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  Balthazar

  Lawrence Durrell

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  The politics of love, the intrigues of desire … love and murder, moved obscurely in the dark corners of Alexandria’s streets and squares, brothels and drawing-rooms – moved like a great congress of eels in the slime of plot and counter-plot…’ In Balthazar, the second volume in Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet, the story and the characters come more clearly into focus. Darley, the reflective Englishman, receives from Balthazar, the pathologist, a mass of notes which attempt to explain what really happened between the tempestuous Justine, her husband Nessim, Clea the artist, Pursewarden the writer; new figures emerge and play key roles. Balthazar, in his ‘Interlinear’, explains and warns.

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  The Jungle Book

  Rudyard Kipling

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  Rudyard Kipling's classic comes to life in this brilliantly performed classic! Run with Mowgli through the tangled Indian Jungle as he wages war against the great, lame tiger, Shere Khan. Hunt with Kaa in the twilight, stalk through the forest on noiseless feet with Bagheera, and learn the Law of the Jungle and the maxims of old Baloo the Brown bear. 
  This audiobook includes the two most famous stories from "The Jungle Books" collection - Mowgli, the man cub, and Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, the mongoose. Timeless tales of heroism, with their priceless characters, and flare of Indian culture. 
  Born in Bombay, Kipling infuses his taste for the lore of his birth country into his writing, giving his readers vivid pictures of the jungles and the bungalows in which his stories take place. He wrote two volumes of stories which he titled The Jungle Books volume one and two. But many of those stories do not hold the place in the hearts of his readers like Mowgli and Rikki-Tikki.

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  The Cats of Ulthar

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  Cat haters beware. This piece by H.P. Lovecraft is largely memoirish, whereby the narrator is compelled to tell the reader about Ulthar after petting his own cat. When a travelling caravan passes through, a young orphan named Menes finds his beloved black kitten has gone missing and fears the worse—that his beloved kitten had suffered a torturous end at the hands of the town cat killers. Annoyed by the lack of action on the part of the townspeople, Menes invokes a prayer that results in the cats of the town rising and slaying the cat-killing couple. This action subsequently brings into effect a law that forbids the killing of cats in Ulthar.  

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  The Battle of Life

  Charles Dickens

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  While "The Battle of Life" is one of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books - his annual release of a story just before Christmas - this one breaks the tradition by not being concerned with Christmas. The major events of this book take place on land that once was a battleground. That is just a backdrop for Dickens' idea of the real battle of life - finding and winning the right partner, so that life will go on to the next generation. The family that lives there is rather confused in its affections and intentions regarding who should end up with whom. We are thrust into the fight to make things work out, and, happily for a Christmas book, Dickens leads us on to a happy ending.

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  Pygmalion

  George Bernard Shaw

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  Relive this hilarious drama retold in audiobook format, complete with the witty narrative and directions of Shaw's original playscript. 
  Henry Higgins, a phonetician, agrees to coach and groom Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl and transform her into a socially acceptable person, no less than a duchess - in just six months! 
  Timeless themes of equality and social class are explored in a lighthearted, comical manner, raising many questions such as: 
  Can Eliza "I'm a good girl I am!" live up to their expectations? 
  What will become of her afterwards? 
  What happens when her Father, an "undeserving" dustman comes into money and becomes a "victim of the middle class"? 
  What is middle class morality? 
  Listeners are invited to answer these questions for themselves - or just sit back and be entertained by Shaw's comic wit in all it's glory. 
   

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  Christmas Carols Collection

  Anonymous

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  A collection of traditional Christmas carols.
  O Holy NightThe Boar's Head CarolGod Rest Ye Merry GentlemenGood King WenceslasHere We Come A-WassailingJoy to the WorldI Heard the Bells on Christmas Day	HDona Nobis PacemThe First NoelThe Coventry CarolIt Came Upon the Midnight ClearAway in a Manger
  An Author's Republic audio production.

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