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Child of Storm
- By: H. Rider Haggard
- Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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In this sequel to Marie, Allan Quatermain helps his Zulu friend, Saduko, in a crazy battle to win 100 cattle for the dowry of his love, Mameena. However, the beautiful and mysterious Mameena, known as the "Child of Storm", seduces Allan and tries to engage him in marriage.
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Child of Storm
- Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
- Series: Allan Quatermain, Book 3
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 07-05-03
- Language: English
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The Beasts of Tarzan
- By: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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The legendary Tarzan claims his birthright title as Lord Greystoke and starts a small family with Jane, now his wife. But just when things are going right, the evil Rokoff kidnaps Tarzan's infant son, Jack, luring Tarzan into a trap. After Rokoff exiles him on an island near the African coast, Tarzan uses his skills learned from the jungle to win the favor of various wild animals. Tarzan must enlist these creatures to help him track down Rokoff in order to save his family from certain demise.
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The Beasts of Tarzan
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Series: Tarzan, Book 3
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 14-06-16
- Language: English
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What the F
- What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
- By: Benjamin K. Bergen
- Narrated by: Benjamin K. Bergen
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Nearly everyone swears - whether it's over a few too many drinks, in reaction to a stubbed toe, or in flagrante delicto. And yet we sit idly by as words are banned from television and censored in books. We insist that people excise profanity from their vocabularies, and we punish children for yelling the very same dirty words that we'll mutter in relief seconds after they fall asleep. Swearing, it seems, is an intimate part of us that we have decided to selectively deny.
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Great book well done!
- By Amazon Customer on 11-12-25
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What the F
- What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
- Narrated by: Benjamin K. Bergen
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 06-09-16
- Language: English
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Language City
- The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
- By: Ross Perlin
- Narrated by: Ross Perlin
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century, and when they're gone, it will be forever. Ross Perlin, a linguist and codirector of the Manhattan-based non-profit Endangered Language Alliance, is racing against time to map little-known languages across the most linguistically diverse city in history: contemporary New York.
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Language City
- The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
- Narrated by: Ross Perlin
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 09-04-24
- Language: English
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Volpone
- The Fox
- Narrated by: Flo Gibson
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 21-04-20
- Language: English
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Why Do We Say That? 101 Idioms, Phrases, Sayings and Facts! A Brief History on Colloquial Expressions and Where They Come From!
- Why Do We Say That?
- By: Scott Matthews
- Narrated by: Daniel Jones
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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In Why Do We Say That, we've rounded up 101 of the most commonly used idioms and "hit the nail on the head" by providing the historical context behind each one. Don't be a "deer in the headlights" when someone asks you the meaning of "straw man" or "up a creek without a paddle." This book has got you covered.
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Why Do We Say That? 101 Idioms, Phrases, Sayings and Facts! A Brief History on Colloquial Expressions and Where They Come From!
- Why Do We Say That?
- Narrated by: Daniel Jones
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Release date: 21-05-25
- Language: English
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SPEECH! How Language Made Us Human
- By: Simon Prentis
- Narrated by: Mike Fraser
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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What makes us human? Why are we the only animals who wear clothes, drive cars, trawl the internet, and fly helicopters on Mars? It’s all because we’ve learnt to talk, yet remarkably, we still don’t know how we did it. Speech! suggests an answer that’s been hiding in plain sight - the simple yet radical shift that turned our analog grunts and shrieks into words. But, its consequences are far from simple: being able to share ideas through language was an evolutionary tipping point - it allowed us to link up our minds.
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fascinating
- By David Halgoa on 11-10-22
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SPEECH! How Language Made Us Human
- Narrated by: Mike Fraser
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 13-12-21
- Language: English
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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
- Unabridged
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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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For F*ck's Sake
- Why Swearing Is Shocking, Rude, and Fun
- By: Rebecca Roache
- Narrated by: Polly Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Why do we love to swear so much? Why do we get so offended when others do it? In this lively and amusing exploration of the various puzzles that surround swearing, philosopher Rebecca Roache argues that what makes swearing offensive is not really the words at all: the offensiveness lies in what we don't say. The unspoken—and usually unconscious—inferences that speakers and listeners make about each other are key to explaining swearwords' capacity to shock.
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For F*ck's Sake
- Why Swearing Is Shocking, Rude, and Fun
- Narrated by: Polly Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 31-10-23
- Language: English
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Memory Speaks
- On Losing and Reclaiming Language and Self
- By: Julie Sedivy
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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As a child, Julie Sedivy left Czechoslovakia for Canada, and English soon took over her life. By early adulthood she spoke Czech rarely and badly, and when her father died unexpectedly, she lost not only a beloved parent but also her firmest point of connection to her native language. Memory Speaks combines a rich body of psychological research with a moving story at once personal and universally resonant. As citizens debate the merits of bilingual education, as the world's less dominant languages are driven to extinction, this is badly needed wisdom.
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insightful science, moving story
- By Benjamin D. Anible on 17-06-22
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Memory Speaks
- On Losing and Reclaiming Language and Self
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 07-06-22
- Language: English
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30-Day Mastery: Invincible Irregular Verbs: Master Common Spanish Irregular Verbs in 30 Days
- 30-Day Mastery | Spanish Edition, Book 5
- By: Olly Richards
- Narrated by: Olly Richards, Salvador González
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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For high-beginner to low-intermediate learners. Master tricky Spanish irregular verbs in the next 30 days, with this innovative, story-based immersion method. Just listen to one section per day, complete the exercises, and watch as irregular verbs fall into place and improve your speech without a hitch! With 30-Day Mastery: Invincible Irregular Verbs you'll learn through example and context, just like native speakers do! The magic of learning through story is that your main focus is actually not on memorising anything...you concentrate on understanding and enjoying the story!
