Pandora's Box

Outbreak

By: Eric L. Harry
Narrated by: Morgan Hallett
Length: 12 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No

"Harry's vision of an apocalyptic plague is as chilling as it is plausible. This masterful thriller will leave you terrified, enthralled, and desperate for the next entry in the series." -Kira Peikoff, author of No Time to Die and Die Again Tomorrow "Like Crichton and H.G. Wells, Harry writes stories that entertain roundly while they explore... Read more »

The Jesus Incident

By: Frank Herbert & Bill Ransom
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 16 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No

The last survivors of humanity have just been deposited onPandora, a horrific, poisonous planet rife with deadly nerve-runners, hooded dashers,airborne jellyfish, and intelligent kelp. The determined colonists attempt toestablish a bridgehead on the deadly, inhospitable planet, but more troublearises. Their sentient ship—backed up by an... Read more »

The Lazarus Effect

By: Frank Herbert & Bill Ransom
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 15 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No

The exciting sequel to TheJesus Incident, one of the greatest adventures since Dune.

A world of water…

In The Jesus IncidentFrank Herbert and Bill Ransom introduced Ship, an artificial intelligence thatbelieved it was God, abandoning its unworthy human cargo on the all-sea worldof Pandora. Now centuries have passed. The descendants of humanity,... Read more »

Contagion

By: Eric L. Harry
Narrated by: Morgan Hallett
Length: 11 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No

The world is not the same since the Pandoravirus outbreak changed the essence of human nature. Those affected by the disease are consumed by adrenal rage. They erupt in violence with the slightest provocation. And now, infected scientist Emma Miller is forging them into an army of merciless killers marching across America. Emma's twin sister,... Read more »

Resistance

By: Morgan Hallett & Eric L. Harry
Narrated by: Morgan Hallett
Length: 11 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No

THE BATTLE LINES ARE DRAWN Scientist Emma Miller was the first American infected in the Pandoravirus pandemic, which triggers violent rages and sociopathic homicide. No longer fettered by morality or emotion, she has attracted millions of followers, both infected and uninfected. But is she America's worst nightmare-or its only hope? Emma's twin... Read more »

The Ascension Factor

By: Frank Herbert & Bill Ransom
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 14 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No

Set twenty-five years after The Lazarus Effect, this final book in the Destination: Void collaboration between Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom concludes the story of the planet Pandora.

Pandora’s humans have been recovering land from its ragingseas at an accelerated pace since TheLazarus Effect. The great kelp of the seas, sentient but... Read more »

Destination: Void

By: Frank Herbert
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 9 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No

The starship Earthling,filled with thousands of hibernating colonists en route to a new world at Tau Ceti,is stranded beyond the solar system when the ship’s three organic mental cores—disembodiedhuman brains that control the vessel’s functions—go insane. The emergencyskeleton crew sees only one chance for survival: build an... Read more »

White Fang

By: Jack London
Narrated by: Mark Smith
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No

Born in the wilds of the freezing cold Yukon, White Fang – half-dog, half-wolf – is the only animal in the litter to survive. He soon learns the harsh laws of nature, yet buried deep inside him are the distant memories of affection and love. Will this fiercely independent creature of the wild learn to trust man again? Read more »

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

By: Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: David Clarke
Length: 11 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No

Missing, presumed dead, for three years, Sherlock Holmes returns triumphantly to his dear companion Dr Watson. And not before time! London has never been in more need of his extraordinary services: a murderous individual with an air gun stalks the city. Among thirteen further brilliant tales of mystery, detection and deduction, Sherlock Holmes... Read more »

The Sign of the Four

By: Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: David Clarke
Length: 4 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No

As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock Holmes, who sits in a cocaine-induced haze at 221B Baker Street. His mood is only lifted by a visit from a beautiful but distressed young woman – Mary Morstan, whose father vanished ten years before. Four years later she began to receive an... Read more »

The Watsons

By: Jane Austen & Gesine
Length: 1 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No

in Austen’s unfinished work, The Watsons, a family reunion sparks the passionate pursuits of four sisters. Where it all leads is a literary guessing game. ©2020 Pandora's Box (P)2020 Pandora's Box Read more »

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

By: Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: David Clarke
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No

This gripping collection includes many of the famous cases-and great strokes of brilliance-that made the leg­endary Sherlock Holmes one of fiction's most popular creations. With his devoted secretary, Dr. Watson, Holmes emerges from his smoke-filled rooms on Baker Street to grapple with the forces of treachery, intrigue, and evil in such cases... Read more »

