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Experience Hollywood’s Golden Age in a groundbreaking new way. Immersive Audio Cinema™: Hollywood Noir & Drama Masterworks presents eight legendary films transformed into a premium narrative audio format that blends complete original dialogue with new scene-bridging narration, enabling listeners to vividly visualize every moment.

The novel is set on the edge of Dartmoor, a rugged, brooding upland in Devonshire, southwestern England. The tiny village of Sittaford, "at all times remote from the world," Christie tells us, is even more isolated because of a huge snowstorm. Here Mrs. Willett, a recent arrival, along with her daughter, Violet, has rented the house of Captain Trevelyan, a wealthy retired naval officer. Mrs. Willett hosts a séance, inviting several neighbors, including John Burnaby, the captain's best friend.

This version—the original—begins with Nancy and her friend Helen Corning boating on Moon Lake. Overtaken by a sudden storm, they are rescued by Laura Pendleton. Nancy and Helen learn that Laura is an orphan, having lost both her parents. Her mother having died recently, she has been put into the guardianship of one Jacob Aborn. Laura has never met Jacob Aborn but is apprehensive about him. When Jacob Aborn arrives on the scene, he proves to be brutish and harsh. But because he is the court-appointed guardian, Laura must accept his custodianship.

Experience five defining masterpieces of American literature—novels of love and war, ambition and illusion, family and ruin, crime and consequence. The Great American Classics Audio Collection gathers Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, and Dashiell Hammett into one essential library of American storytelling, performed by acclaimed narrators Grover Gardner and Sean Pratt. Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms remains the premier American novel of World War I. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald stands as the defining portrait of the Jazz Age.

It’s been said that the past is another country. Stefan Zweig’s memoir The World of Yesterday takes readers into several such countries. This book has been called the most famous work about the Hapsburg Empire of Austria-Hungary (which Zweig calls “the world of security”) in the last decades before its collapse in the First World War.

The essential collection of crime, mystery, and film noir classics. Uniting seven defining works of mid-century mystery and noir, this collection blends the sharp intelligence of iconic detective novels with the moody tension of Golden Age cinema.

In this thrilling novel, Nancy follows the fate of a set of extremely valuable jewels of which her impoverished friend Emily Crandall has come into possession. Emily’s guardian, Jane Willoughby, has taken on the task of fetching the jewels from a safe-deposit box in a nearby town. While coming home, Mrs. Willoughby and her friend Mrs. Potter stop at the picturesque old Lilac Inn for lunch. Mrs. Willoughby has the jewels in her handbag. When attention is distracted by a car crash outside, Mrs. Willoughby comes back to the table to find that her handbag—and the jewels—are missing.

First published in 1930, it remains unsurpassed for the range and depth of its coverage, extending from social, geographical, and economic factors to the events, personalities, and conflicts that shaped the history of this nation. The Growth of the American Republic also stands among historical writings as a paragon of readability, clarity, and accessibility.

The Secret at Shadow Ranch, published in 1931, was the fifth in the acclaimed line of Nancy Drew mysteries. Publishers Weekly has ranked it as the fiftieth best-selling children’s book of all time, with over 2.3 million in sales. In this book, Nancy is invited with three friends to spend the summer in the American West. They are accompanying Mrs. Rawley, whose husband has acquired Shadow Ranch, a rundown property, which she has to restore and sell.

The early modern era in Europe set the mold for the Western world today. It was a complex, tragic, yet pivotal time. It marked the transition between the dominance of the Catholic church throughout Western Europe and the present age of science, reason, and skepticism. The path through this transition was an exciting yet bloody and sorrowful one. The wars between Catholics and Protestants in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries rivaled those of the present in cruelty and atrocity. Durant takes us through the religious wars between Catholics and Protestants in France.

When the luxurious overnight passenger train from Calais to the Riviera, known as the Blue Train, arrives in Nice, a guard goes into the compartment of American heiress, Ruth Kettering and attempts to wake her. Unfortunately, she will never wake up, as she is dead, having been killed by a heavy blow to her head, disfiguring her almost beyond recognition. What is more, her precious ruby, known as the 'Heart of Fire', is missing. The prime suspect is Ruth’s estranged husband, but detective Hercule Poirot, who also just happens to be a passenger on the train, is not convinced.

Spanning eighty captivating hours, Durant Masterworks curates four of Will Durant's most celebrated works into a single, thematically rich portrait of Western thought from its origins to the modern age. This anthology traces the evolution of Western thought from ancient philosophy through medieval faith, early modern conflict, and the rise of England as a global power. Durant's storytelling is vivid, engaging, and deeply human, bringing history's greatest ideas and personalities to life with unmatched clarity.

Catherine Ponder’s groundbreaking classic The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity has helped people in every walk of life improve their finances, relationships, health, and spiritual understanding. Ponder shows how prosperity is first and foremost a state of mind. Your thoughts are an instrument for success or failure—and the right use of your mind is the key to a vital, happy, prosperous, successful life.

Philosophy has often seemed like the castor oil of the disciplines: healthy, but never pleasurable, and best when swallowed quickly and forgotten. Will Durant’s classic The Story of Philosophy is a welcome remedy for this misconception, and—in view of the fact that it is nearly 100 years old—a remarkably refreshing one. This deluxe edition includes The Age of Faith, the fourth volume in the great series, The Story of Civilization. It covers the years 1095—the launching of the First Crusade—and 1300.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C-A.D. 65), the chief advisor to the emperor Nero, was the power behind the throne in Ancient Rome. He is most famous for his writings on Stoic ideology, in which philosophy is a practical form of self-improvement. Seneca’s letters address the issues of life and death confronting every generation while upholding the ideals of Stoicism–valuing courage and friendship, avoiding corruption and self-indulgence, striving to achieve a good life while being immune to life’s setbacks, and enjoying life without the fear of dying.

Your subconscious mind harbors insightful and creative power—if properly harnessed, this suggestive power can solve problems and shape circumstances in ways you never imagined possible. In Joseph Murphy’s classic The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, he offers listeners a master key to tap into the reservoirs of their subconscious. Millions of followers have used this radical suggestive power to enjoy newfound happiness, wealth and health. This most powerful guide to using your visualizing faculties of thought comes with a special bonus: How to Attract Money.

This semiautobiographical tale features an American ambulance driver, Lieutenant Frederic Henry, stationed on the Italian front, who falls in love with Catherine Barkley, a beautiful English nurse. Set against the horrors of war on the battlefield, with tired, demoralized men facing the German attack on Caporetto, Hemingway unforgettably captures their despair as well as the pain of lovers caught in the harsh realities of war, which threaten to pull them apart.

Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon, first published in 1930, is one of the greatest crime novels of all times, inspiring numerous spinoffs in film, television, and theater. The hero, Sam Spade, is a hard-bitten and ethically ambiguous detective who is approached by the beautiful and mysterious Miss Wonderly to track down her missing sister. Spade’s partner, Miles Archer, steps in, only to be shot that very night. Spade’s honor as a detective requires him to track down Archer’s killer.

The British Empire is unique in world history. How did this small island come to rule a full quarter of the globe? No other nation has matched this achievement.

A lavish weekend party, a practical joke that goes murderously wrong, and stolen state secrets all transpire in The Seven Dials Mystery, by Agatha Christie. Full of her usual sly wit this clever murder mystery is a classic detective story featuring some of the characters from an earlier novel, The Secret of Chimneys: Lady Eileen (Bundle) Brent, Lord Caterham, Bill Eversleigh, George Lomax, Tredwell, and Superintendent Battle.