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

Nineteen Minutes (Unabridged)

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New York Times best-selling author Jodi Picoult, known for tackling today's hot-button issues, delivers the riveting tale of one small town's entanglement with high-school violence.

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890L
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21:05
Nineteen Minutes (Unabridged)

The Hobbit (Dramatised)

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Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an adventure. They have launched a plot to raid the treasure hoard guarded by Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon.

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03:43
The Hobbit (Dramatised)

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Dramatised)

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A BBC radio full-cast dramatisation of the first book in JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy. Brian Sibley's famous 1981 adaptation, starring Ian Holm and Michael Hordern, has been divided into three corresponding parts, with newly recorded beginning and end narration by Ian Holm.

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04:36
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Dramatised)

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Dramatised)

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A BBC radio full-cast dramatisation of the third book in JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy. Brian Sibley's famous 1981 adaptation, starring Ian Holm and Michael Hordern, has been divided into three corresponding parts, with newly recorded beginning and end narration by Ian Holm.

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03:11
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Dramatised)

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Dramatised)

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A BBC radio full-cast dramatisation of the second book in JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy. Brian Sibley's famous 1981 adaptation, starring Ian Holm and Michael Hordern, has been divided into three corresponding parts, with newly recorded beginning and end narration by Ian Holm.

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04:29
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Dramatised)

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Unabridged)

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Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love.

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1010L
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10:54
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Unabridged)

The Road (Unabridged)

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America is a barren landscape of smoldering ashes, devoid of life except for those people still struggling to scratch out some type of existence. Amidst this destruction, a father and his young son walk, always toward the coast, but with no real understanding that circumstances will improve once they arrive.

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Lexile: 
670L
Length: 
06:39
The Road (Unabridged)

Interpreter of Maladies (Unabridged)

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With accomplished precision and gentle eloquence, Jhumpa Lahiri traces the crosscurrents set in motion when immigrants, expatriates, and their children arrive, quite literally, at a cultural divide. The nine stories in this stunning debut collection unerringly chart the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations.

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1050L
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06:16
Interpreter of Maladies (Unabridged)

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Now With Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! (Unabridged)

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"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains." So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem.

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Lexile: 
1070L
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11:07
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Now With Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! (Unabridged)

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters (Unabridged)

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From the publisher of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies comes a new tale of romance, heartbreak, and tentacled mayhem. Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters expands the original text of the beloved Jane Austen novel with all-new scenes of giant lobsters, rampaging octopi, two-headed sea serpents, and other biological monstrosities.

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1180L
Length: 
11:10
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters (Unabridged)

The Divine Comedy: Inferno (Unabridged)

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The most famous of the three canticles that compose The Divine Comedy, "Inferno" describes Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life, with Virgil as a guide.

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1270L
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04:18
The Divine Comedy: Inferno (Unabridged)

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