Death

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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670L
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06:39
The Road (Unabridged)

Romeo and Juliet (Unabridged)

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The Marlowe Society performs an unabridged version of Shakespeare's tragedy featuring Romeo and Juliet, whose untimely deaths unite their feuding families.

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02:48
Romeo and Juliet (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 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)

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)

The Graveyard Book (Unabridged Fiction)

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Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead.

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820L
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07:44
The Graveyard Book (Unabridged Fiction)

Walk Two Moons (Unabridged)

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"How about a story? Spin us a yarn."
Instantly, Phoebe Winterbottom came to mind.
"I could tell you an extensively strange story," I warned. "Oh, good!" Gram said. "Delicious!"
And that is how I happened to tell them about Phoebe, her disappearing mother, and the lunatic.

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770L
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05:28
Walk Two Moons (Unabridged)

Charlotte's Web (Unabridged)

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Since its publication in 1952, Charlotte's Web has become one of America's best-loved children's books. For fifty years, this timeless story of the pig named Wilbur and the wise spider named Charlotte who saved him has continued to warm the hearts of readers everywhere.

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680L
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03:34
Charlotte's Web (Unabridged)

The Choking Game (2006)

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This program exposes the choking game·a shockingly foolish and deadly activity among 9-14 year olds that has resulted in the tragic deaths of children across the country.

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Middle
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00:19
The Choking Game

Coping with an Emotional Crisis (2006)

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Divorce, natural disasters, death of a loved one, terrorism, depression, navigating a difficult home life these and other crises have a profound impact on the mental and physical health of young teens and create emotional trauma most are not equipped to deal with.

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Middle
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00:24
Coping with an Emotional Crisis

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