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Raintree County

by Ross Lockridge ...

Narrated by Lloyd James ...

Unabridged

43 hours 7 min

A number-one bestseller when it was first published in 1948, this powerful novel is a compelling vision of nineteenth-century America with timeless resonance.Throughout a single day in 1892, John Shawnessy recalls the great moments of his life—from the battles of the Civil War to the politics of the Gilded Age, from the love affairs of his youth in Indiana to his homecoming as schoolteacher, ... Read more

$39.95 USD

A number-one bestseller when it was first published in 1948, this powerful novel is a compelling vision of nineteenth-century America with timeless resonance.Throughout a single day in 1892, John Shawnessy recalls the great moments of his life—from the battles of the Civil War to the politics of the Gilded Age, from the love affairs of his youth in Indiana to his homecoming as schoolteacher,
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Claudius the God

by Robert Graves ...

Narrated by Nelson Runger ...

Unabridged

19 hours 47 min

Claudius, whom none of his bloody-minded relatives considered worth the trouble of executing, poisoning, forcing to suicide, banishing to a desert island or starving to death—which was how they one by one got rid of each other—was one day unexpectedly proclaimed Emperor.Claudius picks up the remarkable story he began in I, Claudius with his sudden promotion and his burgeoning infatuation for the ... Read more

$30.99 USD

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Claudius, whom none of his bloody-minded relatives considered worth the trouble of executing, poisoning, forcing to suicide, banishing to a desert island or starving to death—which was how they one by one got rid of each other—was one day unexpectedly proclaimed Emperor.Claudius picks up the remarkable story he began in I, Claudius with his sudden promotion and his burgeoning infatuation for the
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Boston Strangler, The

by Gerold Frank ...

Narrated by Steven Jay Cohen ...

Unabridged

17 hours 43 min

New York Times Bestseller and Winner of the Edgar Award: The definitive account of a serial killer's rampage—and the manhunt that stopped him.On June 14, 1962, twenty-five-year-old Juris Slesers arrived at his mother's apartment to drive her to church. But there was no answer at the door. When he pushed his way inside, Juris found Anna Slesers dead on the kitchen floor, the cord of her housecoat ... Read more

$44.99 USD

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New York Times Bestseller and Winner of the Edgar Award: The definitive account of a serial killer's rampage—and the manhunt that stopped him.On June 14, 1962, twenty-five-year-old Juris Slesers arrived at his mother's apartment to drive her to church. But there was no answer at the door. When he pushed his way inside, Juris found Anna Slesers dead on the kitchen floor, the cord of her housecoat
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Burr

A Novel

by Gore Vidal ...

Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Narratives of Empire
Unabridged

21 hours 20 min

For readers who can’t get enough of the hit Broadway musical Hamilton, Gore Vidal’s stunning novel about Aaron Burr, the man who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel—and who served as a successful, if often feared, statesman of our fledgling nation.Here is an extraordinary portrait of one of the most complicated—and misunderstood—figures among the Founding Fathers. In 1804, while serving as vice ... Read more

$46.99 USD

For readers who can’t get enough of the hit Broadway musical Hamilton, Gore Vidal’s stunning novel about Aaron Burr, the man who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel—and who served as a successful, if often feared, statesman of our fledgling nation.Here is an extraordinary portrait of one of the most complicated—and misunderstood—figures among the Founding Fathers. In 1804, while serving as vice
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Joy in the Morning

A Novel

by Betty Smith ...

Narrated by Maggi-Meg Reed ...

Unabridged

10 hours 22 min

FromBetty Smith, author of the beloved American classic A Tree Grows inBrooklyn, comes an unsentimental yet radiant and uplifting taleof young love and marriage.In 1927, in Brooklyn, New York, Carl Brown and Annie McGairymeet and fall in love. Though only eighteen, Annie travels alone halfway acrossthe country to the Midwestern university where Carl is study... ... Read more

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FromBetty Smith, author of the beloved American classic A Tree Grows inBrooklyn, comes an unsentimental yet radiant and uplifting taleof young love and marriage.In 1927, in Brooklyn, New York, Carl Brown and Annie McGairymeet and fall in love. Though only eighteen, Annie travels alone halfway acrossthe country to the Midwestern university where Carl is study...
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I, Claudius

by Robert Graves ...

Narrated by Derek Jacobi, Full Cast, Tom Goodman-Hill ...

Unabridged

5 hours 47 min

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Robert Graves' brilliant account of the madness and debauchery of ancient Rome, starring Tom Goodman Hill as Claudius and Derek Jacobi as Augustus. The wickedly entertaining inside story of the lives and deaths of the Imperial dynasty from Augustus to Caligula is told by their obscure relation, Claudius. In public, Claudius is a stammering, drooling ... Read more

$19.11 USD

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A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Robert Graves' brilliant account of the madness and debauchery of ancient Rome, starring Tom Goodman Hill as Claudius and Derek Jacobi as Augustus. The wickedly entertaining inside story of the lives and deaths of the Imperial dynasty from Augustus to Caligula is told by their obscure relation, Claudius. In public, Claudius is a stammering, drooling
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SuperSense

Why We Believe in the Unbelievable

by Bruce M. Hood ...

