Anthony Heald

Where the Red Fern Grows

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Wilson Rawls
• Narrated By Anthony Heald
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Since its publication over forty years ago, this heartwarming tale of a boy and his dogs has touched millions. A tale of adventure, special friendship and coming-of-age, Where the Red Fern Grows makes for delightful listening. This unabridged production, featuring a moving performance by Anthony Heald, brings this enduring classic to life and makes a powerful story even more unforgettable.

Homer Box Set: Iliad & Odyssey

• UNABRIDGED (25 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Homer, W. H. D. Rouse - translator
• Narrated By Anthony Heald

Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are unquestionably two of the greatest epic masterpieces in Western literature. Though more than 2,700 years old, their stories of brave heroics, capricious gods, and towering human emotions are vividly timeless. The Iliad can justly be called the world’s greatest war epic. The terrible and long-drawn-out siege of Troy remains one of the classic campaigns. The Odyssey chronicles the many trials and adventures Odysseus must pass through on his long journey home from the Trojan wars to his beloved wife.

The Ultimate Sales Machine

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Chet Holmes
• Narrated By Anthony Heald

The only lasting way to enhance your productivity and growth is to focus on a handful of basic concepts and repeat them week after week - and teach your staff to do the same. This audiobook explains how to tune up virtually every area of your business systematically, with just a little disciplined focus. Spend an hour per week on each "impact area" of your business, and you will be astonished at how much you can accomplish.

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

• ABRIDGED (2 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Daniel Quinn
• Narrated By Anthony Heald

Ishmael is an utterly unique and captivating spiritual adventure which redefines what it is to be human. We are introduced to Ishmael, a creature of immense wisdom. He has a story to tell, one that no human being has ever heard before. It is the story of man's place in the grand scheme, and it begins at the birth of time. This history of the world has never appeared in any schoolbook. "Does the earth belong to man?" Ishmael asks. "Or does man belong to the earth?"

The Good Earth

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Pearl S. Buck
• Narrated By Anthony Heald
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This Pulitzer Prize-winning classic tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works, nurturing the land as it nurtures him and his family. Nearby, the nobles of the House of Hwang consider themselves above the land and its workers; but they will soon meet their own downfall. The working people riot, breaking into the homes of the rich and forcing them to flee. When Wang Lung shows mercy to one noble and is rewarded, he begins to rise in the world, even as the House of Hwang falls.

Crime and Punishment

• UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett (translator)
• Narrated By Anthony Heald
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In this intense detective thriller instilled with philosophical, religious, and social commentary, Dostoevsky studies the psychological impact upon a desperate and impoverished student when he murders a despicable pawnbroker, transgressing moral law to ultimately "benefit humanity".

The House of the Seven Gables

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Narrated By Anthony Heald
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In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family of Salem.

Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey through His Son's Meth Addiction

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 27 mins)
• By David Sheff
• Narrated By Anthony Heald
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David Sheff's story is a first: a teenager's addiction from the parent's point of view, a real-time chronicle of the shocking descent into substance abuse and the gradual emergence into hope.

Before meth, Sheff's son, Nic, was a varsity athlete, honor student, and award-winning journalist. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who stole money from his eight-year-old brother and lived on the streets. With haunting candor, Sheff traces the first warning signs, the attempts at rehabilitation, and, at last, the way past addiction. He shows us that, whatever an addict's fate, the rest of the family must care for one another, too, lest they become addicted to addiction.

Star Wars: The Jedi Academy Trilogy, Volume 1: Jedi Search

• ABRIDGED (3 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Kevin J. Anderson
• Narrated By Anthony Heald

While Luke Skywalker takes the first step toward setting up an academy to train a new order of Jedi Knights, Han Solo and Chewbacca are taken prisoner on the planet Kessel and forced to work in the fathomless depths of a spice mine. But when Han and Chewie break away, they flee to a secret Imperial research laboratory surrounded by a cluster of black holes - going from one danger to a far greater one.

The Pelican Brief

• ABRIDGED (5 hrs and 40 mins)
• By John Grisham
• Narrated By Anthony Heald

Late one October night, Justice Abe Rosenberg, at 91 the Supreme Court's liberal legend, is shot to death in his Georgetown home. Two hours later Glenn Jensen, the Court's youngest and most conservative justice, is strangled. The country is stunned; the FBI has no clues. But Darby Shaw, a brilliant law student at Tulane, thinks she has the answer.

Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Vector Prime

• ABRIDGED (3 hrs and 2 mins)
• By R. A. Salvatore
• Narrated By Anthony Heald

As the Jedi and the Republic focus on internal struggles, a new threat surfaces beyond the farthest reaches of the Outer Rim. An enemy appears from outside known space, bearing weapons and technology unlike anything New Republic scientists have ever seen. Suddenly, Luke, Mara, Leia, Han Solo, and Chewbacca, along with their children, are thrust again into battle. But this time, all their courage, sacrifice, and even the power of the Force itself, may not be enough.

Star Wars: The Bounty Hunter, Book 2: Slave Ship

• ABRIDGED (2 hrs and 58 mins)
• By K. W. Jeter
• Narrated By Anthony Heald

He's both feared and admired, respected and despised. Boba Fett is the galaxy's most successful bounty hunter. Now he finds himself the hunted in the oldest game of all: survival of the fittest. Hoping to fuel rumors of his death, Boba Fett abandons his ship, Slave I, and sets out to claim a prize. Yet his every move leads him closer to a trap set by the cunning Prince Xizor.

Star Wars: The Jedi Academy Trilogy, Volume 3: Champions of the Force

• ABRIDGED (3 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Kevin J. Anderson
• Narrated By Anthony Heald

Suspended helplessly between life and death, Luke Skywalker lies in state at the Jedi academy. But on the spirit plane, Luke fights desperately for survival, reaching out physically to the Jedi twins. At the same time, Leia is on a life-and-death mission of her own, a race against Imperial agents hoping to destroy a third Jedi child, Leia and Han's baby Anakin, hidden on the planet Anoth.

Dark Rivers of the Heart

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Dean Koontz
• Narrated By Anthony Heald
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Spencer Grant had no idea what drew him to the bar with the red door. He thought he would just sit down, have a slow beer or two, and talk to a stranger. He couldn't know that it would lead to a narrow escape from a bungalow targeted by a SWAT team. Or that it would leave him a wanted man. Now he is on the run from mysterious and ruthless men. He is in love with a woman he knows next to nothing about. And he is hiding from a past he can't fully remember.

Star Wars: The Bounty Hunter, Book 1: The Mandalorian Armor

• ABRIDGED (2 hrs and 59 mins)
• By K. W. Jeter
• Narrated By Anthony Heald

He is Boba Fett, the most feared and successful bounty hunter in the galaxy, and even the most hardened criminals tremble at his name. Now he faces the deadliest challenge of his infamous career: an all-out war against his most dangerous enemies.

Shadow Country: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend

• UNABRIDGED (40 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Peter Matthiessen
• Narrated By Anthony Heald
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Inspired by a near-mythic event on the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the 20th century, Shadow Country re-imagines the legend of the inspired Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson, who drives himself relentlessly toward his own violent end at the hands of neighbors who mostly admired him, in a killing that obsessed his favorite son.

Star Wars: The Jedi Academy Trilogy, Volume 2: Dark Apprentice

• ABRIDGED (2 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Kevin J. Anderson
• Narrated By Anthony Heald

While the New Republic struggles to decide what to do with the deadly Sun Crusher, a new doomsday weapon stolen from the Empire by Han Solo, the renegade Imperial Admiral Daala uses her fleet of Star Destroyers to conduct guerrilla warfare on peaceful planets. And now she threatens the watery homeworld of Admiral Ackbar. But as the battle for a planet rages, an even greater danger emerges at Luke Skywalker's Jedi academy.

The Complete Stories of Anton Chekhov, Vol. 1: 1882–1885

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Anton Chekhov
• Narrated By Anthony Heald

A Russian author, playwright, and physician, Anton Chekhov is widely considered one of the best short-story writers of all time. Having influenced such writers as Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, and James Joyce, Chekhov’s stories are often noted for their stream-of-consciousness style and their vast number.

Star Wars: The X-Wing Series, Volume 8: Isard's Revenge

• ABRIDGED (2 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Michael A. Stackpole
• Narrated By Anthony Heald

It's the kind of mission only Wedge Antilles and the Rogue Squadron would dare to undertake. Against impossible odds they will stage a daring raid into an enemy stronghold, only to be rescued from certain destruction by an unexpected ally.