29 Best books to read online
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A Bit of Brontes, a Dollop of Dickinson, an Offering of Austen
- By: Elliot Engel
- Narrator: various narrators
- Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDThey are icons of the literary world whose soaring works have been discussed and analyzed in countless classrooms, homes, and pubs. Yet for most readers, the living, breathing human beings behind the classics have remained unknown–until now.They are icons of the literary world whose soaring works have been discussed and analyzed in countless classrooms, homes, and pubs. Yet for most readers, the living, breathing human beings behind the classics have remained unknown–until now. In this utterly captivating book, Dr. Elliot Engel, a leading authority on the lives of great authors, illuminates the fascinating and flawed members of literature’s elite. In lieu of stuffy biographical sketches, Engel provides fascinating anecdotes.
You’ll never look at these literary giants the same way again.
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A Poem for Peter
- By: Andrea Davis Pinkney
- Narrator: Andrea Davis Pinkney
- Length: 35 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: April 07, 2017
- Language: English
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4.3(1773 ratings)
4.3(1773 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.007.99 USDOn the 100th anniversary of his birth, a celebration of the extraordinary life of Ezra Jack Keats, creator of The Snowy Day. Andrea Davis Pinkney’s powerful and poetic text tells the story of Ezra Jack Keats, who was born in Brooklyn in 1916,On the 100th anniversary of his birth, a celebration of the extraordinary life of Ezra Jack Keats, creator of The Snowy Day. Andrea Davis Pinkney’s powerful and poetic text tells the story of Ezra Jack Keats, who was born in Brooklyn in 1916, and grew up in extreme poverty. Keats’s artistic talent was recognized even in high school, but his father’s death made it impossible for him to accept the art school scholarship he was offered; however, Keats continued to study art informally whenever possible. He served in the army in World War II and subsequently lived in Paris, Eventually, Keats found his way to children’s books, and with the groundbreaking Caldecott winner The Snowy Day, the first mainstream picture book to feature an African American child, he became part of children’s literature history. Keats’s best-loved books are the ones that portray the neighborhood where he grew up. He was an inspiration to many artists of color, who, for the first time, saw themselves reflected in his books. The Ezra Jack Keats Foundation was established after his death, with the goal of promoting more diverse books and helping new authors and illustrators. A perfect match for the text is the art of Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher, who use a colorful collage style to suggest Keats’s own art. With beautiful writing from a distinguished author and about a distinguished author/artist, A Poem for Peter has the potential to be an award-winner.
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A Whiff of Wilde, a Pinch of Poe, and a Frisson of Frost
- By: Elliot Engel
- Narrator: Elliot Engel
- Length: 6 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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3.73(49 ratings)
3.73(49 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDThey are icons of the literary world whose soaring works have been discussed and analyzed in countless classrooms, homes, and pubs. Yet for most readers, the living, breathing human beings behind the classics have remained unknown—until now.They are icons of the literary world whose soaring works have been discussed and analyzed in countless classrooms, homes, and pubs. Yet for most readers, the living, breathing human beings behind the classics have remained unknown—until now. In this utterly captivating book, Dr. Elliot Engel, a leading authority on the lives of great authors, illuminates the fascinating and flawed members of literature’s elite. In lieu of stuffy biographical sketches, Engel provides fascinating anecdotes.
You’ll never look at these literary giants the same way again.
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Dear Fahrenheit 451
- By: Annie Spence
- Narrator: Stephanie Spicer
- Length: 5 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: October 10, 2017
- Language: English
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3.78(7927 ratings)
3.78(7927 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDLibrarians spend their lives weeding-not weeds, but books-books that have reached the end of their shelf life both literally and figuratively. They remove books that patrons no longer check out, and they put back books they treasure. Annie Spence,Librarians spend their lives weeding-not weeds, but books-books that have reached the end of their shelf life both literally and figuratively. They remove books that patrons no longer check out, and they put back books they treasure. Annie Spence, who has a decade of experience as a Midwestern librarian, does this not only at her Michigan library but also at home, for her neighbors, at cocktail parties-everywhere. In Dear Fahrenheit 451, she addresses those books directly. We read her love letters to The Goldfinch and Matilda as well as her snarky break-ups with Fifty Shades of Grey and Dear John. Her notes to The Virgin Suicides and The Time Traveler’s Wife feel like classics that are sure to strike a powerful chord. Through the lens of the books in her life, Annie comments on feminism, culture, health, poverty, childhood aspirations, and more. Hilarious, compassionate, and wise, Dear Fahrenheit 451 is the consummate book-lover’s birthday present, stocking stuffer, holiday gift, and all-purpose humor book.
