Family life

How to Eat Fried Worms (Unabridged)

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Because of a bet, Billy is in the uncomfortable position of having to eat 15 worms in 15 days. The worms are supplied by his opponent, whose motto is "The bigger and juicier, the better!" At first Billy's problem is whether or not he can swallow the worm placed before him, even with a choice of condiments from peanut butter to horseradish.

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650L
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01:54
How to Eat Fried Worms (Unabridged)

Flowers for Algernon (Unabridged)

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Charlie Gordon knows that he isn't very bright. At 32, he mops floors in a bakery and earns just enough to get by. Three evenings a week, he studies at a center for mentally challenged adults. But all of this is about to change for Charlie. As part of a daring experiment, doctors are going to perform surgery on Charlie's brain.

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910L
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08:59
Flowers for Algernon (Unabridged)

All My Sons (Dramatized)

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World War II is over and a family, mourning a son missing in action, plants a memorial tree and tries to go on with their lives. A storm blows down the tree and a devastating family secret is uprooted, setting the characters on a terrifying journey towards truth.

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All My Sons (Dramatized)

Immigrant Kids (Unabridged)

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Many people came to America in the early 1900s looking for jobs, opportunity, and freedom, and a lot of them were kids. But what happened to all these immigrant children after they passed inspection at New York’s Ellis Island - that is, if they passed inspection? Life was not easy for immigrants. Large families lived in small, one-room tenement apartments with failing plumbing and few windows.

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1050L
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00:40
Immigrant Kids (Unabridged)

The Fugitive Factor: On the Run, Chase 2 (Unabridged)

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Aiden and Meg Falconer are out to find the evidence that will free their parents from a life sentence in prison. But in order to do that, they have to live undercover. Ever since they broke out of a juvenile detention facility, they've been chased by the FBI ... and by a strange killer they've nicknamed Hairless Joe.

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760L
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02:59
The Fugitive Factor: On the Run, Chase 2 (Unabridged)

The Stowaway Solution: On the Run, Chase 4 (Unabridged)

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Aiden and Meg Falconer are on the hunt for the one man who might be able to free their parents from jail. The hitch? There are plenty of other people on the hunt for THEM, including the FBI and an eerie, hairless killer.

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770L
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02:57
The Stowaway Solution: On the Run, Chase 4 (Unabridged)

Public Enemies: On the Run, Chase 5 (Unabridged)

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Aiden and Meg Falconer have been crossing the country as fugitives in order to prove their parents didn't commit a crime. They've been chased from state to state by the FBI . . . and by a killer they know only as Hairless Joe. Now Hairless Joe is getting closer than ever -- and the Falconers are getting even closer than that to the truth.

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790L
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02:53
Public Enemies: On the Run, Chase 5 (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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Me Talk Pretty One Day

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
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17:45
The Time Traveler's Wife (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)

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