Language audiobooks

Aprende a hablar suajili Vol. 2

By: LinguaBoost

Narrated by: LinguaBoost

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

"Aprende a hablar suajili Vol. 2" es un curso de audio para principiantes o para cualquier persona que tenga dificultades para hablar suajili con fluidez. El objetivo de este curso es practicar el suajili conversacional desde la primera lección. El curso se divide en 20 lecciones, 6 lecciones de repaso/comprensión. Cada lección contiene frases... Read more

How to Write a Romance Novel

By: Peter C. Simon

Narrated by: Peter Simon

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

So you’re interested in writing romance novels?Why?Is it because you want your piece of the most financially lucrative genre in all of fiction?Or, is it because of something perhaps more meaningful? After all, a book about love can endure for centuries.Well, whatever your reasons, you should know ahead of time that writing a terrific romance... Read more

Aprende a hablar polaco Vol. 1

By: LinguaBoost

Narrated by: LinguaBoost

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

"Aprende a hablar polaco Vol. 1" es un curso de audio para principiantes o para cualquier persona que tenga dificultades para hablar polaco con fluidez. El objetivo de este curso es practicar el polaco conversacional desde la primera lección. El curso se divide en 30 lecciones, 6 lecciones de repaso y 3 lecciones de comprensión auditiva. Cada... Read more

The Faithful Ghost and Other Tall Tales

By: Bill Bowler

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A 'Tall Tale' is a story that's hard to believe, and the five tall tales in this book all tell of ghosts. Some have dark secrets buried in the past, others bring messages for the living. Some are laughable, some are sad, and some are just evil. Sometimes there's a logical explanation for the strangest happenings, but often things cannot be... Read more

The Last of the Mohicans

By: James Fenimore Cooper & Bill Bowler

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 1757. The English and the French are at war in North America. Two sisters - Cora and Alice - want to visit their father, General Munro. They begin their dangerous journey with the handsome English officer, Duncan Heyward and the Indian guide, Magua. On the way they meet friends and enemies, and many adventures. Some people will be... Read more

Lisa's Song

By: Lesley Thompson

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Al Brown plays the guitar in a band with friends. He writes songs, too. 'Our boy can't live without his music,' his parents say. But when Al's baby sister, Lisa, arrives from hospital, his life is suddenly different. Now his mother and father have no time for him, and he has no time for school work – or the band. Then Al's sister gets ill. And... Read more

The Drive to Dubai

By: Julie Till

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

When his father is arrested in Dubai, Kareem has to move fast. He must show that his father is not a thief and prove that his family is honest. For Kareem is going to marry the beautiful and intelligent Samira Al-Hussein, and she could never marry someone from a bad family. So Kareem and his brother get to work quickly - with a little help from... Read more

White Fang

By: Jack London & John Escott

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Life is hard and dangerous for both people and animals in the frozen Canadian North. For a wolf like White Fang it is a continuous fight to find food - a fight in which many animals die. When White Fang meets the people of the North - first Indians and then White Men - he learns to live with them like a dog. But some men are cruel to their dogs... Read more

Saladin

By: Nina Prentice

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: No

'Well, Yusuf, are you sure that you want to be a soldier?' 'I'll do my best, Uncle.' When Yusuf went to Aleppo to learn to fight under General Shirkuh, no one knew what this young man would do with his life. But years later, Yusuf became the great and chivalrous general, Saladin - the man who helped to bring Muslims together to win back the holy... Read more

Eight Great American Tales

By: O. Henry

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

What does a poor young woman do when she loses her boyfriend or wants to find one? What little lies do we tell to make ourselves look better in the eyes of those that we love? How can a friend save someone who is sure that they are going to die? What happens when someone's clever plans all go wrong? These sweetly surprising short stories - about... Read more

Ariadne's Story

By: Joyce Hannam

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

'When he went home to Athens, the great prince Theseus left me on the island of Naxos. But why did he leave me? Everyone says that he was tired of me. But when we met, I was the princess of Crete and the most beautiful woman in the Aegean Sea.' Ariadne's story is one woman's tale of secret love, adventure and of escape - both from danger and... Read more

The Three Musketeers

By: Alexandre Dumas & Clare West

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

It is the year 1627, and young d'Artagnan comes to Paris with a dream - to become a King's Musketeer. Three of these brave soldiers - Porthos, Athos and Aramis - soon become his friends. After a short time d'Artagnan has fallen in love and into great danger. Can the three musketeers and d'Artagnan fight against the evil plans of the beautiful... Read more

