Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. Montgomery

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Marilla “Rilla” Blythe, the youngest daughter of Gilbert and Anne Blythe, is nearly 15 when the First World War begins making news. Seemingly overnight, the men of the town are being called up to enlist. Rilla, who had long yearned for adulthood, finds new responsibilities as the war wages on.

Cast:

• Narrator – Erin Grassie
• Susan Baker – Sara Sheckells
• Anne Shirley Blythe – Amanda Friday
• Gilbert Blythe – Ted Wenskus
• Rilla Blythe – Sydnee Fullmer
• Gertrude Oliver – Jennie VanderLugt
• Walter – Andy Harrington
• Jem – Josh Innerst
• Cousin Sophia – Trisha Rose
• Kenneth Ford – Lance Rasmussen
• Baby Jims – Isabelle Friday
• Allan Daly – Jeff Moon
• Mr. Pryor – Marty Krz
• Rev. Meredith – Ken Foster
• Irene Howard – Shaina Summerville
• Mary Vance – Grace Keller Scotch
• Faith Meredith – Anna Grace
• Miss Cornelia – Liz Blackett

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The Frozen Deep was originally written as a play by Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens. With Dickens himself gracing the stage as Wardour, the play was met with success, drawing audiences to tears night after night, and even performing for Queen Victoria herself.

Drawing on reports of the real-life Franklin expedition of 1845, in which a crew had set out from England to discover the North Passage and disappeared without a trace, Collins and Dickens recreated the events of the ill-fated journey while introducing a love triangle between Frank, Clara, and Richard to bind the tragedy together. Complete with a surprise ending that we have come to expect from Collins, this production is not to be missed!

Cast:

Narrator – Andy Harrington

Richard Wardour – Graham Scott

Clara Burnham – Amanda Friday

Frank Aldersley – Tyler Hyrchuk

Mrs. Lucy Crayford – Trisha Rose

Lt. William Crayford – Ken Foster

Captain Helding – Rob Goll

John Want/Quartermaster – Jeff Moon

Doctor – Alan Weyman

Officer/Steventon – Tomas Peter

Sailor – Tom Saer

Audio edited by Amanda Friday

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A collection of one-acts by the Pulitzer-winning playwright, including Close the Book, Suppressed Desires, Tickless Time, Woman’s Honor, The People, and Trifles. 

Featuring the voices of Leanne Yau, Michelle Marie, Maureen Boutilier, Jennifer Fournier, Lee Ann Howlett, Ted Wenskus, Ken Foster, Amanda Friday, Larry Wilson, Alexa Sheppard, Marty Krz, Joseph Tabler, Ron Altman, Jeff Moon, Chris Marcellus, Mark Crowle-Groves, John Burlinson, Andy Harrington, and Denis Daly. 

Audio edited by Leanne Yau.

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Rainbow Valley by L. M. Montgomery

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Rainbow Valley was written in 1919 by L. M. Montgomery for the series that began with Anne of Green Gables. Anne and Gilbert’s children are growing up! Their new friends, the Merediths, live in the Manse nearby. When the Merediths aren’t playing in the graveyard or riding pigs through town, they meet up with the Blythes to play, fish, and study insects in Rainbow Valley!

Cast:

Narrator – Susan Iannucci

Anne Shirley – Amanda Friday

Susan Baker – P. J. Morgan

Miss Cornelia Bryant/Mrs. Elder Abraham – Sara Morsey

Walter/Bridegroom – Andy Harrington

Mary Vance/Ancient Maiden II – Grace Keller Scotch

Faith Meredith – Anna Grace

Una Meredith – Trisha Rose

Jem/Rev James Perry – David Shears

Rosemary West/Di – Jennie VanderLugt

Rev John Knox Meredith/Elder Abraham – Ken Foster

Jerry/Marshall Elliot/Dan Reese – Jeff Moon

Rilla Blythe – Isabelle Friday

Gilbert Blythe/Carl – Ted Wenskus

Aunt Martha/Mrs. Alec Davis – Lee Ann Howlett

Norman Douglas – Marty Krz

Nan/Ancient Maiden I – Maureen Boutilier

Ellen West/Lida Marsh – Michelle Marie

Cecelia Meredith/Emmeline Drew/Mrs. Elder Clow – Erin Grassie

Audio edited by Susan Iannucci

Anne of the Island by L.M.Montgomery

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Anne of the Island was published in 1915 covering her from the ages of 18 to 22. This is the third story of Anne Shirley where she earns her BA at Redmond College.

