Ian Whitcomb

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1) After the Ball: Pop Music from Rag to Rock

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First published in 1972, Ian Whitcomb's After the Ball is an exuberant account of the origins and explosion of popular music, informed by the author's store of experience in the field as a pop sensation of The Sixties.'Brash, learned, funny and perspicacious... The author of this free-wheeling, diverting history was a student at Trinity College, Dublin, when he created a rock hit 'You Turn Me On,' and experienced a brief, bewildering season as a touring...

2) The Princess and Curdie

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MacDonald, George

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Princess Irene and Curdie

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The Princess and Curdie is the sequel to George MacDonald's popular The Princess and the Goblin. After saving the Princess Irene in the first book, the young miner Curdie travels to the King's castle for more adventures of faith and courage. Considered the grandfather of modern fantasy novels, MacDonald published this novel in 1883. Our rejuvenated edition makes the story more readable by updating spelling, breaking up very long paragraphs, and replacing...

3) The Princess and the Goblin

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MacDonald, George

Series

Princess Irene and Curdie

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eAudiobook, eBook

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Full of exquisite moonlit scenes that play out like dreams and underground escapades descending into nightmare, this is a must-read for all fantasy aficionados and fans of Tolkien, Lewis, and RowlingEight-year-old Princess Irene lives a lonely life in a wild, desolate, mountainous kingdom, with only her nursemaid Lootie for company. She is protected from the outside world and oblivious to the existence of goblins, hideous creatures that live underground...

4) His Last Bow

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Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Series

Sherlock Holmes

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eAudiobook, eBook

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Arthur Conan Doyle's His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes(1917) is an outstanding collection of some of the later stories and most dramatic exploits of Detective Holmes and Dr. Watson. These stories were composed between 1908 and 1917, with the exception of the infamous tale "The Cardboard Box", which was written in 1893. Six of these adventures were initially published The Strand magazine, and the final titular story was published...

5) Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Cracked Mirror, A Short Mystery: A Short Mystery

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Cartawick, Pennie Mae

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Sherlock Holmes

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An enhanced audiobook, with complete music score and extensive sound effects to add to your listening experience. "The fireman had seen a skeleton, wearing a dress coat, whose head was aflame. I was deeply worried for the missing young woman. If she had been taken by the opera ghost, be he flesh or spirit, how would she fare if she rejected his 'love'? All worries were momentarily forced out of my head when a sudden squawk rang out across the opera...

6) Sherlock Holmes

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Cartawick, Pennie Mae

Series

Sherlock Holmes

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Sherlock Holmes: Double Trouble in York: The 19th Crime Mystery in This Sherlock Holmes Series. Travel to York in England, Where an Assassin Awaits for Watson. A short Story 30 minutes. Upon hearing that I had to consciously resist the temptation that I had to peek through the drapes to see if I could catch a glimpse of that scoundrel. Holmes continued, "It is time, Watson." "Time for what?" "Time for you to be viciously murdered in cold-blood....