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Two thirteen-year-old boys, Jim Nightshade and William Halloway, harrowing experience with a nightmarish traveling carnival. The carnival's leader, "Mr. Dark" bears a tattoo for each person lured by the offer to live out their secret fantasies. Mr. Dark's malevolent presence is countered by that of Will's father, Charles Halloway, who harbors his own secret desire to regain his youth.
2) The Odyssey
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English
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"The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty, and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home. In this fresh, authoritative version--the first English translation of The Odyssey by a woman--this stirring tale of shipwrecks, monsters, and magic comes alive in an entirely new way. Written in iambic pentameter verse...
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Star wars [radio dramas] volume 3
Publisher
High Bridge
Pub. Date
p1996.
Language
English
5) Moby Dick
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English
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A nineteenth-century tale of life aboard a New England whaling ship whose captain is obsessed with the pursuit of a large white whale.
8) 1984
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Radiola
Pub. Date
p1983.
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English
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The year 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish 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 haunting novel that creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing, from the first sentence to the last four words. No one can deny the novel's hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power...
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Falcon Picture Group
Pub. Date
c2003.
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English
Description
Features full cast, music and sound effects and today's biggest celebrities in modern radio dramatizations by Dennis Etchison of creator Rod Serling's classic scripts.
I am the night, color me black: On the day an unpopular idealist is to be hanged for killing a racist bully, the townsfolk are mystified to see the morning sky is pitch black.
Cavender is coming: Klutzy-but-lovable Agnes Grep is rescued from poverty by Cavender, a guardian angel who...
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The Handmaid's Tale is not only a radical and brilliant departure for Margaret Atwood, it is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States, now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the...
14) Enquiry
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English
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This New York Times bestselling author “captures our attention and holds us spellbound” with a mystery about a horse jockey accused of fixing a race (The New York Times).
Dick Francis, Edgar-Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
A closed-door enquiry has found Kelly Hughes guilty of the lowest crime imaginable by a professional...
Dick Francis, Edgar-Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
A closed-door enquiry has found Kelly Hughes guilty of the lowest crime imaginable by a professional...
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Star wars [radio dramas] volume 2
Publisher
High Bridge
Pub. Date
p1993.
Language
English
17) Peter Pan
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English
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Peter Pan, the boy who wouldn't grow up, meets the Darling children, Wendy, John, and Michael, and entices them away from their London home to experience adventures in Neverland.
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BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
p1999.
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English
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Private lives: the story of a divorced couple who unexpectedly meet while honeymooning with their new spouses whom they quickly abandon in order to resume their torrid passion for each other. Trouble is, although they love each other desperately, their personalities are about as compatible as two scorpions in a bottle.
Hay fever: presents the story of visitors to an eccentric family who are very nearly driven mad before they are able to escape.
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Nostalgia Arts
Pub. Date
p1999.
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English
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Disc 1: Bram Stoker's Dracula, "The original broadcast, as heard over Station WABC, New York and the CBS network on Monday, July 11, 1938, 8:00-9:00 PM EST."
Disc 2: H.G. Well's War of the worlds, "The original broadcast, as heard over Station WABC, New York and the CBS network on Sunday, October 30th, 1938, 8:00-9:00 PM EST -- H.G. Wells and Orson Welles, meeting hosted by Charles Shaaw, Station KTSA, San Antonio, Texas, November 7, 1940."
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Henrik Ibsen collection volume Disc 1
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English
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Brand: A pastor returns to his ancestral home to find the villagers on the verge of starvation. He believes ministering to these poor people to be his calling. Over the course of time, however, he faces many difficult choices. The decisions he makes, based on his stark and idealist view of morality, have dire consequences for all the people he touches and, ultimately, for his own embattled soul.
A doll's house (aired on BBC, 21 November 1992): Nora...
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