Language audiobooks

How to Choose a Translation for All Its Worth

By: Gordon D. Fee & Mark L. Strauss

Narrated by: Don Reed

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

With so many Bible translations available today, how can you find those that will be most useful to you? What is the difference between a translation that calls itself “literal” and one that is more “meaning-based”? And what difference does it make for you as a reader of God’s Word?How to Choose a Translation for All Its Worth brings clarity and... Read more

This Book Is Overdue!

By: Marilyn Johnson

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Buried in information? Cross-eyed over technology? From the bottom of a pile of paper and discs, books, e-books, and scattered thumb drives comes a cry of hope: Make way for the librarians! They want to help. They're not selling a thing. And librarians know best how to beat a path through the googolplex sources of information available to us,... Read more

The Lowdown: Improve Your Speech - British English: Level 2

By: David Gwillim & Deirdra Morris

Narrated by: David Gwillim

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

More useful tips to help achieve a more professional level of speech. In Improve Your Speech – British English Level 2 we’ll build on the techniques you learned in Improve Your Speech – British English level 1. In Improve Your Speech – British English Level 2 we will help to take you even further, giving you helpful hints on how best to use... Read more

The Story of Your Soul

By: Brenda Peterson

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Brenda Peterson has discovered writing a memoir as a powerful tool for uncovering elements of your psyche that may have eluded every other attempt at self-examination. It forces you to see your life from an entirely different perspective. Read more

French Club for Kids

By: Rosi McNab

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Collins, the world's foremost language learning publisher, introduces a fun way for kids to learn French. Our French Club audio is packed with songs, rhymes, jokes and tongue twisters designed to be engaging, memorable and enjoyable. Children as young as 3 and as old as 12 will enjoy singing along to the catchy rhythms of French... Read more

Spanish Club for Kids

By: Ruth Sharp & Rosi McNab

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Collins, the world's foremost language learning publisher, introduces a fun way for kids to learn Spanish. Our Spanish Club audio is packed with songs, rhymes, jokes and tongue twisters designed to be engaging, memorable and enjoyable. Children as young as 3 and as old as 12 will enjoy singing along to the catchy rhythms of Spanish... Read more

Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Four

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & Jeremy Page

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Miss Mary Morstan has a strange story to tell. Since her father disappeared, she has received a large pearl through the post on the same day, every year for six years. Who is sending them? And what about her father's paper with the words 'The Sign of Four' written on it? Read more

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

When ship after ship goes down in the Atlantic, Dr Pierre Aronnax and his servant, Conseil, journey from Paris to learn more. What - or who - is attacking these ships? Aronnax, Conseil, and the Canadian, Ned Land, find the answer to this question when they meet the strange Captain Nemo. After a long journey under the sea in Nemo's submarine, the... Read more

A Pretty Face

By: John Escott

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Zoe Baker works in a bookstore. She also likes acting, and she has a part in the play Romeo and Juliet. Mike Morrison writes about the play for the newspaper. What does he write about Zoe? Is Zoe a good actress... or is she just 'a pretty face'? What does Zoe think when she reads the newspaper? What does she do? Read more

The Drive to Dubai

By: Julie Till

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

When his father is arrested in Dubai, Kareem has to move fast. He must show that his father is not a thief and prove that his family is honest. For Kareem is going to marry the beautiful and intelligent Samira Al-Hussein, and she could never marry someone from a bad family. So Kareem and his brother get to work quickly - with a little help from... Read more

The Last of the Mohicans

By: James Fenimore Cooper & Bill Bowler

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 1757. The English and the French are at war in North America. Two sisters - Cora and Alice - want to visit their father, General Munro. They begin their dangerous journey with the handsome English officer, Duncan Heyward and the Indian guide, Magua. On the way they meet friends and enemies, and many adventures. Some people will be... Read more

Rapid Polish (Vol. 1)

By: Earworms Learning

Narrated by: Oliwia Pawlak & Marlon Lodge

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Earworms MBT Rapid Polish - your personal audio language trainer with 200+ essential words and phrases anchored into your long-term memory with great music! Volume 1 is your survival kit for use when travelling abroad on a business trip or vacation Volume 2 for more conversational items allowing you to talk about yourself, past, present and... Read more

