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The Gospel According to the Son
by Norman Mailer
Available on: Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($17.50)
Following The New Testament closely, Norman Mailer recreates the life of Jesus and the Holy Land...
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The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
Available on: Audio CD ($19.76) | Digital Download ($15.37)
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 Elephant Vanishes
by Haruki Murakami
Available on: Audio CD ($46.38) | Digital Download ($43.98)
A collection of off-the-wall short stories by Japan's leading contemporary novelist. An elephant vanishes; hunger drives acouple to rob McDonalds; an insomniac wife wakes in a different world.
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Sabbath's Theater
by Philip Roth
Available on: Audio CD ($40.46) | Digital Download ($34.96)
The bold and utterly outrageous new novel of a libidinous 64-year-old curmudgeon by the National Book Award winner, Philip Roth.
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Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
Available on: Audio CD ($14.38) | Digital Download ($14.38)
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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American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
Available on: Audio CD ($40.46) | Digital Download ($31.46)
Seymour "Swede" Levov is a prosperous, hard-working family man who comes of age in America's...
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The Trojan War
by Sherwin T. Wine
Available on: Digital Download ($4.95)
For many years it was thought that Troy was an insignificant place that never had a chance against the Greek warriors who laid siege and overwhelmed the city.
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After the Quake
by Haruki Murakami
Available on: Audio CD ($23.18) | Digital Download ($23.18)
In 1995, the Japanese city of Kobe suffered a massive earthquake. Nearly 6,000 people died.
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Writing Fiction
by WordSmitten RadioInterviews
Available on: Digital 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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Kafka on the Shore
by Haruki Murakami
Available on: Audio CD ($89.98) | Digital Download ($71.98)
Murakami's new novel is at once a classic tale of quest, but it is also a bold exploration of mythic and contemporary taboos, of patricide, of mother-love, of sister-love. Above all it is an entertainment of a very high order.
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Sara, Book 2
by Esther Hicks
Available on: Audio CD ($15.96) | Digital Download ($12.32)
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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Measuring the World
by Daniel Kehlmann
Available on: Audio CD ($26.96) | Digital Download ($20.96)
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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The Kitchen God's Wife
by Amy Tan
Available on: Audio CD ($19.76) | Digital Download ($15.36)
With the same narrative skills and evocative powers that made her first novel, "The Joy Luck Club," a national bestseller, Tan now tells the story of Winnie Louie, an aging Chinese woman unfolding a life's worth of secrets to her suspicious, Americanized daughter.
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I Married a Communist
by Philip Roth
Available on: Audio CD ($32.36) | Digital Download ($25.16)
Iron Rinn, born Ira Ringold, is a Newark roughneck, radio actor, idealistic Communist, and...
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First Words
by Margaret Atwood
Available on: Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($17.47)
Most kids write stories, but only a few of them grow up to be Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, or Norman...
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A Wild Sheep Chase
by Haruki Murakami
Available on: Audio CD ($49.48) | Digital Download ($43.98)
A Wild Sheep Chase is one of Murakami's most fantastical novel. An advertising executive, infatuated with a girl who possesses the most perfect ears (an erotic charge for him) uses a picture of a sheep with a star on its back.
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Whale Nation
by Heathcote Williams
Available on: Audio CD ($14.38) | Digital Download ($14.38)
Whale Nation is a hymn to the beauty, intelligence, and majesty of the largest mammal on earth. A 'green classic' read with natural resonance...
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The Bonesetter's Daughter
by Amy Tan
Available on: Digital Download ($27.97)
Set in contemporary San Francisco and in a Chinese village where Peking Man is being unearthed, The Bonesetter's Daughter is an excavation of the human spirit: the past, its deepest wounds, its most profound hopes.
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Malone Dies
by Samuel Beckett
Available on: Audio CD | Digital Download ($27.98)
Malone Dies is the first person monologue of Malone, an old man lying in bed and waiting to die....
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Who's Killing The Great Writers of America?
by Robert Kaplow
Available on: Audio CD ($22.46) | Digital Download ($17.47)
What do bestselling writers Sue Grafton, Danielle Steel, Curtis Sittenfeld and Tom Clancy all have in common? They’ve all been shockingly murdered in a manner both gruesome and appropriate to their style.
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Molloy
by Samuel Beckett
Available on: Audio CD ($47.98) | Digital Download ($38.38)
Written initially in French, later translated by the author into English, Molloy is the first book in Dublin-born Samuel Beckett's trilogy....
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