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Digging in a gravel pit, five children unearth a cantankerous sand-fairy who grants one wish a day, and every wish turns out to be far more trouble than they expect. Wings, gold guineas, a siege and a wish too many follow in rapid succession, with consequences the children must manage before...

Rudyard Kipling's twelve Just So Stories answer, in the most delightfully unscientific way, the questions children love to ask: how the whale got his throat, how the camel got his hump, how the rhinoceros got his skin, how the leopard got his spots, and how the alphabet was made. Written in 1902...

When their father is mysteriously taken away, Roberta, Peter and Phyllis leave their comfortable London home for a small cottage beside a railway line in the country. There they find friendship, adventure and a great deal of courage: a perilous landslide, a daring rescue on the line, a Russian...

An ancient king's friendship, loss, and search for immortality unfold across the twelve tablets of one of the world's earliest surviving epics. This unabridged listener edition is based on the 1928 English translation by R. Campbell Thompson and excludes scholarly notes and apparatus...

George Orwell's Animal Farm is a classic political fable about power, revolution, and the corruption of ideals. This unabridged English audiobook presents the original story in a clear, compelling narration...

A chance discovery on a South Carolina island sets in motion one of the most famous treasure hunts in American literature. When William Legrand becomes obsessed with a curious golden scarab, his friend is drawn into a night expedition, a coded cipher, and the search for Captain Kidd's buried...

Captain MacWhirr and the crew of the steamship Nan-Shan face a violent storm in the South China Sea. Joseph Conrad's maritime novella follows their struggle against the elements and the disorder below decks, exploring duty, endurance and practical courage. This unabridged edition includes the...

James Allen explores how thought shapes character, purpose and conduct in this enduring work first published in 1903. Across seven concise chapters, he reflects on circumstances, health, achievement, ideals and serenity. This unabridged edition includes the foreword and all seven chapters...

Why do the simplest business solutions so often remain invisible? In this concise American classic, Oliver B. Adams rises from grocery clerk to trusted advertising strategist by observing facts others overlook and acting on what is plainly in front of him. First published in 1916, Robert R...