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Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South

This is a fascinating and chilling history lesson that I hope everyone will download (and please post on other boards too - this needs to be heard). It's a 2 CD audio documentary of the Jim Crow era (American Apartheid).

Remembering Jim Crow is an extraordinary opportunity to hear the voices of men and women from all walks of life who tell, in vivid and compelling stories, how their most ordinary activities were subjected to profound racial oppression; in the workplace, on street corners, and above all in the public facilities and institutions that systematically demeaned, disenfranchised, and disempowered black people. At the same time, Remembering Jim Crow is a testament to how black Southerners fought back against the system; raising children, building churches and schools, running businesses, and struggling for respect in a society that denied them the most basic rights. The result is a powerful story of survival enriched by vivid memories of individual, family, and community triumphs and tragedies.

For much of the 20th Century, African Americans in the South were barred from the voting booth, sent to the back of the bus, and walled off from many of the rights they deserved as American citizens. Until well into the 1960s, segregation was legal. The system was called Jim Crow. In this documentary, Americans-black and white-remember life in the Jim Crow times.

Jim Crow ruled the South from about 1890 to well into the 1960s. Four generations of African Americas endured this system of segregation. Present day race relations in the United States continue to be affected by this history. The Jim Crow system emerged towards the end of the historical period called Reconstruction, during which Congress had enacted laws designed to order relations between Southern whites and newly freed blacks, and to bring the secessionist states back into the Union. Southern whites felt profoundly threatened by increasing claims by African Americans for social equality and economic opportunity. In reaction, white-controlled state legislatures passed laws designed to rob blacks of their civil rights and prevent blacks from mingling with their "betters" in public places.

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The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time

by Will Durant, John Little

Over the course of a legendary career, Will Durant was often asked about the most significant events in history, the best books, the best ideas, and so on. The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time draws on Durant's encyclopedic knowledge to present a world history "best of" that hits humanity's high points. Included are "The Ten Greatest Thinkers," "The Ten Greatest Poets," "The Ten Peaks of Human Progress," "Twelve Vital Dates in World History," as well as engaging profiles of pioneers like Darwin, Keats, and Whitman. This audio edition showcases Durant's eloquence, originality, and his ability to compare and contrast an array of historical figures and achievements.

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Earl Nightingale-The Strangest Secret (Self-Help Audiobook)

For at least a decade now, Ive been an avid devourer of personal development info. I literally have them for breakfast, since I often listen to audio programs while eating. One audio program I recently picked up from the local library is Earl Nightingales The Strangest Secret. I own a number of Earls audio programs (Lead the Field is my favorite), so I really enjoyed this one too. It can take a while to get used to Earls extremely deep voice, but I like his no-nonsense, tell-it-like-it-is style. The Strangest Secret is from 1988, but I found that most of the ideas are timeless and still apply today. The secret?is simply six words: We become what we think about.

This certainly isnt a new idea. In fact, Earl clearly admits that he learned it from Napoleon Hills classic Think and Grow Rich. And it isnt a unique idea either. There are plenty of other books that have expanded on the concept, such as Marc Allens The Millionaire Course or James Allens As a Man Thinketh (later retitled As You Think).

Nevertheless, the idea is a profound one.

Few people would argue that our thoughts control our actions and that our actions (largely) control our results. If you think about going shopping and decide to follow through on that thought, your body follows suit, and pretty soon you acquire the results of going shopping. It all begins with a thought. But what people often fail to realize is that we have the power to consciously choose our thoughts. Instead of just letting our brains randomly cycle through the same thoughts over and over, we can start choosing to spend time thinking about different things. And if we do that consistently, well shift our actions in new directions and thereby acquire new results.

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TERRY PRATCHETT - GOING POSTAL.

READ by TONY ROBINSON.

Moist Von Lipwig, a con artist and fraud, is faced with a life choice:

Be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing Postal Service back on its feet.

It was a tough decision.

He's got to see that the mail gets through, come rain, hail, sleet, dogs, the evil Chairman of The Grand-Trunk Semaphore Company and a midnight killer.

Maybe it will take a criminal to succeed where honest men have failed.

Or maybe it's a death sentence either way.

Or perhaps there's a shot at redemption in the mad world of the mail.

Maybe a shot just waiting for a man who is prepared to;

PUSH THE ENVELOPE.

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'Like many of Pratchett's best comic novels, it is a book about redemption ... Pratchett is never frivolous.'

The Guardian Newspaper:

'This darkness and concrete morality sets his work apart from imitators of his English Absurd school of comic fantasy.'

Genre: Fiction/Fantasy.

Author: Terry Pratchett.

Reader: Tony Robinson.

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But with a speed that could not have been foreseen by even the most pessimistic futurist...

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Great Battles of the Ancient World

(24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)

Taught by Garrett G. Fagan, Ph.D.

