Listen to a collection of classic stories by the world’s most beloved writers. Here are the complete stories, unabridged, for you and your family to enjoy together this Christmas and for many Christmases to come. Family favorites and remembered treasures are in this collection, as well as a few light-hearted surprises.

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Read by Tom Casaletto
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry, Read by Dick Hill
Is There a Santa Claus? (Yes, Virginia…) by Frank P. Church, Read by J. Charles
A Visit from Saint Nicholas (‘Twas the Night Before Christmas) by Clement C. Moore, Read by Bill Weideman
A Winter Walk by Henry David Thoreau, Read by Jean Reed-Bahle
The Seven Poor Travelers by Charles Dickens, Read by Michael Page
The Fir Tree by Hans Christian Andersen, Read by Sandra Burr
Santa Claus at Simpson’s Bar by Bret Harte, Read by Robert Lawrence
What Christmas Is As We Grow Older by Charles Dickens, Read by Buck Schirner

The concept of a miniaturised laboratory on a disposable chip is now a reality, and in everyday use in industry, medicine and defence. New devices are launched all the time, prompting the need for a straightforward guide to the design and manufacture of lab-on-a-chip (LOC) devices.

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In this important and compelling new audiobook, New York Times bestselling author Philip Yancey explores what may have contributed to hostility toward Christians, especially Evangelicals, and offers illuminating stories of how faith can be expressed in ways that disarm even the most cynical critics.

Why does the church stir up such negative feelings?

Philip Yancey has been asking this all his life as a journalist. His perennial question is more relevant now than ever. Research shows that favorable opinions of Christianity have plummeted drastically—and opinions of Evangelicals have taken even deeper dives.

So what’s so good about the Good News?

In his landmark audiobook, What’s So Amazing about Grace, Yancey issued a call for Christians to be as grace-filled in their behavior as they are in declaring their beliefs. He now aims this book at Christians again, showing them how they have lost respect, influence, and reputation in a newly post-Christian culture. Exploring what may have contributed to hostility toward Evangelicals—especially in their mixing of faith and politics instead of embracing more grace-filled ways of presenting the gospel—Yancey offers illuminating stories of how faith can be expressed in ways that disarm even the most cynical critics. Then he explores what is Good News and what is worth preserving in a culture that thinks it has rejected Christian faith.

Understanding the Bible isn't for the few, the gifted, the scholarly. The Bible is accessible. It's meant to be read and comprehended by everyone from armchair readers to seminary students. A few essential insights into the Bible can clear up a lot of misconceptions and help you grasp the meaning of Scripture and its application to your twenty-first-century life.

More than three quarters of a million people have turned to How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth to inform their reading of the Bible. This fourth edition features revisions that keep pace with current scholarship, resources, and culture. Changes include: updated language for better readability; a new authors' preface; redesigned and updated diagrams; and an updated list of recommended commentaries and resources.

Covering everything from translational concerns to different genres of biblical writing, How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth is used all around the world. In clear, simple language, it helps you accurately understand the different parts of the Bible—their meaning for ancient audiences and their implications for you today—so you can uncover the inexhaustible worth that is in God's Word.

"Il riscatto di Capo Rosso" è uno dei racconti più noti di O. Henry, che insieme a Mark Twain è il maggiore interprete dello humour americano tra Ottocento e Novecento. Il suo è un umorismo amabile, mai sarcastico, un umorismo da "contafavole", come lo definisce Giorgio Manganelli. Basti dire per non guastare il piacere della lettura - che sotto il nome altisonante di Capo Rosso si cela un ragazzino tanto pestifero da far perdere la pazienza ai propri rapitori, uno dei quali lo scuote finché le lentiggini non cominciano a tintinnare. E i personaggi di questi racconti sono francamente malintenzionati o anche solo malevoli, maliziosi; sono piccoli truffatori praticamente innocui, cowboy da strapazzo, senzatetto e sfaccendati di città, signorine di buona famiglia, magari figlie di un generale sudista vittima di un rovescio di fortuna. Spesso ci raccontano le loro storie in prima persona, colorendole con un linguaggio autentico che mescola colloquialismo e retorica al servizio dell'effetto comico, paradossalmente culminante nell'anticlimax finale, cifra distintiva del miglior O. Henry.

Della and Jim love each other very much but have no money for getting Christmas gifts for one another. But when Della decides to make a great sacrifice that will give her enough money to buy the present Jim deserves, she soon discovers that that her selfless act may have been for naught. This is a new, richly illustrated interpretation of the well-loved, poignant short story by O. Henry.

"Giorgio Manganelli non può fare a meno di confessare, nella spiritosa introduzione, una sviscerata e quasi colpevole passione per O. Henry: vizio che definisce 'un poco infantile', paragonabile a quello, in uomini fatti e raffinati, di indulgere a 'modesti dolciumi da fiera'. In realtà non dobbiamo vergognarci di amare O. Henry; pur nella conclamata modestia dei suoi obiettivi, questo scrittore possiede sufficienti risorse di pura destrezza da rendersi ammirevole per chiunque (e chi vuole rimanere subito abbacinato, e ha la fortuna di non conoscerlo ancora, cominci col racconto 'II cocktail perduto': perfetto come un sonetto del Petrarca). Ma a renderlo ulteriormente affascinante è, pur attraverso la vittoriana cortina di perbenismo da scrittore di largo consumo, l'America che fa da sfondo a tutti i racconti, quell'America primitiva, ingenua, ignorante, eroica e commoventemente ottimista poi glorificata da Chaplin e Buster Keaton: America che s'incarna simbolicamente soprattutto nello hobo, nel tramp, ossia nel vagabondo senza radici, che è poi il personaggio a cui, come giustamente Manganelli rileva, O. Henry non si perita mai di strizzare l'occhio, e nel quale si concentra la sua piccola ma non del tutto repressa carica di anarchia." (Masolino d'Amico).

«Solo un dollaro e ottantasette centesimi per comprare il regalo a Jim. Il suo Jim. E l'indomani era Natale». Età di lettura: da 6 anni.

Collects three short stories, including two about finding lost friends and one about a supernatural encounter.

''If you re old enough to remember Texas before it became pretty much like the rest of the country, you ll love this little collection of Christmas tales that reveal much of the character and characters who textured its legends. If you re not, you ll still savor the taste of a time and place that s almost withered away, even in the small and distant places Mike Blackman calls one-Bar-B-Que-joint towns. And who better to tell these stories of Christmases Past than those who lived under the Lone Star and chronicled the experience in Texas newspapers from O. Henry to the small but distinguished herd left as the years trailed into a new century?'' --Roy Bode, Marble Falls Highlander