Audiobooks by alicia rose

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MUDLARKS AND THE SILENT HIGHWAYMAN

Written by Alan M. Clark / Narrated by Alicia Rose

In 1884 London, 12-year-old Albert Gladwyck must decide whether to follow his generous heart or learn to harden it in the harsh world in which he lives. As a River Thames scavenger, he has made the find of a lifetime, a wrecked boat full of goods, washed up on the Isle of Dogs and hidden from view.

To save himself and his Mum from severe poverty, he must try to make salvage from the wreck before the other mudlarks find it, before the bully, George Hardly, catches up to him, before illness and death from the poisonous river have a say in the matter. This lavishly illustrated novelette gives a glimpse into a time when the pauper child was ubiquitous in London. It is also a fanciful tale about the choices a desperate child might make in such an environment to survive.

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LOUD ZOO

Loud Zoo - The Tao Te Terra

Written by Lawrence R. Spencer / Narrated by Alicia Rose

Earth is a loud zoo. It’s not our home. Billions of Sentient Beings are screaming for release and the right to be themselves. Although blinded and confined within biological bodies we never forget our origins and the eternal power within. The Tao Te Terra is a cry for freedom and return to who we truly are...

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PAN - GOD OF THE WOODS

Written by Lawrence R. Spencer / Narrated by Alicia Rose

If you were a god … how would you change the world? Pan, the Greek God of forests, shepherds and fertility, has long represented the pagan gods in general. These gods were seen to cause events, both natural and supernatural. They were intimately personified, widely idolized, and artfully glorified by men.

With the advent of the Christian Church, communication with the pagan gods was (and still is) very heavily suppressed by priests who have a vested interest in eliminating religious competition, by any means required, including, but not limited to: lying, stealing, cheating, murder, mayhem, extortion, torture and blackmail.

As a result, general public attention to the pagan gods disappeared about 2,000 years ago. PAN – God of the Woods assumes that the pagan gods may still be active living beings. If any of the ancient gods are still around in the 21st century, what are they doing now? If they are here now – still watching, still powerful, still immortal – where or how might we contact them? If Pan is still around, which of us mortals could not use the helping hand of a friendly god once in a while?

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13 MILLER’S COURT

Two novels: The Assassin's Coin, by John Linwood Grant and The Prostitute's Price by Alan M. Clark

Narrated by Alicia Rose

Intertwined here, they share a single timeline and a single purpose - to lead you to 13 Miller's Court, the room made infamous during the Autumn of Terror. The Prostitute's Price — A novel that beats back our assumptions about the time of Jack the Ripper. Not the grim story of an unfortunate drunken prostitute killed before her time, but one of a young Mary Jane Kelly, alive with all the emotional complexity of women today.

Running from a man wanting her to pay for her crimes against his brother, she must recover a valuable hidden necklace and sell it to gain the funds to leave London and start over elsewhere. Driven by powerful, if at times conflicting emotion, she runs the dystopian labyrinth of the East End, and tries to sneak past the deadly menace that bars her exit.

The Assassin's Coin — She is Catherine Weatherhead, and she is Madame Rostov. She will lie. She will deceive. She will change history, for she is haunted, and murder speaks to her. In Whitechapel, all talk is of the one they call Jack the Ripper, but there is another killer in play, Mr Edwin Dry, the Deptford Assassin. The truth is not what you believe. It is what Catherine and Mr Dry make it..

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BOOK 1: A BRUTAL CHILL IN AUGUST

A Novel of Polly Nichols, The First Victim of Jack the Ripper

Written by Alan M. Clark / Narrated by Alicia Rose

We all know about Jack the Ripper, the serial murderer who terrorized Whitechapel and confounded police in 1888, but how much do we really know about his victims? Pursued by one demon into the clutches of another, the ordinary life of Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols is made extraordinary by horrible, inhuman circumstance.

Jack the Ripper's first victim comes to life in this sensitive and intimate fictionalized portrait, from humble beginnings, to building a family with an abusive husband, her escape into poverty and the workhouse, alcoholism, and finally abandoned on the streets of London where the Whitechapel Murderer found her.

With A Brutal Chill in August, Alan M. Clark gives readers an uncompromising and terrifying look at the nearly forgotten human story behind one of the most sensational crimes in history. This is horror that happened. Each volume within the Jack the Ripper Victims Series is a stand-alone novel.

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BOOK 2: APOLOGIES TO THE CAT’S MEAT MAN

A Novel of Annie Chapman, the Second Victim of Jack the Ripper

Written by Alan M. Clark / Narrated by Alicia Rose

This novel is part of the Jack the Ripper Victims Series. Each novel in the series is a stand-alone story. Annie Chapman led a hard, lower class life in filthy 19th century London. Late in life, circumstances and her choices led her to earn her crust by solicitation. After a bruising brawl with another woman over money and a man, she lost her lodgings and found herself sleeping rough.

