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Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There - listen book free online

Lewis Carroll is a pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, English logician, mathematician, photographer, and novelist, especially remembered for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass. His poem The Hunting of the Snark is nonsense literature of the highest order. He died of pneumonia following influenza on 14 January 1898 at his sisters' home, "The Chestnuts"... Read More

Lorna Doone - listen book free online

Richard Doddridge Blackmore, known as R. D. Blackmore, was one of the most famous English novelists of the second half of the nineteenth century. Educated at Blundell’s School, Tiverton, and at Exeter College, Oxford, Blackmore was called to the bar but withdrew because of ill health. He married in 1852 and was a schoolteacher from 1855 to 1857. Then, upon receiving a legacy, he bought a proper... Read More

How to Train Your Dragon - listen book free online

Cressida Cowell is an English children's author, popularly known for the book series, How to Train Your Dragon, which has subsequently become an award-winning franchise as adapted for the screen by DreamWorks Animation. As of 2015, the series has sold more than seven million copies around the world. She was born on 15 April 1966 in London. She is the daughter of Michael Hare, 2nd Viscount Blake... Read More

A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons - listen book free online

Cressida Cowell is an English children's author, popularly known for the book series, How to Train Your Dragon. She grew up in London and on a small, uninhabited island off the west coast of Scotland. The island had no roads, houses or electricity. For the first four years, the family would be dropped off like castaways on the island by a local boatman and picked up again two weeks later. Imagi... Read More

How to Be a Pirate - listen book free online

Cressida Cowell is an English children's author. Cowell grew up in London and on a small, uninhabited island off the west coast of Scotland. The name of the island is a secret, but it was such a small island it wasn’t really big enough to have a name at all. There were no roads or shops or electricity on the island, just one house and a storm-blown wilderness of sea-birds and heather. Every yea... Read More

How to Betray a Dragon's Hero - listen book free online

English children's author Cressida Cowell grew up mostly in Central London. She has a BA in English Literature from Oxford, a BA in Graphic Design from St Martin’s and an MA in Narrative Illustration from Brighton. Cressida wrote and illustrated her first picture book, Little Bo Peep’s Library Book for Hodder Children’s Books. This was followed by various picture books including Hiccup: The Vik... Read More

How to Break a Dragon's Heart - listen book free online

Cressida Cowell is the author and illustrator of the How To Train Your Dragon books, which became a DreamWorks film series in 2010. Her childhood was like a training course for eventually writing the brilliant How To Train Your Dragon series. Being packed off to an isolated Inner Hebridean Island each summer - with no modern amenities - meant that the young Cowell entertained herself with a qui... Read More

How to Cheat A Dragon's Curse - listen book free online

Cressida Cowell is an English children's author. In the evening, Cressida’s father read the children tales of the Vikings, who had invaded this island Archipelago over half a millennium before, of the quarrelsome Tribes who fought and tricked each other, and of legendary dragons who were supposed to live in the caves in the cliffs. This was how Cressida herself first began to write stories abou... Read More

How to Ride a Dragon's Storm - listen book free online

Cressida Cowell is an English children's author, popularly known for the book series, How to Train Your Dragon. By the time Cressida was eight, the family had built a small stone house on the island, so they no longer had to camp out in tents, which made life much drier. Her father got a boat, so they could fish for enough food to feed the family for the whole summer. Every year, Cressida spent... Read More

How to Seize a Dragon's Jewel - listen book free online

English children's author Cressida Cowell was born on 15 April 1966 in London. She is the daughter of Michael Hare, 2nd Viscount Blakenham. As a child, Cowell states she "grew up in London and on a small, uninhabited island off the west coast of Scotland," and that it was during summers spent on the Inner Hebrides where she first began to develop her writing and drawing talents. Cowell attended... Read More

How to Speak Dragonese - listen book free online

Cressida Cowell is an English children's author, popularly known for the book series, How to Train Your Dragon. After school, Cressida obtained a BA in English Literature from Oxford University, a BA in Graphic Design from St Martins and an MA in Narrative Illustration from Brighton. Cressida wrote and illustrated her first picture book, Little Bo Peeps Library Book for Hodder Children's Books... Read More

How to Steal a Dragon's Sword - listen book free online

Cressida Cowell is an English children's author, popularly known for the book series, How to Train Your Dragon, which has subsequently become an award-winning franchise as adapted for the screen by DreamWorks Animation. She grew up in London and on a small, uninhabited island off the west coast of Scotland. The island had no roads, houses or electricity. For the first four years, the family wou... Read More

How to Twist a Dragon's Tale - listen book free online

How to Train Your Dragon is a series of twelve children's books, written by British author Cressida Cowell. The books are set in a fictional Viking world and focus on the experiences of protagonist Hiccup as he overcomes great obstacles on his journey of Becoming a Hero, the Hard Way. The books were published by Hodder Children's Books in the UK and by Little, Brown and Company in the US. The f... Read More

Frenchman’s Creek - listen book free online

Daphne was born into a creative and successful family. Her grandfather was the brilliant artist and writer George du Maurier and her father was Gerald du Maurier, the most famous actor-manager and matinee idol of his day. Her mother, Muriel Beaumont, was also an actress. In 1932 Daphne du Maurier married Frederick Browning, a military man, and they had three children. She lived at Menabilly, th... Read More

The King's Deception - listen book free online

Steve Berry is an American author and former attorney. He is a graduate of Mercer University's Walter F. George School of Law. He was a trial lawyer for 30 years and held elective office for 14 of those years. Steve Berry is a founding member of International Thriller Writers, a group of nearly 4,000 thriller writers from around the world, and served three years as its co-president. The King’s... Read More

The Venetian Betrayal - listen book free online

American writer Steve Berry was born and raised in Georgia, graduating from the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University. History lies at the heart of every Steve Berry novel. It’s his passion. Since 2009 Steve and his wife Elizabeth have crossed the country to save endangered historic treasures, raising money via lectures, receptions, galas, luncheons, dinners and their popular writ... Read More

The Amber Room - listen book free online

Steve Berry is the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of The Malta Exchange, The Bishop’s Pawn, The Lost Order, The 14th Colony, The Patriot Threat, The Lincoln Myth, The King’s Deception, The Columbus Affair, The Jefferson Key, The Emperor’s Tomb and others. He has 20 million books in print, translated into 40 languages. With his wife, Elizabeth, he is the founder of Hist... Read More

The Gunslinger - listen book free online

Author Stephen Edwin King was born on September 21, 1947, in Portland, Maine. King is recognized as one of the most famous and successful horror writers of all time. His parents, Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King, split up when he was very young, and he and his brother David divided their time between Indiana and Connecticut for several years. King later moved back to Maine with his mother... Read More

Watership Down - listen book free online

Watership Down is a survival and adventure novel by English author Richard Adams. He studied modern history at university before serving in the British Army during World War II. Afterwards, he completed his studies, and then joined the British Civil Service. In 1974, two years after Watership Down was published, Adams became a full-time author. In the Sandleford warren, Fiver, a young runt rabb... Read More

Forrest Gump - listen book free online

Winston Francis Groom is an American novelist and non-fiction writer. He is known for writing Forrest Gump, which was adapted into a film by Robert Zemeckis in 1994. He has also written numerous non-fiction works, on diverse subjects including the American Civil War and World War I. In 1985, Groom moved back to Mobile, Alabama, where he began to work on the novel Forrest Gump. Forrest Gump was... Read More