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Selected Short's most popular volume! Over three hours of stories to tickle your funny bone. Nicholson Baker's "Subsoil" performed by Thomas Gibson A darkly comic thriller about a tractor historian besieged by man-eating potatoes. David Schickler's "Jamaica" performed by Isaiah Sheffer A man with his head stuck between the banisters has no choice but to listen in on his wife's "Gorgon Book Club." Neil Gaiman's "Chivalry" performed by Christina Pickles...
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Selected shorts volume 19
Publisher
Symphony Space
Pub. Date
p2005
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3 sound disc (ca. 3 hrs., 15 min.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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This 2007 Audie Award finalist features more than three hours of some of the greatest shorts stories of all time.
• James Thurber's "The Night the Ghost Got In"
performed by Isaiah Sheffer
Comic Mayhem is unleashed when a family hears a ghost in the night... and calls in the police.
• Edith Wharton's "Roman Fever"
performed by Maria Tucci
Two women reflect on romance and intrigue, long ago in Rome.
• Jack London's "Make Westing"
performed...
4) Baseball!
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A compilation, featuring more than three hours of some of the greatest short stories of all time, brought to life by distinguished stage and screen actors. Roger Angell and A. Bartlett Giamatti's "Play by Play" John Updike's "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu" read by Jack Davidson - Ted Williams' miraculous Fenway farewell. Rolfe Humphries' "Polo Grounds" read by Fritz Weaver Robert Francis' "Pitcher" and "Base Stealer" read by Arthur French Robert Fitzgerald's...
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Selected Shorts has toured The Mount, the stately and elegant home of the great American writer Edith Wharton, for the last several summers, presenting Broadway and Hollywood actors reading stories by Wharton and others. Selected Shorts now presents a collection of four of Edith Wharton's short stories, recorded live at the Mount, and featuring acclaimed actresses Kathleen Chalfant, Christina Pickles, Maria Tucci, and Brenda Wehle.
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Romance is in the air, tempting the imagination. Stirring tales of love, longing and desire. A great gift for your loved ones. Rick Bass's "Fires" performed by Ted Marcoux In the Rockies, a woman sets fire to a parched field to take the plunge into the pool of love. Padgett Powell's "The Winnowing of Mrs. Schuping" performed by Christina Pickles An eccentric southern dame cleans up her act and finds love. Laurie Colwin's "The Lone Pilgrim" performed...
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Read along with Disney! While out and about in Arendelle, Olaf sees all different types of families. It helps him learn that there is no standard family model, and instead the only thing that counts when making a family is that they all love one another.
10) Pets!
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The cast of characters in this compilation is a menagerie of animals... cats, dogs, birds, even a dragon... and their owners. These stories look at the myriad of experiences, and adventures, that pet ownership can bring. Join a medieval scholar who discovers that not all mythical creatures are extinct, stalk the night with the Cat of Frankenstein, kick that caffeine habit with a class of kindergartners, dance along with a divorcee and her dog, and...
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In this compilation characters make choices that define their lives and suffer consequences often dire or disquieting. Abraham prepares to slay Isaac; siblings fall in love with the same man; a Thai man hides his secret guilt from his best friend on draft selection day; delve into the secret lives of people and discover what drives them to betrayal.
12) Travel tales
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The Symphony Space
Pub. Date
p2007
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3 sound discs (ca. 3 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A narration of short stories previously broadcasted on public radio stations.
13) Travel Tales
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This compilation features a wonderful selection of travel stories from public radio's Selected Shorts, an award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction read by distinguished stage and screen actors and recorded live at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City. Hilarity, suspense and high drama are offered up in this new mix of tales of travel to locales familiar and exotic. Take a trip in a time machine with Madame Bovary, join...
14) Wartime Lives
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What happens to people's lives during times of battle and strife? From the American Revolution to the ongoing war in Iraq, the subject of this collection is how people cope with the dramatic shifts that come with war. Before Independence, a slave fights for freedom by taking up arms for the British, in WWI, a mother goes to the front lines to see her son, and in our time, a teenager in Oregon waits for e-mail from his father in the Middle East.
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A lot can happen on the way from one place to another, especially when an overnight flight makes for an unexpected romantic encounter between strangers seated together; a trucker finds life beyond the ranch where he grew up; and a bored Midwestern housewife tries to escape Kansas City. This anthology of tales about people in transit features Stuart Dybek's "Pet Milk", read by Keith Szarabajka; Martha Gellhorn's "Miami-New York", read by Joanna Gleason;...
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Symphony Space, Inc
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Unabridged
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English
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2009 Audies® Finalist for Best Audiobook Adaptation Category
"How could I look at my wife, the mother of my children, and feel only the need for revenge?" From Do You Know Where I Am? by Sherman Alexie
Moving stories about married couples' powerful and complicated loves
Sherman Alexie's Do You Know Where I Am?
read by Keir Dullea
A native couple's rocky college love affair lasts a lifetime
Ursula K. Le Guin's The Wife's Story
read
...18) Wondrous Women
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Strong female protagonists grace this collection celebrating women in all their incarnations, young and old: mothers, sisters, daughters, grandmothers, lovers, widows ... and a 70-year-old nun.
19) Whodunit?
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Publisher
Symphony Space
Pub. Date
p2009
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3 sound discs (ca. 3 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Award-winning series of classic and contemporary fiction performed by acclaimed actors.
20) Whodunit?
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A dashing lineup of elegant crime tales and gritty hardboiled detective stories, alternately menacing and cozy, with two exotic locales, and murder in the mix. Stories in this set include: Dashiell Hammett's "The Creeping Siamese", performed by John Shea - The Continental Op gets his man C.S. Montanye's "A Shock for the Countess", performed by Fionnula Flanagan - Intrigue in the alps in this clever tale of a jewelry heist Ed McBain's, "Improvisation",...
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