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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
Available on: Audio CD ($17.96) | Audio Cassette ($17.96) | Audio Download ($13.95) | 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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Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
Available on: Audio CD ($16.18) | Audio 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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The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
Available on: Audio CD ($19.76) | Audio 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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Sara, Book 2
by Esther Hicks
Available on: Audio CD ($19.95) | Audio 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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American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
Available on: Audio CD ($40.46) | Audio Download ($31.46)
Seymour "Swede" Levov is a prosperous, hard-working family man who comes of age in America's...
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Daniel's Story
by Carol Matas
Available on: Audio CD ($31.96) | Audio Download ($19.98)
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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The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
Available on: Audio CD ($31.46) | Audio Download ($24.47)
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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After the Quake
by Haruki Murakami
Available on: Audio CD ($23.18) | Audio Download ($23.18)
In 1995, the Japanese city of Kobe suffered a massive earthquake. Nearly 6,000 people died.
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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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The Natural
by Bernard Malamud
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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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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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Measuring the World
by Daniel Kehlmann
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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 Gospel According to the Son
by Norman Mailer
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Following The New Testament closely, Norman Mailer recreates the life of Jesus and the Holy Land...
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The Hundred Secret Senses
by Amy Tan
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Ghosts have haunted Olivia ever since her half-sister Kwan told her stories of the frightening World of Yin.
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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
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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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Goodbye, Columbus and Five Other Short Stories
by Philip Roth
Available on: Audio CD ($32.36) | Audio Download ($25.17)
Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin - he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills...
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Close to Shore
by Michael Capuzzo
Available on: Audio CD ($39.95) | Audio Download ($19.98)
During the summer of 1916, just as railroad travel enabled city dwellers to make day-trips to the seashore and swimming in the ocean became popular, bathers along the East Coast were frightened away by a series of vicious attacks in the water.
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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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The Elephant Vanishes
by Haruki Murakami
Available on: Audio CD ($54.98) | Audio 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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I Married a Communist
by Philip Roth
Available on: Audio CD ($32.36) | Audio Download ($25.16)
Iron Rinn, born Ira Ringold, is a Newark roughneck, radio actor, idealistic Communist, and...
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Sabbath's Theater
by Philip Roth
Available on: Audio CD ($40.46) | Audio 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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The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
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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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A Wild Sheep Chase
by Haruki Murakami
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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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