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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.

Who was John Lennon really? Oh you know the music and the basic story, but this passive aggressive kid from suburban Liverpool with a huge chip on his shoulder was an unlikely model for the international pop icon to come. He first started bashing out banjo chords on an old guitar, without even the requisite number of strings as a teen. Young John was close to his mother and auntie, loved cats, attended church services, did his schoolwork, excelled at poetry and drawing, but he had something else too – a wild uninhibited love of American rock ‘n’ roll. In this one-of-a-kind audio treasure by the world’s acknowledged foremost prolific 

Mother Goose in Prose is a collection of classic children’s stories based on Mother Goose nursery rhymes. It was the first children’s book written by L. Frank Baum.

Moonchild is a novel written by the British occultist Aleister Crowley in 1917. Its plot involves a magical war between a group of white magicians, led by Simon Iff, and a group of black magicians, over an unborn child. In this work, numerous acquaintances of Crowley appear as thinly disguised fictional characters. Crowley portrays MacGregor Mathers as the primary villain, including him as a character named SRMD, using the abbreviation of Mathers’ magical name. Arthur Edward Waite appears as a villain named Arthwaite, and the unseen head of the Inner Circle of which SRMD was a member. “A.B.” is theosophist Annie Besant. Among Crowley’s friends and allies Allen Bennett appears as Mahatera Phang, Leila Waddell as Sister Cybele, the dancer Isadora Duncan appears as Lavinia King, and her companion Mary D’Este (mother of Preston Sturges, and who helped Crowley write his magnum opus Magick: Book 4 under her magical name ‘Soror Virakam’) appears as Lisa la Giuffria. Cyril Grey is Crowley himself, while Simon Iff is either an idealized version of an older and wiser Crowley or his friend Allen Bennett. 

In part two of this searching autobiography of the great Muhammed Ali, Ali faces the end of his boxing career as he looks squarely into the face of old age, and addresses the Parkinson’s that cut short his public life, but strengthened his personal faith and family life. With rare interviews.

Muhammad Ali, perhaps the world’s most famous person, is much more than a boxer or celebrity but a man of mountain-high spirit and compassion. His deep commitments to his faith and humanity at large have shot him into the stratosphere of human history. For the first time, you can hear the living legend narrate his own story from the rough-and-tumble streets of Kentucky to everyone’s favorite superstar. It is a poignant, heartfelt tale told as only Ali could tell it.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is the sailor Ishmael’s narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that on the ship’s previous voyage bit off Ahab’s leg at the knee. A contribution to the literature of the American Renaissance, the work’s genre classifications range from late Romantic to early Symbolist. Its reputation as a “Great American Novel” was established only in the 20th century, after the centennial of its author’s birth. 

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is the sailor Ishmael’s narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that on the ship’s previous voyage bit off Ahab’s leg at the knee. A contribution to the literature of the American Renaissance, the work’s genre classifications range from late Romantic to early Symbolist. Its reputation as a “Great American Novel” was established only in the 20th century, after the centennial of its author’s birth.