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Narrated by:
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John Michaels
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By:
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Victor Appleton
About this listen
This is volume 6 of the Tom Swift series, Tom Swift and his Wireless Message where our hero, the young inventor, Tom Swift helps a fellow inventor get his airship the Whizzer off the ground. So far off the ground in fact that he and his fellow travelers are caught in a storm stranding them on an uninhabited tropical island fraught with earthquakes. To make matters even more interesting, Tom and his friends discover another group of castaways from a yacht wrecked in the same storm, but wait there is even more. His girlfriend's parents are among the castaways. In this episode our hero not only flies airship, but he builds a wireless radio from scrap parts, and since he is the only one who knows Morse code sends the message that leads to the rescue of the castaways. Of course every chapter of this melodrama is a cliffhanger that will no doubt keep your your earbuds or headsets on until this audio book reaches its exciting conclusion.
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Story4 out of 5 stars 635
The warning was inscribed on the entrance of the hidden tomb, forgotten for millennia in the sands of mystic Egypt. Then the archaeologists and grave robbers came in search of the fabled Jewel of Seven Stars, which they found clutched in the hand of the mummy. Few heeded the ancient warning, until all who came in contact with the Jewel began to die in a mysterious and violent way, with the marks of a strangler around their neck.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mother of all Mummy-Stories
- By Dorothea on 03-15-08
By: Bram Stoker
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Doctor Dolittle: The Complete Collection, Vol. 1
- The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle; The Story of Doctor Dolittle; Doctor Dolittle's Post Office
- By: Hugh Lofting
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 269
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 204
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 201
Rediscover the children’s literature classic with three novels from the beloved series: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, The Story of Doctor Dolittle, and Doctor Dolittle’s Post Office!
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5 out of 5 stars
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A wonderful bedtime story!
- By Holly Masri on 05-02-20
By: Hugh Lofting
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The Wright Brothers
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: David McCullough
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13,971
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 12,465
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 12,427
Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story behind the story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright.
On December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Wilbur and Orville Wright's Wright Flyer became the first powered, heavier-than-air machine to achieve controlled, sustained flight with a pilot aboard. The Age of Flight had begun. How did they do it? And why?
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1 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- By Sara on 07-10-16
By: David McCullough
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Dracula
- By: Bram Stoker
- Narrated by: Nick Sandys
- Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 213
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 182
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 181
Now, Bram Stoker's Dracula - the pinnacle of Gothic horror for generations - rises again. When young English lawyer Jonathan Harker arrives in Transylvania on the eve of Saint George's Day, he cannot shake a strange feeling of uneasiness. The air grows colder as he arrives at his destination: the castle of Count Dracula. Jonathan has been summoned by the count for business, and while he finds his new host obliging and polite, he can't help but notice the man's pallid skin, odd lack of appetite, and long daytime absences.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bram Stoker + Nick Sandys = Pure Satisfaction
- By linny on 01-09-19
By: Bram Stoker
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The Most Dangerous Game
- By: Richard Connell
- Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
- Length: 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,001
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,753
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,755
A mysterious island, shrouded in fear, evil, and darkness. Here the amoral General Zaroff hunts. And what, you ask, is the most dangerous game? It is the manner and substance of his nightly killings.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A TRUE COSMOPOLITE
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 08-02-16
By: Richard Connell
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Thirty Seconds over Tokyo
- Aviation Classics
- By: Ted W. Lawson
- Narrated by: Douglas R. Pratt
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 77
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 65
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Story5 out of 5 stars 64
In Ted W. Lawson’s classic Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, Lawson gives a vivid eyewitness account of the unorthodox assignment that 85 intrepid volunteer airmen - the “Tokyo Raiders” - under the command of celebrated flier James H. Doolittle executed in April 1942. The plan called for 16 B-25 twin-engine medium bombers of the Army Air Corps to take off from the aircraft carrier Hornet, bomb industrial targets in Japan, and land at airfields in China.
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5 out of 5 stars
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awesome story of a major WWII event
- By 3D RWC on 08-27-20
By: Ted W. Lawson
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Lifeboat 12
- By: Susan Hood
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 76
With Nazis bombing London every night, it's time for 13-year-old Ken to escape. He suspects his stepmother is glad to see him go, but his dad says he's one of the lucky ones - one of 90 boys and girls to ship out aboard the SS City of Benares to safety in Canada. Life aboard the luxury ship is grand-nine-course meals, new friends, and a life far from the bombs, rations, and his stepmum's glare. And after five days at sea, the ship's officers announce that they're out of danger. They're wrong.
