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Thorndyke is arguably the first true forensic detective, for while we remember Sherlock Holmes for his genius in unearthing significant detail, only Thorndyke's methods pass the test of real-world authenticity. It might be maintained that while Holmes perhaps did it with style, Thorndyke does it with science.

The world teeters on the brink as the bioweapon takes hold, and the scattered remains of American civilization try to put the pieces back together. Jackson and his group head on the road to Connecticut in hopes of reuniting with his fiancee, unaware that things in his small hometown are not what they seem.

Are you trying to get that coveted first job at a fast track company, plum promotion, or gain admission to your dream school? You may only get a minute or two to "stand out" from your competition. Telling your story in compelling, engaging, and relevant ways is necessary to achieve your desired outcomes. Learn from the best modern storytellers - Shonda Rhimes, Pixar, Lucasfilm, Magic Leap, and more - how to engage and motivate gatekeepers to let you in. Crafting strategic personal narratives is your “story ticket” to success.

Set against the background of Dublin at the turn of the century, Joyce's celebrated collection of short stories recount a series of unremarkable incidents in the lives of ordinary men and women. Stylistically straightforward, it is Joyce's eye for detail, matched only by his interest in the habits and patterns of daily life and celebration of the unique wit and landscape of the Irish, that makes these stories so enchanting.

You can do everything wrong, but if you follow the doctrines outlined in this audiobook, you will be successful. First, 21 common myths about entrepreneurship and success are dissected. Asger Folmann then shares the three doctrines of power and money to which all success can be attributed.

Monty's Leap of Faith is the story of a lovable, laid-back exotic shorthair cat called Monty, who isn’t the brightest feline in the world and has never left his garden because he can’t jump. Monty’s life changes when his owner starts to foster cats for the local RSPCA and a variety of cats and kittens are welcomed into his home on a temporary basis. This story follows the antics of the first three kittens to be fostered and how they influence Monty to finally leave the confines of his garden.

Elizabeth is in a race for the life of the one she loves most, betrayed by the ones she trusted most. She is an IMPS agent - or Internal Magickal Protection Service. They are tasked with keeping the veil that separates our world with the magickal realm. She is betrayed by her partner and lover and falls in love with the Elven Lord Rowan Greenwood. She then finds that he is going to be the next victim in an evil plot to bring the Veil down.

A simple question. A simple answer. I didn't think much of it until he followed through. Now I'm here. Suspended in the living room with a whole host of men around me. All eyes on me. Centerpiece for the party.

This is a story from the Dubliners, Volume 2 collection.

Flann O'Brien's most popular and surrealistic novel concerns an imaginary, hellish village police force and a local murder. Weird, satirical, and very funny, it is read by Irish master reader Jim Norton.

This is a story from the Dubliners, Volume 2 collection.

Holding none of the difficulties of Joyce's most powerful and moving prose. Holding none of the difficulties of Joyce's later novels, such as Ulysses, Dubliners is, in its way, just as radical. These stories introduce us to the city which fed Joyce's entire creative output, and to many of the characters who made it such a well of literary inspiration.

The great explorers were the celebrities of their day - the romance and danger of their daring expeditions captured the public imagination and the world's headlines to an extraordinary degree. Not all of them lived to tell the tale, of course, but those who emerged triumphant from jungle, desert, or polar wasteland were hailed as if returning from beyond the grave. Journalists vied for their stories and publishers rushed their firsthand accounts of exciting and dangerous journeys into print for a wide and voracious readership.

This is a story from the Dubliners, Volume 1 collection.

This is a story from the Dubliners, Volume 1 collection. James Joyce's Dubliners is a collection of short stories about the lives of the people of Dublin around the turn of the century. Each story describes a small but significant moment of crisis or revelation in the life of a particular Dubliner, sympathetically but always with stark honesty. Many of the characters are desperate to escape the confines of their humdrum lives, though those that have the opportunity to do so seem unable to take it.

A collection of some of Burns' most famous and treasured poems, brilliantly read by Scotland’s Alex Norton, famous for his role as Taggart. For all those who’ve ever had trouble reading the great poet on the page, for those who love Scotland and for all the rest who like whiskey, raise a mouthful of haggis to the Rabbie Burns. Featuring "Address to a Haggis", "Tam o'Shanter", "My Love Is Like a Red, Red, Rose", "Holy Willie's Prayer", and "To a Mouse".

Three men, Kevin, Dermot and Joe, stand and tell their stories on a bare stage. They never meet. Or do they? From this simplest of dramatic devices emerges a rounded tale of Irish life across the generations, accurate and poignant and therefore unforgettable: The poetry of ordinary life.

This is a story from the Dubliners, Volume 1 collection.

This is a story from the Dubliners, Volume 2 collection.

Ulysses is regarded by many as the single most important novel of the 20th century. It tells the story of one day in Dublin, 16 June 1904, largely through the eyes of Stephen Dedalus (Joyce's alter ego from Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) and Leopold Bloom, an advertising salesman. Both begin a normal day, and both set off on a journey around the streets of Dublin, which eventually brings them into contact with one another.