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Neglected Authors, The - Women - Volume 2

Celebrated in their time, forgotten in ours

by Ellen Glasgow, Susan Glaspell, Clotilde Graves, Frances Watkins Harper, Eliza Haywood, Winifred Holtby, Pauline E Hopkins, Violet Hunt, Vera Jelihovsky, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Amy Levy, Mary E Mann, Charlotte Mew, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Elinor Mordaunt ...

Narrated by Kelly Burke, Janet Fullerlove, Ghizela Rowe ...

Unabridged

10 hours 46 min

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

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Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.
... Read more
Meeting Greatest Quotes - Quick, Short, Medium Or Long Quotes. Find The Perfect Meeting Quotations For All Occasions - Spicing Up Letters, Speeches, And Everyday Conversations.

by Janet Rowe ...

This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single Quote.Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread faster when they carry your message in ... Read more

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This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single Quote.Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread faster when they carry your message in
... Read more
Arlington County Police Department

by Janet Rowe ...

Arlington County was carved from a section of the District of Columbia and formally named by the Virginia General Assembly in 1920. The rural farming community across the Potomac River was home to vacationing District of Columbia elite as well as rumrunners and brothels. Law enforcement fell to the commonwealth attorneys, sheriffs, special officers, and citizen leagues. The county board adopted a ... Read more

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Arlington County was carved from a section of the District of Columbia and formally named by the Virginia General Assembly in 1920. The rural farming community across the Potomac River was home to vacationing District of Columbia elite as well as rumrunners and brothels. Law enforcement fell to the commonwealth attorneys, sheriffs, special officers, and citizen leagues. The county board adopted a
... Read more
Aliera Wants to Be a Giraffe

by Janet M. Rowe ...

Illustrated by Amee S. Neal ...

Aliera Wants to be a Giraffe is a story about a little girl who goes to the zoo with her mother to learn about giraffes. While learning about the giraffes, she learns something cool and soon wants to be a giraffe. After a while, Aliera learns being a giraffe isn't so cool after all. ... Read more

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Aliera Wants to be a Giraffe is a story about a little girl who goes to the zoo with her mother to learn about giraffes. While learning about the giraffes, she learns something cool and soon wants to be a giraffe. After a while, Aliera learns being a giraffe isn't so cool after all.
... Read more
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John Galsworthy - The Shorter Stories

Stories from the esteemed Nobel Prize winning author of the early 20th century

by John Galsworthy ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell, Janet Fullerlove, Ghizela Rowe ...

Unabridged

1 hour 27 min

John Galsworthy was born on the 14th August 1867 on the family estate, Parkfield, in Kingston-upon-Thames. His family’s wealth came from the shipping industryAt age nine he began his education at Saugeen, a Bournemouth preparatory school, before moving to Harrow school in 1881, distinguishing himself as an athlete.Galsworthy attended New College, Oxford to read law and left with a second-class ... Read more

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John Galsworthy was born on the 14th August 1867 on the family estate, Parkfield, in Kingston-upon-Thames. His family’s wealth came from the shipping industryAt age nine he began his education at Saugeen, a Bournemouth preparatory school, before moving to Harrow school in 1881, distinguishing himself as an athlete.Galsworthy attended New College, Oxford to read law and left with a second-class
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Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, The

Collection from the hugely celebrated Austrian poet

by Rainer Maria Rilke ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell, Janet Fullerlove, Ghizela Rowe ...

Unabridged

58 min

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke was born into a troubled marriage on the 4th December 1875 in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His mother, having previously lost a baby girl, would dress the young boy up in girl’s clothing.Later his father dispatched him to a military academy at age 10 but after a miserable 5 years the young Rilke left due to illness and instead entered ... Read more

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René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke was born into a troubled marriage on the 4th December 1875 in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His mother, having previously lost a baby girl, would dress the young boy up in girl’s clothing.Later his father dispatched him to a military academy at age 10 but after a miserable 5 years the young Rilke left due to illness and instead entered
... Read more
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Top 10 Poets – England, The - The East Midlands

Five poems each from poets born in the English East Midlands

by Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Dryden, John Clare, D H Lawrence, Anne Bradstreet, William Lisle Bowles, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Anna Seward, Jean Ingelow, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe, Janet Fullerlove ...

