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The Axeman's Jazz

de Ray Celestin ...

Narrado por Christopher Ragland ...

Series series City Blues Quartet
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13 hora 34 minutos

New Orleans, 1919. As a dark serial killer - The Axeman - stalks the city, three individuals set out to unmask him. As Michael, Luca and Ida each draw closer to discovering the killer's identity, the Axeman himself will issue a challenge to the people of New Orleans: play jazz or risk becoming the next victim. And as the case builds to its crescendo, the sky will darken and a great storm will loom ... Leer más

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New Orleans, 1919. As a dark serial killer - The Axeman - stalks the city, three individuals set out to unmask him. As Michael, Luca and Ida each draw closer to discovering the killer's identity, the Axeman himself will issue a challenge to the people of New Orleans: play jazz or risk becoming the next victim. And as the case builds to its crescendo, the sky will darken and a great storm will loom
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Dark Masters, The - Volume 4

Washington Irving to Gustav Meyrink

de Washington Irving, W W Jacobs, M R James, Franz Kafka, W G Kelly, Rudyard Kipling, Perceval Landon, Sheridan Le Fanu, Alfred Lichtenstein, Jack London, F G Loring, Jean Lorrain, H P Lovecraft, Arthur Lynch, Arthur Machen, Niccolo Machiavelli, R H Malden, Richard Marsh, Guy De Maupassant, Gustav Meyrink ...

Narrado por Richard Mitchley, Christopher Ragland, David Shaw-Parker ...

Completo

12 hora 2 minutos

Life is to be lived. Experiences gained, pleasures sampled. But, troublingly, when you are a classic author your thoughts sometimes lean towards darker thoughts. Within the space of a few paragraphs these literary masters shape a new world; more difficult experiences, darker pleasures. Life becomes uneasy, a queasy feeling, perhaps a repulsion here, a disgust there and very soon what was cosy, ... Leer más

$24.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Life is to be lived. Experiences gained, pleasures sampled. But, troublingly, when you are a classic author your thoughts sometimes lean towards darker thoughts. Within the space of a few paragraphs these literary masters shape a new world; more difficult experiences, darker pleasures. Life becomes uneasy, a queasy feeling, perhaps a repulsion here, a disgust there and very soon what was cosy,
... Leer más
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Pandemic! The Unseen Enemy

A Classical Short Story Collection About Something Very Relevant Today

de Edgar Allan Poe, H G Wells, Jack London, Fred M White ...

Narrado por David Shaw-Parker, Christopher Ragland, William Dufris ...

Completo

2 hora 4 minutos

Nature is always on the move. Evolution over untold generations moves, streamlines, sometimes mutates.Since the dawn of life there is little doubt that at any given time disease can strike, slowly growing over time or with a sudden instant ferocity that catches any given species in a consuming catastrophe.The human race has been on the receiving end of many viral and bacterial diseases from the ... Leer más

$9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Nature is always on the move. Evolution over untold generations moves, streamlines, sometimes mutates.Since the dawn of life there is little doubt that at any given time disease can strike, slowly growing over time or with a sudden instant ferocity that catches any given species in a consuming catastrophe.The human race has been on the receiving end of many viral and bacterial diseases from the
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Pixels and Paint

de Kristi Ann Hunter ...

Narrado por Julie Rogers, Christopher Ragland ...

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9 hora 54 minutos

For Emma Trinket, life is a delicate balancing act between loving her family and pursuing interests they don’t understand. When the opportunity arises to finally impress them with her job as a computer programmer, she jumps at it even if it means immersing herself in a world she’s despised since childhood.Unfortunately the one man who could crush her prospects is also the best person to help her ... Leer más

$12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

For Emma Trinket, life is a delicate balancing act between loving her family and pursuing interests they don’t understand. When the opportunity arises to finally impress them with her job as a computer programmer, she jumps at it even if it means immersing herself in a world she’s despised since childhood.Unfortunately the one man who could crush her prospects is also the best person to help her
... Leer más
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Bullshit Jobs

A Theory

de David Graeber ...

Narrado por Christopher Ragland ...

Completo

12 hora 39 minutos

From David Graeber, the bestselling author of The Dawn of Everything and Debt—“a master of opening up thought and stimulating debate” (Slate)—a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs…and their consequences.Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled “On the ... Leer más

$26.99 USD

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From David Graeber, the bestselling author of The Dawn of Everything and Debt—“a master of opening up thought and stimulating debate” (Slate)—a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs…and their consequences.Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled “On the
... Leer más

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Babylon Revisited

Like his classic novel The Great Gatsby this story is set in the Jazz Age and much is based on Fitzgeralds own experiences.

de F Scott Fitzgerald ...

Narrado por Christopher Ragland, Ghizela Rowe ...

Completo

58 minutos

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on 24th September 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota into an upper-middle class family. Whilst his mother was pregnant with him, his two young sisters tragically died. Fitzgerald once said this was when his destiny as a writer was ordained.His intelligence and talent was recognised from an early age, with his first story, about a detective being published in the ... Leer más

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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on 24th September 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota into an upper-middle class family. Whilst his mother was pregnant with him, his two young sisters tragically died. Fitzgerald once said this was when his destiny as a writer was ordained.His intelligence and talent was recognised from an early age, with his first story, about a detective being published in the
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Tale of Negative Gravity, A

An brilliant inventor struggles with the morality of his creation

de Frank R Stockton ...