Hollywood has gone to elaborate lengths to recreate the violence and mayhem of ancient warfare in movies such as Gladiator and Troy. But what were ancient battles really like? What weapons, tactics, armor, training, and logistics were used? And what were the crucial factors that could turn the tide of battle, giving one side victory and consigning the other to slaughter, capture, or, at best, escape to fight another day?

A professor of classics and history at The Pennsylvania State University and the teacher of our immensely popular course, The History of Ancient Rome, Dr. Fagan has devoted extensive study to ancient warfare. In these 24 lectures he takes you into the thick of combat in some of the most notable battles fought in the Mediterranean region from prehistoric times to the 4th century A.D.

Great BattlesCrucibles of History

"Battles, for all their madness, are worthy of study if for no other reason than that they are the crucibles of history," says Professor Fagan, who notes that a few hours of hard fighting can determine the fates of entire empires. Among the many fateful battles you study are:

?Marathon: This clash between Athenians and the invading Persian army in 490 B.C. demonstrated the fearsome effectiveness of Greek hoplite phalanxes against Persian arms. Later European history would have looked very different had the Greeks lost at Marathon.

?Gaugamela: In 331 B.C., Alexander the Great crushed a vastly superior Persian force in a classic "hammer-and-anvil" battle, in which his cavalry (the hammer) outflanked the enemy to drive it onto the spear-wielding phalanx (the anvil). When the dust had settled, King Darius III was in flight, and Achaemenid Persia, which had dominated Asia for over 300 years, was at an end.

?Masada: The Romans showed their mastery of the difficult art of siege warfare by breaching the virtually impregnable Jewish fortress of Masada, which fell on April 16, 73 A.D. The defenders took their own lives rather than surrender, ending the last chapter of the Jewish Revolt against Rome.

Famous Generals

You also follow celebrated confrontations between ancient commanders, including Hannibal versus Scipio, the 3rd-century B.C. equivalent of Lee versus Grant during the American Civil War or Rommel versus Montgomery during World War II. At the head of a Carthaginian army, Hannibal nearly broke the back of Roman power in Italy, inflicting the worst Roman defeat ever at the horrendous Battle of Cannae in 218 B.C. But he met his match in P. Cornelius Scipio, who lured him to Africa for a killing blow at the Battle of Zama. Scipio was known ever afterward as Scipio "Africanus."

Other generals you study include:

?Alexander the Great: Arguably the greatest general ever, Alexander was heir to the tactical innovations of his father, Philip II of Macedon, who, in turn, had learned new battle techniques from Epaminondas of Thebes. Alexander's stunning victories are marked by his maximally efficient use of military tools.

?Julius Caesar: A brilliant tactician and master chronicler of his own exploits, Caesar won battles against barbarian armies and Roman rivals alike. He was preparing to conquer the Parthian Empire when he was struck down in the Roman Forum on the Ides of March in 44 B.C.

?Xenophon: Elected general following the massacre of his commanding officers, this soldier of fortune led a beleaguered army of 10,000 Greek mercenaries on a daring retreat from deep within Persian territory. Months later, on sighting the Black Sea and realizing their nearness to home, the soldiers broke into the famous cry, "The sea! The sea!"

What You Will Learn

This course focuses on warfare in the ancient Mediterranean world, encompassing the region from Mesopotamia to Western Europe, including Egypt and North Africa.

The first eight lectures chart the development of warfare from prehistoric times down to the glory days of the great states of the ancient Near East and Egypt. After examining theories about how to define war, you survey different models for the origins of warfare in the Upper Paleolithic (c. 37,000?2,000 years ago) and Neolithic (c. 10,000?,000 years ago), testing them against the archaeological evidence, which provides our only clues to organized violence among prehistoric peoples.

Then you move into the historical era, starting with the first battles for which we have written accounts. These took place between the city-states of early Sumer (c. 3000?350 B.C.), with armies of infantry using rudimentary chariots clashing over honor, irrigation rights, and boundaries. Next you travel to Egypt and survey the changing nature of warfare in the Old to New Kingdoms (c. 2700?070 B.C.), including the first fully recorded battle in history: the Battle of Megiddo between Pharaoh Thutmose III and a coalition of Syrian lords, fought outside the walls of a town in Palestine. You examine the fearsome Assyrian war machine as it developed ca. 900?12 B.C., and the sophisticated army that allowed the Assyrians to forge the largest empire yet seen in the region. You also address disputed matters of the Trojan War and Homeric warfare.

