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The Mystery of the Blue Train

by Agatha Christie ...

Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki, John Rubinstein, Gabrielle de Cuir ...

Series series The Hercule Poirot Mysteries
Unabridged

9 hours 14 min

“Trust the train, Mademoiselle, for it is le bon Dieu who drives it. […] And trust Hercule Poirot. He knows.”Unhappy with her marriage, Ruth Kettering, a pampered American heiress, is on her way to meet her lover in the French Riviera, but she will never reach her destination. When the train stops in Nice, the heiress is found dead and without her precious jewels aboard Le Train Bleu. But in the ... Read more

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“Trust the train, Mademoiselle, for it is le bon Dieu who drives it. […] And trust Hercule Poirot. He knows.”Unhappy with her marriage, Ruth Kettering, a pampered American heiress, is on her way to meet her lover in the French Riviera, but she will never reach her destination. When the train stops in Nice, the heiress is found dead and without her precious jewels aboard Le Train Bleu. But in the
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

by Agatha Christie ...

Narrated by John Rubinstein, John Lee ...

Series series The Hercule Poirot Mysteries
Unabridged

8 hours 10 min

“What one does not tell to Papa Poirot he finds out.”In Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Hercule Poirot comes out of retirement to solve one of the most vexing cases of his career. The quiet village of King’s Abbot is still reeling from the death of the widow Ferrars from an overdose of Veronal, when not twenty-four hours later it is learned that the man she planned to marry, Roger ... Read more

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“What one does not tell to Papa Poirot he finds out.”In Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Hercule Poirot comes out of retirement to solve one of the most vexing cases of his career. The quiet village of King’s Abbot is still reeling from the death of the widow Ferrars from an overdose of Veronal, when not twenty-four hours later it is learned that the man she planned to marry, Roger
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Saints

by Orson Scott Card, Orson Scott Card, Emily Janice Card, Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cuir, Kirby Heyborne, John Rubinstein, Stefan Rudnicki, Stefan Rudnicki, Stefan Rudnicki0, Judy Young1, Skyboat Media2 ...

Narrated by a full cast ...

Unabridged

25 hours 50 min

This is an epic of independence and devotion, of hardship and fulfillment, of a woman so strong that knowing her could change your life.When ten-year-old Dinah Kirkham saw her father leave their Manchester home in the middle of the night, she asked when he would be back. “Soon,” he replied. But he never came back. On that night in 1829, John Kirkham laid the foundation of his daughter’s certainty ... Read more

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This is an epic of independence and devotion, of hardship and fulfillment, of a woman so strong that knowing her could change your life.When ten-year-old Dinah Kirkham saw her father leave their Manchester home in the middle of the night, she asked when he would be back. “Soon,” he replied. But he never came back. On that night in 1829, John Kirkham laid the foundation of his daughter’s certainty
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Thief of Time

A Discworld Novel

by Terry Pratchett ...

Narrated by Harlan Ellison, Karesa McElheny, Gabrielle de Cuir, Christopher Cazenove, John Rubinstein, Stefan Rudnicki ...

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Unabridged

12 hours

Time is a resource that has to be managed. On Discworld, the Monks of History store time and pump it from the places where it's wasted—like underwater (how much time does a codfish need?) to places that need it—like cities, where there's never enough of time.But the construction of the world's first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well, time, for Lu Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd. ... Read more

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Time is a resource that has to be managed. On Discworld, the Monks of History store time and pump it from the places where it's wasted—like underwater (how much time does a codfish need?) to places that need it—like cities, where there's never enough of time.But the construction of the world's first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well, time, for Lu Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd.
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The Truth Will Out

Unmasking the Real Shakespeare

by Brenda James, William D. Rubinstein ...

Motivated by scholarship and driven by curiosity, Shakespeare historian Brenda James applied a sixteenth-century code-breaking technique to the dedication of Shakespeare's Sonnets. What she uncovered led her to the truth behind literature's greatest mystery.For more than 150 years, academics have questioned how William Shakespeare of Stratford, a man who left school at age thirteen and apparently ... Read more

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Motivated by scholarship and driven by curiosity, Shakespeare historian Brenda James applied a sixteenth-century code-breaking technique to the dedication of Shakespeare's Sonnets. What she uncovered led her to the truth behind literature's greatest mystery.For more than 150 years, academics have questioned how William Shakespeare of Stratford, a man who left school at age thirteen and apparently
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The Holly

Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood

by Julian Rubinstein ...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceWinner of the 2022 Colorado Book Award for General NonfictionWinner of the 2022 High Plains Book Award for Creative NonfictionNow the basis for an investigative documentary of the same name, award-winning journalist Julian Rubinstein's The Holly presents a dramatic account of a shooting that shook a community to its core, with important implications ... ... Read more

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A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceWinner of the 2022 Colorado Book Award for General NonfictionWinner of the 2022 High Plains Book Award for Creative NonfictionNow the basis for an investigative documentary of the same name, award-winning journalist Julian Rubinstein's The Holly presents a dramatic account of a shooting that shook a community to its core, with important implications ...
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Space Demons

Space Demons Level 1

by Gillian Rubinstein ...

