Sharpe's Gold (MP3) Only a year after its stunning victory at Talavera in July of 1809, Wellington's Peninsular army-vastly outnumbered, its coffers empty-is on the brink of collapse. The Spanish government has fallen, the last the French has crushed ...
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On the Road (MP3) Credited as the book that launched Jack Kerouac's career, On the Road epitomized to the world the generation that Kerouac himself named as "beat." It created a sensation by chronicling a spontaneous and wandering way of life in a ...
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2003
Mulligan for Bobby Jobe, A (MP3) Disc 2 of 2 Bobby Jobe is a phenomenally talented golfer with a terrible attitude. Leading a major tournament in the final round, he gets distracted-as he always does-and blows the lead. He takes his fury out on his caddy, Henry "Greyhound" M ...
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Book of Pirates, The (MP3) Rip-roaring fictional adventures of swashbuckling pirates and buccaneers of the Spanish Main. Includes "The Ghost of Captain Brand," "Tom Chist and the Treasure Box," "Jack Ballister's Fortunes," and more! The School CD Edition co ...
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The Robe (MP3) Disk 2 of 2 A Roman soldier, Marcellus, wins Christ's robe as a gambling prize. He then sets forth on a quest to find the truth about the Nazarene's robe, a quest that reaches to the very heart of Christianity. Set against the vividly drawn b ...
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The Green Hour (MP3) In this elegant and sensual novel, Frederic Tuten explores the ageless tension between a life of passion and a desire for ease. Set in Paris and New York, The Green Hour tells the story of Dominique, an art historian who cannot ch ...
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2003
The Trial (MP3) This disturbing and vastly influential novel has been interpreted on many levels of structure and symbol; but most commentators agree that the book explores the themes of guilt, anxiety, and moral impotency in the face of some amb ...
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2003
The House Of Blue Mangoes - 2 of 2 (MP3) In 1899, in the south Indian village of Chevathar, renowned for its groves of a rare variety of blue mango, Solomon Dorai is contemplating the imminent destruction of his world and everything he holds dear. As the thalaivar, or he ...
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Deep Fire Rising (MP3) Hired to lead the excavation of caverns deep beneath Area 51, Philip Mercer finds himself drilling straight into the epicenter of an age-old conspiracy. A reclusive order of Himalayan monks, through special knowledge of the earth' ...
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2003
The Summer Of My Greek Tavérna (MP3) Tom Stone went to Greece one summer to write a novel—and stayed twenty-two years. On the tiny island of Patmos, Tom fell in love and married Danielle, a beautiful French painter. Upon completion of his novel, a Patmian friend, The ...
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2003
Atlas Shrugged Disk 2 OF 4 (MP3) This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world-and did. Is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battle not against his enemies but against those who need him most? Why does he ...
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1812 Disk 2 Of 2 (MP3) The war of 1812 would either make America a global power sweeping all the way to the Pacific or break it into small pieces bound to mighty England. It was a second revolution of sorts to prove to the British that America had to be ...
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2003
Strange Fiction: Stories by H.G. Wells (MP3) Nine stories including "The Door in the Wall," "The Country of the Blind," "The Truth About Pycraft," and "The Strange Orchid."
"Each piece of narration is invested with gristliness and wit." - Talking Book World
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37th hour, the (MP3) On a chilling Minnesota morning, Sarah Pribek comes home to the house she shares with her husband and fellow cop, Michael Shiloh. Shiloh is supposed to be in Virginia, starting his training with the FBI. A seasoned missing-persons ...
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1812 Disk 1 Of 2 (MP3) The war of 1812 would either make America a global power sweeping all the way to the Pacific or break it into small pieces bound to mighty England. It was a second revolution of sorts to prove to the British that America had to be ...
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2003
The Quiet American (MP3) This novel is a study of New World hope and innocence set in an Old World of violence. The scene is Saigon in the violent years when the French were desperately trying to hold their footing in the Far East. The principal character ...
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2003
Cold Sassy Tree (MP3) The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around-fast. If the preacher's wife's petticoat shows, the ladies will make the talk last a week. But on July 5, 1906, things take a scandalous turn. That i ...
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2003
Broken Ground (MP3) Kaethe Shalk has married into a family of disappearing German aristocracy. Having spent years in East Berlin, she faces a new life of boundless complexity when the Berlin Wall comes down and the ruin of the East stands in stark co ...
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2003
Bachelors, The (MP3) A barrister, a "priest," a detective, a lovelorn Irishman, a handwriting expert, a heinous spiritual medium-the very British bachelors of Muriel Spark's supreme 1960 novel come in every stripe.
First found contentedly chatting ...
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2003
Blindside (MP3) Catherine Coulter's fast-paced FBI novels featuring married agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich have rocketed up the New York Times bestseller lists and garnered millions of fans. Coulter's heady blend of action and intrigue, ...