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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
Available on: Audio Download ($13.95) | Audio CD ($17.96) | Audio Cassette ($17.96) | MP3 CD ($26.96)
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 Road
by Cormac McCarthy
Available on: Audio Download ($15.98) | Audio CD ($15.98)
At once brutal and tender, despairing and rashly hopeful, "The Road" is a fierce and haunting meditation on the tenuous divide between civilization and savagery, and the sometimes terrifying power of filial love.
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The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
Available on: Audio Download ($19.88) | Audio CD ($31.96) | Audio Cassette
Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, "The Kite Runner" is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul.
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
Available on: Audio Download ($19.88) | Audio CD ($31.96)
The bestselling author of "The Kite Runner" returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel about the bond between two women in Afghanistan who are brought together by war, loss, and fate.
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The Gospel According to the Son
by Norman Mailer
Available on: Audio Download ($17.50) | Audio Cassette
Following The New Testament closely, Norman Mailer recreates the life of Jesus and the Holy Land...
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
Available on: Audio Download ($14.90) | Audio CD ($23.96)
The bestselling author of "The Kite Runner" returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel about the bond between two women in Afghanistan who are brought together by war, loss, and fate.
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The Winter Vault
by Anne Michaels
Available on: Audio Download ($17.49) | Audio CD ($31.49) | MP3 CD ($22.49)
Stunning in its explorations of both the physical and emotional worlds of its characters, intensely moving and lyrical, The Winter Vault is a radiant work of fiction.
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Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD ($16.18)
There is now no doubt that not only is Waiting for Godot the outstanding play of the 20th century, but it is also Samuel Beckett's masterpiece.
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The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
Available on: Audio Download ($15.37) | Audio CD ($19.76)
In 1949, four Chinese women begin meeting in San Francisco for fun. Nearly 40years later, their daughters continue to meet as the Joy Luck Club.
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The Natural
by Bernard Malamud
Available on: Audio Download ($13.95) | Audio CD ($49.50) | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD ($26.96)
In The Natural, Bernard Malamud has raised all the passion and craziness and fanaticism of baseball to its ordained place in mythology.
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The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
Available on: Audio Download ($24.47) | Audio CD ($31.46)
In 1949 four Chinese women-drawn Together by The Shadow of Their past begin meeting in San Francisco to Play Mah Jong, invest in stocks, eat dim sum, and "Say" stories.
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Daniel's Story
by Carol Matas
Available on: Audio Download ($19.98) | Audio CD ($39.95)
Although Daniel is a fictitious character, his story was inspired by the real experiences of many of the more than one million children who died in the Holocaust.
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Sara, Book 2
by Esther Hicks
Available on: Audio Download ($12.32) | Audio CD
Simply put, these two adventurous, tree-climbing friends dialogue with their feathered mentor regarding their varied (and sometimes confusing) experiences with parents, teachers, other students, and neighbors.
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The Tortilla Curtain
by T. Coraghessan Boyle
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Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course. Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacker lead an ordered, sushi-and-recycling existence...
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American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
Available on: Audio Download ($31.46) | Audio CD ($40.46)
Seymour "Swede" Levov is a prosperous, hard-working family man who comes of age in America's...
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After the Quake
by Haruki Murakami
Available on: Audio Download ($23.18) | Audio CD ($28.98)
In 1995, the Japanese city of Kobe suffered a massive earthquake. Nearly 6,000 people died.
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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
by Tom Robbins
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Listeners follow Sissy Hankshaw's odyssey from Virginia to chic Manhattan to the Dakota Badlands, where FBI agents, cowgirls, and ecstatic whooping cranes explode in a deliciously drawn-out climax.
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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules
by David Sedaris
Available on: Audio Download ($9.92) | Audio CD ($15.96)
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules is a collection of short stories-some classic, others impending-selected and introduced by David Sedaris.
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The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
Available on: Audio Download ($14.90) | Audio CD ($24.00)
The beautiful, heart-pounding debut novel from a Pushcart Prize nominee illuminates an Afghanistan before the Soviets, the Taliban, and al Qaeda.
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By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
by Paulo Coelho
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From Paulo Coelho, author of the international bestseller The Alchemist comes a poignant, richly poetic story that reflects the depth of love and life.
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From Here to Infinity: An Exploration of Science Fiction Literature
by Michael Drout
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
Science fiction literature and films have contributed indelible images to the popular imagination, from H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds to Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles to the fiction of "cyberpunks."
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Writing Fiction
by WordSmitten RadioInterviews
Available on: Audio Download ($14.95)
Janet Burroway's valuable resource for writers of fiction is a classic introduction to structure and story. "Writing Fiction: A guide to narrative craft" remains a classic on the art of the story.
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Goodbye, Columbus and Five Other Short Stories
by Philip Roth
Available on: Audio Download ($25.17) | Audio CD ($32.36)
Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin - he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills...
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Rings, Swords, and Monsters: Exploring Fantasy Literature
by Michael Drout
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
The overwhelming success of the Lord of the Rings films and the Harry Potter series aptly demonstrates that the fantasy genre is alive and well in the new millennium.
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Measuring the World
by Daniel Kehlmann
Available on: Audio Download ($20.96) | Audio CD ($26.96)
The young Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann conjures a brilliant and gently comic novel from the lives of two geniuses of the Enlightenment.
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