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The Story of Miss Moppet is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. The story tells of a cat who captures a mouse, and toys with him until he escapes. This version is published in the Audible Enhanced audiobook format.

On nights 566 to 578, Shahrazad entertained her sultan with the tale of the City of Brass. She told how a Caliph sent an expedition under Emir Musa to explore in Africa. There they found a vast deserted castle, a jinni imprisoned in a pillar, and finally the City of Brass itself, with its people lying dead in the streets and houses.

When Virginia Woolf wrote A Room of One’s Own in 1929, she established her reputation as a feminist, and an advocate for unheard voices. But like thousands of other upper-class British women, Woolf relied on live-in domestic servants for the most intimate of daily tasks. That room of Woolf’s own was kept clean by a series of cooks and maids throughout her life. In the much-praised Mrs. Woolf and the Servants, Alison Light probes the unspoken inequality of Bloomsbury homes with insight and grace.

The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. The story is about a hedgehog washerwoman called Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and her encounter with a human child named Lucie. The two deliver freshly laundered items to the little animals and birds of the forest. This version is published in the Audible Enhanced audiobook format and includes original illustrations synchronized with the narration.

Ten of the best known tales from The Arabian Nights including: "The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree, and the Golden Water", "The Fisherman and the Jinni", "The Young King of the Black Isles", "Gulnare of the Sea", "Aladdin", "The Story of Prince Agib", "The City of Brass", "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves", "Codadad and His Brothers", and "Sinbad the Sailor".

The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter includes 19 famous children’s stories written by Potter in the early 20th century.

“The Tale of Peter Rabbit is a children's book written by Beatrix Potter that follows mischievous and disobedient young Peter Rabbit as he is chased about the garden of Mr. McGregor. He escapes and returns home to his mother who puts him to bed after dosing him with chamomile tea. This version is published in the Audible Enhanced audiobook format and includes original illustrations synchronized with the narration.

The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes is a children's book written by Beatrix Potter. Timmy Tiptoes is an eastern grey squirrel who grows so fat eating nuts stored in a hollow tree, he cannot escape. This version is published in the Audible Enhanced audiobook format and includes original illustrations synchronized with the narration.

Born for love, she was an emperor's favorite. A tyrant's concubine. And a prisoner of her own brazen desires....

"You must know, my lord," said the wretched prisoner, "that my father, named Mahmoud, was monarch of this country. This is the kingdom of the Black Isles, which takes its name from the four small neighboring mountains; for those mountains were formerly isles, and the capital where the king, my father, resided was situated on the spot now occupied by the lake you have seen. The sequel of my history will inform you of the reason for those changes.

> The Roly-Poly Pudding is a children's book written by Beatrix Potter. The book is dedicated to the author's fancy rat "Sammy" and tells of Tom Kitten's escape from two rats who plan to make him into a pudding. This version is published in the Audible Enhanced audiobook format and includes original illustrations synchronized with the narration.

The Tailor of Gloucester is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. The story is about a tailor whose work on a waistcoat is finished by the grateful mice he rescues from his cat and was based on a real world incident involving a tailor and his assistants. For years, Potter declared that of all her books, it was her personal favorite. This version is published in the Audible Enhanced audiobook format and includes original illustrations synchronized with the narration.

Ginger and Pickles is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. The book tells of two shopkeepers who extend unlimited credit to their customers and, as a result, are forced to go out of business. This version is published in the Audible Enhanced audiobook format.

The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. The tale is about a farmyard duck and a fox who wants to eat her. This version is published in the Audible Enhanced audiobook format.

The Velveteen Rabbit is a children's novel that chronicles the story of a stuffed rabbit and his quest to become real through the love of his owner. The Velveteen Rabbit has been awarded the IRA/CBC Children's Choice award. This version is published in the Audible Enhanced Audiobook format and includes original illustrations by William Nicholson synchronized with the narration.

The Turn of the Screw, a novella written by Henry James, is often considered the prototypical ghost story. The story begins: “The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be, I remember no comment uttered till somebody happened to say that it was the only case he had met in which such a visitation had fallen on a child.”

> The Tale of Mr. Tod is a book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter. Mr. Tod, a fox, and Tommy Brock, a badger, are both troublesome neighbors and "disagreeable people". Mr. Tod owns a number of homes around the wood. Whenever he moves from one house to another, Tommy Brock moves in to the vacated premises, without permission. This version is published in the Audible Enhanced audiobook format.

Ali Baba and his elder brother Cassim are the sons of a merchant. After the death of their father, the greedy Cassim marries a wealthy woman and becomes well-to-do, building on their father's business - but Ali Baba marries a poor woman and settles into the trade of a woodcutter. One day Ali Baba is at work collecting and cutting firewood in the forest, and he happens to overhear a group of forty thieves visiting their treasure store. The treasure is in a cave, the mouth of which is sealed by magic.

After spending all the wealth left to him by his father, Sinbad goes to sea to repair his fortune. He sets ashore on what appears to be an island, but this island proves to be a gigantic sleeping whale on which trees have taken root ever since the world was young. Awakened by a fire kindled by the sailors, the whale dives into the depths, the ship departs without Sinbad, and Sinbad is saved by the grace of Allah.

> The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin is a children's book written by Beatrix Potter. The story is about a red squirrel named Nutkin and his narrow escape from an owl called Old Brown. This version is published in the Audible Enhanced audiobook format and includes original illustrations synchronized with the narration.