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Fun story
- By Philip Fisher on 14-07-24
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30-Day Mastery: Invincible Irregular Verbs: Master Common Spanish Irregular Verbs in 30 Days
- 30-Day Mastery | Spanish Edition, Book 5
- Narrated by: Olly Richards, Salvador González
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
- Release date: 16-03-22
- Language: English
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Babel No More
- The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
- By: Michael Erard
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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We all learn at least one language as children. But what does it take to learn six languages...or seventy? In Babel No More, Michael Erard, "a monolingual with benefits," sets out on a quest to meet language superlearners and make sense of their mental powers. On the way he uncovers the secrets of historical figures like Italian cardinal Giuseppe Mezzofanti, who was said to speak seventy-two languages; Emil Krebs, a pugnacious German diplomat, who spoke sixty-eight languages; and Lomb Kat, a Hungarian who taught herself Russian by reading Russian romance novels.
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Babel No More
- The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 03-06-13
- Language: English
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The Future of Language
- How Technology, Politics and Utopianism are Transforming the Way we Communicate
- By: Philip Seargeant
- Narrated by: Esh Alladi
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
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Bloomsbury presents The Future of Language by Philip Seargeant, read by Esh Alladi. Will language as we know it cease to exist? What could this mean for the way we live our lives? Shining a light on the technology currently being developed to revolutionise communication, The Future of Language...
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The Future of Language
- How Technology, Politics and Utopianism are Transforming the Way we Communicate
- Narrated by: Esh Alladi
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 16-11-23
- Language: English
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Craic Baby
- By: Darach O'Séaghdha
- Narrated by: Peadar Ó Caomhánaigh
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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What do we talk about when we talk about Irish? When we talk about saving or supporting a language do we mean the musical combination of syllables, or something more profound? How do new words enter a language, and what is the relationship between that strange dialect called Hiberno-English and its parent language? "Craic Baby" picks up exactly where "Motherfoclóir" left off and explores the very new and very old parts of the Irish language from a personal perspective.
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So THAT'S how you pronounce it!
- By Peter on 09-05-23
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Craic Baby
- Narrated by: Peadar Ó Caomhánaigh
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 10-02-23
- Language: English
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The Aspern Papers
- By: Henry James
- Narrated by: Robin Field
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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An American editor arrives in Venice on a quest to acquire some unpublished letters written by his favorite Romantic poet, Jeffrey Aspern. He tracks down the mistress to whom the letters were addressed, a now elderly Miss Bordereau, and presents himself as a prospective lodger. In hopes of gaining access to the secret papers, he begins courting Miss Bordereau's plain spinster niece, Miss Tina.
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Highly recommended
- By Al on 24-02-17
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The Aspern Papers
- Narrated by: Robin Field
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 01-05-09
- Language: English
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Portuguese in 40 Minutes
- Learn to speak Portuguese in minutes with Collins
- By: Collins Dictionaries
- Narrated by: Collins
- Length: 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Collins makes language learning fun, fast and flexible. Pick up the essentials of the Portuguese 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...
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Easy yet effective to listen to
- By Anonymous on 14-10-18
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Portuguese in 40 Minutes
- Learn to speak Portuguese in minutes with Collins
- Narrated by: Collins
- Length: 39 mins
- Release date: 08-08-06
- Language: Portuguese
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Yeah, Nah!
- A celebration of life and the words that make us who we are
- By: William McInnes
- Narrated by: William McInnes
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Have you ever bunged it on? Behaved like a drongo? Added mayo to a story? Lost your Reg Grundies? Join bestselling storyteller William McInnes as he offers his own take on our colourful and colloquial way with words. From the simpler times of childhood to today's testing (and unprecedented!)...
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enjoyable memoir/language book
- By Anonymous on 27-05-26
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Yeah, Nah!
- A celebration of life and the words that make us who we are
- Narrated by: William McInnes
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 01-11-23
- Language: English
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The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu
- By: Sax Rohmer
- Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie's underground war against the nefarious genius of Dr. Fu-Manchu continues in this, the second in the Fu-Manchu series by Sax Rohmer. Join in the adventure of kidnappings, poisonous cats, a haunted house, rat torture, mummy attacks and more!
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Fu Manchu
- By totty1@supanet.com on 21-01-16
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The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu
- Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
- Series: Fu Manchu, Book 2
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 22-10-14
- Language: English
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New Atlantis
- By: Francis Bacon
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
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The crew of a European ship discovers the utopian island of Bensalem, having gotten lost in the Pacific Ocean somewhere near Peru. The crew spend time learning about the ways of the people of Bensalem, a very chaste group of Christians. The most important part of the island is their university, a state-sponsored scientific institution known as Salomon's House. The narrator is chosen from amongst the crew to get a one-on-one explanation of the way their society works, and he learns about the various buildings and jobs that exist on Bensalem.
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New Atlantis
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
- Release date: 17-05-13
- Language: English
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