Monday, May 12, 2008

The Dark Portal audiobook

Dark Portal, The

"Book one of the Deptford Mice Trilogy is a spooky and enthralling animal fantasy. Jarvis

provides counterpoint to the heart-racing adventure with scenes of haunting beauty.The author conveys

a sense of place powerful enough to elevate the South London boroughs of Greenwich and Blackheath to

requisite stops on any bookish child's literary tour of the British capital."Publishers Weekly


"Full of adventure, this shadowy tale will both intrigue and surprise anyone bold enough to enter the Dark Portal."

T. A. Baron, author of The Lost Years of Merlin


Every mouse knows: BEWARE THE GRILL.


On the other side of the Grill lie the sewers, where bloodthirsty gangs of rats roam the tunnels.

It is in the depths of this blackness that the mysterious god Jupiter has his lair.

But one curious mouse can't resist the perilous world beyond the Grill, and soon no mouse can

ignore its dangers any longer. Before the altar of Jupiter himself, a small band of mice must face

evil at its strongest or the entire city of London could be destroyed.

ROBIN JARVIS's first book, The Dark Portal, was short-listed for the 1989 Smarties Book Prize in England, followed by two more titles in the series: The Crystal Prison and The Final Reckoning. Mr. Jarvis lives in London.

Roe Kendall, a native of the British Isles, graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London. She has performed on stage, as a voice-over artist, and as an audiobook narrator. "I really love playing all the parts when I narrate a book. It's an adventure, a challenge, and above all I feel that I learn something new with each book I read."

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Robin Jarvis
Narrated By : Roe Kendall
Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Duration : 8 hours 30 minutes
Category : Juvenile
$32.95 $16.95

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Out of Time
Carol Lynn Thomas
Narrated By : Paul Michael Garcia
Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Duration : 2 hours
Category : Juvenile
$19.95 $9.95

Fourteen-year-old Matt Collier, a die-hard New York Yankee fan, gets a chance to time travel to any baseball game in history. Accompanied by the universe’s guardian of Time, Matt becomes the batboy for his beloved team and tries to change the outcome of the 1960 World Series, the first ever to...


Pendragon Book Three: The Never War
D. J. MacHale
Narrated By : William Dufris
Publisher : Brilliance Audio Inc
Duration : 9 hours 44 minutes
Category : Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Magic
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Seeing Stone, The
Kevin Crossley-Holland
Narrated By : Samuel West
Publisher : Orion Publishing Group
Duration : 3 hours 45 minutes
Category : Over 10s
$12.25

The year is 1199, and on the borders of England and Wales young Arthur de Caldicot practises his tilting and archery, learns to be a dutiful page to his father, and waits impatiently to grow up...


Coyote's in the House, A
Elmore Leonard
Narrated By : Neil Patrick Harris
Publisher : Harper Collins US
Duration : 3 hours
Category : Animals
$22.00 $12.95

The first children's book from the bestselling master of contemporary fiction...


Patriotic American Stories
Various Authors
Narrated By : Patrick Cullen
Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Duration : 4 hours
Category : Juvenile
$25.95 $12.95

These selections will inspire an enthusiastic love of country and will create a pronounced regard for the ideals so sacred to all Americans. They include: "The Man without a Country" by Edward Ever...

The Curious Adventures of Jimmy McGee audiobook

Curious Adventures of Jimmy McGee, The

When Jimmy McGee finds this description of himself in Amy's notebook, he cannot fathom why he is called a hero. He thinks of himself as nothing more than a plumber, even if he does do his job very quickly, thanks to a certain magic he possesses called the zoomie-zoomies.

But Jimmy's life of turning on water and fixing dripping faucets is disrupted when he rescues Amy's doll Little Lydia from a monstrous wave that sweeps her off the beach.