In the next eight lectures you cover warfare among the Greeks and their distinctive form of combat using hoplites, a type of armored infantryman who fought in a close formation called the phalanx. You study the Persian invasions of Greece (490?79 B.C.), examining the battles of Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis, and Plataea that decided this titanic clash. The disastrous Athenian expedition against Sicily (415?13 B.C.) during the Peloponnesian War is next, followed by the military revolution in the 4th century B.C., which saw the creation of a new and formidable fighting unit spearheaded by the cavalry and a reformed phalanx. This integrated and flexible army reached its pinnacle of efficiency under Alexander the Great, and you survey the battles at the Granicus River, Issus, and Gaugamela that made Alexander king of Persia.

In the third part of the course you study the legions of Rome, which evolved brutally effective tactics that gave them dominion over the entire Mediterranean basin. It is unclear how Roman legionary armies actually fought, and you explore various theories before following the legions into combat in their colossal struggle with Hannibal in the Second Punic War (218?02 B.C.). Then you compare the Roman legion and Macedonian phalanxthe two most efficient killing machines of the dayin duels fought in Italy in the 3rd century B.C. and in the Balkans and Asia Minor in the 2nd century. Next you consider Roman skill in siege warfare as exemplified by Julius Caesar's siege of Alesia (52 B.C.) and the siege of Masada in Judea in 72?3 A.D. The final two battles covered are Roman defeats and introduce the German tribal warrior. These are the battles of the Teutoburg Forest in 9 A.D., considered one of the most important battles in European history, and Adrianople in 378 A.D., which heralded the decline of Roman imperial power.

In the final lecture, Professor Fagan considers the recent proposal by scholar Victor Davis Hanson that there is a distinctively "Western way of war," traceable from the Greeks to the modern age. This intriguing view represents hoplite warfare as a unique development of Greek conditions that casts its shadow down to the present. Despite the theory's attractive simplicity, it has problems that Dr. Fagan details in a fascinating glimpse of scholarly debate in action.

Clash of Theories

The battles you study were fought so long ago, and accounts of them are so incomplete, that what happened involves considerable controversy. One of the interesting aspects of this course is that Professor Fagan presents contending theories and often his own hypotheses about how events unfolded during these bloody encounters. For example:

?The standard view of battle mechanics adopted by opposing armies of Greek hoplites is that they advanced shoulder-to-shoulder in close-ordered formation and crashed into each other head-on. Then they sought, quite literally, to shove their opponents off the field, all the while stabbing with their spears. The minority view is that hoplite battle was more open, with hoplites standing up to six feet apart and fighting individually rather than as a mass. Dr. Fagan demonstrates how this minority view "is a lot more plausible and is supported by the ancient evidence better than the strange business of ritualized shoving."

?Similarly, it is far from clear how Roman legionaries fought their battles. The principal ancient source, the historian Livy, is so confused on the point that it is obvious he never witnessed a legion in action. After considering various schools of thought, Professor Fagan draws on clues from different battle narratives to conclude that flexibility lay at the heart of the Roman system, so that no one "battle deployment" fit all.

?On the issue of whether the Greek hoplites at Marathon charged the Persians across the one-mile gap separating the armies, as described by the ancient historian Herodotus, Professor Fagan notes that experiments carried out at The Pennsylvania State University with physical education majors suggest that Herodotus was wrong. Wearing weighted jackets and carrying mock nine-pound shields, only one of the Penn State athletes could run the mile-long course, and he was utterly exhaustedcertainly not in a position to fight 24,000 Persians!

War's Grim Reality

Dr. Fagan ends by reminding us of the grim reality of war: many millions have died on battlefields throughout history. "We owe it to them," he concludes, "and to the thousands who continue to perish in our planet's wars, to understand as fully as possible what it was that killed them. If this course has advanced its audience's comprehension of war even a little, then it has amply fulfilled its purpose."

Course Lecture Titles

1. Why Study Battles? What Is War?

2. The Problem of Warfares Origins

3. Sumer, Akkad, and Early Mesopotamian Warfare

4. Egyptian Warfare from the Old to New Kingdoms

5. The Battles of Megiddo and Kadesh

6. The Trojan War and Homeric Warfare

7. The Assyrian War Machine

8. The Sieges of Lachish and Jerusalem

9. A Peculiar Institution? Hoplite Warfare

10. The Battle of Marathon

11. The Battle of Thermopylae

12. Naval Warfare and the Battle of Salamis

13. The Athenian Expedition to Sicily

14. The March of the Ten Thousand

15. Macedonian Military Innovations

16. Alexanders Conquest of Persia

17. The Legions of Rome

18. The Battles of Cannae and Zama

19. Legion versus PhalanxSix Pitched Battles

20. The Sieges of Alesia and Masada

21. Caesars World War

22. The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest

23. Catastrophe at Adrianople

24. Reflections on Warfare in the Ancient World

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A Sparrow Falls

Part of the 'Courtney' series

When Sean Courtney returned from the Boer war in The Sound of Thunder, his son Dirk was already worrying him; in the last pages of that novel the boy's unstable and passionate possessiveness towards his father led to vandalism and ultimately murder. Sean's deep love was already becoming hatred. A Sparrows Falls is the story of the violent clash between father and son that in the final pages consumes them both.

