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The Ambassadors

by Henry James, John Chancer ...

Narrated by John Chancer ...

Unabridged

19 hours 46 min

In the second novel of James’s celebrated late period, American Lambert Strether is sent to Paris on behalf of Mrs Newsome, his fiancée, to collect her son, Chad. When Strether finds Chad, he discovers an altered man and becomes introduced to a free and unconventional style of life that soon intoxicates him. His views begin to change; the morality of Woollett, his hometown, becomes foreign, and ... Read more

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In the second novel of James’s celebrated late period, American Lambert Strether is sent to Paris on behalf of Mrs Newsome, his fiancée, to collect her son, Chad. When Strether finds Chad, he discovers an altered man and becomes introduced to a free and unconventional style of life that soon intoxicates him. His views begin to change; the morality of Woollett, his hometown, becomes foreign, and
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A Family Christmas

A Child’s Christmas in Wales The Nutcracker The Little Match Girl The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle ’Twas The Night Before Christmas The Three Kings King Frost A Kidnapped Santa Claus The Thieves Who Couldn’t Stop Sneezing Talking Turkeys

by John Chancer ...

Narrated by John Chancer, Philip Madoc, Jenny Agutter, Benjamin Zephaniah, Teresa Gallagher, David Timson, Benjamin Soames ...

Unabridged

2 hours 34 min

The tree, the fireside, the candles, the presents and the festive food may be the main features of the traditional Christmas, but so were the stories, the poems, and the traditional tales. Here, is a delightful confection of Christmas texts: the story of The Nutcracker told with Tchaikovsky’s immortal music, Dylan Thomas’ A Child’s Christmas in Wales, as well as nineteenth and twentieth century ... Read more

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The tree, the fireside, the candles, the presents and the festive food may be the main features of the traditional Christmas, but so were the stories, the poems, and the traditional tales. Here, is a delightful confection of Christmas texts: the story of The Nutcracker told with Tchaikovsky’s immortal music, Dylan Thomas’ A Child’s Christmas in Wales, as well as nineteenth and twentieth century
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Extinction

by Bradley Somer ...

Narrated by John Chancer ...

Unabridged

8 hours 57 min

In a lonely valley, deep in the mountains, a ranger watches over the last surviving grizzly bear.With the natural world exhausted and in tatters, Ben has dedicated himself to protecting this single fragment of the wild.One night, he hears voices in the valley – poachers, come to hunt his bear.A heart-pounding chase begins, crossing forests and mountainsides, passing centuries of human ruins. ... Read more

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In a lonely valley, deep in the mountains, a ranger watches over the last surviving grizzly bear.With the natural world exhausted and in tatters, Ben has dedicated himself to protecting this single fragment of the wild.One night, he hears voices in the valley – poachers, come to hunt his bear.A heart-pounding chase begins, crossing forests and mountainsides, passing centuries of human ruins.
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Missing Pieces

The gripping and unputdownable Sunday Times bestseller

by Tim Weaver ...

Narrated by Indira Varma, John Chancer ...

Unabridged

14 hours 43 min

Brought to you by Penguin.GET READY TO MEET REBEKAH. SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR TIM WEAVER IS BACK WITH HIS FIRST STANDALONERebekah Murphy has been missing for five months. Why is no one looking for her?___________Rebekah Murphy knows too much. . .She knows she's alone on an abandoned island with a killer on her trail.She knows that to get home to her children, s... ... Read more

$24.90 AUD

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Brought to you by Penguin.GET READY TO MEET REBEKAH. SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR TIM WEAVER IS BACK WITH HIS FIRST STANDALONERebekah Murphy has been missing for five months. Why is no one looking for her?___________Rebekah Murphy knows too much. . .She knows she's alone on an abandoned island with a killer on her trail.She knows that to get home to her children, s...
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Life or Death

by Michael Robotham ...

Narrated by John Chancer ...

Unabridged

13 hours 52 min

Why would a man escape from prison the day before he's due to be released?Audie Palmer has spent a decade in prison for an armed robbery in which four people died, including two of the gang. Seven million dollars has never been recovered and everybody believes that Audie knows where the money is.For ten years he has been beaten, stabbed, throttled and threatened almost daily by prison guards, ... Read more

$35.99 AUD

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Why would a man escape from prison the day before he's due to be released?Audie Palmer has spent a decade in prison for an armed robbery in which four people died, including two of the gang. Seven million dollars has never been recovered and everybody believes that Audie knows where the money is.For ten years he has been beaten, stabbed, throttled and threatened almost daily by prison guards,
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The Macat Analysis of Marcel Mauss's The Gift

by The Macat Team ...

Narrated by John Chancer ...