In this book, she enjoys new and old friends at Redmond, living together at Patty’s Place chaperoned by Aunt Jamesina. Gilbert proposes to Anne and she rejects him – but you must listen to the story to know the rest!

Cast:

Narrator – Susan Iannucci

Anne – Amanda Friday

Philippa – Anna Grace

Diana – Tiffany Halla Colonna

Mrs Lynde – Maureen Boutilier

Aunt Jamesin – Marie Hoffman

Gilbert – Ted Wenskus

Also featuring the voices of Ken Foster, Andy Harrington, Grace Keller Scotch, Elizabeth Klett, Becca Maggie, P.J. Morgan, Trisha Rose, and David Stifel.

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The Scarlet Letter
By Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Scorned by her 17th century New England Puritan village, Hester Prynne struggles to raise her precocious daughter, Pearl, who is the result of an affair and whose father is unknown. Despite being forced to wear a scarlet letter A as a brand for her adultery, Hester tries to live a life of repentance and dignity. Pearl’s father comes forward as he is struggling under the weight of his own shame and sin.

The Scarlet Letter is often thought to be Hawthorne’s most famous work.

Narrator – Christianne Lupher
Hester Prynne – Amanda Friday
Rev Dimmesdale – Andy Harrington
Roger Chillingsworth – Jeff Moon
Pearl Prynne – Miranda Hodges
Governor Bellingham – Ron Altman
John Wilson – Ken Foster
Mistress Hibbins – Elizabeth Klett
Dame 1 – Jennifer Fournier
Dame 2 – Maureen Boutilier
Dame 3 – Lee Ann Howlett
Dame 4 – Elizabeth Klett
Man – Ben Stevens
Young Wife – Susan Iannucci
Beadle – Ken Foster
Master Brackett – Ben Stevens
Child – Maureen Boutilier
Servant – Ken Foster
Old Sexton – Ben Stevens
Shipmaster – Ken Foster

Audio edited by Amanda Friday

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“Ghosts That Have Haunted Me”
“The Mystery of My Grandmother’s Hair Sofa”
“The Mystery of Barney O’Rourke”
“The Exorcism That Failed”
“Thurlow’s Christmas Story”
“The Dampmere Mystery”
“Carlton Barker, First and Second”

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Frances Hodgson Burnett’s heartwarming novel about an idealistic and impoverished American child who unexpectedly finds himself transplanted into the English aristocracy has long been considered a true classic of children’s fiction.

Young Cedric lives with his widowed mother in New York. His late father was a British earl who had been disowned by his father for marrying an American. As all of the Earl of Dorincourt’s sons have now died, he begrudgingly looks to Cedric as his sole heir. While the earl soon comes to love the endearing little Cedric, conflict arises when a strange woman appears on the scene and insists that her son is the true heir.

Cast:

Narrator – Christianne Lupher
Cedric – Miranda Hodges
Mrs. Errol – Maureen Boutilier
Mr. Hobbs – Marty Krz
Mr. Havisham – Ron Altman
Earl of Dorincourt – Denis Daly
Dick – Ben Stevens
Additional voices provided by Sarah Bacaller, Lee Ann Howlett, Susan Iannucci, Nancy German, P J Morgan, Alan Weyman, Danielle Cohen, Jeff Moon, Phil Benson, Sarah Mitchell, Leanne Yau, Andy Harrington, Andrew Coleman, Ken Foster, and Elizabeth Klett.

Audio edited by Amanda Friday, Elizabeth Klett, and Denis Daly.

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Although he died in obscurity and poverty, Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) has become posthumously one of most celebrated masters of macabre fiction of the 20th century. Author Stephen King has called Lovecraft the 20th century’s greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale, and many consider him as significant a literary figure as Edgar Allan Poe.

The two stories in this collection, The Shunned House and The Dunwich Horror, are notable demonstrations of Lovecraft’s ability to build and sustain narratives permeated with a unique flavor of foreboding and horror.

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