General Sean Courtney is once more at war, this time in the trenches of northern France, and in the opening pages of this novel he watches with fascination the courage of a young South African solider Mark Anders who is sent out alone to destroy a German sniper. Great is Sean's delight when a few years later he meets Mark again in Durban, and soon Mark is working for him as personal assistant, gradually taking the place in his heart of Michael, Sean's dearly loved firstborn son who was killed in the war.

But Mark has discovered on his return from France that his grandfather has been murdered and his property seized by an unknown commercial company. His investigations into the mystery expose him to two terrifying but unsuccessful attempts on his life and soon point to Dirk as the culprit. When Mark then supports Sean in opposing Dirk's cherished plan to flood the glorious National Park land of Chaka's Gate ?a project that would bring Dirk many millions ?Dirk is more than ever determined to destory him. And when his father threatens to expose publicly his criminal actions, his hatred tips over into insanity: he determines to annihilate them both.

Alongside the central drama between Sean and Mark and Dirk, Mark is also caught in other conflicts: 'white trade unionists are in open revolt under the banner of communism and Mark at Sean's side is forced to fight to the death a leading agitator Fergus Macdonald, his old friend from the trenches; and at home Mark's love for Storm, Sean's beautiful, but spoiled and spirited daughter, runs a dramatic even tragic course before they are united in the peace and beauty of the disputed Eden that is Chaka's Gate.'

Still dominated by the now mature and benign figure of Sean, A Sparrow Falls is also peopled by a large and skilfully handled cast of characters, some of whom have appeared in the previous novels, others like Mark and Fergus new. Culminating in the intensely dramatic and tragic resolution of the battle between Sean and the evil genius that is his son, this is the last of the first sequence of Courtney novels.

This is a vibrant tale of war, and of love and hatred in many forms: between brothers, between friends, between father and son, and between man and woman in the story of Sean and Ruth's tumultuous but ultimately happy love. Striding through its pages, the commanding figure of Sean, maturing, deepening, develops from the headstrong, impulsive adventurer of When the Lion Feeds into a seasoned soldier and leader.

A Sparrow Falls is the third in the first sequence of Courtney novels.

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BBC Radio Play, Isaac Asimov's Sci-Fi Novel-The Caves of Steel

Story Synopsis:

Asimov sets this sci-fi classic in a near future where hyperspace travel has been discovered, and a few worlds relatively close to earth have been colonised -- fifty planets known as the "Spacer Worlds". The spacer worlds are rich, have low population density (average population of one hundred million each) and use robot labour very heavily. Meanwhile, Earth is overpopulated (with a total population of 8 billion) and strict rules against robots have been passed. Asimov imagines the present day's underground transit connected to malls and apartment blocks, extended to a point where no-one ever exits to the outside world. Indeed, most of the population cannot leave, as they suffer extreme agoraphobia if they try. A Spacer ambassador, who tries to convince the Earth government about both the importance of robots and of that of continuing space exploration and colonization, is murdered. Elijah Baley, a detective for the earth police, is charged with finding the murderer. However, he gets a spacer partner -- a humanoid robotic spacer partner named R. Daneel Olivaw. Together, they search for the murderer and try to stop an interplanetary diplomatic incident which could mean the destruction of earth.

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Frank McCourt - Angela's Ashes

Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood," writes Frank McCourt in Angela's Ashes. "Worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." Welcome, then, to the pinnacle of the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. Born in Brooklyn in 1930 to recent Irish immigrants Malachy and Angela McCourt, Frank grew up in Limerick after his parents returned to Ireland because of poor prospects in America. It turns out that prospects weren't so great back in the old country either--not with Malachy for a father. A chronically unemployed and nearly unemployable alcoholic, he appears to be the model on which many of our more insulting clichs about drunken Irish manhood are based. Mix in abject poverty, and frequent death and illness, and you have all the makings of a truly difficult early life. Fortunately, in McCourt's able hands it also has all the makings of a compelling memoir. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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"His understated voice throws into relief the admirable humour, spirit & humanity of the people who made the degradation of his childhood

bearable." --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

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KATHLEEN DAYUS - THE GHOSTS OF YESTERYEAR, BRITISH HISTORY - NON FICTION - 128KBPS

I really enjoyed this one ... The narrator does bring the words to life ... and evoked many images of times long gone.

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....Kathleen Dayus revisits her childhood and young adult life before marriage, bringing to life the people and places her readers have come to know from her earlier volumes of autobiography. Here are stories of her schooldays; the discovery of her mother's hiding place for money; Katie's first working experiences; sister Lisa's theft of money her mother is sending to the Front; experiences with boyfriends and dirty old men. All are told in the fresh and unsentimental prose for which Dayus is renowned.

