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Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
An adventure tale in its purest form. A thrilling and elegantly told account of a group of British schoolboys marooned on a tropical island.
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The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
Credits: Audio Download
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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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
An unforgettable memoir of growing up black in the 1930s and 1940s in a tiny Arkansas town where Angelou's grandmother's store was the heart of the community and white people seemed as strange as aliens from another planet.
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And Still I Rise
by Maya Angelou
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
These new poems are powerful, distinctive and as always, full of lifting rhythms of love and remembering.
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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette
Fahrenheit 451 is set in a grim alternate-future setting ruled by a tyrannical government in which firemen as we understand them no longer exist: Here, firemen don't douse fires, they ignite them.
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Dylan Thomas: The Caedmon Collection
by Dylan Thomas
Credits: Audio CD
On February 22, 1952, Dylan Thomas made his first recording for Caedmon Records…
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Essential Hughes
by Langston Hughes
Credits: Audio CD
A rare and exceptional recording of Langston Hughes reading his own poetry, as well as his own reflections, is offered on CD for the first time.
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Stories: An Audio Collection
by Garrison Keillor
Credits: Audio CD
Includes Keillor's own favorite stories from his years as a contributor to The New Yorker and his bestselling books.
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Mark Twain Audio Collection
by Mark Twain
Credits: Audio CD
Mark Twain (1835-1910) was the first American writer to capture the unique and colorful vernacular of his country's populace. Instead of striving to perfect any particular literary form…
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The Good Life of Helen Nearing
by Helen Nearing
Credits: Audio Download
Come sit at the side of the late Helen Nearing and share the rich harvest of her life’s lessons with The Good Life of Helen Nearing. For 90 years she followed her personal truth, and embodied the qualities that bring the deepest fulfillment.
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The John Updike Audio Collection
by John Updike
Credits: Audio CD
he extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had.
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Mark Twain Style Ozark Mountains Fishing Stories
by Rolland Love
Credits: Audio Download
Mark Twain Style FISHING STORIES an award winning series is set in the Ozark Mountains. For bio, audio, video, storytelling information Google: Rolland Love.
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The Neil Gaiman Audio Collection
by Neil Gaiman
Credits: Audio CD
New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman reads four enchanting stories for children: "Wolves in the Walls, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, Cinnamon," and "Crazy Hair." Simultaneous hardcover ("The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish"). Unabridged. 1 CD.
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Churchill in His Own Voice
by Winston Churchill
Credits: Audio Cassette
Speeches of Winston Churchill, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Chamberlain and King George VI and others. With selections from his memoirs read by Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud.
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Who's Got Game?
by Toni Morrison
Credits: Audio CD
Generation after generation, classic fables, folklore, and myth remain popular because they quicken the imagination of listeners of all ages.
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A Life in Comedy
by Garrison Keillor
Credits: Audio CD
In April 2002, Garrison Keillor gave three live performances at the Yale Repertory Theatre, reading from a variety of his published and unpublished stories, novels, and essays.
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The Walk
by Richard Paul Evans
Credits: Audio Download
A life-changing journey, both physical and spiritual, The Walk is the first of an unforgettable series of books about one man’s search for hope.
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WLT: A Radio Romance
by Garrison Keillor
Credits: Audio CD
The comic saga of WLT, Minnesota's "Friendly Neighbor" radio station.
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That Will Do Nicely
by Ian Wallace Campbell
Credits: Audio Download
Tom Pascoe, discovers his wife inflagrante delicto, snaps, loses control and throws the lovers out. His wife's revenge is to run up a huge debt in his name. His response is totally unpredictable.
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The Spoken Word: Stevie Smith
by Stevie Smith
Credits: Audio CD
Stevie Smith (1902–1971) was an English poet and novelist and a consummately dark craftsman who believed only she could do justice to a performance of her own work, and capture the qualities of humor and irony at hand in her witty, wry, and often disturbing poems.
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E.E. Cummings
by E.E. Cummings
Credits: Audio Cassette
In asking "Who, as a writer, am I?" e.e. Cummings's affirmation of life resolved into serenity as he described himself as someone "whose only happiness is to transcend himself, whose every agony is to grow."
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