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<p><strong>From F.C. Yee, the</strong> New York Times <strong>bestselling author of</strong> Avatar, the Last Airbender: The Rise of Kyoshi <strong>and</strong> Avatar, the Last Airbender: The Shadow of Kyoshi, <strong>comes a thrilling new chapter in the Chronicles of the Avatar series.</strong> </p>
<p style="font-weight: bold">Yangchen’s inexperience may prove to be her greatest asset . . . </p>
<p>Plagued by the voices of Avatars before her for as long as she can remember, Yangchen has not yet earned the respect felt for Avatar Szeto, her predecessor. In an era where loyalty is bought rather than earned, she has little reason to trust her counsel.<br>When Yangchen travels to Bin-Er in the Earth Kingdom on political business, a chance encounter with an informant named Kavik leads to a wary partnership. Bin-Er is a city ruled by corrupt shang merchants who have become resentful of the mercurial Earth King and his whims. To extract themselves from his influence, the shangs have one solution in mind: a mysterious weapon of mass destruction that would place power squarely in their hands.<br>As Yangchen and Kavik seek to thwart the shangs’ plan, their unlikely friendship deepens. But for Yangchen to chart her course as a singularly powerful Avatar, she must learn to rely on her own wisdom above all else. </p>
<p><em>Avatar, The Last Airbender: The Dawn of Yangchen</em> , the propulsive third installment in the Chronicles of the Avatar series, illuminates Avatar Yangchen’s journey from uncertain young woman to revered leader. </p>
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<p>"An intriguing romp." ―Kirkus Reviews</p>
<h3>About the Author</h3>
<p>Outside of writing, <strong>F.C. Yee</strong> practices capoeira, a Brazilian form of martial arts, and has a day job mostly involving spreadsheets. In addition to the <em>New York Times</em> bestselling Chronicles of the Avatar series, he is the author of the critically acclaimed Genie Lo novels. </p></div>


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<p><em>From the New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>Avatar, the Last Airbender: The Rise of Kyoshi</em> and <em>Avatar, the Last Airbender: The Shadow of Kyoshi</em> comes a thrilling new chapter in the Chronicles of the Avatar series and page-turning follow-up to <em>Avatar, the Last Airbender: The Dawn of Yangchen</em> </p>
<p>Common enemies make for strange friends . . .** </p>
<p>Avatar Yangchen has succeeded in bringing a measure of stability to Bin-Er, but her successes have been limited to a single city, and rumors concerning Unanimity—a weapon capable of total obliteration—have led to increasing tensions among the Four Nations. </p>
<p>Desperate to restore diplomacy, Yangchen attempts to de-escalate hostilities between heads of state. But in the wake of a brutal assassination and the freeing of Unanimity, Yangchen is forced to bring Kavik—the trusted former companion whose betrayal crushed her—back into her fold. </p>
<p>As the Four Nations teeter on the brink of conflict and she begins to unravel the power-hungry Zongdu Chaisee’s true agenda, Yangchen is forced to measure the worth of humanity, and how much can be sacrificed in the name of balance. </p>
<p>This taut and provocative fourth installment in the Chronicles of the Avatar series follows Avatar Yangchen as she charts the course of her legacy, finally making peace with her choices and facing Avatarhood with the courage it demands.</p></div>


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<p>The rules of battle for tracking down -- and eliminating -- hardware and software bugs. When the pressure is on to root out an elusive software or hardware glitch, what's needed is a cool head courtesy of a set of rules guaranteed to work on any system, in any circumstance. Written in a frank but engaging style, Debugging provides simple, foolproof principles guaranteed to help find any bug quickly. This book makes those shelves of application-specific debugging books (on C++, Perl, Java, etc.) obsolete. It changes the way readers think about debugging, making those pesky problems suddenly much easier to find and fix. Illustrating the rules with real-life bug-detection war stories, the book shows readers how * Understand the how perceiving the ""roadmap"" can hasten your journey * Quit thinking and when hands-on investigation can't be avoided * Isolate critical why changing one element at a time can be an essential tool * Keep an audit how keeping a record of the debugging process can win the day The rules of battle for tracking down -- and eliminating -- hardware and software bugs. When the pressure is on to root out an elusive software or hardware glitch, what's needed is a cool head courtesy of a set of rules guaranteed to work on any system, in any circumstance. Written in a frank but engaging style, Debugging provides simple, foolproof principles guaranteed to help find any bug quickly. This book makes those shelves of application-specific debugging books (on C++, Perl, Java, etc.) obsolete. It changes the way readers think about debugging, making those pesky problems suddenly much easier to find and fix. Illustrating the rules with real-life bug-detection war stories, the book shows readers how * Understand the how perceiving the ""roadmap"" can hasten your journey * Quit thinking and when hands-on investigation can't be avoided * Isolate critical why changing one element at a time can be an essential tool * Keep an audit how keeping a record of the debugging process can win the day The rules of battle for tracking down -- and eliminating -- hardware and software bugs. When the pressure is on to root out an elusive software or hardware glitch, what's needed is a cool head courtesy of a set of rules guaranteed to work on any system, in any circumstance. Written in a frank but engaging style, Debugging provides simple, foolproof principles guaranteed to help find any bug quickly. This book makes those shelves of application-specific debugging books (on C++, Perl, Java, etc.) obsolete. It changes the way readers think about debugging, making those pesky problems suddenly much easier to find and fix. Illustrating the rules with real-life bug-detection war stories, the book shows readers how * Understand the how perceiving the ""roadmap"" can hasten your journey * Quit thinking and when hands-on investigation can't be avoided * Isolate critical why changing one element at a time can be an essential tool * Keep an audit how keeping a record of the debugging process can win the day</p></div>


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<p>It's FM's birthday, but it's not looking to be "happy." To make things worse, her boyfriend, Rig, isn't able to do much more than video chat her for lunch while he's busy working—and even that is cut short when important equipment suddenly goes missing. </p>
<p>Can Rig find the thief, resolve the issues, and get back in time to add a little joy to FM's birthday?</p></div>


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<p>The Way of Kings Prime is the original draft of The Way of Kings written in 2002. It is completely different to the version released back in 2011, and is not canon to the Cosmere universe. Brandon Sanderson released this version as a extra goodie during The Way of Kings 10th Anniversary Leatherbound Edition Kickstarter </p>
<p>" <em>The Way of Kings Prime</em> , was written in 2002 and is basically an alternate version of <em>The Way of Kings</em> , which was published by Tor Books in 2010. <em>The Way of Kings Prime</em> is very different from the published book. Think of it as set in a different universe with a completely different plot. <strong>If you haven’t read the 2010 canonical version, please read that one first.</strong> " -- from author's website (emphasis mine)</p></div>


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<p>Long Chills and Case Dough is a previously unpublished short story, written just before Brandon published his first book. It was released to celebrate the finale of the 2023 "Year of Sanderson," and is published exclusively by Dragonsteel as a "Sanderson Curiosity."</p></div>


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<p style="font-weight: bold">He has a heart of ice...but for her, he'd burn the world. </p>
<p>Alex Volkov is a devil blessed with the face of an angel and cursed with a past he can’t escape. </p>
<p>Driven by a tragedy that has haunted him for most of his life, his ruthless pursuits for success and vengeance leave little room for matters of the heart. </p>
<p>But when he’s forced to look after his best friend’s sister, he starts to feel something in his chest: </p>
<p>A crack.<br>A melt.<br>A fire that could end his world as he knew it. </p>
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<p>Ava Chen is a free spirit trapped by nightmares of a childhood she can’t remember. </p>
<p>But despite her broken past, she’s never stopped seeing the beauty in the world…including the heart beneath the icy exterior of a man she shouldn’t want. </p>
<p>Her brother’s best friend. <br>Her neighbor.<br>Her savior and her downfall. </p>
<p>Theirs is a love that was never supposed to happen—but when it does, it unleashes secrets that could destroy them both…and everything they hold dear. </p>
<p>****Twisted Love is a brother’s best friend/opposites attract romance with a hint of suspense. It's book one in the Twisted series but can be read as a standalone. </p>
<p>WARNING: This book contains a possessive, morally gray alphahole; explicit sexual content, and profanity. No cheating or menage, but if you're looking for a traditionally sweet, loveable hero, this is not the book for you. Recommended for 18+.* ** *</p></div>


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<p style="font-weight: bold">She can never be his...but he's taking her anyway. </p>
<p>Stoic, broody, and arrogant, elite bodyguard Rhys Larsen has two rules: 1) Protect his clients at all costs 2) Do not become emotionally involved. Ever. </p>
<p>He has never once been tempted to break those rules…until <em>her.</em> </p>
<p>Bridget von Ascheberg. A princess with a stubborn streak that matches his own and a hidden fire that reduces his rules to ash. She’s nothing he expected and everything he never knew he needed. </p>
<p>Day by day, inch by inch, she breaks down his defenses until he’s faced with a truth he can no longer deny: he swore an oath to protect her, but all he wants is to ruin her. Take her. </p>
<p>Because she’s his. </p>
<p>His princess. <br>His forbidden fruit. <br>His every depraved fantasy. </p>
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<p>Regal, strong-willed, and bound by the chains of duty, Princess Bridget dreams of the freedom to live and love as she chooses. </p>
<p>But when her brother abdicates, she’s suddenly faced with the prospect of a loveless, politically expedient marriage and a throne she never wanted. </p>
<p>And as she navigates the intricacies—and treacheries—of her new role, she must also hide her desire for a man she can’t have. </p>
<p>Her bodyguard.<br>Her protector. <br>Her ultimate ruin. </p>
<p>Unexpected and forbidden, theirs is a love that could destroy a kingdom…and doom them both. </p>
<p>*Twisted Games is a slow to medium burn contemporary royal bodyguard romance. It’s book two of the Twisted series but can be read as a standalone. </p>
<p>Warning: This book contains a possessive alpha hero, explicit sexual content, and profanity.*</p></div>


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<p style="font-weight: bold">A diverse steamy enemies-to-lovers romance from New York Times bestselling author and BookTok sensation Ana Huang.</p>
<p>Gorgeous, cocky, and fast on his way to becoming a hotshot doctor, Josh Chen has never met a woman he couldn't charm―except for Jules Ambrose.</p>
<p>The beautiful redhead has been a thorn in his side since they met, but she also consumes his thoughts in a way no woman ever has.</p>
<p>When their animosity explodes into one unforgettable night, he proposes a solution that'll get her out of his system once and for all: an enemies with benefits arrangement with simple rules.</p>
<p>No jealousy.</p>
<p>No strings attached.</p>
<p>And absolutely no falling in love.</p>
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<p>Outgoing and ambitious, Jules Ambrose is a former party girl who's focused on one thing: passing the attorney's bar exam.</p>
<p>The last thing she needs is to get involved with a doctor who puts the SUFFER in insufferable…no matter how good-looking he is.</p>
<p>But the more she gets to know him, the more she realizes there's more than meets the eye to the man she's hated for so long.</p>
<p>Her best friend's brother.</p>
<p>Her nemesis.</p>
<p>And her only salvation.</p>
<p>Theirs is a match made in hell, and when the demons from their past catch up with them, they're faced with truths that could either save them …or destroy everything they've worked for.</p>
<h3>About the Author</h3>
<p>Ana Huang is a #1 <em>New York Times</em> , <em>Sunday Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today,</em> and #1 Amazon bestselling author. Best known for her Twisted series, she writes new adult and contemporary romance with deliciously alpha heroes, strong heroines, and plenty of steam, angst, and swoon.</p>
<p>Her books have been translated in over two dozen languages and featured in outlets such as <em>NPR, Cosmopolitan, Financial Times</em> , and <em>Glamour UK.</em></p>
<p>A self-professed travel enthusiast, she loves incorporating beautiful destinations into her stories and will never say no to a good chai latte.</p></div>


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<p style="font-weight: bold">A fake-dating billionaire romance from New York Times bestselling author and BookTok sensation Ana Huang.</p>
<p>Charming, deadly, and smart enough to hide it, Christian Harper is a monster dressed in the perfectly tailored suits of a gentleman.</p>
<p>He has little use for morals and even less use for love, but he can't deny the strange pull he feels toward the woman living just one floor below him.</p>
<p>She's the object of his darkest desires, the only puzzle he can't solve. And when the opportunity to get closer to her arises, he breaks his own rules to offer her a deal she can't refuse.</p>
<p>Every monster has their weakness. She's his.</p>
<p>His obsession.</p>
<p>His addiction.</p>
<p>His only exception.</p>
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<p>Sweet, shy, and introverted despite her social media fame, Stella Alonso is a romantic who keeps her heart in a cage.</p>
<p>Between her two jobs, she has little time or desire for a relationship.</p>
<p>But when a threat from her past drives her into the arms―and house―of the most dangerous man she's ever met, she's tempted to let herself feel something for the first time in a long time.</p>
<p>Because despite Christian's cold nature, he makes her feel everything when she's with him.</p>
<p>Passionate.</p>
<p>Protected.</p>
<p>Truly wanted.</p>
<p>Theirs is a love twisted with secrets and tainted by lies…and when the truths are finally revealed, they could shatter everything.</p>
<h3>About the Author</h3>
<p>Ana Huang is a #1 <em>New York Times</em> , <em>Sunday Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today,</em> and #1 Amazon bestselling author. Best known for her Twisted series, she writes new adult and contemporary romance with deliciously alpha heroes, strong heroines, and plenty of steam, angst, and swoon.</p>
<p>Her books have been translated in over two dozen languages and featured in outlets such as <em>NPR, Cosmopolitan, Financial Times</em> , and <em>Glamour UK.</em></p>
<p>A self-professed travel enthusiast, she loves incorporating beautiful destinations into her stories and will never say no to a good chai latte.</p></div>


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<p>The <i>New York Times </i>best-selling sequel to <i>"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"</i>One of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life. <i>"What Do You Care What Other People Think?" </i>is Feynman's last literary legacy, prepared with his friend and fellow drummer, Ralph Leighton. Among its many tales&#8212;some funny, others intensely moving&#8212;we meet Feynman's first wife, Arlene, who taught him of love's irreducible mystery as she lay dying in a hospital bed while he worked nearby on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos. We are also given a fascinating narrative of the investigation of the space shuttle <i>Challenger</i>'s explosion in 1986, and we relive the moment when Feynman revealed the disaster's cause by an elegant experiment: dropping a ring of rubber into a glass of cold water and pulling it out, misshapen.


