Sarah

Sarah  ♥ ♥ ♥
Read by Bernadette Dunne
8 discs

Canaan Trilogy,  Book One. Sarah was born into a world of great luxury in the Sumerian city-state of Ur, the birthplace of writing, currency, government, and law. The daughter of a powerful lord, she has inherited her father’s strong will and she balks at the marriage he has arranged for her. During the festivities leading up to the wedding, she panics and flees, slipping through the ramparts of Ur to the banks of the Euphrates. There she falls into the arms of a young stranger, a member of a nomadic tribe camped on the outskirts of the capital city. His name is Abram.

Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility (Abridged) ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Read by Kate Winslet

The Dashwood women are left in reduced circumstances when their father dies and  they see the family estate pass to their half brother John. Eninor and Marianne arrive at their new home, a cottage on a distant relative’s property, where they experience both romance and heartbreak. The contrast between the sisters’ characters is eventually resolved as they each find love and lasting happiness.

The narration by Kate Winslet is beautiful although a good portion of Austen’s novel has been omitted for this version.  Had Kate read the entire novel I would have given it ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

Incident at Vichy

Incident at Vichy  ♥ ♥ ♥
Read by a Full Cast
1 disc

In Vichy, France in 1942 nine men are detained under a shadowy pretext. As the tension builds, the men are questioned–are they the sort of people whom the new Nazi regime considers “inferiors”?

Famous Romans

Famous Romans ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Read by Rufus J. Fears
12 discs

A lecture series on the popular and historical figures of the Roman Empire with discussion on other notable figures like Hannibal and Cleopatra.  War, Mythology, Philosophy and Culture are all addressed through exciting storytelling and contemporary language.

Practical Magic

Practical Magic ♥ ♥ ♥
Read by Christina Moore

For more than two hundred years, the Owens women had been blamed for everything that went wrong in their Massachusetts town. And Gillian and Sally endured that fate as well: As children, the sisters were forever outsiders, taunted, talked about, pointed at. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, with their musty house and their exotic concoctions and their crowd of black cats. But all Gillian and Sally wanted was to escape.  But the bonds they share, even into adulthood, bring them back–almost as if by magic

The Alchemist

The Alchemist ♥ ♥ ♥
Read by Jeremy Irons
4 discs

An Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest. No one knows what the treasure is, or if Santiago will be able to surmount the obstacles along the way. But what starts out as a journey to find worldly goods turns into a discovery of the treasures found within.

The Sisters who would be Queen

The Sisters who would be Queen  ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Read by Wanda McCaddon
8 discs

The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey  and the parallel experiences of her sisters and the broader Grey family.   King Edward left his kingdom to Lady Jane’s short reign ended at the block.  Queen Mary put Jane to death but protected the Grey family as long as they converted to Catholicism however when Elizabeth began her reign she feared their royal bloodline.  In fact the remaining sisters caused a great deal of  enmity and fear to Elizabeth I.

A Drowned Maiden’s Hair

A Drowned Maiden’s Hair ♥ ♥ ♥
Read by Alma Cuervo
8 discs

At the Barbary Asylum for Female Orphans, eleven-year-old Maud is adopted by three spinster sisters moonlighting as mediums who take her home and reveal to her the role she will play in their seances.

Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind

Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Read by Christina Moore

When eleven-year old Shabanu, the daughter of a nomad in the Cholistan Desert of present-day Pakistan, is pledged in marriage to an older man whose money will bring prestige to the family, she must either accept the decision, as is the custom, or risk the consequences of defying her father’s wishes.

Frankenstein

Frankenstein ♥ ♥ ♥
Read by Wanda McCaddon and David Case

Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of creating life and fashions an eight-foot monster. Its impulses are benevolent, but its ugliness reviles even its creator. When schooled by a blind man about morality, its benevolence becomes hatred. Its exacting of revenge for the immorality of its existence takes creature and creator from the Swiss countryside to the desolation of the Arctic.