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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
Available on: Audio Download ($13.95) | Audio CD ($17.96) | Audio Cassette ($19.95) | 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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Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth
by Herman Hesse
Available on: Audio Download ($18.35) | Audio CD ($23.96)
A brilliant psychological portrait of a troubled young man's quest for self-awareness, this coming-of-age novel achieved instant critical and popular acclaim upon its 1919 publication.
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Daniel's Story
by Carol Matas
Available on: Audio Download ($19.98) | Audio CD ($31.96)
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 ($15.96)
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 Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
Available on: Audio Download ($13.75) | Audio CD
At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the onsequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic, James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil rights movement with his eloquent manifesto. The Fire Next Time stands as one of the essential works of our literature.
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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 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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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 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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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 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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Goodbye, Columbus and Five Other Short Stories
by Philip Roth
Available on: Audio Download ($25.17) | Audio CD
Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin - he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills...
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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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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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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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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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By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
by Paulo Coelho
Available on: Audio Download ($13.97) | Audio CD ($17.96)
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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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
by Alex Haley
Available on: Audio Download ($36.75) | Audio CD ($47.96) | MP3 CD
This monumental Pulitzer Prize-winning saga and iconic bestseller is available for the first time on audio.
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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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