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<p>The original edition of the most trusted writer's guide to American English, this is the book that generations of writers have relied upon for timeless advice on grammar, diction, syntax, sentence construction, and other writing essentials. In brief and concise terms, author William Strunk, Jr., identifies the principal requirements of proper American English style and concentrates on the most often violated rules of composition. </p>
<p>Originally published in 1918, this authoritative and engagingly written manual retains its immediacy and relevance. Strunk begins with the basic rules of usage, offering accessible explanations of correct punctuation and grammar. His advice on the principles of composition cites concrete examples of how to maintain clarity by eliminating redundancy and unnecessary embellishment. In addition, Strunk provides valuable pointers on avoiding common errors in the usage of words and expressions, and in spelling. The greatest book of its kind, this volume is a must for any student or writer.</p></div>


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<p>Between life and death there is a library. </p>
<p>When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right. Up until now, her life has been full of misery and regret. She feels she has let everyone down, including herself. But things are about to change. </p>
<p>The books in the Midnight Library enable Nora to live as if she had done things differently. With the help of an old friend, she can now undo every one of her regrets as she tries to work out her perfect life. But things aren't always what she imagined they'd be, and soon her choices place the library and herself in extreme danger. </p>
<p>Before time runs out, she must answer the ultimate question: what is the best way to live?</p></div>


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<p>Public transit is a powerful tool for addressing a huge range of urban problems, including traffic congestion and economic development as well as climate change. But while many people support transit in the abstract, it's often hard to channel that support into good transit investments. Part of the problem is that transit debates attract many kinds of experts, who often talk past each other. Ordinary people listen to a little of this and decide that transit is impossible to figure out. </p>
<p>Jarrett Walker believes that transit can be simple, if we focus first on the underlying geometry that all transit technologies share. In <em>Human Transit</em> , Walker supplies the basic tools, the critical questions, and the means to make smarter decisions about designing and implementing transit services. </p>
<p><em>Human Transit</em> explains the fundamental geometry of transit that shapes successful systems; the process for fitting technology to a particular community; and the local choices that lead to transit-friendly development. Whether you are in the field or simply a concerned citizen, here is an accessible guide to achieving successful public transit that will enrich any community. </p>
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<p>"Intelligent, refreshing, balanced and richly mindful of the unique settings of individual communities." <br>-- Douglas MacDonald ― <em>former Secretary, Washington State Department of Transportation</em> </p>
<p>" <em>Human Transit</em> provides practical guidance for urban public transit system development in prose that is clear and entertaining without being simplistic. This book should be useful to anybody involved in public transit planning, design, or advocacy." <br>-- Todd Litman ― <em>Victoria Transport Policy Institute</em> </p>
<p>"This book gives professionals, pundits and the citizenry the tools to have conversations that lead to real solutions rather than confrontations." <br>-- Terry Lee-Williams ― <em>Transport and Access Manager, City of Sydney, Australia</em> </p>
<p>"Jarrett Walker pulls transit out of its specialist silo and treats it in layman's terms, as an embodiment of shared values and a partial answer to the vital question 'what kind of city do you want?' <em>Human Transit</em> is an engrossing narrative that explains the real choices that informed citizens need to make." <br>-- Ken Greenberg ― <em>author of Walking Home: the Life and Lessons of a City Builder</em> </p>
<p>"It's difficult to categorize Jarrett Walker's excellent new book, <em>Human Transit</em>. It's not quite for a popular audience, though it's written with engaging ease. It's not for academics, though it's as thorough as most published research and far more approachable. It's not strictly for a policy audience, though it's fresh grist for any transit wonk's mill. Its closest literary cousin may be a good language book, for it feels capable of teaching anyone, beginner or beyond, to speak Transit more fluently." <br>― <em>The Atlantic Cities</em> </p>
<p>" <em>Human Transit</em> is a choice addition for any social issues or urban development collection." <br>― <em>Midwest Book Review</em> </p>
<p>"Walker leads the reader through these intricate considerations with dexterity and thoroughness." <br>― <em>Planning</em> </p>
<p>"Walker...has produced a well-written, totally nonpolemical, very readable book describing the many tradeoffs to be considered in meeting local goals for providing transit service." <br>― <em>CHOICE</em> </p>
<p>"Walker takes complicated and often technical subjects and presents them to the reader in layman's terms." <br>― <em>Urban Review STL</em> </p>
<p>" <em>Human Transit...</em> presents itself as a sort of <em>Public Transportation for Dummies,</em> explaining in abstract, but remarkably clear, terms the logic that governs public transit systems and the choices—some technical, some ethical—that transit planners and operators make." ― <em>California Planning &amp; Development Report</em> </p>
<p>"Once in a while, a book comes along that summarizes most of what's important about a particular subject, and it does so in a way that's lucid and effortless. One such book is Jarrett Walker's <em>Human Transit</em> …This is an easy read. You can go through the whole book in a few hours. That makes its lessons more likely to be absorbed. <em>Human Transit</em> will serve you well as a source you can turn to for reference in the future. It will also make you a better new urbanist." ― <em>Better! Cities &amp; Towns</em> </p>
<p>" <em>Human Transit</em> is well organized with short chapters and clear diagrams to illustrate some of the more complex concepts ... Walker does a good job of avoiding transportation planning jargon and makes careful choices about terminology... His writing style makes it easy to understand types of running ways, the reasons agencies are concerned about farebox returns, and the benefits of new technologies such as Smartcards." <br>― <em>Journal of Planning Education and Research</em></p>
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<p>In <em>Human Transit,</em> noted blogger and consultant Jarrett Walker supplies the basic tools, the critical questions, and the means to make smarter decisions about designing and implementing transit services.</p>
<h3>About the Author</h3>
<p>Jarrett Walker has been designing public transit systems for over 20 years. He is an independent consultant in North America and Principal Consultant with MRCagney in Australia. He writes the popular transit blog HumanTransit.org.</p></div>


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<p>Ariel (1900) es un «sermón laico» dedicado a la juventud de América; tuvo una gran repercusión en América Latina, con su visión de los Estados Unidos como imperio de la materia o reino de Calibán, donde el utilitarismo se habría impuesto a los valores espirituales y morales.</p></div>


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<p>Finalmente la primera recopilación de cuentos de Mario Levrero, de nuevo disponible en librerías. Con prólogo de su editor original, Marcial Souto. </p>
<p>Historia sin retorno Nº 2 </p>
<p>Un perro, Campeón. Vivía solo con él y llegó a incomodarme. Lo llevé al bosque, lo dejé atado con una piola que pudiera romper con un poco de perseverancia y volví a casa. </p>
<p>En un par de días lo tuve rascando la puerta; lo dejé entrar. </p>
<p>Se me hizo intolerable; lo llevé a un bosque más lejano y lo até a un árbol con una piola más gruesa (sabía que el defecto no estaba en la piola sino en la fidelidad del animal; quizás tenía la secreta esperanza que esta vez no pudiera liberarse y muriera de hambre). </p>
<p>Volvió algunos días después. </p>
<p>Entonces supe que el perro volvería siempre. No me atrevía a matarlo por temor a los remordimientos; y pensé que aunque lograra efectivamente perderlo, en un bosque mas lejano aún, viviría con el temor constante de su regreso; atormentaría mis noches y enturbiaría mis alegrías; me ataría más su ausencia que su presencia. </p>
<p>Entonces dudé apenas un instante ante la majestad del bosque compacto que se alzaba ante mis ojos —umbrío, imponente, desconocido—; resueltamente, comencé a internarme, y seguí internándome hasta que, finalmente, me perdí.</p></div>


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<p>"Las venas abiertas de América Latina ha sido traducida a dieciocho lenguas y ha tenido una vasta difusión en el mundo de habla hispana desde que en 1971 se publicó la primera edición. "En los últimos años he leído pocas cosas que me hayan conmovido tanto. </p>
<p>" Heinrich Boll, discurso en Colonia, 1976. "Este libro supera todo lo que yo jamás he leído sobre el tema, y permanecerá a lo largo de los años venideros. Una obra maestra. "Carleton Beals, "Monthly Review", USA. "Este reportaje-ensayo-mural-obra de artesanía admirable ensambla géneros que andaban dispersos: la historia económica, el relato vital. </p>
<p>" Hugo Neira, "Expreso", Perú. "El mejor libro sobre nuestro maltratado continente. </p>
<p>" Hernán Invernizzi, "El Cronista Comercial", Argentina. "Bienvenida sea esta historia de América Latina que recoge los hechos, tiene profundidad teórica y es sumamente legible. Un excelente trabajo. "Peter Roman, "Science and Society", USA. "Este libro de Galeano es absolutamente imprescindible para todos los interesados en América Latina. "Deutsche Bolkszeitung", Alemania Federal. "Una contribución muy importante a la comprensión del pasado que alimenta un presente ambiguo e incierto. </p>
<p>" Marcel Niedergang, "Le Monde", Franda. "Un gran escritor y una gran obra, que hoy me parece más actual y necesaria que cuando apareció." Jean Ziegler, "Afrique-Asie", Francia. </p>
<p>"--Cubierta.</p></div>


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<p>Este libro rinde homenaje al fútbol, música del cuerpo, fiesta de los ojos, y también denuncia las estructuras de poder de uno de los negocios más lucrativos del mundo. "La tecnocracia del deporte profesional -escribe el autor-ha ido imponiendo un fútbol de pura velocidad y mucha fuerza, que renuncia a la alegría, atrofia la fantasía y prohíbe la osadía. Por suerte todavía aparece en las canchas, aunque sea muy de vez en cuando, algún descarado carasucia que se sale del libreto y comete el disparate de gambetear a todo el equipo rival, y al juez, y al público de las tribunas, por el puro goce del cuerpo que se lanza a la prohibida aventura de la libertad". Escribiendo este libro, el autor ha querido hacer con las manos lo que nunca pudo hacer con las piernas. Cuando era niño, Galeano quería ser jugador de fútbol, pero sólo jugaba bien, y hasta muy bien, mientras dormía. "La mejor historia del fútbol sudamericano que se ha escrito nunca. Una delicia, sin duda." Sérgio Cabral, Brasil</p></div>


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<p>Eduardo Galeano nos entrega relatos y vivencias personales que a ratos son autobiográficos, en ocasiones filosóficos y políticos muchas veces. Combina prosa e imágenes en un esfuerzo artístico que se convierte en poético.</p></div>


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<p style="font-weight: bold">The long-awaited explosive climax to the first arc of the #1 New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive―the iconic epic fantasy masterpiece that has sold more than 10 million copies, from acclaimed bestselling author Brandon Sanderson. </p>
<p>Dalinar Kholin challenged the evil god Odium to a contest of champions with the future of Roshar on the line. The Knights Radiant have only ten days to prepare―and the sudden ascension of the crafty and ruthless Taravangian to take Odium’s place has thrown everything into disarray. </p>
<p>Desperate fighting continues simultaneously worldwide―Adolin in Azimir, Sigzil and Venli at the Shattered Plains, and Jasnah at Thaylen City. The former assassin, Szeth, must cleanse his homeland of Shinovar from the dark influence of the Unmade. He is accompanied by Kaladin, who faces a new battle helping Szeth fight his own demons . . . and who must do the same for the insane Herald of the Almighty, Ishar. </p>
<p>At the same time, Shallan, Renarin, and Rlain work to unravel the mystery behind the Unmade Ba-Ado-Mishram and her involvement in the enslavement of the singer race and in the ancient Knights Radiants killing their spren. And Dalinar and Navani seek an edge against Odium’s champion that can be found only in the Spiritual Realm, where memory and possibility combine in chaos. The fate of the entire Cosmere hangs in the balance.</p></div>


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<p style="font-weight: bold">A fascinating look into how the transformative joys of mathematical experience are available to everyone, not just specialists </p>
<p>Math has a reputation for being inaccessible. People think that it requires a special gift or that comprehension is a matter of genes. Yet the greatest mathematicians throughout history, from René Descartes to Alexander Grothendieck, have insisted that this is not the case. Like Albert Einstein, who famously claimed to have “no special talent,” they said that they had accomplished what they did using ordinary human doubts, weaknesses, curiosity, and imagination. </p>
<p>David Bessis guides us on an illuminating path toward deeper mathematical comprehension, reconnecting us with the mental plasticity we experienced as children. With simple, concrete examples, Bessis shows how mathematical comprehension is integral to the great learning milestones of life, such as learning to see, to speak, to walk, and to eat with a spoon. </p>
<p>Focusing on the deeply human roots of mathematics, Bessis dispels the myths of mathematical genius. He offers an engaging initiation into the experience of math not as a series of discouragingly incomprehensible logic problems but as a physical activity akin to yoga, meditation, or a martial art. This perspective will change the way you think not only about math but also about intelligence, intuition, and everything that goes on inside your head.</p></div>


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<p>One of Entertainment Weekly's Best Books of 2022! "New York Times journalist Kyle Buchanan details the bonkers construction of director George Miller's long-awaited and often seemingly-doomed fourth Mad Max movie via testimony from the filmmaker, Charlize Theron, Tom Hardy, and a host of others. The result is an epic and – when it comes to the Theron-Hardy on-set relationship – acrimonious tale no less jaw-dropping than the movie itself. </p>
<p>" — Entertainment WeeklyA full-speed-ahead oral history of the nearly two-decade making of the cultural phenomenon Mad Max: Fury Road—with more than 130 new interviews with key members of the cast and crew, including Charlize Theron, Tom Hardy, and director George Miller, from the pop culture reporter for The New York Times, Kyle Buchanan. </p>
<p>It won six Oscars and has been hailed as the greatest action film ever, but it is a miracle Mad Max: Fury Road ever made it to the screen… or that anybody survived the production. The story of this modern classic spanned nearly two decades of wild obstacles as visionary director George Miller tried to mount one of the most difficult shoots in Hollywood history. </p>
<p>Production stalled several times, stars Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron clashed repeatedly in the brutal Namib Desert, and Miller’s crew engineered death-defying action scenes that were among the most dangerous ever committed to film. Even accomplished Hollywood figures are flummoxed by the accomplishment: As the director Steven Soderbergh has said, “I don’t understand how they’re not still shooting that film, and I don’t understand how hundreds of people aren’t dead.”Kyle Buchanan takes readers through every step of that moviemaking experience in vivid detail, from Fury Road’s unexpected origins through its outlandish casting process to the big-studio battles that nearly mutilated a masterpiece. But he takes the deepest dive in reporting the astonishing facts behind a shoot so unconventional that the film’s fantasy world began to bleed into the real lives of its cast and crew. As they fought and endured in a wasteland of their own, the only way forward was to have faith in their director’s mad vision. But how could Miller persevere when almost everything seemed to be stacked against him?With hundreds of exclusive interviews and details about the making of Fury Road, readers will be left with one undeniable conclusion: There has never been a movie so drenched in sweat, so forged by fire, and so epic in scope.</p></div>


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<p>In this profound and moving philosophical statement, Camus poses the fundamental question: If human existence has no meaning, is life worth living?'What I touch, what resists me - that is what I understand'As Camus argues, if there is no God to give meaning to our lives, humans must take on that purpose themselves. This is our 'absurd' task, like Sisyphus condemned forever to roll a rock up a hill. Written during the bleakest days of the Second World War, The Myth of Sisyphus argues for an acceptance of reality that encompasses revolt, passion and, above all, liberty, gained through an awareness of pure existence. This volume contains several other essays, including lyrical evocations of the sunlit cities of Algiers and Oran, the settings of his great novels The Outsider and The Plague. The writings in this volume are all, in their own way, hymns to the physical world and the elemental pleasures of living. Translated by Justin O'BrienWith an afterword by James Wood</p></div>


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<p>Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer is a science fiction masterpiece—a classic that ranks as one of the twentieth century’s most potent visions of the future. </p>
<p>Case was the sharpest data-thief in the matrix—until he crossed the wrong people and they crippled his nervous system, banishing him from cyberspace. Now a mysterious new employer has recruited him for a last-chance run at an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence. With a dead man riding shotgun and Molly, a mirror-eyed street-samurai, to watch his back, Case is ready for the adventure that upped the ante on an entire genre of fiction. </p>
<p>Neuromancer was the first fully-realized glimpse of humankind’s digital future—a shocking vision that has challenged our assumptions about technology and ourselves, reinvented the way we speak and think, and forever altered the landscape of our imaginations.</p></div>


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<p>Now in a gorgeous new hardcover edition featuring never-before-seen material, the “brilliantly realized” (The New York Times Book Review) breakthrough novel from visionary author Neal Stephenson, a modern classic that predicted the metaverse and inspired generations of Silicon Valley innovatorsHiro lives in a Los Angeles where franchises line the freeway as far as the eye can see. The only relief from the sea of logos is within the autonomous city-states, where law-abiding citizens don’t dare leave their mansions. </p>
<p>Hiro delivers pizza to the mansions for a living, defending his pies from marauders when necessary with a matched set of samurai swords. His home is a shared 20 X 30 U-Stor-It. He spends most of his time goggled in to the Metaverse, where his avatar is legendary. </p>
<p>But in the club known as The Black Sun, his fellow hackers are being felled by a weird new drug called Snow Crash that reduces them to nothing more than a jittering cloud of bad digital karma (and IRL, a vegetative state). </p>
<p>Investigating the Infocalypse leads Hiro all the way back to the beginning of language itself, with roots in an ancient Sumerian priesthood. He’ll be joined by Y.T., a fearless teenaged skateboard courier. Together, they must race to stop a shadowy virtual villain hell-bent on world domination.</p></div>


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An amateur sleuth visiting a country house solves the mystery of who shot the man in the locked room.


