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He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger's tail was dangerous, for he understood the psychopathology of great power.
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Stranger in a Strange Land
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Stranger in a Strange Land is a landmark work of science fiction that challenged social norms and sparked controversy upon its release in 1961. The novel won the prestigious Hugo Award in 1962 and became the first science fiction book to appear on The New York Times bestseller list. In 2012, the Library of Congress recognized the novel as one of the “Books that Shaped America.”
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Science fiction is a genre as diverse as you can imagine. There are stories that take place in deep space, often depicting teams exploring or running away from something; stories that focus on life at the most cellular level, such as a pandemic tale; and stories that take place in times that feel similar to our own. Depicting themes of existentialism, philosophy, hubris, and personal and historical trauma, sci-fi has a cadre of topics and moods.
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Stranger in a Strange Land
- By: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrated by: Christopher Hurt
- Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11,222
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Performance8,874
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Story8,903
Stranger in a Strange Land is the epic saga of an earthling, Valentine Michael Smith, born and educated on Mars, who arrives on our planet with “psi” powers....
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We live in the world this book made
- By W. Seligman on 02-26-04
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Stranger in a Strange Land
- Narrated by: Christopher Hurt
- Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 12-15-99
- Language: English
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Starship Troopers
- By: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3,366
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Performance3,087
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Story3,087
In Robert A. Heinlein’s controversial Hugo Award-winning bestseller, a recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the Universe—and into battle against mankind’s most alarming enemy.
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The definitive version!
- By Kristopher G. Hesson on 10-03-24
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Starship Troopers
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 10-01-24
- Language: English
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Revolt in 2100
- By: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall641
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Performance530
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Story531
After the fall of the American Ayatollahs (as foretold in Stranger in a Strange Land) there is a Second American Revolution; for the first time in human history there is a land with Liberty and Justice for All....
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Heinlein's Future History
- By ShySusan on 05-30-12
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Revolt in 2100
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 07-14-09
- Language: English
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
- By: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrated by: Lloyd James
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11,198
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Performance9,207
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Story9,224
In what is considered one of Heinlein's most hair-raising, thought-provoking, and outrageous adventures, the master of modern science fiction tells the strange story of an even stranger world....
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Heinlein's Masterpiece
- By Peter on 12-04-06
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
- Narrated by: Lloyd James
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 10-11-06
- Language: English
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Beyond This Horizon
- By: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall278
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Performance216
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Story218
Hamilton Felix, the result of generations of genetic selection, finds his life as the ultimate man boring - until a gang of revolutionaries tries to enlist him in their cause....
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Women will forgive anything
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 10-01-12
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Beyond This Horizon
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 06-23-09
- Language: English
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Double Star
- By: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,057
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Performance960
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Story957
One minute, down-and-out actor Lorenzo Smythe is, as usual, in a bar, drinking away his troubles while watching his career circle the drain. The next thing Smythe knows, he has the most difficult role of his career: impersonating an important politician who has been kidnapped....
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Hugo Award Well Deserved. A+
- By Margaret Pierce on 07-27-20
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Double Star
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 07-14-20
- Language: English
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The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 2-A
- The Greatest Science Fiction Novellas of All Time Chosen by the Members of The Science Fiction Writers of America
- By: Theodore Sturgeon, Ben Bova - editor, Lester del Rey, and others
- Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla, Kevin T. Collins, Mark Boyett, and others
- Length: 24 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall893
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Performance780
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Story776
This volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas published between 1929 and 1964, containing 11 great classics....
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'Greatest' is the word...
- By dutch wolff on 06-21-18
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The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 2-A
- The Greatest Science Fiction Novellas of All Time Chosen by the Members of The Science Fiction Writers of America
- Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla, Kevin T. Collins, Mark Boyett, full cast, Graham Halstead, L. J. Ganser, Michael David Axtell
- Series: Science Fiction Hall of Fame Series, Book 2-A
- Length: 24 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 02-27-18
- Language: English
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Time Enough for Love
- The Lives of Lazarus Long
- By: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 23 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,375
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Performance1,231
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Story1,233
Lazarus Long is so in love with life that he simply refuses to die....
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Age changes perspective
- By Candis on 08-27-16
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Time Enough for Love
- The Lives of Lazarus Long
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 23 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 02-15-14
- Language: English
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The Pursuit of the Pankera
- A Parallel Novel about Parallel Universes
- By: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin, Jennifer Jill Araya, Richard Ferrone, and others
- Length: 21 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall502
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Performance442
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Story440
And here it finally is: Robert A. Heinlein's audacious experiment. A fitting farewell from one of the most inventive science fiction writers to have ever lived: a parallel novel about parallel universes, as well as a great adventure pitting the forces of good versus evil....
