Description: It is 186 AD. Britain is a province of the Roman Empire. The inland tribes have settled into peace, the island is criss-crossed by military roads, and Roman law prevails...In Glevum (modern Gloucester) lives Libertus, a freedman. For years he has been searching for his wife, and has just heard of a possible sighting when his patron asks for his help on a murder case. A body has been found in a nearby villa. A slave is missing and the solution to the mystery seems obvious. But nothing is at it appears.

Description: Come with us to an Enchanted Place, a forest where Winnie-the-Pooh lived with Piglet, Rabbit, Owl, Eeyore, Kanga, and Little Roo. The stories are about Christopher Robin and these good companions having wonderful times getting in and out of trouble. It is all very exciting and, really, quite thrilling no matter how young or old you may be. It is painful to try and imagine what the world would be like without them.
Blackstone Audiobooks presents, from the unabridged collection A.A. Milne's Pooh Classics, the 10 stories of Winnie-the-Pooh performed by Peter Dennis. This is the only reading of these immortal stories authorized by A.A. Milne's son, Christopher Robin, who wrote, "Peter Dennis has made himself Pooh's Ambassador Extraordinare and no bear has ever had a more devoted friend. So if you want to meet the real Pooh, the bear I knew, the bear my father wrote about, listen to Peter."

Description: When We Were Very Young, the first of A.A. Milne's four world-famous books for children, introduced Christopher Robin to innumerable friends, and has probably been read more widely than any other book of verse for children published in our time.
For sheer delightfulness the children's rhymes of A.A. Milne are in a class by themselves, with their charm, humour, and understanding to say nothing of their irresistible rhythms.

Description: Blackstone Audiobooks presents, from the unabridged collection A.A. Milne's Pooh Classics, the 35 poems and verses from Now We Are Six performed by Peter Dennis. This is the only reading of these delightful verses authorized by A.A. Milne's son, Christopher Robin.
The verses here, along with the verses in When We Were Very Young and the stories in Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, have endeared themselves to so many readers that it is painful to try to imagine what the world would be like without them.

Description: Eccentric, absent-minded inventor Professor Branestawm, with three or four glasses stacked up over his bald head (and he still can't find them) embarks on a series of adventures with his friend Colonel Dedshott. Various machines are invented: a time travel machine, a device to capture and tie up burglars, and a spring cleaning machine. Inevitably, something goes wrong and Professor Branestawm is again in a pickle, exasperating his housekeeper Mrs Flittersnoop and delighting us.

Description: Mrs. Emily Delahunty-a mysterious and not entirely trustworthy former madam-quietly runs a pensione in the Italian countryside and writes romance novels while she muses on her checkered past. Then one day her world is changed forever as the train she is riding in is blown up by terrorists. Taken to a local hospital to recuperate, she befriends the other survivors-an elderly English general, an American child, and a German boy-and takes them all to convalesce at her villa, with unforeseen results.

Description: This book is an autobiographical account of five years in the childhood of naturalist Gerald Durrell. The book is divided into three sections, marking the three villas in which the family lived on the island. Apart from Gerald (the youngest) and Larry, the family comprised their widowed mother, the gun-mad Leslie, and diet-obsessed sister Margo together with Roger the dog. They are fiercely protected by their taxi-driver friend Spiro (Spyros 'Americano' Chalikiopoulos) and mentored by the polymath Dr Theodore Stephanides who provides Gerald with his education in natural history. Other human characters, chiefly eccentric, include Gerald's private tutors, the artistic and literary visitors Larry invites to stay, and the local peasants who befriend the family. This is an audio treat for young and old.

Description: A treasure-chest of the written and spoken word, this collection is read by brilliant actors who make this audio anthology a genuine treat for the listener. Includes: "Reginald on House Parties" by Saki, read by Nigel Hawthorne; "The Sphinx Without a Secret" by Oscar Wilde, read by Martin Jarvis; "Tobermory" by Saki, read by Barbara Leigh-Hunt; "On Being Idle" by Jerome K. Jerome, read by Hugh Laurie; "For Better or Worse" by W.W. Jacobs, read by Joanna David; "The Model Millionaire" by Oscar Wilde, read by T.P. McKenna; "The Garden of Truth" by E. Nesbit, read by Harriet Walker; "The Cat That Walked by Himself" by Rudyard Kipling, read by Liza Goddard; "The Girl from Arles" by Alphonse Daudet, read by Stephen Fry; "Mr. & Mrs. Dove" by Katherine Mansfield, read by Rosalind Ayres; "Georgie Porgie" by Rudyard Kipling, read by Edward Fox; "Caterpillars" by E.F. Benson, read by Patrick Malahide; "Lost Hearts" by M.R. James, read by Richard Pasco; "Ship to Tarshish" by John Buchan, read by Iain Cuthbertson; "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, read by Richard Pasco; "The Man of the Night" by Edgar Wallace, read by Robin Bailey; "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, read by Nicky Henson; "B 24" by Arthur Conan Doyle, read by Brian Cox; "Pat Hobby & Orson Welles" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, read by Kerry Shale; "Mad" by Guy de Maupassant, read by Derek Jacobi; "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe, read by Richard Griffiths; and "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs, read by Patrick Malahide.

Description: Denim and Diamonds: Rancher Chase Brown has always loved Letty Ellison, but nine years ago she left their small Wyoming town, searching for a different kind of life. Now she’s come home to Red Springs with her dreams in tatters—and a five-year-old child in tow. She’s ready to trade the false glitter of Hollywood for the true happiness of being a rancher’s wife. Chase’s wife. But is it too late? The Wyoming Kid: Rancher Lonny Ellison is an ex-rodeo cowboy who’s used to the adulation of women. But that’s something he doesn’t get from Joy Fuller. In fact, they argue constantly. His sister, Letty, says it’s because he’s interested in Joy…and Lonny figures she’s right. Can he convince Joy that marriage to the Wyoming Kid will be as exciting as an eight-second bull ride and as sweet as the cookies she likes to bake? �"Macomber is known for her honest portrayals of ordinary women in small-town America.