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The Kama Sutra of Vātsyāyana

 

The Kama Sutra 

By Vātsyāyana.  Read by Rita Sharma.  Music by Kevin Macleod.

 

 

 

Wuthering Heights

 

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By Emily Brontë.  Read by Marion Castle.  Music by Kevin Macleod.

 

A Tale of Two Cities

 

A Tale of Two Cities

 

By Charles Dickens.  Read by Roger Watson.  Music by Kevin Macleod.

 

 

 

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

 

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

By Harriet Jacobs.  Read by Audio Élan.  Music by Former American Slaves.

 

 

Best American Humorous Short Stories

 

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Read by Stephanye Dussud.  Music by Kevin MacLeod.

 

 

Emma

 

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By Jane Austen.  Read by Gina Mellotte.  Music by Kevin MacLeod.

 

 

 

CurrentNews:

 

Bob Noble Wins FMPTA Best Audio Award

 

UFOs FMPTA Award

 

The Hilton Orlando/Altamonte Springs hosted the Florida Motion Picture & Television Association's 21st Annual Crystal Reel Awards Gala on November 6th where Bob Noble won Best Narration/Voice-Over/Male in an Audio Program for M.P. Marshall's UFOs: God's Celestial Airforce

 

RecentEvents:

 

The Delphinus Chronicles wins first place in the audiobook division at the Hollywood Book Festival

 

 

Based in the capital of show business, the Hollywood Book Festival aims to spotlight literature worthy of further consideration by the talent-hungry pipeline of the entertainment industry; and facilitate getting those works into the proper hands for consideration

 

Hollywood Book Festival

 

Siddhartha  mic icon

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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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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

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  mic icon

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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

The Philadelphis Report  mic icon

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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

The Authoritarians  mic icon

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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.

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland  mic icon

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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

Dracula  mic icon

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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

The Mysterious Affiar at Styles  mic icon

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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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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

Sense and Sensibility  mic icon

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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

The Delphinus Chronicles  mic icon

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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

Pride and Prejudice  mic icon

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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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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

War of the Worlds  mic icon

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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

The Time Machine  mic icon

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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

How to Analyze People on Sight  mic icon

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When this book was published in 1921, Elsie Lincoln Benedict's "How to Analyze People on Sight" was received as a serious scientific work of analytic sociology, but fast forward ninety years and the same words ring hilariously.  Apparently well intended at the time, the book appears to invent the very notion of stereotyping. One can only imagine the number of hapless souls that must have trudged forward through life after reading Benedict's masterpiece, certain in their belief that their fate was inescapably governed by the shape of their face or the length of their neck.

Read by Alecia Kaye, music by Kevin MacLeod

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer  mic icon

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, originally published in 1876, was the first novel written on a typewriter. Mark Twain’s lively tale of the scrapes and adventures of boyhood is set in St. Petersburg, Missouri, where Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn have the kinds of adventures many boys can imagine: racing bugs during class, impressing girls, especially Becky Thatcher, with fights and stunts in the schoolyard, getting lost in a cave, and playing pirates on the Mississippi River.

Read by Ian Lynch, music by Kevin MacLeod

The Swiss Family Robinson  mic icon

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The Swiss Family Robinson has delighted generations of readers with its exciting tale of a family which, though shipwrecked, displays “the right stuff” and builds a charming colony that later, they do not want to leave. Cut off from the comforts and companionship of other humans, they use a familiarity with natural history and biology to find the resources and build the tools to construct a canoe, weave cloth, irrigate a garden, and turn an immense hollow tree into a lofty house with a spiral staircase. They domesticate buffaloes, wild asses, and monkeys, establish farms and plantations, and finally, have a terrifying encounter with natives from a nearby island.

Read by James Conlan, music by Kevin MacLeod

Peter Pan  mic icon

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James Matthew Barrie’s Peter Pan was first performed as a play in 1904, and has since become one of the most widely performed and adapted children’s stories in the world. It is considered by many to be the only children’s play that is also a great work of literature. Peter Pan’s success is due in part to a fresh means of storytelling that appeals to both adults and children. While children enjoy the imaginative story and flights of fancy, adults can relate to Peter Pan’s desire to forego mature responsibilities and live in the moment.

Read by Bobbin Beam, music by Kevin MacLeod

The Call of the Wild  mic icon

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Jack London’s Call of the Wild is a beautiful tale of Buck, a house dog torn from the comforts of hearth and home in sunny California and thrust into the unforgiving wild. Through Buck, London takes us on a journey where the shackles of civilization are left behind, leading us to a simultaneously unknown and familiar past. Forgotten senses are awakened and survival is key. The story awakens in us something primal—the desire to be truly free.

Read by Melanie Haynes, music by Kevin MacLeod


Enhanced Librivox Classics

 

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Black Beauty

The Lancashire Witches

The Canterville Ghost

The Metamorphosis

The Story of My Life - Helen Keller

The Valley of the Giants

Uncle Tom's Cabin

The Poor Little Rich Girl

The Age of Innocence

The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Madame Butterfly

The Blue Lagoon

The Man in the Iron Mask

The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects

The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Army Life in a Black Regiment

Persuasion

Old Indian Legends

Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

White Fang

Common Sense

The House of the Seven Gables

FBI Report on Unidentified Flying Objects