Unabridged: Classics, Adventure, Suspense
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| FREDERICK DOUGLASS (1845) | NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS -
He was eloquent and articulate - obviously well-educated. And sophisticated, too. He was also a slave who escaped to freedom.
But no one believed that, so he published his life story in 1845 to answer the skeptics. Not content to rest on the favorable attention his book received, he recruited black soldiers for the Union army and organized a campaign to educate the newly freed citizens. He saw that only knowledge could ensure true freedom.
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| SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (1891-92) | THE COMPLETE ADVENTURES and MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES -
The deerstalker cap and cape-backed coat...the calabash pipe...the grace of gaslit Victorian London...the fog on Baker Street. Such a combination of images can add up to only one conclusion, my dear Watson: the great Sherlock Holmes! Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created one of those fictional characters that escapes the confines of the printed page and becomes "real" to millions of fans. Included on this recording are: "A Scandal in Bohemia," "The Red-Headed League," "A Case of Identity," "The Boscombe Valley Mystery," "The Five Orange Pips," "The Man with the Twisted Lip," "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle," "The Speckled Band," "The Engineer's Thumb," "The Noble Bachelor," "The Beryl Coronet" and "The Copper Beeches."
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| DEAN KOONTZ | FEAR NOTHING -
Christopher Snow is different from all the other residents of Moonlight Bay, different from anyone you've ever met. For he has made his peace with a very rare genetic disorder shared by only one thousand other Americans, a disorder that leaves him dangerously vulnerable to life -- The chilling, atmospheric tale of a young man who is forever united with the night -- | Y
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| LARRY MCMURTRY (© 1961) | HORSEMAN, PASS BY (HUD) -
We missed the movie, but the book struck us as more about Lonnie than Hud. Told from a 17-year-old's point of view, Hud emerges as ruthless, cold and mean. He is the kind of fellow we love to hate.
A McMurtry book is very special. HORSEMAN, PASS BY won overwhelming acclaim, and subsequent novels have established the author as one of our most brilliant contemporary novelists.
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| SUE MILLER (© 1995) | THE DISTINGUISHED GUEST -
Alan Maynard's ailing mother, Lily, comes to visit before entering a nursing home. Lily's visit stimulates Alan to examine his primary relationships, naturally, with his wife, but unexpectedly, with Lily, a famous author and strong personality in her own right.
Lily is a public icon, quoted on everything from aging to the Black Panthers. As she relives her memories, Alan feels gradually detached from his own past and then redefined by his mother's vision
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| SUE MILLER (© 1987) | THE GOOD MOTHER -
Anna Dunlap is being torn in two ... by love for her daughter, Molly, and by pasion for her lover, a painter with liberal ideas about personal freedom. To Anna it looks like these two flowers come from the same plant. What she can't understand is how they are causing her such pain. It's a classic problem, hers to solve ... which, remarkably, she does.
This story is about conflict not between good and evil but between two powerful sets of feelings, the erotic and the material. | Y
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| VLADIMIR NABOKOV (© 1955) | LOLITA -
When Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged, European intellectual, meets the twelve-year-old nymphette Dolores Haze, he is reminded of his lost adolescent love Anabel. Constructing an elaborate plot to seduce her, the obsessed Humbert soon discovers that even with her mother out of the way, Dolores would never conform to the image he has conjured up for her. Playfully humorous, beautifully written, and still raising as many eyebrows as in 1955 when it was written, Nabokov s classic is at once a linguistic masterpiece and a wry commentary on the post-WWII relations between the ubercivilized Europe and the young, cheerfully barbaric America.
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| WALKER PERCY (© 1980) | THE SECOND COMING -
This is the story of Will Barrett of Linwood, North Carolina, a widower, and how he finds his way out of death-in-life with the help of Allison, the girl in the greenhouse. Allie, having just engineered her own escape from a mental institution, is working hard to make a new life for herself and install a big, black iron Grand Crown stove in the run-down greenhouse when Will, in a most unusual manner, crosses her path. Her marvelous, slightly crazy speech patterns and Will's peculiar tendency from his "petty mall" spells to fall down in strange places-golf courses, greenhouses, buses-astonishingly enough cement their relationship.
In one of the novel's central scenes, Will Barrett, "like some crackpot preacher in California," undertakes his own Pascalian wager. He leaves his comfortable home atop a pleasant Carolina mountain and descends deep into the bowels of the long-unused Lost Cove cave, "looking for proof of the existence of God and a sign of the apocalypse." He is prepared to wait for a sign, which may, of course, be death. What he is not prepared for is what happens.
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| ELIZABETH PETERS (© 1968) | THE JACKAL'S HEAD -
Althea Tomlinson comes back to Egypt as just another tourist, showing the country to a spoiled seventeen-year-old. That's what she tells herself, anyway. Really, though, what drives her is a desire to discover the truth behind her father's disgrace and subsequent death.
That she knows something is unquestionable. But what? Finding out will clear her father's name, certainly. It could also lead to Althea's death... because the secret is centuries old-as old as the treasure of Nefertiti.
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| BRAM STOKER (1897) | DRACULA -
A young Englishman is bound for the remote castle of an obscure count whose estates are folded deep in the mountains of Transylvania. He travels by carriage, staying the nights at rustic inns.
It is 100 years ago, and time is frozen in a winter that knows no release. Heavy snows bog the road, slowing and finally stopping the carriage. Wolves suddenly materialize from the forest, terrifying horses and passenger. Only the driver remains impassive: by superior will he forces the animals back. On plunge the travelers, deeper into the darkness, into the woods, into the unknown.
First published in 1897, DRACULA has become synonymous with perversion and evil.
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| MARK TWAIN (© 1889) | A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT -
The tale begins when the "yankee," a skilled mechanic in a 19th century New England arms factory, is struck on the head during a quarrel, and awakens to find himself being taken as a prisoner to the Camelot of 528 A. D. With his 19th century know-how, the "yankee" sets out to modernize the Kingdom, but is opposed by a jealous court magician. Clever enough, but buried beneath Twain's humor is a serious social satire.
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| THOMAS WOLFE (© 1937) | THE WEB AND THE ROCK (part 1) -
George Webber, a brilliant young writer, dreams of going to New York to find fame, fortune and the love of beautiful women. The lodestone of his desire draws him irresistibly, and he leaves his North Carolina town.
Though fame proves elusive, and fortune is never his, he does find love. But it is all so different from what he imagined -- different, and yet more wonderful, too. This turbulent drama is the only love story Thomas Wolfe ever wrote
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| THOMAS WOLFE (© 1937) | THE WEB AND THE ROCK (part 2) -
"Original, lifelike and poetic." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board) | Y
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| THOMAS WOLFE (© 1934) | THE WEB AND THE ROCK (part 1) -
In this sequel to The Web and the Rock and the last novel Wolfe wrote, George Webber, back from Europe, resumes his affair with Esther Jack and finally succeeds as a writer. At the pinnacle of his happiness, he returns to his hometown in North Carolina.
It's a mistake, for Webber is disillusioned by what he sees.
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| THOMAS WOLFE (© 1934) | THE WEB AND THE ROCK (part 2) -
The episode is said to parallel Wolfe's own experience in Asheville, NC, and is therefore highly autobiographical.
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