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On a ranch in southern Utah, Jane Withersteen refuses to marry a local church elder, and together with her ranch hand and a mysterious gunman she must face retaliatory violence, theft, and murder.


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A notorious womanizer spreads a rumour that he is now a eunuch in order to gain access to other’s wives.


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A collection of pastoral poems that is considered the defining text for the beginning of Romantic-era literature.


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Wollaston attempts to derive ethics and religion by using rational thought and observation of the natural world, without resorting to revelation or received religion.


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A group of adventurers search for their friends, who were lost while exploring the otherworldly secrets of a monument discovered on a chain of island ruins.


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A Trojan prince falls in love with a woman amid the Trojan War, only to see her exchanged to the Greeks for a prisoner of war.


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A wealthy Athenian lord becomes poor and friendless after his “friends” take advantage of his hospitality.


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A magic-induced tempest shipwrecks the king of Naples and his crew on an island inhabited by the usurped duke of Milan.


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To help his friend Bassanio woo the beautiful Portia, the Venetian merchant Antonio borrows a large sum from Shylock, a Jewish moneylender.


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Sir John Falstaff runs astray of the denizens of Windsor by trying to seduce several local wives at once.


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King Edward IV’s brother, Richard of Gloucester, ascends to the English throne through deadly machinations.


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Jealousy destroys the marriage between an older black man and a younger white woman in 1500s Venice.


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An ambitious general murders the King of Scotland and takes the throne for himself—and then he must deal with the consequences.


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A duke pretends to leave Vienna so that he can observe his deputy’s management during his supposed absence.


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An aging king divides his kingdom between his two eldest daughters, slighting the third, and comes to bitterly regret his decision.


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King Henry VI takes the throne during a time of great political division: the quarreling among English noblemen and the collapse of England’s hold in France.


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Shakespeare’s 1599 play chronicling the history of King Henry the Fifth and his famous victory over the French at the Battle of Agincourt.


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The rebel forces plan another assault against King Henry’s forces after losing at the Battle of Shrewsbury.


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Mark Antony, a Roman triumvir, and Cleopatra, the Queen of Egypt, become embroiled in a deadly love affair.


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Forced to flee to the Forest of Arden, the daughter of a duke encounters a variety of characters, her banished father, and even finds love.


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An adventurer comes to an enchanted castle, where he must rescue a fair maiden from the clutches of an enchantress.


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A beautiful woman escapes a life of servitude under an evil witch to adventure through a series of magical islands.


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A young nobleman of obscure birth sacrifices his own interests to uphold the honor of his patrons’ family.


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A 17th-century gentleman is reincarnated on a far-future Earth where the sun has died, and scours the hellish landscape for his lost love.


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A once-prominent Mississippi family decays and disintegrates over the first thirty years of the twentieth century.


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American soldiers returning from the First World War meet a scarred and lethargic comrade and help him reach home.


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A self-made man in the Gilded Age struggles to do what’s right when his business is in danger and his family faces an uncertain future.


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The 1879 autobiography of William F. Cody, more commonly known as Buffalo Bill, detailing his early life in the American West.


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A middle-aged Midwestern newspaperman returns to Florence, where twenty years before he had his heart broken.


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A Boston-based editor moves his family to Gilded Age New York, where they’re soon caught up in the many struggles taking place there.


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A young man struggles with finding his purpose in life until the breakout of World War I prompts him to volunteer for the Army.


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A priest makes the difficult journey from the Great Lakes to the vast territory of 1850s New Mexico to establish a diocese.


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A young drawing teacher falls in love with his aristocratic pupil, who falls victim to a devious plot to acquire her considerable fortune.


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A maidservant is forced by her dying mistress to conceal a deep family secret, at great personal cost to herself.


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When a fabulous gem mysteriously goes missing, suspicion abounds and a hunt begins for the guilty party.


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After two sisters are unexpectedly and shockingly disinherited, the headstrong younger sister takes increasingly desperate measures to try to wrest back her family’s fortune.


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A young woman who has been made pregnant by an unscrupulous man tries to force him to marry her secretly, but much goes wrong with her plan.


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A collection of 34 essays and short stories, including “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle.”


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A young man in the second-century Roman empire explores philosophy and religion as he travels through life.


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An embellished retelling of the town of Tombstone, Arizona, during its heyday in the late 19th century, featuring famous heroes and outlaws of the American Old West.


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A young woman just a few inches in height tries to navigate life and relationships following the death of her parents.


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A collection of short vignettes about the people and places W. Somerset Maugham encountered during his travels along the Yangtze River in 1919–20.


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Maugham’s semi-autobiographical masterpiece follows a club-footed orphan’s rise in the medical profession and his lifelong search for happiness.


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A collection of essays, short fiction, and poetry related to the lives of black people in Jim Crow-era America.


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A witty satire that tells of the young Candide’s attempts to stay optimistic through a series of incredible hardships.


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Over the course of a day—and again another day ten years later—the Ramsays and their friends plan a boating trip to the nearby lighthouse.


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A young Elizabethan poet for whom success is elusive becomes a woman and embraces the spirit of the age.


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As Clarissa Dalloway walks through London on a glorious June day, her movements bring together a cast of friends and strangers, each in turn weighing matters of mind and heart.


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Virgil explores rural life, providing practical advice on agriculture, arboriculture, viticulture, animal husbandry, and beekeeping.


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The legendary hero Aeneas flees the city of Troy with his father and young son, and travels to Italy to become the ancestor of the Romans.


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An archdeacon of Notre-Dame and his bellringer fall in love with the same gypsy, with tragic results.


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An escaped convict steals two candlesticks and uses the proceeds to redeem himself and become an honest man.


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A working-class Lithuanian immigrant family’s struggle to make a living in the turn-of-the-century Chicago stockyards.


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A wealthy oil tycoon’s son grapples with his father’s unethical business practices as he forms alliances with oilfield workers and socialists in Southern California.


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A wealthy student takes a job as a miner in order to learn about dangerous and exploitative working conditions in the coal mining industry.


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One of the greatest generals of the United States tells the story of his life and details his key role in winning the Civil War.


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A rough American from a distant branch of the Trenchard family returns to England and quickly becomes embroiled in the family’s affairs.


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Veblen outlines his theory of social stratification in an industrialized society, the paradoxical elevation of the leisure class, and conspicuous consumption.


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A compilation of four distinct but entwined animal tales featuring the denizens of the Green Meadows.


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A young man struggles to find his identity and purpose while navigating family tensions, love, and the longing for freedom in a small Southern town.


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A philosopher and political activist presents a forceful argument in favor of the principles of the French Revolution and of republicanism in general, together with a condemnation of monarchy and hereditary power in general.


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A collection of articles written during the American Revolutionary War that outline Paine’s support for a self-governing America.


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A boy attends Rugby School in 19th-century England, highlighting the impact Dr. Thomas Arnold’s educational reforms had on fostering integrity and camaraderie.


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Hobbes explores a vision of the ideal state, in which people cede certain freedoms to a sovereign power in exchange for security and stability.


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Filled with remorse after abandoning his wife and baby daughter, Michael Henchard, an out-of-work hay-trusser, resolves to set his life on a better path.


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A young woman of poor and uneducated parents is driven by guilt to try to redeem her family’s fortunes.


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The meta-fictional commentary on the life of “famous” German philosopher Diogenes Teufelsdröckh and his Philosophy of Clothes.


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An American classicist collects and explains myths and legends ranging from those of the ancient Greeks and Romans, through stories of King Arthur, to the legends of Charlemagne.


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Theodore Roosevelt’s autobiographical account of his expedition into the uncharted depths of the Brazilian rainforest.


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In a futuristic dystopian city, the son of the city’s mastermind falls in love with a revolutionary activist.


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A young man in a relationship with a young woman decides he wants someone else, of a higher social class.


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A young woman becomes separated from her family and friends after falling in love and sailing to America.


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A middle-aged spinster leaves her controlling relatives in London for a life of independence in rural England, where she enters into a pact with Satan.


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The lives of the twelve emperors called Caesar are described in detail by a near-contemporary Roman historian.


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The account of a free black man kidnapped in 1841 and sold into slavery, from which it took twelve years to free himself.


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A newly-retired businessman’s peaceful European trip falls apart as his wife chases high European society.


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An aspiring medical doctor struggles to lead the life of an ethical scientist during America’s Roaring Twenties.


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Five bourgeois Swedish siblings, linked by their ancestral home, attempt to forge different paths in life.


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The residents of a small pre-industrial Ohio town lead their lives amidst a backdrop of pervasive loneliness.


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Seneca’s dialogues and consolations, including “On Benefits,” examine living life through the lens of Stoic philosophy.


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Nils Holgersson, transformed to an elf, learns the meaning of kindness during his adventures with a flock of wild geese.


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Four generations of the Pontifex family grow to adulthood in Victorian England, encountering challenges that satirize the era along the way.


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A traveler returns to the country of Erewhon to find out what has happened in the twenty years since he last visited.


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Philo Vance investigates a series of apparently-senseless shootings in the home of a wealthy New York family.


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A Manhattan art connoisseur turned amateur detective gets involved in a murder investigation when a theatrical starlet is found dead in her apartment.


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A Manhattanite art connoisseur becomes an amateur detective as he assists his good friend, the District Attorney, in solving an unusual murder case.


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A king’s enforcer searching for smugglers uncovers the dark past of the inhabitants of a small English town.


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Seven fable-like tales about jungle animals in India and the humans who live on the edges of their realm.


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An orphaned street-urchin follows a holy man across India during the time of the British Raj, eventually gaining an education and becoming a recruit to the Great Game of espionage against the Russians.


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A collection of short humorous fables for children, most purporting to tell the origin of animal characteristics such as the camel’s hump.


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The collected plays of Roswitha of Gandersheim, the tenth century German canoness, dramatist, and poet.


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A foursome of friends out golfing try to unravel the mystery surrounding a corpse found on the links.


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The mysterious death of a heavily-insured businessman calls for an investigation by the insurer’s private detective.


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A Belgian-German musician experiences love, loss, struggle, and success on his journey to becoming a famous composer.


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A young Australian man and his brother are led into a life of crime, becoming cattle stealers, bank robbers and bushrangers before being caught.


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A young boy finds adventure on the high seas as he battles bloodthirsty pirates in search of a long-lost treasure.


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A London lawyer investigates the relationship between a brilliant scientist and a misshapen misanthrope.


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During the War of the Roses, a young knight must rescue his lady and find out who killed his father.


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After his parents die, a young Scottish man travels to see his only remaining relative, expecting to be welcomed, but instead finds his life and liberty in grave danger.


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After coming into his fortune and evading his uncle’s schemes, young gentleman David Balfour continues his adventures in 18th century Scotland, helping a politically unwelcome friend escape into France, avoiding the hangman himself, finding his place as a gentleman in Edinburgh society, and falling in love with the daughter of a notorious Macgregor clansman.


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An eleven-year old English boy gets involved in a continuous series of amusing adventures to the exasperation of his long-suffering family.


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When the creator of the great city of Stirmingham dies, claimants vie to inherit control of his vast wealth, ensnaring two young lovers in a deadly plot.


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An independent young woman tries to gain the love and affection of the owner of the neighboring farm.


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The inhabitants of the area around Greene Ferne Farm deal with harvest, social customs, family obligations, and romance in rural Victorian England.


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A family struggling to make ends meet becomes a framework for a description of rural English country life.


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A Harvard student embarks on a two-year voyage as a sailor aboard a merchant ship, exposing the harsh conditions of life at sea in the 19th century.


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A captivating travel memoir recounting an 1859 journey to Cuba, offering vivid descriptions of the island’s culture, landscapes, and people.


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Despite their best efforts, the rumormongers of 18th-century London are disappointed by their targets.


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A Cornish gentleman becomes a Barbary corsair and seeks vengeance on the jealous half brother who betrayed him.


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An English doctor is caught up in a rebellion and sentenced to transportation to the Caribbean, but later escapes slavery to become a pirate.


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A young woman struggles to understand and accept herself, and particularly her love of other women, in a society that rejects her unconventional behavior as unfeminine and even unnatural.


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Three shipwrecked youths encounter delights and dangers as they attempt to escape their uninhabited tropical island paradise.


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A discussion of the distinction between an Acquisitive Society, one guided by profits, and a Functional Society, one guided by service.


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A tracing of the development of religious thought from the Middle Ages to the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.


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An old Welsh fisherman spends years seeking the true identity of a shipwrecked infant he has adopted.


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A young yeoman farmer falls in love with a beautiful girl who belongs to the outlaw clan which killed his father.


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A collection of lyric poems celebrating the triumphs of ancient Greek athletes in various sporting events.


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A young man, given superhuman abilities by his scientist father, tries to find purpose and use for his powers.


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A man goes on a quest for knowledge, truth, and understanding in the face of the complexities of existence and spirituality.


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Kropotkin explores the role of cooperation in animal societies and human societies, past and present, and how it could benefit modern society.


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A student at an upscale liberal arts college navigates challenges, pitfalls, disillusionment, and the possibilities of his undergraduate experience in Jazz Age New England.


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A Russian revolutionary tells of his life from early childhood, his adventures as a geographer, and how he turned into an anarcho-communist.


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In a remote Chinese village, a devoted mother’s fierce love for her family is tested as she struggles to keep them fed, healthy, and together in the face of grinding poverty and looming change.


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In a Southern town and then in New York City, an African American family struggles for for its integrity and survival.


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American archetype and cultural founding father P. T. Barnum shares a collection of anecdotes that he deems “humbugs”—fodder for the gullible, deserving of skepticism—with the goal of making his fellow citizens a little wiser and more skeptical.


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A collection of stories featuring P. G. Wodehouse’s charismatic character Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge.


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When Lord Dawlish unexpectedly comes into an inheritance, he travels from London to New York to try to give it away.


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The theft of sports trophies from an English public school has unexpected implications on the lives of the school’s students and masters.


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The ambitious fiancée of an English gentleman asks him to kidnap the son of an American businessman from boarding school, before professional kidnappers get to him first.


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The boys of Wrykyn School battle to defend their honor against rival sports teams and enemies from within.


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Two boys in a house at an English public school help to replace an unpopular headmaster against a backdrop of cricket, rugby, practical jokes, politics, and fights.


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A domineering author of books on eugenics and hygiene makes a match between her niece and an idle artist, intending them to raise a son according to her principles, regardless of the consequences.


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A collection of Wodehouse’s school stories about the lives and adventures of schoolboys in the early 1900s.


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Psmith, visiting New York with Mike on a cricket tour, finds entertainment and trouble for himself in the newspaper business, stirring up trouble with New York’s notorious gangs.


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A young man abandons his dream of playing cricket at Cambridge because of financial trouble and goes to work for a London bank, where he’s joined by an unflappable friend.


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A collection of short stories featuring the eccentric (and hilarious) Mr. Mulliner, who regales the patrons of the Anglers’ Rest with tales of his colorful and amusing relatives.


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Jimmy Crocker gets embroiled in convoluted comedic escapades, involving impersonations, kidnapping and theft, on both sides of the Atlantic.


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A boy’s adventures in public school are filled with cricket, colorful characters, and a great deal of fun at the expense of authoritarian school masters.


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Stanley Ukridge ensnares the narrator in another one of his schemes: running a chicken farm in the English countryside.


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A collection of short stories featuring Jeeves and Wooster and the upperclass English life of the early 1900s.


