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Dreamstate: A Conspiracy Theory

Book Three of The Dreamstate Trilogy

by Jed McKenna ...

Narrated by Eric Vincent ...

Series Audiobook 3 - The Dreamstate Trilogy
Unabridged

8 hours 26 min

If life is but a dream, to what do we awake?The central premise of Dreamstate: A Conspiracy Theory, is the admittedly ridiculous but incontrovertibly true assertion that the universe does not exist.This is something you can understand conceptually, like watching a documentary about Antarctica, or experientially, like moving to Antarctica.There’s also a related phenomenon where you fall asleep ... Read more

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If life is but a dream, to what do we awake?The central premise of Dreamstate: A Conspiracy Theory, is the admittedly ridiculous but incontrovertibly true assertion that the universe does not exist.This is something you can understand conceptually, like watching a documentary about Antarctica, or experientially, like moving to Antarctica.There’s also a related phenomenon where you fall asleep
... Read more
School Success for Kids With Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

by Michelle R. Davis, Vincent P. Culotta, Eric A. Levine, Elisabeth Hess Rice ...

School Success for Kids With Emotional and Behavioral Disorders gives parents and teachers of students with Conduct Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, mood disorders, or other emotional and behavioral disorders the strategies they need to help these kids overcome their struggles and find success in school. Based on the experiences of psychologists and educators working with kids with these ... Read more

$24.99 USD

School Success for Kids With Emotional and Behavioral Disorders gives parents and teachers of students with Conduct Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, mood disorders, or other emotional and behavioral disorders the strategies they need to help these kids overcome their struggles and find success in school. Based on the experiences of psychologists and educators working with kids with these
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The Book of Extraordinary Impossible Crimes and Puzzling Deaths

The Best New Original Stories of the Genre

by Martin Edwards, O'Neil De Noux, Jared Cade, Amy Myers, Keith Brooke, Michael Bracken, Sandra Murphy, Ashley Lister, Paul Charles, Bev Vincent, Deryn Lake, Eric Brown, Jane Finnis, John Grant, David Quantick, Rhys Hughes, Christine Poulson, L.C. Tyler, Lavie Tidhar ...

This anthology draws together some of the best new stories of mystery and murder—compiled by the Anthony Award–winning crime fiction editor.This anthology collects the most original stories of murder by some of mystery fiction's most inventive talents from the United States and United Kingdom. With innovative new takes on locked-room mysteries and impossible crimes, these short stories are full of ... Read more

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This anthology draws together some of the best new stories of mystery and murder—compiled by the Anthony Award–winning crime fiction editor.This anthology collects the most original stories of murder by some of mystery fiction's most inventive talents from the United States and United Kingdom. With innovative new takes on locked-room mysteries and impossible crimes, these short stories are full of
... Read more
The Dunning School

Historians, Race, and the Meaning of Reconstruction

Edited by John David Smith, J. Vincent Lowery ...

From the late nineteenth century until World War I, a group of Columbia University students gathered under the mentorship of the renowned historian William Archibald Dunning (1857–1922). Known as the Dunning School, these students wrote the first generation of state studies on the Reconstruction—volumes that generally sympathized with white southerners, interpreted radical Reconstruction as a mean ... Read more

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From the late nineteenth century until World War I, a group of Columbia University students gathered under the mentorship of the renowned historian William Archibald Dunning (1857–1922). Known as the Dunning School, these students wrote the first generation of state studies on the Reconstruction—volumes that generally sympathized with white southerners, interpreted radical Reconstruction as a mean
... Read more
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Detective Inspector Crust

Three Full-Cast BBC Radio Crime Dramas

by Vincent McInerney ...

Narrated by James Ellis, Eric Allan, Melinda Walker, Bill Monks, Ken Cumberlidge, Full Cast, June Barrie, Richard Pearce ...

Unabridged

4 hours 6 min

A trilogy of thrillers set in Liverpool, featuring the formidable Detective Inspector CrustVeteran scriptwriter Vincent McInerney draws on his lifelong knowledge of Liverpool and his background in the Merchant Marine in these engaging thrillers, in which the gruff, indomitable John Crust and his sidekick Minty probe the circumstances surrounding a missing husband, a stolen sculpture and a hidden ... Read more

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A trilogy of thrillers set in Liverpool, featuring the formidable Detective Inspector CrustVeteran scriptwriter Vincent McInerney draws on his lifelong knowledge of Liverpool and his background in the Merchant Marine in these engaging thrillers, in which the gruff, indomitable John Crust and his sidekick Minty probe the circumstances surrounding a missing husband, a stolen sculpture and a hidden
... Read more
A Place to Dance

How Richard Lamberty Brought Change to the Ballroom

by Eric Rosswood, Richard Lamberty ...

Illustrated by Vincent Chen ...

**Who says only girls can twirl and boys must take the lead on the dance floor?Celebrate same-gender ballroom dancing with renowned dancer Richard Lamberty as he breaks traditional gender roles, while promoting diversity and inclusivity in dance.**When dancer Richard Lamberty was a child, he loved dancing—especially ballroom dancing. But he was always jealous of the moves female dancers got to do. ... Read more

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**Who says only girls can twirl and boys must take the lead on the dance floor?Celebrate same-gender ballroom dancing with renowned dancer Richard Lamberty as he breaks traditional gender roles, while promoting diversity and inclusivity in dance.**When dancer Richard Lamberty was a child, he loved dancing—especially ballroom dancing. But he was always jealous of the moves female dancers got to do.
... Read more
Turning Points in African Democracy

by Professor Abdul Raufu Mustapha, Nic Cheeseman, Patricia Daley, Tarik Dahou, Vincent Foucher, Lindsay Whitfield, Lindsay Whitfield, Eric Morier-Genoud, Francis Akindes, Jeremy Seekings0, Jocelyn Alexander1, Miles Larmer2 ...

