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Abraham Lincoln: The 16th President, 1861-1865
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Audio CD
McGovern's account reminds us why we hold Lincoln in such esteem and why he remains the standard by which all of his successors are measured.
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Adventure According to Humphrey
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Audio Download | Audio CD
Humphrey is in for his biggest adventure yet! When his friends begin studying the ocean and sailing, he not only discovers the new and exciting world of the library, but also stows away aboard a model boat and takes a very perilous sail on Potter's Pond.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Audio Download ($17.99) | Audio CD ($31.49) | MP3 CD ($22.49)
Mark Twain defined classic as "a book which people praise and don't read"; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a happy exception to his own rule. Twain's mastery of dialect, coupled with his famous wit, has made Huckleberry Finn one of the most loved and distinctly American classics ever written.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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Audio Download ($16.99) | Audio CD ($25.19) | MP3 CD ($17.99)
Mark Twain's classic novel of a mischievous boy's pranks and escapades in a nineteenth-century river town---whitewashing a fence, seeking buried treasure, trying to impress the adored Becky Thatcher, and more.
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Ask a Mexican
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Audio Download | Audio CD ($31.49) | MP3 CD ($22.49)
An irreverent, hilarious, and informative look at Mexican American culture is taken by rising star Gustavo Arellano, who uses the best questions from readers of his Ask a Mexican! column in California's OC Weekly to explore the many clichés applied to Mexican Americans.
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Bad Dirt
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Audio Download ($20.19)
A remarkable collection of stories, Bad Dirt is filled with the vivid characters for which Proulx has become known.
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The Bears on Hemlock Mountain
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Audio Download ($5.95) | Audio CD
There are no bears on Hemlock Mountain, No bears, no bears at all… Or so young Jonathan is told by the grown-ups as he sets out alone over Hemlock Mountain
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The Beautiful and Damned
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Audio Download ($29.95) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, The Beautiful and the Damned, "marks an advance over This Side of Paradise," Edmund Wilson wrote...
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The Bedford Boys
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Audio Download ($20.19)
The Bedford Boys is the astonishing true story of twenty-one young men who were killed during the first horrifying minutes of D-Day and the friends and families they left behind in the small town of Bedford.
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Books: A Memoir
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Audio Download | Audio CD | MP3 CD
Larry McMurtry is known to be reclusive and extremely private, rarely giving interviews or making public appearances. Audiences are therefore sure to be eager to hear this intimate and surprisingly personal memoir of the brilliant writer's love affair with books.
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