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The 48 Laws of Power מאת Robert Greene Cunning, instructive, and amoral, this controversial bestseller distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws. Law 1: Never Outshine the Master. Law 3: Conceal Your Intentions. Law 7: Get Others to Do the Work for You, but Always Take the Credit. Law 15: Crush Your Enemy ...

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The 33 Strategies of War מאת Robert Greene The contemporary companion to Sun-tzu's The Art of War, this brilliant distillation of the strategies of war can help us gain mastery in the modern world. Spanning world civilizations, synthesizing dozens of political, philosophical, and religious texts and thousands of years of violent conf...

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The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit Set מאת J.R.R. Tolkien Packaged in a beautifully designed slip-case gift box, The Tolkien Collection gathers for the first time both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings in audio format. These are the original American dramatizations as broadcast on public radio. The packaging features original art from John...

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George Carlin Reads to You: New Expaned Edition - Brain Droppings, Napalm & Silly Putty, and More Napalm & Silly Putty מאת George Carlin Great comedy at a great value! This gift set gathers three timeless Carlin recordings including two Grammy® winners, plus an interview from public radio’s Fresh Air.d three must be funniest, right? That’s our thinking behind this collection. This laugh-out-loud program includes:Brain ...

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Gourmet Rhapsody מאת Muriel Barbery In the heart of Paris, in the posh building made famous in The Elegance of the Hedgehog, the greatest food critic in the world is dying. Revered by some and reviled by many, Monsieur Pierre Arthens has been lording it over the world’s most esteemed chefs for years. But now, during these, hi...

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A Single Man מאת Christopher Isherwood When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the sudden death of his partner, and determines to persist in the routines of his daily life; the...

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Liberty (Lake Wobegon Novels) מאת Garrison Keillor Garrison Keillor returns to the little town we love and continues to chronicle the lives of our favorite folks. Lake Wobegon is in a frenzy of preparations for the Fourth of July. This being Wobegon, lives collide and relationships develop in the oddest ways. Take Clint Bunson, the treasurer of the ...

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Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life מאת John C. Bogle For a critical element of American society, including many of its wealthiest and most powerful, there seems to be no limit today on what "enough" entails. The excesses are most starkly visible in the continuing crisis in banking and investment, and even in the two enormous government-sponsored (but ...

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Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozen מאת Arthur Conan Doyle It’s elementary that any Conan Doyle fan will want this splendid set of Sherlock Holmes mysteries—twelve timeless classics performed as radio theater, linked by violin music interludes.The great Sir John Gielgud stars as the sleuth of Baker Street, with Ralph Richardson as his venerable companio...

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Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment מאת Tal Ben-Shahar Can we really learn to be happy? Yes, we can. Each semester, nearly 1,400 students sign up for Harvard professor Tal Ben-Shahar's life-changing class, "How to Get Happy." Currently it's the hottest course at Harvard, taken by 20 percent of its graduates. In Happier, Professor Ben-Shahar bring...

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Even More Pretty Good Jokes (Prairie Home Companion) מאת Garrison Keillor Even more of a good thing: the latest collection of knee-slappers, toe-tappers, and groaners from A Prairie Home Companion Joke Shows. Did you hear the one about the paranoid dyslexic? He always thought he was following someone. . . . Why did ancient Romans close down the Coliseum? The li...

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Crank מאת Ellen Hopkins Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, she meets a boy who introduces her to crank. At first she finds it freeing, but soon Kristina’s personality disappears inside the drug. What began as a w...

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More News from Lake Wobegon: Hope מאת Garrison Keillor A thematic collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Hope contains “Truckstop”; “Smokes”; “The Perils of Spring”; “Let Us Pray.”....

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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective מאת Kate Summerscale In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically destroying, in the process, the career of perhaps the greatest detective in the land. At the time...

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The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America מאת Thurston Clarke With new research and previously unavailable interviews, The Last Campaign provides an intimate and absorbing historical narrative that goes right to the heart of America's deepest despairs—and most fiercely held dreams—and tells us more than we had understood before about this complicated ...

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The Time Traveler's Wife: Unabridged Edition מאת Audrey Niffenegger This bestselling and innovative debut novel from Audrey Niffenegger explores the perfect marriage, one that is tested by challenges the couple can neither control nor predict. An imaginative extension of everyday life, the story asks: What if two people who loved each other deeply, married, and face...

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Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama מאת Gwen Ifill A veteran journalist surveys the American political landscape and illuminates the evolution of the African-American politician—and the future of American democracy. Gwen Ifill began her journalism career at the Boston Herald in 1977, covering race riots by telephone. It was too risky for a ...

