Siddhartha

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In
Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse conveys a very profound message for
all those who seek meaning in their lives. Though set in India, the
concerns of Siddhartha are universal, expressing Hesse's general
interest in the conflict between mind, body, and spirit. It is a
story of a Brahmin boy who follows his heart and ventures out into
the world to experience life as a pious Brahmin, a Samana, a rich
merchant, a lover, and ordinary ferryman to a father—each life
bringing a new awakening, bringing him closer to the truth until he
is finally one with Buddha.
Read by David Cross
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Moby-Dick

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Herman Melville’s classic masterpiece tells
the story of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the
whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns
that Ahab seeks one specific whale, Moby Dick, a white sperm whale
of tremendous size and ferocity. In a previous encounter, the whale
destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg and Ahab intends to take
revenge. The first line—Call me Ishmael—is one of the most famous
opening lines in American literature.
Read by James Conlan
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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There is no limit to Mark Twain’s inventive
genius, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn must be pronounced
the most amusing book he has written in years. The best proof of
Twain’s range and originality is found in this book, in which the
reader's interest is so strongly enlisted in the fortunes of two
boys and a runaway slave that he follows their adventures with keen
curiosity, although his common sense tells him that the incidents
are as absurd as they are fantastic. Huckleberry Finn is a tour de
force, in which the most unlikely materials are transmuted into a
work of literary art. - The San Francisco Chronicle, March 15, 1885.
Read by Denny Delk
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The Philadelphis Report

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The Philadelphia Report is
an audio presentation of the Philadelphia
Investigating Grand Jury report on Catholic clergy sexual abuse of minors in the
Archdiocese of Philadelphia. The 2005 report documents the results of a
four-year Grand Jury investigation led by Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne
Abraham.
A courageous team of Deputy District
Attorneys navigated their way through the files and allegations against 62
Philadelphia priests—less than half the number of implicated clergy in the
church files. The
audiobook Foreword is provided by
Marci A. Hamilton, professor of law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of
Law, and coauthor of the report.
The audiobook is read by an eclectic and talented consortium of voice
professionals motivated by a common commitment to truth, no matter how painful.
Read by a CHP Ensemble Cast
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The Authoritarians

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Ever since John W. Dean published his Conservatives
Without Conscience in 2006, much interest has been vested in the research of
Dr. Bob Altemeyer that was so prominently featured in the book. In CWC, Dean set out to learn why modern conservatives
seemed to think and behave in ways diametrically opposite the righteous and
moral values they so publicly espoused. What he discovered was an existing body
of scientific research tracing back to the cinders of the Holocaust. This
research focused on the Authoritarian Personality, which social scientists
believe was the enabling element within German society that was so deftly
exploited by Adolph Hitler and the Third Reich. Bob Altemeyer's
research on the Authoritarian Personality, summarized in
this book, won the American Association for the Advancement
of Science's Prize for Behavioral Science Research.
Read by the Author
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is one of the most famous
and enduring children's classics of all time. The novel,
Lewis Carroll’s most popular work, is full of whimsical
charm, and a feeling for the absurd that is unsurpassed even
to this day.
Read by Bobbin Beam
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Dracula

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Although myths about vampires had existed since ancient
times, Bram Stoker's Dracula is considered by many to be the
work that launched the vampire into the human lexicon, and
is undoubtedly the most popular and well-known vampire story
ever written. Stoker's inspirations for Count Dracula are
heavily debated, but most agree that Dracula was based in
part on the historical figure of Vlad the Impaler, a
fifteenth-century Romanian ruler known for his
indiscriminate brutality, which included a taste for
impaling people alive on wooden spikes and watching them die
in slow agony.
Read by Roger Watson
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The Mysterious Affiar at Styles

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In this first novel by Agatha Christie, she introduces the
inimitable Hercule Poirot, who would go on to appear in 33
Christie novels and 54 short stories. Outside of Sherlock
Holmes and perhaps Philip Marlowe, he is the best-known
detective in the history of the genre. The Mysterious Affair
at Styles deals with the case of an old woman poisoned with
strychnine for her money. Nothing is obvious, however, in
the way Christie handles a plot. The story spirals round and
round, leading the reader in one direction, then another,
convincing the reader that first one character, then another
is the guilty party.
Read by Judi Pennington
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Scarlet Letter

