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Cornish Characters and Strange Events

Cornish Characters and Strange Events

Sabine Baring-Gould

Sabine Baring-Gould’s Cornish Characters and Strange Events gathers local lives, folklore, and unusual incidents from Cornwall.

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Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

Apicius

A classic culinary history text associated with Apicius, illuminating Roman food, dining, and elite taste.

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The Clansman

The Clansman

Thomas Dixon, Jr.

A historically significant but racist novel by Thomas Dixon Jr., presented with explicit contextual framing in this DotBooks edition.

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Albert Gallatin

Albert Gallatin

John Austin Stevens

John Austin Stevens’s Albert Gallatin offers a concise portrait of a major American statesman and diplomat.

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Jewels of Gwahlur

Jewels of Gwahlur

Robert E. Howard

Conan the Cimmerian slips into a ruined temple city in search of legendary gems, only to find rival treasure-hunters, an oracle who is not what she seems, and older terrors waiting

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A guide to modern cookery

A guide to modern cookery

Auguste Escoffier

Escoffier's landmark manual codified French cuisine into a working system: mother sauces, brigade order, thousands of recipes.

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Cautionary Tales for Children

Cautionary Tales for Children

Hilaire Belloc

Hilaire Belloc's wickedly funny verse follows children who lie, slam doors, chew string and generally misbehave, and meet gloriously exaggerated fates.

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Thomas More's slender, sly book coined a word and launched a whole tradition of imagining better worlds.

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Tristram of Blent

Tristram of Blent

Anthony Hope

Anthony Hope turns inheritance, secrecy, and divided loyalties into a swift Edwardian romance of identity, estate politics, and emotional calculation.

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Line and Form

Line and Form

A working artist's guide to the principles of drawing and design, exploring how line and shape create beauty and meaning.

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Rinkitink in Oz

Rinkitink in Oz

L. Frank Baum

A buoyant Oz adventure in which a comic king, a young prince, and Dorothy cross perilous islands on the way to Oz.

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Homer's Odyssey

Homer's Odyssey

Homer (trans. Samuel Butler)

Homer's timeless epic of homecoming, in Samuel Butler's clear English prose.

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Three years in the Sixth Corps : $b A concise narrative of events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the close of

Three years in the Sixth Corps : $b A concise narrative of events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the close of

A firsthand narrative of three years with the Sixth Corps in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 through the closing of the American Civil War: campaigns, battles, and army life see

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A Princess of Mars

A Princess of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs launches his Barsoom saga with a fast, vivid planetary romance of duels, deserts, war, and improbable love.

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The Young Railroaders: Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity

The Young Railroaders: Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity

A collection of boyhood adventure stories set along the rails, where quick wits and steady nerves meet runaway trains and roadside emergencies.

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Famous Sea Fights, from Salamis to Tsu-Shima

Famous Sea Fights, from Salamis to Tsu-Shima

A vivid narrative history of decisive naval battles across the ages, from the ancient Greek triumph at Salamis to the modern clash at Tsushima, charting how sea power has shaped th

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Nights With Uncle Remus: Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation

Nights With Uncle Remus: Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation

Joel Chandler Harris's further gathering of the Uncle Remus tales, retelling the trickster stories of Brer Rabbit and his companions drawn from African American folklore.

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The Way To Geometry

The Way To Geometry

An early treatise setting out the principles of geometry for the student and practitioner.

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The Evolution of Marriage and of the Family

The Evolution of Marriage and of the Family

A nineteenth-century work of comparative anthropology tracing how marriage and family life were thought to have developed across human societies, written in the confident, sweeping

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The Young Alaskans on the Missouri

The Young Alaskans on the Missouri

A boys' outdoor adventure that sends its young companions down the historic Missouri, mixing wilderness craft, river travel and American frontier history for eager young readers.

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Astounding Stories, May, 1931

Astounding Stories, May, 1931

A single issue of the legendary pulp magazine from the golden dawn of science fiction, packed with tales of adventure, invention, and the unknown.

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Desert Conquest

Desert Conquest

A novel whose title evokes the struggle to master a hard, arid land, a story set against the frontier's contest between people, water, and unforgiving country.

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The Creators

The Creators

A novel about the lives, loves, and rivalries of writers and artists, exploring the demands of the creative vocation.

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My Bondage and My Freedom

My Bondage and My Freedom

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass expands his life story into a powerful autobiographical indictment of slavery, tracing violence, resistance, education, escape, and the making of a public voice.

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