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Prater Violet מאת Christopher Isherwood Isherwood’s story centers on the production of the vacuous fictional melodrama Prater Violet, set in nineteenth-century Vienna, providing ironic counterpoint to tragic events as Hitler annexes the real Vienna of the 1930s. The novel features the vivid portraits of imperious, passionate, and witty ...

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Church People: The Lutherans of Lake Wobegon (Prairie Home Companion) מאת Garrison Keillor Skits, songs, stories, and more from A Prairie Home Companion reveal the secret world of a stalwart people. When you fly Lutheran Air, there’s no first class, meals are potluck with assignments by rows (rows 1-6, bring rolls; rows, 7-15, salad), all fares are by freewill offering, and the p...

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The Last Ember מאת Daniel Levin A search for a priceless artifact stolen from the Second Temple in Jerusalem becomes a race against time, terrorism, politics, and the past.Jonathan Marcus is a promising young archeologist studying at the American Academy in Rome when a terrible accident results in a fellow student’s death and Jo...

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Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home מאת Rhonda Janzen A hilarious and moving memoir in the spirit of Anne Lamott and Nora Ephron about a woman who returns home to her Mennonite family after a personal crisis.The same week her husband of 15 years ditches her for a guy he met on Gay.com, a partially inebriated teenage driver smacks her VW Beetle head-on....

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Coming of Age: Growing Up in the Twentieth Century מאת Studs Terkel “We don’t know anything about the past and we don’t seem to want to know it. And all the time the people who can tell us about it, make it meaningful, the real repositories of living information, are being lost.”—Studs Terkel For Coming of Age, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and ...

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Lake Wobegon U.S.A.: Rhubarb (Prairie Home Companion) מאת Garrison Keillor These news from Lake Wobegon monologues are grouped by theme. Rhubarb includes "Rhubarb," "Sweet Corn," "The Sun's Gonna Shine Someday," and "Yellow Ribbon."...

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End of Days: Predictions and Prophecies about the End of the World מאת Sylvia Browne From her unique insider’s perspective—as someone familiar with this world and the next—America’s leading psychic tells us what to expect and how to prepare. Religious wars, global terrorism, genocide, ecological disaster: Today’s world is a scary place. The Information Age has carr...

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Christopher and His Kind מאת Christopher Isherwood Christopher and His Kind covers the most memorable ten years in the writer’s life—from 1929, when Isherwood left England to spend a week in Berlin and decided to stay there indefinitely, to 1939, when he arrived in America. When the book was published in 1976, readers were deeply impressed...

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Liberty (Lake Wobegon) מאת Garrison Keillor Garrison Keillor returns to the little town we love and continues to chronicle the lives of our favorite folks. Lake Wobegon is in a frenzy of preparations for the Fourth of July. This being Wobegon, lives collide and relationships develop in the oddest ways. Take Clint Bunson, the treasurer of ...

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Louis L'Amour Collection מאת Louis L'Amour This collection gathers seven popular Louis L'Amour stories, performed by a star-studded cast. Willie Nelson reads six and one is fully dramatized by Nelson, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, and the late Waylon Jennings, who together were known as The Highwaymen. The collection includes:Riding fo...

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A Prairie Home Companion: The 2nd Annual Farewell Performance מאת Garrison Keillor Broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall, the 2nd Farewell (June 4, 1988) was a joyous reunion heard by millions of fans. This complete original radio broadcast stars Keillor and friends Chet Atkins, Leo Kottke, the Everly Brothers, and more. Contents: Hello Love; Buster Preview; Small Songs; Pea...

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Apologize, Apologize! מאת Elizabeth Kelly A brilliantly written epic tale of a quirky, dysfunctional family in the tradition of The Corrections and The Hotel New Hampshire. Collie Flanagan was named after his mother’s favorite breed of dog. His brother, Bingo, was named for an Irish setter. Their names are the least of their...

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The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington מאת Jennet Conant The rollicking true story of British spies who shaped American policy during WWII, told by the bestselling author of 109 East Palace. When dashing young RAF pilot Roald Dahl (that Roald Dahl) took up his post at the British Embassy in 1942, his assignment was to use his good looks, wit...

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Loser's Town (David Spandau) מאת Daniel Depp In this darkly comic thriller set in modern-day Hollywood, an aging private eye is hired by a rising young actor at the center of a scheme gone wrong. David Spandau is a P.I. and sometime rodeo cowboy. At the tail end of some much-needed vacation time, he takes a meeting with a talent agent whose c...

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Cadillac Orpheus מאת Solon Timothy Woodward A darkly comic novel of class, struggle, and crime within three generations of an African- American family in the Deep South. Jesmond Toak is a repo man in the fictional town of Johnsonville, Florida. A poor African-American in a hurricane alley on the coast, Jesmond has a troubled relationship with...

