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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Price: Audio Download ($7.99)
When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote THE GREAT GATSBY in the early 1920s, the American Dream was already on the skids.
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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
Price: Audio Download ($13.95) | Audio CD ($17.96) | Audio Cassette ($19.95) | MP3 CD ($29.95)
Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury's classic novel of censorship and defiance, as resonant today as it was when it was first published more than 50 years ago.
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The Go-Getter
by Peter B. Kyne
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Originally published by William Randolph Hearst in 1921, Peter Kyne's The Go Getter has become a continual source of inspiration for salesman, entrepreneurs and employers.
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Ceremony
by Leslie Marmon Silko
Price: Audio Download ($17.49)
Leslie Marmon Silko’s sublime Ceremony is almost universally considered one of the finest novels ever written by an American Indian. It is the poetic, dreamlike tale of Tayo, a mixed-blood Laguna Pueblo and veteran of World War II.
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A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
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The best American novel to emerge from World War I," A Farewell to Arms" is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse.
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The Prophet
by Kahlil Gibran
Price: Audio Download ($4.99)
This book, which is Gibran's masterpiece, has become one of the beloved classics of our time.
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The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
Price: Audio Download ($20.95) | Audio CD ($27.96)
Simultaneously releasing with the 80th anniversary paperback edition, Hemingway's first great novel makes its regal debut in an all-new, unabridged recording.
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As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
Price: Audio Download ($23.27)
At the heart of this 1930 novel is the Bundren family's bizarre journey to Jefferson to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Faulkner lets each family member, including Addie, and others along the way tell their private responses to Addie's life.
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The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
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First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling", the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers: the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin, and the monstrous Jason.
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
Price: Audio Download ($9.95)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is a personal account of the life of the famous American statesman, businessman, philosopher, inventor and scientist.
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