John(Narrator) McDonough
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How did Ragweed and Poppy meet and become friends? Adventurous golden mouse Ragweed is on a freight train leaving the city of Amperville. On his journey he meets Lotar, a young, annoying, and lost raccoon who's desperate to reunite with his mother. Though Ragweed doesn't really want to help the raccoon, by doing so he winds up in Dimwood Forest. Ragweed is now ready to strike off on his own, but it's not long before he hears a cry for help. Following...
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"Paul Theroux has spent fifty years crossing the globe, adventuring in the exotic, seeking the rich history and folklore of the far away. Now, Theroux explores a piece of America--the Deep South. He finds there a paradoxical place, full of incomparable music, unparalleled cuisine, and yet also some of the nation's worst schools, housing, and unemployment rates. It's these parts of the South, so often ignored, that have caught Theroux's keen traveler's...
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Recorded Books
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[2003]
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6 CDs (6.25 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Since he was a boy, Father Tim has lived what he calls "the life of the mind" and has never really learned to savor the work of his hands. When he finds a derelict nativity scene that has suffered the indignities of time and neglect, he imagines the excitement in the eyes of his wife, Cynthia, and decides to undertake the daunting task of restoring it. As Father Tim begins his journey, readers are given a seat at Mitford's holiday table and treated...
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Modern Library chronicles volume 19
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English
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From the late 12th century through the 17th centuries, the Catholic Church and the "Reformed" churches stuggled for control of the population in Europe. Traditional Roman Catholic practices were questioned: indulgences, penitential works, pilgrimage, and the worship of saints, the monastic life. The Scriptures were reinterpreted and Christianity redefined as men like Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Wesley and others gained prominence. The sovereignty...
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Recorded Books
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[2006]
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2 CDs (15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Rhyming text tells of a sea serpent that plays off the coast of Massachusetts the summer of 1817, and is hunted upon its return the next year. Includes a page of facts upon which the story is based.
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Recorded Books
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[2014]
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19 CDs (22 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Hoffmann, among the greatest and most popular of the German Romantics, is renowned for his humorous and sometimes horrifying tales of supernatural beings. This selection, while stressing the variety of his work, focuses on those stories in which the real and the supernatural are brought into contact and conflict.