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Talking Back, Talking Black
- Truths About America's Lingua Franca
- By: John McWhorter
- Narrated by: John McWhorter
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
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Linguists have been studying Black English as a speech variety for years, arguing to the public that it is different from Standard English, not a degradation of it. Yet false assumptions and controversies still swirl around what it means to speak and sound "Black." In his first book devoted solely to the form, structure, and development of Black English, John McWhorter clearly explains its fundamentals and rich history while carefully examining the cultural, educational, and political issues that have undermined recognition of this transformative, empowering dialect.
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Interesting
- By Louise on 11-09-21
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Talking Back, Talking Black
- Truths About America's Lingua Franca
- Narrated by: John McWhorter
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 30-04-19
- Language: English
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The Routes of English Complete Series 1-4
- By: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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In this collection, Melvyn Bragg surveys how English has evolved over 1,000 years. He starts by looking at the disappearance of old dialects like that of Cumbria, and how English has been enriched by foreign languages, from Latin and Old French to dozens more as conquest, trade and immigration played their part in recent centuries. He also examines new coinages, puns and wordplay; how accents and social class are entwined; swear words; attempts to stop the evolution of language in its tracks and, lastly, the many varieties of English that are spoken around the world today.
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The Routes of English Complete Series 1-4
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 14-04-22
- Language: English
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Framley Parsonage
- Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 4
- By: Anthony Trollope
- Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker
- Length: 21 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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In Framley Parsonage, the fourth novel of Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire, the author leaves the confines of Barchester and looks to the countryside, where he relates the moral difficulties of Mark Robarts, the young clergyman who has recently been appointed Vicar of Framley. Desperate to keep up with the local aristocracy, the country parson is persuaded to underwrite the debts of Sowerby, a well-respected peer.
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Very Enjoyable Book
- By Amazon Customer on 28-06-16
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Framley Parsonage
- Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 4
- Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker
- Series: Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 4
- Length: 21 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 18-12-14
- Language: English
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What Kind of Creatures Are We?
- By: Noam Chomsky
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
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Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist and commentator of our time. In these lectures, he presents a lifetime of philosophical reflection on all three of these areas of research to which he has contributed for over half a century.
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Language is internal not an external or social construct
- By Fehreen on 25-09-25
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What Kind of Creatures Are We?
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 15-05-18
- Language: English
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Get By in Chinese
- By: BBC Active
- Narrated by: uncredited
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Get By in Chinese is devised specifically for travellers. The 70-minute download will help you to get to grips with the basics of spoken Chinese, and introduces the most relevant language you'll hear when you're there. Listen to the audio a couple of times to practise the key phrases and vocabulary, and familiarise yourself with Chinese pronunciation.
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Get By in Chinese
- Narrated by: uncredited
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Release date: 24-10-08
- Language: English
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The Water Babies
- A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby
- By: Charles Kingsley
- Narrated by: Jim Killavey
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
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A main-stay of British children's literature through the 1920's, The Water Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby was written by Rev. Charles Kinglsey as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine in 1862-63.
Although some of the author's opinions seem dated now, the journey of a little chimney-sweep water-baby through rivers and storms, under sea and over icebergs, is still a wonderful adventure tale for children. The book was adapted into an animated film in 1978 and produced as a play at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2003.
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morals and ethics
- By Mrs T H Hall on 23-08-24
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The Water Babies
- A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby
- Narrated by: Jim Killavey
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 12-01-12
- Language: English
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Time to Talk
- What You Need to Know About Your Child's Speech and Language Development
- By: Michelle MacRoy-Higgins PhD, Carlyn Kolker
- Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Wondering when to expect baby's first word? Want to get your toddler talking? Worried your child is not speaking as clearly as his peers? When it comes to language acquisition, all parents have questions, and Time to Talk has the answers.