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When Englishman Archie Moffam makes a complaint about his room to the owner of the New York hotel, his life is changed forever.


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Jimmy Pitt gets much more than he bargained for when he bets his friends at the Strollers’ Club that he can successfully burgle a house.


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A composer meets a young woman and tracks her down to a country manor, where a case of mistaken identity leads to comedy.


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A cowboy working on a Wyoming Territory cattle ranch in the 1880s embraces the spirit of the American West.


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A young prep school football star arrives at Yale, where he grows and develops on the football field and off.


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Over the course of twenty-four hours, a blackmail plot threatens to bring down a member of the British aristocracy.


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Three volumes of lyrical quatrains about the joys of living, the meaning of existence, and what it means to lead a happy life.


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A young Navajo man meets a mysterious young woman as he enters adulthood during the American expansion into the West.


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The Book of Tea is a long essay exploring the relationship between teaism, taoism, and the aesthetics of Japanese culture.


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A young writer’s ruinous affair leads him down a path of suffering, obsession, and finally redemption.


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A young biracial woman struggles to find her place in a society that refuses to fully accept her, navigating the suffocating racial and social expectations of 1920s America while seeking personal identity and freedom.


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A woman in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony is forced to wear the shame of her sin embroidered on her clothes.


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A dignified but poor woman and her young relative open a shop in a room of a house with a dark history.


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A young poet joins a communal farm, where he becomes involved in the conflicts arising from the idealism and romantic involvements of his companions.


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A young woman struggles against the intellectual confines of her rural Australian life in the late 19th Century.


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A group of young Russians veer between nihilism and hedonism as they try to discover their place in life.


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After seeing her name in an unrelated film, a woman traces the clues that lead her to a terrifying secret.


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A captain’s longing for the woman who nursed him back to health drags him into a conspiracy of stolen gold.


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The famous gentleman-thief plans his most audacious crime yet: to steal the lost treasures of France.


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An infamous French thief plans intricate ways of stealing precious paintings and jewellery in this first collection of Arsène Lupin short stories.


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The infamous French thief must pit his wits against England’s finest detective in the second Arsène Lupin collection.


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The self-told story of the black man who accompanied Robert Peary during the first trip to the North Pole.


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Love and war in future Europe are thrown into confusion by a global pandemic that obliterates humanity.


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A British Creole woman provides medical assistance during the Crimean War after her travels around Panama.


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A middle-aged spinster rents a country home for the summer and finds herself in the middle of a murder mystery.


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The theory of group organization is formulated and applied in an attempt to design a truly democratic political state.


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A young boy growing up in Missouri gets into all sorts of trouble and, with his friend, stumbles on a treasure.


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The adventures of a young boy and his friend, an escaped slave, on the Mississippi river in the Antebellum South.


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A small-town lawyer unravels a complex web of switched identities and exposes the true nature of individuals in a racially divided society.


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Two generations experience the convulsions of politics and religion in early nineteenth century England.


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A young woman in Roaring Twenties London finds herself at the center of a mystery of love and murder.


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A maid and butler take in a mysterious, eccentric gentleman lodger around the time of the Jack the Ripper murders.


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Four generations of an aristocratic Anglo-Irish family settle on their family estate in eighteenth-century Ireland.


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The eldest son of Scottish immigrants farming the Iowa prairie struggles to help his soon-to-be wife recover from the violent act that could ruin both of their lives.


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A middle-aged minister and a young doctor experience changes and challenges in a small English town.


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A young dissenting minister experiences challenges to his pastorate while going through personal crises.


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The friendship between the daughters of a dissenting minister and an Anglican clergyman tests boundaries of class and wealth.


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After their father’s death, a young man and his two older sisters follow very different paths in love and life.


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The personal diary of the Roman Emperor, in which he lays out his thoughts and philosophical musings on the Stoic philosophy and way of life.


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Gandhi relates his life experiences from his birth in Gujarat in 1869 through the Indian National Congress of 1915.


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A pious monk is led astray by a demon in disguise, while the son of a marquis tries to elope with a local nun.


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When his friend disappears suddenly in mysterious circumstances, a young, idle barrister feels forced to investigate, even at the peril of destroying the happiness of his beloved uncle.


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After her marriage to a Yorkshire landowner, a young woman is oppressed by the consequences of a youthful indiscretion.


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A man down on his luck will inherit a fortune if he marries his uncle’s adopted daughter, but secrets from his past stand in his way.


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Four witty and biting biographies of Victorians that take aim at the moral superiority of their subject’s time.


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An absurdist comedy that contrasts illusion with reality, in which six characters arrive on a rehearsal stage filled with actors and demand the chance to speak their lines and act out the story of their lives.


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One of the most important texts of 20th century philosophy, in which the nature of the philosophy, language, understanding, and logical atomism are explored.


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Maria Chapdelaine, a woman living in the French Canadian wilderness, must choose either to remain Québécois in the land that has broken her heart, or to pursue a softer urban life in foreign New England.


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A brain surgeon’s secret obsession is discovered and adopted by the wealthy young man involved in his death.


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An American historian reviews the literature surrounding utopias and how they relate to contemporary society.


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In a follow-up to her adventures in Wonderland, Alice finds herself in a mirror image of the whimsical land where she becomes a queen in her own right.


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Two siblings alternate between fantasy and the real world after their father is the victim of a political conspiracy.


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A young Jewish man’s family is falsely imprisoned and he is sent to the galleys; when he is released, he swears revenge on the Romans.


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Tolstoy describes true Christianity as a non-hierarchical, nonviolent, non-coercive pursuit, and criticizes institutional Christianity as a deceptive corruption.


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The legendary warrior Hadji Murád struggles to free his family against the backdrop of Russian imperialism in Chechnya and Dagestan.


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A socialite starts an affair with a cavalry officer, against a backdrop of wealthy family life in Imperialist Russia.


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A young woman throws off the constraints of her dreary existence when she learns she has one year left to live.


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The adventures of a young farm girl named Dorothy in the magical Land of Oz, after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their Kansas home by a cyclone.


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Starvation drives an aspiring writer to the brink of insanity as he struggles to escape extreme poverty, and simultaneously to pursue a woman, in late nineteenth-century Christiania.


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A tightly-knit community of opal miners in New South Wales is rocked by the departure of one of their most-beloved young people.


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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ classic analysis of modern industrial society and call for Working Class revolution.


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An Indian merchant’s son sets on a pilgrimage after a life of love, loss, business, and pleasure, and unknowingly relates his tale to the Buddha.


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An inventor builds an atomic engine which converts matter into energy, but has the unfortunate side-effect of liberating divinity into the world.


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A young woman struggles to choose between living as a member in good standing in the church or embracing a life of sin and pleasure.


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Julius Caesar’s account of the conflicts between Rome and Gaul in the later years of the Roman republic.


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The development of artificial beings in huge quantities to act as workers and soldiers leads to disaster for mankind.


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The North Pole is auctioned off, and the winning team undertakes a scientific experiment to ameliorate the local climate.


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Five Americans, balloon-wrecked on a deserted island, must find a way to survive while revealing the island’s strange mysteries.


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An engineer returns to a depleted coal mine at an old friend’s request and investigates mysterious happenings.


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A Parisian news reporter is assigned to travel across Asia by train and report on the sights, experiences, and interesting characters along the way.


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The giant rocket Columbiad travels to the Moon, engaging in discoveries and misadventures along the way.


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A courier of the Russian Czar must race against time and the Siberian elements to deliver a crucial message of an impeding Tartar invasion and possible treachery.


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Prompted by a mysterious Icelandic manuscript, a professor and his nephew, with the aid of a local guide, adventure to the center of the earth through the crater of a dormant volcano.


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After the end of the Civil War, the Baltimore Gun Club decides to apply its engineering expertise to the design of a cannon capable of shooting a projectile to the Moon.


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An engineer poses as an aide to a scientist whose invention of a world-conquering weapon drives him insane.


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A young sea apprentice finds himself in charge of a ship, which is led astray to a land where the slave trade abounds.


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A police inspector is baffled by the case of a man who was stabbed while waiting in a theater queue.


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A minor government official travels the Australian outback and talks to a variety of characters such as bullock-team drivers and swagmen along the way.


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A reclusive man rescues a mistreated young woman, but their romantic life on a remote island is soon disturbed.


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An autobiographical memoir on Joseph Conrad’s maritime experiences and his relationship with the sea.


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A university student in St. Petersburg is drawn into the activities of a revolutionary group against his will.


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The fictitious South American republic of Costaguana is in the midst of a civil war and the citizens of the coastal town of Sulaco turn to Nostromo for help.


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Haunted by the part he played in a shipping disaster, young British seaman Jim escapes to an island in the South Seas to build his future.


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A man thought to be long dead returns in disguise, hoping to find his lost love and a people ready to rise up against their oppressors.


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After years away studying in Europe, a man returns to his hometown in the Philippines, and plans to build a school for the improvement of the local population.


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An Englishman travels to fictional islands where he meets tiny people, giants, magicians and talking horses.


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While mild-mannered Don Diego Vega seeks a bride, the cloaked crusader Señor Zorro rides the dangerous highway of Mexican California, armed with a sword, whip, and pistol—righting wrongs, defending the weak, and punishing injustice.


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A widow marries beneath her station and against her brothers’ orders and, enraged, they take their revenge.


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Three scientists from Earth invent space travel and meet extraterrestrial life, but then must defend the solar system from a new threat.


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Journalist John Reed gives a first-hand account of Russia’s 1917 October Revolution, which lead to the formation of the Soviet Union.


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The influential Scottish-American naturalist spends a summer exploring the high country surrounding the headwaters of the Merced and Tuolumne rivers in the Sierra Nevada, and records what he sees in a diary.


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A dramatic imagining in blank verse of the rebellion of Satan against God, Satan’s overthrow, and the Fall of Man.


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Keynes presents a first-hand account of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference and an analysis of the resulting Versailles treaty.


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Locke critiques the concepts of absolute monarchy and divine right, arguing instead for a government founded on natural rights, individual freedom, and the consent of the governed, which protects the fundamental rights of life, liberty, and property.


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A narrative tracing the ups and downs of a nouveau-riche upper-middle-class English family at the end of the Victorian era.


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An allegorical story of a pilgrim in search of redemption, followed later by his wife and children, passing through great trials before reaching the Celestial City.


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A former man-of-adventure is coaxed out of comfortable retirement and into danger as he aids in the rescue of three hostages.


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An expatriate returning to England after many years in South Africa is accused of a murder he did not commit, and has to flee from the police and other more dangerous pursuers.


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An army general chases a network of German spies through Scotland, the Swiss Alps, and the First World War’s Western Front.


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A retired grocer seeking a change in his mundane life finds more than he bargained for when he’s asked to aid in the rescue of an imprisoned Russian princess.


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A Regency-era novel of manners in which five women try to adjust to their new neighbor, an eligible gentleman.


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A young woman meets again with a lover whose marriage proposal she had been persuaded to reject several years ago.


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A young girl is sent to live with her wealthy relatives at a country estate, where she must navigate adolescence and young adulthood.


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A wealthy young woman decides to take on the role of patroness and matchmaker to a young protégé, with considerably less than successful results.


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Jane Addams’ autobiographical account of the founding and operation of Hull House, one of America’s most famous settlement homes.


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Jane Addams argues that addressing social issues like poverty and inequality requires shifting from individual morality to a collective understanding of social responsibility.


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A man wrestles with his racial identity and must decide whether it is worth the risks to identify with the culture that he loves.


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Three demi-gods descend among humanity in the form of angels, stumbling upon a father, his daughter, and their donkey traveling around rural Ireland.


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A philosopher sets out to rescue the beautiful Caitilin Ni Murrachu from the god Pan in an adventure that involves leprechauns, Celtic gods, policemen, and philosophical disquisitions both profound and absurd.


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The teenage daughter of a Dublin charwoman is wandering around the city when she meets the policeman who will be instrumental in her journey into adolescence.


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An unmarried couple in early twentieth-century Dublin struggle with the consequences of their respective infidelities.


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The autobiographical story of Joyce’s youth in Ireland and his escaping the country’s conformity and mediocrity to blossom as a writer on the continent.


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Frontiersmen and Native Americans help transport a colonel’s daughters through upper New York during the French and Indian War.


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A shipwrecked sailor travels through a portal to a lost world populated by fantastic creatures and a strange civilization.


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An arrogant young author makes his way through a series of love affairs, avoiding every situation that may cause unpleasantness.


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Jurgen, a pawnbroker and “monstrous clever fellow,” is sent on a witty and parodic magical journey in search of true love.


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A collection of Germanic fairy tales containing the classic stories of Cinderella, Snow-White, Rapunzel, and other well known characters.


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Literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden is pressed into service aboard a seal-hunting schooner by its cruel, ruthless, but intelligent captain.


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A collection of stories entailing life during the gold rush in the harsh wilderness of northwestern North America.


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In the far future, a long-lost manuscript describes how the United States descended into a tyranny ruled by oligarchic plutocrats.


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Jack Black’s autobiographical account of life “on the road” as a professional thief and hobo during the late 19th century and early 20th century.


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An heiress becomes ward to her disreputable uncle with an unsavory past, tainted by the apparent suicide of a man to whom he owed a large gambling debt, and must help clear his name.


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A collection of five of Le Fanu’s short stories, including his most notable work “Carmilla,” presented as cases of the occult detective Dr. Martin Hesselius.


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When a retired detective is found murdered, two business partners in a small Yorkshire town become the prime suspects.


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A young lawyer witnesses a suspicious death on a late-night train and investigates what turns out to be a murder.


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The lives of two blind beggars change when a holy man comes to their rural Irish village promising to miraculously restore their sight.


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A series of adventures in London, including those of the narrator and a little boy named David, and Peter Pan.


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A mischievous and cocky young boy, Peter Pan, takes Wendy and her brothers on adventures on a fantasy island consisting of mermaids, pirates, Native Americans, and fairies.


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Ailing, neurotic, and bored with the world, a French nobleman retreats to a secluded cottage in the countryside to create an artificial paradise for himself.


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A Chief Constable’s holiday on the coast is interrupted when he is drawn into investigating a murder.


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Three unlikely travelers cross paths with a struggling musical troupe, and the whole group decides to tour together.


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The inept master of a preparatory school, along with his students and friends, contend with the day-to-day realities of academic life while exploring what it means to grow up and to age.


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A seemingly impossible murder committed during the trade union movement becomes the obsession of London’s Bow district.


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A Russian family and their English friends become tangled in threads of intrigue as the Revolution erupts around them.


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An Englishman accompanies a group of doctors and nurses on the Russian side of the Eastern Front during World War I.


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A young boy begins his apprenticeship with Doctor Dolittle, accompanying him on a series of adventures in search of a floating island and a missing naturalist.


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A young shoeshiner rises the social ladder thanks to his wits, his work ethic, his honesty, and a bit of luck.


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After more than two hundred years of stability, a sudden surge in contraband fairy fruit threatens the peace and mental heath of citizens in the borderland town of Lud-in-the-Mist.


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The story of a young woman who marries badly, told in several vignettes covering the remainder of her life.


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Hilaire Belloc’s thesis that the capitalist state breeds a collectivist theory which, in action, produces something utterly different from collectivism: the Servile State.


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Hilaire Belloc takes a walking pilgrimage to Rome from his hometown in France, writing of the journey, sketching the sights, and digressing on a wide variety of subjects.


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Hilaire Belloc takes a pilgrimage across his beloved home English county of Sussex writing as four distinct personalities, with a wide variety of songs, stories, and digressions.


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An entrepreneurial businessman satirically relates to his nephews how he became the wealthiest man in Baghdad.


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When Tipperary man Darby O’Gill is imprisoned by the fairies of Sleive-na-mon in their home under the hollow mountain, he starts a lasting friendship with their King Brian Connors.


