​The Day of the Troll Author: Simon Messingham Duration: 2:17:49 Executor: David Tennant Genre: #fantastic When the Doctor arrives on Earth in the far future, he is horrified to find the planet beset by famine and starvation. England is a barren wasteland, and scientists are desperately seeding the ground to make the crops grow again. But now it seems that something even worse is happening. Karl B…

​Naked Lunch: The Restored Text Author: William S. Duration: 10:23:00 Executor: Mark Bramhall Genre: #novel Naked Lunch is one of the most important novels of the 20th century, a book that redefined not just literature but American culture. This is an unnerving tale of a narcotics addict unmoored in New York, Tangiers, and, ultimately, a nightmarish wasteland known as Interzone. The restored text …

​Children of Time Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky Duration: 16:31:28 Executor: Kevin FlaniganMel Hudson Genre: #Science_Fiction The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age — a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in t…

​Building a Better Vocabulary Author: Kevin Flanigan Duration: 18:43:47 Executor: Kevin Flanigan Genre: #Nonfiction, #Language What is the difference between specious and spurious? What does the word bombast have to do with cushion stuffing? Would you want to be called a snollygoster? The hallmark of a powerful vocabulary is not simply knowing many words; rather, it's knowing the exact word to use…

​Airport Author: Arthur Hailey Duration: 19:18:00 Executor: BJ Harrison Genre: #Roman The number one New York Times best-selling thriller about an airport thrust into chaos by a whiteout blizzard: "A spellbinder" (The Denver Post). As a raging blizzard wreaks havoc at Lincoln International Airport outside Chicago, airport and airline personnel try to cope with this unstoppable force of nature that…