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To Your Scattered Bodies Go

by Philip José Farmer ...

Narrated by Paul Hecht ...

Series series Riverworld
Unabridged

7 hours 43 min

All those who ever lived on Earth have found themselves resurrected—healthy, young, and naked as newborns—on the grassy banks of a mighty river, in a world unknown. Miraculously provided with food, but with no clues to the meaning of their strange new afterlife, billions of people from every period of Earth's history—and prehistory—must start again.Sir Richard Francis Burton would be the first to ... Read more

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All those who ever lived on Earth have found themselves resurrected—healthy, young, and naked as newborns—on the grassy banks of a mighty river, in a world unknown. Miraculously provided with food, but with no clues to the meaning of their strange new afterlife, billions of people from every period of Earth's history—and prehistory—must start again.Sir Richard Francis Burton would be the first to
... Read more
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Stalin, Volume I

Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

by Stephen Kotkin ...

Narrated by Paul Hecht ...

Unabridged

38 hours 47 min

A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world It has the quality of myth: A poor cobbler's son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russian Empire, reinvents himself as a revolutionary and finds a leadership role within a small group of marginal zealots. When the old world is unexpectedly brought down in a total war, the band seizes ... Read more

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A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world It has the quality of myth: A poor cobbler's son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russian Empire, reinvents himself as a revolutionary and finds a leadership role within a small group of marginal zealots. When the old world is unexpectedly brought down in a total war, the band seizes
... Read more
Send Down Einstein

by Paul Hecht, Anthony Geist ...

A comic and melancholy novel about translation and living between cultures, set during one historic day in Spain: February 21, 1981, the attempted coup against the newborn Spanish democracy.Early one morning in 1981, Peter Carp, an American poet and translator living in Granada, wakes to the sounds of shouting and the revving of a motorcycle. These interruptions to Peter’s sleep provoke a series ... Read more

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A comic and melancholy novel about translation and living between cultures, set during one historic day in Spain: February 21, 1981, the attempted coup against the newborn Spanish democracy.Early one morning in 1981, Peter Carp, an American poet and translator living in Granada, wakes to the sounds of shouting and the revving of a motorcycle. These interruptions to Peter’s sleep provoke a series
... Read more
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The Cave and the Light

Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization

by Arthur Herman ...

Narrated by Paul Hecht ...

Unabridged

25 hours 26 min

Arthur Herman has now written the definitive sequel to his New York Times bestseller, How the Scots Invented the Modern World, and extends the themes of the book—which sold half a million copies worldwide—back to the ancient Greeks and forward to the age of the Internet. The Cave and the Light is a magisterial account of how the two greatest thinkers of the ancient world, Plato and Aristotle, laid ... Read more

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Arthur Herman has now written the definitive sequel to his New York Times bestseller, How the Scots Invented the Modern World, and extends the themes of the book—which sold half a million copies worldwide—back to the ancient Greeks and forward to the age of the Internet. The Cave and the Light is a magisterial account of how the two greatest thinkers of the ancient world, Plato and Aristotle, laid
... Read more
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Far and Wide

Bring That Horizon to Me!

by Neil Peart ...

Narrated by Paul Hecht ...

Unabridged

9 hours 26 min

35 concerts. 17,000 motorcycle miles. Three months. One lifetime.In May 2015, the veteran Canadian rock trio Rush embarked on their 40th anniversary tour, R40. For the band and their fans, R40 was a celebration and, perhaps, a farewell. But for Neil Peart, each tour is more than just a string of concerts, it’s an opportunity to explore backroadsnear and far on his BMW motorcycle. So if this was to ... Read more

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35 concerts. 17,000 motorcycle miles. Three months. One lifetime.In May 2015, the veteran Canadian rock trio Rush embarked on their 40th anniversary tour, R40. For the band and their fans, R40 was a celebration and, perhaps, a farewell. But for Neil Peart, each tour is more than just a string of concerts, it’s an opportunity to explore backroadsnear and far on his BMW motorcycle. So if this was to
... Read more
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Old City Hall

by Robert Rotenberg ...

Narrated by Paul Hecht ...

Series series Detective Ari Greene
Unabridged

12 hours 1 min

A noted criminal defense attorney, Robert Rotenberg delivers a courtroom drama that successfully evokes the multicultural city of Toronto even as it keeps readers on the edges of their seats. In the tale, the "Voice of Canada" radio host confesses to murder-but the case is far from closed. "Rotenberg also fires sly and funny barbs at political correctness and bureaucratic inanity."-Booklist, ... Read more

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A noted criminal defense attorney, Robert Rotenberg delivers a courtroom drama that successfully evokes the multicultural city of Toronto even as it keeps readers on the edges of their seats. In the tale, the "Voice of Canada" radio host confesses to murder-but the case is far from closed. "Rotenberg also fires sly and funny barbs at political correctness and bureaucratic inanity."-Booklist,
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Moe and Me

Encounters with Moe Norman, Golf's Mysterious Genius

by Lorne Rubenstein ...

