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1) I, Claudius: from the autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, born 10 B.C., murdered and deified A.D. 54
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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 weakling, whose reputation as an idiot keeps him safe from...
3) In our time
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This collection of short stories offers vignettes concerning the conflicts, situations, problems, and personalities characteristic of society in Hemingway's day.
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In a chaotic world, people are thirsty for peace. This book seeks to address many essential human questions with divinely inspired answers. According to Graham, only faith in Christ can satisfy the spiritual hunger for serenity that lies within all our hearts.
7) The red pony
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Hardened by years on a California ranch, young Jody Tiflin is ready to assume more adult responsibilities. His father gives him a pony--under strict instructions to manage the animal's care. But Jody soon learns that the first steps toward maturity can lead directly down the cruel path of fate.
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The ideal introduction to the genius of Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories contains ten of Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction.
Selected from Winner Take Nothing, Men Without Women, and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, this collection includes "The Killers," the first of Hemingway's mature stories to be accepted by an American periodical; the...
Selected from Winner Take Nothing, Men Without Women, and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, this collection includes "The Killers," the first of Hemingway's mature stories to be accepted by an American periodical; the...
10) Burmese days
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A corrupt Burmese politician uses the powers of his office to win membership in a British club.
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In this first book of the best-selling cult series, Armistead Maupin creates a hilarious take-off on the "awakened" 70s in San Francisco. When Mary Ann, 25 and naive, joins Anna Madrigal's bizarre household, she knows she has a lot to learn about love and vice -- and this is the group to teach her.
15) The chosen
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In 1940s Brooklyn, New York, an accident throws Reuven Malther and Danny Saunders together. Despite their differences (Reuven is a Modern Orthodox Jew with an intellectual, Zionist father; Danny is the brilliant son and rightful heir to a Hasidic rebbe), the young men form a deep, if unlikely, friendship. Together they negotiate adolescence, family conflicts, the crisis of faith engendered when Holocaust stories begin to emerge in the U.S., loss,...
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; Our Kind of Traitor; now a miniseries on AMC starring Alexander Skarsgard, Michael Shannon, and Florence Pugh.
"You want to catch the lion, first you tether the goat."
On holiday in Mykonos, Charlie wants only sunny days and a brief escape from England’s bourgeois dreariness. Then a handsome stranger
17) A distant mirror
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Recorded Books
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[1984]
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22 CDs (27.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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The 14th century gives us two contradictory images: on one hand crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry; on the other, ferocity and spiritual agony---a world plunged into chaos. This book dispels the myths and shows the rhythms and grains of domestic life...what childhood was like, what marriage meant and how money, taxes and war dominated the lives of serf, noble and clergy.
18) A perfect spy
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“The best English novel since the war.” — Philip Roth
Over the course of his seemingly irreproachable life, Magnus Pym has been all things to all people: a devoted family man, a trusted colleague, a loyal friend—and the perfect spy. But in the wake of his estranged father’s death, Magnus vanishes, and the British Secret Service is up in arms. Is it grief, or is the reason for his disappearance more sinister?...
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Stonewycke legacy volume 4
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With the Depression affecting her family's estate, Joanna MacNeil struggles to keep the creditors paid. Even worse, her 17-year-old daughter Allison has become increasingly haughty and refuses the responsibilities of her family's position. But when a stranger exposes a long-hidden secret and brings violence to the castle, Allison must make bold decisions that will determine the destiny of herself and her family.
20) Double whammy
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“Follow the adventures of a news-photographer-turned-private-eye as he seeks truth, justice, and an affair with his ex-wife” (The New York Times) in this hilarious caper from bestselling author Carl Hiaasen.
R.J. Decker, star tenant of the local trailer park and neophyte private eye is fishing for a killer. Thanks to a sportsman’s scam that’s anything but sportsmanlike, there’s a body floating in Coon...
R.J. Decker, star tenant of the local trailer park and neophyte private eye is fishing for a killer. Thanks to a sportsman’s scam that’s anything but sportsmanlike, there’s a body floating in Coon...
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