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A Tale of Two Cities
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Charles Dickens
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Audio Download | Audio CD ($13.56)
After 18 years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Dr. Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England....
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Animal Farm
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George Orwell
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Audio Cassette
George Orwell's timeless fable - a parable for would-be liberators everywhere, glimpsed through the lens of our own history.
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Armageddon in Retrospect
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Kurt Vonnegut
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Audio CD ($27.96)
The first and only collection of unpublished works by Kurt Vonnegut since his death—a fitting tribute to the author, and an essential contribution to the discussion of war, peace, and humanity’s tendency toward violence.
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Crime and Punishment
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St. Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret....
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Disgrace
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J.M. Coetzee
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Disgrace--set in post-apartheid Cape Town and on a remote farm in the Eastern Cape--is deft, lean, quiet, and brutal. A heartbreaking novel about a man and his daughter, Disgrace is a portrait of the new South Africa that is ultimately about grace and love.
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Dracula
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Bram Stoker
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In Bram Stoker's masterpiece of the horror genre, Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula purchase a London house, but makes horrifying discoveries about his client....
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Fairy Tales
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Hans Christian Andersen
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To celebrate the bicentennial of one of the world's most brilliant storytellers, this major new edition of fairy tales is from an award-winning translator.
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Grapes of Wrath
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John Steinbeck
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Audio Cassette
John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression follows the western movement of one family and a nation in search of work and human dignity.
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Great Expectations
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Charles Dickens
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A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella....
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I Was Told There'd Be Cake
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Sloane Crosley
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Wry, hilarious, and profoundly genuine, this debut collection of literary essays is a celebration of fallibility and haplessness in all their glory.
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Jane Eyre
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Charlotte Bronte
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Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead and subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity....
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Jane Eyre
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Charlotte Bronte
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Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead and subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity.
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Moby Dick
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Herman Melville
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Over a century and a half after its publication, Moby Dick still stands as an indisputable literary classic.
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More Than It Hurts You
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Darin Strauss
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Audio CD
The acclaimed author of Chang and Eng returns with a literary showstopper— a beautifully crafted novel at the heart of which is the story of a woman who will risk everything to feel something; a doctor whose diagnosis brings her entire life into question; and a man who suddenly realizes that being a good husband and a good father can no longer comfortably coexist.
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On the Road
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Jack Kerouac
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On the Road chronicles Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent-from East Coast to West Coast to Mexico-with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West."
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On the Road: The Original Scroll
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Jack Kerouac
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The quintessential American vision of freedom and hope, "On the Road" is now available on audio in this special anniversary edition.
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Orlando
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Virginia Woolf
Unabridged Edition
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Orlando is one of the most unforgettable creations of twentieth-century literature.
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People of the Book
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Geraldine Brooks
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated prayer book through centuries of war, destruction, theft, loss, and love.
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Pilgrims
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Elizabeth Gilbert
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When it appeared in 1997, Elizabeth Gilbert’s story collection, Pilgrims, immediately announced her compelling voice, her comic touch, and her amazing ear for dialogue. “The heroes of Pilgrims . . . are everyday seekers” (Harper’s Bazaar)—brave and unforgettable, they are sure to strike a chord with fans old and new.
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Pride and Prejudice
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Jane Austen
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Elizabeth Bennet, the second eldest of five daughters whom Mrs Bennett is anxious to dispose of in marriage, is the most intelligent and delightful of all Jane Austen's heroines.
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Savvy
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Ingrid Law
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For generations, the Beaumont family has harbored a magical secret. They each possess a “savvy”—a special supernatural power that strikes when they turn thirteen.
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Sense and Sensibility
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Jane Austen
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Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning....
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Song Yet Sung
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James McBride
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Audio CD ($31.96)
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Color of Water comes a powerful page-turner about a runaway slave and a determined slave catcher.
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The Aeneid
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Virgil
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Audio Download | Audio CD ($39.96)
Fagles's translations of "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" have sold hundreds of thousands of copies. Now, the much-anticipated new translation of Virgil's epic poem from the award-winning translator reintroduces "The Aeneid" to a whole new generation.
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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Junot Diaz
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Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd.
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