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Time to Talk
- What You Need to Know About Your Child's Speech and Language Development
- Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 14-03-17
- Language: English
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Korean in 40 Minutes
- Learn to speak Korean in minutes with Collins
- By: Collins Dictionaries
- Narrated by: Collins
- Length: 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Collins makes language learning fun, fast and flexible. Pick up the essentials of the Korean language with this easy-to-use audio introduction. Covering everything from finding your way to talking about yourself, Collins 40-minute audio can help you learn short and simple phrases quickly by just...
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Learning to speak Korean
- By Kathypots on 27-02-15
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Korean in 40 Minutes
- Learn to speak Korean in minutes with Collins
- Narrated by: Collins
- Length: 42 mins
- Release date: 28-08-07
- Language: Korean
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
- By: Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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This unforgettable children’s classic has been captivating children and adults alike for almost a century. Rebecca’s widowed mother has a failing farm, meager resources, and seven children to raise. When her spinster sisters offer Rebecca a home and an education, Mrs. Randall bundles her second eldest into a stagecoach with a kiss and an admonition to stay out of mischief. Could she be asking too much of the free-spirited imp with sparkling eyes and insatiable curiosity?
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Delightful
- By Jan on 24-04-25
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
- Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
- Series: Rebecca of Sunnybrook, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 30-01-13
- Language: English
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Tarzan the Terrible
- Tarzan: Authorized Editions, Book 8
- By: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Narrated by: Ben Dooley
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
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Tarzan the Terrible, written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, is the eighth book in the Tarzan series. Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American author best known for his science fiction and fantasy novels. Burroughs created the characters of Tarzan and John Carter, as well as the fictional landmass in the Earth known as Pellucidar.
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Tarzan the Terrible
- Tarzan: Authorized Editions, Book 8
- Narrated by: Ben Dooley
- Series: Tarzan, Book 8
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 03-11-20
- Language: English
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The Old Man in the Corner
- By: Baroness Orczy
- Narrated by: Graham Scott
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In a genteel ABC teashop on the Norfolk Road, Miss Polly Burton (of the Evening Observer) spends her lunch breaks listening to a mysterious old man, as he unravels cases of murder, blackmail, theft, and deceit that have filled the headlines, and baffled police and public alike. But to him, they are not "mysteries" at all - for Polly's brilliant but eccentric companion, "There is no such thing as a mystery in connection with any crime, provided intelligence is brought to bear upon its investigation."
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The Old Man in the Corner
- Narrated by: Graham Scott
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 27-06-19
- Language: English
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Tarzan the Untamed
- Tarzan: Authorized Editions, Book 7
- By: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Narrated by: Ben Dooley
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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The action is set during World War I. While John Clayton, Lord Greystoke (Tarzan), is away from his plantation home in British East Africa, it is destroyed by invading German troops from Tanganyika. On his return, he discovers among many burned bodies one that appears to be the corpse of his wife, Jane Porter Clayton. Another fatality is the Waziri warrior Wasimbu, left crucified by the Germans. Maddened, the ape-man seeks revenge not only on the perpetrators of the tragedy, but all Germans, and he sets out for the battlefront of the war in East Africa.
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Tarzan the Untamed
- By PJC on 08-03-26
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Tarzan the Untamed
- Tarzan: Authorized Editions, Book 7
- Narrated by: Ben Dooley
- Series: Tarzan, Book 7
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 03-11-20
- Language: English
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Says Who?
- A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words
- By: Anne Curzan
- Narrated by: Anne Curzan
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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A kinder, funner usage guide to the ever-changing English language and a useful tool for both the grammar stickler and the more colloquial user of English, from linguist and veteran professor Anne Curzan “I was bowled over, page after page, by the author’s fine ear for our language and...
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Says Who?
- A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words
- Narrated by: Anne Curzan
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 26-03-24
- Language: English
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The Diary of a Nobody
- By: George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith
- Narrated by: Roy Macready
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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George and Weedon Grossmith were born in London into a theatrical family, and it was natural that they should both take up careers on the stage. Weedon initially studied art but later joined his brother, George, in the theatre.
