food from the old woman there. The raven would drive by in a carriage every day for three days. If he remained awake, he would break the spell.

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  The Montezuma Emerald

  Rodrigues Ottolengui

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  Rodrigues Ottolengui was an American writer and pioneering dentist born in Charleston, SC, who lived most of his life in New York City. Ottolengui was one of the first dentists to use X-rays and was a specialist in orthodontics and root canal therapy. In the 1890s, Ottolengui published four novels and a collection of detective short stories, including The Montezuma Emerald. 
  A seasoned stage actor, Raymond Stottlemyre was born and raised in Pelican Rapids, MN. He has worked in local radio, narrated audio programs, and has performed in hundreds of plays over the decades.

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  The Sky is the Limit Vol 1-2 (20...

  James Allen, L. W. Rogers, B. F....

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  This Audio book contains the following works 
  The Sky is the Limit Vol 1 
   
  Think and Grow Rich[Napoleon Hill] - Starts at Chapter  1 
  The prophet                                                               [Khalil Gibran] - Starts at Chapter 19 
  Eight Pillars of Prosperity                                         [James Allen]- Starts at Chapter 47 
  As a Man Thinketh                                                     [James Allen] - Starts at Chapter 58 
  An Iron Will                                                                [Orison Swett Marden] - Starts at Chapter 67 
  The Art of Money Getting                                         [P.T. Barnum] - Starts at Chapter 74 
  The Game of Life and How to Play it                       [Florence Scovel Shinn] - Starts at Chapter 95 
  The Way to Wealth                                                    [Benjamin Franklin] - Starts at Chapter 105 
  Acres of Diamonds                                                    [Russell Conwell] - Starts at Chapter 106 
  The Science of Getting Rich                                    [Wallace D. Wattles] - Starts at Chapter 108 
  The Sky is the Limit Vol 2 
   
  The Ri  {George[George[George [George S. Clason] - Starts at Chapter 126 
  The Psychology of Salesmanshi [William Walker Atkinson] - Starts at Chapter 145 
  The Law of Success Lesson 1  
  :The Master Mind [Napoleon Hill] - Starts at Chapter 155 
  The Key to Succes [Russell H. Conwell] -  Starts at Chapter 158 
  Self Development And Power [L.W. Rogers] -Starts at Chapter 165 
  Morning And Evening 
  Thoughts [James Allen] - Starts at Chapter 168 
  How To Make Mone  
  B.F. Austin]  
   Starts at Chapter 230 
  How to Get What You Want                                     
  Wallace D. Wattles]  
   Starts at Chapter 257 
  From Poverty to Power                                            
  James Allen] - Starts at Chapter 262 
  Every Man His Own University                                 
  Russell H. Conwell] - Starts at Chapter 277

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