The Valley of Fear

By: Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: David Clarke
Length: 6 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No

From the annals of Dr Watson comes this dark tale of Sherlock Holmes’ early encounter with Professor Moriarty. When Holmes and Watson receive a cipher from one of Moriarty’s henchmen warning of dark doings at a manor house, they find themselves on the trail of a murderer. Almost immediately, they are on their way to Sussex where they discover a... Read more »

Emma

By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Maria Therese
Length: 14 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No

When her former governess finds happiness as the bride of a local widower, the brilliant and beautiful Emma Woodhouse — one of Jane Austen’s immortal creations — flatters herself that she alone has secured the marriage and that she possesses a special talent for bringing lovers together. The young heiress next busies herself with finding a... Read more »

Charles Dickens: The Complete Novels [volume 2] (David Copperfield, Bleak House, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations...)

By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Mil Nicholson & Paul Adams
Length: 201 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No

This audiobook contains the second part of the complete novels of Charles Dickens in the chronological order of their original publication: - David Copperfield (starts at Chapter 1) - Bleak House (starts at Chapter 68) - Hard Times (starts at Chapter 138) - Little Dorrit (starts at Chapter 177) - A Tale of Two Cities (starts at Chapter 250) -... Read more »

Lady Susan

By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Kristin Hughes
Length: 2 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No

This high-spirited tale, told through an exchange of letters, is unique in Jane Austen’s small body of work. It is the story of Lady Susan, a brilliant, beautiful and morally reprehensible coquette who delights in making men fall in love with her, deceiving their wives into friendship and even tormenting her own daughter, cruelly bending her to... Read more »

Northanger Abbey

By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Elizabeth Klett
Length: 6 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No

During an eventful season at Bath, young, naïve Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella, who shares Catherine's love of Gothic romance and horror, and sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney, who invite her to their father's mysterious... Read more »

Pride and Prejudice

By: Jane Austen & Elizabeth Klett
Length: 11 hours 1 minutes
Abridged: No

Since its immediate success in 1813, Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this brilliant work “her own darling child” and its vivacious heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, “as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print.” The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and... Read more »

Mansfield Park

By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Karen Savage
Length: 14 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No

After her impoverished family sends her to live with her wealthy aunt and uncle at opulent Mansfield Park, Fanny Price finds her life forever changed by the aristocratic Bertrams and the city-dwelling Crawford siblings. But is it for the better? While the others seem content to abandon what’s right to further their own interests, Fanny decides... Read more »

Through the Looking Glass

By: Lewis Carroll
Narrated by: Kara Shallenberg
Length: 3 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No

In the sequel to Alice in Wonderland, young Alice is once again transported to strange world after she steps through a mirror to see what’s on the other side. There she finds that things are quite different with tiny, living chess pieces, talking flowers and time that runs backwards. Encountering some characters from her previous adventure she... Read more »

Rainbow Valley

By: Lucy Maud Montgomery
Narrated by: Karen Savage
Length: 7 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No

Anne and Gilbert have now been married for fifteen years and are busily raising their six rambunctious children in the village of Glen St. Mary. But when a new minister, John Meredith, comes to town with his own four youngsters in tow, things get very boisterous indeed. Together, the Blythe and Meredith children hatch schemes in their own... Read more »

Meditations

By: Marcus Aurelius
Narrated by: George Allen, Linda Johnson & Gemma L. Myers
Length: 4 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No

Marcus Aurelius was born in Rome in 121 AD and would become its Emperor from 161 to 180. Considered by Machiavelli as the last of the good Emperors, Marcus Aurelius would become one of the most important of the Stoic philosophers. The "Meditations," which he wrote in Greek, are among the most noteworthy expressions of this system, and exhibit... Read more »

Rose in Bloom

By: Louisa May Alcott
Narrated by: Maria Therese
Length: 8 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No

Before she wrote Little Women, Louisa May Alcott told this story of a ninteenth-century girl finding her way in society. In this sequel to Eight Cousins, Rose Campbell returns to the “Aunt Hill” after two years of traveling around the world. Suddenly, she is surrounded by male admirers, all expecting her to marry them. But before she marries... Read more »

Nicholas Nickleby

By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Mil Nicholson
Length: 35 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No

'A revelation ... as well as being sympathetic to the plight of children, it is hilarious' A. N. Wilson The hero of Dickens's flamboyantly exuberant novel, Nicholas Nickleby, is left penniless after his father's death and forced to make his own way in the world. His adventures give Dickens the opportunity to portray an extraordinary gallery of... Read more »

