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Another great audiobook classic from the world’s most prolific and prestigious new company, Icon Audio Arts. Presented by actor author Geoffrey Giuliano, here is an exciting ‘listen while you learn’ audio production which promises to entertain, enlighten and enliven the listener. Icon productions offer a daring, fresh perspective on the hundreds of perennial favorite tales which have inspired generations and imbued a deep love of literature and art in millions over time. Welcome to the wonderful, unparalleled world of Icon Audio Arts.

Author and narrator Jagannatha Dasa was fortunate to be close friends and professional associates with both drummer Ginger Baker and bassist Jack Bruce of the great powerhouse trio Cream. While having only a passing relationship with Eric Clapton, the author nevertheless lays down a solid riveting audio biography of this truly unique and obviously groundbreaking fusion of jazz and rock whose surprising musical collaborations wowed the musically sophisticated world of the 1960s and continue to find thousands of fans generationally via their innovative and eclectic recordings. Here is the often turbulent hidden history of one of the most original inspirational musical collectives of our time – here is Eric Clapton and Cream. A must for all true rock fans and an admirable addition to all university and school library systems. “A thunderous audio biography of historical importance.” (The Washington Post)

The recordings that Linda Tripp surreptitiously made of her conversations with Monica Lewinsky about Lewinsky’s affair with President Clinton have mesmerized the nation and are bound to become as much a part of our national consciousness as the Watergate tapes. We’ve read about the scandal and the people involved – we’ve heard the pundits’ opinions and the politicians’ spins – but now we are finally able to hear two of the key participants – in their own words – and to get a glimpse of the people behind the headlines.

“It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.” “Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.” ― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine Herbert George Wells was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called the “father of science fiction”, along with Jules Verne. During his own lifetime, however, he was most prominent as a forward-looking, even prophetic social critic who devoted his literary talents to the development of a progressive vision on a global scale. A futurist, he wrote a number of utopian works and foresaw the advent of aircraft, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons, satellite television and something resembling the World Wide Web. His science fiction imagined time travel, alien invasion, invisibility, and biological engineering. Wells’s earliest specialized training was in biology, and his thinking on ethical matters took place in a specifically and fundamentally Darwinian context. He was also an outspoken Socialist from a young age, often (but not always, as at the beginning of the First World War) sympathizing with pacifist views. His later works became increasingly political and didactic, and he wrote little science fiction, while he sometimes indicated on official documents that his profession was that of journalist. Novels such as Kipps and The History of Mr Polly, which describe lower-middle-class life, led to the suggestion that he was a worthy successor to Charles Dickens, but Wells described a range of social strata and even attempted a diagnosis of English society as a whole. Wells was a diabetic and co-founded the charity The Diabetic Association.