Narrated by Kerin McCue ...

Unabridged

11 hours 11 min

Director of the Bristol Cognitive Development Centre at the University of Bristol, Bruce M. Hood has been a research fellow at Cambridge, a visiting scientist at MIT and a professor at Harvard. SuperSense is a fascinating exploration of the forces that shape people's beliefs in the irrational-and also a compelling look at how these beliefs bind humans together in society. ... Read more

$25.99 USD

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Director of the Bristol Cognitive Development Centre at the University of Bristol, Bruce M. Hood has been a research fellow at Cambridge, a visiting scientist at MIT and a professor at Harvard. SuperSense is a fascinating exploration of the forces that shape people's beliefs in the irrational-and also a compelling look at how these beliefs bind humans together in society.
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Cluny Brown

A Novel

by Margery Sharp ...

Narrated by Anna Parker-Naples ...

Unabridged

7 hours 24 min

Cluny Brown refuses to know her place in society. Last week, she took herself to tea at the Ritz. Then she spent almost an entire day in bed eating oranges. So, to teach her discipline, her uncle, a plumber who has raised the orphaned girl since she was a baby, sends her into service as a parlor maid at one of England’s stately manor houses.At Friars Carmel in Devonshire, Cluny meets her employers ... Read more

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Cluny Brown refuses to know her place in society. Last week, she took herself to tea at the Ritz. Then she spent almost an entire day in bed eating oranges. So, to teach her discipline, her uncle, a plumber who has raised the orphaned girl since she was a baby, sends her into service as a parlor maid at one of England’s stately manor houses.At Friars Carmel in Devonshire, Cluny meets her employers
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Saratoga Trunk

A Novel

by Edna Ferber ...

Narrated by Robin Miles ...

Unabridged

11 hours 43 min

The basis for the classic film starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman, Saratoga Trunk is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edna Ferber's enthralling saga of love, greed, and power set in New Orleans and Saratoga during the late nineteenth century.Saratoga Trunk unfolds the story of Clio Dulaine, an ambitious Creole beauty who more than meets her match in Clint Maroon, a handsome Texan with a head for ... Read more

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The basis for the classic film starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman, Saratoga Trunk is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edna Ferber's enthralling saga of love, greed, and power set in New Orleans and Saratoga during the late nineteenth century.Saratoga Trunk unfolds the story of Clio Dulaine, an ambitious Creole beauty who more than meets her match in Clint Maroon, a handsome Texan with a head for
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Maggie-Now

A Novel

by Betty Smith ...

Narrated by Nicola Barber ...

Unabridged

13 hours 23 min

Betty Smith, the belovedauthor of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, weaves a riveting modern mythout of the experiences of her own life in this rediscovered classic.In Brooklyn'sunforgiving urban jungle, Maggie Moore is torn between answering her own needsand catering to the desirous men who dominate her life. Confronted by herquarrelsome Irish immigrant father, the feckless lover who may be... ... Read more

$32.99 USD

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Betty Smith, the belovedauthor of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, weaves a riveting modern mythout of the experiences of her own life in this rediscovered classic.In Brooklyn'sunforgiving urban jungle, Maggie Moore is torn between answering her own needsand catering to the desirous men who dominate her life. Confronted by herquarrelsome Irish immigrant father, the feckless lover who may be...
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Guardian of Mercy, The

How an Extraordinary Painting by Caravaggio Changed an Ordinary Life Today

by Terence Ward ...

Narrated by Fred Stella ...

Unabridged

6 hours 11 min

Now celebrated as one of the great painters of the Renaissance, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio fled Rome in 1606 to escape retribution for killing a man in a brawl. Three years later he was in Naples, where he painted The Seven Acts of Mercy. A year later he died at the age of thirty-eight under mysterious circumstances. Exploring Caravaggio's singular masterwork, in The Guardian of Mercy ... Read more

$35.99 USD

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Now celebrated as one of the great painters of the Renaissance, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio fled Rome in 1606 to escape retribution for killing a man in a brawl. Three years later he was in Naples, where he painted The Seven Acts of Mercy. A year later he died at the age of thirty-eight under mysterious circumstances. Exploring Caravaggio's singular masterwork, in The Guardian of Mercy
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Tobacco Road

by Erskine Caldwell ...

Narrated by John MacDonald ...

Unabridged

5 hours 23 min

Set during the Depression in the depleted farmlands surrounding Augusta, Georgia, Tobacco Road is the story of the Lesters, a family of white sharecroppers so destitute that most of their creditors have given up on them. Debased by poverty to an elemental state of ignorance and selfishness, the Lesters are preoccupied by their hunger, sexual longings, and fear that they will one day descend to a ... Read more

$13.95 USD

Set during the Depression in the depleted farmlands surrounding Augusta, Georgia, Tobacco Road is the story of the Lesters, a family of white sharecroppers so destitute that most of their creditors have given up on them. Debased by poverty to an elemental state of ignorance and selfishness, the Lesters are preoccupied by their hunger, sexual longings, and fear that they will one day descend to a
... Read more

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