About the Author

Kathleen Dayus was born in Hockley, Birmingham in 1903. She still lives in Birmingham and was awarded an honorary Master of Arts degree by the University of Birmingham in December 1992 in recognition of her contribution to the writing of Birmingham's history. ...

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Dune Prequels 2 - House Harkonnen

As the young Duke Leto Atreides seeks to live up to his late father's expectations, his rivals plot to bring about the downfall of House Atreides. Plots and counterplots involving the debauched Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, his Bene Gesserit enemies, and the treacherous schemers of the enigmatic Bene Tleilax escalate the tension among factions of a fragile galactic empire. Though power seems to reside in the hands of the emperor and his elite armies, the fate of many worlds hinges on the destiny of a single planetDthe desert world known as Arrakis, or Dune. Continuing the story begun in Dune: House Atreides (LJ 10/15/99), coauthors Herbert and Anderson reveal the prehistory of the late Frank Herbert's classic Dune novels. Strong characterizations, consistent plotting, and rich detail provide this second of a trilogy of prequels with the same evocative power of the original novels. Libraries should anticipate a demand from old series fans as well as newcomers to the world of Dune. Highly recommended.

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Dune Prequels 3 - House Corrino

In this fully satisfying conclusion (after Dune: House Atreides and Dune: House Harkonnen) to the authors' "House" trilogy, Emperor Shaddam Corrino tries to grasp greater power than any emperor before him and to rule the Million Worlds solely according to his whims. On the captured planet Ix, the research Shaddam directs into the creation of a synthetic spice, amal, that will make him all-powerful spirals out of control, putting the entire civilization at risk. Meanwhile, the enslavers of Ix must contend with threats from exiled Prince Rhombur Vernius, who wishes to rule the planet instead. Tumultuous times are also in store for the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood, whose breeding plan has been thrown off course one generation shy of its end. Tension between the houses Atreides and Harkonnen builds to a dramatic showdown. While the intricacy of the first prequel is absent here, so is the filler of the second. Because Herbert and Anderson are extrapolating from someone else's ideas and characters, they tend to overuse catch phrases (like "the Golden Lion throne") from Dune and its sequels with a resulting flatness of language. The inevitable derivative features aside, this is a good, steady, enjoyable tale, and readers who haven't read the first two books can easily follow the plot. A bold, red-and-gold dust jacket, with illustration by Stephen Youll, is a real eye-catcher. Fans who will be sorry to see the end of this series will be heartened by the hint that the Dune saga is far from over.

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Michael Crichton - The Lost World (Abridged)

Written in the wake of Jurassic Park's phenomenal box-office success, The Lost World seems as much a guidebook for Hollywood types hard at work on the franchise's followup as it is a legitimate sci-fi thriller. Which begs the inevitable questions: Is the plot a rehash of the first book? Sure it is, with the action unfolding on yet another secluded island, the mysterious "Site B." Is the cast of characters basically the same? Absolutely, from a freshly minted pair of cute, compu-savvy kids left down to the neatly exhumed chaos theorist Ian Malcolm (who was presumed dead at the close of JP). But is it fun to read? You betcha. Hollywood (and Michael Crichton) keeps telling us the same old stories for a very good reason: we like them. And the pulp SF formula Crichton has mastered with Jurassic Park and The Lost World is no exception

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Fluent Tibetan: A Proficiency Oriented Learning System

This CD-Rom is an introduction to Tibetan language as well as a supplement and addition to Fluent Tibetan-the four volume textbook arranged in fifteen units with 26 hours of tape recordings.

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Thomas Harris - Silence Of The Lambs (Abridged)

The Silence of the Lambs, by Thomas Harris, is even better than the successful movie. Like his earlier Red Dragon, the book takes us inside the world of professional criminal investigation. All the elements of a well-executed thriller are working here--driving suspense, compelling characters, inside information, publicity-hungry bureaucrats thwarting the search, and the clock ticking relentlessly down toward the death of another young woman. What enriches this well-told tale is the opportunity to live inside the minds of both the crime fighters and the criminals as each struggles in a prison of pain and seeks, sometimes violently, relief.

Clarice Starling, a precociously self-disciplined FBI trainee, is dispatched by her boss, Section Chief Jack Crawford, the FBI's most successful tracker of serial killers, to see whether she can learn anything useful from Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Lecter's a gifted psychopath whose nickname is "The Cannibal" because he likes to eat parts of his victims. Isolated by his crimes from all physical contact with the human race, he plays an enigmatic game of "Clue" with Starling, providing her with snippets of data that, if she is smart enough, will lead her to the criminal. Undaunted, she goes where the data takes her. As the tension mounts and the bureaucracy thwarts Starling at every turn, Crawford tells her, "Keep the information and freeze the feelings." Insulted, betrayed, and humiliated, Starling struggles to focus. If she can understand Lecter's final, ambiguous scrawl, she can find the killer. But can she figure it out in time?

