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Crime

The Hunter's Lodge Case

by Agatha Christie

A compact Hercule Poirot mystery from Agatha Christie.

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Science Fiction

The Ultimate Weapon

by John W. Campbell, Jr.

Classic pulp science fiction from John W.

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Fiction

Two on a Tower

by Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy's poignant novel of a love that reaches across barriers of class and age, played out beneath the vast indifference of the stars.

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Adventure

Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled

by Hudson Stuck

Hudson Stuck's vivid record of winter journeys by dog sled across Alaska, a missionary-explorer's account of the far North, its trails, peoples and unforgiving cold.

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Crime

The Plymouth Express Affair

by Agatha Christie

A young woman is found dead beneath the seat of a railway carriage, her jewels missing, and Hercule Poirot untangles a crime of theft, deception and family secrets in this compact

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Adventure

A Journey to the Center of the Earth

by Verne, Jules

A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne is a foundational science-fiction adventure filled with subterranean wonder, peril, discovery, and scientific imagination.

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Non-fiction

Astronomy for Amateurs

by Flammarion, Camille

Camille Flammarion's beloved introduction to the night sky, written to make the heavens accessible to anyone willing to look up.

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Non-fiction

India, Its Life and Thought

by John P. Jones

A historically revealing survey of Indian society and religion, best read today with attention to its missionary-colonial perspective.

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Fiction

The Missing Will

by Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie's short case sends Hercule Poirot after a dead man's hidden testament, a puzzle set as a deliberate test of wits, solved by the little Belgian's endlessly methodica

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Adventure

Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey

by Ingersoll Lockwood

Ingersoll Lockwood's curious Victorian fantasy.

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Fiction

The Gilded Age

by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner

Twain and Warner’s satirical novel exposes speculation, corruption, boosterism, and political performance in post–Civil War America.

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Classics

Apology

by Plato

Plato’s compact defense of Socrates joins courtroom speech to enduring questions about philosophy and conscience.

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History

Comic History of the United States

by Bill Nye

Bill Nye’s illustrated satirical history turns major episodes of the American past into brisk, deadpan comic sketches.

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History

A History of Elizabethan Literature

by George Saintsbury

George Saintsbury's sweeping survey of the golden age of English writing, from its poets and dramatists to its prose.

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Non-fiction

A Treatise on Domestic Economy; For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School

by Catharine Esther Beecher

Catharine Esther Beecher’s influential nineteenth-century manual blends household management, health guidance, moral instruction, and practical advice for domestic life and educati

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Biography & Memoir

A Little English Gallery

by Louise Imogen Guiney

Louise Imogen Guiney's A Little English Gallery gathers graceful literary portraits of Lady Danvers, Henry Vaughan, George Farquhar, Beauclerk and Langton, and William Hazlitt.

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Non-fiction

All about coffee

by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)

William H.

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Classics

Barchester Towers

by Trollope, Anthony

Anthony Trollope's beloved comedy of clerical politics, where a new bishop, his formidable wife, and an oily chaplain upend the quiet cathedral town of Barchester.

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Biography & Memoir

A Daughter of the Middle Border

by Hamlin Garland

Hamlin Garland's Pulitzer-winning memoir of prairie life, family, and hard-won artistic ambition, a warm, clear-eyed portrait of the American Midwest and the people who shaped it.

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Essays

Nature

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson's founding essay of American Transcendentalism, arguing that the natural world is the visible face of spirit.

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Fiction

Desperate Remedies

by Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy’s first published novel blends romance, secrecy, mistaken motives, and melodramatic danger into a fast-moving story of ambition and manipulation.

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Art & Design

History of Indian and Eastern Architecture

by James Fergusson

James Fergusson's monumental survey of the architecture of India and the East, tracing temples, monuments, and building traditions across centuries.

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Children

Rainbow Valley

by L. M. Montgomery

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Biography & Memoir

Up from Slavery

by Booker T. Washington

Booker T.

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Fiction

A Woman at Bay

by Carter, Nicholas (House name)

A fast-paced Nick Carter detective adventure from the great age of the American dime novel, pitting the famous sleuth against a formidable and dangerous woman.

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History

A Class-Book of New Testament History

by G. F. Maclear

A Victorian teaching text by G.

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Crime

Whose Body? A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel

by Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy L.

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Children

Russian Fairy Tales

by Various

A vivid collection of Russian folk tales full of shape-shifting magic, dangerous bargains, brave children, and the strange logic of the old wonder tale.

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Children

Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers

by Various

A collection of tales gathered from the storytelling traditions of the East, bringing together stories of adventure, wisdom, and wonder.

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History

On War

by Carl von Clausewitz

On War by Carl von Clausewitz is the monumental modern classic on strategy, uncertainty, politics, friction, and the enduring logic of armed conflict.

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Essays

Critical and Historical Essays: Lectures delivered at Columbia University

by Edward MacDowell

Edward MacDowell's lectures on music, delivered at Columbia University, in which the celebrated American composer reflects on the history and meaning of his art with a practitioner

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History

A History of Roman Classical Literature

by Robert William Browne

A comprehensive survey of the great writers of ancient Rome, from Plautus and Cicero to Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, tracing the rise and flowering of Latin literature.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Adventure

Aladdin & Co

by Herbert Quick

A brisk American novel of enterprise, ambition, and fortune-making in a fast-growing town, told with wit and a keen eye for the schemes of its go-getting characters.

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Children

Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race

by M. I. Ebbutt

A stirring retelling of the great heroic legends of Britain, from Beowulf to the deeds of Arthur and beyond.

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Horror

At the mountains of madness

by H. P. Lovecraft

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Fiction

By Advice of Counsel

by Arthur Train

Arthur Train's engaging stories from the world of law, drawing on his own experience as a lawyer.

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Children

The Railway Children

by E. Nesbit

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Horror

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

by M. R. James

M.

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Adventure

The Man in the Brown Suit

by Agatha Christie

A young woman witnesses a death in a London Underground station and follows a cryptic clue aboard a liner bound for South Africa, launching one of Agatha Christie's most dashing ea

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Fiction

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

by Gaston Leroux

Gaston Leroux’s pioneering locked-room mystery follows Joseph Rouletabille into an impossible crime, a country-house labyrinth, and a duel of reason against deception.

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Children

Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions

by T. W. Doane

A wide-ranging comparative study arguing that many biblical stories echo the myths of older and other religions.

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