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A Child's Christmas in Wales
by Dylan Thomas
Formats: Audio CD ($11.96) | Audio Cassette ($9.60)
Average Rating:  (5.0 Stars)
The sights, smells and sounds of a long-ago Christmas come to life in Dylan Thomas's reading...
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And Still I Rise
by Maya Angelou
Formats: Audio CD ($9.60)
Average Rating:   (0.5 Stars)
These new poems are powerful, distinctive and as always, full of lifting rhythms of love and remembering.
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Langston Hughes Reads
by Langston Hughes
Formats: Audio Cassette ($9.60)
Average Rating: (0.5 Stars)
Langston Hughes (1902-1967) ranks as one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century.
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The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection
by Nikki Giovanni
Formats: Audio CD ($17.60) | Audio Cassette ($17.06)
Average Rating: (0.5 Stars)
In a career that has spanned over three decades, Nikki Giovanni has perceptively recorded her observations of both the outside world and the gentle yet enigmatic territory of the self.
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Anne Sexton Reads
by Anne Sexton
Formats: Audio Cassette ($10.80)
Anne Sexton's poems are brutally honest, often controversial, and always thought-provoking. Her work continues to dazzle new generations of readers and listeners.
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Churchill in His Own Voice
by Winston Churchill
Formats: Audio Cassette ($14.40)
Speeches of Winston Churchill, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Chamberlain and King George VI and others. With selections from his memoirs read by Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud.
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E.E. Cummings
by E.E. Cummings
Formats: Audio Cassette ($19.80)
In asking "Who, as a writer, am I?" e.e. Cummings's affirmation of life resolved into serenity as he described himself as someone "whose only happiness is to transcend himself, whose every agony is to grow."
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Essential Anais Nin
by Anais Nin
Formats: Audio CD ($10.36)
In this recording, Anas Nin reads excerpts from her diary and answers questions.
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Essential Cummings
by E.E. Cummings
Formats: Audio CD ($10.36)
A master of experimental and abstract poetry reads a collection of some of his finest poems, now on CD for the first time.
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Essential Hughes
by Langston Hughes
Formats: Audio CD ($12.95)
A rare and exceptional recording of Langston Hughes reading his own poetry, as well as his own reflections, is offered on CD for the first time.
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Essential Twain
by Mark Twain
Formats: Audio CD ($10.36)
This CD features excerpts from "Life on the Mississippi: The Boy's Ambition" and "Speculations & Confusion."
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Eudora Welty Reads
by Eudora Welty
Formats: Audio Cassette ($18.00)
Eudora Welty, one of America's great storytellers, relates, in her sweetly vibrant Mississippi drawl, five of her finest stories.
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Ezra Pound Reads
by Ezra Pound
Formats: Audio Cassette ($10.80)
Ezra Pound's inspirational sway over twentieth century poetry remains unquestioned to this day. Ezra Pound Reads offers a rare opportunity to witness the vision of this awe-inspiring, intensely polemical artist.
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Garrison Keillor: A Life in Comedy
by Garrison Keillor
Formats: Audio CD ($18.36) | Audio Cassette ($17.06)
Recorded during his sold-out solo performances at Yale Repertory Theater in April 2002, this audio presentation features the host of NPR's "Prairie Home Companion" on his own, with readings, comedy, stories, musings, and much more.
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Gertrude Stein Reads
by Gertrude Stein
Formats: Audio Cassette ($10.80)
"Rose is a rose is a rose"
Among the most influential writers of her time, Gertrude Stein created poetryand prose so radically experimental that her work stood out even in an eracharacterized by unconventional sentiments.
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The Hobbit and the Fellowship of the Ring
by J. R. R. Tolkien
Formats: Audio Cassette ($10.80)
Irresistible. . . The charming voice of Tolkien, bringing Middle English accenting to the craggy characters of Middle Earth. . . shows how much these works were born - and lived - in the creator's imagination.
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John Irving Reads: The Pension Grillparzer
by John Irving
Formats: Audio Cassette ($9.95)
This story comes from The World According to Garp, a novel that established John Irving...
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The Neil Gaiman Audio Collection
by Neil Gaiman
Formats: Audio CD ($11.16)
New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman reads four enchanting stories for children: "Wolves in the Walls, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, Cinnamon," and "Crazy Hair." Simultaneous hardcover ("The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish"). Unabridged. 1 CD.
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Run with the Hunted
by Charles Bukowski
Formats: Audio Cassette ($10.80)
For five decades, Charles Bukowski's writing has depicted life on the edge with an unflinchingly mordant clarity that has earned him millions of devotees all over the world.
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Stories
by Garrison Keillor
Formats: Audio Cassette ($15.16)
Includes Keillor's own favorite stories from his years as a contributor to The New Yorker and his bestselling books.
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Who's Got Game?
by Toni Morrison
Formats: Audio CD ($7.96)
Generation after generation, classic fables, folklore, and myth remain popular because they quicken the imagination of listeners of all ages.
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William Faulkner Reads
by William Faulkner
Formats: Audio Cassette ($10.80)
"Rendered by the author with a rich deep-south accent that gives uncanny realism to each of the selections undertaken. His reading pace is neither slow nor fast and he conjures up many vivid, picturesque images for his listening audience.
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