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Tom Clancy - Rainbow Six (Abridged)

No one would have blamed David Dukes if he had declined reading for Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six. Not only is "Rainbow" a melting pot of secret-agent patois, but the 700-page-plus book version runs at a rampant pace--this despite the usual wealth of Clancy detail. But actor and audio pro Dukes (and the editor responsible for condensing the script onto six hours of tape) handles this daunting task admirably, applying a steady--but not urgent--Everyman's tone and imparting a sense that we're hearing the whole story. Listeners may want more, but will be satiated with this abridged rendition.

Dukes also bounces seamlessly among dialects, giving distinct but easy-to-understand voices to Rainbow, a colorful cast of international good guys assembled to save the world from terrorism. The group is led by a sometimes violent but justice-minded ex-CIA agent, John Clark, who is proof that Clancy can paint a dark protagonist as vividly as his good knight, Jack Ryan. But Rainbow Six is an equally bright showcase for reader Dukes, who, like Clark, is bent on providing justice. Dukes's reading gives justice to the abridged form.

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Tom Clancy - Teeth Of The Tiger (Abridged)

Tom Clancy continues the saga of Jack Ryan, except that Ryan doesn't actually show up in the story. He's mentioned only as part of the background. Instead his son, Jack, Jr., takes left stage. Junior and two of his cousins work in deep cover for "The Campus," an organization that studies the electronic traffic of terrorists and then avenges their actions. Our heroes go after a terrorist cell, using the strategy of cutting off the head and letting the body die. Stephen Lang joins the ranks of readers such as Paul Michael and Scott Brick, whose styles are young, fluid, and well chosen for the thriller genre.

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Tom Clancy - The Cardinal of The Kremlin (Abridged)

In his fourth book, Clancy uses nuclear strategies to probe the ambiguities of fighting the good fightthe Americans vs. the Soviets. By the time familiar hero Jack Ryan steps in to investigate mysterious structures on the Soviet-Afghan border, the Soviets have struck again by zapping a satellite with a free electron laser. The title's cardinal, an elite, well-placed source in the Kremlin, leaks details of this secret activity to the United States. In the backdrop of technological bravura, spiced by artful espionage and all-too-human mistakes, intelligence is transferred back and forth and there are attacks and counterattacks. It is a mark of Clancy's growing maturity as a writer that he can bring these subtleties into highly entertaining form.

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Tom Clancy - The Sum Of All Fears (Abridged)

Once again, Tom Clancy manages to add new twists to the alternate U.S. history he initiated in The Hunt for Red October. In The Sum of All Fears, the left of conflict is the perpetual hot spot the Mideast, where a nuclear weapon falls into the hands of terrorists just as peace seems possible. Clancy realistically paints an almost unthinkable scenario--the bomb is planted on American soil in the midst of an escalation in tension with the Soviet Union; the terrorists hope to rekindle cold war animosity and prevent reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians.

Despite such a dramatic story line, Clancy doesn't neglect the individuals who drive his tale. Jack Ryan's problems are as much domestic as they are part of the international crisis that is the ostensible narrative: National Security Director Elizabeth Elliot has the president's ear, and she has convinced him that Ryan's ethics are questionable. She hints at marital infidelity and an insider-trading scandal. Of course, both accusations are false, but her arguments have enough evidence behind them (e.g. some photographs of an innocent embrace with a friend) to cause a strain in the Ryans' marriage and a flurry of media attention. While "Mr. Clark" tracks the terrorists, he also provides some needed intelligence to heal the Ryan family.

The Sum of All Fears is the stuff of nightmares but contains enough verisimilitude to terrify sober minds. Ryan has matured into a complex protagonist as Clancy's writing, too, has matured. Ryan is plagued by stress and self-doubts that test even his dauntless moral compass and make him a more interesting subject for readers' attention. Those fascinated by military hardware, from nuclear submarines to atomic weapons, will find almost enough here to start their own army. And Clancy's understanding of international politics seems chillingly correct.

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Terry Pratchett - Soul Music.

READ BY TONY ROBINSON - 128Kbps.

"Be careful what you wish for - You never know who might be listening"

There's no getting away from it.

From whichever angle you look at it, Death is a horrible inescapable business.

But someones got to do it.

So if Death decides to take a well earned moment to uncover the meaning of life and discover himself in the process, then there is going to be a void of very specific dimensions that needs to be occupied.

There aren't too many who are qualified to fill Death's footsteps, and it certainly doesn't help the imminent cataclysm that the only person poised between the mortal and the immortal is only sixteen years old....

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PJ-Soul Music

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Terry Pratchett - Maskerade

READ BY TONY ROBINSON - 128Kbps.

