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Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
Formats: Audio Download ($17.22)
An adventure tale in its purest form. A thrilling and elegantly told account of a group of British schoolboys marooned on a tropical island.
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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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The Sign of the Beaver
by Elizabeth George Speare
Formats: Audio Download ($11.90) | Audio CD ($11.99)
At just 12 years old, Matt must face serious challenges in the Maine wilderness while awaiting his father's return to their cabin...
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Brian's Return
by Gary Paulsen
Formats: Audio Download ($11.90) | Audio CD ($15.99)
As millions of readers of Hatchet, The River, and Brian's Winter know, Brian Robeson survived alone in the wilderness by finding solutions to extraordinary challenges.
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The Outsiders
by S.E. Hinton
Formats: Audio Download ($16.62)
Ponyboy can count on his brothers. And on his friends. But not on much else besides trouble with the Socs, a vicious gang of rich kids whose idea of a good time is beating up "greasers" like Ponyboy.
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Whale Talk
by Chris Crutcher
Formats: Audio Download ($17.22)
There’s bad news and good news about the Cutter High School swim team. The bad news is that they don’t have a pool. The good news is that only one of them can swim anyway.
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Night
by Elie Wiesel
Formats: Audio CD ($15.99)
Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and the Congressional Gold Medal, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel offers an unforgettable account of Hitler's horrific reign of terror in Night.
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Sula
by Toni Morrison
Formats: Audio Download ($19.92)
Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), was acclaimed as the work of an important talent, written—as John Leonard said in The New York Times—in a prose "so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry."
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A Bradbury Binary: Riabouchinska and The Toynbee Convector
by Ray Bradbury
Formats: Audio Download ($7.50)
Two tales from the master of science fiction...
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Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
Formats: Audio CD ($15.99)
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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