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Dead Men's Money Joseph Smith Fletcher · 1920 · ★ 3.7 · 212p · ≈ 7h · Moderate 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… Shares History

The Lady of the Rivers

The Lady of the Rivers Philippa Gregory · 2011 · ★ 4.0 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… Shares History

The Awful Secret

The Awful Secret Bernard Knight · 2006 · 356p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares History with this book.

The Shaver's new sermon for the fast day

The Shaver's new sermon for the fast day Pasquin Shaveblock · 1795 · 23p · ≈ 46m · Challenging Shares English Sermons, Christianity, Early works to 1800, History with this book.

Histoire de Charles XII Voltaire · 1731 · 293p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Shares Early works to 1800, History with this book.

Caffeine Ryan Grabow · 2011 · 340p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Brandon Dauphin feels like a dying ember. He’s jobless and feels worthless, and falling in love has only made his problem worse. In an authoritarian and overstimulated 22nd-century America, all he can do to relieve his pain is indulge in the computer-simulated fantasies of a network called Dynamic Reality, until a virus takes control of the simulation. Unable to return to the real world, Brandon… Shares Christian literature

Gorin no sho Miyamoto Musashi · 1963 · ★ 3.8 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate A psychological guide to strategy applicable to business, philosophy, or martial arts, written by sixteenth-century warrior Miyamoto Musashi as a means of explaining his success as a practitioner of Japanese swordfighting, or Kendo. Shares Obras anteriores a 1800, Early works to 1800, History

The Toy-Shop; a Dramatick Satire Robert Dodsley · 1700 · 41p · ≈ 1h · Challenging Shares Early works to 1800 with this book.

Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine William Carew Hazlitt · 1886 · 136p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Shares Bibliography, History with this book.

Patrologiae cursus completus J.-P Migne · 1800 · 221p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Shares Christian literature, Early works to 1800, History

Ruthless Trust

Ruthless Trust Brennan Manning · 2000 · ★ 4.5 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate In his sequel to The Ragamuffin Gospel bestselling author Brennan Manning shows how true and radical trust in God can transform our lives and invigorate our approach to Christian living.Manning, beloved author and spiritual teacher, shows us how trust in God can transform our lives and open us up to deeper experiences of grace and love. In Ruthless Trust EPB, he turns his focus from furious love… Shares Christianity

Ab urbe condita Titus Livius · 1481 · ★ 4.2 · 237p · ≈ 7h · Challenging "Romulus and Remus, the rape of Lucretia, Horatius at the bridge, the saga of Coriolanus, Cincinnatus called from his farm to save the state - these and many more stories immortalized by Livy in his history of Rome have become part of our cultural heritage." "The historian's huge work consisted of 142 books which trace Rome's history from its foundation in 753 BC to events in Livy's own lifetime… Shares Bibliography, Early works to 1800, History

Legenda aurea Jacobus de Voragine · 1476 · 957p · ≈ 31h · Demanding "Among the books which afford us an insight into the popular religious thought of the middle ages, none holds a more important place than the Legenda Aurea or Golden Legend. The book was compiled and put into form about the year 1275 by Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa, who laid under contribution for his purpose the Lives of the Fathers by S. Jerome, the Ecclesiastical History of… Shares Christian literature, Early works to 1800, History

Utopia Thomas More · 1518 · ★ 3.5 · 164p · ≈ 5h · Challenging First published in 1516, Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most important works of European humanism. Through the voice of the mysterious traveler Raphael Hythloday, More describes a pagan, communist city-state governed by reason. Addressing such issues as religious pluralism, women's rights, state-sponsored education, colonialism, and justified warfare, Utopia seems remarkably contemporary… Shares Bibliography, Early works to 1800, History

The Travels of Marco Polo Marco Polo · 1818 · ★ 3.6 · 461p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Join the 13th century merchants Marco, Niccolo and Maffeo Polo as they journey from their native city of Venice to the faraway land of Cathay, or China. There, young Marco will meet Kublai Khan, the ruler of the vast Mongolian empire. Read about his many adventures serving the Khan in the lands East of Europe, and his adventures coming back home to Venice. This medieval book, dictated by Marco… Shares Bibliography, Early works to 1800, History

Short studies on great subjects James Anthony Froude · 1867 · 398p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Shares Christianity, History with this book.

Epistolae Ho-Elianae James Howell · 1650 · 510p · ≈ 17h · Challenging Shares Bibliography, Early works to 1800 with this book.

Torches Together Emmy Arnold · 1964 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Moderate **Not many people talk about "joy" these days.** Emmy Arnold's memoir radiates just that - an enthusiasm for life and an unflagging optimism grounded in faith. In a genre awash in sordid sex and dysfunctional relationships, she offers a refreshing account of a hard life lived victoriously, of people brought together, despite their own weakness and turbulent times, to experience new levels of… Shares History