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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2003
Cyanide Wells (MP3) A hard, four-hour drive north of San Francisco leads to sparsely populated Soledad County, a combination of spectacular seashore, inland forests, and small towns steeped in gold-mining history. One of those towns is Cyanide Wells, ...
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2003
Soundless (MP3) Nick Raze is a famous concert violinist who has crossed over from the black-tie, upper-crust symphony arena to the mainstream public, yet his dark past continually haunts him. He hides behind his photogenic face, his Raybans, and ...
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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
Out of Times' Abyss (MP3) On Caprona, the Land That Time Forgot, all of the world's savage past still lives. Here are dinosaurs and flying reptiles, here are the most primitive of cavemen and the last of the Bronze Age barbarians. But there is one more sec ...
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2003
Poe: Collected Stories and Poems (MP3) "Eighteen best-loved stories and poems. Those below plus The Pit and the Pendulum, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Annabel Lee, and more."
"These fine recordings definitely deserve a prominent place in public schools and librari ...
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2003
Haussmann, or the Distinction (MP3) LaFarge’s stunning novel of love, betrayal, and exploitation is based on themes involving the life of the great city planner Georges-Eugene Haussmann, who tore up a still medieval Paris and transformed it into the light-filled cit ...
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2003
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Stories (MP3) "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" and "The Jelly-Bean:" Two of Fitzgerald's finest stories of the Jazz Age. The first tells of a young woman who doesn't fit in her cousin's social life, and the second of love and social class.
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2003
Dark Alchemy (MP3) Dr. Sylvia Strange - forensic psychiatrist and expert on criminal sexuality - returns in a thrilling new suspense novel and comes head-to-head with a terrifying serial killer whose weapon of choice is a poison nearly impossible to ...
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2003
Going To Bend ( MP3) Petie Coolbaugh and Rose Bundy have been best friends since childhood. Now in their early thirties, they are grappling with the coming of age and their station in life. Working together in Petie’s kitchen, they prepare gallons of ...
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2004
One Day the Ice Will Reveal All Its Dead (MP3) In his lifetime Alfred Wegener was a German meteorologist who was better known for his offbeat scientific adventures than for his now famous theory of continental drift. In this lushly imagined and beautifully written novel, Clare ...
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2004
Confederacy of Dunces, A (MP3) Unabridged
"A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn ...
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2004
Bet Me (MP3) Min Dobbs knows that happily-ever-after is a fairy tale, especially with a man who asked her to dinner to win a bet. Cal Morrisey knows commitment is impossible, especially with a woman as cranky as Min Dobbs. When they say good-b ...
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2004
Zermatt (MP3) It is 1966, and Calvin is fourteen, torn between his naturally volcanic sexual curiosity and a fundamentalist family so strict that he has never seen a movie, watched television, or danced. But at the Hotel Riffelberg, a supposed ...
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2004
Chronicles of Avonlea (MP3) The first thing every listener will want to know is whether Anne Shirley appears in these stories of Avonlea and Spencervale. She certainly does. As a matter of fact, page one starts off in this manner: "Anne Shirley was curled up ...
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2004
Hidden River (MP3) Unabridged
The electrifying noir thriller by a major new talent in which a young Irish ex-cop travels half a world away to investigate the murder of a beautiful girl he once loved
Alexander Lawson is a former detective fo ...
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2004
By the Grand Canal (MP3) Venice, 1919. In the aftermath of the First World War, Hugh Thurne, a senior British diplomat involved in the peace negotiations, decides to flee to his second home in Venice rather than return to his wife and the charade of his m ...
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2004
The Master (MP3) Like Michael Cunningham in The Hours, Colm Tóibín captures the extraordinary mind and heart of a great writer, a breakout novel about Henry James, from a masterful and award-winning author.
In The Master, his brilliant and profo ...
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2004
Blinded (MP3) Relentlessly probing the very edge of the human psyche as only he can, psychologist and New York Times bestselling author Stephen White ratchets up the thrills in BLINDED, a new novel of psychological suspense - his most compellin ...
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2004
Citizen of the Galaxy (MP3) Citizen of the Galaxy takes place far in the future, when the human race has spread out to colonize other planets. In a slave market in the capital of Jubbul and of the Nine Worlds, an auctioneer announces, "Lot ninety-seven. A bo ...
