Algernon is a gentlemen from a wealthy family. Algernon's close friend Jack, has a ward, Cecily. Both Algernon and Jack have created alter egos to make life more interesting. Algernon arrives for a weekend visit in the country posing as Earnest. Having heard of Earnest's misadventures, Cicely has developed an infatuation with the rogue, and Algernon's impersonation of him works famously on Cicely. Meanwhile, Algernon's cousin, Gwendolyn, arrives for...

"Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life...But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep...They have launched a plot to raid the treasure hoard guarded by Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon. Bilbo reluctantly joins their quest, unaware that...he will encounter both a magic ring and a frightening creature known as Gollum"--P. [4] of cover.

HISTORICAL MYSTERIES. Dorothy L. Sayers paints a perfect picture of murder in this classic mystery--back in print and now available in trade paperback--in which Sir Peter Wimsey must ferret out a murderer in a Scottish artists' colony. In the scenic Scottish village of Kirkcudbright, no one is disliked more than Sandy Campbell. When the painter is found dead at the foot of cliff, his easel standing above, no one is sorry to see him gone--especially...

The story of John Newton a rebelious young man who is cut off from his family and torn from the woman he loves, to serve His Majesty's navy. Despair leads him to the deepest levels of bitterness. Money becomes his god, sensuality becomes his mistress and the chains of depravity take him to the darkest parts of his own heart.

In 1755, over a half-million Africans were brutally captured and kidnapped as slaves. Olaudah Equiano was one of them, But, unlike many he lived to tell his story. Olaudah Equiano, a prince among his people who, at the age of ten, finds himself in the diseased hold of a slave ship on a voyage to worlds beyond his comprehension.

"The first comedy sketch album by acclaimed kids/family music artist, Eric Herman."

Presents Koch's radio play, Invasion from Mars, which was made famous by Orson Welles; the play is an adaptation of H.G. Wells' novel, War of the worlds.