Nobody's Child

By: Austin Boyd
Narrated by: Pam Ward
Length: 10 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No

Austin Boyd’s vivid writing plunges you into Appalachia with such descriptive realism that you taste the perfume of summer clover and melt into the tender heart of a young woman who would sacrifice anything for Daddy. Hearkening to the myth of Pandora’s Box, Nobody’s Child sweeps you into a world where unprecedented choices never intended by... Read more »

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By: James Joyce
Narrated by: Peter Bobbe
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No

"I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning." James Joyce's supremely innovative... Read more »

Anne's House of Dreams

By: Lucy Maud Montgomery
Narrated by: Karen Savage
Length: 7 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No

Gilbert Blythe is finally a doctor, and at long last he and Anne are ready to say their vows. Soon husband and wife will be bound for a new life together in their own house of dreams, on the shores of Four Winds Harbor, near Gilbert’s new medical practice in the village of Glen St. Mary. Of course, a new life brings fresh surprises and fresh... Read more »

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

By: Mark Twain
Narrated by: John Greenman
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No

Whether forming a pirate gang to search for buried treasure or spending a quiet time at home, sharing his medicine with Aunt Polly's cat, the irrepressible Tom Sawyer evokes the world of boyhood in nineteenth century rural America. In this classic story, Mark Twain re-created a long-ago world of freshly whitewashed fences and Sunday school... Read more »

Little Dorrit

By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Mil Nicholson
Length: 36 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No

A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is one of the supreme works of Dickens's maturity. When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for... Read more »

Middlemarch

By: George Eliot
Narrated by: Margaret Espaillat
Length: 34 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No

By the time the novel appeared to tremendous popular and critical acclaim in 1871-2, George Eliot was recognized as England's finest living novelist. It was her ambition to create a world and portray a whole community--tradespeople, middle classes, country gentry--in the rising provincial town of Middlemarch, circa 1830. Vast and crowded, rich... Read more »

Hard Times

By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Phil Benson
Length: 10 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No

'Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else' Dickens's novel honouring the value of the human heart in an age of materialism centres on Coketown, where Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school owner and model of Utilitarian success, feeds his pupils and his family with... Read more »

Eight Cousins

By: Louisa May Alcott
Narrated by: Claire Smith
Length: 7 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No

Rose Campbell, tired and ill, has come to live at "The Aunt Hill" after the death of her beloved father. Six aunts fussing and fretting over her are bad enough, but what is a quiet 13-year-old girl to do with seven boisterous boy cousins? Read more »

The Call of the Wild

By: Jack London
Narrated by: Smith Mark
Length: 3 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No

Buck, a sturdy crossbreed canine (half St. Bernard, half Shepard), is a dog born to luxury and raised in a sheltered Californian home. But then he is kidnapped and sold to be a sled dog in the harsh and frozen Yukon Territory. Passed from master to master, Buck embarks on an extraordinary journey, proving his unbreakable spirit... First... Read more »

Pandora's Box

By: Natale Stenzel
Narrated by: Cynthia Wallace
Length: 9 hours 1 minutes
Abridged: No

HOPE REMAINS….

All Pandemina Dorothy Avery ever wanted was to be beautifully, blessedly normal, with a stable career and a love life leading to a white picket fence and a happily-ever-after. That seems impossible now. Penniless and parted from her unfaithful boyfriend, unfairly shunned by her coworkers, not even Mina’s recent inheritance can... Read more »

Dracula

By: Bram Stoker
Narrated by: Kara Shallenberg
Length: 15 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No

Jonathan Harker, a young London solicitor travels to Transylvania to help a rich nobleman, Count Dracula, purchase an estate in England. Dracula is planning to immigrate to England, and wants Harker to help him hammer out all the legal details. Harker is at first impressed by Dracula's suave politeness, but is soon creeped out by the Count's... Read more »

The Hound of the Baskervilles

By: Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: David Clarke
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No

The Hound of the Baskervilles gripped readers when it was first serialised and remains one of Sherlock Holmes's greatest and most popular adventures. Could the sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville have been caused by the gigantic ghostly hound that is said to have haunted his family for generations? Arch-rationalist Sherlock Holmes... Read more »

Great Expectations

By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Mil Nicholson
Length: 20 hours 1 minutes
Abridged: No

GREAT EXPECTATIONS is Charles Dickens' thirteenth novel and his penultimate completed novel; a bildungsroman which depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens's second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens's... Read more »

