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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
Price: Audio CD ($39.96) | Audio Cassette ($31.96)
At once an intimate memoir of childhood, a complicated exploration of race and poverty in the South, and a moving portrayal of uncompromising conscience, "To Kill a Mockingbird" has been called the greatest American novel of the 20th century.
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Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
Price: 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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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
Price: Audio CD ($17.96) | Audio Cassette ($17.96) | Digital Download | MP3 CD ($29.95)
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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Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
Price: Audio CD ($14.38) | Digital Download ($14.38)
There is now no doubt that not only is Waiting for Godot the outstanding play of the 20th century, but it is also Samuel Beckett's masterpiece.
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The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
Price: Audio Cassette ($14.40)
This play was directly inspired by the witch-hunting activities of Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. Though set in the 17th century, "The Crucible" presents issues still of interest to people in modern times.
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Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
Price: Audio Cassette ($20.80) | Digital Download
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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The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
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Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, "The Kite Runner" is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul.
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Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card
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Andrew Ender Wiggin thinks he is playing computer-simulated war games at the Battle School; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more desperate...
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The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
Price: Audio CD ($19.76) | Digital Download ($15.37)
In 1949, four Chinese women begin meeting in San Francisco for fun. Nearly 40years later, their daughters continue to meet as the Joy Luck Club.
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Night
by Elie Wiesel
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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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The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho
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At last -- the unabridged recording of this timeless bestseller that has sold millions. "To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation", This quotation taken from "The Alchemist" sums up the focus of the book.
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The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
Price: Audio CD ($19.99) | Digital Download
The Things They Carried is a masterful novel of the Vietnam War that has been called the greatest war novel ever written.
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The Arthur Miller Audio Collection
by Arthur Miller
Price: Audio CD ($23.96)
Full cast recordings of two of Arthur Miller's greatest plays Death of a Salesman and The Crucible
Featuring Lee J. Cobb (Willy Loman), Mildred Dunnock (Linda Loman), Dustin Hoffman (Bernard)…
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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
Price: Audio CD ($23.96) | Audio Cassette ($20.76)
Fahrenheit 451 is set in a grim alternate-future setting ruled by a tyrannical government in which firemen as we understand them no longer exist: Here, firemen don't douse fires, they ignite them.
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Bless Me, Ultima
by Rudolfo Anaya
Price: Audio CD ($23.99)
With hundreds of thousands of copies in print, Bless Me, Ultima has been called the most widely read Mexican-American novel in the English language.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
Price: Audio CD ($19.96)
McMurphy is a life-loving fighter who rallies the other mental patients around him to challenge the dictatorship of Big Nurse in what becomes a struggle for the minds and hearts of men. Includes a bonus author interview from "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross.
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American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
Price: Audio CD ($40.46) | Digital Download ($31.46)
Seymour "Swede" Levov is a prosperous, hard-working family man who comes of age in America's...
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Essential Welty
by Eudora Welty
Price: Audio CD ($10.36) | Digital Download
In 1956, Caedmon had the great fortune to record Eudora Welty reading some of her finest stories.
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
by Hunter S. Thompson
Price: Audio CD ($15.99) | Digital Download
Maverick author Hunter S. Thompson introduced the world to "gonzo journalism" with this cult classic that shot back up the best-seller lists after Thompson's suicide in 2005.
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull
by Richard Bach
Price: Audio Cassette ($9.56)
The tale that sent Bach soaring to fame tells the story of a seagull who practices for a lifetime to begin to know the meaning of kindness and love.
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The Celestine Prophecy
by James Redfield
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In the rain forests of Peru, an ancient manuscript has been discovered. Within its pages are 9 key...
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The Allen Ginsberg Audio Collection
by Allen Ginsberg
Price: Audio CD ($17.60) | Digital Download
Upon the release of his first published work, Howl and Other Poems, in 1956, Allen Ginsberg became the unlikely force of a movement that would change a generation....
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The Natural
by Bernard Malamud
Price: Audio CD | Audio Cassette ($35.96) | Digital Download | MP3 CD ($26.96)
In The Natural, Bernard Malamud has raised all the passion and craziness and fanaticism of baseball to its ordained place in mythology.
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Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut
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Cat's Cradle is Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny.
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Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories
by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Price: Audio CD ($15.96) | Audio Cassette ($15.95) | Digital Download
These 4 stories are infused with the wit and imagination, the humor and wisdom, that characterizes...
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