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The Bastard
***“Phillipe Charboneau—the bastard. Illegitimate son of an English nobleman,*** Phillipe flees Europe and, as Philip Kent, joins the turbulent adventure that was the beginning of the American Experience. Through his struggles, his passions, his loves, and his courage, ***we share the wondrous adventure which became our America!”***
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The Harvester
Author of ''A Girl of the Limberlost,'' Freckles, etc.
***The Harvester (1911) by Gene Stratton Porter is the story of a Thoreau-esque idealist and naturalist and his search for the love of his dreams, the Dream Girl.***
***David Langston, the Harvester, lives in the woods and harvests medicinal herbs which he sells for a living.*** Suddenly he encounters ***Ruth Jameson***, the real…
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Blaze of Noon
**Ernest K. Gann, author of ''Island in the Sky''**
***Goodreads Member Review:
KOMET (Sep 21, 2015 5 of 5 Stars) it was amazing:aviation-general, ernest-k-gann, mass-market-paperbacks***
Ernest K. Gann, in his day, was one of those aviators with a gift for conveying to the general reader the thrills and perils of flying. And in ***"BLAZE OF NOON"***, he succeeds brilliantly.
**The story…
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Landfall, a channel story
***Against the grim background of England at war, the romance of Jery Chambers and Mona Stevens stands out like an unexpected spring day in the midst of a brutal winter.*** Jerry is a flying officer in the RAF. At the hotel which is the hangout for officers he sees Mona. She has taken the job of barmaid at the Royal Clarence because it is more exciting than anything else she can find to do.…
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How Green Was My Valley
**This is a story set in a south Wales coal mining valley and tells of a family striving to improve their lives through hard work, education and their non-conformist faith.** The main character is the youngest son, Huw Morgan and his life's journey through the difficulties associated with the mining industry and the awful risks involved in deep coal mining in the **mid nineteenth…
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Except for me and thee
**These further adventures of Jess and Eliza Birdwell, the beloved hero and heroine of *''The Friendly Persuasion,''* are cause for celebration to the millions who have met them in Jessamyn West's memorable book.**
***Here are those gallant Quakers, young and in love, meeting the challenges of nature and man as the growing family travels westward, then encountering the bitterness and savagery…
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The Morning Watch
***The Morning Watch explores the thoughts and feelings of 12-year-old Richard, a student at an unnamed Episcopal*** boarding school (based on Agee's schooling at St. Andrew's-Sewanee School in Sewanee, Tennessee), over the course of a few hours in the early morning of ***Good Friday in 1923***.
***Part I*** opens with Richard waking up to participate in the 4 AM shift of a nightlong prayer…
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El Amo Del Juego/Masters of the Game
**One of Sidney Sheldon's most popular and bestselling titles. Kate Blackwell is one of the richest and most powerful women in the world. She is an enigma, a woman surrounded by a thousand unanswered questions.**
Her father was a diamond prospector who struck it rich beyond his wildest dreams.Her mother was the daughter of a crooked Afrikaner merchant. Her conception was itself an act of…
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The City Boy
'City Boy' spins a hilarious and often touching tale of an urban kid's adventures and misadventures on the street, in school, in the countryside, always in pursuit of Lucille, a heartless redhead personifying all the girls who torment and fascinate pubescent lads of eleven.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain created the memorable characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn drawing from the experiences of boys he grew up with in Missouri. Set by the Mississippi River in the 1840's, it follows these boys as they get into predicament after predicament. Tom's classic whitewashing of the fence has become part of American legend, and the book paints a nostalgic picture of life in the middle of…
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Captain Rebel
**Here is Frank Yerby's bestselling novel, set in Civil War New Orleans and on the perilous seas of the great Southern blockade runners.** Regardless of his Southern upbringing, **Tyler Meredith is NO GENTLEMAN!!!**
Whispers followed the powerful figure of Tyler Meredith, as he strode through **New Orleans in the spring of 1861.** This strong and ruthless man mocked southern chivalry, did not…
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Heidi
***The famous Swiss classic about Heidi, a five-year-old orphan girl*** who goes to live with her grandfather, and his goats, in an alm (Alpine pasture)...up the Alps. **One of the most loved classics ...both by children and adults, alike.**
***Little orphan Heidi goes to live high in the Alps with her gruff grandfather and brings happiness to all who know her on the mountain. When Heidi goes…
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The Lady of the Rivers
The Lady of the Rivers
The Lady of the Rivers tells the story of Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg, and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe, who was married to the great Englishman John, Duke of Bedford, uncle to Henry VI. Widowed at the age of nineteen she took the extraordinary risk of marrying a gentleman of her household for love, and then carved out a life for herself as Queen Margaret of Anjou's…
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Dead Men's Money
A mysterious one-eyed stranger, a midnight meeting at a lonely spot on the Scottish border, the secret password "Panama", and a corpse This is the situation Hugh Moneylaws, a young law clerk finds himself facing. Who murdered the man he was sent to meet, and why? With the only two men who knew the purpose of the meeting dead, it would seem a puzzle that would never be solved. Yet to save himself…
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The Awful Secret
The Awful Secret
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Joy street
**A young woman brought up in a Brahmin family on Beacon Hill and her husband are exposed to different cultures for the first time when he joins a law firm that has experimented by hiring a Jew, an Irishman, and an Italian, in addition to their traditional Protestants.**
***Can Emily and Roger befriend these seeming upstarts without offending their own families and associates?*** This is a…
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Tom Brown's School Days
**This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.** This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. **Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries…
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The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
**First discovered and then painstakingly edited and annotated by Nicholas Meyer, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution related the astounding and previously unknown collaboration of Sigmund Freud with Sherlock Holmes, as recorded by Holmes's friend and chronicler, Dr. John H. Watson.** In addition to its breathtaking account of their collaboration on a case of diabolic conspiracy in which the lives of…
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