"I thought: Opera, how hard can it be?...

Songs, Pretty girls dancing, Nice scenery...

Lots of people handing over cash.

Got to better than the cut-throat world of Yoghurt, I thought.

Now everywhere I go there's.....

Well.....Death, to be precise.

And plenty of it.

In unpleasant variations.

This isn't real-life, why this isn't even chesemongering, it's Opera.

Where the music matters and where the Opera House is being terrorised by a man in Evening Dress and a white mask.

A man lurking in the shadows and occasionally killing people.

And most worryingly,he is sending little notes and writing maniacal laughter with five exclamation marks.

Opera can do that to a man.

In such circumstances, life has obviously reached that desperate point where the wrong thing to do....

Just HAS to be the left thing to do".

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Sour Puss 2006 (Mrs. Murphy Mysteries)

by: Rita Mae Brown, Sneaky Pie Brown, Kate Forbes (Narrator)

This venerable mystery series has been on a good run of late. Brown does everything left here, from creating a suspenseful plot to introducing readers to Virginia vineyards and the art of winemaking. Former postmistress Harry Haristeen has forgiven and remarried her errant spouse, the aptly named veterinarian Fair, and is making a go of it as a farmer. In addition to more traditional crops, Harry is dabbling in grapes, joining an increasing number of central Virginia vintners. The tiny town of Crozet is abuzz with the talk of grapes and how to protect the finicky crop when an outspoken wine grower is murdered. A competitor is blamed for his death, and suddenly the expensive hobby takes on a much more serious tone. As Harry tries to figure out why a non-native species of insect pest has appeared in her peach orchard, her animal companions--tiger cat Mrs. Murphy, corgi Tucker, and "big boned" feline Pewter--discover another body buried in the orchard. Brown seems more relaxed and comfortable with her characters in each new adventure, reenergizing a series that could easily have grown stale over time. Wine fanciers or not, readers will happily toast the animal-loving author for creating this robust and flavorful tale.

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Dead Sleep by Greg Iles, Susie Breck (Narrator)

In Dead Sleep, Iles is destined to win legions of new fans with his most intricate and emotional resonant story yet. Jordan Glass, a photojournalist, wanders into a Hong Kong art museum and is puzzled to find fellow visitors eyeing her with curiosity. Minutes later, she stumbles on a bizarre collection of paintings that have raised a furor in the art world. Their exhibitions have drawn stunned crowds. Their prices at auction have set records. Their creator is unknown. They are The Sleeping Women - and they are rumored to depict women not in sleep, but in death.

This haunting event hurls Jordan back into a nightmare she has fought desperately to put behind her - the search for her missing sister, gone now for more than a year. At the urging of the FBI, Jordan becomes both hunter and hunted in a dangerous game with the anonymous artist, who may also be a gifted murderer - a stranger who knows the secret history of Jordan's family and the truths she has never found the courage to face.

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[Audio Book] Deep Black: Payback by Stephen Coonts & Jim DeFelice (2005)

RECRUITED:

A crack team of covert agents.

Word is out to ex-Marine sniper Charlie Dean and his team of the National Security Agency: Infiltrate the highest stratum of Peruvian political power and derail a renegade general from acing an election. All Dean has to do is find a way inside an impenetrable bank vault protected by armed guards round the clock ?its all in a days work for the men and women of Deep Black.

ENGAGED:

A violent political coup.

But things get complicated when Dean and company discover the renegade generals second plot. The military madmans ruse ?a nuclear weapon he claims is in the hands of Marxist guerillas, a bomb that only he can rescue...and control.

IGNITED:

A devastating terrorist plot.

When the general and his plot are exposed, the NSA concludes the greatest threat is over. But in fact, its only just beginning...

A spy plane gathering data on a new Russian weapon is blown out of the sky by a mysterious MiG. Is the shoot-down an accident or the start of the next world war? One U.S. agency has what it takes to find out--the National Security Agency and its covert operations team: Deep Black.

Working for the NSA, ex-Marine Sniper Charlie Dean is dispatched to Russia, hooking up with former Delta Force trooper Lia DeFransesca to learn what happened to the plane. The Deep Black team stumbles across an even more alarming secret--a plot to assassinate the Russian president and overthrow the democratic government by force. The coup could have dire consequences for Russian and the world. With no clearance from the government it's called to protect, the National Security Agency goes to war. But before Lia and Charlie Dean can unravel the conspiracy, they learn that one of the spy plane's passengers--an NSA techie--survived the crash. Critical information could fall into enemy hands. And that enemy is playing to the death.

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Doctor Death by Jonathan Kellerman

(Book 14 in the Alex Delaware series)

Read by John Rubenstein

People are voluntarily dying before their time in California. Some call it

assisted suicide when cancer or heart disease or painful old age make the quality of life unbearable. Others say it is murder, that no-one has the left to help others take their own life.

