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Would you believe that there are over 3,000 fiction audio books online ready for instant download to MP3 players or iPods?
The year is 1866. The maritime world is gripped by fear after reported sightings of a huge and terrible sea monster.
What's the story? 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne. Find it in the Action and Adventure Category section.
There is a wealth of choice in the Classics Category section. The famous authors work which has been converted to audiobook format include Jane Austen, Jules Verne, Mark Twain, George Eliot and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
On the lighter side there are 117 titles in the Comedy Category section, including Black Adder, Jeeves, Booger are my Beat etc...
You will find James Paterson, Agatha Christie, Vince Flynn, Faye Kellerman in the Detective Category section and D H Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover can be found in the Erotica Category section.
Les Miserables, the Victor Hugo classic is in the Foreign Language Content Category section.
Moving on to Historical Fiction Category - here you can listen to many fine works, including A Christmas Carol.
A holiday classic as you've never heard it before. Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit and Ebenezer Scrooge come to marvelous life in Patrick Stewart's critically-acclaimed solo interpretation of A Christmas Carol.
The Horror and Suspense Category contain 453 titles including Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. 19 hours long - World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist.
In the Religious Category section , you will find many interesting titles, including Buddha, The Age of Enlightment - In this major work, New York Times bestselling author Deepak Chopra brings the teachings of the East to the West as he breathes life into the iconic path of the Buddha. Also The Life of Jesus is told by Walter Wangerin Jnr - Here, in vivid language and rich historical detail, is the most important story of the Christian faith—the life of Jesus.
There are so many Romance Category that we have divided them into four sub categories, namely:
1. Chick-Lit Category which include Sex and the City - by Candace Bushnell
In essays drawn from her witty and sometimes brutally candid column in the New York Observer, Candace Bushnell introduces us to the yo235ung and beautiful who travel in packs from parties to bars to club.
2. Classic Romance Category None better than Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina which has been described as the perfect Russian novel.
3.Contemporary Romance Category - An example is Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
Winner of four BAFTAs 2006, including Best Supporting Actor, Best Screenplay, Best Director and Best Film Winner of four Golden Globe Awards 2005, including Best Screenplay, and Best Motion Picture.
4. Historical Romance Category with some really great stories of love and jealousy including Earnest Hemingway's Across the River and into the Trees Set in Venice at the close of World War II, Across the River and into the Trees is the bittersweet story of a middle-aged American colonel, scarred by war and in failing health, who finds love with a young Italian countess at the very moment when his life is becoming a physical hardship to him.
The next section is Sci-Fi and Fantasy Category which has so many titles that once again we have divided them into 2 sub categories.
1. Fantasy Category includes the wonderful childrens story: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.
2. Sci-Fi Category 235 titles here - A Space Odyssey, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, Spacetech Adventures to name but a few.
Among the Short Story Category there is a double Edgar Allen Poe treat: The Black Cat and The Pit and the Pendulum.In The Black Cat, the protagonist commits a perverse crime and is haunted by a nagging reminder of his guilt before he meets a chilling end. The Pit & The Pendulum is a classic of horror fiction depicting the torture of a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition in vivid detail.
As the Thriller Category category has over 1,000 titles, we have sub categorised them under 7 headings.
1. Crime Category has a very wide range of intriguing mystery stories. For example, Big Bad Wolf by James Patterson,
Alex Cross battles the most ruthless and powerful killer he has ever encountered.
2. Espionage Audiobooks contain some of the most prolific authors of our time. Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy is a fine example. The sudden and surprising assassination of three American officials in Colombia.
Many people in many places, moving off on missions they all mistakenly thought they understood.
3. Thriller/Horror and Suspense Category For example The Bad Place by Dean Koontz: Frank Pollard awakens in an alley, knowing nothing but his name - and that he is in great danger. Having taken refuge in a motel, he wakes again only to find his hands covered in blood. As far as he knows, he's no killer. But whose blood is this, and how did it get there?
4. Legal and Medical Thriller Category, not for the faint hearted. The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connolly: They're called Lincoln Lawyers: the bottom of the legal food chain, the criminal defence attorneys who operate out of the back of a Lincoln car, travelling between the courthouses of Los Angeles county to take whatever cases the system throws in their path.
5. Police Procedural Category contain some fascinating insights into the workings of the security forces.Night Fall by Nelson DeMille is a fine example. At dusk on July 17, 1996, on a deserted Long Island beach, a man and a woman engage in adulterous sex in front of a video camera. Suddenly a terrible blast lights up the dark summer sky. TWA Flight 800 has just exploded in midair with 230 souls on board, and the video camera has recorded the last moments of the doomed airliner.
6.Psychological Thriller Category. Cross by James Patterson. Alex Cross was a rising star in the Washington, DC, police department when an unknown shooter gunned down his wife, Maria, in front of him. Alex's need for vengeance was placed on hold as he faced another huge challenge - raising his children without their mother.
7. Technological Thriller Category are among the most creative writing experiences imaginable. The Hunt For Red October by Tom Clancy is a great example. A deadly serious game of hide-and-seek is on. The CIA's brilliant young analyst, Jack Ryan, thinks he knows the reason for the sudden Red Fleet operation: the Soviets' most valuable ship, the Red October, is attempting to defect to the United States.
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