Unabridged

2 hours 11 min

In The Gift (1925), Marcel Mauss elevates a simple gift from the status of innocent object to something that has the capacity to motivate people and define social relationships. The Gift analyzes cultures across the world and across time, examining the ways gifts are given and received to understand the rules and traditions of many different societies. Gifts can be tangible, like jewelry, or ... Read more

$15.95 AUD

In The Gift (1925), Marcel Mauss elevates a simple gift from the status of innocent object to something that has the capacity to motivate people and define social relationships. The Gift analyzes cultures across the world and across time, examining the ways gifts are given and received to understand the rules and traditions of many different societies. Gifts can be tangible, like jewelry, or
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The Last Reich

by Brian Klein ...

Narrated by John Chancer ...

Series series The Reich Trilogy
Unabridged

10 hours 47 min

A heinous, co-ordinated plot to attack a series of prominent synagogues, located across five different continents, is scheduled to take place on Yom Kippur - the Jewish Day of Atonement. For that one day of the year, celebrated prayer houses will be packed to the rafters with Jewish worshippers and the results could prove to be devastating. The mastermind behind the attacks is a direct blood ... Read more

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A heinous, co-ordinated plot to attack a series of prominent synagogues, located across five different continents, is scheduled to take place on Yom Kippur - the Jewish Day of Atonement. For that one day of the year, celebrated prayer houses will be packed to the rafters with Jewish worshippers and the results could prove to be devastating. The mastermind behind the attacks is a direct blood
... Read more

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The Camp Robber, and Other Stories

by Zane Grey ...

Narrated by John Chancer ...

Unabridged

7 hours 4 min

Here are four short stories from Zane Grey, the acclaimed author of Western adventures and frontier characters.Living in the ruthless solitude of the desert, range, or mountains, the men in these four stories are all on personal journeys.In The Camp Robber, a man has driven his wife away and yearns for reconciliation. Amber’s Mirage reveals an old man’s realization of the corrupting power of gold ... Read more

$30.79 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

Here are four short stories from Zane Grey, the acclaimed author of Western adventures and frontier characters.Living in the ruthless solitude of the desert, range, or mountains, the men in these four stories are all on personal journeys.In The Camp Robber, a man has driven his wife away and yearns for reconciliation. Amber’s Mirage reveals an old man’s realization of the corrupting power of gold
... Read more
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The Macat Analysis of David Graeber's Debt: the First 5000 Years

by Sulaiman Hakemy ...

Narrated by John Chancer ...

Unabridged

1 hour 35 min

Born in 1961, US anthropologist and activist David Graeber was weaned on leftist politics, and declared himself an anarchist at age 16. He became an anthropology professor, and his early cultural research in Madagascar exposed him to poverty that he saw as caused by pressures to repay excessive government debt. Through a combination of activism and scholarship he has devoted much of his career to ... Read more

$15.95 AUD

Born in 1961, US anthropologist and activist David Graeber was weaned on leftist politics, and declared himself an anarchist at age 16. He became an anthropology professor, and his early cultural research in Madagascar exposed him to poverty that he saw as caused by pressures to repay excessive government debt. Through a combination of activism and scholarship he has devoted much of his career to
... Read more
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Tragic Mind, The

Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power

by Robert D. Kaplan ...

Narrated by John Chancer ...

Unabridged

3 hours 59 min

A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedySome books emerge from a lifetime of hard-won knowledge. Robert D. Kaplan has learned, from a career spent reporting on wars, revolutions, and international politics in Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia, that the essence of geopolitics is tragedy. In The Tragic Mind, he employs the works of ... Read more

$21.59 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedySome books emerge from a lifetime of hard-won knowledge. Robert D. Kaplan has learned, from a career spent reporting on wars, revolutions, and international politics in Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia, that the essence of geopolitics is tragedy. In The Tragic Mind, he employs the works of
... Read more
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ADHD Explained

Your Toolkit to Understanding and Thriving

by Edward Hallowell ...

Narrated by John Chancer ...

Series series Neurodiversity Explained
Unabridged

4 hours 1 min

With a new wave of adult ADHD diagnoses sweeping the world, many are beginning to discover what it is that sets them apart, but few have learnt what it takes to thrive...What does ADHD tell us about how we think and act? Can it limit opportunities and connection? Does it offer cerebral superpowers? What strategies and medication can help lessen the difficulties of ADHD and instead boost its ... Read more

$17.24 AUD

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With a new wave of adult ADHD diagnoses sweeping the world, many are beginning to discover what it is that sets them apart, but few have learnt what it takes to thrive...What does ADHD tell us about how we think and act? Can it limit opportunities and connection? Does it offer cerebral superpowers? What strategies and medication can help lessen the difficulties of ADHD and instead boost its
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Traces of Gods

by Jesper Ersgård ...

Narrated by John Chancer ...

Series Audiobook 3 - Sky & Fall
Unabridged

10 hours 52 min

A movie star, a villain and a find in Siberia that changes everything, for all of us. 'Traces of Gods' is the third book in the extremely exciting series about Rebecca Skyler and Alexander DeFall from Jesper Ersgård. ... Read more

$17.99 AUD

A movie star, a villain and a find in Siberia that changes everything, for all of us. 'Traces of Gods' is the third book in the extremely exciting series about Rebecca Skyler and Alexander DeFall from Jesper Ersgård.
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