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Animal Stories

Larry Lujack ( a member of the Radio Hall of Fame) created  "Animal Stories" around 1980 because WLS Radio Chicago was still receiving farming magazines long after they went into Rock and Roll in 1960. Lujack started reading some of them and began ai

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UR By Stephen King

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UR

By Stephen King

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In his new novella, UR, King is at his unsettling best as he examines the future of the written word - for better or worse. Following a nasty break-up, lovelorn college English instructor Wesley Smith can't seem to get

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Bram Stoker's Dracula

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Bram Stoker's Dracula

Written by Bram Stoker
Read by Alan Cumming, Tim Curry
Unabridged

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Why we think it's Essential - Bram Stoker’s classic is an epistolary novel – a story constructed through collected written accounts, letters, and newspape

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The Exorcist read by Christopher Lee

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The Exorcist read by Christopher Lee

This book, even though abridged is excellent fare for the Halloween season.  Anyone old enough to have seen the movie knows that this is one scary story.  The voice of Christopher lee and the content of this bo

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Dragonquest - Anne McCaffrey

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The second in the series.

As it opens, tensions are rising between the Oldtimers, those dragonriders who came forward in time 400 turns (Pernese years) to help the undermanned contemporary dragonriders protect the planet Pern and its inhabitants fro

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Dragonflight - Anne McCaffrey

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Pern is a planet colonised by humans. The original colonists originally intended to adopt a low-technology agrarian lifestyle gradually, but were thrust into this more precipitously after they encountered the onslaught of the deadly Thread raining d

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City of Darkness by Ben Bova

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This one is totally absorbing. Couldn't stop until the end - about 3 hours I think?

Performed by Harlan Ellison - not just an audio book, more of a dramatic reading by him.

Synopsis

This is a story about a teenager who feels New York City calling to

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Voyagers by Ben Bova

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An alien spacecraft has entered the solar system, heading for Earth. Where did it come from? Why is it coming to us? What do they want? Every major nation wants to contact the aliens, enlist them as allies, and learn their superior technology so tha

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Jupiter by Ben Bova

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Grant Archer, a young astrophysicist and recently-married man dreams of exploring collapsing stars, in hope that one day he would be able to find a way in creating wormholes, to create instantaneous transportation. However, upon graduating he finds

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Return to Mars - by Ben Bova

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The sequel to Mars

Navajo geologist Jamie Waterman returned to Earth as a hero, travelling the globe, giving speeches on Mars, and supporting a return voyage. Now six years later, Waterman gets to return to his beloved red planet, and to the mysteri

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