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Meet Me in the Margins
- By: Melissa Ferguson
- Length: 7 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publish date: February 15, 2022
- Language: English
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3.64(19111 ratings)
3.64(19111 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDYou’ve Got Mail meets The Proposal—this romance is one for the books. Savannah Cade’s dreams are coming true. The Claire Donovan, editor-in-chief of the most successful romance publishing company in the country, hasYou’ve Got Mail meets The Proposal—this romance is one for the books.
Savannah Cade’s dreams are coming true. The Claire Donovan, editor-in-chief of the most successful romance publishing company in the country, has requested to see the manuscript Savannah’s been secretly writing. The only problem: she’s an editor for a different company, and their philosophy is only highbrow works are worth printing and romance should be reserved for the lowest level of Dante’s inferno.
But when Savannah drops her manuscript during a staff meeting and nearly exposes herself to the whole company—including William Pennington, the new boss and son of the romance-despising CEO herself—she has no choice but to hide the manuscript in a hidden room.
When she returns, she’s dismayed to discover that someone has not only been in her hidden nook but has written notes in the margins—quite critical ones. But when Claire’s own reaction turns out to be nearly identical to the scribbled remarks, and worse, Claire announces that Savannah has six weeks to resubmit before she retires, Savannah finds herself forced to seek the help of the shadowy editor after all.
As their notes back and forth start to fill up the pages, however, Savannah finds him not just becoming pivotal to her work but her life. There’s no doubt about it: she’s falling for her mystery editor. If she only knew who he was.
“Meet Me in the Margins is a delightfully charming jewel of a book that fans of romantic comedy won’t be able to put down!” — Kristy Woodson Harvey, New York Times bestselling author of Under the Southern Sky
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On Writing (and Writers)
- By: C. S. Lewis
- Narrator: John Lee
- Length: 3 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: November 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.28(50 ratings)
4.28(50 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.99 USDA definitive collection of wisdom on every style of writing and a celebration of the transformative power of the written word from one of the most influential writers and thinkers of the modern age, C. S. Lewis, the beloved author of the ChroniclesA definitive collection of wisdom on every style of writing and a celebration of the transformative power of the written word from one of the most influential writers and thinkers of the modern age, C. S. Lewis, the beloved author of the Chronicles of Narnia series, Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, and other revered classics.
Featuring over one hundred excerpts–some short and some essay length–drawn from his wide body of letters, books, and essays, On Writing (and Writers) brings together C. S. Lewis’s reflections on the power, importance, and joy of a life dedicated to writing.
Writers and devoted readers will be enriched and inspired by Lewis’s commentary on a range of genres, including:
- On Good Writing
- On Writing Fiction
- On Writing Poetry
- On Writing for Children
- On Writing Science Fiction
- On Christian Writing
- On Writing Persuasively
- On Other Writers
Wise and practical, On Writing (and Writers) reveals Lewis’s thoughts on both mechanics and style, including choosing adjectives, the art of expression, how to connect with readers, and the core principles of clear, impactful writing.
A window into the mind of one of the greatest public intellectuals of the twentieth century–a gifted writer whose influence and insights remain relevant six decades after his death–this engaging collection reveals not only why Lewis loved the written word, but what it means to “gladly teach” the art of writing, so that wise readers can “gladly learn.”
Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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Reading between the Lines
- By: Gene Edward Veith
- Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 10 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDThis is a guidebook for Christians who want to learn how to recognize books that are spiritually and aesthetically good–to cultivate good literary taste. Gene Edward Veith presents basic information to help book lovers understand what theyThis is a guidebook for Christians who want to learn how to recognize books that are spiritually and aesthetically good–to cultivate good literary taste. Gene Edward Veith presents basic information to help book lovers understand what they read, from the classics to the bestsellers. He explains how the major genres of literature communicate and explores the ways in which comedy, tragedy, realism, and fantasy can portray the Christian worldview.