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Two seamen escape from their service onboard a whaling ship, only to find themselves trapped among savages in the Marquesas Islands.


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Captain Ahab, having lost his leg to the white whale Moby Dick, travels the world on a quest for vengeance.


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An unlikely love story between Marcus Vinicius, a Roman patrician, and Lygia, a young Christian, blooms under the backdrop of Nero’s rule in ancient Rome.


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A girl from rural Victoria is sent to a prestigious boarding school in Melbourne, where she grows in prejudice and deceitfulness.


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An explanation on why increased productivity has not led to increased wages, and how the application of a single land value tax can fix this and lead to a more just society.


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A wealthy New York widow moves to Washington, DC, hoping to get “to the heart of the great American mystery of democracy and government.”


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A prominent and caustic historian reflects on the reasons that “the more he was educated, the less he understood,” and what he believes the future holds for American society.


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A Norwegian sea captain’s widow who, no matter how much she tries, cannot escape the ghosts of the past.


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The account of several slaves who are sold to new owners after their current owner experiences financial hardship.


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An autobiographical account of a young biracial girl abandoned by her parents and forced into servitude in the northern United States.


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A writer of adventure stories indulges in a sudden urge to travel to the islands of the Pacific, and soon finds himself shipwrecked on a remote South Sea island.


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Adventurer Allan Quatermain sets out on a mission to Africa to locate a mysterious tribe of white-skinned people.


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Allan Quatermain leads a group of adventurers into an unknown region of Africa in a search for fame and glory.


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An Antarctic expedition reveals the horrifying reality of ancient myths in the depths of the continent.


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A poor boy, the son of a servant, rises to fortune on the back of his uncle’s patent-medicine scheme.


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An angel falls into the everyday world of 19th Century England and is bewildered and despirited by human life and society.


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A shipwrecked man is rescued by a boat and left on a strange island owned by a physiologist who experiments in vivisection.


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Two scientists discover a substance which promotes rapid and extreme growth in plants, animals, and humans, leading to unexpected and alarming consequences.


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A middle-aged man in early Edwardian England finds himself despairing at his failed business and marriage, and takes a drastic step to escape—with unexpected results.


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A scientist named Griffin creates a serum to render himself invisible and subsequently descends into madness.


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An orphan raised by his aunt and uncle struggles as a young man to integrate into upper class society after receiving a substantial inheritance from his grandfather.


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After a shipwreck, two surviving children are stranded on an island paradise, experiencing its bounties and resources, facing the dangers of the natural world, and undergoing their own maturation and romance.


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A medically-qualified detective tackles mysteries ranging from a failed assassination to incidents at an all-girls school.


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A demobilized officer places a newspaper advert for adventure, and its response leads him to discover a conspiracy.


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450 years in the future, a shrewd general must quell an alien rebellion on a remote colonized planet.


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A young man returns to his home planet with news about Merlin, the military super-computer rumoured to be hidden somewhere on his world.


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A young reporter gets caught up in intrigue and adventure chasing tallow-wax bounties with the monster hunters on Fenris, a planet with a two-thousand-hour day and four-day year.


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On a planet being exploited for its resources, the discovery of a possibly-sentient native species creates consternation and conflict.


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A middle-class country wife tries to satisfy her yearnings for a luxurious life by engaging in various affairs.


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A young smuggler, haunted by guilt and fear after betraying his comrades, seeks redemption while fleeing from his enemies and confronting his inner demons.


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After her husband is wrongly convicted of murder, a young Sardinian woman driven into poverty is forced to divorce him and marry a wealthy but abusive man in order to survive.


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Seven women and three men each tell a story a day for ten days while sheltering to avoid the black plague.


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A rector investigates the mystery behind a strange letter that may be connected to his friend’s murder.


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In eighteenth-century England, a handsome youth reluctantly transforms himself into a fashionable gentleman in order to win the heart of the girl he loves.


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Two siblings, disguised as members of the opposite sex, navigate the intrigues of 18th-century London while falling in love with unsuspecting suitors.


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A Persian barber embarks on a quest to save a city from the clutches of a tyrant and his magical hair.


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A princess and her young friend valiantly fend off a goblin attack with help from a ghostly relative.


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After inheriting his ancestral home, a young man discovers another world inside his library and embarks on an allegorical journey.


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A collection of Māori mythology covering the start of the universe through to the spread of Māori tribes through New Zealand’s North Island.


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A miserly weaver’s isolated life is transformed by the theft of his precious money and the sudden appearance of an abandoned infant, whom he adopts and raises.


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A group of writers try to hold on to artistic merit in the face of abject poverty in the quickly-changing literary and social landscape of Victorian London.


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The lives of two young people are thrown into disarray when their father, the owner of a mill, is bankrupted by an unwise legal dispute.


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An orphaned young man raised as an aristocrat’s nephew feels a moral obligation to assist others, and in doing so eventually discovers his true parentage and culture.


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In the neighborhood of a rural English town in the 1830s, several men and women struggle with love, marriage and fortune.


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A young woman captures the hearts of a group of artists before falling under the spell of a strange villain.


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A young man with a passion for learning languages is befriended by a group of gypsies and travels Britain, encountering a variety of interesting characters.


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A family recently returned to England navigates a comedy of errors when they accidentally meet their estranged husband and unknown father.


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A doctor must decide which patient is worthy of his newly discovered cure: a talented but amoral artist, or a good-hearted but undistinguished public servant.


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An arrogant upper-class professor bets a colleague he can transform a simple flower girl into a “Duchess” in just six months.


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Jack Tanner flees both London and responsibility when he is made guardian of his childhood friend Ann Whitehead.


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The story of idealistic Barbara Undershaft, a Major in the Salvation Army, who does not want to be connected to her father’s “tainted” money.


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Men and women of the English leisured classes gather at a country house on the eve of war to discuss love, life, and the future.


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A young woman writes a play to shock her father, in which two respectable families deal with their with disreputable children.


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A clergyman’s beliefs about his respectable household are challenged by a young poet who is in love with his wife.


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A humorous examination of human hypocrisy and war’s stupidity in the midst of the Serbo-Bulgarian war.


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A young reporter struggles to investigate a seemingly impossible crime, in which an assailant has escaped from a locked bedroom completely unseen.


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Amateur detective and Catholic priest Father Brown solves mysteries in this second collection of Father Brown short stories.


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A satire set in far-future London where the king, who was chosen at random, only cares about a good joke.


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Amateur detective and Catholic priest Father Brown solves mysteries in this first collection of Father Brown short stories.


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G. K. Chesterton takes us through the history of man, rebuking common secular views and presenting the case for the Catholic Church.


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Two friends, solving a perceived crime, stumble upon a club for people who have invented their own method of employment.


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G. K. Chesterton’s unique view on Christianity and how all his “solitary and sincere speculations” were ultimately answered by its theology.


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A collection of essays in which G. K. Chesterton debates the intellectuals of his day on a range of topics.


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An analysis of the concept of good that diagnoses the history of ethics as being marred by the “naturalistic fallacy” while discussing intrinsic goods and evils.


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Inflated by his own ambition, an ex-student murders a pawnbroker, then faces the inevitable consequences.


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A motley collection of servicemembers escape a plot as two mysterious factions wage an epic war across time itself.


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After ten years spent in solitude, Zarathustra goes back amongst men to share his accumulated wisdom and prepare humanity for the Overman.


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Three essays analyzing the origins, meaning, and value of the concepts of good, evil, and bad; of guilt, punishment, and bad conscience; and of ascetic ideals, including those of truth and truthfulness.


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The dogged detective is called in to investigate the grisly contents of a cask dragged up from the bottom of the sea.


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A British wine merchant on business in France stumbles across a syndicate with something to hide, and resolves to discover their secret.


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An inspector is called in to investigate the murder of a diamond trading firm’s employee and the theft of their jewels.


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After a tower mansion is robbed, two boys are determined to find the culprit and exonerate their friend’s father.


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A brilliant lord struggles to hold his personal life together after his friend’s murder set off a chain of events that threatens to expose his dark secrets.


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The police are out of their depth as counterfeit bills circulate through the city, but two amateur sleuths are on the case.


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After visiting a suspected haunted house, two brothers and their friends embark on an adventure to see if there’s trouble afoot.


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A young girl is moved to the English countryside where she starts restoring a neglected garden, and uncovers secrets in the process.


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A poor young boy unexpectedly inherits a peerage and travels to England to live with his grandfather, an Earl.


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A young girl discovers a life of unexpected challenges when she goes to live at a London boarding school.


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As the Civil War rages, a young woman living the North is unaware of her African ancestry until she returns to the South and is immediately enslaved.


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A young noblewoman arrives at court and quickly gets embroiled in court politics and comes to the attention of the king.


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An English gentleman gives his best as an officer during World War I, while struggling with his scandalous wife, the incompetence of the army, and the brutality of war.


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A veteran returning from the front celebrates Armistice Day with the people he loves, while trying to deal with the psychological impacts of war.


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A philosophical contemplation of youthful adventures spent ingesting large doses of psychoactive cannabis extract.


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A man is found dead in a hansom cab in the city of Melbourne, Australia, and a young man is accused of his murder.


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A young woman navigates the absurdities of 18th-century English society, fends off various suitors, and attempts to establish her true parentage.


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A roe deer learns the rules of the forest and how to survive in a world inhabited by men as he grows to maturity.


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The marriage between a down-and-out aesthete and a self-indulgent flapper begins to crumble against the backdrop of World War I and America’s Jazz Age.


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The autobiography of Etsu Sugimoto, a girl born into a samurai family in a time of great cultural changes.


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A clergyman turned revolutionary challenges both God and empire in the politically turbulent times of mid 19th-century Italy.


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Two English friends go on a sailing trip that quickly turns thrilling as they stumble upon a sinister German plot.


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An expressionist play following a brutish stoker’s dehumanization as he descends from being a leader of his fellow workers to a literal ape.


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A man sees his life differently through the eyes of his daughters in turn-of-the-century New York City.


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A British expedition sets off to cross Antarctica, but when their ship is wrecked they have to face a long struggle for survival.


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A groundbreaking painter struggles to leave his mark on the bohemian art world of 19th-century Paris.


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A new resident of a poor coal mining town in 1860s France begins learning about socialist principles, and convinces the town to go on strike.


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A countess is murdered and suspects are quickly detained, but Lecoq is not satisfied and looks in a different direction to solve the case.


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A widow is found dead under mysterious circumstances, and Monsieur Lecoq of the police arranges to have his mentor brought in to help solve the crime.


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Monsieur Lecoq’s first case in which he tries to determine the identity of a man in custody for three murders.


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Four women spend a month-long holiday at a medieval Italian castle, where they find themselves renewed and transformed by the beauty around them.


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A bank is robbed and only two men appear to have the means to have done it; Monsieur Lecoq must discern if it was one of them or an “impossible” third party.


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The English wife of a German aristocrat recounts, through a series of diary entries, a year spent revitalizing the neglected garden of their estate.


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A young woman faces grave personal challenges when her family moves from a rural parish in the New Forest to the industrial North of England.


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The Finnish national epic poem recounting the creation of the Earth and the adventures of its mythical heroes.


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Pollyanna recovers from an automobile accident with the help of a nearby dowager, before leaving the country to later return to rural Vermont.


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A classic in early mountaineering literature, describing the first ascent of the Matterhorn and other climbs in the Alps.


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A hard-working but down-on-his-luck young man falls in love with a wealthy but non-believing woman, against the backdrop of pre-Fire Chicago.


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An aimless young man leaves the city for a small village to work for a horse-trading country banker.


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While exploring a mine, a man falls through a chasm into an underground world populated by a mysterious race.


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A woman discovers her own inner strength when she decides to teach children in a rural farming area.


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A French country girl from a poor family leads a secret life of debauchery while working as a maidservant in Paris.


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A New York socialite struggles to maintain a place among her wealthy friends in the face of her own diminished finances and fading youth.


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Upper-class New York gentleman Newland Archer is set to wed May Welland in a picture-perfect union, until the bride’s disgraced cousin returns from overseas and threatens to draw his love away.


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A young woman has resigned to life in a stifling small town until a visiting stranger hints at a wider world of possibilities.


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A young man from the city becomes a shepherd in the Idaho Rocky Mountains and finds new meaning in life as he defends his flock.


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A group of recently-pardoned former vigilantes aids Scotland Yard in bringing a gang of thugs and murderers to justice.


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During the course of a murder investigation, the Assistant Commissioner of Police uncovers a blackmail scheme involving a seedy newspaper and members of British high society.


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A meek and unassuming employee at the Department of Public Prosecutions exercises his remarkable skills to solve puzzling crimes.


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A group of wealthy vigilantes continue their quest to bring justice to those criminals beyond the reach of conventional law.


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The Four Just Men travel to Spain to bring justice to criminals operating in aristocratic high finance.


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To prevent the passage of a controversial government bill, four vigilantes take the law into their own hands.


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A soon-to-retire Scotland Yard investigator, insulted when asked to investigate the theft of a library book, finds that it’s a case he can’t put down.


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A successful writer is asked to help solve a locked-room murder mystery that has the authorities baffled.


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The Four Just Men match wits with the Red Hundred, an anarchist group bent on raising havoc in Britain.


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A newspaper reporter aids the local police in investigating how a wealthy man was murdered in a room locked from the inside.


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An employee at the Department of Public Prosecutions with the special gift of a criminal mind is called upon to track down a notorious escaped convict.


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A recently-released prisoner discovers that his love, the daughter of an old friend, has married a sinister imposter.


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A law clerk takes an interest in the disappearance of a well-known woman and her infant daughter, just as their fortune is about to be distributed to a notorious client.


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A righteous, idealistic young New Yorker falls for a singer and experiences the thorny sides of society and love.


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The honeymoon of a wealthy widower and a young woman takes an unsettling turn with the sudden reappearance of a former lover.


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When the beautiful Princess Thuvia of Ptarth is kidnapped, suspicion falls on John Carter’s son Carthoris, who sets out to rescue the woman he loves.


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John Carter, an Earth-man transported to Mars, must rescue his beloved princess from imprisonment in the Martian Temple of the Sun.


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Upon discovering his father’s past life in the jungles of Africa, Tarzan’s son sets out to follow in his footsteps.


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Tarzan attempts to leave behind life in the jungle but rapidly discovers that life among humans contains just as many dangers.


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A young man travels to the moon with a group of companions and discovers that it’s inhabited; in subsequent centuries, reincarnations of the same man deal with an invasion of the Earth by the malevolent inhabitants of the Moon.


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A street tough undergoes a transformation as he navigates the dangerous worlds of Chicago’s slums, a South Pacific island, and the wilds of Mexico.


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Stranded U-boat survivors and their rescuers contend with dangerous beasts and prehistoric people in a strange lost world.


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Tara, Princess of Helium and daughter of John Carter, finds life-threatening adventure in thrilling far-off regions of Barsoom.


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An old enemy kidnaps Tarzan’s family, and Tarzan must rescue them with the help of his panther and ape friends.


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Tarzan embarks on a perilous journey through war-torn Africa to exact revenge against those who wronged him.


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Journeys, times, and cultures collide as two expeditions seek the riches of known and fabeled lands.


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Tarzan adopts a lion cub while he battles a team of thieves seeking the treasures of the lost city of Opar.


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The legendary lord of the jungle Tarzan finds himself trapped in an unfamiliar land inhabited by a tiny people.


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Two explorers burrow deep into the planet’s crust and emerge in a savage land inside a hollow Earth, where they have many adventures.


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A collection of short poems recounting the lives and deaths of the residents of a small Illinois town.


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Upon arriving in Honolulu, a member of a prominent Boston family is asked to aid in the investigation of his relative’s murder.


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A Chinese detective of the Honolulu Police Department is recruited to safeguard the transfer of a valuable pearl necklace to a famous tycoon.


