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The Phantom of the Opera

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Gaston Leroux
• Narrated By Ralph Cosham
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The story begins with an investigation into some strange reports of an "opera ghost", legendary for making the great Paris opera performers ill-at-ease when they sit alone in their dressing rooms. Some allege to have seen the ghost in evening clothes moving about in the shadows. Nothing is done, however, until the disappearance of Christine during her triumphant performance.

Equal Rites: Discworld #3

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Terry Pratchett
• Narrated By Celia Imrie
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The Historian

• UNABRIDGED (26 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Elizabeth Kostova
• Narrated By Joanne Whalley, Dennis Boutsikaris, Rosalyn Landor, and others
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Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor", and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed of: a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate connect to an inconceivable evil hidden in the depths of history.

The Name of This Book Is Secret

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Pseudonymous Bosch
• Narrated By David Pittu
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"If this were a normal descriptions for a normal audiobook, I would tell you that this audiobook is fantastic! Gripping! (According to their blurbs, all books are fantastic and gripping.) You'd meet the brave young heroes, Cass and Max Ernest. And you'd hear about how a mysterious box of vials, the symphony of smells, sends them on the trail of a magician who has vanished under strange (and Stinky) circumstances."

Inkheart

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Cornelia Funke
• Narrated By Lynn Redgrave

Imagine it were possible to bring the characters from a book to life. Not like when you listen to an audiobook with such enchantment that the characters seem to jump off the pages and into your bedroom...but for real. Imagine they could actually climb out of the pages and into our world. Then imagine if those characters brought their world into ours.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Dramatised)

• ORIGINAL (4 hrs and 35 mins)
• By J. R. R Tolkien
• Narrated By Ian Holm, Michael Hordern, Robert Stephens

A BBC radio full-cast dramatisation of the first book in JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy. Brian Sibley's famous 1981 adaptation, starring Ian Holm and Michael Hordern, has been divided into three corresponding parts, with newly recorded beginning and end narration by Ian Holm.