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  • A Midsummer Night's Dream

    William Shakespeare, Kimberly Schraf (Narrator)

    Audio CD (Audio Book Contractors, Inc., Sept. 16, 2011)
    In this, Shakespeare s most fantastical comedy, the fairy world wreaks havoc with the foolish mortal one and a lover s nightmare melts into an innocent dream. Under the canopy of a moonlit forest, four sets of lovers and five delightfully inept mechanicals weave a magic web. Narrated by Kimberly Schraf. (Two CDs)
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,

    Mark Twain, Christopher Hurt (Narrator)

    Audio CD (Audio Book Contractors, Inc., Oct. 31, 2007)
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  • The Animal Fair

    Alice Provensen

    Hardcover (Golden Books, March 1, 1999)
    Stories in prose and verse feature the characteristics and traits of numerous creatures
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  • Dracula

    Bram Stoker

    Paperback (Independently published, Jan. 13, 2019)
    Bram Stoker's Dracula established many conventions of the subsequent vampire fantasy genre. This gothic fiction tells the tale of Count Dracula's transition from Transylvania to England and his attempt to spread the undead curse and of the battle between Dracula and Professor Abraham Van Helsing.
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  • The Interpretation Of Cultures

    Clifford Geertz

    Paperback (Basic Books, May 19, 1977)
    In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far beyond the traditional confines of his discipline to develop an important new concept of culture. This groundbreaking book, winner of the 1974 Sorokin Award of the American Sociological Association, helped define for an entire generation of anthropologists what their field is ultimately about.
  • Black Beauty

    Anna Sewell, Flo Gibson (Narrator)

    Audio CD (Audio Book Contractors, LLC, Sept. 20, 2007)
    HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. '!we call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.' When his beloved owners are forced to sell him, Black Beauty leaves his life as a young, care-free colt behind him and embarks on a working life of misery. Cruelly treated by his new masters, Anna Sewell rails against animal mistreatment in this poignant tale of a horse whose spirit can not be broken.
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  • Moby Dick: or, The Whale

    Herman Melville

    Paperback (Independently published, Jan. 9, 2019)
    Moby Dick is a story of Captain Ahab’s incessant pursuit of revenge against a whale that had took his leg but also about mans ability to let obsession take all and the easy at which we can become a unhealthy fanatic. However it is also an ode to community and co-operation for within this crusade the crew rely on one another to ensure safety, each individual a needed cog in a dangerous mission. But mostly, through the narrator Ishmael, we learn about the intricacies of whaling and the ordinarily plight of a professional sailor.
  • Billy Budd

    Herman Melville, Flo Gibson (Narrator)

    Audio CD (Audio Book Contractors, Inc., Dec. 13, 2007)
    Written some 40 years after "Moby Dick", Melville's "Billy Budd" is a moving tale of good versus evil. Set aboard a British navy ship at the end of the 18th century, the envious Master-at-Arms becomes obsessed with the destruction of the "Handsome Sailor", Billy Budd.
  • The Cricket on the Hearth and the Signal Man

    Charles Dickens, Flo Gibson (Narrator)

    Audio CD (Audio Book Contractors, Inc., June 19, 2011)
    The Peerybingles, Caleb Plummer, his blind daughter and a cricket find truth, beauty and the spirit of Christmas through each other. This tale is coupled with The Signal Man, a strange ghost story. (Four CDs)
  • Ivanhoe

    Sir Walter Scott, Flo Gibson (Narrator)

    Audio CD (Audio Book Contractors, Inc., Sept. 1, 2007)
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  • Captains Courageous

    Rudyard Kipling, Flo Gibson (Narrator)

    Audio CD (Audio Book Contractors, Inc., Dec. 30, 2007)
    Written in 1897, Kipling's adventure tale relates how the over-indulged son of a millionaire finds himself serving aboard a Portuguese fishing vessel. The superstitious world of the sea and the tough, orderly life of the ship form a backdrop to the boy's transition into manhood.
  • Anne of Green Gables

    L. M. Montgomery, Flo Gibson (Narrator)

    2015 (Audio Book Contractors, LLC, July 14, 2015)
    When an elderly spinster and her brother decide to adopt a boy to help with the farm chores, mischievous Anne arrives instead and soon no one can imagine Green Gables without her. Winner of the Parents Choice Award 1986. Selected a Notable Children s Recording 1987 by the American Library Association. (Nine CDs)
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