Narrado por Christopher Ragland ...

Completo

58 minutos

Frank Richard Stockton was born in Philadelphia on 5th April 1834.His father, a Methodist minister, discouraged Stockton’s literary career from an early age. Feeling unable to go against those wishes it was for many years that Stockton’s income was maintained as a wood engraver.His first work was published in 1867 and his first collection only appeared in 1870. Despite this late arrival Stockton’s ... Leer más

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Frank Richard Stockton was born in Philadelphia on 5th April 1834.His father, a Methodist minister, discouraged Stockton’s literary career from an early age. Feeling unable to go against those wishes it was for many years that Stockton’s income was maintained as a wood engraver.His first work was published in 1867 and his first collection only appeared in 1870. Despite this late arrival Stockton’s
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Dead Man's Blues

de Ray Celestin ...

Narrado por Christopher Ragland ...

Series series City Blues Quartet
Completo

14 hora 34 minutos

Chicago, 1928: In the stifling summer heat three disturbing events take place: a clique of city leaders is poisoned, a white gangster is found mutilated and a famous heiress vanishes without a trace. Detectives Michael Talbot and Ida Davis are hired to find the missing heiress, but it proves harder than expected and so, Ida must elicit the help of her friend Louis Armstrong. But will any of them ... Leer más

$21.24 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Chicago, 1928: In the stifling summer heat three disturbing events take place: a clique of city leaders is poisoned, a white gangster is found mutilated and a famous heiress vanishes without a trace. Detectives Michael Talbot and Ida Davis are hired to find the missing heiress, but it proves harder than expected and so, Ida must elicit the help of her friend Louis Armstrong. But will any of them
... Leer más
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Foundations of Fiction, The - The Murder Mystery

The stories that created one of the most popular genres in fiction

de Ambrose Bierce, Amelia Edwards, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, Charles Dickens, D K Broster, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Stewart Drewery, Frank R Stockton, Fredric Brown, H G Wells, Hugh Walpole, J M Barrie, Jack London, Móritz Jókai, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Saki, Susan Glaspell, T F Powys, W F Harvey ...

Narrado por Christopher Ragland, Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker ...

Completo

13 hora 11 minutos

In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.Success ... Leer más

$39.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.Success
... Leer más
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The Mobster's Lament

de Ray Celestin ...

Narrado por Christopher Ragland ...

Series series City Blues Quartet
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16 hora 35 minutos

This whole thing has got police cover-up written all over it,’ Ida said, rising.‘Yup,’ said Michael. ‘That’s who we’re up against.’Fall, 1947. New York City.Private Investigator Ida Davis has been called to New York by her old partner, Michael Talbot, to investigate a brutal killing spree in a Harlem flophouse that has left four people dead. But as they delve deeper into the case, Ida and Michael ... Leer más

$24.59 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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This whole thing has got police cover-up written all over it,’ Ida said, rising.‘Yup,’ said Michael. ‘That’s who we’re up against.’Fall, 1947. New York City.Private Investigator Ida Davis has been called to New York by her old partner, Michael Talbot, to investigate a brutal killing spree in a Harlem flophouse that has left four people dead. But as they delve deeper into the case, Ida and Michael
... Leer más

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Landfill Mountains: A dystopian cli-fi for young adults

de Rab Ferguson ...

Narrado por Christopher Ragland ...

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11 hora 23 minutos

In a world devastated by climate change and overconsumption, sixteen-year-old Joe's survival hangs by a thread.Living in a shack beneath towering piles of waste with his father and grandfather, the town's revered storyteller, their community faces constant danger. After a deadly avalanche of rubbish, six-year-old Lily is left deathly ill, and Joe sets out on a quest for help.As Joe journeys ... Leer más

$18.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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In a world devastated by climate change and overconsumption, sixteen-year-old Joe's survival hangs by a thread.Living in a shack beneath towering piles of waste with his father and grandfather, the town's revered storyteller, their community faces constant danger. After a deadly avalanche of rubbish, six-year-old Lily is left deathly ill, and Joe sets out on a quest for help.As Joe journeys
... Leer más

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Jeff Bezos

The World-Changing Entrepreneur

de Chris McNab ...

Narrado por Christopher Ragland ...

Completo

6 hora 14 minutos

What is the key to Jeff Bezos's success? This biography takes a deep-dive into his career and the decisions he made to become the world's most successful business magnate.Entrepreneur and e-commerce pioneer Jeff Bezos is a success story of the business world. The executive chairman of Amazon and founder of Blue Origin, he became the first centibillionaire on the Forbes wealth index and one of the ... Leer más

$14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

Disponible también en: eBook

What is the key to Jeff Bezos's success? This biography takes a deep-dive into his career and the decisions he made to become the world's most successful business magnate.Entrepreneur and e-commerce pioneer Jeff Bezos is a success story of the business world. The executive chairman of Amazon and founder of Blue Origin, he became the first centibillionaire on the Forbes wealth index and one of the
... Leer más

Disponible también en: eBook