Claire Bloom's memoir includes an uncompromising account of her career as a stage, film, and television actress; her associations with luminaries such as Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Anthony Hopkins, and others; her long entanglement with Richard Burton, her first lover; her first two failed marriages to Rod Steiger and Hilliard Elkins; and her ...
This book will addresses critical issues such as: the importance of sustained, stable, and effective site leadership for school improvement; the growing shortage of qualified candidates for the headteachership; the inadequacy of traditional pre-service programs; and, the need for quality headteacher induction programs which include a mentoring or ...
Edward Lear's nonsense stories and verses, with their rich vocabulary, ringing sounds, and rolling rhythms, are exuberant escapes. Listeners will delight in the story of the Quangle Wangle's hat, the history of the people of the Lake Pipple-Popple, the life of Lear's Uncle Arly, and the playful oddity of Lear's language. These classics, ...
This collection of audio cassettes features abridged versions of the seven books that comprise C.S. Lewis's classic fantasy series, the Chronicles of Narnia. Several different actors read from THE MAGICIAN'S NEPHEW; THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE; THE HORSE AND HIS BOY; PRINCE CASPIAN; THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER; THE SILVER CHAIR; and ...
The classic tale of an enchanted nutcracker and an evil mouse king is paired with the sublime music of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. A bewitching blend of wonder and drama that is sure to delight, time and time again. An ALA Notable Recording.
A house full of mystery awaits orphaned Mary Lennox when she comes to live with her uncle on the Yorkshire moors. At night she hears a distant crying that no one will explain, and her uncle is strangely unhappy. But when she meets Dickon, a magical boy who charms both birds and animals, and discovers a walled, locked garden, the secrets of ...
The Abortion Dilemma: Personal Views on a Public Issue maintains that reason, tolerance, and medical knowledge are the only effective weapons of defense against the mindless dogma of those individuals and institutions determined to eliminate a woman's right to consider an abortion. Slick marketing of anti-abortion rhetoric, via the press and the ...
With the Oscar winner Sense and Sensibility, critically acclaimed Persuasion and the upcoming movie version of Emma, Jane Austen is hot. This audio is the perfect introduction to her two best-known works, Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility.
A mouse named Tom Thumb and his wife, Hunca Munca, sneak into a doll house and try to snack on the food they find there. Unfortunately, the food is plastic and this makes the mice angry. They begin to destroy the doll house but then, thinking they could use such things as a bed for themselves, they steal the furniture and move it into their mouse ...
What is it like to be old? Diana Athill, born in 1917, made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her memoirs. In SOMEWHERE TOWARDS THE END she reflects frankly on the losses and occasionally the gains that old age brings, and on the wisdom and fortitude required to face death. This is a lively narrative of events, lovers and friendships: ...
Binding: Audio Book
Publisher: Caedmon
Date Published: 1969
Description: Good. Retired from library use. Original audio cassette in nice condition in library case, with usual library markings. Your order on its way to you by the next business day! read more
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. #14839. Very good in very good dust jacket. Illustrated with b&w photos. 1st edition / 1st printing. Hard Cover. 187pp. 14.5 x 21.5cm. read more
Description: This is a rare original 12" vinyl long playing [33 1/3 rpm] phonograph record in its original highly colored pictorial cardboard sleeve and protective inner sleeve. Both sleeve and record in fine condition. * Scarce & highly collectable. No scratches, slight wears on the covers. Like modern firsts and children's books, worth much more when ex/ex condition or better, like this. Great investment! read more
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