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Stupid production
- By Arthur W. Smart on 06-21-20
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The Pursuit of the Pankera
- A Parallel Novel about Parallel Universes
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin, Jennifer Jill Araya, Richard Ferrone, Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 21 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 03-24-20
- Language: English
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Blowups Happen
- By: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance7
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Story7
Blowups Happen is a 1940 science fiction short story by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. It is one of two stories in which Heinlein, using only ...
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Virtual voice. UGH.
- By Curucahm on 09-17-25
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Blowups Happen
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
- Release date: 04-10-25
- Language: English
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Variable Star
- By: Robert A. Heinlein, Spider Robinson
- Narrated by: Spider Robinson
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall747
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Performance501
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Story504
Here is a powerful and passionate tale of two young lovers driven apart by pride, power, and the vastness of interstellar time and space....
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Spider WHO
- By Randall on 04-25-09
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Variable Star
- Narrated by: Spider Robinson
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 06-01-07
- Language: English
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Orphans of the Sky
- The Future History Series
- By: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,589
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Performance1,426
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Story1,421
Hugh had been taught that, according to the ancient sacred writings, the Ship was on a voyage to faraway Centaurus....
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Amazing....
- By MarkKnight999 on 08-21-18
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Orphans of the Sky
- The Future History Series
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 09-19-17
- Language: English
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The Door into Summer
- By: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,619
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Performance1,195
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Story1,215
Dan Davis, an electronics engineer, had finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot that could do almost anything....
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classic
- By Greg on 04-05-09
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The Door into Summer
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 10-11-06
- Language: English
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100 of the World's Greatest Short Stories
- Detective and Science Fiction. Selections from Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Dorothy L. Sayers, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, and Others
- By: Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Dorothy L. Sayers, and others
- Narrated by: Peter Coates, Mark Bowen
- Length: 55 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Featuring a carefully curated selection of classic and influential tales, this collection showcases the very best of detective fiction and science fiction from some of the most celebrated authors of all time.
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100 of the World's Greatest Short Stories
- Detective and Science Fiction. Selections from Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Dorothy L. Sayers, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, and Others
- Narrated by: Peter Coates, Mark Bowen
- Length: 55 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 03-12-26
- Language: English
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The Puppet Masters
- By: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall681
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Performance605
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Story605
First came the news that a flying saucer had landed in Iowa. Then came the announcement that the whole thing was a hoax. End of story. Case closed. Except that two agents of the most secret intelligence agency in the US government were on the scene and disappeared....
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why does Mary sound like that?
- By J.J.L. on 11-11-20
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The Puppet Masters
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 08-11-20
- Language: English
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The Roads Must Roll
- By: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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Story8
The Roads Must Roll is a 1940 science fiction short story by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. It was selected for The Science Fiction Hall of Fame,...
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One of My Favorite Heinlein Stories
- By Gilbert M. Stack on 03-25-26
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The Roads Must Roll
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
- Release date: 04-04-25
- Language: English
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Job
- A Comedy of Justice
- By: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrated by: Richard Powers
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall858
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Performance698
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Story715
After firewalking in Polynesia, fundamentalist minister Alexander Hergensheimer never saw the world the same....
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OK, So I Get The Joke Already...
- By Vincent Tume on 07-22-09
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Job
- A Comedy of Justice
- Narrated by: Richard Powers
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 05-15-09
- Language: English
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Red Planet
- By: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrated by: Zach Villa
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall504
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Performance431
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Story433
Jim Marlowe and his strange-looking Martian friend, Willis, are allowed to travel only so far. But one day Willis unwittingly tunes in to a treacherous plot that threatens all the colonists on Mars....
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RED PLANET--- by Robert A. Heinlein
- By Stephen Hickman on 12-29-16
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Red Planet
- Narrated by: Zach Villa
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 03-24-16
- Language: English
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We Also Walk Dogs
- By: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance7
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Story7
We Also Walk Dogs is a science fiction short story by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. One of his Future History stories, it was first published ...
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It's Heinlein.
- By Ellen Anthony on 12-28-25
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We Also Walk Dogs
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 49 mins
- Release date: 04-03-25
- Language: English
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For Us, the Living
- A Comedy of Customs
- By: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall218
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Performance187
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Story188
July 12, 1939: Perry Nelson is driving along the palisades when another vehicle swerves into his lane, a tire blows out, and his car careens off the road and over a bluff....
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The only Heinlein I didn't enjoy
- By Randall on 07-07-11
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For Us, the Living
- A Comedy of Customs
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 01-17-11
- Language: English
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