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A River Runs Through It
by Norman MacLean
Formats: Audio CD ($19.96)
Average Rating:  (5.0 Stars)
Life for the MacLean family in Missoula, Montana, in 1937 centers around family, fly fishing and the Big Blackfoot River. Fly fishing is the one activity where the family can bridge troubled relationships,...
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Tarzan of the Apes
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Formats: MP3 CD ($18.00)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
Born of noble stock to parents marooned on the savage West African coast, the young Lord Greystoke is orphaned in his first year of life...
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Billy Budd
by Herman Melville
Formats: Audio CD ($18.38)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
Written some 40 years after "Moby Dick", Herman Meville's "Billy Budd" is a moving tale of good versus evil.
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South Sea Tales
by Jack London
Formats: Digital Download ($16.95)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
Most readers are familiar with Jack London's stories of the frozen northland, but many critics feel he should be equally acknowledged for his fascinating stories of the South Pacific....
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Anthem
by Ayn Rand
Formats: Audio Cassette ($16.95)
Average Rating:  (4.8 Stars)
This gripping tale of the future anticipates Ayn Rand's later masterpieces, The Fountainhead...
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Anne of Green Gables
by L.M. Montgomery
Formats: MP3 CD ($18.00)
Average Rating: (4.5 Stars)
When Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert of Green Gables send for a boy orphan to help them out at their farm, they mistakenly get Anne Shirley, a feisty, independent but warm-hearted 11 year-old girl.
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The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac
Formats: Audio CD ($17.96)
Average Rating: (4.5 Stars)
Two ebullient young men are engaged in a passionate search for dharma, or truth.
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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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The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
Formats: Audio CD ($17.96) | Audio Cassette ($19.95)
Average Rating: (4.5 Stars)
Seldom has a book been the subject of more widespread discussion than The Jungle...
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Formats: Audio Cassette ($15.96)
Average Rating: (4.3 Stars)
Feel the texture of Fitzgerald's language as master reader Alexander Scourby, with cool precision, unfolds the mystery of Jay Gatsby...
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
Formats: Digital Download ($9.95)
Average Rating:  (4.2 Stars)
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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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
Formats: Digital Download ($19.95)
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
The characters are based on Twain’s schoolmates and the setting on Hannibal, Missouri, where he grew up.
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Classic American Short Stories
by Ambrose Bierce
Formats: Audio CD ($14.38) | Digital Download ($14.38)
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
Five great American short story writers, dating from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, are represented here. Different in atmosphere and writing style, they...
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Tales of the Alhambra
by Washington Irving
Formats: Digital Download ($19.95)
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
This travelogue of Spain’s Granada and the Alhambra depicts secret chambers, desperate battles, imprisoned princesses, palace ghosts, and fragrant gardens…
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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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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
Formats: Audio CD ($19.96)
Average Rating: (3.5 Stars)
First published in 1884, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a masterpiece of world literature....
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The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
Formats: Audio CD ($16.18) | Digital Download ($14.38)
Average Rating: (3.5 Stars)
This is the moving and powerful story of Edna Pontellier, a beautiful young wife and mother who discovers her true feelings and identity through her love for Robert Lebrun...
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King Kong
by Edgar Wallace
Formats: Audio CD ($19.95)
Average Rating: (3.5 Stars)
His very name inspires awe, horror, and, for some of the greatest masters of contemporary science fiction, a strong affection.
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The Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
Formats: Audio CD ($17.99) | MP3 CD ($15.29)
Average Rating: (3.5 Stars)
Most of us remember The Wizard of Oz as the film starring Judy Garland and Bert Lahr. But the film was based on an immensely popular early 20th century Oz series.
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The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour
by Louis L'Amour
Formats: Audio CD ($17.56)
Average Rating: (3.0 Stars)
No one more vividly captures the rugged majesty and enduring spirit of the American West than Louis L'Amour....
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A Country Doctor
by Sarah Orne Jewett
Formats: Digital Download ($16.95)
Average Rating: (3.0 Stars)
In this important American author’s first novel, Nan struggles to choose between marriage and a career as a professional doctor.
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The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
Formats: Audio CD ($19.96)
Average Rating: (3.0 Stars)
The Red Badge of Courage remains America's greatest novel of the Civil War.
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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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Anthem
by Ayn Rand
Formats: Digital Download ($9.95)
Average Rating: (3.0 Stars)
One of Rand's earliest novels, Set in a far off future, Anthem traces the story of one man's discovery of his own value in the midst of a world that has abolished all concept of the self.
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The Prophet
by Kahlil Gibran
Formats: Digital Download ($4.99)
Average Rating: (3.0 Stars)
This book, which is Gibran's masterpiece, has become one of the beloved classics of our time.
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