Radical changes have taken place in Africa since 1990. What are the realities of these changes? What significant differences have emerged between African countries? What is the future for democracy in the continent?The editors have chosen eleven key countries to provide enlightening comparisons and contrasts to stimulate discussion among students. They have brought together a team of scholars who ... Read more

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Radical changes have taken place in Africa since 1990. What are the realities of these changes? What significant differences have emerged between African countries? What is the future for democracy in the continent?The editors have chosen eleven key countries to provide enlightening comparisons and contrasts to stimulate discussion among students. They have brought together a team of scholars who
... Read more
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Top 10 Poets, The - The 20th Century - American Men

Five poems each from some of the male poets ever born in America

by T S Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, William Carlos Williams, Hart Crane, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Stephen Vincent Benét, Claude McKay ...

Narrated by Eric Meyers, Darrell Joe, Christopher Ragland ...

Unabridged

1 hour 44 min

The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be ... Read more

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The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be
... Read more
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Short Stories About War

Historical military fiction spanning the American Civil War, World War One, Russian Revolution and more

by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Victor Hugo, Ambrose Bierce, Ford Maddox Ford, Guy de Maupassant, Isaac Babel, John Buchan, Kate Chopin, Katherine Mansfield, Luigi Pirandello, Stacy Aumonier, Winifred Holtby ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Eric Meyers, Vincent Marzello ...

Unabridged

12 hours 10 min

Diplomacy by other means may, at times, sound heroic. A fight for principles and ideals carried out by young men armed to the teeth and directed by older men in pursuit of their own version of glory for themselves and their Nations. Right will triumph over wrong. But war can be an illusion, stirred up by schemers and opportunists to take something from other nations that may or may not be right. ... Read more

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Diplomacy by other means may, at times, sound heroic. A fight for principles and ideals carried out by young men armed to the teeth and directed by older men in pursuit of their own version of glory for themselves and their Nations. Right will triumph over wrong. But war can be an illusion, stirred up by schemers and opportunists to take something from other nations that may or may not be right.
... Read more
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Writers As The Protagonists – Short Stories

Wide spanning anthology with similar main characters

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Amy Levy, Washington Irving, Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, M R James, Frank R Stockton, George Gissing, Frederick Cowles, D K Broster, Hume Nisbet, Winifred Holtby, O Henry, Anthony Hope, Violet Hunt, A M Burrage ...

Narrated by Eric Meyers, Vincent Marzello, Mark Rice-Oxley ...

Unabridged

8 hours 3 min

The short story in Literature is a few pages of beginning, middle and end peopled by characters who quickly draw themselves into its arc from the minds of their authors.How these authors, including Herman Melville, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, M R James and Violet Hunt imagine their characters journeys is, of course, illuminating, thought-provoking and classic literature.1 - Stories with The Writer as ... Read more

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The short story in Literature is a few pages of beginning, middle and end peopled by characters who quickly draw themselves into its arc from the minds of their authors.How these authors, including Herman Melville, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, M R James and Violet Hunt imagine their characters journeys is, of course, illuminating, thought-provoking and classic literature.1 - Stories with The Writer as
... Read more
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Poetry of Stephen Vincent Benét, The

by Stephen Vincent Benét ...

Narrated by Christopher Ragland, Eric Meyers, Laurel Lefkow ...

Unabridged

1 hour 22 min

Benét was born on 22nd July in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. His father was a serving Army colonel and his first decade dictated that family life and education was centered at the base his father was serving from.From ten it became a little more stable when he was dispatched for a traumatic year to the Hitchcock Military Academy in San Rafael, California before graduating from the Summerville Academy ... Read more

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Benét was born on 22nd July in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. His father was a serving Army colonel and his first decade dictated that family life and education was centered at the base his father was serving from.From ten it became a little more stable when he was dispatched for a traumatic year to the Hitchcock Military Academy in San Rafael, California before graduating from the Summerville Academy
... Read more
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New York Short Stories NOT by O Henry

The name that first comes to mind isn't always the best

by Herman Melville, Willa Cather, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Achmed Abdullah, Dorothy Parker, H P Lovecraft, Rudolph Fisher, Robert W Chambers ...

Narrated by Vincent Marzello, Liza Ross, Eric Meyers ...

Unabridged

6 hours 29 min

In this series we listen to short stories that are NOT by perhaps the most well-known author of this type. But the many other rich talents in the volume may have treated the subject matter a little differently, or were perhaps just overlooked in the stampede to applaud the winner, but these authors are of equal merit.Each of their works is laden with talent, has purpose, and is rich and textured ... Read more

$19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

In this series we listen to short stories that are NOT by perhaps the most well-known author of this type. But the many other rich talents in the volume may have treated the subject matter a little differently, or were perhaps just overlooked in the stampede to applaud the winner, but these authors are of equal merit.Each of their works is laden with talent, has purpose, and is rich and textured
... Read more