These discussions lead to a host of related topics: the value of fairy tales for children, the tragic and the comic sense of life, the interplay between Greek and Biblical concepts in the imagination, and the new “post-modernism,” a subject of vital importance to Christians.
In the pages of this book, readers will meet writers, past and present, who carry on a great literary tradition. By supporting worthy authors, Christians can exert a powerful influence on their culture.
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Dear Librarian
- By: Lydia M. Sigwarth
- Narrator: Lydia M. Sigwarth
- Length: 12 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: June 10, 2021
- Language: English
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4.48(1251 ratings)
4.48(1251 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.009.99 USDWhen Lydia was five years old, she and her family had to leave their home. They hopped from Grandma’s house to Aunt Linda’s house to Cousin Alice’s house, but no place was permanent. Then one day, everything changed: Lydia’sWhen Lydia was five years old, she and her family had to leave their home. They hopped from Grandma’s house to Aunt Linda’s house to Cousin Alice’s house, but no place was permanent. Then one day, everything changed: Lydia’s mom took her to a new place?not a house but a big building with stone columns and tall tall steps. The library. In the library, Lydia found her special spot across from the sunny window at a round desk. For behind that desk was her new friend, the librarian. Together, Lydia and the librarian discovered a world beyond their walls, one that sparkled with spectacular joy.
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Definitely Dominguita: All For One
- By: Terry Catasus Jennings
- Length: 2 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: October 26, 2021
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.008.99 USDWhen Senor Fuentes asks Dominguita to run a very important errand to put an order in at the local butcher shop for his granddaughter Leni’s upcoming quinceanera–Dom is happy to help. But when Senor Fuentes discovers his order has goneWhen Senor Fuentes asks Dominguita to run a very important errand to put an
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order in at the local butcher shop for his granddaughter Leni’s upcoming
quinceanera–Dom is happy to help. But when Senor Fuentes discovers his order
has gone missing and the food for the party has been sold to someone else, it
becomes Dom’s next mission to find out what happened.
With the help of Pancho and Steph, Dom discovers the dastardly Bublassi brothers
have big plans to ruin Leni’s big day. But Mundytown’s own Three Musketeers are
determined to make sure Leni has a party she’ll remember for all the right
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Froggy Goes to the Library
- By: Jonathan London
- Narrator: Jonathan London
- Length: 10 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 15, 2016
- Language: English
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3.53(327 ratings)
3.53(327 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.007.99 USDFroggy loves the library! When Froggy and Mom and Pollywogilina set out for the library, Froggy brings a wheelbarrow to hold all the books he plans to borrow. There are so many to choose from: Dinosaur books! Books about Space Frog! Froggy is soFroggy loves the library! When Froggy and Mom and Pollywogilina set out for the library, Froggy brings a wheelbarrow to hold all the books he plans to borrow. There are so many to choose from: Dinosaur books! Books about Space Frog! Froggy is so excited that he forgets to use his indoor voice. Readers enjoy Froggy’s antics, and so does Miss Otterbottom, the librarian. “Come again soon, Froggy, she says.”
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Isabella: Star of the Story
- By: Jennifer Fosberry
- Narrator: Cris Dukehart
- Length: 24 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: March 08, 2016
- Language: English
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4.14(358 ratings)
4.14(358 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.009.99 USDAn everyday visit to the library becomes an unexpected adventure through the pages of classic children’s book favorites! Like Goldilocks, Isabella searches for a book that is juuust right. Should she host a silly tea party in Wonderland withAn everyday visit to the library becomes an unexpected adventure through the pages of classic children’s book favorites! Like Goldilocks, Isabella searches for a book that is juuust right. Should she host a silly tea party in Wonderland with the Mad Hatter? Take a Technicolor trip through Oz with the Cowardly Lion? Or have a swashbuckling good time with the Lost Boys? Join Isabella as she imagines herself in the starring role of these beloved stories and discovers the extraordinary power of reading. Anything is possible between the pages of a good book!
