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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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Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
A century after it first appeared, Crime and Punishment remains one of the most gripping psychological thrillers. A poverty stricken young man, seeing his family making sacrifices for him...
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Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
Anna Karenina has been described as the perfect Russian novel. Trapped in a loveless marriage, Anna Karenina is defenseless against the power of her passions...
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The Koran
Credits: Digital Download
The Koran is not only one of the most influential books of prophetic literature but also a literary masterpiece in it’s own right.
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The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download | MP3 CD
Fyodor Dostoevsky's crowning life work, The Brothers Karamazov, stands among the greatest novels in world literature. His exploration of faith, doubt, morality, and the place of suffering in life are equaled in no other work of literature, save the Bible.
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The Confucian Analects
by Confucius
Credits: Digital Download
The Confucian Analects (literally translated as "discussion over Confucius' words") collects a record of the philosophy, discussions and day to day life of the great chinese scholar Confucius (551-479 BCE).
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The Prophet and Other Stories
by Kahlil Gibran
Credits: Digital Download
This collection includes The Prophet, The Forerunner, and The Madman. Gibran’s mysticism, evident here as in all his works, reveals an intense preoccupation with the spiritual and visionary.
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The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Credits: Digital Download | MP3 CD
Prince Myshkin, is thrust into the heart of a society more concerned with wealth, power, and sexual conquest than the ideals of Christianity...
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The Art of War
by Sun Tzu
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
The Art of War is undisputedly one of the best-selling leadership books of all time.
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The Resurrection
by Leo Tolstoy
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download | MP3 CD
Leo Tolstoy stands tall among the great Russian novelists of the nineteenth century. In fact he fellowships with a handful of great story tellers of all time, the men and women who write literary masterpieces.
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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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The Madman
by Kahlil Gibran
Credits: Digital Download
From the author of the timeless masterpiece The Prophet comes this sterling collection of short fables and reflections.
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The Dead
by James Joyce
Credits: Digital Download
"The Dead" is the final short story in the 1914 collection Dubliners by James Joyce. It is the longest story in the collection and widely considered to be one of the greatest short stories in the Engl
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Tolstoy: Father Sergius & Other Short Stories
by Leo Tolstoy
Credits: Digital Download
Tolstoy is perhaps best recognized as the author of the classic novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina. While he was able to sustain complex and moving plots though large novels, his ability as a great writer also is demonstrated in his many short stories.
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The Bookseller of Kabul
by Asne Seierstad
Credits: Audio CD
With The Bookseller of Kabul, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad has given readers a first-hand look at Afghani life as few outsiders have seen it.
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The Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling
Credits: Audio CD | MP3 CD
Part silly, part serious, these delightful stories convey Kipling's message in a way that children and adults alike will appreciate time and time again.
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War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
War and Peace is one of the greatest monuments in world literature. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars...
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Aesop's Fables
Credits: Digital Download
A collection of one hundred fables from Aesop.
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Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
by Rudyard Kipling
Credits: Audio CD
The story of the mongoose combatting cobras in the garden; and the story of Toomai, an Indian boy who rode elephants.
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The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Credits: MP3 CD
Dostoevsky's novel tells the stirring tale of four brothers who are behind the murder of one of literature's most despicable characters: their father.
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The Cat of Bubastes
by George Alfred Henty
Credits: Audio CD | MP3 CD
This arduous journey through time, customs and religion provides an adventurous and accurate insight into the ancient people of Egyptian history.
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War and Peace, Volume 1
by Leo Tolstoy
Credits: Audio CD
War and Peace is one of the greatest monuments in world literature. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, it examines the relationship between the individual and the relentless march of history.
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City of the Beasts
by Isabel Allende
Credits: Audio Cassette
While his mother struggles against cancer, 15-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother, a magazine reporter, and a team of archaeologists to the Amazon to find the legendary Yeti of the Amazon.
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Treasury of Classic Children's Stories
by Oscar Wilde
Credits: Digital Download
Bedtime, playtime and long voyages in the car will never be the same again as families gather to listen to classic tales brought to life by award-winning performers.
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Lessons of the Animal
by Dovie Thomason
Credits: Audio CD
This winner of an ALA Notable Children's Recording and an Editor's Choice Award brings together two premier Native American artists to showcase -- in nine stories drawn from different tribes -- the vibrant Native American culture that is alive today.
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