Marty Ross
Marty Ross is the author of a series of dramas for BBC Radio, including the afternoon plays A Hundred Miles, A Breath from Other Planets, My Blue Piano, Rough Magick, and Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, the popular serials Ghost Zone and Catch My Breath, as well as the series The Darker Side of the Border.
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Blood and Stone
- By: Marty Ross
- Narrator: a full cast
- Length: 54 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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Based on the true story of Countess Elizabeth Bathory, perhaps one of the greatest mass murderers of all time, a woman who tortured and killed over 600 young women for their blood
Too noble to be executed, in 1610 the “Bloody Lady of... Read more
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Crooker’s Kingdom, Part One
- By: Marty Ross
- Narrator: Greg Page
- Length: 49 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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Sir Richard Arkwright has brought modernity to a remote corner of Derbyshire with the creation of Cromford Mill. Now, as his crowning glory, he’s going to build himself a castle–but first a strange outcrop of rocks will have to be... Read more
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Crooker’s Kingdom, Part Two
- By: Marty Ross
- Narrator: Greg Page
- Length: 44 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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Sir Richard Arkwright has brought modernity to a remote corner of Derbyshire with the creation of Cromford Mill. Now, as his crowning glory, he’s going to build himself a castle–but first a strange outcrop of rocks will have to be... Read more
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Medusa on the Beach
- By: Marty Ross
- Narrator: a full cast
- Length: 55 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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Biddlecombe is a perfectly ordinary English seaside town–except everyone there has been turned to stone.
Two seriously out-of-their-depth police officers uncover the strange truth of what happened when middle-aged and romantically disappointed... Read more
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The Woman on the Bridge
- By: Marty Ross
- Narrator: Ceri Gifford
- Length: 1 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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Chatsworth House during the Second World War. The Devonshire family make way for an evacuated girls’ school, Chatsworth’s grand interiors now converted to dormitories and classrooms. Pupils Ceri and Gwyneth explore these new surroundings... Read more
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Town with No Mirrors
In the town of Gladder Hill, there’s no such word as “ugly.” Or “beautiful.”Zailey has never seen her own face. She’s never seen her reflection, a photo of herself, or even a drawing. In the special community of Gladder Hill, cameras and mirrors are forbidden: it’s why everyone’s happier here. Nobody talks about anyone else’s appearance. You’re not supposed to think about what ...
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Nostromo
“In 1875 or ’76, when very young, in the Gulf of Mexico, I heard the story of some man who was supposed to have stolen single-handed a whole lighter full of silver, somewhere on the Tierra Firme seaboard during the troubles of a revolution.” From these slim details Conrad builds one of the great novels of our language and creates one of its most enigmatic central characters: Nostromo.
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Can Intervention Work?
Rory Stewart and Gerald Knaus distill their remarkable firsthand experiences of political and military interventions into a potent examination of what we can and cannot achieve in a new era of ‘nation building.’ As they delve into the massive, military-driven efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Balkans, the expansion of the EU, and the bloodless ‘color’ revolutions in the former Soviet ...
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The Last Days of the Dinosaurs
In The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, Riley Black walks listeners through what happened in the days, the years, the centuries, and the million years after the impact, tracking the sweeping disruptions that overtook this one spot, and imagining what might have been happening elsewhere on the globe. Life’s losses were sharp and deeply-felt, but the hope carried by the beings that survived sets the ...
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Battle Plan
When Adam Cain’s old bounty-hunting friends, Summer, Monty, and Tidus, show up searching for the most-wanted fugitive in the galaxy, their efforts are thwarted by another old friend, Copernicus Smith. The deep-cover spy has his own reason for finding the fugitive, and it’s not to earn the million-credit bounty offered for his capture. The elusive alien absconded with billions of credits from ...
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The Unknowns
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is sacred ground at Arlington National Cemetery. Originally constructed in 1921 to hold one of the thousands of unidentified American soldiers lost in World War I, it now also contains unknowns from World War II and the Korean and Vietnam Wars and receives millions of visitors each year who pay silent tribute.
When the first unknown soldier was laid to rest in ...
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Mob Town
Even before Jack the Ripper haunted its streets for prey, London’s East End had earned a reputation for immorality, filth, and vice. John Bennett, a writer and tour guide who has walked and researched the area for more than thirty years, delves into four centuries of history to chronicle the crimes, their perpetrators, and the circumstances that made the East End an ideal breeding ground for ...
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Sacrificed to the Sea Lord
Steadfast mer king Kadir has endured ridicule, banishment, and undersea prison for his belief that modern human women will save their dwindling race. Freed to found a city of mermen shifters who share his beliefs, he sets out to the surface to woo his bride. And sweet, sensual Elyssa is his.Elyssa can’t even match her socks. How can she rule an undersea kingdom? But when King Kadir holds her in ...
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Setting Limits with Your Strong-Willed Child
Does your child constantly misbehave and ignore or refuse your requests? Is your relationship with your child based on conflict instead of mutual respect and cooperation? With the help of this groundbreaking book, you can create a positive, respectful, and rewarding relationship with your child.Setting Limits with Your Strong-Willed Child contains proven techniques and procedures that provide a ...
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Strange Loops
“Enthralling. . . . A story that burns with intensity and daring.” —Iain Reid
A propulsive novel about the power and paradoxes of desire, from the acclaimed author of The Amateurs.
As small children, Francine and her twin Philip shared a seemingly unbreakable bond—but in adolescence the connection frayed, and in adulthood the siblings are locked in a repeating ...
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