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The thieving duo of Raffles and Manders return in this second collection of A. J. Raffles short stories.


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A Chinese detective is asked to assist in the solution of a missing woman and the murder of a detective from Scotland Yard.


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A British cricketer and his friend steal valuables in this first collection of A. J. Raffles short stories.


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The gentleman thief’s pal reminisces on past adventures in this third collection of A. J. Raffles stories.


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A gentleman bachelor gains an epic advantage of tiny proportions in this allegorical, Romantic, fairy-tale novel.


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The King Gorice of Witchland and the lords of Demonland wage war in the high-fantasy lands of Mercury.


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Four children are reunited with an ancient, magical creature and go on adventures through time with a magic amulet.


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After their father is forced to leave them, three children and their mother must live in near-poverty in the country, where their lives are enlivened by the nearby presence of a railway line.


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Five children once again encounter an ancient, magical creature and go on adventures around the world with its magic carpet.


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A young boy, upset by his older sister’s recent marriage, builds an imaginary city out of blocks and household items and then finds himself living inside it.


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Two children, with the aid of a magical white mole, travel into the past in search of their family’s long-lost treasure.


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Three children discover a wonderful garden and castle, and come into possession of a magic ring which entangles them in many strange adventures.


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A poor orphan boy accidentally discovers magic which sends him into the past and leads to his recovery of a fortune and a lordly title.


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Five children encounter an ancient magical creature who grants them wishes—all of which go comically wrong.


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After an English widow on holiday impetuously falls in love with a handsome young Tuscan, her panicked in-laws send a rescue party.


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In a universe where all powerful alien races influence the fates of worlds, a war erupts between the Triplanetary League of the inner solar system, pirates led by a mysterious and malicious scientist, and technologically advanced aliens.


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A scientist accidentally creates a way to travel to other star systems, while a rival scientist tries to steal all of his work.


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Virgil Samms, the first individual to receive a Lens from the mysterious and powerful Arisians, works to create the Galatic Patrol to protect all adherents of Civilization from the threat of the Boskonians and their masters, the Eddorians.


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E. E. Cummings describes the experiences of his and his fellow inmates’ imprisonment during World War I.


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Seventeen-year-old Miriam Henderson is sent to Germany to teach English at a finishing school in Hanover.


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An amateur detective’s investigation of the suspiciously-early death of an elderly lady triggers a series of deadly events.


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The discovery of the quiet death of an elderly man at an exclusive club leads to unexpected complications.


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An aristocrat with a passion for detective work has to clear the Duke, his brother, from a charge of murder.


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A collection of short stories in which an aristocratic amateur detective solves a variety of crimes.


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A newly-married young woman is suddenly transformed into a fox, to the consternation and enduring grief of her husband.


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A hard-boiled detective arrives at a small mining town only to find his client murdered and the inhabitants embroiled in complex webs of corruption.


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Dante journeys through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven in order to receive salvation and to find divine love.


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Shipwrecked on a remote tropical island, a resourceful Englishman manages to survive alone for many years.


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A resourceful woman navigates 18th-century English society and colonial America over a lifetime of seventy years, using her wit and resilience in her quest for wealth and happiness.


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Three generations of an English family struggle to adapt in a society rapidly changed by industrialization.


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Two women engage in romantic relationships with two men against the backdrop of early 20th Century England.


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A young man from a working-class English coal miner’s family struggles to reconcile romantic and familial love.


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A woman in an unhappy marriage finds love with the local gameskeeper, while she contemplates her position in the society of early 20th century England.


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Cicero gives practical guidance for living wisely and well by adopting a Stoic outlook and concentrating on the virtues.


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A precocious boy grows to adulthood while struggling with both his own and society’s expectations of his role in life.


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39-year-old Helen McGill—disgruntled with her life tending to her brother and his farm—becomes the unlikely owner of a traveling bookseller’s wagon, and travels across the New England countryside spreading love and the joy of reading.


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Outraged by the favoritism shown by King Edward II to a close confidant, his court plots against him.


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Gilman explores the transformation of the role of women in society and the necessity for women to achieve economic independence.


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A young woman travels from England to the fictional town of Villette where she makes new connections and encounters people from her past.


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In the early part of the 19th Century, two young women struggle in different ways for independence and love during turbulent times caused by the advent of mechanical looms in the textile industry.


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Thirty years after the Civil War and the effect of Reconstruction, the town of Wilmington, N.C. faces a growing threat as white supremacists seek to stimy the new social and political mobility gained by the newly-enfranchised black citizens.


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Former slave Julius tells fantastical tales about plantation life to the incredulous Northerners who have just moved in.


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A young, uneducated, and mistreated chimney sweep is reborn as a denizen of the fairy world, beginning a journey of moral and spiritual growth.


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A girl and her grandfather struggle through a life of poverty amidst a diverse cast of memorable characters in Victorian London.


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A brother and sister, made destitute by the death of their father, struggle to succeed despite the callous indifference of their corrupt uncle.


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A poor boy, born and raised in a workhouse in Victorian England, falls into the control of a gang of heartless criminals.


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After returning home from a long period spent working in China, a man tries to assist a family forced to live in a debtor’s prison.


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A wealthy man in the industrial north of England raises his children on purely rational principles, with unfortunate results.


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An orphan boy living in Victorian England begins his life in extreme poverty and goes on to experience good fortune, love, rejection, wealth, and social challenges as he grows into adulthood.


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A young woman of uncertain parentage is taken in by a kindly guardian, while her fate and that of two other young people hinge on the outcome of an interminable legal case.


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A family is reunited, added to, and then threatened to be torn apart by events arising from the French Revolution.


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A miserly moneylender is visited by four ghosts who help him see how to honor Christmas in his heart all year round.


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A distinguished amateur scientist lays out the evidence for the origin of species by means of natural selection.


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Darwin’s personal account of his 1831 voyage around the world investigating the geology, botany, and zoology of various lands.


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Young Tom Corbett finally realizes his dream of becoming a Space Cadet but soon he and his classmates find themselves fighting to stay alive in the harsh Martian desert.


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The lives and stories of the daring pirate outlaws who terrorized the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea in the 18th century.


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The scion of an old-money Midwestern family must cope with their waning fortunes and the changes brought on by industry and the automobile age.


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A dreamy and sensitive scion of a Midwestern businessman comes to terms with his legacy in a growing city.


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A young Midwestern woman tries to climb the social ladder despite her lower-middle-class upbringing.


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The autobiography of Black Hawk, the famous leader of the Native American Sauk tribe and central figure in the Black Hawk War of 1832.


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Bertrand Russell travels to post-revolutionary Russia to see if Bolshevism achieves its communist aspirations.


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Bertrand Russell investigates the merits and potential shortcomings of different socialist tendencies.


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A rollicking Elizabethan comedy in which two con men and their female compatriot gull a series of unfortunate victims out of their money.


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A young nobleman is moved by the condition of the poor in England, and falls in love with a labourer’s daughter.


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A daring Englishman with a secret identity rescues French aristocrats from the guillotine during the French Revolution.


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A young woman doing a good deed is inadvertently caught up in the injustice of the French Revolution.


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A famous journalist is drawn into the intrigues of two Eastern European nations in the aftermath of World War I.


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A posh Englishwoman is sent to a station in New South Wales to learn the ropes, while a search for a lost son with a large inheritance is underway.


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A writer succumbing to mania tries to find a path out through occultism and religion, in Strindberg’s semi-autobiographical novel.


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A civil servant tired of bureaucracy quits his job to become a writer, and falls in with a group of artists and philosophers.


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A gentleman remarries a woman of questionable character and tries to redeem her, but her past revisits the family in unexpected and tragic ways.


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Events force a young man to act for the Royalist side in the English Civil War, bringing many adventures in consequence.


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Two flâneurs in Victorian London get caught up with the members of a secret society and their search for a rare Roman coin.


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The final novel in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes series follows the eponymous hero as he investigates a Sussex murder seemingly connected with a secret society.


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An analytical detective is consulted by a young woman who has received a strange communication regarding her long-missing father and a mysterious treasure.


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The world’s first consulting detective returns to London after having faked his death some years before, and investigates a series of baffling mysteries.


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The world’s first consulting detective and his companion investigate further crimes and mysteries, culminating in a life-or-death struggle with an evil nemesis.


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A famous detective investigates a mysterious and apparently supernatural threat to the heir of a wealthy Dartmoor estate.


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The world’s first consulting detective investigates a variety of intriguing cases in the first Holmes short story collection.


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The self-declared world’s first consulting detective unravels a mysterious case of murder and revenge.


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Two sisters growing up in an 1860s industrial town in Middle England find their lives taking very different, and dramatic, turns.


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An American millionaire’s spur-of-the-moment purchase of a hotel leads to the uncovering of a secret plot.


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A London bookseller’s “grand passion” for hoarding money threatens his own happiness as well as those closest to him.


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A man accidentally transforms himself into a donkey while trying to learn magic, turning his business trip to Greece into an odyssey of tribulation and spiritual growth.


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Von Koren, an educated zoologist, finds the slovenly lifestyle of Laevsky, a drinker, to be worthless. Finally, Laevsky can’t take it any more.


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The rise of a business magnate with a suspicious background creates ripples among society and affects the fortunes of several young men and women in London.


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In a cathedral town in England, a minor cleric becomes involved in a dispute about the wardenship of a hospital for superannuated wool-carders, and suffers pangs of conscience.


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An innocent young woman agrees to marry a socialite but is devastated when he opts to break his commitment and marry the daughter of an Earl.


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An impoverished clergyman is accused of theft, and this disgrace leads to great suffering for both his family and those that love them.


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A young widow wreaks havoc as she attempts to maintain possession of a valuable diamond necklace from her late husband’s estate.


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An aspirational young man must decide between his wealthy and widowed first love, and his affianced and honest second.


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A widowed duke struggles to come to terms with the choices of his children as they attain adulthood.


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While an American senator appraises the institutions of England, hunting for foxes and spouses goes on in a rural English town.


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A young Irishman returns to parliamentary life only to encounter obstacles which threaten to bring his aspirations to an untimely end.


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A young Irishman attempts to establish himself as a member of Parliament while finding his way in high society.


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The imperious nature of a young farmer arouses sharp hostilities from his neighbors as Christmas approaches.


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An older lothario interferes in the lives of a young married couple, driving them apart as each maintains their own innocence.


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A provincial doctor struggles to assist his illegitimately-born niece in achieving a place in local society.


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A young woman is torn between marrying a man she loves and respects, and a man she once loved and now fears.


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The affections of a young widow are at play while rival clerical factions contend for control over church matters in the cathedral city of Barchester.


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King Rudolph V of Ruritania is drugged and abducted on the eve of his coronation, and a gentleman on holiday who happens to look like the king has to stop the sinister plot.


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The epic poem that follows the legendary hero Siegfried on his adventures, his death, and his wife’s revenge.


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A young woman tries to become independent and support her family by working as a governess far from home.


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When a mysterious young widow arrives in a small rural area, gossip blackens her name before her true story is eventually discovered by a male admirer.


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A memoir narrated by a horse whose idyllic time on an English farm prepares him for a life filled with constant change and varied circumstances.


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A young New York lawyer becomes embroiled in the investigation of the mysterious murder of a wealthy man.


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The comic diary of a young woman recounting her escapades and romances in 1920s New York and Europe.


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On a planet presumed devoid of intelligent life, and in a race to colonize worlds ahead of brutal beetle-like aliens, two surveyors take flight from their hunters and try to uncover the secrets of a place that seems ever less benign.


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Rival colonies are stranded on an alien world, their memories mixed with those of their ancestors and pitted against each other by the Western and Soviet forces who sent them.


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On the unexplored jungle world of Jumala the sole survivor of a spaceship crash is heir to a fortune, or has been made to believe so.


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When the rest of their crew falls mysteriously ill after a trading mission, four low-ranking crew members must save their ship from being condemned to drift forever in permanent quarantine.


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While searching a distant world of shallow seas and archipelagos for traces of a galactic civilization, a group of explorers get stranded in the past and face a dangerous enemy.


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A guardian angel reads too much and becomes an atheist, before joining a group of fallen angels who plot to overthrow God.


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A myopic saint mistakenly baptizes some penguins, ushering in a centuries-spanning satire of French history.


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A witty, sharp collection of sardonic word definitions from the 1800s and early 1900s that provide a snapshot into the irreverent humor of early American culture.


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A collection of Ambrose Bierce’s American Civil War stories, psychological dramas, and satirical tales.


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Four musketeers are drawn back together by current events after many years apart, try to save Charles I from Cromwell, and are pursued by the now-grown son of a former female adversary.


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The events of the early days of Louis XIV’s majority reign in France, including the continuing story of the four musketeers who served both Louis XIV’s father and himself.


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A young Gascon moves to Paris to join the King’s Musketeers where he starts to investigate the kidnapping of his landlord’s wife.


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Explorer Alexander Mackenzie details his journeys to both the Arctic and Pacific Oceans in his personal journals.


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Eighty-five articles written by a group of U.S. Founding Fathers on why the proposed U.S. Constitution should be approved.


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A young writer travels to an English countryside manor to spend the summer alongside a cast of outlandish leisure class intellectuals.


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Two years after a mysterious murder, a brother and sister move into a countryside manor and begin to notice strange occurrences.


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Tommy and Tuppence try to solve a mystery, only to find themselves embroiled in schemes of murder, millionaires, and diplomats.


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A weekend party at a country mansion ends in murder, and the daughter of the lord of the estate joins Superintendent Battle in investigating.


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A murder at a country house embroils its weekend guests in an international regicide, while a famous jewel thief may be lurking among them.


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The famous detective Poirot and his sidekick Hastings are summoned to France to investigate the mysterious murder of a rich businessman.


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Anne Beddingfeld travels to South Africa after finding a cryptic note beside the body of a man whose death she witnessed in the London Underground.


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Poirot must use all his little grey cells to stop an immensely powerful and ruthless organization from taking over the world.


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The titular Greek king returns home from the Trojan war to be greeted by his scheming wife, who plots vengeance.


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A man is pursued by wrathful goddesses for avenging his father’s murder, and finds refuge in Athens where a trial determines his fate.


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Adam Smith assesses the sources of human morality and the role of human sympathies in judging the propriety of our actions and behaviors.


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A young nobleman explores romance, feuding families, politics, and national identity during a period of social upheaval and Russian occupation.


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A. W. Tozer’s classic work on Christian living, containing practical advice for those who wish to know God, not simply know about Him.


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A collection of Russian folktales compiled by A. N. Afanasyev, translated and edited by Leonard A. Magnus.


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An anthology of William Carlos Williams’ poetry collections, combining The Tempers (1913), Al Que Quiere! (1917), and Sour Grapes (1921).


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A collection of Vladimir Korolenko’s translated short stories and novellas, ordered by date of translated publication.


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A collection of T. S. Eliot’s poetry, including “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “The Waste Land,” and “The Hollow Men.”


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A collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by Robert Sheckley ordered by date of publication.


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A collection of Robert E. Howard’s short stories, including the barbarian adventures of Conan the Cimmerian.


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A collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by R. A. Lafferty ordered by date of publication.


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A collection of John Keats’ published poems, and a selection of unpublished fragments and posthumous verse.


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A collection of Fyodor Sologub’s translated short stories, ordered by date of the publication of their translation.


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A collection of nine short fiction works by influential supernatural and horror author Arthur Machen.


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After a strain of bacteria causes the collapse of the world’s food supply, a plutocrat creates a refuge to try to ensure the survival of a chosen few.


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A newly-minted secret agent is sent to pick up the pieces of Britain’s spy networks after they are splintered by crackdown of the Red Terror.


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A young girl grows up in the care of her uncle and his friends, while his heirs scheme to prevent her from inheriting anything.


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As a young woman and her husband try to make something of their printing business, her brother tries to find success as an author in Paris.