As the debate rages over whether euthanasia should be legalised or not the man at the centre of the row, nick-named Doctor Death, continues his work. Dr Alex Delaware joins in the argument, but when Detective Milo Sturgis comes to him with the suspicion that some of Doctor Death's patients are not willing collaborators, Delaware finds himself on the front line of the affair, and increasingly believes that euthanasia is not the prime motivation. So what is driving Doctor Death to kill so many?

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Dave Barry's Money Secrets : Like: Why Is There a Giant Eyeball on the Dollar?

After tackling such varied topics as marriage, sex, home ownership and Japan, Barry invests his jocular style in lampooning the wealth of personal finance guides out there. Mocking these books in format and tone, Barry addresses such important fiscal matters as the workings of the U.S. economy ("the U.S. workforce is engaged in the service economy, consisting of 83 million people in cubicles furtively sending and receiving personal e-mails"), how to get a job ("prove to a prospective employer that you possess the skill and knowledge necessary to string meaningless hyphenated buzzwords together into sentence fragments") and talking to your children about money ("explain to your child that if he buys lemonade from some other kid's stand, then happens to choke on a lemon seed, then you would be in a position to sue the other kid's parents for thousands of dollars").

Barry's satire will have readers laughing at themselves and at high-profile targets like Donald Trump, Alan Greenspan and Suze Orman. Some material, particularly his insights on dealing with spouses or his ideas for innovative pet products, will be familiar to fans, but it will hardly keep them from enjoying another humorous sendup that's left on the money. B&w photos.

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Don't Know Much About the Bible by Kenneth C. D

The Bible, author Kenneth Davis explains, fits that definition of a "classic" offered by Mark Twain: a book that people praise and don't read. But this entertaining historical study will likely compel listeners to reach for their dusty copies of the world's most-owned but least-understood anthology once again. And not simply because the author reminds us of the drama and intrigue, the tales of rape, impaling, and ethnic cleansing routinely found in its pages.

Davis paints the larger historical context in which the Bible was written, providing a sense of the culture and environment in which the familiar stories came to life. Calling on new research and scholarship into the Bible's composition, he provides fascinating background to dimly remembered stories that gives them renewed impact. Using a series of easy-to-follow questions and answers, he offers explanations about when and by whom the Bible was written; how the stories of other traditions influenced the Judeo-Christian teachings; where the Garden of Eden might have been located; why an earthquake may have played a part in the "walls tumbling down" at Jericho; why Jesus may not have said everything we think he did, and much more. He also points out that mistranslations from the original Hebrew have made their way into modern versions of the Bible, explaining where and how they occurred.

Conceding that his program will anger some, as it challenges many cherished but mistaken assumptions about the Bible, Davis also hopes that listeners recognize that Christian belief and uncovering the truth are not at odds in this program, but rather that learning and wisdom, even when they reach unsettling conclusions, can ultimately complement faith. (Running time: six hours, four cassettes)

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Stephen King-The Sun Dog

Stephen King - Insomnia

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Who moved my cheese An amazing way to deal with change in your work and in your life.

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Deep Six by Clive Cussler: Audiobook

A deadly tide of poison flows into ocean waters. A ghost ship drifts across the empty northern Pacific. A luxury Soviet liner blazes into a funeral pyre. The Presidential yacht cruises the Potomac night --and the President disappears without a trace. DIRK PITT, the swash buckling hero of Clive Cussler's smash bestsellers Sahara and IncaGold, takes on a sinister Asian shipping empire in an inter continental duel of nerves. In his most dangerous, fast-paced adventure, he fights to save the U.S. government -- and to seize one desperate moment of revenge!

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JAMES HERRIOT - ALL THINGS WISE AND WONDERFUL, NON FICTION - 64KBPS - 4 FILES - READ BY CHRISTOPHER TIMOTHY

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Small Collection of Audio Books

Breathing Method - Stephen King

30.3 m

Edgar Allan Poe - The Raven

3.25 m

Edgar Allen Poe - The Tell Tale Heart

7.75 m

Ernest Hemingway - The old Man and the Sea

16.1 m

Grimm's Fairy Tales - Danny Kaye

8.6 m

H. G. Wells - 20,000 Leagues under the sea

42 m

CBS Radio Mystery Theater - Island of the Lost

11.5 m

Nightmares & Dreamscapes - Rainy Season - Stephen King

15.3 m

Orson Welles - War of the Worlds Original Uncut

50 m

Orson Welles - The Hitchhiker

6.25 m

The Boogeyman - Stephen King

14 m

The Mangler - Stephen King

22.2 m

The Monkey - Stephen King

33.8 m

The Raft - Stephen King

28.3

The Wizard of Oz

11 m

Rating:

2.5 out of 5 by Book123