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  Hamlet

  William Shakespeare, Edith Nesbit

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  Shakespeare's Hamlet is a masterful work of literature that has been enjoyed by audiences for centuries. The play tells the story of Prince Hamlet, who is dealing with the death of his father and the betrayal of his mother. Hamlet must decide whether to take revenge on those who have wronged him or to let them go. The play is full of complex characters and themes, making it a timeless classic. This recording features Edit Nesbit's adaptation of the Shakespeare's play. Read in English, unabridged.

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  Damon Runyon Theater - A Piece...

  Damon Runyon

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  The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour.  Damon Runyon is acknowledged as one of the great writers to come out of twentieth century America.  Runyon's short stories are almost always told in the first person by a narrator who is never named, and whose role is unclear; he knows many gangsters and has no job that can be gleaned from his musings, nor does he admit to any criminal involvement; He’s a bystander, an observer, an average street-corner Joe.  Runyon described himself as "being known to one and all as a guy who is just around".  That line seems to say a lot about Runyon and his life.  It was like you were with him on some street corner hustle or some shady dive and he was filling you in on all the angles, all the gossip, all of life. He was who so many people wanted to be with……or so many people wanted to be.  Of course, the cliché about newspapermen and writers is that they are heavy drinkers, chain-smokers, gamblers and obsessively chase women with a sideline in the gathering of stories and facts and actually getting something written just before the deadline hits. That seems like Damon Runyon and his life summed up in one sentence.  His stories became legendary ways of looking that bit differently at America, of soaking up the atmosphere of a glamorous and rip-roaring age and distilling it into black and white type or, in our case, The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour.

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  Victory for the Slain by Hugh...

  Hugh Lofting

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  Hugh John Lofting was born in Maidenhead, Berkshire on January 14th, 1886 to English and Irish parents.  
  Lofting was initially educated at Mount St Mary’s College in Spinkhill, Derbyshire, a Jesuit boarding school from the age of eight. By 1905 at age eighteen he was to study abroad, taking classes at the esteemed Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA in civil engineering. Thereafter he embarked on a quest to travel widely before settling down to write of his adventures. 
  Lofting had always leaned towards pacifism but the Great War was about to erupt all over Europe. Initially Lofting worked for the British Government whilst based in New York but by 1918 he had enlisted and was fighting on the front line.  Life on the front line, in the trenches, was hell beyond description.  Lofting didn’t want to include this grim horror in letters to his children.  The answer for them and for him was to write.  With these first letters the imaginative world and the foundations of the very successful Doctor Dolittle novels for children now began. 
  But life, for Lofting, in the battle weary trenches was now rudely interrupted.  In 1918, as the Allies swept forward against the retreating German lines, Lofting was wounded by shrapnel from a hand grenade that lodged in his upper thigh. This injury would plague him for the rest of his life as some of the metal fragments were impossible to remove. 
  After his recovery he was invalided out of the Army.  It was now that the family decided to re-locate and they now moved to Killingworth, Connecticut, in the United States. It was to be from here that the Doctor Dolittle series; the adventures of a country physician who learned to talk with animals would be written. 
  As we know the books were successful around the world and have been adapted for film and television many times, as well as for stage and for radio. 
  Hugh John Lofting died on September 26th, 1947, at age 61 in Topanga, California. 
   This volume comes to you from Portable Poetry, a specialized imprint from Deadtree Publishing.  Our range is large and growing and covers single poets, themes, and many compilations.

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  Jarrem Lee - Ghost Hunter - The...

  Gareth Tilley

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  In science one reasons by analogy, so when mankind is confronted by experiences entirely beyond its understanding it takes an individual with intelligence and bravery in equal measure to push back the boundaries of the unknown…. 
  In London, in the 1900s, the solutions to supernatural occurrences were investigated by a man who was famous for his dealings with the unknown and the worlds of the dead: Jarrem Lee — Ghost Hunter, (or as he prefers to call it, a psychical detective). With the help of college student Arthur Bennett, he embarks on a series of spine-tingling and exciting adventures in the world of the dead. 
  Episode 1: THE TOLLINGTON HALL CASE. Sir Frederick Carmichael asks Lee to visit Tollington Hall, where a ghost haunts the attic each night. 
  Episode 2: THE ANCIENT BURIAL BARROW. A demon is trying to escape from a grave discovered during an archaeological dig. 
  Episode 03: LORD WENTWORTHS STATUE. A collector becomes obsessed with a strange statue that becomes more life-like each day. 
  Episode 04: PROFESSOR TAYLOR'S FINAL EXPERIMENT. A dying Professor has a plan to cheat death.

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  The Stone Age

  Jen Hadfield

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  At first sight, Jen Hadfield’s new collection is an astonishingly sharp depiction of the wild landscape of her Shetland home, its people and their working lives, and the things they make and live amongst. But the reader will soon discover in The Stone Age a work of visionary power: in Hadfield’s telling, everything – door and wall, flower and rain, shore and sea, the standing stones whose presences charge the land – has a living consciousness, one which can be engaged with as a personal encounter.The Stone Age is a timely reminder that our neurodiversity is a gift: we do not all see the world the world in the same way, and the sharing of our various experience enriches it immeasurably. Hadfield’s lyric line and unashamedly high-stakes wordplay are speech hard-won from silence, and provide nothing less than a portal into a different kind of being. The Stone Age is the work of a singular artist at the height of her powers, one which dramatically extends the range of our shared experience.

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  Without Trace - An utterly...

  Leigh Russell

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  DISCOVER ONE OF THE UK'S FAVOURITE CRIME WRITERS WITH OVER 1.5 MILLION COPIES SOLD.
  ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Another excellent thriller…leading to an electrifying conclusion' Kathleen on Without Trace
  She opened her mouth to scream, but he slapped something across her lips. The gag tasted of salt and mould, rough sacking on her tongue.
  With a terrifying certainty, she knew she was going to die.
  DI Geraldine Steel knows people go missing all the time; sometimes because they don't want to be found. So when her partner Ian asks her to look into the disappearance of his friend's girlfriend, her first instinct is to reassure him there's no need for concern.
  Until she's called to a suspected murder, and all her instincts tell her she's right about the identity of the victim.
  The young woman has earth and leaf mould and fragments of twigs in her long fair hair, her nose, her mouth, under her finger nails, clinging to her clothes.
  It's as if she'd been completely encased in earth.
  And yet she was found on the pavement, at the side of a suburban road, where she wasn't in contact with any soil or mud.
  Had she managed to escape a living grave?
  She needs to find out what really happened. Where did the assault occur?
  Why are there traces of DNA from two other unidentified sources on the body?
  What reason could there be to attack a popular young woman who never did anyone any harm?
  And why bury her body so carelessly that she was able to escape?
  Then another young woman is reported missing. Unless he has an accomplice, they have an innocent man in custody. And Steel is running out of time . . .
  A page-turning puzzle of a case with an unexpected final twist. If you're a fan of Angela Marsons, Mel Sherratt and Karin Slaughter, you'll love Leigh Russell.
  Can be read as a stand-alone.

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