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Hello Gooselings! In the early 1990s YMCA storyteller, The Old Gray Goose joined forces with producer Geoffrey Giuliano in their hometown of Lockport, New York on the banks of the iconic Erie canal to create five masterful storytelling audiobooks. Originally released as CDs, 3 years ago the audiobooks, (now numbering 16) were compiled by sourcing the original 5 full productions and augmenting them with rare outtakes, unused tracks, and exclusive interviews. Now for the first time since the 1990s at the end of the 20th century, the five original audiobooks are released in one super gigantic program. This now iconic work will contain exactly what Goose recorded at Avalon Studios on Market Street in Lockport all those years ago. Here then are the popular, evergreen recordings presented as Goose himself wanted them. Although it took producer Giuliano 10 years to get the Old Gray Goose inside of a studio it took another 5 to get him out! Goose loved telling his stories on tape and did so with great enthusiasm and overwhelming charisma. Sadly we lost Goose a few years ago but thanks to that long ago partnership between two old friends from Camp Kenan on the pastoral shores of Lake Ontario Goose’s ingratiating persona, loving presence, wonderful stories, silly songs and tall tales will live forever HERE IS THE OLD GRAY GOOSE ONE LAST TIME WITH HIS NOW HISTORIC ORIGINAL FIVE HEARTWARMING AUDIOBOOKS! Includes: 32 STORIES GOOD AND TRUE CAMPFIRE TALES Also included are the two beautiful, insightful, educational productions recorded in Jagannatha Puri, India STORIES OF ANCIENT INDIA UNDER THE BANYAN TREE Finally here to is Goose’s most commercially popular release, SCARY STORIES FOR HALLOWEEN AND EVERYDAY which was released by KRB Music to tumultuous claim on CD (and is now a prized collector’s item with original editions fetching up to $100 on eBay and Amazon) The Old Gray Goose – stories for children of all ages!

Once again the Old Gray Goose delivers a collection of funny, heartwarming tales perfected over six decades of campfires and thousands of enthusiastic young campers as part of his amazing lifelong work with the YMCA. Here is the definitive collection of down-home songs and stories for children of all ages, affectionately told by a compassionate man who genuinely cares about young people.

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.

Burmese Commissioner Nayland Smith and his faithful friend Dr Petrie continue their fight against the evil genius of Dr Fu-Manchu when they seek to save the good doctor’s lost love and protect the British Empire from disaster when their malignant enemy returns to England.

The Murders in the Rue Morgue” is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1841. Poe referred to it as a “tale of ratiocination” featuring the brilliant deductions of C. Auguste Dupin; it is today regarded as one of the first detective stories and is almost certainly the first locked room mystery.

This great work is a key scripture of the Vedanta sub-schools, and an influential Śruti to diverse schools of Hinduism. It is also the 40th chapter of Yajurveda. The name of the text means roughly enveloped by the Lord”, or “hidden in the Lord (Self)”. The text discusses the Atman (Soul or Self) and is referenced by both Dvaita (dualism) and Advaita (non-dualism) sub-schools of Vedanta. Mahatma Gandhi thought so highly of this scripture he remarked, “If all the Upanishads and all the other Vedas happened all of a sudden to be reduced to ashes, and if only the first verse in the Sri Isopanisad were left in the memory Varn Ashram Dharma would live forever.”

Alceste, the misanthrope, hates everyone including himself. But unlike in many pure farces with their cliche stock characters, the characters here are much more well-rounded, and who knows – Alceste might actually grow and change throughout the play. “Those who admired noble thoughts, select language, accurate delineations of character, and a perfect and entertaining style, placed this comedy from the very beginning where it is generally put, with the common consent of all students of sound literature, in the foremost rank of the good comedies of Moliere.

Sherlock Holmes, a fictional character of the late 19th and early 20th century created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is a brilliant London-based “consulting detective” famous for his intellectual prowess and renowned for his enormous scope of observation, his astute logical reasoning and forensic science skills in solving difficult crimes. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes mysteries, including The Final Problem in which Holmes confronts his arch-nemesis Professor Moriarty, originally published in 1894, which are preceded by The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and followed by The Hound of the Baskervilles.