Jimmy keeps Little Lydia safe right on top of his magic box, where he stores bolts of thunder and lightning. But this turns Little Lydia into an electrified, out of control, bebop doll with the zoomie-zoomies! Can Jimmy find a way to restore Little Lydia to her original state as a "do-nothing doll" before he returns her to her rightful owner?

"One of Estes's most bewitching creations." - Publishers Weekly

"Delightfully imaginative, with originality and humor. The author has a deep sense of a child's world of wonder." — Christian Schools International

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Eleanor Estes
Narrated By : Jane Jacobs
Publisher : Listen & Live
Duration : 5 hours
Category : Under 10s
$27.95 $18.25

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Tale of Troy, The
Benedict Flynn
Narrated By : Benjamin Soames
Publisher : Select Music & Distribution
Duration : 2 hours 40 minutes
Category : Classics
$11.99

This exciting version of the famous story is retold especially for 8-13-year-olds...


Chronicles of Narnia, The: Prince Caspian
C. S. Lewis
Narrated By : Lynn Redgrave
Publisher : Harper Collins US
Duration : 4 hours
Category : Over 10s
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The four Pevensies help Caspian battle Miraz and ascend his rightful throne...


Frogs Wore Red Suspenders, The
Jack Prelutsky
Narrated By : Jack Prelutsky
Publisher : Harper Collins US
Duration : 50 minutes
Category : Under 10s
$13.95 $9.95

Impossible to listen to only once (and memorized by the third listen), these exuberant poems are brought to fanciful life in song and music sure to be loved by children from Miami to Seattle...


Chronicles of Narnia - The Last Battle
C. S. Lewis
Narrated By : Full Cast Production
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Duration : 2 hours 25 minutes
Category : Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Magic
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With a stupid and gullible donkey posing as Aslan and the devious ape, Shirt, in charge, confused talking beasts and dwarves are allowing themselves to be sold into slavery in neighbouring Calormen...


Guardians of Ga'Hoole, Book Two: The Journey
Kathryn Lasky
Narrated By : Pamela Garelick
Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Duration : 6 hours
Category : Juvenile
$29.95 $14.95

It began as a dream, a quest for the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, a mythic place where each night an order of owls rises to perform noble deeds. There Soren, Gylfie, Twilight, and Digger hope to find inspi...

The Crystal Prison audiobook

Crystal Prison, The

"The final chapters are breathtakingly thrilling." School Library Journal

In this sequel to The Dark Portal, the evil rat Jupiter has been defeated, and the young Deptford

mice emerge from the sewers to start a new life in the country. But the albino mouse Oswald is seized

by an illness and lies near death. His friend Audrey enlists the help of the ancient squirrel mystic Starwife,

who agrees to heal him on one condition. She reintroduces Audrey to the once villainous rat Madam

Akkikuyu, whose mind is now broken, and decrees that Madam Akkikuyu must stay with Audrey until

she dies.

In the country, the mice find a bucolic existence, until they find themselves embroiled in a series of murders.

The country mice suspect that headstrong city mouse, Audrey, is the culprit. But the truth is far more sinister,

as Audrey witnesses the return of the supernatural evil she thought had been destroyed.


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Robin Jarvis
Narrated By : Roe Kendall
Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Duration : 8 hours 30 minutes
Category : Juvenile
$39.95 $16.95

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Miranda the Great
Eleanor Estes
Narrated By : Lyssa Brown
Publisher : Listen & Live
Duration : 3 hours
Category : Animals
$19.95 $12.99

When barbarians invade Rome, Miranda the cat and her daughter Punka must find a safe place to hide from the chaos...


Guardians of Ga'Hoole, Book Two: The Journey
Kathryn Lasky
Narrated By : Pamela Garelick
Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Duration : 6 hours
Category : Juvenile
$29.95 $14.95

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Secret Language of Dolphins, The
Patricia St.John
Narrated By : Bernadette Dunne
Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Duration : 8 hours 30 minutes
Category : Women
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In her extraordinary work with dolphins, Patricia St.John discovered that by letting them draw her into their world, she could understand their voices and their language. When she was introduced to the silent world of the autistic, she took what she had learned from the dolphins and broke...


