BBC Radio 4
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English
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Smaug certainly looked fast asleep, almost dead and dark, with scarcely a snore more than a whiff of unseen steam, when Bilbo peeped once more from the entrance. He was just about to step out on to the floor when he caught a sudden thin and piercing ray of red from under the drooping lid of Smaug's left eye. He was only pretending to sleep! He was watching the tunnel entrance! Whisked away from his comfortable, unambitious life in his hobbit-hole...
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English
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"Meek little Mole, willful Ratty, Badger the perennial bachelor, and petulant Toad. Since their first appearance over a hundred years ago in 1908, they've become emblematic archetypes of eccentricity, folly, and friendship. And their misadventures--in gypsy caravans, stolen sports cars, and their beloved Wild Wood--continue to capture readers' imaginations and warm their hearts long after they grow up. Begun as a series of letters from Kenneth Grahame...
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Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
xvi, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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In this brilliant work of historical reconstruction Neil MacGregor and his team at the British Museum, working together in a landmark collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the BBC, bring us twenty objects that capture the essence of Shakespeare's universe and the Tudor era of Elizabeth I.
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Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
2 sound discs (1 hr., 40 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions on how to live. The narrator's relationship with his son leads to a powerful self-reckoning; the craft of motorcycle maintenance leads to an austerely beautiful process for reconciling science, religion, and humanism. Resonant with the confusions of existence,...
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Hitchhiker series volume 1
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
3 audio discs (2 hr., 55 min.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert
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English
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The second part of BBC Radio 4's science fiction comedy series (episodes Fit the seventh through Fit the twelfth) about an unassuming Englishman and his outwardly average neighbor who is actually an alien from the vicinity of Betelgeuse. Stranded on prehistoric Earth since the end of the first series, Arthur and Ford are once again trying to hitch their way off the planet. They become reunited with Zaphod, and wind up on the planet Brontitall. As...
