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About The Chronicles of Narnia
"They say Aslan is on the move... perhaps has already landed." C.S. Lewis's endearing The Chronicles of Narnia takes us into a miraculous place where animals talk, into a land of centaurs, giants, witches, and unicorns. Here, faith, hope, love, and courage overcome all obstacles. There is some disagreement about the sequence in which the stories should be listened to, but we have listed them in publication order – an order that keeps Lewis's vision intact.

About A Series of Unfortunate Events
In Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, nothing ever goes right for the Baudelaire orphans. But tragedy, despair, peril, and discomfort have never been so much fun, or so popular as they are in this quirky series. No matter what Violet, Klaus, and Sunny do, their evil and disgusting guardian, Count Olaf, always finds them. Since 1999, these three unfortunate children have suffered more misery than anyone should. But the more miserable these three are, the happier it makes listeners!

About Anne of Green Gables series
Anne Shirley burst on the scene in 1908. The talkative orphan who made Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert accept her even though she wasn't a boy has captivated fans for decades. Whether Anne is new and nervous, falling in love, or raising her children, L.M. Montgomery lets us follow her as she grows and learns, becomes a woman, and marries. At the same time we become familiar with the beautiful Canadian province of Prince Edward Island. The delightful characters have appeared in numerous films and TV series, beginning in 1919.

About Aubrey/Maturin series
It takes special men to challenge the sea, and special ships to confront the water, wind, weather, and war that Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin sail into. Patrick O'Brian's spectacular yarns of the British Navy take adventure-loving, nautical-minded listeners all over the globe, from the Americas and the Grand Banks to the Red Sea, the Antarctic, India, and China. Worthy opponents – spies, cannibals, Napoleon's navy – are always lurking over the horizon. Sail with Captain Aubrey and naval surgeon (and British spy) Maturin in these realistic, exciting voyages.

About Closer to Truth
What would happen if you brought together the world's most important thinkers to discuss the world's most important topics? Strategist, scientist, and author Robert Lawrence Kuhn believes that if you could harness the intellectual energy of today's most influential minds, new truths to some of the greatest questions facing mankind could emerge. This was the premise from which Kuhn created Closer to Truth, a television series so different that it goes by a new genre of television programming called "knowledge affairs."

About Elm Creek Quilts
One woman stitching together a quilt is crafting a labor of love, an heirloom, a symbol of warmth and creativity. When several women work on a quilt together, their creation is all that and more. "I knew I wanted to write about friendship," says Jennifer Chiaverini, "especially how women use friendship to sustain themselves and nurture each other." In her Elm Creek Quilts series, she moves from character to character, quilt to quilt, and from century to century to illustratethe importance of community, and keeping the stitches close together.

About Fairacre
Miss Read's charming English village of Fairacre is a handful of thatch-roofed cottages, a church, the school, the promise of fair weather, friendly faces, and good cheer – at least most of the time. Here everyone knows everyone else's business, and the villagers like each other anyway (even Miss Pringle, the irascible, gloomy cleaner of Fairacre School). Throughout this series, the residents hope that their village stays just the way it is: small, comfortable, and friendly.

About Hardy Boys Series
Frank and Joe Hardy starred in Franklin W. Dixon's venerable series that began in 1927. Conveniently – for the author and the boys' fans – their father is an internationally famous detective, and the boys have inherited his curiosity and tenacity. The brothers investigate mysteries in and around Bayport, but they also travel abroad to solve puzzles. Frank is calm and serious, but Joe, a year younger and impulsive, leaps without thinking into danger. The popularity of the books resulted in a television series in the late 1970s.

About His Dark Materials series
Powerful and troubling, Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series takes listeners to different worlds within different worlds. The story of Lyra and Will offers clear criticism of our society, from politics to organized religion. The movie The Golden Compass stars Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig. "The story I was trying to write," says Pullman on his website, "was about real people... Lyra and Will and the other characters are meant to be human beings like us, and the story is about a universal human experience, namely growing up. The æfantasy' parts of the story were there as a picture of aspects of human nature, not as something alien and strange."

About L.A. Theatre Works
The curtain's going up on great drama, edgy contemporary plays, and rib-tickling comedy, combined with world-renowned actors and superb sound quality. Whether you're listening in your home, your car, or the gym, you've got the best seat inthe house! Aiming to enrich the cultural life of our national community, L.A. Theatre Works presents the greatest actors of stage and screen, performing the most compelling and enduring dramas of all time. It's the magic of theatre, and listening was never better!

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