In a rich and riveting narrative, Jane Dunn reveals the extraordinary rivalry between the regal cousins. It is the story of two queens ruling on one island, each with a claim to the throne of England, each embodying dramatically opposing qualities of character, ideals of womanliness (and views of sexuality), and divinely ordained kingship.
Mary Higgins Clark and Elizabeth Peters Present More Malice Domestic: An Anthology of Original Mystery Stories
UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 23 mins)
By Mary Higgins Clark, Elizabeth Peters
Narrated By various
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New York Times best-selling authors Mary Higgins Clark and Elizabeth Peters present this delightfully chilling collection of original mystery stories. This audiobook showcases a houseful of top contemporary writers at their very best.
Mary Barton is young, kind, and beautiful - perhaps dangerously so. John Barton, her hearty and intelligent but grievously uneducated father, who could never abide the gentlefolk, pours fierce love and courage into his family and work. One day, circumstance causes Mary to be faced with a terrible choice: either protect a member of her family or sit back and watch a terrible miscarriage of justice. Will she make the right decision in time?
Orphaned Kit Tyler knows, as she gazes for the first time at the cold, bleak shores of Connecticut Colony, that her new home will never be like the shimmering Caribbean islands she left behind. In her relatives' stern Puritan community, she feels like a tropical bird that has flown to the wrong part of the world, a bird that is now caged and lonely.
Susan says:
"Great characters - a delightful listen!"
By Jay Lake, Mary Robinette Kowal, Elizabeth Bear, and others
Narrated By Rene Auberjonois, Kate Mulgrew, Wil Wheaton, and others
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This sequel to the Hugo and Audie Award nominated METAtropolis features interconnected stories by today’s top writers of speculative fiction – performed by a galaxy of Star Trek stars. As the mid-20th century approaches, the Pacific Northwest has been transformed - politically, economically, and ecologically - into the new reality of Cascadia. Conspiracies and secrets threaten the tenuous threads of society. And the End of Days seems nearer than ever.
In a rich and riveting narrative, Jane Dunn reveals the extraordinary rivalry between the regal cousins. It is the story of two queens ruling on one island, each with a claim to the throne of England, each embodying dramatically opposing qualities of character, ideals of womanliness (and views of sexuality), and divinely ordained kingship.
This BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Elizabeth Gaskell's tale of Manchester life is set in the 19th century, when a series of bad harvests placed a heavy tax burden on workers. Gaskell's powerful drama, adapted here for Woman's Hour, is regarded as one of the most important novels of its time.
After witnessing his father's crucifixion by Roman soldiers, Daniel bar Jamin is fired by a single passion: to avenge his father's death by driving the Roman legions from the land of Israel. Consumed by hatred, Daniel leads a dangerous life living with an outlaw band in the hills outside his village, spying and plotting, impatiently waiting to take revenge. Winner of the 1962 Newbery Medal, The Bronze Bow is the story of a boy's tormented journey.
The Ultimate Guide to Fellatio: 2nd Edition: How to Go Down on a Man and Give Him Mind-Blowing Pleasure
UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 25 mins)
By Violet Blue, Mary Roach (foreword)
Narrated By Elizabeth Livingston
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Violet Blue delivers details, encouragement, and every tip and trick for better oral sex while dispelling common myths and misunderstandings. In a straightforward and friendly tone, she explains how to make giving head enjoyable for both giver and receiver, how to keep your lipstick perfect, how to deep throat passionately and comfortably, and more. Additional information on positions, lubrication, shaving, anal play, fantasies, and sex toys make this the most well-rounded book on the subject of fellatio.
When her father assassinates Henry Carson, his employer's son and Mary's admirer, suspicion falls on Mary's second admirer, Jem, a fellow worker. Mary has to prove her lover's innocence without incriminating her own father.
Diane E. Hill says:
"Narration as Brilliant Performance Art"
An intimate, myth-shattering new biography of Mary Queen of Scots by a premier historian that draws on a trove of newly discovered sources. Queen of Scots, the first full-scale biography of Mary in more than 30 years, offers a singularly novel, nuanced, and dramatic portrait of one of history's greatest women.
Die Falknerin says:
"Fascinating introduction to Mary Stuart"
This Victorian best seller, along with Braddon's other famous novel, Aurora Floyd, established her as the main rival of the master of the sensational novel, Wilkie Collins. A protest against the passive, insipid 19th-century heroine, Lady Audley was described by one critic of the time as "high-strung, full of passion, purpose, and movement." Her crime (the secret of the title) is shown to threaten the apparently respectable middle-class world of Victorian England.
The Ten Commandments are ancient pieces of wisdom that still help us live our call to holiness in a modern world. They teach us habits such as creating priorities, giving respect, recognizing dignity, living gratefully, and upholding honesty and fidelity. We need to learn and use these habits in order to live in right relationship with God, self, others, and things. Ten shows us how the Commandments provide us with the tools to lead a balanced life full of love of true joy.
Ron & Fez, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, October 5, 2012
ORIGINAL (3 hrs and 37 mins)
By Ron & Fez
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Today on Ron & Fez, actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead stops by to promote her new movie Smashed. We discuss quitting drinking and the power of addiction. We ask a quick question "Would you rather be attacked by one rabbit the size of a grizzly bear, or 20 grizzly bears the size of rabbits?" We watch a new video from internet sensation Frankie MacDonald. Intern Kokomo Joe plays us his new parody song featuring Intern Dana which attacks twitter stalker Queen Elizabeth.
By Erik Larson, Jamie Ford, Deb Caletti, and others
Narrated By Pam Ward
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Thirty-six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage. The result? Hotel Angeline, a truly inventive novel that surprises at every turn of the page. Something is amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former mortuary perched atop Capitol Hill in rain-soaked Seattle. Fourteen-year-old Alexis Austin is fixing the plumbing, the tea, and all the problems of the world, it seems, in her landlady mother’s absence.
Malice Domestic 1: An Anthology of Original Mystery Stories (Unabridged)
UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 52 mins)
By Elizabeth Peters (editor), Charlotte MacLeod, Barbara Paul, and others
Narrated By Mary Catlett, Richard Gilliland, Jill Larson, and others
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Malice Domestic distinguishes the personal and private aspects of crime from the public and impersonal. Our murderers don't kill for the fun of it (serial killers) or for a misguided ideal (assassins and terrorists) or for pay (hired hit men). They only do in people they know and love (or hate).
Narrated By Stina Nielsen, Davina Porter, Bianca Amato
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The child of a scheming father and ruthless mother, Lady Jane Grey is born during a time when ambition dictates action. Cousin to Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I, she is merely a pawn in a political and religious game in which one false step means a certain demise. But Lady Jane has remarkable qualities that help her to withstand the constant pressures of the royal machinery far better than most expect.
Break Your Own Rules: How to Change the Patterns of Thinking that Block Women's Paths to Power
UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 16 mins)
By Jill Flynn, Kathryn Heath, Mary Davis Holt, and others
Narrated By Elizabeth Wiley
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Women hold just 11 percent of the most senior-level leadership positions in U.S. Corporations - a number that hasn't changed in over 30 years. How can more women break through? Break Your Own Rules distills the six faulty assumptions (or "rules") most women follow that get in the way, then delivers the correlating new rules that promise to clear a path.