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A young Russian woman evades her mother’s attempts at an arranged marriage and seeks her own happiness.


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A doctor finds himself entangled in the mysterious death of an artist after discovering his body in a secluded pond.


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A young woman’s life begins to unravel when her romantic affairs and long-held secrets are revealed.


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Influido por la selva de Misiones, donde pasó muchos años de su vida, Horacio Quiroga escribió estos relatos, llenos de fantasía, humor y ternura, sobre animales personificados. Una tortuga gigante y agradecida, unos flamencos presuntuosos, un loro parlanchín, una pequeña gama que pierde la vista y una abeja que aprende el valor del trabajo son algunos de los protagonistas de los cuentos que Quiroga compuso primero para sus hijos y que luego se convirtieron en un clásico de la literatura infantil mundial.[Contiene: «La tortuga gigante», «Las medias de los flamencos», «El loro pelado», «La guerra de los yacarés», «La gama ciega», «Historia de dos cachorros de coatí y de dos cachorros de hombre», «El paso de Yabebirí», «La abeja haragana»]


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<p>An introverted teenage girl with an unconventional superpower, Taylor goes out in costume to find escape from a deeply unhappy and frustrated civilian life. Her first attempt at taking down a supervillain sees her mistaken for one, thrusting her into the midst of the local ‘cape’ scene’s politics, unwritten rules, and ambiguous morals. As she risks life and limb, Taylor faces the dilemma of having to do the wrong things for the right reasons. </p>
<p>The story, titled Worm, takes the form of a web serial, posted in bite-sized reads in much the same way that authors such as Mark Twain would release their works one chapter at a time in the days before full-fledged novels. Worm started in June 2011, updating twice a week, and finished in late November, 2013. It totals roughly 1,750,000 words; roughly 26 typical novels in length (or 10-11 very thick novels).</p></div>


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<p>WINNER of the 2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Washington Post "50 Notable Works of Nonfiction" Science News "Favorite Science Books of 2018" Booklist "Top Ten Science/Technology Book of 2018" "A marvelously humor-laced page-turner about the science of semi-aquatic rodents.... A masterpiece of a treatise on the natural world. </p>
<p>"--The Washington Post In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America's lakes and rivers. The consequences of losing beavers were profound: streams eroded, wetlands dried up, and species from salmon to swans lost vital habitat. Today, a growing coalition of "Beaver Believers"--including scientists, ranchers, and passionate citizens--recognizes that ecosystems with beavers are far healthier, for humans and non-humans alike, than those without them. From the Nevada deserts to the Scottish highlands, Believers are now hard at work restoring these industrious rodents to their former haunts. Eager is a powerful story about one of the world's most influential species, how North America was colonized, how our landscapes have changed over the centuries, and how beavers can help us fight drought, flooding, wildfire, extinction, and the ravages of climate change. Ultimately, it's about how we can learn to coexist, harmoniously and even beneficially, with our fellow travelers on this planet.</p></div>


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<p>NATIONAL BESTSELLER A bold and urgent argument by economist and former bank governor Mark Carney on the radical, foundational change that is required if we are to build an economy and society based not on market values but on human values. </p>
<p>Our world is full of fault lines--growing inequality in income and opportunity; systemic racism; health and economic crises from a global pandemic; mistrust of experts; the existential threat of climate change; deep threats to employment in a digital economy with robotics on the rise. These fundamental problems and others like them, argues Mark Carney, stem from a common crisis in values. Drawing on the turmoil of the past decade, Mark Carney shows how "market economies" have evolved into "market societies" where price determines the value of everything. When we think about what we, as individuals, value most highly, we might list fairness, health, the protection of our rights, economic security from poverty, the preservation of natural diversity, resources, and beauty. The tragedy is, these things that we hold dearest are too often the casualties of our twenty-first century world, where they ought to be our bedrock. In this profoundly important new book, Mark Carney offers a vision of a more humane society and a practical manifesto for getting there. How we reform our infrastructure to make things better and fairer is at the heart of every chapter, with outlines of wholly new ideas that can restructure society and enshrine our human values at the core of all that we build for our children and grandchildren.</p></div>


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Treachery threatens a planned Jacobite uprising, but one of its leading agents can’t work out the identity of the culprit.


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A young girl and her companions travel through dangerous underground realms with the help of an old friend.


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An idealistic opposition leader struggles to restrain his party while scheming to overthrow a widely-despised president and navigating a secret romance as the nation teeters toward revolution.


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A small-town housewife discovers a new sense of purpose after she begins to work to support her family and injured husband.


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A physicist writes and illustrates a collection of humorous poems responding to the Nature Fakers controversy.


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When an unsavory pair of cousins goes missing from their canoe holiday on the Thames, detectives are called in to solve the mystery.


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A young girl discovers independence, resposibility, and newfound confidence after being sent to live in a farmhouse with her extended family.


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A mother’s secretive past clashes with high society when her son is offered an irresistible position with a charismatic nobleman.


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An ex-slave trader with an encrypted note schemes about its meaning, while a man with a secret past travels with his family down the Amazon in a giant raft to attend his daughter’s wedding.


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A young boy comes of age in the idyllic English countryside just before the Great War tears Europe apart.


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A woman unintentionally kills her demigod husband with a poisoned robe in a desperate attempt to reclaim his love.


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A young activist couple’s lives turn for the worse when the unexpected arrival of foreign soldiers interrupts their honeymoon.


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<p>The new and rapidly growing field of communication sciences owes as much to Norbert Wiener as to any one man. He coined the word for it—cybernetics. In God &amp; Golem, Inc. , the author concerned himself with major points in cybernetics which are relevant to religious issues.The first point he considers is that of the machine which learns. While learning is a property almost exclusively ascribed to the self-conscious living system, a computer now exists which not only can be programmed to play a game of checkers, but one which can "learn" from its past experience and improve on its own game. For a time, the machine was able to beat its inventor at checkers. "It did win," writes the author, "and it did learn to win; and the method of its learning was no different in principle from that of the human being who learns to play checkers. A second point concerns machines which have the capacity to reproduce themselves. It is our commonly held belief that God made man in his own image. The propagation of the race may also be interpreted as a function in which one living being makes another in its own image. But the author demonstrates that man has made machines which are "very well able to make other machines in their own image," and these machine images are not merely pictorial representations but operative images. Can we then God is to Golem as man is to Machines? in Jewish legend, golem is an embryo Adam, shapeless and not fully created, hence a monster, an automation.The third point considered is that of the relation between man and machine. The concern here is ethical. "render unto man the things which are man's and unto the computer the things which are the computer's," warns the author. In this section of the book, Dr. Wiener considers systems involving elements of man and machine. The book is written for the intellectually alert public and does not involve any highly technical knowledge. It is based on lectures given at Yale, at the Société Philosophique de Royaumont, and elsewhere.</p></div>


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<p>El relato de los sobrevivientes 50 años después de la tragedia de los Andes. El 13 de octubre de 1972 un avión de la Fuerza Aérea Uruguaya se estrelló en la cordillera de los Andes. Iban a bordo cuarenta y cinco personas, dieciséis de las cuales fallecieron en el acto o pocas horas después. Con alrededor de veinte años, a cuatro mil metros de altura y treinta grados bajo cero, sin abrigo ni comida, la relación entre víctimas y sobrevivientes se invirtió y solo regresaron con vida dieciséis.<br>Pablo Vierci, compañero de colegio de los sobrevivientes y de muchos de los que murieron, recrea a través de sus voces el mundo del que provenían, los momentos previos al accidente, la experiencia en la montaña, la decisión de alimentarse de los cuerpos de sus compañeros, la expedición en busca de ayuda, los días posteriores al rescate y la vida que siguió a la tragedia. Trascendiendo la anécdota, su texto compone un mosaico grandioso sobre el que se proyectan dieciséis cordilleras, así como las historias truncas de los que no volvieron.<br>Tras medio siglo madurando y aprendiendo las lecciones detrás de la tragedia y la adversidad que vivieron, en un escenario desmesurado y solitario, perdidos en medio de la nada, abandonados por el mundo, quienes sobrevivieron lograron crear una sociedad diferente a todas las conocidas, marcada por un pacto de entrega mutua.</p></div>


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<p>Photographer, author, and educator Roberto Valenzuela has a proven track record for teaching and explaining difficult concepts to photographers of all skill levels. His remarkable ability to break down complicated ideas into understandable, approachable elements that photographers can truly grasp–and then use their newfound knowledge to improve their photography–made his first book, Picture Perfect Practice, a breakout success. In Picture Perfect Posing, Roberto takes on the art of posing. For many photographers, after learning to compose an image and even light it properly, a portrait can still easily be a failure if the pose is not natural, elegant, and serving the needs of both the subject and the photographer. Instead of just showing page after page of poses–like most posing books on the market–Roberto actually breaks down the concept of posing by examining the anatomy, starting with the core the spinal chord and neck. Building from there, Roberto discusses every component of what makes poses work, as well as fail. How should the model hold her hands? Bend her elbows? Position her fingers? Should the model look toward or away from the camera, and why? It all depends on what the photographer wants for the shot, and Roberto discusses the entire process, from the intent of the photographer through the execution of the pose. For those who have been discouraged by an inability to pose their subjects, or who have simply not known where to start in order to "figure it out," Picture Perfect Posing is the essential resource they need to learn how posing truly works, and how they can learn to direct the exact pose they need for the shot they want. </p></div>


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<p>NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheaval—with deep insights into the roles that Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials have to play—now with a new preface by Neil Howe. </p>
<p>“One of the best efforts to give us an integrated vision of where we are going.”—The Wall Street JournalFirst comes a High, a period of confident expansion. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion. Then comes an Unraveling, in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisis—the Fourth Turning—when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history. </p>
<p>William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the world—and your place in it. With blazing originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future. Most remarkably, it offers an utterly persuasive prophecy about how America’s past will predict what comes next. </p>
<p>Strauss and Howe base this vision on a provocative theory of American history. The authors look back five hundred years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human life, each composed of four twenty-year eras—or “turnings”—that comprise history’s seasonal rhythm of growth, maturation, entropy, and rebirth. Illustrating this cycle through a brilliant analysis of the post–World War II period, The Fourth Turning offers bold predictions about how all of us can prepare, individually and collectively, for this rendezvous with destiny.</p></div>


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<p>Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed not just to hunt and gather, but also to help us get ahead socially, often via deception and self-deception. But while we may be self-interested schemers, we benefit by pretending otherwise. The less we know about our own ugly motives, the better - and thus we don't like to talk or even think about the extent of our selfishness. This is "the elephant in the brain." Such an introspective taboo makes it hard for us to think clearly about our nature and the explanations for our behavior. The aim of this book, then, is to confront our hidden motives directly - to track down the darker, unexamined corners of our psyches and blast them with floodlights. Then, once everything is clearly visible, we can work to better understand ourselves: Why do we laugh? Why are artists sexy? Why do we brag about travel? Why do we prefer to speak rather than listen? </p>
<p>Our unconscious motives drive more than just our private behavior; they also infect our venerated social institutions such as Art, School, Charity, Medicine, Politics, and Religion. In fact, these institutions are in many ways designed to accommodate our hidden motives, to serve covert agendas alongside their "official" ones. The existence of big hidden motives can upend the usual political debates, leading one to question the legitimacy of these social institutions, and of standard policies designed to favor or discourage them. You won't see yourself - or the world - the same after confronting the elephant in the brain.</p></div>


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<p style="font-weight: bold">A new way forward for sustainable quality of life in cities of all sizes</p>
<p><em>Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity</em> is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States. Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he co-founded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, and reveals the new paradigm that can solve this longstanding problem.</p>
<p>Inside, you’ll learn why inducing growth and development has been the conventional response to urban financial struggles—and why it just doesn’t work. New development and high-risk investing don’t generate enough wealth to support itself, and cities continue to struggle. Read this book to find out how cities large and small can focus on bottom-up investments to minimize risk and maximize their ability to strengthen the community financially and improve citizens’ quality of life.</p>
<p>Develop in-depth knowledge of the underlying logic behind the “traditional” search for never-ending urban growth Learn practical solutions for ameliorating financial struggles through low-risk investment and a grassroots focus Gain insights and tools that can stop the vicious cycle of budget shortfalls and unexpected downturns Become a part of the Strong Towns revolution by shifting the focus away from top-down growth toward rebuilding American prosperity </p>
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<p>**Housing is an investment. Investment prices must go up. Housing is shelter. When the price of shelter goes up, people experience distress. </p>
<p>** This is the housing trap. It’s time to escape. In <em>Escaping the Housing The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis</em> , renowned urbanists Charles (Chuck) Marohn and Daniel Herriges introduce a first-of-its-kind discussion of the tension between housing as a financial product and housing as shelter. This is the key insight that’s been missing from the Housing Crisis Conversation; and the insight that can help cities fight back against the crisis from the bottom-up. </p>
<p>This book offers a serious, yet accessible, history of housing policy in the United States and explains how it led us to this point in where we face a market that is rigged against people who, only a few decades ago, could have been homeowners or stable, long-term rentals. </p>
<p>Only local change, on a neighborhood or city-wide scale, can begin to restore balance to the housing market. </p>
<p><em>Escaping the Housing Trap</em> is the must-read resource for everyone with a stake in the future of housing in America—and that means everyone. Readers will </p>
<p>Discussions of housing as an investment and how the country's neighborhoods are being transformed by the introduction of large amounts of investment Explorations of housing as shelter, including discussions of zoning policy and NIMBYism A comprehensive overview of the Strong Towns approach to solving the American housing crisis </p></div>


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<p><strong>Winner of the 2021 Lionel Gelber A provocative look at how today’s trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at the expense of workers</strong> <strong>“The authors weave a complex tapestry of monetary, fiscal and social policies through history and offer opinions about what went right and what went wrong . . . Worth reading for their insights into the history of trade and finance.”—George Melloan,</strong> <strong>Wall Street Journal</strong> <strong>"This is a very important book."—Martin Wolf,</strong> <strong>Financial Times</strong> Trade disputes are usually understood as conflicts between countries with competing national interests, but as Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis show, they are often the unexpected result of domestic political choices to serve the interests of the rich at the expense of workers and ordinary retirees. Klein and Pettis trace the origins of today’s trade wars to decisions made by politicians and business leaders in China, Europe, and the United States over the past thirty years. Across the world, the rich have prospered while workers can no longer afford to buy what they produce, have lost their jobs, or have been forced into higher levels of debt. In this thought-provoking challenge to mainstream views, the authors provide a cohesive narrative that shows how the class wars of rising inequality are a threat to the global economy and international peace—and what we can do about it.Longlisted for the 2020 Financial Times &amp; McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award and named a Best Business Book of 2020 by Strategy + Business</p></div>


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<p>Anyone can master the fundamentals of game design - no technological expertise is necessary. The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses shows that the same basic principles of psychology that work for board games, card games and athletic games also are the keys to making top-quality videogames. Good game design happens when you view your game from many different perspectives, or lenses. While touring through the unusual territory that is game design, this book gives the reader one hundred of these lenses - one hundred sets of insightful questions to ask yourself that will help make your game better. These lenses are gathered from fields as diverse as psychology, architecture, music, visual design, film, software engineering, theme park design, mathematics, writing, puzzle design, and anthropology. Anyone who reads this book will be inspired to become a better game designer - and will understand how to do it.</p></div>


