The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
EAN: 9780786130566
Summary: Winner of AudioFile’s Earphones Award. Huck Finn is an engaging young rebel who isn’t above lying and stealing, but he faces a battle of conscience over a runaway slave who provides him with his first experience of love, acceptance, and responsibility. More
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
EAN: 9781433247972
Summary: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a humorous and nostalgic book depicting the carefree days of boyhood in a small Midwestern town. The characters are based on Twain?s schoolmates and the town, Hannibal, Missouri, is where Twain grew up.Just what did boys do in a small town during the mid-1800s, a time when there were no televisions, no arcades, and no videos? They whitewashed fences, floated down rivers, traded marbles, formed secret societies, smoked pipes, and, on occasion, managed to attend the... More
Fellowship of the Ring
J.R.R. Tolkien
EAN: 9781598874501
Summary: The original American full dramatization as broadcast on National Public Radio. In the ancient world of Middle-earth—a place of elves and dwarves, orcs and wizards, the darkest evil and the brightest good—a hobbit named Frodo Baggins embarks on a perilous quest: to carry the One Ring, ruler of all the Rings of Power, into the shadowy land of Mordor and destroy it in the fires where it was forged. More
Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
EAN: 9781598874495
Summary: The original American full dramatization as broadcast on National Public Radio. Bilbo Baggins, a gentle hobbit who loves the comforts of home, reluctantly joins a company of dwarves on a journey to recover plundered gold from a fierce dragon. It's a tale of high adventure and astonishing courage—and a magical prelude to the Lord of the Rings trilogy. More
O Pioneers!
Willa Cather
EAN: 9781598877038
Summary: First published in 1913,0 Pioneers! was hailed by the critics as "a totally new kind of story," with characters "new in American fiction" and a heroine who was "a new and interesting type." Cather's heroine, Alexandra Bergson, would, in fact, become the model for the pioneer women of later literature. Spirited, courageous, and independent, the daughter of Swedish immigrants, Alexandra assumes responsibility for the family farm—and her family—upon the death of her father. Her devotion ... More
Return of the King
J.R.R. Tolkien
EAN: 9781598874525
Summary: The original American full dramatization as broadcast on National Public Radio. War rages in the west—a titanic battle of will and strategy between the great wizard Gandalf and Sauron, the dark lord. Meanwhile, eastward in Mordor, Frodo and Sam approach the end of their improbable quest, bearing the One Ring ever closer to the Cracks of Doom—and to a final confrontation with the very essence of evil. More
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
EAN: 9789629545642
Summary: Treasure Island must be the most enthralling adventure book ever written. As we listen to the voice of Jim Hawkins telling his extraordinary tale, and later that of his companion Dr Livesey, we are plunged into a world of pirates, buried treasure, mutiny More
Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien
EAN: 9781598874518
Summary: The original American full dramatization as broadcast on National Public Radio. The Fellowship is broken; the quest to destroy the Ring seems already shrouded in disaster. But as the evil lord Sauron readies his armies for war, Frodo and Sam continue their lonely journey toward Mordor, guided only by Gollum—a deceitful and tortured creature, helplessly in thrall to the Ring's dark power. More
The Education of Little Tree
Forrest Carter
EAN: 9781607472452
Summary: The super-seller memoir of a Cherokee boyhood in the 1930s. The most sensitive and evocative autobiographical account ever of the Cherokee way, as seen through the eyes of a young boy in the Appalachian Mountains. More
Jack London Boxed Set: White Fang and Call of the Wild
Jack London
EAN: 9780786157273
Summary: White Fang was three quarters wolf and struggling against the savage wilderness. After beatings and abuse by man, he was filled with rage. Only one man could save him/ Thrilling action, an intuitive feeling for animal life, and a sense of justice that often works itself out through violence are the characteristics of these five London stories, including the immortal Call of the Wild. More