Unabridged

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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Stories From The Shadows - Volume 9

Embrace the darkness

by James S Pyke-Nott, Violet Quirk, Alicia Ramsay, Ernst Raupach, Katherine Rickford, Charlotte Riddell, Tod Robbins, Gertrude Minnie Robins, Phil Robinson, Sax Rohmer, Saki, Marcel Schwob, Walter Scott, Mary Shelley, M P Shiel, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Helen Simpson, May Sinclair, Lady Eleanor Smith, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker ...

Narrated by Ghizela Rowe, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Janet Fullerlove ...

Unabridged

12 hours 11 min

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into ... Read more

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An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into
... Read more
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The Only Way

by Gareth Rowe ...

Narrated by Janet Wilson ...

Unabridged

3 hours 23 min

A story for young adults. When a miserable, disaffected teenager meets the beautiful and mysterious Lily, he discovers a new way to live, the only way. Later, when Lily’s life in in danger, he is willing to risk everything to save her, but time and circumstances are against him. How can he live, if she doesn't survive?A story of hope for young people.“The Only Way is a moving, fast-paced, gripping ... Read more

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A story for young adults. When a miserable, disaffected teenager meets the beautiful and mysterious Lily, he discovers a new way to live, the only way. Later, when Lily’s life in in danger, he is willing to risk everything to save her, but time and circumstances are against him. How can he live, if she doesn't survive?A story of hope for young people.“The Only Way is a moving, fast-paced, gripping
... Read more
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Poetry of Elizabeth Siddal, The

Talented poet who was also one of the most famous art models of her age

by Elizabeth Siddal ...

Narrated by Janet Fullerlove, Ghizela Rowe ...

Unabridged

23 min

Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall was born on the 25th July, 1829 in London into a working-class family where she received an ‘ordinary education’.Whilst accounts differ, it is clear that she met the Pre-Raphaelite painter William Deverell whilst working in a millinery shop and he asked her to model for him, describing her as "magnificently tall, with a lovely figure, and a face of the most delicate and ... Read more

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Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall was born on the 25th July, 1829 in London into a working-class family where she received an ‘ordinary education’.Whilst accounts differ, it is clear that she met the Pre-Raphaelite painter William Deverell whilst working in a millinery shop and he asked her to model for him, describing her as "magnificently tall, with a lovely figure, and a face of the most delicate and
... Read more
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Her Dark Materials - Volume 3

Lucy Hamilton Hooper to Elia W Peattie

by Lucy Hamilton Hooper, Violet Hunt, Violet Jacob, Fanny Kemble Johnson, Arabella Kenealy, Jessie Douglas Kerruish, Amy Levy, Mary E Mann, L T Meade and Robert Eustace, Charlotte Mew, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Elinor Mordaunt, Rosa Mulholland, Edith Nesbit, Elsie Norris, Margaret Oliphant, Violet Paget, Elia W Peattie ...

Narrated by Janet Fullerlove, Ghizela Rowe, David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

12 hours 21 min

In these more welcome days of equality between the sexes we usually forget that the often cited ‘Gentler Sex’ can have dark and disturbing trains of thought that are more than the equal of their male brethren. Indeed, they can manipulate words in a matter of lines from comforting and loving to dark, foreboding and utterly terrifying. These femme fatales really do create stories that leech vile ... Read more

$34.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

In these more welcome days of equality between the sexes we usually forget that the often cited ‘Gentler Sex’ can have dark and disturbing trains of thought that are more than the equal of their male brethren. Indeed, they can manipulate words in a matter of lines from comforting and loving to dark, foreboding and utterly terrifying. These femme fatales really do create stories that leech vile
... Read more
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Lessons from Literature - Short Stories About the Effects of Bad Parents

Learn from the oldest form of communication and education - storytelling

by Katherine Mansfield, Kate Chopin, Winifred Holtby, T S Arthur, Mary E Mann ...

Narrated by Janet Fullerlove, Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe ...

Unabridged

1 hour 54 min

Bringing new souls into the world is both a great responsibility but can ensure receiving a never-ending gift of love and laughter. But for some people raising and nurturing their young is not where’re they’re at. For these parents the responsibility and needed sacrifices are beyond what they can give, what they can manage. Going forward life for both parent and child is going to be difficult, ... Read more

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Bringing new souls into the world is both a great responsibility but can ensure receiving a never-ending gift of love and laughter. But for some people raising and nurturing their young is not where’re they’re at. For these parents the responsibility and needed sacrifices are beyond what they can give, what they can manage. Going forward life for both parent and child is going to be difficult,
... Read more

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