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Identical מאת Ellen Hopkins In the latest hard-hitting YA novel by the New York Times bestselling author, 16-year-old identical twin girls must come to terms with their abusive father. Kaeleigh and Raeanne are 16-year-old identical twins, the daughters of a district court judge father and politician mother running for C...

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You Were Always Mom's Favorite: Sisters in Conversation Throughout Their Lives מאת Deborah Tannen Dr. Deborah Tannen, New York Times bestselling author of the blockbuster hits You Just Don’t Understand and You’re Wearing THAT? delivers the last word on sisters.Communications expert Dr. Deborah Tannen turns her witty and wise eye to sisters as she shares insights, anecdot...

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Car Talk Field Guide to the North American Wacko מאת Tom Magliozzi A radio road trip across America featuring the wackiest calls from the nuttiest specimens ever to phone the show. A high point of every Car Talk show is the call-in segment, when listeners phone in for advice and regale hosts Click and Clack with tales of their own automotive misadventures. L...

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Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague מאת Geraldine Brooks Year of Wonders is historical fiction of the highest order--absolutely convincing in its period detail, filled with full-blooded characters who arouse one's deepest empathy, and driven by a story of striking immediacy. In 1665, the north of England remains untouched by the plague that is rava...

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77 Love Sonnets מאת Garrison Keillor “When I was 16, Helen Fleischman assigned me to memorize Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 29, ‘When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state’ for English class, and fifty years later, that poem is still in my head. Algebra got washed away, and geometry and most ...

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The Sages: Warren Buffett, George Soros, Paul Volcker, and the Maelstrom of Markets מאת Charles Morris Three titans of finance predicted the current economic crisis several years ago, but their warnings went unheeded. A New York Times bestselling author distills the wisdom of all three.Throughout the violent financial disruptions of the past several years, three men have stood out as beacons o...

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All Pets Go to Heaven: The Spiritual Lives of the Animals We Love מאת Sylvia Browne America's leading psychic shares heartwarming, tear-jerking tales about the role of our beloved pets on the Other Side. It's said that pets don't have souls. World-famous spiritual guide and psychic Sylvia Browne knows better. Drawing on 40 years of research and stories, she explains how animals "li...

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Glass מאת Ellen Hopkins "Crank. Glass. Ice. Crystal. Whatever you call it, it’s all the same: a monster. And once it’s got hold of you, this monster will never let you go."A sequel to Crank, this harrowing and disturbing look at addiction finds protagonist Kristina Snow thinking she can use drugs yet control the...

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The Mad Ones: Crazy Joey Gallo and the Revolution at the Edge of the Underworld מאת Tom Folsom In the 1960s, a trio of rebellious young gangsters, the Gallo boys, sought to overthrow the reigning New York Mafia Dons and create a dynasty for themselves—an underworld revolution that was fueled by their leader’s immersion into the era’s countercultural revolution. The Gallo boys are steepe...

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How to Smell a Rat: The Five Signs of Financial Fraud מאת Ken Fisher In How to Smell a Rat, Ken Fisher takes an engaging and informative look at recent and historic examples of fraudsters, how they operated, and how they can be easily avoided. Fisher shows readers the quick, identifiable features of potential financial fraudsters.Readers will learn the questio...

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The Resurrectionist מאת Jack O'Connell Gritty noir fiction, mind-bending fantasy, and medical thriller combine in a new novel by an author dubbed the "cyberpunk Dashiell Hammett." Sweeney is a druggist by trade; Danny, his son, is in a persistent coma, the victim of an accident. Hoping for a miracle, they have come to the Peck Clinic, a...

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The Labrador Pact מאת Matt Haig The story of a family in crisis and the loyal dog that holds them together, from the witty, imaginative author of The Dead Fathers Club. The Hunters—Adam, Kate, and their children Hal and Charlotte—are a typical family, with typical concerns: work, money, love, the trials of adolescence. ...

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Scorpion Down: Sunk by the Soviets, Buried by the Pentagon: The Untold Story of the USS Scorpion מאת Ed Offley The Hunt for Red October meets Blind Man's Bluff in the untold story of an American submarine torpedoed at the height of the Cold War—and the 40-year cover-up that followed. The last thing they heard was the faint scree-scree of a high-speed propeller. Then the torpedo hit, the warh...

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The New Frugality: How to Consume Less, Save More, and Live Better מאת Chris Farrell As a once-in-a lifetime downturn continues, trusted finance reporter Chris Farrell explains that there is a silver lining to this cloud. It is accelerating a trend already underway in America toward what he calls the New Frugality. In this friendly, approachable audio, Farrell explains both the theo...

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The Manual of Detection מאת Jedediah Berry An unlikely detective—armed only with an umbrella and a singular handbook—must solve a string of crimes committed in and through people’s dreams. In an unnamed city slick with rain, Charles Unwin toils as a clerk at an imperious detective agency. His job: writing reports on cases solved by the...