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1000 Years of English Royalty
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Richard Hampton
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Audio Cassette ($16.16)
This look at the public and private lives of British royal families brings the monarchs to life through their diaries and speeches and through observations by their contemporaries.
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81 Famous Poems
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William Shakespeare
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An anthology of 39 British and American poets, from Shakespeare and Dunne to Whitman and Yeats.
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Aches and Pains
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Maeve Binchy
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Audio Cassette
Funny insider advice about coping with the ordeals of surgery, a hospital stay, and at-home convalescence.
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Mark Twain
Unabridged Edition
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One of the greatest treats in all world literature, this masterpiece from Mark Twain is revolutionary. It offers both brilliant humor and tragedy as Huck and Jim...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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Mark Twain
Unabridged Edition
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The idealized childhood of this fictional hero, based on Mark Twain's own early life along the banks...
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The Age of Innocence
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Edith Wharton
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Audio Cassette ($34.95)
Newland Archer is about to settle down and marry a beautiful young girl from a suitable family but then he meets her captivating cousin, the Countess Olenska.
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All's Well That Ends Well
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William Shakespeare
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Audio CD ($19.96) | Audio Cassette
The Bard's "dark" comedy in five acts concerns the efforts of Helena, daughter of a renowned physician, to make Bertram, the count of Rousillon, her husband.
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Antony and Cleopatra
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William Shakespeare
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Audio CD ($19.96) | Audio Cassette ($16.16)
One of the Bard's finest tragedies. This complex and moving account of a passionate love affair between a great general and the wily, capricious queen of Egypt explores the constant and eternal struggle between the private and the public, and the personal and the political.
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Art of Love
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Ovid
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This 2,000-year-old self-help guide is considered one of the most important and enduring works...
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As You Like It
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William Shakespeare
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Audio CD | Audio Cassette ($16.16)
This wisely funny comedy contains some of Shakespeare's loveliest poetry. In the Forest of Arden, the banished young heroine, Rosalind, disguised as a gentleman farmer, encounters an extraordinary assemblage of characters, including young man she loves.
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
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Written as a letter to his son, this is Franklin's account of his personal life and career ending with his first mission to England in 1757.
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Babette's Feast and Sorrow-Acre
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Isak Dinesen
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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: give me leave to do my...
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Barchester Towers
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Anthony Trollope
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Audio Cassette
Trollope combines humor with robust social commentary as he seizes on the great comic potential of the predicament of the Church of England in mid-Victorian society.
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Benjamin Franklin, Citizen
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Benjamin Franklin
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Ben Franklin's wisdom is just as potent now as it was more than 200 years ago. A founding father of the United States, he was also a world citizen, a philosopher, author, and scientist...
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Best Jazz Age Stories
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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F. Scott Fitzgerald brilliantly captures the Jazz Age of the 1920s in these stories...
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Bird by Bird
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Anne Lamott
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What does it take to be a writer? What does it mean to live a writer's life? This instruction book...
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The Book on Bush
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Eric Alterman
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Audio CD
The Book on Bush methodically critiques administration policy from the standpoint of its truthfulness as well as its merit, with the characteristic wit of both writers.
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Brave New World
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Aldous Huxley
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Cloning, feel-good drugs, anti-aging programs, and total social control through politics, programming...
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A Christmas Carol
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Charles Dickens
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Through a series of visions in which ghosts reveal his past, present, and future, the miserly Scrooge is given the chance to review his life and to change its outcome.
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The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
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Katherine Anne Porter
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Four of the exceptional short stories that won Katherine Anne Porter both the Pulitzer Prize and...
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The Comedy of Errors
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William Shakespeare
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Who's who – and why is not knowing so funny? Join the fun of one of the Bard's earlier plays, a wonderful, festive, witty, and distinctly farcical case of mistaken identity.
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Complete Arkangel Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare
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Audio CD ($480.00)
The Complete Shakespeare for the 21st Century. This release is of major importance: for the first time all of Shakespeare's plays are available on CD in a single set.
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Coriolanus
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William Shakespeare
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An ambitious and intriguing story of ambition, politics, treachery, and politics. The Bard's last great tragedy explores the career and death of a brilliant and arrogant Roman general.
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The Culture of Fear
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Barry Glassner
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Audio CD ($22.46) | Audio Cassette ($24.95) | Digital Download
America is a country gripped by fear. In this widely-acclaimed book, Barry Glassner exposes the people and organizations that manipulate our perceptions and profit from our anxieties....
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Cymbeline
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William Shakespeare
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Audio CD ($19.96) | Audio Cassette ($14.36)
Shakespeare's classic, a tale of disguise, jealousy, and love. Imogen, the daughter of King Cymbeline, is suspected of being unfaithful to her husband Posthumus.
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