General Fiction on MP3CD

A Daughter of Zion
The Zion Chronicles Book 2 (2000)

1 disc

This second book in The Zion Chronicles is a sweeping historical novel of a young nation struggling to keep its mandate and a young woman struggling for her life.

Rachel Lebowitz has survived the Holocaust, but only at great personal cost. Joining the thousands of Jewish people...

A Light In Zion
The Zion Chronicles Book 4 (2001)

1 disc

The fourth book in The Zion Chronicles opens in April 1948, only six weeks before the final evacuation of the British from Israel. The dream for the rebirth of the Jewish nation now appears doomed to extinction. The British have almost totally withdrawn from any interference between the battles...

Classics of Childhood
Volume 1 (2008)

1 disc

This collection of children’s stories offers a mix of some best-loved tales as well as newer favorites.

Included are:
“Puss in Boots,” read by Robby Benson

“A Day at Santa’s Workshop,” read by Betty White

“Elfis, the Elf Who Saved Christmas,”...

Earthborn
Homecoming Series Volume 5 (2009)

1 disc

High above Earth orbits the starship Basilica. On board the huge vessel is a sleeping woman. Of those who made the journey, Shedemai alone has survived the hundreds of years since the Children of Wetchik returned to Earth.

She now wears the Cloak of the Starmaster, and the Oversoul wakes...

Earthfall
Homecoming Series Volume 4 (2008)

1 disc

When war broke out on the planet Harmony, the Oversoul of that colonized world selected the family of Wetchik to carry it back to long-lost Earth. Now the tribe is ready at last to take a ship to the stars. But from the beginning there has been bitter dispute between Wetchik’s sons, Nafai and...

Louis L'Amour Set
The Rider of the Ruby Hills and Showdown Trail (2006)

1 disc

"The Rider of the Ruby Hills"
Ross Hardy had made his decision. He sat in the middle of all he owned, a splendid Appaloosa gelding, a fine California saddle, a .44 Winchester rifle, and two walnut-stocked Colt .44 pistols. These were his all. It was a life that had left him rich in...

Prentice Alvin
Tales of Alvin Maker, Book 3 (2007)

1 disc

The saga of Alvin Maker, set in an alternative version of the American frontier country, continues, in a tale full of folklore and magic.

Young Alvin returns to the town of his birth and begins his apprenticeship with Makepeace Smith, committing seven years of his life in exchange for...

Sarah
The Women of Genesis (2005)

1 disc

Sarah was a child of ten years, wise for her age but not yet a woman, when she first met Abram. He appeared before her in her father's house, filthy from the desert, tired and thirsty. But as the dirt of travel was washed from his body, the sight of him filled her heart. And when Abram promises...

The Call of Earth
Homecoming Series Volume 2 (2008)

1 disc

For millennia, the planet Harmony has been protected by the Oversoul, an artificial intelligence programmed to prevent thoughts of war and conquest from threatening the fragile remnant of Earth’s peoples. But as the Oversoul’s systems have begun to fail, a great warrior has arisen to...

The Divine Comedy
Inferno,Purgatorio,Paradiso (2007)

1 disc

Blackstone Audio presents a new recording of this classic masterpiece, originally published in 1320, with award-winning narrator Ralph Cosham.

No words can describe the greatness of this work, a greatness both of theme and of artistry. Dante’s theme is universal; it involves the greatest...

The Gates of Zion
The Zion Chronicles Book 1 (2000)

1 disc

This first book in The Zion Chronicles vividly portrays the intense struggle of the Jewish people in the aftermath of the Holocaust and the forces, within and without, which engulf the Middle East in conflict and controversy even today.

Ellie Warne, a young American...

The Key to Zion
The Zion Chronicles Book 5 (2001)

1 disc

The British are in the final stages of their military evacuation from Palestine. The Arab Palestinians have impatiently waited for this moment, but their power has gradually eroded. Five Mid-Eastern nations have gathered around the tiny country to divide it up for themselves, totally ignoring the...

The Memory of Earth
Homecoming Series Volume 1 (2008)

1 disc

High above the planet Harmony, the Oversoul watches. Its task, programmed so many millennia ago, is to guard the human settlement on this planet, to protect this fragile remnant of Earth from all threats. To protect them, most of all, from themselves.

The Oversoul has done its job well....

The Return to Zion
The Zion Chronicles Book 3 (2001)

1 disc

The Jewish people, gazing down the vista of time, have longed for the rebirth of their nation. Out of the ashes of the Holocaust, thousands of courageous Jews have returned to Israel only to be caught in the life-and-death struggle of the nation. Now in the final weeks of British occupation in...

The Ships of Earth
Homecoming Series Volume 3 (2008)

1 disc

With the continuing failure of the Oversoul, the artificially intelligent guardian computer of the planet Harmony, the human colonists have begun to repeat the devastations of war and conquest wrought on Earth. To repair itself and avert disaster, the Oversoul has called a group of sixteen...