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Knight of the Cape
- By: Terry Catasus Jennings
- Length: 1 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 23, 2021
- Language: English
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3.94(106 ratings)
3.94(106 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.008.99 USDJudy Moody meets Netflix’s One Day at a Time in this first book in a new chapter book series featuring a young Cuban American girl who tries to find adventure based on the classics she read with her beloved abuela–can Dominguita become aJudy Moody meets Netflix’s One Day at a Time in this first book in a new chapter book series featuring a young Cuban American girl who tries to find adventure based on the classics she read with her beloved abuela–can Dominguita become a noble knight?
All Dominguita wants to do is read. Especially the books in Spanish that Abuela gave to her just before she moved away. They were classics that Abuela and Dominguita read together, classics her abuela brought with her all the way from Cuba when she was a young girl. It helps Dominguita feel like Abuela’s still there with her.
One of her favorites, Don Quixote, tells of a brave knight errant who tries to do good deeds. Dominguita decides that she, too, will become a knight and do good deeds around her community, creating a grand adventure for her to share with her abuela. And when the class bully tells Dominguita that girls can’t be knights, Dom is determined to prove him wrong. With a team of new friends, can Dominguita learn how to be the hero of her own story?
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Lola Gets a Cat
- By: Anna McQuinn
- Length: 4 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: October 13, 2020
- Language: English
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4.13(421 ratings)
4.13(421 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.007.99 USDOpen a book with Lola! Lola really wants a cat. She reads all about cats at the library. She takes extra-good care of her stuffed cat toys. When Lola finally gets to adopt a cat of her own, she knows just what to do. -
Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library (AUDIO)
- By: Carole Boston Weatherford
- Narrator: Ron Butler
- Length: 1 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: December 12, 2017
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.009.99 USDAmid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro-Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerk’s life’s passion was to collect books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the AfricanAmid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro-Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerk’s life’s passion was to collect books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the African diaspora and to bring to light the achievements of people of African descent throughout the ages. When Schomburg’s collection became so big that it began to overflow his house (and his wife threatened to mutiny), he turned to the New York Public Library, where he created and curated a collection that was the cornerstone of a new Negro Division. A century later, his groundbreaking collection, known as the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, has become a beacon to scholars all over the world.
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Sisterhood of Sleuths
- By: Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
- Narrator: Moriah Martel
- Length: 5 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: October 04, 2022
- Language: English
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4.11(317 ratings)
4.11(317 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0018.99 USDA clever and thought-provoking mystery that pays homage to classic Nancy Drew stories, perfect for fans of Wendy Mass and Trenton Lee Stewart. Maizy always assumed she knew everything about her grandmother, Jacuzzi. So when a box full of vintageA clever and thought-provoking mystery that pays homage to classic Nancy Drew stories, perfect for fans of Wendy Mass and Trenton Lee Stewart.
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Maizy always assumed she knew everything about her grandmother, Jacuzzi. So when a box full of vintage Nancy Drew books gets left at her mom’s thrift store, Maizy is surprised to find an old photo of her grandmother and two other women tucked beneath the collection. Stranger still, when Maizy shows the photo to Jacuzzi she feigns ignorance, insisting the woman is someone else. Determined to learn the truth — and inspired by the legacy of Nancy Drew — Maizy launches her own investigation with the help of new friends, Nell and Cam. What they discover not only points to the origins of the iconic series, but uncovers a truth from the past that will lead to self-discovery in the present, connecting three generations of women.
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The Bad Seed Goes to the Library
- By: Jory John
- Narrator: Andrew Eiden
- Length: 6 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- Publish date: March 29, 2022
- Language: English
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4.27(352 ratings)
4.27(352 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.002.99 USDThe Bad Seed borrows an awesome book from the library in this Level One I Can Read by the #1 New York Times bestselling duo Jory John and Pete Oswald! The Bad Seed is in a good mood…for once. That’s because there’s a really coolThe Bad Seed borrows an awesome book from the library in this Level One I Can Read by the #1 New York Times bestselling duo Jory John and Pete Oswald!