Typhoon

By: Joseph Conrad & Tim Herdon

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

'There's some bad weather out there,' Captain MacWhirr said to himself just before he sailed his ship, the Nan-Shan, into the middle of the most terrible storm in the South China Sea. The typhoon brings out the best in some men on the ship, and the worst in others. Can MacWhirr bring the ship through the storm safely? And what will happen to all... Read more

The Vesuvius Mosaic

By: Joyce Hannam

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

'We have some wonderful mosaics in Pompeii, but I've never seen a better one than this!' After the young Roman mosaic designer Felix starts work in Pompeii, his whole life changes. There he falls in love with the beautiful Greek slave Agathe, who can see into the future. When the volcano Vesuvius sends hot ash over the city, Felix - and Agathe's... Read more

Housemates

By: Alison Watts

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Chris leaves his home in a small town in Australia to go and study at the University of Sydney. He needs to find somewhere to live. But it's not easy to find a house to share in a big city. Every house has its problems, and not all of Chris's housemates are easy to live with. In fact, some of them are very difficult people! Can Chris find the... Read more

The Teacher's Secret and Other Folk Tales

By: Joyce Hannam

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Are men cleverer than women? Is a poor man cleverer than a rich man? And what about teachers? Are they always cleverer than their students? The people in these six well-known folk tales from around the world all want to be clever. But are some of them just stupid? Read more

The Lost World

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & Susan Kingsley

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

'You said that you wanted danger, didn't you?' says McArdle, the editor of the Daily Gazette. And he sends his young reporter, Malone, on a strange journey into South America with the famous Professor Challenger. Challenger believes he can find a lost world full of dinosaurs in the middle of the Amazon forest. But this world is dangerous to... Read more

The Curse of Capistrano

By: Johnston McCulley & Bill Bowler

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

'Senor Zorro is on the road again, they say,' the landlord began. 'Why do I always hear his name?' cried Sergeant Gonzales angrily. Zorro fights to help the poor and weak in California under the Spanish Governor's rule. Sergeant Gonzales has promised to catch and kill him, so how does Zorro always escape? And how will Senorita Lolita - the only... Read more

The Bird of Happiness and Other Wise Tales

By: Tim Herdon

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

What is the secret of happiness, or the best thing for a wife to take with her when she leaves home? How does a man pay for the smell of bread, or decide if he is lucky? What happens when a friend steals a gift meant for you, or is careless when he tries to make his dreams of a better life come true? How can you change dirt into gold, or get... Read more

Jake's Parrot

By: Paul Hearn & Yetis Ozkan

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

When Jake Stevens goes to work for some months in Ireland, he feels happy. He loves travelling, and talking about his job - making computer games for BananaTech in America. P<>'Your new game's going to be the best thing at the Irish Computer Games Show!' people at BananaTech Ireland tell him. But living with a noisy parrot isn't easy, and... Read more

Studio Five

By: Anthony Manning

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Fay loves making The Friends' Hour for Studio Five, but her boss – Jason – is always angry with her. One day, a young man – Simon Jones – phones her show. Soon Fay must find Simon, and work hard to keep her job. Then her best friend – Wing – stops helping her. What can Fay do now? Can she and Wing stay friends? Read more

Mystery in Muscat

By: Julie Till

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

'How long is she in Oman for?' 'Ten days. And then they want to take her back home.' 'Ah, yes. But she's not going back to London. They're never going to see her again!' Jamie and Taymour overhear this strange conversation near their homes in Muscat. Two men want to kill an important visitor, it seems. But who is the woman in danger? And what... Read more

From the Heart

By: Alan C. McLean

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Anna is a new student at Oxford University. When she arrives in Oxford, she meets Selim, and they become good friends. But Selim is not English, and living in a different country is not easy for him. Anna tries to help but she knows that her father isn't going to like it. Selim and Anna have each other. But is that enough? And can they find true... Read more

Tristan and Isolde

By: Bill Bowler

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Tristan and Isolde are in love, but Isolde must marry King Mark. So a happy love story seems impossible...The lovers meet every day but then, one night, King Mark finds them together. Now Tristan must leave the castle, but he is badly hurt and dying. Only Isolde can help him. Can Isolde find Tristan in time? Can their love survive? Read more