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Children

Italian Popular Tales

by Thomas Frederick Crane

A rich collection of Italian folk stories gathered from oral tradition: fairy tales, legends, and comic anecdotes from across the peninsula.

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Children

Penrod

by Booth Tarkington

Booth Tarkington’s comic portrait of Midwestern boyhood follows Penrod Schofield through pranks, friendships, and social embarrassment.

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Biography & Memoir

Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II

The second volume of a life told largely through the letters of a leading Royal Navy commander of the Napoleonic wars.

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Adventure

The Hour of the Dragon

by Robert E. Howard

Robert E.

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Essays

Daily stories of Pennsylvania : $b prepared for publication in the leading daily newspapers of the state

A collection of short stories about Pennsylvania, originally prepared for publication in the state's leading daily newspapers, offering brief tales drawn from its people, places an

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Non-fiction

The Faith of Our Fathers

Cardinal Gibbons's enduring explanation and defense of Catholic belief, written in plain, generous prose for believers, seekers, and the simply curious alike.

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Creative Evolution

by Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson’s major philosophical work rethinks life, mind, time, and change through a bold critique of mechanism and a dynamic account of evolution.

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The Approach to Philosophy

An inviting introduction to philosophical thinking, written to lead newcomers past jargon and into the real questions.

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Children

The wheel of earth

A work whose title evokes the turning of the world and the cycles of human life.

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Non-fiction

The Varieties of Religious Experience

by William James

William James's landmark study of religion as lived personal experience, examining conversion, mysticism, saintliness, and the inner life of faith with the eye of a pioneering psyc

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Classics

The Book of the Courtier

by Baldesar Castiglione

Baldassare Castiglione's Renaissance dialogue imagines the perfect courtier over four candlelit evenings at Urbino, weighing grace, wit, love and virtue with the ease of good compa

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Fiction

Cameron of Lochiel

by Thomas A. Janvier

A historical novel of old French Canada, following friendship and loyalty as the fortunes of war divide two young men.

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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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Non-fiction

Folkways

William Graham Sumner's influential study of how customs, habits, and mores shape human societies.

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Fiction

The Chautauqua Girls At Home

by Pansy

A warm-hearted story of young women returning from a religious gathering determined to live out their new faith, carrying earnest ideals into the tests of everyday life.

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Non-fiction

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

by Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin's world-changing 1859 work, laying out the theory of evolution by natural selection with patient evidence and cautious brilliance.

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The Spanish American Reader

A classic Spanish-language reader assembling passages for students of the language and of Spanish American life and letters.

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Essays

The Journal to Stella

by Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift's intimate letters to Esther Johnson, written from London during his years at the heart of politics.

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Fiction

Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930

The very first issue of a legendary pulp magazine, this January 1930 number launched what would become a cornerstone of American science fiction.

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Fiction

The Rosary

by Florence L. Barclay

A tender, enormously popular romance about love tested by pride, appearance, and the slow work of the heart.

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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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Biography & Memoir

Captain Canot

by Brantz Mayer

The vivid, troubling first-hand narrative of a nineteenth-century adventurer's years in the Atlantic slave trade.

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Biography & Memoir

William Pitt and national revival

A historical study of William Pitt the Younger and Britain's recovery and resurgence under his leadership.

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History

The Prairie Traveler

Randolph B.

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Children

The Burgess Bird Book for Children

by Thornton W. Burgess

Thornton W.

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Biography & Memoir

Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497

Julia Cartwright's graceful biography brings to life Beatrice d'Este, the brilliant young Duchess of Milan whose short career sat at the dazzling, dangerous centre of the Italian R

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History

Roman Public Life

A scholarly survey of the institutions of ancient Rome, its magistrates, assemblies, senate, and law, explaining how the Republic and Empire were actually governed.

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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

The Wandering Jew — Complete

by Eugene Sue

Eugène Sue's sprawling nineteenth-century epic of intrigue, following a scattered family pursued across the world by a ruthless conspiracy.

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History

The Legacy of Greece: Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Sin

A distinguished collection of essays surveying what the modern world owes to ancient Greece, from philosophy and science to art, literature, and religion.

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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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Essays

Hobson-Jobson

The famous Anglo-Indian glossary that traces how words like bungalow, shampoo, curry and pyjama passed from India into English, part dictionary, part treasure-house of colonial enc

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Non-fiction

Ethics

by Benedict de Spinoza

A foundational inquiry into how we ought to live and what makes conduct right or good.

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Adventure

The Trail of the Hawk

by Sinclair Lewis

An early Sinclair Lewis novel about a restless young American who trades the flatness of small-town life for the open sky, finding in flight and ambition a new kind of frontier.

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Fiction

Western Characters

A vivid gallery of frontier types drawn from the border life of the American West, sketching the settlers, adventurers and originals who peopled a raw and changing land.

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Classics

The History of the Peloponnesian War

by Thucydides

The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides is a foundational work of history and political realism on war, power, leadership, rhetoric, and civil conflict.

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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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Crime

Unnatural death

Dorothy L.

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Biography & Memoir

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Complete

An insider's sweeping memoir of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing his rise from soldier to emperor and his fall, drawn from close personal acquaintance with one of history's most consequ

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Children

Fifty-Two Stories For Girls

by Various Authors

A generous story collection offering a tale for every week of the year, gathered for young readers.

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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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Essays

The Communist Manifesto

by Marx and Engels

The short, incendiary pamphlet by Marx and Engels that reframed history as a struggle between classes.

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Fiction

The Diamond Coterie

by Lawrence L. Lynch

A twisting Victorian mystery of stolen jewels, hidden identities and patient detection, in which a determined investigator works to unmask the schemers behind a web of theft and de

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Adventure

Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey

by Ingersoll Lockwood

Ingersoll Lockwood's curious Victorian fantasy.

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Children

The Burgess Animal Book for Children

Thornton Burgess's charming natural-history storybook, introducing young readers to the birds and mammals of the American wild through the gentle lessons of Mother Nature and her w

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