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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Formats: Audio CD ($15.96)
Average Rating:   (4.5 Stars)
One of the classics of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby is now available in a definitive, textually accurate edition.
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Yiddish Radio Project
by Scott Simon
Formats: Audio CD ($19.96)
Average Rating:  (4.2 Stars)
From the 1930s to '50s, Yiddish radio was popular from coast to coast.
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King Richard III
by William Shakespeare
Formats: Audio CD ($18.38) | Digital Download ($18.38)
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
Written in 1593, King Richard III is one of Shakespeare's earliest plays...
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Seven Ages
by William Shakespeare
Formats: Audio CD ($12.78)
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
This highly entertaining anthology of verse is the comic, tragic, tender, and telling story of life's seven ages, from childhood to old age. Within the framework of Shakespeare's speech...
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The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook
by Joshua Piven
Formats: Audio CD ($15.96) | Audio Cassette ($15.26) | Digital Download ($13.97)
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
Danger! It lurks at every corner. Volcanoes. Sharks. Quicksand. Terrorists. The pilot of the plane blacks out and it's up to you to land the jet. What do you do?...
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
Formats: Audio Cassette ($16.20)
Average Rating: (3.5 Stars)
"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn," Ernest Hemingway wrote, "It's the best book we've had."
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Life's Journeys According to Mister Rogers
by Fred Rogers
Formats: Audio CD ($15.28)
Average Rating: (3.0 Stars)
Known as America's favorite neighbor, Fred Rogers dedicated his life to serving children through public television....
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The People Speak
by Howard Zinn
Formats: Audio CD ($19.95)
Average Rating: (3.0 Stars)
This makes for exciting listening and is on its own an invaluable contribution to understanding American history.
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A Separate Peace
by John Knowles
Formats: Audio Cassette ($16.20)
Average Rating: (3.0 Stars)
Ever since its first publication in 1960, A Separate Peace has been hailed a modern classic
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Just So Stories
by Rudyard Kipling
Formats: Audio CD ($11.16)
Average Rating: (3.0 Stars)
Everyone knows Rudyard Kipling's animals are the ones most worth knowing anywhere.
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James and the Giant Peach
by Roald Dahl
Formats: Audio Cassette ($14.40)
Average Rating: (1.0 Stars)
When James Henry Trotter accidentally drops some magic crystals by the old peach tree, strange things start to happen.
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The Old Man and The Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
Formats: Audio Cassette ($14.40)
Average Rating: (0.5 Stars)
The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction.
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A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
Formats: Audio CD ($11.96)
The Grammy(-nominated, bestselling classic returns, just in time for the holiday season.
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Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys
by Dave Barry
Formats: Audio CD ($13.46) | Digital Download ($10.47)
The American guy is not to be confused with a husband, father, hunk, or intellectual, says guy expert...
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Dave Barry's Greatest Hits
by Dave Barry
Formats: Audio CD ($16.16) | Digital Download ($12.57)
Tupperware ladies, eighties people, and leisure concept salesmen beware: Dave Barry is on the loose...
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The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams
Formats: Audio CD ($19.20)
Few plays have explored the byways of the human heart as poignantly and poetically as Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. In this touching audio, we meet the embattled Wingfield family.
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The High Window
by Raymond Chandler
Formats: Audio CD ($15.26)
Join the hardest-boiled of private eyes on another trip through the seamier parts of Southern...
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The James Joyce Collection
by James Joyce
Formats: Digital Download ($13.97)
In all of his writing James Joyce sets out to discover what it meant to be Irish, simultaneously...
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Long Day's Journey Into Night
by Eugene O'Neill
Formats: Audio CD ($19.20)
Here on Compact Disc - a full-cast recording starring Robert Ryan, Stacy Keach, and Geraldine Fitzgerald - Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night.
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The Long Goodbye
by Raymond Chandler
Formats: Audio CD ($17.96) | Digital Download ($13.97)
Cool, tough, cynical private investigator Philip Marlowe follows the trail of a double murder through...
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Mary Engelbreit's Mother Goose
by Mary Engelbreit
Formats: Audio CD ($11.16)
From the imagination of Mary Engelbreit springs a Mother Goose world bursting with warmth and humor. All the favorite characters are here -- Little Bo-Peep, Humpty Dumpty, Old King Cole, Jack and Jill, and many, many more.
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The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
Formats: Audio CD ($16.00)
"The Old Man and the Sea" is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.
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Playback
by Raymond Chandler
Formats: Audio CD ($19.76)
Jaded, wily, heart-of-gold detective Philip Marlowe meets up with classy, well-endowed redhead...
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Poems & Letters of Emily Dickinson
by Emily Dickinson
Formats: Audio Cassette ($10.80)
Actress Julie Harris reads some of Emily Dickenson's poetry and letters…
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Poetry of Keats
by John Keats
Formats: Audio Cassette ($10.80)
Keats surpassed the best of poets in the sensual song of life, ravishing the senses with beauty of phrase and leaving us with a pleasurable and perennial memory of a truly graceful and magnificent wordsmith.
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