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The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, magnum opus,
tells the story of Hester Prynne, who gives birth two years
after separation from her husband and is condemned to wear
the scarlet letter A on her breast as punishment for her
adultery. She resists all attempts of the 17th century
Boston clergy to make her reveal the name of her child’s
father while she struggles to create a new life of
repentance and dignity.
Read by Ian Lynch
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Sense and Sensibility

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Sense and Sensibility is a sharply detailed portraiture of
the decorum surrounding courtship and the importance of
marriage for women in early-nineteenth-century upper-class
English society. The story revolves around Elinor and
Marianne Dashwood who, as members of the upper class, cannot
"work" for a living and must therefore make a suitable
marriage to ensure their livelihood. Elinor is a sensible,
rational creature, while her younger sister, Marianne, is
wildly romantic—a characteristic that offers Austen plenty
of scope for both satire and compassion.
Read by Marion Castle
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The Delphinus Chronicles

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A
remarkably original story about a computer with too much power
and an ocean-going species about which we know far too little.
For those in search of a hint, look to the night sky for the
Constellation Delphinus, also known as “The Dolphin.” Simon, a
supercomputer recently retired by the government, is awarded to
an obscure little college where it is programmed with the
ability to learn languages on its own. It turns out that the
school is adjacent to a famous San Diego aquatic amusement park,
and their innocent project soon spirals into a torrent of
unintended consequences. The dust up
surrounding The Delphinus Chronicles
has been
more intense than The Da Vinci Code,
which
hints that important tenets of western religious belief may be strategically
placed red herrings, Roane, to his detriment or accolade, has the audacity to
postulate the shocking reasons why such an elaborate ruse might, in fact, be
necessary.
Read by Helen Lisanti
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Pride and Prejudice

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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a
good fortune, must be in want of a wife." Charles
Bingley, a wealthy young gentleman, has moved into Netherfield Park manor, which
causes much excitement in the village of Longbourn, especially among the five
unmarried daughters of the Bennet household. Despite many romantic complications,
the overall tone of this classic novel is, as Jane Austen described it, "light
and bright, and sparkling.
"Helen
Lisanti is a rising star in audiobook narration."
- Audiobook News Service
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UFOs: God's Celestial Airforce

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This M.P Marshall opus is a two-hour audio adventure into the realm of Unidentified Flying Objects. An
old Guardian Angel, on Divine Probation, links up with an investigative TV
reporter who is under surveillance after a near death experience. You'll join
them aboard Pulsar One as their space craft travels through outer space at warp
speed in an attempt to head off the ultimate destruction of Planet Earth. The
Man Upstairs is becoming stressed by Earth's increasing threat to the Primary
Universe.
"A remarkable adventure brought to life
between your ears...like a movie exploding
in your mind." - Rick Pamplin,
motion picture producer/director, Pamplin
Film Company
Read by Bob Noble, music by Glenn Longacre
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War of the Worlds

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“No one would have believed in the last years of
the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and
closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his
own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they
were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man
with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that
swarm and multiply in a drop of water.” Thus begins one
of the most terrifying and morally prescient science fiction novels
ever penned. Beginning with a series of strange flashes in the
distant night sky, the Martian attack initially causes little
concern on Earth. Very soon mankind finds itself on the brink of extinction.
Read by Roger Watson, music by Kevin
MacLeod
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The Time Machine

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The Time Machine is H.G. Wells' warning of what will befall
mankind if capitalism continues to exploit workers for the benefits
of the rich. As the Time Traveler theorizes, the working class has
been pushed underground for so long that it has evolved into a
distinct, nocturnal species. The upper class has remained above
ground, and their advanced civilization, stocked with amenities, has
turned them into weak, lazy, and dependent creatures. But at some
point the underground group—the Morlocks—run out of food and are
forced to hunt down the Eloi, which it now breeds like cattle.
Read by David McAlistair, music by Kevin MacLeod |
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