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Books narrated by Peter Marinker

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    The House of the Seven Gables

    Narrated by Peter Marinker ...

    Abridged

    3 hours 57 min

    To inherit a great fortune. To inherit a great misfortune.’ These words, from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s notebook, neatly encapsulate the theme of The House of the Seven Gables that of a family whose fortunes are poisoned by its past misdeeds. The sins of the Pyncheon father are visited upon his children over a period of several generations, until such time as one of his descendants unites with a ... Read more

    13,38 € or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Star of the Sea

    Narrated by Peter Marinker ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 32 min

    In the bitter winter of 1847, from an Ireland torn by injustice and natural disaster, the Star of the Sea sets sail for New York. On board are hundreds of fleeing refugees, all braving the Atlantic in search of a new home. But a camouflaged killer is stalking the decks, hungry for the vengeance that will bring absolution. The twenty-six day journey will see many lives end, whilst others begin ... Read more

    22,32 € or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Great Speeches in History

    Abridged

    2 hours 38 min

    From Socrates to Charles I, Danton to Lincoln here are some of history’s most significant figures with their most important speeches. Fighting for justice, for freedom of speech, and sometimes even for their own lives, these orators demonstrate the finest resources of language in the service of the most dramatic issues of their day. ... Read more

    10,71 € or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Redemption Falls

    Narrated by Peter Marinker ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 54 min

    1865: The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship ‘Star of the Sea’ docked at New York, the daughter of two of its passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Eliza Duane Mooney is searching for her younger brother who she has not seen in four years. It's a walk that will have consequences for many… ... Read more

    22,32 € or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Original Bambi

    The Story of a Life in the Forest

    by Felix Salten ...
    Narrated by Peter Marinker, John Chancer ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 4 min

    Peter Marinker narrates a new translation of Felix Salten's celebrated novel Bambi, capturing the emotional impact and rich meanings of the original storyWith a preface read by John ChancerMost of us think we know the story of Bambi *—*but do we? The Original Bambi is an all-new translation of a literary classic that presents the story as it was meant to be told. For decades, readers' images of ... Read more

    24,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Cost-Benefit Revolution

    Narrated by Peter Marinker ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 19 min

    Why policies should be based on careful consideration of their costs and benefits rather than on intuition, popular opinion, interest groups, and anecdotes. Opinions on government policies vary widely. Some people feel passionately about the child obesity epidemic and support government regulation of sugary drinks. Others argue that people should be able to eat and drink whatever they like. Some ... Read more

    13,19 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Choosing Not to Choose

    Understanding the Value of Choice

    Narrated by Peter Marinker ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 27 min

    Our ability to make choices is fundamental to our sense of ourselves as human beings, and essential to the political values of freedom-protecting nations. Whom we love; where we work; how we spend our time; what we buy; such choices define us in the eyes of ourselves and others, and much blood and ink has been spilt to establish and protect our rights to make them freely. Choice can also be a ... Read more

    19,28 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Great Poets Oliver Wendell Holmes

    Narrated by Peter Marinker ...
    Series series The Great Poets 

    Abridged

    1 hour 17 min

    Though by profession a doctor (he coined the word anesthesia) Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) was one of the leading 19th century American poets and a member of the famous Saturday Club with Emerson, Longfellow and Lowell. 2009 is the 200th anniversary of his birth. Here are his major poems, including Old Ironsides and The Last Leaf in a rare audiobook collection read affectingly by Peter ... Read more

    8,48 € or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Epiphany

    by David Hewson ...
    Narrated by Peter Marinker ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 32 min

    At Christmas 1975 a group of Californian students experiment with LSD. One of them, Michael Quinn kidnaps the son of an English professor. When he is released from jail twenty years later, a mysterious young English woman named Joni Lascelles begins to ask questions that will unravel the past... ... Read more

    22,32 € or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Now Comes Good Sailing

    Writers Reflect on Henry David Thoreau

    Unabridged

    12 hours 19 min

    This audiobook brings together original pieces on Thoreau by twenty-seven of today's leading writersWith narration by William Hope, Barbara Barnes, Kaliswa Brewster, Kate Harper, Peter Marinker, and Ako MitchellFeatures essays by Jennifer Finney Boylan • Kristen Case • George Howe Colt • Gerald Early • Paul Elie • Will Eno • Adam Gopnik • Lauren Groff • Celeste Headlee • Pico Iyer • Alan Lightman ... Read more

    18,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Constitutional Personae

    Heroes, Soldiers, Minimalists, and Mutes (Inalienable Rights)

    Narrated by Peter Marinker ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 57 min

    Since America's founding, the U.S. Supreme Court had issued a vast number of decisions on a staggeringly wide variety of subjects. And hundreds of judges have occupied the bench. Yet as Cass R. Sunstein, the eminent legal scholar and bestselling co-author of Nudge, points out, almost every one of the Justices fits into a very small number of types regardless of ideology: the hero, the soldier, the ... Read more

    12,16 € or Free with Kobo Plus

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    How Change Happens

    Narrated by Peter Marinker ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 22 min

    The different ways that social change happens, from unleashing to nudging to social cascades. How does social change happen? When do social movements take off? Sexual harassment was once something that women had to endure; now a movement has risen up against it. White nationalist sentiments, on the other hand, were largely kept out of mainstream discourse; now there is no shortage of media outlets ... Read more

    13,19 € or Free with Kobo Plus