That dangerous turn of events delivered her into the hands of London's most notorious serial killer, Jack the Ripper. Contrasting her last week alive with the experiences of her earlier life, the author helps readers understand how she might have made the decisions that put her in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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BOOK 3: SAY ANYTHING BUT YOUR PRAYERS

Say Anything But Your Prayers: A Novel of Elizabeth Stride, the Third Victim of Jack the Ripper

Written by Alan M. Clark / Narrated by Alicia Rose

The beast of poverty and disease had stalked Elizabeth all her life, waiting for the right moment to take her down. To survive, she listened to the two extremes within herself — Bess, the innocent child of hope, and Liza, the cynical, hard-bitten opportunist. While Bess paints rosy pictures of what lies ahead and Liza warns of dangers everywhere, the beast, in the guise of a man offering something better, circles ever closer.

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BOOK 4: OF THIMBLE AND THREAT

Of Thimble and Threat: A Novel of Catherine Eddowes, the Fourth Victim of Jack the Ripper

Written by Alan M. Clark / Narrated by Alicia Rose

In Victorian London, the greatest city of the richest country in the world, the industrial revolution has created a world of decadence and prosperity, but also one of unimaginable squalor and suffering. Human degradation, filth, rats, parasites, danger, sorrow, and death are ever-present in its streets. Catherine Eddowes is found murdered gruesomely in the city's East End.

The possessions, including clothes--over fifty personal items--carried on her person are listed in the police reports of the crime. Wearing several layers of clothing and having stayed the two nights prior to the one of her death in the workhouse casual ward (homeless shelter), the possessions may have been everything she owned in the world.

In OF THIMBLE AND THREAT, Alan M. Clark tells the heart-breaking story of Catherine Eddowes, the fourth victim of Jack the Ripper, explaining the origin and acquisition of the items found with her at the time of her death, chronicling her life from childhood to adulthood, motherhood, her descent into alcoholism, and finally her death. OF THIMBLE AND THREAT is a story of the intense love between a mother and a child, a story of poverty and loss, fierce independence, and unconquerable will. It is the devastating portrayal of a self-perpetuated descent into Hell, a lucid view into the darkest parts of the human heart.

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BOOK 5: THE PROSTITUTE’S PRICE

The Prostitute's Price: A Novel of Mary Jane Kelly, the Fifth Victim of Jack the Ripper

Written by Alan M. Clark / Narrated by Alicia Rose

A novel that beats back our assumptions about the time of Jack the Ripper. Not the grim story of an unfortunate drunken prostitute killed before her time, but one of a young woman alive with all the emotional complexity of women today. Running from a man wanting her to pay for her crimes against his brother, Mary Jane Kelly must recover a valuable hidden necklace and sell it to gain the funds to leave London and start over elsewhere.

Driven by powerful, if at times conflicting emotion, she runs the dystopian labyrinth of the East End, and tries to sneak past the deadly menace that bars her exit.

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THE DOUBLE EVENT

Jack the Ripper Victims Series: The Double Event (two novels in one volume)

Written by Alan M. Clark / Narrated by Alicia Rose

The night of September 30, 1888, Jack the Ripper took two lives in the Whitechapel district of London. Elizabeth Stride was killed about 1:00 AM. A ten minute walk away and less than an hour later, Catherine Eddowes was killed. The next day, a letter known as the Saucy Jacky postcard was received at the Central News Agency. The message was meant to taunt the police and perhaps the entire city. The writer, who signed the postcard Jack the Ripper, referred to the killings of the night before as “The Double Event.”

Since the murderer was never caught, fascination with the unsolved mystery has been widespread and enduring. But what of the women? Who were they? What was life like for them in London of the time period? What were their struggles, their hopes, their regrets? What of the decisions they made in life might have delivered them into the bloody hands of the Ripper? The two novels within this volume, Say Anything But Your Prayers, about the life of Elizabeth Stride, and Of Thimble and Threat, about the life of Catherine Eddowes, give possible answers to these questions.

Say Anything But Your Prayers

The beast of poverty and disease had stalked Elizabeth all her life, waiting for the right moment to take her down. To survive, she listened to the two extremes within herself--Bess, the innocent child of hope, and Liza, the cynical, hard-bitten opportunist. While Bess paints rosy pictures of what lies ahead and Liza warns of dangers everywhere, the beast, in the guise of a man offering something better, circles closer.

Of Thimble and Threat

The story of the intense love between a mother and a child, a story of poverty and loss, fierce independence, and unconquerable will. It is the devastating portrayal of a self-perpetuated descent into Hell, a lucid view into the darkest parts of the human heart.