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2) In our time
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English
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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.
4) 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...
7) Burmese days
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A corrupt Burmese politician uses the powers of his office to win membership in a British club.
9) 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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"Called a "magnificently crafted story ... brimming with wisdom" by Howard Frank Mosher in The Washington Post Book World, Crossing to Safety has, since its publication in 1987, established itself as one of the greatest and most cherished American novels of the twentieth century. Tracing the lives, loves, and aspirations of two couples who move between Vermont and Wisconsin, it is a work of quiet majesty, deep compassion, and powerful insight into...
13) The castle
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The story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home, seems to depict like a dream from the deepest recesses of consciousness, an inexplicable truth about the nature of existence.
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Written in 1896, The Island of Dr. Moreau is one of the earliest scientific romances. An instant sensation, it was meant as a commentary on Darwin’s theory of evolution, which H. G. Wells stoutly believed. The story centers on the depraved Dr. Moreau, who conducts unspeakable animal experiments on a remote tropical island, with hideous, humanlike results. Edward Prendick, an English-man whose misfortunes bring him to the island, is witness...
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Takes the reader back to E.J. Watson's beginnings as a young boy growing up in a down-on-its-luck Southern family during and after the war, with a vicious father a mother who scorns her ill-bred spouse but won't protect her son. The boy's constant betrayal by those around him is neatly balanced by his own implacable savagery.
16) Amerika
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Recorded Books
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[2009]
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8 CDs (9 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Kafka's novel follows the misadventures of 16-year-old Karl Rossman, a European boy whose parents ship him off to America after he is seduced by a servant girl. On arrival, Karl finds an America only Kafka could have envisioned--and the still hopeful youth is soon set upon by odd circumstance and suspect traveling companions.
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This never-before-translated masterpiece is based on a true story. It presents a richly detailed portrait of life in Berlin under the Nazis and tells the sweeping saga of one working-class couple who decides to take a stand when their only son is killed at the front.
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Recorded Books
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[2009]
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4 CDs (4 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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This collection features 14 early stories, including "In Another Country" and "Hills Like White Elephants." With each tale, Hemingway demonstrates his mastery of form and strikes readers with his keen--often heartbreaking--penetration of the human condition.
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Recorded Books
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[2010]
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Unabridged.
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9 CDs (10 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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After spending five years with don Juan in the early sixties, Castaneda returned to Mexico in 1968 to continue his exploration of non-ordinary reality and draw ever closer to his ultimate goal of becoming a man of knowledge. Far from Western civilization, don Juana and his world of hallucinogenic drugs offer insight and inducements toward true awakening--wisdom that Castaneda passes on in this work.
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Recorded Books
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[2010]
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Unabridged.
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17 CDs (20 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Smith clarifies the essential elements and teachings of the world's predominant faiths, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. He also highlights the native traditions of the Americas, Africa, and Oceania.
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