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The Smoke Eaters

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Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins


This book vividly brings to life the unimaginable risks of fire-fighting and the bravery and personal interactions of Captain Meaghan and th…

Discoveries: Essays in Literary Criticism

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John Middleton Murry


Introductory Note: I have called these essays and lectures by a title that some people may think presumptuous: first, because it is the titl…

Capitol Coven

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Peter E. Abresch


Ninety percent of the federal laws, resolutions, and appropriations pass or fail in the U. S. Congress by a handful of votes. When Alexand…

Partial Portraits

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Henry James


In this book, writer Henry James gives wonderful and probing insights into the lives and works of many famous and interesting writers, some …

That Affair at Elizabeth

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Burton Egbert Stevenson


A detective novel set in turn-of-the-century New York City, in which a young lawyer plays the sleuth. Packed with plot twists (and the ubiqu…

The Tale of Paddy Muskrat

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Arthur Scott Bailey


Enter Pleasant Valley, the home of the interesting and entertaining creatures and adventures born of American author Arthur Scott Bailey. Th…

Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman

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Sarah Hopkins Bradford


A portrait of Harriet Tubman is scheduled to replace that of Andrew Jackson on the front of the U.S. $20 bill in 2020. Sarah H. Bradford, w…

Historical Tales, Vol II: American II

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Charles Morris and Charles Mclean Andrews


Remarks

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Bill Nye


"The range of subjects treated in this book is wonderful, even to me. It is a library of universal knowledge, and the facts contained i…

Katharine Lauderdale Volume 1

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Francis Marion Crawford


Katharine Lauderdale would be a New York society belle, if it were not for her miserly father. Her older sister has escaped the unhappy pare…

Memoir, Correspondence and Miscellanies, Volume I

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Thomas Jefferson


This is the first volume of Thomas Jefferson's public and private writings edited and compiled by his oldest grandson Thomas Jefferson Rando…

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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David Hume


The Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a shortened and simplified version of Hume's masterpiece A Treatise of Human Nature. It sough…

Opening a Chestnut Burr

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Edward P. Roe


Walter Gregory is a gentleman whose health is broken down by the stress of Wall Street and the consequences of his fast lifestyle. Disillusi…

Peeps at People - Being Certain Papers from the Writings of Anne Warrington Wit…

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John Kendrick Bangs


Written by a fictitious first-person narrator, this book puts a humorous spin on encounters with several famous people of the time. "I …

An Amiable Charlatan

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E. Phillips Oppenheim


An Englishman is enjoying his dinner at Stephano's, at which he is a regular diner. A man enters quickly, sits at his table, starts eating h…

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 1

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Charles Mackay


The book chronicles and vilifies its targets in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philoso…

Merton of the Movies

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Harry Leon Wilson


Merton of the Movies is a comedy that centers around Merton Gill, an aspiring dramatic artist from Simsbury, Illinois who makes his way to H…

The Raven and The Philosophy Of Composition

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Edgar Allan Poe


Poe’s famous narrative poem and the author’s reflections on its composition. (David Wales)

Out of Mulberry Street

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Jacob A. Riis


These riveting accounts by Jacob A. Riis are from the late 19th century, when lower Manhattan was teeming with struggling, near-starving imm…

Essays book 1

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Michel Eyquem De Montaigne


Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary …

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