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 The Child with the Bread Shoes by Teofilo Gautier English | MP3@192 kbps | 17 min | 23.8 MB When little Hans dies of the croup, his mother uses all her scant wealth to ensure him a proper burial. She spins the thread for his shroud and has a beautiful little coffin made. But while she is out, the rats gnaw at little Hans's leather slippers and the dead child has nothing for his feet.Hans' mother makes him a pair of shoes from her last loaf of bread. But after the child is buried, the ghostly child reappears night after night weeping. The bread shoes are preventing him from entering heaven. But the local priest comes up with a plan.  The Child in the Grave by Hans Christian Andersen English | MP3@192 kbps | 09 min | 12.8 MB He had been ill a long time and God came for him - the parents and sisters of the little four-year-old boy who had died were inconsolable. No chagrin was greater than that of the boy's mother, yet she found some consolation at her son's grave...  The Centurions by Damion Hunter English | MP3@192 kbps | 15h 27m | 1273.8 MB Against the mighty splendour of the glorious Roman Empire, unfolds the magnificent new saga, perfect for fans of Conn Iggulden.Correus and Flavius. Half-brothers, sons of a brilliant general. One, son of a slave woman, is a born warrior destined to excel. The other, a nobleman by birth, must struggle relentlessly to succeed.When they both join the Centuriate, a position Flavius has always known he will inherit, and one that Correus has long coveted, it is together that they face the brutal reality of war. Fighting German barbarians will prove dangerous, not only to their bodies but to their souls as well...The Centurions, book one in this epic Roman adventure trilogy, is perfect for Simon Scarrow and Ben Kane's fans.  The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Caleveras County by Mark Twain English | MP3@192 kbps | 16 min | 22.5 MB Leonidas W. Smiley would bet on anything. Horse races, dog fights, cat fights, chicken fights - all were fair game to the gambling nature of Smiley. But he meets his match when a stranger comes into town, and puts his champion jumping frog to the test.  The Carpenter by Charlie Hedo English | MP3@192 kbps | 31 min | 43.3 MB What a busy morning.  The Caribbean Laundry by FJ Donohue English | MP3@192 kbps | 2h 55m | 241.6 MB He was a CPA with a practice run from his house. He lived quietly with his dog Lucy. Friendly guy, but secretive about his life. A very private person with no local friends except Danny Osgood a neighborhood kid, who played video-games on the CPA's high-speed computer. He had little contact with the neighbors or folks in town. How did he end up with two bullet holes in his head?  The Captain of the Pole Star by Arthur Conan Doyle English | MP3@192 kbps | 1h 06m | 91.8 MB Word goes among the crew of the Pole Star that the captain is haunted by demons. And after the days turn into weeks in the frigid Arctic Ocean, stories begin to circulate of ghosts and midnight hauntings.  The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde English | MP3@192 kbps | 1h 09m | 95.7 MB The American Otis family moves into the old English country house Canterville Chase. They are warned that the house is haunted before they move in but are unconcerned at first. They soon accept that the ghost is real but are not frightened by it. The ghost, who had been frightening all those who stayed at Canterville Chase for three hundred years, takes the Americans' unwillingness to be scared by him as a great insult. He grows to despise them all, except for the teenage daughter Virginia, who he feels is different from the rest of her family. At the end of the story, the ghost asks for Virginia's help to lift the curse which is on him and allow him to rest in peace.  The Buckwheat by Hans Christian Andersen English | MP3@192 kbps | 04 min | 5.8 MB After a storm, a field of buckwheat is blackened and dry, as if it has been burnt, but why? Here, Hans Christian Andersen tells all, he heard it from the sparrow, who heard it from the old willow tree, who stands next to the field of buckwheat.  The Boy Who Wanted Wings by James Conroyd Martin English | MP3@192 kbps | 12h 07m | 999.2 MB AN IPPI GOLD MEDAL WINNER |
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