Heidi
Johanna Spyri
Narrated By : Johanna Ward
Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Duration : 7 hours
Category : Juvenile
$32.95 $16.95

High in the Swiss Alps, Heidi, a five-year-old orphan, comes to live with her grandfather. His neighbors say he is a fierce old hermit, of whom they are all afraid. Heidi, however, proves to be a r...

Delivering Rome audiobook

Delivering Rome: The Adventures of a Young Roman Courier

In Ancient Rome, on the morning of his ninth birthday, young Martial Portius races against time to find his older brother Hershal.

Unless Martial can deliver an important message to him, the forgetful Hershal will likely lose his job as a Roman courier.

As Martial anxiously searches the crowded streets, he learns a good deal about the people, places, and customs of his native city.

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Donna Getzinger
Narrated By : Terence Asleford
Publisher : In Audio
Duration : 45 minutes
Category : Under 10s
$12.95 $7.50

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Tales of Uncle Remus
Joel Chandler Harris
Narrated By : Full Cast Production
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Duration : 1 hour
Category : Animals
$12.95 $8.50

Brings to life the delightful and inimitable characters of Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and Brer Bear...


Dark Portal, The
Robin Jarvis
Narrated By : Roe Kendall
Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Duration : 8 hours 30 minutes
Category : Juvenile
$32.95 $16.95

This first episode in the Deptford Mice trilogy is a tale of horror and valor, good and evil, leavened with humor. In it, Audrey and other brave little mice search for Albert and encounter the sini...


Leon and the Spitting Image
Allen Kurzweil
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Sharon Creech
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Category : Over 10s
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A fictional fantasy in which Leo, a young boy, dreams of becoming a huge Broadway success...


Classic Children's Tales
Various
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Dead Man's Chest audiobook

Dead Man's Chest

Fans of naval stories should love Johnson's book, which honors Stevenson's classic AudioFile

Dead Mans Chest, written as a sequel to Treasure Island, begins with Long John Silvers escape from the merchantman Hispaniola at Puerta Plata and culminates with the American Revolution more than a decade later. It describes in rich detail the unholy alliance between this softhearted cutthroat, his teenage nephew, David Noble, and Captain John Paul Jones. Together they work to retrieve a kings ransom of Spanish gold and jewels from a dead mans chest.

Commander Johnson retired from the United States Navy in 1985 after a twenty-one-year career as a naval aviator, which took him to Vietnam on three separate aircraft carriers. He has recently completed a second career as a fire captain with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection in Northern California. Along with his writing endeavors, Roger has been a published cartoonist and illustrator for twelve years, working for three publishing companies and drawing gag cartoons for two magazines. He and his wife, Elizabeth, live in Hiouchi, a small hamlet on the outskirts of Crescent City, California where he continues to write and paint.

Ralph Cosham has acted in numerous roles for film and TV and in more than one hundred professional theater roles in addition to narrating books for Blackstone Audiobooks. He lives in Reston, Virginia.

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Roger L. Johnson
Narrated By : Ralph Cosham
Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Duration : 17 hours
Category : Juvenile
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Nancy Drew Girl Detective: Framed
Carolyn Keene
Narrated By : Rebecca Rogers
Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Duration : 3 hours
Category : Juvenile
$19.95

In 1941, seven escapees of a Soviet labor camp in Siberia spent a year walking to freedom over four thousand miles of the most forbidding terrain on earth, always a step away from death. They had no map and no compass but only a fierce determination to survive...


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Annie Fellows Johnston
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Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Duration : 2 hours
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J. M. Barrie
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Sharon Creech
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Publisher : Harper Collins US
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Category : General
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Anne of Avonlea
L. M. Montgomery
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The orphan girl Anne Shirley, now grown, returns to Avonlea to teach in the same village where she herself studied...