The Bad Seed is in a good mood…for once. That’s because there’s a really cool book at the library available for checkout. The Bad Seed reads, and reads, until the book can’t be read anymore.
But suddenly, he gets bad news: The book must be returned to the library so another seed can enjoy it. Will the bad seed return to his baaaaaad ways and keep the book? Listen to this really cool book to find out!
The Bad Seed Goes to the Library is a Level 1 I Can Read book, which means it’s perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences. Whether shared at home or in a classroom, the short sentences, familiar words, and simple concepts of Level One books support success for children eager to start reading on their own.
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The Dragon in the Library
- By: Louie Stowell
- Narrator: Renee Dorian
- Length: 3 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: September 28, 2021
- Language: English
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3.82(396 ratings)
3.82(396 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDKit Spencer can’t stand reading. She’d rather be outside playing and getting muddy than stuck inside with a book. But when her best friends, Josh and Alita, drag her to the local library, Kit makes an incredible discovery: she’s aKit Spencer can’t stand reading. She’d rather be outside playing and getting muddy than stuck inside with a book. But when her best friends, Josh and Alita, drag her to the local library, Kit makes an incredible discovery: she’s a wizard–and books are the key to her abilities. Unfortunately, a greedy businessman wants to tear down the beloved library, destroying all its magic. To make matters worse, there’s a sleeping dragon hidden there, and if she’s awakened, her wild power will wreak havoc. With the help of a friendly dragon-dog hybrid named Dogon, Kit and her companions will have to find a way to save the dragon in the library–and maybe the world!
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The Mysterious Messenger
- By: Gilbert Ford
- Narrator: Lori-Felipe Barkin
- Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: July 21, 2020
- Language: English
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3.86(51 ratings)
3.86(51 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0010.99 USDThe Mysterious Messenger is a rich middle grade urban fantasy debut starring young psychic Maria de la Cruz, by the award-winning artist Gilbert Ford. Eleven-year-old Maria de la Cruz is trapped under the thumb of Madame Destine, her pseudo-psychicThe Mysterious Messenger is a rich middle grade urban fantasy debut starring young psychic Maria de la Cruz, by the award-winning artist Gilbert Ford.
Eleven-year-old Maria de la Cruz is trapped under the thumb of Madame Destine, her pseudo-psychic mother. Destine is a bona fide con artist who will stop at nothing to swindle her customers into believing she can communicate with the dead. But Maria, unlike her mother, has a big secret–she really can communicate with the dead, most frequently with a ghost named Edward who has been her only friend since she was a child.
It’s not long before this clairvoyant young sleuth gets wrapped up in an epic journey that combines bookish mystery with the literary movement of the Beat poets and art and jazz history. Maria may have the power to unlock extraordinary secrets, but can she find the treasure Edward sends her clues about? More importantly, can she find true friendship?
This smart, big-hearted debut novel is perfect for fans of Book Scavenger, Winterhouse, and The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street.
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The New LiBEARian
- By: Alison Donald
- Narrator: Alison Larkin
- Length: 18 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: October 01, 2018
- Language: English
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3.62(591 ratings)
3.62(591 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDA visit to the library can be full of surprises. When the librarian is late for story time, the children go off to look for her and follow mysterious paw prints to find a bear sitting at her desk. Is the bear a new librarian? Not exactly. The newA visit to the library can be full of surprises. When the librarian is late for story time, the children go off to look for her and follow mysterious paw prints to find a bear sitting at her desk. Is the bear a new librarian? Not exactly. The new LiBEARian opens a book about bears and utters a loud growl. The kids love it! Then the real librarian appears and sends the bear back into the book he came from. A fun twist at the end rounds out this winsomely illustrated and magic-infused tale about a universal childhood experience-story time at the library.
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The Secrets of Winterhouse
- By: Ben Guterson
- Narrator: Sophie Amoss
- Length: 9 hours 20 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: December 31, 2018
- Language: English
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3.96(2406 ratings)
3.96(2406 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USD*Sequel to Winterhouse, an audiobook recommended by Parents’ Choice* Bookish puzzles, phantom mysteries, and evil curses await as Elizabeth returns to Winterhouse in the second audiobook in this magical series. Back at the Winterhouse hotel*Sequel to Winterhouse, an audiobook recommended by Parents’ Choice*
Bookish puzzles, phantom mysteries, and evil curses await as Elizabeth returns to Winterhouse in the second audiobook in this magical series.
