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Just as the style of a great writer cannot easily be imitated, the performance of a great reader is hard to duplicate. This volume features some of the best readers dramatizing some of the best writings.

2017 has been a monumental year for Audible, having just celebrated our 20th anniversary, a milestone that would have never been possible without our wonderful and loyal listeners. One of our major commitments is bringing new and diverse audio experiences to our members, so this year, as our gift to you, we pulled together a collection that reflects a little bit of everything we’ve been up to recently.

The Tai Chi Master is about a man who gets to know the expert one day after seeing him at a park. He is never content with what he discovers and certainly doesn’t hesitate to put his views across. He goes out with him and learns some amazing things. However he is not in awe of him and tries his best to hold his own. The Tai Chi Master teaches him many things, some of which irritate the man immensely. Their friendship is tested at times, but the expert is always a class act and never falters.

It is the place where fortunes can be made and lost though chess, backgammon - every game under the sun. But those whom fortune favours may be invited to compete in the higher league...where the games played are of politics and nations, of economics and kings. It is a contest where Capture the Castle involves real castles and where hide and seek takes place on the scale of a continent. Among those worthy of competing in the higher league, three unusually talented contestants play for the highest stakes of all....

Determined to attend Harvard University, Oxford-born Alison and Jemma set out to write a murder mystery for their personal essays. But soon the story becomes too personal for Jemma. The girls end up in a police station, where they reveal truths that will reshape the course of Jemma's future and family and reaffirm the strength of the girls' friendship.