Series Book 45 - Untapped
‘On the screen the spaceman continued to zap the space demons, twisting, turning and firing, but the chair where he had sat was empty, and the joystick did not move...’Andrew has never seen a computer game like Space Demons before—a mysterious experiment, captivating in every way, blurring the boundaries between the real and the virtual.At first it’s a refuge for Andrew and his friends—from school ... Read more

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‘On the screen the spaceman continued to zap the space demons, twisting, turning and firing, but the chair where he had sat was empty, and the joystick did not move...’Andrew has never seen a computer game like Space Demons before—a mysterious experiment, captivating in every way, blurring the boundaries between the real and the virtual.At first it’s a refuge for Andrew and his friends—from school
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Born to Walk

The Transformative Power of a Pedestrian Act

by Dan Rubinstein ...

The case for getting back on our feetThe humble act of putting one foot in front of the other transcends age, geography, culture, and class, and is one of the most economical and environmentally responsible modes of transit. Yet with our modern fixation on speed, this healthy pedestrian activity has been largely left behind.At a personal and professional crossroads, writer, editor, and obsessive ... Read more

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The case for getting back on our feetThe humble act of putting one foot in front of the other transcends age, geography, culture, and class, and is one of the most economical and environmentally responsible modes of transit. Yet with our modern fixation on speed, this healthy pedestrian activity has been largely left behind.At a personal and professional crossroads, writer, editor, and obsessive
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Ballad of the Whiskey Robber

A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts

by Julian Rubinstein ...

An award-wining and "outrageously entertaining" true crime story (San Francisco Chronicle) about the professional hockey player-turned-bank robber whose bizarre and audacious crime spree galvanized Hungary in the decade after the fall of the Iron Curtain.During the 1990s, while playing for the biggest hockey team in Budapest, Attila Ambrus took up bank robbery to make ends meet. Arrayed against ... Read more

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An award-wining and "outrageously entertaining" true crime story (San Francisco Chronicle) about the professional hockey player-turned-bank robber whose bizarre and audacious crime spree galvanized Hungary in the decade after the fall of the Iron Curtain.During the 1990s, while playing for the biggest hockey team in Budapest, Attila Ambrus took up bank robbery to make ends meet. Arrayed against
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War Paint

Madame Helena Rubinstein and Miss Elizabeth Arden: Their Lives, Their Times, Their Rivalry

by Lindy Woodhead ...

A fascinating dual biography of the women who founded today’s beauty industryThey were both born in the nineteenth century in humble circumstances–Helena Rubinstein in an orthodox Jewish household in Kraków, Poland, Elizabeth Arden on a farm outside Toronto. But by the 1930s, they were bitter rivals in New York, the rulers of dueling international beauty empires that would forever change the way ... Read more

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A fascinating dual biography of the women who founded today’s beauty industryThey were both born in the nineteenth century in humble circumstances–Helena Rubinstein in an orthodox Jewish household in Kraków, Poland, Elizabeth Arden on a farm outside Toronto. But by the 1930s, they were bitter rivals in New York, the rulers of dueling international beauty empires that would forever change the way
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The Big Hatch

by Elana Rubinstein ...

Illustrated by Alexandra Bye ...

For fifth-grader Della, paleontology isn’t just a hobby—it’s her entire world. Della is proud to be a dinosaur expert, even if it means losing her only friend, Avery, who cares more about fashion than fossils.When Della gets the chance to try out a secret high-tech dinosaur hatching device, she couldn’t be more excited. But after Avery's pink, sparkly jacket gets stuck in the incubator lid, what ... Read more

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For fifth-grader Della, paleontology isn’t just a hobby—it’s her entire world. Della is proud to be a dinosaur expert, even if it means losing her only friend, Avery, who cares more about fashion than fossils.When Della gets the chance to try out a secret high-tech dinosaur hatching device, she couldn’t be more excited. But after Avery's pink, sparkly jacket gets stuck in the incubator lid, what
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A Collection of Short Stories

by Ben Bova ...

Narrated by Ben Bova, Efrem Zimbalist, Alex Hyde-White, Stefan Rudnicki, Paul Boehmer, Orson Scott Card, Grover Gardner, John Rubinstein, Gabrielle de Cuir0, Arthur Morey1, various narrators2, Steven Hoye3 ...

Unabridged

9 hours 35 min

In this new collection, Ben Bova has compiled fourteen of his favorite short stories. Each story includes an all-new introduction with compelling insight into the narrative.Exploring the boundaries of the genre, Bova not only writes of spaceships, aliens, and time travel in most of his titles, but also speculates on the beginnings of science fiction in “Scheherazade and the Storytellers,” as well ... Read more

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In this new collection, Ben Bova has compiled fourteen of his favorite short stories. Each story includes an all-new introduction with compelling insight into the narrative.Exploring the boundaries of the genre, Bova not only writes of spaceships, aliens, and time travel in most of his titles, but also speculates on the beginnings of science fiction in “Scheherazade and the Storytellers,” as well
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