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4 out of 5 stars
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What good out most is the drive to keep moving. Even though his friends didn’t make it, he wanted to make everyone proud .
- By Amy on 09-28-24
By: Susan Hood
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David and the Phoenix
- By: Edward Ormondroyd
- Narrated by: Edward Ormondroyd, the Full Cast Family
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 62
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 33
When David finally has a chance to climb the mountain behind his new home he has no idea he is about to meet a fabulous mythical creature. When the Phoenix decides to take a hand in David's education the adventures - and the hilarity - really begin. Alas, the wonderful visits to griffons, sea monsters, and banshees will come to a crashing halt if the scientist stalking the Phoenix is successful.
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2 out of 5 stars
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OK for children 6-9
- By Joanne on 07-28-03
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Nurse, Come You Here!
- More True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle
- By: Mary J. MacLeod
- Narrated by: Jill Tanner
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 494
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 451
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 450
Mary J. Macleod and her husband left the London area for an idyllic place to raise their young children in the late '60s, and they found the island of Papavray in the Scottish Hebrides. There they bought a croft house on a "small acre" of land, and Mary J. (also known as Julia) became the district nurse.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great book!
- By Catt Pataky on 09-02-17
By: Mary J. MacLeod
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The Barrakee Mystery
- By: Arthur W. Upfield
- Narrated by: Peter Hosking
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 134
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 132
Why was the redoubtable King Henry, an aborigine from Western Australia, killed during a thunderstorm in New South Wales? What was the feud that led to murder after nineteen long years had passed? And who was the woman who saw the murder and kept silent? This first story of Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, the half-aborigine detective, takes him to a sheep station in the Darling River bush country where he encounters those problems he understands so well... mixed blood and divided loyalties.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Story from another time....
- By VtAdrienne on 06-15-15
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Offshore
- By: Penelope Fitzgerald, Stephanie Racine, Alan Hollinghurst - introduction
- Narrated by: Jot Davies, Alan Hollinghurst
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 90
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 77
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Story4 out of 5 stars 77
On Battersea Reach, a mixed bag of the temporarily lost and the patently eccentric live on houseboats, rising and falling with the tide of the Thames. There is good-natured Maurice, by occupation a male prostitute, by chance a receiver of stolen goods. And Richard, an ex-navy man whose boat, much like its owner, dominates the Reach.
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1 out of 5 stars
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S.O.S
- By SB on 03-26-22
By: Penelope Fitzgerald, and others
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The Secret of High Eldersham
- By: Miles Burton
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 63
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Story4 out of 5 stars 58
Samuel Whitehead, landlord of the Rose and Crown, is a stranger in the lonely East Anglian village of High Eldersham. And when the newcomer is stabbed to death in his pub, it seems that the veil dividing High Eldersham from the outside world is about to be lifted. Detective Inspector Young forms a theory about the case so utterly impossible that merely entertaining the suspicion makes him doubt his own sanity. Surrounded by sinister forces beyond his understanding, he calls on a brilliant amateur and 'living encyclopedia', Desmond Merrion.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great listen
- By Ms Peach on 01-08-19
By: Miles Burton
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The Virginian
- By: Owen Wister
- Narrated by: Jack Garrett
- Length: 16 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 488
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 441
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 442
Owen Wister’s The Virginian pre-dates the classic novels of Zane Grey and Max Brand and is considered by many to be the original Western. Dedicated to Wister’s friend and fellow outdoorsman Theodore Roosevelt, this timeless tale almost single-handedly established the cowboy archetype in literature. A quiet, noble foreman of a Wyoming cattle ranch in the 1870s, the Virginian falls for pretty schoolteacher Molly Wood. But when a rival suitor challenges his honor, the Virginian struggles to make his beloved Molly understand the harsh justice of the West.
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4 out of 5 stars
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What a Stunning Surprise this novel is!
- By Chiwiz on 09-04-12
By: Owen Wister
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James Cook
- The Story Behind the Man Who Mapped the World
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Michael Carman
- Length: 21 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 272
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 230
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Story5 out of 5 stars 231
The name Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated. But who was the real James Cook? This Yorkshire farm boy would go on to become the foremost mariner, scientist, navigator and cartographer of his era, and to personally map a third of the globe. His great voyages of discovery were incredible feats of seamanship and navigation.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great. But...
- By Virgil Tracy on 05-01-21
By: Peter FitzSimons