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A Short History of Myth
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Karen Armstrong
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Heralding a major series of retellings of international myths by authors from around the world, Armstrong's characteristically insightful and eloquent audiobook serves as a brilliant and thought-provoking introduction to myth in the broadest sense and explains why if we dismiss it, we do so at our peril.
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Captains Courageous
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Rudyard Kipling
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Young Harvey Cheyne is rich, spoiled, prejudiced, and totally lacking in the real experiences of life.
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Heidi
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Johanna Spyri
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Audio CD ($32.95) | MP3 CD
In this treasured story, the orphan child, Heidi, is sent to live with her embittered Grandfather high in the Swiss Alps.
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
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Jules Verne
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Audio CD ($26.36) | MP3 CD ($24.95)
Professor Lindenbrock and his nephew Axel, the story's narrator, on a quest to reach the very core of the earth, gain access to the interior by travelling north to cold and barren Iceland, where they enter the subterranean regions through the cone of the extinct volcano Sneffels.
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Miss Wyoming
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Douglas Coupland
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Audio Cassette
She is a former child beauty pageant contender. He is a hard-living movie producer. She walks away from a plane crash without so much as a scratch. He comes away from a near-death experience with a unique, vivid plan.
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Moll Flanders
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Daniel Defoe
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Moll Flanders, Defoe's 18th Century classic novel, was "marketed" in its day in much the same way that a modern commercial novel might be - its title page promised the racy details of a woman's life spent in thievery and whoredom.
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Persuasion
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Jane Austen
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Audio CD ($34.95) | MP3 CD ($24.95)
Anne Elliot is a young woman of perfect breeding and unwavering integrity. Austen wrote of her, "She is almost too good for me."
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Peter and the Secret of Rundoon
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Dave Barry
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Audio CD ($97.25) | Audio Cassette ($29.95)
In this action-packed conclusion to the Starcatchers trilogy, Peter and Molly find themselves in the dangerous land of Rundoon, ruled by the evil King Zarboff--but thats just the start of their troubles as they once again find themselves pitted against the evil shadow-creature, Lord Ombra. Unabridged.
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Peter and the Shadow Thieves
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Dave Barry
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Audio CD ($23.96) | Audio Cassette ($29.95) | MP3 CD
In this riveting and adventure-packed follow-up to the award-winning New York Times bestseller Peter and the Starcatchers...
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Saving Fish from Drowning
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Amy Tan
Abridged Edition
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Audio CD ($15.29)
On an ill-fated art expedition into Burma, 11 Americans leave their Floating Island Resort for a Christmas-morning tour--and disappear.
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Saving Fish from Drowning
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Amy Tan
Unabridged Edition
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Twelve American tourists join an art expedition that begins in the Himalayan foothills of China - dubbed the true Shangri-La - and heads south into the jungles of Burma.
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Silas Marner
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George Eliot
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Embittered by a false accusation, disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a long twilight life alone with his loom. . . and his gold.
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Terrorist
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John Updike
Unabridged Edition
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An extraordinary novel from multiple award winner John Updike--the story of 18-year-old Ahmad, whose devotion to Allah and the sacred words of the Qur'an, as revealed to him by the local imam, leads him to commit himself to an act of terror.
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Terrorist
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John Updike
Abridged Edition
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Audio CD ($13.49)
An extraordinary novel from multiple award winner John Updike--the story of 18-year-old Ahmad, whose devotion to Allah and the sacred words of the Qur'an, as revealed to him by the local imam, leads him to commit himself to an act of terror.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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Mark Twain
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Audio CD ($30.36) | Audio Cassette ($29.95) | MP3 CD ($24.95)
Generations of readers have enjoyed the ingenuous triumphs and feckless mishaps of boyhood days on the Mississippi.
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The Age of Innocence
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Edith Wharton
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Audio CD ($29.56) | MP3 CD ($24.95)
Newland Archer is a young lawyer, a member of New York's high society, and engaged to be married to May Welland.
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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Michael Chabon
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It's 1939, in New York City. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just pulled off his greatest feat - smuggling himself out of Hitler's Prague.
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The House of the Seven Gables
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The House of the Seven Gables is Hawthorne's most humorous novel, it is also the work in which he is most serious in his devotion to the powers of beauty and imagination and his hatred of economic materialism and Philistinism.
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The Man in the Iron Mask
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Alexandre Dumas
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Deep inside the dreaded Bastille, a twenty-three-year-old prisoner called merely "Philippe" has languished for eight long, dark years.
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The Moon and Sixpence
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William Somerset Maugham
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Audio CD ($29.95) | MP3 CD ($24.95)
The Moon and Sixpence, one of Maugham's best-known and loved novels, is a fictionalized biography of the artist Paul Gauguin.
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The Opposite of Fate
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Amy Tan
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Amy Tan was born into a family that believed in fate. In The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings, she explores this legacy, as well as American circumstances, and finds ways to honor the past while creating her own brand of destiny.
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The Penelopiad
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Margaret Atwood
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Telling the story of Homer's "Odyssey" from the point of view of Penelope and her 12 hanged maids, the bestselling author of "Oryx and Crake" draws on Greek mythology for Volume 2 in the Myths series. Unabridged.
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The Portrait of a Lady
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Henry James
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Audio CD ($44.95) | MP3 CD ($29.95)
The heroine of this powerful novel is the spirited young American Isabel Archer. Blessed by nature and fortune, she journeys to Europe to seek her future, but what she finds may prove to be her undoing.
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The Red Badge of Courage
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Stephen Crane
Unabridged Edition
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Audio CD ($23.96) | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD ($24.95)
Bored with farm life, and anxious for some excitement, Henry Fleming sets off to join the Union troops fighting the Civil War.
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The Sea Wolf
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Jack London
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Audio CD ($37.95) | MP3 CD ($24.95)
Generations have been spellbound by this harrowing story of danger on the sea, psychological confrontation, and the dual nature of humankind.
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