Rapid Cantonese (Vol. 1)

By: Earworms Learning

Narrated by: Marlon Lodge & Eva Wan

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Earworms MBT Rapid Cantonese - your personal audio language trainer with 200+ essential words and phrases anchored into your long-term memory with great music! Volume 1 is your survival kit for use when travelling abroad on a business trip or vacation. Read more

The Three Musketeers

By: Alexandre Dumas & Clare West

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

It is the year 1627, and young d'Artagnan comes to Paris with a dream - to become a King's Musketeer. Three of these brave soldiers - Porthos, Athos and Aramis - soon become his friends. After a short time d'Artagnan has fallen in love and into great danger. Can the three musketeers and d'Artagnan fight against the evil plans of the beautiful... Read more

Sinbad

By: Janet Hardy-Gould

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Sinbad the sailor spends many years at sea. He visits strange countries, meets some strange people and some very frightening animals. He is sometimes rich, sometimes poor... and always in danger. But all the time he is learning from his adventures, until finally he returns home to Baghdad, an older and wiser man. Read more

The Lost World

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & Susan Kingsley

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

'You said that you wanted danger, didn't you?' says McArdle, the editor of the Daily Gazette. And he sends his young reporter, Malone, on a strange journey into South America with the famous Professor Challenger. Challenger believes he can find a lost world full of dinosaurs in the middle of the Amazon forest. But this world is dangerous to... Read more

William Tell and Other Stories

By: John Escott

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The men and the woman in this book - William Tell, Tom Blood, Lord Bao, King Matthias, Johnny Appleseed, and Lady Godiva - are all real people from history. But every time someone tells an old story, they change things in it, to make them bigger, better, and more exciting. So what is true in this book and what is not? Read all six of the... Read more

Mulan

By: Janet Hardy-Gould

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

When the Emperor calls every man to join the army and fight the enemy, Mulan's father is old and ill, and cannot go. Wearing men's clothes and riding a horse, Mulan leaves her family and fights bravely for the Emperor in her father's place. She is soon a hero for all the soldiers in the Chinese army. One of them, Ye Ming, is her best friend. But... Read more

Sherlock Holmes: The Emerald Crown

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & Janet Hardy-Gould

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A man from the British royal family leaves an expensive gold and emerald crown at Holder and Stevenson's – one of the best banks in London. When someone tries to take the crown from Mr Holder's desk, he asks Sherlock Holmes for help. Who wants the crown and why? Only Sherlock can find the answers. Read more

White Fang

By: Jack London & John Escott

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Life is hard and dangerous for both people and animals in the frozen Canadian North. For a wolf like White Fang it is a continuous fight to find food - a fight in which many animals die. When White Fang meets the people of the North - first Indians and then White Men - he learns to live with them like a dog. But some men are cruel to their dogs... Read more

Ariadne's Story

By: Joyce Hannam

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

'When he went home to Athens, the great prince Theseus left me on the island of Naxos. But why did he leave me? Everyone says that he was tired of me. But when we met, I was the princess of Crete and the most beautiful woman in the Aegean Sea.' Ariadne's story is one woman's tale of secret love, adventure and of escape - both from danger and... Read more

Kidnap!

By: John Escott

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

One cold winter morning, a famous movie star and her teenage daughter are driving along a country road... A blue van is waiting for them. Tom is in the van, but he's not a kidnapper – he's an artist. He usually draws pictures for adventure stories. Now he's in a real life adventure. Read more

Sherlock Holmes: The Norwood Mystery

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & Jeremy Page

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

'For me, Watson, life is not so interesting,' says Holmes. 'I loved to read the newspaper, hoping to find some news of an interesting crime for me to investigate or a dangerous criminal for me to catch. Where are all those clever criminals these days?' Then, suddenly, a wild, excited young man runs up the stairs to Holmes' room. He has a story... Read more

Changing Places

By: Alan Hines

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Hal works at the zoo every day and his life isn't exciting until he meets Tim. Tim is a movie star. He has a difficult life, and he is unhappy until he meets Hal. But when they meet, and agree to change places, interesting things start to happen. And, by changing places, the two men learn what is truly important in their lives. Read more