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In vain they searched; in vain Marie wailed and Belle declared it must be somewhere; no wreath appeared. It was duly set down in the bill, and a fine sum charged for a head-dress to match the dainty forget-me-nots that …
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A True Blue Story
This charming story is told by "Little Sister," a young girl who loves to learn but has no patience with schools. Her ideal classroom is nature itself. Join her as she learns about the world and her place in it.
Seeking a diversion to her troubles, Minka meets Tigg at a bar on Planet Treox. She envisions a night spent wrapped in the exotic alien's arms with no thought to the future. Tigg, however, is looking for a mate. In …
When Willems stepped off the straight and narrow path of his own peculiar honesty he thought it would be a short episode - a sentence in brackets, so to speak - in the flowing tale of his life. But Willems …
Commander John Hanson recalls his harrowing expedition among the giant spiders of FX-31.
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A Spider John Mystery
A historical mystery that blends nautical adventure in pirate waters with a locked-room murder mystery, featuring a pirate sleuth whose wits are as sharp as his blade. 1723--Spider John, longing to escape the pirate life he never wanted, has an …
Olive Higgins Prouty the author of Stella Dallas and Now, Voyager brings you the sequel to her wonderfully delightful novel Bobbie: General Manager. The Fifth Wheel follows Bobbies sister Ruth as she navigates her way into young adulthood. Faced with …
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Sins of Their Fathers Book 1
Lady Helen Richmond, the daughter of the exalted Earl of Charbeau, is more than resistant to the idea of marrying the man her father has selected for her, shes determined to make sure it never happens. To that end, she …
With the apocalypse behind her and new relationships before her, Skyy looks forward to a different kind of life...one filled with peace and contentment. But her idyllic life is interrupted when a startling vision rocks her world, forcing her to …
Oliver Goldsmith's hugely successful novel of 1766 remained for generations one of the most highly regarded and beloved works of eighteenth-century fiction. It depicts the fall and rise of the Primrose family, presided over by the benevolent vicar, the narrator …
H. P. Lovecraft was one of the greatest horror writers of all time. His seminal work appeared in the pages of legendary Weird Tales and has influenced countless writer of the macabre. This is one of those stories.
Classic Greek tragedy concerns the catastrophe that ensues when the King of Thebes imprisons Dionysus and attempts to suppress his cult. Full of striking scenes, frenzied emotion, and choral songs of great power and beauty, the play is a fine …
In Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lawrence argues for individual regeneration, which can be found only through the relationship between man and woman (and, he asserts sometimes, man and man). Love and personal relationships are the threads that bind this novel together. …
"I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt." These words of Maupassant to Jose Maria de Heredia on the occasion of a memorable meeting are, in spite of their morbid solemnity, not an …
Mary Higgins Clark Award Winner! OLD RIVALRIES NEVER DIE. BUT SOME RIVALS DO. Juliet Townsend is used to losing. Back in high school, she lost every track team race to her best friend, Madeleine Bell. Ten years later, shes still …
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A Hiro Hattori Novel
When a vengeful spirit terrorizes a mountain village, a ninja and a Jesuit must save the villagers from the phantoms wrath. January 1566: En route to Edo, Master ninja Hiro Hattori and Portuguese Jesuit Father Mateo spend the night in …
Poverty separates a happy couple forever, marking their lives as lifestyles separate them. Anzia Yezierska wrote about the struggles of female Jewish immigrants in New York's Lower East Side. She confronted the cost of acculturation and assimilation among immigrants. Her …
Gibbon offers an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell, a task made difficult by a lack of comprehensive written sources, though he was not the only historian to tackle the subject. Most of his ideas are directly taken from …
Humility is the most overlooked teaching of Jesus Christ. In this book Andrew Murray explores how essential humility is to the understanding and practice of Christianity. Perhaps the best book ever written on the subject. "We have seen humility in …
Sketches of the Lives of Catholic Ecclesiastics who were among the Great Founders in Science. James Joseph Walsh was an American physician and author.
The idol was shaped like a handsome young man. The surface had a curious texture, as if skin rather than stone. There is a deceptive simplicity to this story about a rather forceful woman explorer ( immensely practical, too) who …
A novel based on the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is W. Somerset Maugham's ode to the powerful forces behind creative genius. Charles Strickland is a staid banker, a man of wealth and privilege. He is also …
"Normality" is a myth; we're all a little neurotic, and the study of neurosis has been able to classify the general types of disturbance which are most common. And some types (providing the subject is not suffering so extreme a …
Published in 1914, The Ancient East was written by British archaeologist David George Hogarth
Like most Wharton novels, The House of Mirth examines the conflict between rigid social expectation and personal desire. Lily Bart is adept at playing society's games, which expect her to achieve an advantageous marriage. Yet, torn between her desire for …
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