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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Formats: Audio Download ($7.99)
When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote THE GREAT GATSBY in the early 1920s, the American Dream was already on the skids.
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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
Formats: Audio Download ($13.95) | Audio CD ($17.96) | Audio Cassette ($19.95)
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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Ceremony
by Leslie Marmon Silko
Formats: Audio Download ($17.49)
Leslie Marmon Silko’s sublime Ceremony is almost universally considered one of the finest novels ever written by an American Indian. It is the poetic, dreamlike tale of Tayo, a mixed-blood Laguna Pueblo and veteran of World War II.
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The Go-Getter
by Peter B. Kyne
Formats: Audio Download ($9.95)
Originally published by William Randolph Hearst in 1921, Peter Kyne's The Go Getter has become a continual source of inspiration for salesman, entrepreneurs and employers.
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The Prophet
by Kahlil Gibran
Formats: Audio Download ($4.99)
This book, which is Gibran's masterpiece, has become one of the beloved classics of our time.
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The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
Formats: Audio Download ($13.29) | Audio CD ($15.96)
First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling", the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers: the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin, and the monstrous Jason.
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Mr. Popper's Penguins
by Richard Atwater
Formats: Audio Download ($9.98)
The 1938 classic tells the story of Mr. Popper, the small-town housepainter who dreamed of exploring Antarctic regions, and Captain Cook, the redoubtable penguin who turned Mr. Popper's world upside down.
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A Study Guide to Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises
by Robert Murray
Formats: Audio Download ($5.98)
Terribly injured in World War I, Jake Barnes finds solace in the shell-shocked immorality of...
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
Formats: Audio Download ($9.95)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is a personal account of the life of the famous American statesman, businessman, philosopher, inventor and scientist.
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Nature
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Formats: Audio Download ($9.95)
Using bold imagery and beautifully written language to illustrate his points, Emerson formulates a belief system where nature itself is a divine entity that we can know directly.
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