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A Flag for Sunrise
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Robert Stone
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Audio Download ($27.55)
Possessed of astonishing dramatic, emotional, and philosophical resonance, A Flag for Sunrise is a novel in the grand tradition about Americans drawn into the maelstrom of a small Central American country on the brink of revolution.
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A Free Life
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Ha Jin
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Audio Download ($36.75)
Introducing the Wu family: father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao. We meet them as they arrange to fully sever ties with China in the aftermath of the 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square, and to begin a new, free life in the United States.
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A Tale of Two Cities
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Charles Dickens
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One of Dickens's most exciting novels, "A Tale of Two Cities" provides a highly charged examination of human suffering, sacrifice, private experience, and public history during the French Revolution. Unabridged. 12 CDs.
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A Tranquil Star
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Primo Levi
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Audio Download ($13.75)
A Tranquil Star, the first new American collection of Primo Levi's previously untranslated fiction to appear since 1990, affirms his position as one of the 20th century's most enduring writers.
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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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Air We Breathe
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Andrea Barrett
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Audio Download ($23.87)
In Fall 1916, Americans debate whether to enter the European war. "Preparedness parades" march and headlines report German spies.
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Alan & Thora
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Alan Bennett
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This splendid title showcases the combined talents of Alan Bennett, one of our foremost dramatists and writers, and Thora Hird, the celebrated and much-loved actor who died in 2003....
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Alan Bennett at the BBC
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Alan Bennett
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This unique anthology of Alan Bennet's BBC radio and television work features extracts from his diaries and readings, as well as tributes to friends Russell Harty and Peter Cook....
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All's Well That Ends Well
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William Shakespeare
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BBC Radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare....
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Anne of Green Gables
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L.M. Montgomery
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Audio CD ($11.96)
An eleven-year-old orphan, Anne Shirley, comes to help out on a farm on Prince Edward Island and wins the hearts of everyone at Avonlea
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Another Country
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James Baldwin
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Audio Download ($27.55)
First published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race, and liberal America in the 1960s, taking on the then-taboo themes of interracial couples, bisexuality, and extramarital affairs.
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Antony & Cleopatra
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William Shakespeare
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BBC Radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare....
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As You Like It
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William Shakespeare
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BBC Radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare....
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Babette's Feast
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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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Bad Dirt
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Annie Proulx
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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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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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Brideshead Revisted
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Evelyn Waugh
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Audio CD ($23.96)
Irons, who starred in the landmark 1981 television adaptation of Waugh's novel, narrates this classic tale that chronicles Charles Ryder's friendship with Sebastian Flyte and his family in the 1920s.
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Coriolanus
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William Shakespeare
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BBC Radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare....
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Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth
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Herman Hesse
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A brilliant psychological portrait of a troubled young man's quest for self-awareness, this coming-of-age novel achieved instant critical and popular acclaim upon its 1919 publication.
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Dog Soldiers
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Robert Stone
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In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action--and profit--by getting involved in a big-time drug deal.
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Emma
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Jane Austen
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Arrogant, self-willed and egotistical, Emma is Jane Austen's most unusual heroine.
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False Dawn
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Edith Wharton
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The pathetic but perceptive Lewis Raycie is sent on a grand tour of Europe with instructions to collect great art....
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Great Classic Horror
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Ambrose Bierce
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Chilling tales of cursed corpses, gloomy houses, mysterious strangers, and ghosts. Includes Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, and Robert Louis Stephenson.
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Great Classic Humor: Edited by Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
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This treasure trove of an anthology, an abridgment of the 1888 original, collects seven of Twain's own pieces, in addition to tall tales, fables, and satires by fourteen of Twain's contemporaries, including Artemus Ward, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and William Dean Howells.
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Great Classic Suspense
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Edgar Allan Poe
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This collection includes The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe; Ethan Brand by Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Yellow Sign by Robert W. Chambers; The Upper Berth by F. Marion Crawford; and An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce.
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