Magic

The Last Apprentice: Rise of the Huntress (Unabridged)

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Things can never be the same again.

The Spook and his apprentice, Thomas Ward, have returned to the county after a long journey and a hard battle. But their troubles are far from over. Their home has been over-run by enemy soldiers. The Spook's house is in ruins, the boggart protecting it has fled, and the malicious witches imprisoned in the gardens have escaped.

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780L
Length: 
07:47
The Last Apprentice: Rise of the Huntress (Unabridged)

The Last Apprentice: Wrath of the Bloodeye (Unabridged)

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"I've already drunk my fill of blood, so live a little longer. Breathe for a while and watch what's about to unfold."

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790L
Length: 
07:50
The Last Apprentice: Wrath of the Bloodeye (Unabridged)

The Last Apprentice: Attack of the Fiend (Unabridged)

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Thomas Ward is the apprentice for the local Spook, who banishes boggarts and drives away ghosts. But now a new danger is threatening Tom's world: the witches are rising, and the three most powerful clans are uniting in order to conjure an unimaginable evil.

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810L
Length: 
09:01
The Last Apprentice: Attack of the Fiend (Unabridged)

The Hobbit (Dramatised)

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Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an adventure. They have launched a plot to raid the treasure hoard guarded by Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon.

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03:43
The Hobbit (Dramatised)

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Dramatised)

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A BBC radio full-cast dramatisation of the third book in JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy. Brian Sibley's famous 1981 adaptation, starring Ian Holm and Michael Hordern, has been divided into three corresponding parts, with newly recorded beginning and end narration by Ian Holm.

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03:11
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Dramatised)

James and the Giant Peach (Unabridged)

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A little magic can take you a long way.

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870L
Length: 
02:42
James and the Giant Peach (Unabridged)

The Graveyard Book (Unabridged Fiction)

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Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead.

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820L
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07:44
The Graveyard Book (Unabridged Fiction)

The Will of the Empress (Unabridged)

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For years, the Empress of Namorn has pressed her young cousin, Lady Sandrilene fa Toren, to visit her vast lands within the Empire's borders. Sandry has avoided the invitation for as long as it was possible. Now, Sandry has agreed to pay that overdue visit. Sandry's uncle promises guards to accompany her. But they're hardly a group of warriors!

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840L
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15:38
The Will of the Empress (Unabridged)

Strega Nona (Unabridged)

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Strega Nona's meddling assistant Big Anthony is determined to prove to the townspeople his knowledge of the magic secrets contained in the pasta pot of Strega Nona. In so doing, he unleashes a torrent of pasta which threatens to engulf their little Italian town.

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Lexile: 
AD800L
Length: 
00:13
Strega Nona (Unabridged)

The Secrets of Droon, Books 4-6 (Unabridged)

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Underneath the steps leading down to Eric's basement is a hidden storage place. It's dusty and old, nothing special at all. But when Eric, Julie, and Neal all huddle inside the gray room together, something unbelievable happens. A glittering light and then a rainbow-colored staircase appear.

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03:30
The Secrets of Droon, Books 4-6 (Unabridged)

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