Back at the Winterhouse hotel for another holiday season, Elizabeth and Freddy dig deeper into the mystery surrounding Riley S. Granger, a hotel guest who left behind odd artifacts–one being a magical book that the evil Gracella Winters once attempted to use to gain destructive power over the entire Falls lineage. The two friends follow a trail of clues, inadvertently attracting the attention of a suspicious new hotel guest: Elana Vesper. The clock is ticking as Elizabeth and Freddy struggle to figure out whether Elana is merely a pawn or a player in the plot to revive the spirit of Gracella. If that wasn’t enough, Elizabeth suspects she is coming into her own special powers–and she’s fearful it might lead her right into Gracella’s vicious web. Mystery, adventure, and a winning friendship combine in this much anticipated sequel.
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The Unbreakable Code
- By: Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
- Narrator: Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
- Length: 7 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: April 25, 2017
- Language: English
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4.24(2973 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDEmily and James’s teacher Mr. Quisling is up to something mysterious. First, there’s the news clipping with an unusual note that he drops at a book event. Then Emily and James discover their teacher has been receiving encrypted messagesEmily and James’s teacher Mr. Quisling is up to something mysterious. First, there’s the news clipping with an unusual note that he drops at a book event. Then Emily and James discover their teacher has been receiving encrypted messages in a series of Mark Twain books hidden through Book Scavenger. When Emily and James decipher the messages, they begin to suspect Mr. Quisling is hunting a long-rumored treasure of buried gold. Intrigued by this prospect and what it could mean for her family’s financial struggles, Emily and James set out to best their teacher. But when they research Mark Twain and the Gold Rush era, they learn about a serial arsonist from the 1800s who called himself The Lightkeeper, and the seemingly unrelated string of arson fires around San Francisco suddenly seem more ominous. Especially when they realize the fires have been set in the exact locations where Mr. Quisling found the Mark Twain books. Is a copycat Lightkeeper trying to stop Mr. Quisling? Or could Mr. Quisling himself be the arsonist? By the time Emily and James uncover the answers, much more is at stake than whether or not Emily will have to move again.
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The Winterhouse Mysteries
- By: Ben Guterson
- Narrator: Sophie Amoss
- Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: December 31, 2019
- Language: English
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4(1414 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDDanger, intrigue, and the power of family combine in The Winterhouse Mysteries, the fast-paced conclusion to Ben Guterson’s enchanting Winterhouse middle grade trilogy. It’s springtime at Winterhouse and Elizabeth is settling into theDanger, intrigue, and the power of family combine in The Winterhouse Mysteries, the fast-paced conclusion to Ben Guterson’s enchanting Winterhouse middle grade trilogy.
It’s springtime at Winterhouse and Elizabeth is settling into the joyful chaos of her new home. But it isn’t long before she and Freddy are drawn into an ominous new mystery. Guests at the hotel start behaving oddly, and Elizabeth’s powers manifest in thrilling–sometimes frightening–new ways. As unnatural tremors shake the foundations of Winterhouse, Elizabeth hears cries for help from Gracella Winters, a villain she’d thought dead and gone for good.
Elizabeth’s discovery of a rare book containing secrets of an ancient ritual leads to a tragic realization: someone at the hotel is trying to help Gracella rise again. Can Elizabeth and Freddy banish these threats and protect the future of Winterhouse once and for all?
Christy Ottaviano Books
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The Wizard in the Wood
- By: Louie Stowell
- Narrator: Renee Dorian
- Length: 3 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: May 24, 2022
- Language: English
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4.37(45 ratings)
4.37(45 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDIt’s a new school year for Kit, Alita, and Josh. The three friends learn that their school is getting a brand-new library–and a brand-new baby dragon to help the library grow. They’re overjoyed to look after the precious dragon eggIt’s a new school year for Kit, Alita, and Josh. The three friends learn that their school is getting a brand-new library–and a brand-new baby dragon to help the library grow. They’re overjoyed to look after the precious dragon egg until it hatches–it’s like all their Christmases and Diwalis and birthdays have come at once! But when the egg is stolen, Kit and her friends are faced with a group of evil wizards who want to change the magical world forever. Now it’s up to the three of them to make sure the villains from their pasts don’t return even more powerful than before. With help from old allies (such as Dogon, the friendly half-dog, half-dragon), Kit, Alita, and Josh prepare for their most epic showdown so far.
