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Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
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 Arthur Miller Audio Collection
by Arthur Miller
Credits: Audio CD
Full cast recordings of two of Arthur Miller's greatest plays Death of a Salesman and The Crucible
Featuring Lee J. Cobb (Willy Loman), Mildred Dunnock (Linda Loman), Dustin Hoffman (Bernard)…
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Julie of the Wolves
by Jean Craighead George
Credits: Audio CD
Faced with the prospect of a disagreeable arranged marriage or a journey acoss the barren Alaskan tundra, 13-year-old Miyax chooses the tundra.
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Daniel's Story
by Carol Matas
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
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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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette
At once an intimate memoir of childhood, a complicated exploration of race and poverty in the South, and a moving portrayal of uncompromising conscience, "To Kill a Mockingbird" has been called the greatest American novel of the 20th century.
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Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
Credits: Audio CD
With over eight million copies in print, Chinua Achebe's work is perhaps the best-known novel in African literature. No other book so powerfully illuminates the African experience.
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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
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 Crucible
by Arthur Miller
Credits: Audio Cassette
This play was directly inspired by the witch-hunting activities of Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. Though set in the 17th century, "The Crucible" presents issues still of interest to people in modern times.
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Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
Credits: Audio Cassette
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 Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
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
Credits: Audio CD
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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Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card
Credits: Audio CD
Andrew Ender Wiggin thinks he is playing computer-simulated war games at the Battle School; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more desperate...
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Night
by Elie Wiesel
Credits: Audio CD
Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and the Congressional Gold Medal, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel offers an unforgettable account of Hitler's horrific reign of terror in Night.
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The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
Credits: Audio CD
The Things They Carried is a masterful novel of the Vietnam War that has been called the greatest war novel ever written.
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The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho
Credits: Audio CD
At last -- the unabridged recording of this timeless bestseller that has sold millions. "To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation", This quotation taken from "The Alchemist" sums up the focus of the book.
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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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Bless Me, Ultima
by Rudolfo Anaya
Credits: Audio CD
With hundreds of thousands of copies in print, Bless Me, Ultima has been called the most widely read Mexican-American novel in the English language.
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American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
Seymour "Swede" Levov is a prosperous, hard-working family man who comes of age in America's...
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
Credits: Audio CD
McMurphy is a life-loving fighter who rallies the other mental patients around him to challenge the dictatorship of Big Nurse in what becomes a struggle for the minds and hearts of men. Includes a bonus author interview from "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross.
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Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
Credits: Audio CD
This brilliant fabulist novel combines the delight of Kipling's "Just So Stories" with the metaphysical adventure of "Jonah and the Whale, " as Pi, the son of a zookeeper, is marooned aboard a lifeboat with a hyena, a wounded zebra, an orangutan, and a tiger.
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
by Hunter S. Thompson
Credits: Audio CD
Maverick author Hunter S. Thompson introduced the world to "gonzo journalism" with this cult classic that shot back up the best-seller lists after Thompson's suicide in 2005.
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My Brother Sam is Dead
by James Lincoln Collier
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette
The Revolutionary War! A war with no clearcut loyalties -- dividing families, friends and towns. A story rich in historical detail and action as told from the viewpoint of young Tim Meeker.
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull
by Richard Bach
Credits: Audio Cassette
The tale that sent Bach soaring to fame tells the story of a seagull who practices for a lifetime to begin to know the meaning of kindness and love.
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The Trojan War
by Sherwin T. Wine
Credits: Digital Download
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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Essential Welty
by Eudora Welty
Credits: Audio CD
In 1956, Caedmon had the great fortune to record Eudora Welty reading some of her finest stories.
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