A Knight of the White Cross
A Tale of the Seige of Rhodes (2007)

1 disc

The story begins during the War of the Roses in England, but our hero, Gervaise Tresham soon joins the Knights of St. John in Rhodes. Dedicated to God's service and pious in his personal life, Gervaise uncovers a plot, saves the coast of Italy from the Muslim corsairs, and is knighted by the...

A Tale of Two Cities (1998)

1 disc

When the starving French masses rise to overthrow a corrupt and decadent government, both the guilty and innocent become victims of their frenzied anger. Soon nothing stands in the way of the chilling figure they enlist for their cause—La Guillotine—the new invention for efficiently chopping...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (2008)

1 disc

Lewis Carroll’s enduring tale begins with Alice chasing the White Rabbit down a rabbit hole, where she encounters a world of delightfully eccentric characters like the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, the Cheshire Cat, the Mock Turtle, and the Queen of Hearts. Throughout her fantastic journeys,...

Around the World In Eighty Days (1993)

1 disc

Phileas Fogg, a distinguished member of London’s Reform Club, takes up a wager to circle the globe in just eighty days. Together with his manservant Passepartout and a detective named Fix, Fogg makes a fantastic world tour utilizing every means of transportation available in the 1870’s. This...

Ben-Hur (2000)

2 discs

One of the most popular American novels of all time, Ben-Hur vividly reimagines the oppressive Roman occupation of ancient Palestine and the rise of Christianity. The saga of Judah Ben-Hur's spiritual journey from slavery to vengeance to redemption is both a vivid historical adventure and a...

Beric the Briton
A Story of the Roman Invasion (2004)

1 disc

Beric, a boy-chief of a British tribe, takes a prominent part in the insurrection against Rome under Queen Boadicea. These efforts are useless against the mighty Roman army. For a short time, Beric and his companions continue the fight but are ultimately defeated and taken as prisoners to Rome....

By Right of Conquest
With Cortez in Mexico (2005)

1 disc

The conquest of the Aztec Empire by Hernando Cortez and a mere handful of Spaniards is one of the greatest romances of history. A writer of fiction would scarcely have dared to invent so improbable a story, but it is true. Fortunately, Cortez was able to ally himself with many peoples conquered...

Chronicles of Avonlea (1995)

1 disc

Listeners will want to know whether Anne Shirley appears in these stories of Avonlea and Spencervale. She does. In fact, page one starts off with Anne Shirley curled up on the window seat of Theodora Dix’s sitting-room where Anne was visiting for a fortnight of her vacation.

However, most...

David Copperfield (1992)

3 discs

David Copperfield is the timeless tale of a thoughtful orphan discovering how to live and love in a cutthroat, indifferent adult world. It firmly embraces all the eternal freshness, the comic delights, the tender warmth, and the ghastly horrors of childhood.

Of all Charles Dickens’s...

Don Quixote de la Mancha (1997)

3 discs

With a wealth of fancy and an irrepressible high spirit, this beloved adventure story pokes fun at the exaggerated social and literary conventions of Cervantes’ day. Driven mad by reading too many chivalric romances, Don Quixote decks himself out in rusty armor and a cardboard helmet,...

Dracula (1998)

1 disc

The Dracula mythology has inspired a vast subculture, but the story has never been better told than by Bram Stoker. He succeeds entirely in his aim to terrify. His myth is powerful because it allows evil to remain mysterious, unconquerable by strength of mind or virtuous action. Van Helsing's...

For the Temple
A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem (2004)

1 disc

Mr. Henty tells an exciting story from the record of Josephus. The troubles in the district of Tiberias, the march of the legions, the sieges of Jotapata, of Gamala, and of Jerusalem all come to life. In this impressive and carefully studied historic setting, you will follow a lad, John of...

Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (2008)

1 disc

A masterpiece of nineteenth-century Gothic horror, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein also has the distinction of being the first science-fiction novel. Dr. Victor Frankenstein, an ambitious young scientist, is consumed by a fanatic desire to create a living being. He fashions an eight-foot creature and...

Further Chronicles of Avonlea (2009)

1 disc

Welcome, once again, to the charming byways of Avonlea and its people, as created by one of Canada’s most beloved authors. In this volume of heartwarming tales, a Persian cat plays an amazing role in a marriage proposal, a young girl risks losing her mother in her quest to find her father, and...

George Orwell Boxed Set
1984
Animal Farm (2007)

1 disc

1984

Orwell depicts a gray, totalitarian world in which privacy does not exist, news is manufactured according to the authorities' will, and those with unorthodox ideas are brainwashed or put to death. Orwell's 1949 nightmare vision of the world we were becoming is still...