Frank Muller
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Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back. This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers. But the first edition contained...
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When millions suffer under iron-fisted oppression, when anger and resentment boil into bloody rebellion, when triumph leads to savage vengeance - does one individual life matter? In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens interweaves the intensely personal dramas of Lucie Manette, Charles Darnay, and Sydney Carton with the terror and chaos of the French Revolution. Lucie struggles desperately to restore the health of a father driven mad by years of...
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Great Expectations is at once a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mastery and a profound examination of moral values. Here, some of Dickens's most memorable characters come to play their part in a story whose title itself reflects the deep irony that shaped Dickens's searching reappraisal of the Victorian middle class.
6) The partner
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A young partner in a Biloxi law firm who staged his own death and stole a fortune from the firm's offshore account is found living in Brazil.
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There was a time when the world was sweeter ... when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats. Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort High. Landon had dated a girl or two, and even once sworn that he'd been in love. Certainly the last person he thought he'd fall for was Jamie, the shy, almost ethereal daughter of the town's Baptist minister...
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10 audio discs (11.25 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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In the first uncertain year of the peace process in Northern Ireland, a renegade group of Protestant extremists tries to turn back the hands of time with three savage acts of terrorism in a single night. Retired CIA officer Michael Osbourne is lured back to the agency when it is discovered that the Protestant gunmen have marked his father-in-law, the new ambassador to London, for execution, setting in motion a deadly contest of wits and deception....
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4 audio discs (approximately 4 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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In 1947, Andy Dufresne, an established banker, is wrongly imprisoned at Shawshank prison in Maine, for the murder of his wife and her secret lover. He has more brains than anyone else in the sinister slammer and has a diabolically cunning plan of revenge that no one can guess until it's far too late.
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3 audio discs (approximately 3 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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As a tradition, on the night before Christmas, David Adley and a group of men gather together at the local gentlemen's club to tell stories. This time, Dr. McCarron tells the story of a patient who, determined to give birth to her child, goes to extreme measures.
12) Folly
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14 audio discs (16 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Tragedy and mental illness have been dark companions of Rae Newborn for more than 50 years. Her life seems to start rebuilding itself, though, when she moves to a deserted island to restore the house her mysterious great-uncle built in the 1920s.
13) Beach music
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25 audio discs (28.75 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Jack McCall seeks a place of reflection with his daughter in Rome after the suicide of his wife. But his quiet life is shattered by the appearance of old friends and enemies who need his help.
14) Athletic shorts
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4 audio discs (4 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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A collection of short stories featuring characters from earlier books by Chris Crutcher.