Beatrix Potter: The Collection

By: Beatrix Potter
Narrated by: Elizabeth Klett, Isabelle Brasme, Beth Thomas & Brad Bush
Length: 3 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No

Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist best known for her children's books featuring animals. Potter's artistic and literary interests were deeply influenced by fairies, fairy tales and fantasy. Her best known picture book is The Tale of Peter Rabbit which was also her first... Read more »

The Picture of Dorian Gray

By: Oscar Wilde
Narrated by: Bob Neufeld
Length: 9 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No

Wilde’s only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life and consequence. From its provocative Preface, challenging the reader to belief in ‘art for art’s sake’, to its sensational conclusion, the story... Read more »

Beyond Good and Evil

By: Friedrich Nietzsche
Narrated by: Cori Samuel
Length: 8 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No

A caustic criticism of nearly every philosophic predecessor and a challenge of traditionally held views on right and wrong, Friedrich Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil paved the way for modern philosophical thought. Through nearly three hundred transformative aphorisms, Nietzsche presents a worldview in which neither truth nor morality are... Read more »

Our Mutual Friend

By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Mil Nicholson
Length: 35 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No

'The great poet of the city. He was created by London' Peter Ackroyd Our Mutual Friend centres on an inheritance - Old Harmon's profitable dust heaps - and its legatees: young John Harmon, presumed drowned when a body is pulled out of the Thames, and kindly dustman Mr Boffin, to whom the fortune defaults. With brilliant satire, Dickens portrays... Read more »

Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Collection

By: Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: David Clarke
Length: 67 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based detective, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess, and is renowned for his skillful use of deductive... Read more »

David Copperfield

By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: James Mendes
Length: 32 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No

David Copperfield is the novel Dickens regarded as his 'favourite child' and is considered his most autobiographical. As David recounts his experience from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist, Dickens draws openly and revealingly on his own life. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters are David's tyrannical... Read more »

Black Beauty

By: Anna Sewell
Narrated by: Cori Samuel
Length: 5 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No

Is it possible that a horse can think, analyse the situation and come to conclusions like a human? It is possible! Anna Sewell states that in her famous novel “Black Beauty” where the story is told on behalf of an English noble blood stallion. This touching and rather sentimental story teaches us to understand horses better, to treat nature and... Read more »

The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison & John Jay
Narrated by: Kim Braun, Robert Scott, Scott Mather & Susan Denney
Length: 20 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No

Hailed by Thomas Jefferson as “the best commentary on the principles of government which was ever written,” The Federalist Papers is a collection of eighty-five essays published by Founding Fathers Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay from 1787 to 1788, as a means to persuade the public to ratify the Constitution of the United... Read more »

Heart of Darkness

By: Joseph Conrad
Narrated by: Bob Neufeld
Length: 4 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No

The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness. As the peak of European Imperialism, steamboat captain Charles Marlow travels deep into the African Congo on his way to relieve the elusive Mr Kurtz, an... Read more »

The Druid Made Me Do It

By: Natale Stenzel
Narrated by: Roni Gallimore
Length: 11 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No

Sometimes it’s good to be guilty….

IT’S ALL FUN & GAMES…

Dark, powerful, sexy Kane. He has many names, but in truth he is Robin Goodfellow, the one-time favored son of Oberon, King of Faery. For centuries he’s worked his magic, seducing and pleasuring women as befits his puca nature. But Kane made one big mistake—punishing his brother for a... Read more »

The Elements of Style

By: William Strunk, Jr.
Narrated by: Nicholas James Bridgewater
Length: 1 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No

'The Elements of Style' (1918), by William Strunk, Jr., is an American English writing style guide. It is the best-known, most influential prescriptive treatment of English grammar and usage, and often is required reading and usage in U.S. high school and university composition classes. This edition of 'The Elements of Style' details eight... Read more »

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

By: Lewis Carroll
Narrated by: Eric Leach
Length: 2 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No

During a boat trip up the Isis River with Reverend Robinson Duckworth and the three young daughters of Henry Liddell, one of whom is named Alice, Lewis Carroll, the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, invents a story about a bored little girl named Alice who goes looking for an adventure. Several years later this tale would be forever... Read more »

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

By: Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: David Clarke
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No

In The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, the consulting detective's notoriety as the arch-despoiler of the schemes concocted by the criminal underworld at last gets the better of him. Though Holmes and his faithful sidekick Dr Watson solve what will become some of their most bizarre and extraordinary cases - the disappearance of the race horse Silver... Read more »