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Looking for Alaska (Unabridged)

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Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words - and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet Francois Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps." Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young. Clever, funny, screwed-up, and dead sexy, Alaska will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps.

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930L
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07:07
Looking for Alaska (Unabridged)

Grendel (Unabridged)

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World renowned critic John Gardner has received prestigious awards for his wide range of literary achievements, including short stories, novels, and essays. When he turns his talents to retelling "Beowulf", the earliest epic in British literature, the result is a work that combines extensive knowledge with a marvelous strain of pure fun.

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920L
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05:31
Grendel (Unabridged)

A Separate Peace (Unabridged)

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Now a modern classic, this story of two boys' friendship at an exclusive New Hampshire prep school as it parallels the inescapable and escalating atmosphere of World War II, is intense and engaging to the last word.

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1110L
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06:09
A Separate Peace (Unabridged)

Brave New World (Unabridged)

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When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity.

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870L
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08:00
Brave New World (Unabridged)

Pretties (Unabridged)

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Tally Youngblood never felt like the other Pretties - she almost didn't become one. But Tally isn't the only one who feels like she's missing a part of herself. After uncovering sinister clues about the Pretty surgery, she stumbles upon a possible cure for Pretty-mindedness and a possible escape from the city. But the cure could have deadly consequences.

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860L
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11:08
Pretties (Unabridged)

Uglies (Unabridged)

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Tally Youngblood is quickly approaching her 16th birthday and the mandatory pretty-making surgery that accompanies it. But Tally isn't sure if she wants to be a placidly happy Pretty. When a top secret organization threatens her with remaining Ugly forever, she reluctantly spies on the rebels who have refused the surgery. They think it changes more than just looks and are working on a cure.

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770L
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12:20
Uglies (Unabridged)

Specials (Unabridged)

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Tally never wanted to be Special, but some talents cannot be denied. Specials keep the Pretties happy and naive, keep the Uglies wishing to be Pretty and - most importantly - keep the Smokies powerless.

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880L
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10:48
Specials (Unabridged)

FREE: The Future of a Radical Price (Unabridged)

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The New York Times best-selling author heralds the future of business in Free. In his revolutionary best seller, The Long Tail, Chris Anderson demonstrated how the online marketplace creates niche markets, allowing products and consumers to connect in a way that has never been possible before.

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1220L
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06:59
FREE: The Future of a Radical Price (Unabridged)

The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Unabridged)

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Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. His days are a dull routine of work, loneliness, and regret.

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780L
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04:39
The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Unabridged)

Three Cups of Tea (Unabridged)

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This young readers edition of the worldwide best seller Three Cups of Tea has been specially adapted for younger readers and updated by Greg Mortenson to bring his remarkable story of humanitarianism up to date for the present.

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1220L
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03:59
Three Cups of Tea (Unabridged)

Me Talk Pretty One Day

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David Sedaris' new collection of essays - including live recordings! - tells a most unconventional life story. It begins with a North Carolina childhood filled with speech-therapy classes ("There was the lisp, of course, but more troubling than that was my voice itself, with its excitable tone and high, girlish pitch") and unwanted guitar lessons taught by a midget.

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05:52
Me Talk Pretty One Day

My Sister's Keeper (Unabridged)

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Thirteen-year-old Anna was born after an embryonic selection process that ensured she would be an ideal matching donor for her sister Kate, who suffers from leukemia. After many years of bone marrow transplants and the like, Anna decides to sue her parents to prevent a kidney donation that could save Kate's life.

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840L
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13:42
My Sister's Keeper (Unabridged)

The Lovely Bones (Unabridged)

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Now read by the author, this edition also includes an interview with Alice Sebold and the first chapter of her new book, The Almost Moon. When we first meet 14-year-old Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven.

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890L
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10:55
The Lovely Bones (Unabridged)

The Time Traveler's Wife (Unabridged)

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Clare and Henry have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was 36. They were married when Clare was 23 and Henry was 31. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity from his life, past and future.

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780L
Length: 
17:45
The Time Traveler's Wife (Unabridged)

The Art of Racing In the Rain (Unabridged)

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Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car driver.

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850L
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06:57
The Art of Racing In the Rain (Unabridged)

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