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Biography & Memoir

Charles Frohman: Manager and Man

A biography of Charles Frohman, the great American theatrical producer who shaped Broadway and the London stage before his death aboard the Lusitania.

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Non-fiction

An Elementary Study of Chemistry

by McPherson, William; Henderson, William Edwards

A foundational chemistry textbook by William McPherson and William Edwards Henderson, introducing the elements, reactions, and laws of the science to beginning students.

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Crime

Children of the Whirlwind

by Leroy Scott

A story of the city's underworld and the struggle to rise out of it, where crime, love and the longing for a better life collide.

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History

From Chaucer to Tennyson

A concise survey of English literature from the medieval age to the Victorian era, tracing its major writers and movements across five centuries.

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Non-fiction

Expositions of Holy Scripture: Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters; I to End. Colossians, Thessaloni

A volume of careful, warm-hearted biblical exposition covering Second Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians, Colossians, and the letters that follow: scripture opened passage by pass

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Adventure

A Victor of Salamis

by William Stearns Davis

William Stearns Davis's rousing historical novel of ancient Greece, set amid the Persian Wars and the great sea battle of Salamis, where courage and love are tested against the fat

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Humor

Following the Equator

by Mark Twain

Mark Twain circles the globe on a lecture tour, notebook in hand, turning ocean crossings, colonial outposts and human folly into wry, watchful travel writing edged with anger.

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Adventure

One of the Six Hundred

A tale of soldiering and valour that takes its title from Tennyson's immortal charge, where six hundred rode into the guns.

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History

Belgium: From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day

by Emile Cammaerts

Emile Cammaerts's sweeping history of Belgium, tracing the fortunes of a small but pivotal European land from ancient times to the modern era.

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Non-fiction

Popular Education: For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes

A guide to education for parents, teachers and the young themselves — setting out principles for the forming of mind and character in a spirit of broad instruction.

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Fiction

The Man Who Did the Right Thing

A novel turning on questions of conscience and moral choice, whose title promises a story of a man measured by his decisions.

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Drama

Blue-grass and Broadway

by Maria Thompson Daviess

A novel by Maria Thompson Daviess set against the contrast of country and city life, its title playing rural Kentucky against the bright lights of the stage.

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Biography & Memoir

The Life of King Edward VII

A biography of Edward VII, the long-waiting heir who became king and gave his name to an age.

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Fiction

Only a girl's love

A tender romance in the popular Victorian tradition, following the trials and devotion of a young woman's heart against obstacles of class and circumstance.

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Classics

Mrs. Dalloway

by Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf's luminous novel follows a single London day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, weaving memory, consciousness, and the shadow of the Great War.

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Non-fiction

On Growth and Form

D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's landmark work reveals the mathematics and physics behind the shapes of living things, uniting biology, geometry, and beauty.

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Crime

The Big Four

by Agatha Christie

Hercule Poirot faces not a single killer but a global criminal conspiracy of four masterminds bent on world domination, in Agatha Christie's most unusual and action-packed Poirot a

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Fiction

Alcohol

A study of alcohol, its nature, effects, and place in human life.

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Crime

The Mystery of the Blue Train

by Agatha Christie

A wealthy heiress is found murdered aboard the luxury train to the Riviera, her famous rubies gone, and Hercule Poirot, a fellow passenger, takes up a case tangled in money, love a

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Essays

Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

A gathering of Emerson's essays, the works that carried American Transcendentalism to the world.

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Classics

Phaedo

by Plato

Plato's account of Socrates' final hours, spent not in fear but in conversation about the soul and its fate.

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Children

Black Beauty : $b The autobiography of a horse

by Anna Sewell

Anna Sewell's beloved horse tells his own life story, from green meadows to hard city streets.

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Non-fiction

Civics and Health

An early twentieth-century educational text linking good citizenship with public and personal health.

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