Narrated by Paul Hecht ...

Unabridged

5 hours 27 min

Globe and Mail golf columnist Lorne Rubenstein has authored multiple acclaimed books and had his work featured in major golf publications. Moe & Me is a riveting exploration of the life of Moe Norman, known for his unusual swing on the course - and his crippling insecurity and introverted nature off of it. ... Read more

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Globe and Mail golf columnist Lorne Rubenstein has authored multiple acclaimed books and had his work featured in major golf publications. Moe & Me is a riveting exploration of the life of Moe Norman, known for his unusual swing on the course - and his crippling insecurity and introverted nature off of it.
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Portuguese Irregular Verbs

by Alexander McCall Smith ...

Narrated by Paul Hecht ...

Series series Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld
Unabridged

3 hours 50 min

From the New York Times best-selling creator of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels and winner of the inaugural Saga Award for Wit, comes the first novel starring distinguished philologist Professor Doctor Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld. Von Igelfeld is the world's leading scholar on Portuguese irregular verbs. But in other matters - such as tennis against equally dreadful opponents and the ... Read more

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From the New York Times best-selling creator of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels and winner of the inaugural Saga Award for Wit, comes the first novel starring distinguished philologist Professor Doctor Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld. Von Igelfeld is the world's leading scholar on Portuguese irregular verbs. But in other matters - such as tennis against equally dreadful opponents and the
... Read more
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The Beginning of Sorrows

Enmeshed by Evil … How Long Before America Is No More?

by Gilbert Morris, Lynn Morris ...

Narrated by Paul Hecht ...

Series series Omega (Morris)
Unabridged

14 hours 23 min

Gilbert Morris has written more than 80 inspiring novels, many of them bestsellers. In this epic work, he and his co-authors use Biblical truth and powerful allegory to offer a new way of thinking about the end times. In the year 2050, the U.S. government rules that humanity is nature's worst enemy and herds all of its citizens into a few overcrowded cities. An insidious new version of Germany's ... Read more

$35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Gilbert Morris has written more than 80 inspiring novels, many of them bestsellers. In this epic work, he and his co-authors use Biblical truth and powerful allegory to offer a new way of thinking about the end times. In the year 2050, the U.S. government rules that humanity is nature's worst enemy and herds all of its citizens into a few overcrowded cities. An insidious new version of Germany's
... Read more
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Stalin, Volume II

Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941

by Stephen Kotkin ...

Narrated by Paul Hecht ...

Unabridged

49 hours 44 min

Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin continues his definitive biography of Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror through to the coming of the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history. When we left Stalin at the end of Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928, it was 1928, and he had finally climbed the mountaintop and achieved dictatorial power of ... Read more

$54.99 CAD

Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin continues his definitive biography of Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror through to the coming of the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history. When we left Stalin at the end of Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928, it was 1928, and he had finally climbed the mountaintop and achieved dictatorial power of
... Read more
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The Fabulous Riverboat

by Philip José Farmer ...

Narrated by Paul Hecht ...

Series series Riverworld
Unabridged

9 hours 4 min

Resurrected on the lush, mysterious banks of Riverworld, along with the rest of humanity, Samuel Langhorne Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain) has a dream: to build a riverboat that will rival the most magnificent paddle-wheelers ever navigated on the mighty Mississippi. Then, to steer it up the endless waterway that dominates his new home planet—and at last discover its hidden source.But before he can ... Read more

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Resurrected on the lush, mysterious banks of Riverworld, along with the rest of humanity, Samuel Langhorne Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain) has a dream: to build a riverboat that will rival the most magnificent paddle-wheelers ever navigated on the mighty Mississippi. Then, to steer it up the endless waterway that dominates his new home planet—and at last discover its hidden source.But before he can
... Read more
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The Terminal Experiment

by Robert J. Sawyer ...

Narrated by Paul Hecht ...

Unabridged

9 hours 14 min

Nebula Award Winner, 1995To test his theories of immortality and life after death, Dr. Peter Hobson has created three electronic simulations of his own personality. The first has all knowledge of physical existence edited out, to simulate life after death. The second is without knowledge of aging or death, to simulate immortality. The third is unmodified, a control. Now they are free. One is a ... Read more

$28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Nebula Award Winner, 1995To test his theories of immortality and life after death, Dr. Peter Hobson has created three electronic simulations of his own personality. The first has all knowledge of physical existence edited out, to simulate life after death. The second is without knowledge of aging or death, to simulate immortality. The third is unmodified, a control. Now they are free. One is a
... Read more

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