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  I'm Gonna Be Goose For Halloween!

  The Old Gray Goose

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  The world's most beloved storyteller The Old Gray Goose. Goose enchants, inspires, and educates children of all ages in this very special audiobook celebrating the most ghoulish day of the year. Complete with scary sound effects and thrilling tales, this action-packed collection is a true classic pulled out by families every year in celebration of the trick-or-treat holiday that kids look forward to throughout the year.

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  A Jewish State

  Theodor Herzl

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  Der Judenstaat (German, literally The Jews' State, commonly rendered as The Jewish State) is a pamphlet written by Theodor Herzl and published in February 1896 in Leipzig and Vienna by M. Breitenstein's Verlags-Buchhandlung. It is subtitled with Versuch einer modernen Lösung der Judenfrage (Proposal of a modern solution for the Jewish question) and was originally called Address to the Rothschilds, referring to the Rothschild family banking dynasty, as Herzl planned to deliver it as a speech to the Rothschild family. Baron Edmond de Rothschild rejected Herzl's plan, feeling that it threatened Jews in the Diaspora. He also thought it would put his own settlements at risk.
  It is considered one of the most important texts of early Zionism. As expressed in this book, Herzl envisioned the founding of a future independent Jewish state during the 20th century. He argued that the best way to avoid antisemitism in Europe was to create this independent Jewish state. The book encouraged Jews to purchase land in Palestine, although the possibility of a Jewish state in Argentina is also considered.
  Herzl popularized the term Zionism, which was coined by Nathan Birnbaum. The nationalist movement culminated in the birth of the State of Israel in 1948, but Zionism continues to be connected with political support of Israel.

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  Sappho: A New Rendering

  Ovid

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  Sappho lived in the Greek-speaking Aeolian islands off the coast of Turkey. She is one of the very few female poets from antiquity. Although her work was very popular in ancient Greece and Rome, only small fragments survive today. This book includes translations of these fragments, as well as a poem from Ovid's Heroides, "Sappho to Phaon," a fictional letter from Sappho to her assumed lover. (Summary by Libby Gohn)

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  Sense and Sensibility

  Jane Austen

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  First published in 1811, "Sense and Sensibility" is a romantic fiction novel by English author Jane Austen. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, who must navigate love, heartbreak, and societal expectations after their father's death leaves them financially strained. While Elinor is guided by 'sense' and prudence, Marianne is driven by 'sensibility' and emotion. The novel is a classic examination of the complex interplay between love, class, and social decorum during the Regency era in England.

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  Ladies and Other Stories Volume...

  Anton Chekhov

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  Chekhov has always been huge inspiration for many great writers who came in contact with Chekhov's art. Thomas Man wrote that Chekhov's short stories attain to full epic stature and can even surpass in intensity the great towering novels. 'If I understood that better in later life than in my youth, this was largely owing to my growing intimacy with Chekhov’s art; for his short stories rank with all that is greatest and best in European literature.' he concluded . But what is it that makes Chekhov's stories so poignant, so striking and so inspiring? This volume offers some Chekhov's best stories, including: An Inadvertence, A Tripping Tongue, Boots, In An Hotel, Ladies. Read in English, unabridged.

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  The Prophet

  Khalil Gibran

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  The Prophet is an audiobook of 26 poetic essays written in English in 1923 by the Lebanese-American artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran.In the audiobook, the prophet Almustafa who has lived in the foreign city of Orphalese for 12 years is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is stopped by a group of people, with whom he discusses many issues of life and the human condition.The audiobook is divided into chapters dealing with love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, houses, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death.

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