Blackstone Audio presents a new recording of this dramatically popular book. George Orwell depicts a gray, totalitarian world dominated by Big Brother and its vast network of agents, including the Thought Police, a world in which news...
Banned Books
- Author:Orwell, GeorgeSummary:
- Author:Pelzer, DaveSummary:
Dave Pelzer's astonishing, disturbing account of his early years describes one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. This book has spent over 175 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list and was also nominated...
- Author:Burgess, AnthonySummary:
In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder - for fun. Alex is jailed for his vicious crimes and the State undertakes to reform him - but how and at...
- Author:L'Engle, MadeleineSummary:
Madeleine L'Engle's ground-breaking science fiction and fantasy classic, now a major motion picture. This audiobook includes an introduction read by the film director Ava DuVernay, a foreword read by the author, and an afterword read by...
- Author:Richardson, Justin, Parnell, PeterSummary:
The heartwarming true story of two penguins who create a nontraditional family is now available in a sturdy board book edition. At the penguin house at the Central Park Zoo, two penguins named Roy and Silo were a little bit different...
- Author:Orwell, GeorgeSummary:
In this political fable, the animals of Manor Farm revolt against their human rulers to establish the democratic Animal Farm. But as the society evolves, leaders become rulers and totalitarianism is re-established.
- Author:Frank, AnneSummary:
Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century.
- Author:Morrison, ToniSummary:
Seth, proud and beautiful, escaped from slavery but is haunted by its heritage - from the fires of the flesh to the heartbreaking challenges to the spirit. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting...
- Author:Kuklin, SusanSummary:
A 2015 Stonewall Honor Book. A groundbreaking work of LGBT literature takes an honest look at the life, love, and struggles of transgender teens. Author and photographer Susan Kuklin met and interviewed six transgender or gender-neutral...
- Author:Huxley, AldousSummary:
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an...
- Author:Pilkey, DavSummary:
George and Harold are forced to contemplate a world without Captain Underpants.
- Author:Heller, JosephSummary:
Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American literature and one of the funniest--and most celebrated--books of all time. In recent years it has been named to "best novels" lists by Time,...
- Author:Card, Orson ScottSummary:
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents,...
- Author:Bradbury, RaySummary:
Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of 20th-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future, narrated here by Academy Award-winning actor Tim Robbins. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world,...
- Author:Gino, AlexSummary:
BE WHO YOU ARE. When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl.George thinks she'll have to keep this a secret forever. Then her teacher announces that their class play is...
- Author:Rowling, J.K.Summary:
Harry Potter is in his 2nd year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Little does he know that this year will be just as eventful as the last.
- Author:Rowling, J.K.Summary:
Fantasy fiction. Harry has been burdened with a dark, dangerous and seemingly impossible task: that of locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes. Never has Harry felt so alone, or faced a future so full of shadows. But...
- Author:Rowling, J.K.Summary:
There will be three tasks, spaced throughout the school year, and they will test the champions in many different ways . their magical prowess - their daring - their powers of deduction - and, of course, their ability to cope with danger...
- Author:Rowling, J.K.Summary:
There it was, hanging in the sky above the school: the blazing green skull with a serpent tongue, the mark Death Eaters left behind whenever they had entered a building . wherever they had murdered ." When Dumbledore arrives at Privet...
- Author:Rowling, J.K.Summary:
In Harry's 5th adventure, not even privet Drive is safe from the dreaded Dementors. Our hero's in the dark - and in danger - once again. Who is watching him and why are his friends strangely secretive. We do know that Voldemort is out...