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A window into a different time
- By Ben Yosef on 02-12-24
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The Diary of a Nobody
- Narrated by: Roy Macready
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 29-03-16
- Language: English
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Say It Skillfully
- Speak Up, Make Your Words Matter, Win Together
- By: Molly Tschang, Marshall Goldsmith, Ken Blanchard - foreword
- Narrated by: Molly Tschang, Ken Blanchard, Marshall Goldsmith, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Effective communication is the ultimate currency. It *is* the way to trusted relationships, great work and a happy life—and it’s a team sport. All of us play a role.
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Say It Skillfully
- Speak Up, Make Your Words Matter, Win Together
- Narrated by: Molly Tschang, Ken Blanchard, Marshall Goldsmith, Alan Mulally
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 20-05-25
- Language: English
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Lamia
- A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation
- By: John Keats
- Narrated by: Charlotte Emmerson, Jonathan Keeble, Paterson Joseph, and others
- Length: 44 mins
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A BBC Radio 4 dramatic adaptation of Keats' sensual narrative poem ‘Lamia’, about the ill-starred love affair of the serpent Lamia, and the innocent mortal Lycius. Featuring original music by John Harle, and singer Sarah Leonard. With Paterson Joseph as the Narrator, Charlotte Emmerson as...
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Beautiful!
- By TheNameless on 15-04-19
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Lamia
- A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation
- Narrated by: Charlotte Emmerson, Jonathan Keeble, Paterson Joseph, Tom Ferguson
- Length: 44 mins
- Release date: 12-12-11
- Language: English
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The Book of Lost Languages
- An Epic Quest to Decipher the Past
- By: Daniel Harbour
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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The Book of Lost Languages is part detective story, part history, part linguistic adventure. It traces the epic journeys of decipherment, from the international strife that unearthed the Rosetta Stone, key to Egypt's hieroglyphs, to the drunken wager that unsealed Old Persian, and from the malaria cure that revealed China's most ancient writing to the proof by chocolate that Mayan writing had been unlocked behind the Cold War's Iron Curtain. From earliest victories to latest findings, Harbour chronicles the remarkable mental feats that have restored forgotten worlds.
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The Book of Lost Languages
- An Epic Quest to Decipher the Past
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 08-10-26
- Language: English
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The Creating Brain
- The Neuroscience of Genius
- By: Nancy C. Andreasen M.D.
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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In a fascinating tour of creativity and the brain, Nancy Andreasen, professor of psychiatry at the University of Iowa and the winner of the National Medal of Science, explores how the human brain achieves creative breakthroughs--in art, literature, music, and science--the role of genes and environment, extraordinary creativity vs. ordinary creativity, and the question of genius and insanity.
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Fantastic book
- By Alpha on 01-03-15
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The Creating Brain
- The Neuroscience of Genius
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 10-10-08
- Language: English
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Jude the Obscure
- By: Thomas Hardy
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
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Penguin Classics presents Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by Samuel West. 'As you got older, ... you were seized with a sort of shuddering, he perceived. All around you there seemed to be...
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A reading worthy of Hardy's gravitas
- By Kathryn Huntley on 05-01-17
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Jude the Obscure
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 27-09-12
- Language: English
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Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters Written by John Graham
- Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago
- By: George Horace Lorimer
- Narrated by: Alan Taylor
- Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
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George Horace Lorimer is best known as the editor of The Saturday Evening Post, where he was credited with promoting and discovering authors like Jack London. Lorimer compiled his life advice into the fictional letters from John "Old Gorgon" Graham to his son Pierrepont. John Graham is a Chicago-based pork and finance baron. In the letters Pierrepont receives advice for his different stages of life. Old Gorgon's advice is packed throughout the book, easy to understand, and still rings true today.
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This is a lesson for all men.
- By Small on 05-04-20
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Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters Written by John Graham
- Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago
- Narrated by: Alan Taylor
- Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 30-05-17
- Language: English
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