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Valentine Crow & Mr Death
- By: Jenni Spangler
- Narrator: Benjamin Isaac
- Length: 6 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
- Publish date: January 01, 2023
- Language: English
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4.45(11 ratings)
4.45(11 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0013.99 USDIt’s not always easy being Death: a witty and gloriously gothic tale of friendship and discovery from bestselling Jenni Spangler. Twelve-year-old Valentine Crow has lived his entire life at the Foundling Hospital. Now, he and his best friendIt’s not always easy being Death: a witty and gloriously gothic tale of friendship and discovery from bestselling Jenni Spangler.
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Twelve-year-old Valentine Crow has lived his entire life at the Foundling Hospital. Now, he and his best friend Philomena are leaving to begin their new lives as apprentices – but Valentine has been assigned to Death himself. Valentine finds himself in an impossible situation when his best friend’s name appears on the list of souls to take. Can he fight Death to save her soul, or does fate have other ideas?
Distinctive, warm and funny, the highly-acclaimed Jenni Spangler returns with a richly imagined world perfect for listeners of The Beast and the Bethany and Lemony Snickett. -
Winterhouse
- By: Ben Guterson
- Narrator: Sophie Amoss
- Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: May 08, 2018
- Language: English
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3.95(6481 ratings)
3.95(6481 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USD“Narrator Sophie Amoss makes Elizabeth an empathetic and appealing character as she becomes more and more determined to solve the book’s puzzle.” — AudioFile Magazine *Recommended by Parents’ Choice* Winterhouse by Ben“Narrator Sophie Amoss makes Elizabeth an empathetic and appealing character as she becomes more and more determined to solve the book’s puzzle.” — AudioFile Magazine
*Recommended by Parents’ Choice*Winterhouse by Ben Guterson is an enchanting urban fantasy middle-grade debut–the first audiobook in a trilogy–set in a magical hotel full of secrets.
Orphan Elizabeth Somers’s malevolent aunt and uncle ship her off to the ominous Winterhouse Hotel, owned by the peculiar Norbridge Falls. Upon arrival, Elizabeth quickly discovers that Winterhouse has many charms–most notably its massive library. It’s not long before she locates a magical book of puzzles that will unlock a mystery involving Norbridge and his sinister family. But the deeper she delves into the hotel’s secrets, the more Elizabeth starts to realize that she is somehow connected to Winterhouse. As fate would have it, Elizabeth is the only person who can break the hotel’s curse and solve the mystery. But will it be at the cost of losing the people she has come to care for, and even Winterhouse itself?
Mystery, adventure, and beautiful writing combine in this exciting debut audiobook richly set in a hotel full of secrets.
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Austen Years
- By: Rachel Cohen
- Narrator: Justine Eyre
- Length: 10 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: July 21, 2020
- Language: English
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3.46(300 ratings)
3.46(300 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USD“Narrator Justine Eyre meets all the challenges of author Rachel Cohen’s unique memoir, which recounts her deep reading of Jane Austen’s novels…Listeners do not need to be Austen aficionados to relate to this well-told“Narrator Justine Eyre meets all the challenges of author Rachel Cohen’s unique memoir, which recounts her deep reading of Jane Austen’s novels…Listeners do not need to be Austen aficionados to relate to this well-told personal journey.” — AudioFile Magazine
This program includes a letter read by the author.
An astonishingly nuanced reading of Jane Austen that yields a rare understanding of how to live.
“About seven years ago, not too long before our daughter was born, and a year before my father died, Jane Austen became my only author.”
In the turbulent period around the birth of her first child and the death of her father, Rachel Cohen turned to Jane Austen to make sense of her new reality. For Cohen, simultaneously grief-stricken and buoyed by the birth of her daughter, reading Austen became her refuge and her ballast. She was able to reckon with difficult questions about mourning, memorializing, living in a household, paying attention to the world, reading, writing, and imagining through Austen’s novels.
