The Shunning (MP3) The Shunning is the first book in a trilogy set in a quiet Amish community. On the eve of her wedding, Katie Lapp watches as the only life she has ever known begins to unravel, leaving in its wake a furrow of pain but also a futur ...
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2003
The Dress Lodger (MP3) Fifteen-year-old Gustine is a "dress lodger," a young prostitute who rents a beautiful blue dress from her landlord to attract a higher class of clientele. To make sure she earns her fees and to keep her from running off with his ...
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2003
Pasadena - Disc 1 of 2 (MP3) Pasadena, David Ebershoff's sweeping, richly imagined novel, is set against the backdrop of Southern California during the first half of the twentieth century and charts its rapid transformation from frontier to suburb. At the sto ...
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2003
American Experience, The: Great American Stories (MP3) "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving, "The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane, "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Mark Twain, "The Man of the Crowd" by Edgar Allan Poe, "The Gift of the Magi" by ...
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2003
The Robe (MP3) Disk 1 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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2003
The Secret Garden (MP3) This is the story of Mary and her friends and a garden which had been locked away for ten years.
This production ranks as one of the best and is worth seeking out. - The Horn Book
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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
Cry, The Beloved Country (MP3) Unabridged
This is the most distinguished novel that has come out of South Africa in the 20th century, and it is one of the most important novels that has appeared anywhere in modern times.
Cry, the Beloved Country is in som ...
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2003
Best of O. Henry (MP3) "Seven great stories: 'Voice of the City,' 'The Gift of the Magi,' 'The Cop and the Anthem,' 'The Romance of a Busy Broker,' 'The Green Door,' 'The Hiding of Black Bill' and 'The Ransom of Red Chief'. "
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2003
Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer among the Indians (MP3) Mark Twain began this sequel to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1885. Fifteen thousand words into the work, Twain stopped in the middle of a sentence, never to go back. The unfinished story sat on dusty shelves for more than ...
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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
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
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
Bad Place, The (MP3) Frank Pollard awakens in an alley, knowing nothing but his name - and that he is in great danger. Having taken refuge in a motel, he wakes again only to find his hands covered in blood. As far as he knows, he's no killer. But whos ...
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2004
This Side of Married (MP3) This is Jane Austen updated, a sparkling novel of love, marriage, and manners.
The Rubin daughters are three eligible sisters from an affluent suburban Philadelphia family whose well-meaning but domineering mother is single-mind ...
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2004
The Story of Henri Tod (MP3) It is 1961 Berlin and the Cold War is at its most chilling. Suave CIA agent Blackfiord Oakes has come to investigate. Brilliant, charismatic and with tragic past, Henri Tod is head of Bruderschaft, the underground anti-communist o ...
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2004
Dumping Billy (MP3) There's something magical about Billy Nolan. It's not just that the Brooklyn bar owner is wickedly handsome; it is also that any woman he dates and dumps - and he dumps them all - immediately goes on to marry the next man she meet ...
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2004
Eagle's Cry - Disk 1 of 2 (MP3) Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, whose thirst for power cannot be quenched, has gained control of New Orleans, a move that gives him potential mastery of the Mississippi River Valley. A country as strong as France could stop America’s ...
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2004
1984 (MP3) The year 1984 has come and gone, yet George Orwell's prophetic nightmare vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still the great modern classic of "Negative Utopia"-a startlingly original and po ...
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2004
Bone Harvest (MP3) The unsolved murders at a remote Wisconsin farmhouse half a century ago have receded into time. But one deranged man will do anything to make sure that all of Pepin County remembers that bloody day. When a quantity of dangerous pe ...
