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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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Audio CD ($24.95) | Audio Cassette
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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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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Mark Twain
Unabridged Edition
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Audio Download | Audio CD ($23.96) | Audio Cassette
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
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 ($22.46) | 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 ($22.46) | Audio Cassette ($17.95)
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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Audio Download | Audio Cassette
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 ($15.96) | Audio Cassette
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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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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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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A Christmas Carol
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Charles Dickens
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Audio Cassette
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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Audio CD ($15.96) | Audio Cassette
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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Audio CD | Audio Cassette ($17.95)
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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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 ($22.46) | Audio Cassette ($17.95)
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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David Copperfield
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Charles Dickens
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The fatherless David is continually beset by personal difficulties; he rises from a poverty-stricken, abusive childhood to a world of fame and fortune.
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The Defining Moment
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Jonathan Alter
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In this dramatic and authoritative account, Alter explains how FDR used his famous "fear itself" speech and the first hundred days in office to lift the country from despair and paralysis and transform the American presidency.
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Edith's Story
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Edith Velmans
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Popular teenager Edith van Hessen was a Jewish high school student in Holland in 1939....
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Emma
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Jane Austen
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Emma starts matchmaking among her friends and acquaintances and finds that she herself has inadequacies in the art of love.
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Endurance
by
Alfred Lansing
Abridged Edition
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The year was 1915. Equipment and food supplies were totally inadequate. After battling its way for six weeks through thousands of miles of pack ice and located only a day's sail from its destination...
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