Austen Years is a deeply felt and sensitive examination of a writer’s relationship to reading, and to her own family, winding together memoir, criticism, and biographical and historical material about Austen herself. And like the sequence of Austen’s novels, the scope of Austen Years widens successively, with each chapter following one of Austen’s novels. We begin with Cohen in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she raises her small children and contemplates her father’s last letter, a moment paired with the grief of Sense and Sensibility and the social bonds of Pride and Prejudice. Later, moving with her family to Chicago, Cohen grapples with her growing children, teaching, and her father’s legacy, all refracted through the denser, more complex Mansfield Park and Emma.
With unusual depth and fresh insight into Austen’s life and literature, and guided by Austen’s mournful and hopeful final novel, Persuasion, Rachel Cohen’s Austen Years is a rare memoir of mourning and transcendence, a love letter to a literary master, and a powerful consideration of the odd process that merges our interior experiences with the world at large.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“An absolutely fascinating book: I will never read Austen the same way again.” –Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk
“Exhilarating and beautiful.” –Claire Messud, author of The Burning Girl
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor
- By: Thomas C. Foster
- Narrator: David de Vries
- Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: December 11, 2012
- Language: English
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3.63(22437 ratings)
3.63(22437 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDThe go-to bestselling guide to help young people navigate from a middle school book report to English Comp 101 In How to Read Literature Like a Professor: For Kids, New York Times bestselling author and professor Thomas C. Foster gives tweens theThe go-to bestselling guide to help young people navigate from a middle school book report to English Comp 101
In How to Read Literature Like a Professor: For Kids, New York Times bestselling author and professor Thomas C. Foster gives tweens the tools they need to become thoughtful readers.
With funny insights and a conversational style, he explains the way writers use symbol, metaphor, characterization, setting, plot, and other key techniques to make a story come to life.
From that very first middle school book report to that first college course, kids need to be able to understand the layers of meaning in literature. Foster makes learning this important skill fun and exciting by using examples from How the Grinch Stole Christmas to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, from short stories and poems to movie scripts.
This go-to guide unlocks all the hidden secrets to reading, making it entertaining and satisfying.
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Silly Novels by Lady Novelists
- By: George Eliot
- Narrator: Sarah Bacaller
- Length: 1 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2023
- Language: English
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3.64(366 ratings)
3.64(366 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDIn this essay, originally published anonymously in The Westminster Review (1856), George Eliot examines the state of women’s fiction in her time. She lamentingly argues that absurd and banal novels, written by well-to-do women of her time, doIn this essay, originally published anonymously in The Westminster Review (1856), George Eliot examines the state of women’s fiction in her time. She lamentingly argues that absurd and banal novels, written by well-to-do women of her time, do great disservice for the overall appreciation of women’s intellectual capacities within society.
Eliot divides “silly novels by lady novelists” into several distinct categories: the mind-and-millinery species, the oracular type and the white-neck-cloth variety. She writes with characteristic sharp wit and insightful intellect in this scathing (but not unfeeling) feminist critique of “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists”.
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10 Books Every Conservative Must Read
- By: Benjamin Wiker
- Narrator: Robertson Dean
- Length: 10 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2010
- Language: English
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4.11(266 ratings)
4.11(266 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDOffering a “CliffsNotes guide” to some of the most important literary works of our time, Wiker, author of 10 Books That Screwed Up the World, turns his discerning eye from the great texts that have done damage to Western civilization toOffering a “CliffsNotes guide” to some of the most important literary works of our time, Wiker, author of 10 Books That Screwed Up the World, turns his discerning eye from the great texts that have done damage to Western civilization to the great texts that could help rebuild it. This book features a range of works, from classics such as Democracy in America and The Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers to more popular classics like Sense and Sensibility and The Tempest. Through these works, Wiker reveals some of the most important lessons for our time, as well as the true meaning of conservatism. Written with an educational purpose and a witty tone, this is a must read for conservatives, republicans, and booklovers everywhere.
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