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<p>Robert Jackall's Moral Mazes offers an eye-opening account of how corporate managers think the world works, and how big organizations shape moral consciousness. Based on extensive interviews with managers at every level of two industrial firms and of a large public relations agency, Moral Mazes takes the reader inside the intricate world of the corporation. Jackall reveals a world where hard work does not necessarily lead to success, but where sharp talk, self-promotion, powerful patrons, and sheer luck might. Cheerfully-bland public faces mask intense competition in this world where people hide their intentions, and accountability often depends on the ability to outrun mistakes. In this topsy-turvy world, managers must bring often unforgiving technology and always difficult people together to make money, an uncompromising task demanding continual compromises with conventional truths. Moral questions become merely practical concerns and issues of public relations. Sooner or later, managers find themselves wondering how to act in such a world and still maintain a sense of personal integrity. This brilliant, sometimes disturbing, often wildly funny study of corporate thinking, decision-making, and morality presents compelling real life stories of the men and women charged with running the businesses of America. It will interest anyone concerned with how big organizations actually function, or with the current moral malaise in our public life.</p></div>


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<p>Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather than improving life, multitasking, "user-friendly" technology, and the culture of convenience are producing disorders that range from depression to attention deficit disorder to borderline personality disorder. Byung-Chul Han interprets the spreading malaise as an inability to manage negative experiences in an age characterized by excessive positivity and the universal availability of people and goods. Stress and exhaustion are not just personal experiences, but social and historical phenomena as well. Denouncing a world in which every against-the-grain response can lead to further disempowerment, he draws on literature, philosophy, and the social and natural sciences to explore the stakes of sacrificing intermittent intellectual reflection for constant neural connection. </p></div>


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<p>New York Times BestsellerWinner of the Women's Prize for FictionWorld Fantasy Awards FinalistFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange &amp; Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality. Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house. </p>
<p>There is one other person in the house-a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known. For readers of Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane and fans of Madeline Miller's Circe, Piranesi introduces an astonishing new world, an infinite labyrinth, full of startling images and surreal beauty, haunted by the tides and the clouds.</p></div>


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<p>How can we use technology as tools instead of letting our technology use us? This practical book explores the concept of calm technology, a method for smoothly capturing the user s attention only when necessary, while calmly remaining in the user s periphery most of the time. You ll learn how to design products that work well, launch well, are easy to support, easy to use, and don t get in the way of a user s life.<br>Old systems and bad interfaces will plague us if we don t learn how to design for the long term. By writing code that s small instead of large, and making simple systems rather than complex ones, we can begin to design technology that gets out of our way.Discover principles that follow the human lifestyle and environment in mind, allowing technology to amplify humanness instead of taking it awayDelve into types of alerts, product launch, "calming" technology, and tech that smoothly enters people s livesLearn from a trained anthropologist and a technology hobbyist who sits on the edge between technology and how people use it<br>This book is ideal for anyone who actively builds or makes decisions about technology, including user experience designers, product designers, managers, creative directors, and developers."</p></div>


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<p style="font-weight: bold">AN INSTANT <em>NEW YORK TIMES</em> BESTSELLER </p>
<p><strong>"Provocative and appealing . . . well worth your extremely limited time." —Barbara Spindel, </strong><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic">The Wall Street Journal</span><strong><br></strong><br>The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks. </p>
<p>Nobody needs telling there isn’t enough time. We’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and the ceaseless battle against distraction; and we’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient, and “life hacks” to optimize our days. But such techniques often end up making things worse. The sense of anxious hurry grows more intense, and still the most meaningful parts of life seem to lie just beyond the horizon. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management the challenge of how best to use our four thousand weeks. </p>
<p>Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management. Rejecting the futile modern fixation on “getting everything done,” <em>Four Thousand Weeks</em> introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing how many of the unhelpful ways we’ve come to think about time aren’t inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices we’ve made as individuals and as a society—and that we could do things differently.</p></div>


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<p>The Wheel of Time is now an original series on Prime Video, starring Rosamund Pike as Moiraine!Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time® by Robert Jordan has captivated millions of readers around the globe with its scope, originality, and compelling characters. The definitive encyclopedia of the series, the companion sheds light on some of the most intriguing aspects of the world, including biographies and motivations of many characters that never made it into the books, but helped bring Jordan's world to life. </p>
<p>Over the course of fifteen books and millions of words, the world that Jordan created grew in depth and complexity. However, only a fraction of what Jordan imagined ended up on the page, the rest going into his personal files. </p>
<p>Included in the volume in an A-to-Z format are:An entry for each named characterAn inclusive dictionary of the Old TongueNew maps of the Last BattleNew portraits of many charactersHistories and customs of the nations of the worldThe strength level of many channelersDescriptions of the flora and fauna unique to the worldAnd much more!The Wheel of Time Companion is required reading for The Wheel of Time's millions of fans. </p>
<p>The Wheel of Time®New Spring: The Novel#1 The Eye of the World#2 The Great Hunt#3 The Dragon Reborn#4 The Shadow Rising#5 The Fires of Heaven#6 Lord of Chaos#7 A Crown of Swords#8 The Path of Daggers#9 Winter's Heart#10 Crossroads of Twilight#11 Knife of DreamsBy Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson#12 The Gathering Storm#13 Towers of Midnight#14 A Memory of LightBy Robert Jordan and Teresa PattersonThe World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of TimeBy Robert Jordan and Amy RomanczukPatterns of the Wheel: Coloring Art Based on Robert Jordan's The Wheel of TimeAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.</p></div>


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<p style="font-weight: bold">Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time(R) by Robert Jordan has captivated millions of readers around the globe with its scope, originality, and compelling characters. </p>
<p>The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. </p>
<p>In this series companion book, over fourscore full color paintings include stunning new maps of the world, portraits of the central characters, landscapes, objects of Power, and national flags. The reader will learn about the exotic beasts used by the Seanchan and read of the rise and fall of Artur Hawking, peruse the deeper story of the War of the Shadow. Here is the tale of the founding of the White Tower, and the creation of the Ajahs. </p>
<p>The inner workings of the closed country, Shara, are revealed, as is the existence of a hitherto unknown continent called The Land of the Madmen. This stunning volume also includes double-page spreads of the seven book jackets by Darrell Sweet so that the art can be enjoyed without type, and all the known maps of the world, including maps of the Seanchan Empire, the nations of the Covenant of the Ten Nations, and the nations as they were when Artur Paendrag Tanreall began his rise to legend. </p>
<p>Every Robert Jordan fan needs this book. </p>
<p><strong>The Wheel of Time</strong> <strong>(R)</strong><br><em>New Spring: The Novel</em> </p>
<h1>1 <em>The Eye of the World</em></h1>
<h1>2 <em>The Great Hunt</em></h1>
<h1>3 <em>The Dragon Reborn</em></h1>
<h1>4 <em>The Shadow Rising</em></h1>
<h1>5 <em>The Fires of Heaven</em></h1>
<h1>6 <em>Lord of Chaos</em></h1>
<h1>7 <em>A Crown of Swords</em></h1>
<h1>8 <em>The Path of Daggers</em></h1>
<h1>9 <em>Winter's Heart</em></h1>
<h1>10 <em>Crossroads of Twilight</em></h1>
<h1>11 <em>Knife of Dreams</em></h1>
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<h1>12 <em>The Gathering Storm</em></h1>
<h1>13 <em>Towers of Midnight</em></h1>
<h1>14 <em>A Memory of Light</em></h1>
<p><strong>By Robert Jordan and Teresa Patterson</strong><br><em>The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time</em> </p>
<p><strong>By Robert Jordan, Harriet McDougal, Alan Romanczuk, and Maria Simons</strong><br><em>The Wheel of Time Companion</em> </p>
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<p>The extraordinary story of a man's quest for truth. It will change the way you think and feel about your life. "The cycle you're working on is a cycle called 'yourself.'" </p>
<p>"The study of the art of motorcycle maintainence is really a study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon." -- Robert M. Pirsig </p>
<p>"Profoundly important... full of insights into our most perplexing contemporary dilemmas... It is intellectual entertainment of the highest order." -- "The New York Times" </p>
<p>"It lodges in the mind as few recent novels have... The book is inspired, original... As the mountains gentle toward the sea--with father and child locked in a ghostly grip--the narrative tact, the perfect economy of effect defy criticism... The analogies with "Moby Dick" are patent. Robert Pirsig invites the prodigious comparison... What more can one say?" -- "The New Yorker" </p>
<p>"It's a miracle.. sparkles like an electric dream. Freshness, originality... that seduces you into loving motorcycles, as tender in their pistons as the petals in the Buddah's dawn lotus." -- "The Village Voice"</p></div>


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Mark Twain travels abroad, offering witty observations on the places and cultures he encounters and commentary on the habits and foibles of his fellow travelers.


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George MacDonald presents a set of interlocking sermons designed to shape the perception and life of the Christian disciple.


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<p>A stunning and provocative new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The Blind Assassin , winner of the Booker Prize </p>
<p>Margaret Atwood’s new novel is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so terrifyingly-all-too-likely-to-be-true, that readers may find their view of the world forever changed after reading it. </p>
<p>This is Margaret Atwood at the absolute peak of her powers. For readers of Oryx and Crake , nothing will ever look the same again. </p>
<p>The narrator of Atwood's riveting novel calls himself Snowman. When the story opens, he is sleeping in a tree, wearing an old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. He searches for supplies in a wasteland where insects proliferate and pigoons and wolvogs ravage the pleeblands, where ordinary people once lived, and the Compounds that sheltered the extraordinary. As he tries to piece together what has taken place, the narrative shifts to decades earlier. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Why is he left with nothing but his haunting memories? Alone except for the green-eyed Children of Crake, who think of him as a kind of monster, he explores the answers to these questions in the double journey he takes - into his own past, and back to Crake's high-tech bubble-dome, where the Paradice Project unfolded and the world came to grief. </p>
<p>With breathtaking command of her shocking material, and with her customary sharp wit and dark humour, Atwood projects us into an outlandish yet wholly believable realm populated by characters who will continue to inhabit our dreams long after the last chapter. This is Margaret Atwood at the absolute peak of her powers.</p></div>


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<p>The sexy, action-packed first book in the #1 bestselling Court of Thorns and Roses series from global phenomenon Sarah J. Maas. </p>
<p>When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a terrifying creature arrives to demand retribution. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she knows about only from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not truly a beast, but one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled her world. At least, he's not a beast all the time. As she adapts to her new home, her feelings for the faerie, Tamlin, transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every lie she's been told about the beautiful, dangerous world of the Fae. But something is not right in the faerie lands. An ancient, wicked shadow is growing, and Feyre must find a way to stop it, or doom Tamlin-and his world-forever. </p>
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<p>The seductive and stunning #1 bestselling sequel to Sarah J. Maas's spellbinding A Court of Thorns and Roses. </p>
<p>Feyre has undergone more trials than one human woman can carry in her heart. Though she's now been granted the powers and lifespan of the High Fae, she is haunted by her time Under the Mountain and the terrible deeds she performed to save the lives of Tamlin and his people. As her marriage to Tamlin approaches, Feyre's hollowness and nightmares consume her. She finds herself split into two different people: one who upholds her bargain with Rhysand, High Lord of the feared Night Court, and one who lives out her life in the Spring Court with Tamlin. While Feyre navigates a dark web of politics, passion, and dazzling power, a greater evil looms. She might just be the key to stopping it, but only if she can harness her harrowing gifts, heal her fractured soul, and decide how she wishes to shape her future-and the future of a world in turmoil. </p>
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<p>Narrated by Feyre and Rhysand, this bridges the events in A Court of Wings and Ruin and the upcoming novels in the series. New in the #1 New York Times bestselling Court of Thorns and Roses series, A Court of Frost and Starlight is a glimpse into the lives of Feyre and Rhys as they begin to recover from the war that changed their world. </p>
<p>Feyre, Rhysand, and their close-knit circle of friends are still busy rebuilding the Night Court and the vastly-changed world beyond. But Winter Solstice is finally near, and with it, a hard-earned reprieve. Yet even the festive atmosphere can't keep the shadows of the past from looming. As Feyre navigates her first Winter Solstice as High Lady, she finds that those dearest to her have more wounds than she anticipated -- scars that will have a far-reaching impact on the future of their Court.</p></div>


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<p>Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin's actions and learn what she can about the invading king threatening to bring her land to its knees. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit. One slip could bring doom not only for Feyre, but for everything-and everyone-she holds dear. </p>
<p>As war bears down upon them all, Feyre endeavors to take her place amongst the High Fae of the land, balancing her struggle to master her powers-both magical and political-and her love for her court and family. Amidst these struggles, Feyre and Rhysand must decide whom to trust amongst the cunning and lethal High Lords, and hunt for allies in unexpected places. </p>
<p>In this thrilling third book in the #1 <em>New York Times</em> bestselling series from Sarah J. Maas, the fate of Feyre's world is at stake as armies grapple for power over the one thing that could destroy it.</p></div>


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<p>The latest instalment of the GLOBAL PHENOMENON, romantic fantasy epic and TikTok sensation, ACOTAR. From multi-million and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Sarah J. Maas. Maas has established herself as a fantasy fiction titan - Time Think Game of Thrones meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer with a drizzle of E.L. James - Telegraph Spiced with slick plotting and atmospheric world-building ... a page-turning delight - Guardian Sarah J. Maas does not disappoint ... To be devoured with relish - Mail ****** Sarah J. Maas's sexy, richly imagined A Court of Thorns and Roses series continues with the journey of Feyre's fiery sister, Nesta... Nesta Archeron has always been prickly - proud, swift to anger and slow to forgive. And since the war - since being made High Fae against her will - she's struggled to forget the horrors she endured and find a place for herself within the strange and deadly Night Court. The person who ignites her temper more than any other is Cassian, the battle-scarred, winged warrior who is there at Nesta's every turn. But her temper isn't the only thing Cassian ignites. And when they are forced to train in battle together, sparks become flame. As the threat of war casts its shadow over them once again, Nesta and Cassian must fight monsters from within and without if they are to stand a chance of halting the enemies of their court. But the ultimate risk will be searching for acceptance - and healing - in each other's arms. ___________________________ Sarah J. Maas's books have sold millions of copies and been translated into 38 languages. Discover the sweeping romantic fantasy that everyone's talking about for yourself.</p></div>


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A collection of J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s short fiction, including some of his famous ghost stories, gothic horror and sensation.


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A young attorney is on his way to deliver evidence for a forgery case when he’s accused of killing a fellow train passenger.


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A group of humans stranded on a deadly planet try to survive the harsh conditions and take revenge on the aliens that left them there.


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A celebrated young poet commits a spontaneous act of violence, then has to deal with the consequences.


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<p>“I don’t need another kink.”</p>
<p>That thought pops into my head whenever I pull up my favorite social media app, but alas, every time I scroll, I learn something new about myself, and another one is born. And yes, I know I’m responsible for what the algorithm shows me, but I’m trying to ignore that fact.</p>
<p>Lately, my feed has been dominated by masked men. I’ve favorited videos with them dressed in full cosplay, decked out in futuristic military apparel, and wrapped up like ghouls.</p>
<p>But more than anything else, my FYP is filled with shirtless men wearing ghost masks. Bonus points if they’re heavily tattooed, wielding a knife, or covered in fake blood. At night, I dream about being chased by them, of them catching me and doing deliciously dark things to my more than willing body.</p>
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<p>Published in four volumes, On the Resurrection serves as Gary R. Habermas’s magnum opus – a comprehensive defense of the authenticity of Jesus Christ’s resurrection, built from Habermas’s lifetime of scholarly study.  In the first volume, Evidences, Habermas presents a comprehensive offering of all the historical evidence for the resurrection, including extra-biblical sources and a full exploration of the minimal historical facts argument. This volume includes: A detailed overview of the nature of historical research and how historical truth is evaluated. Evidence for the existence of Jesus. A complete evaluation of the minimal historical facts surrounding Jesus's resurrection, plus six other known historical facts. The biblical data for the resurrection account. Through his comprehensive analyses built from a lifetime of research, Habermas demonstrates why we ought to trust the biblical and historical testimony of Scripture regarding the resurrection. This book is a must-read for pastors, students, and scholars interested in the historical evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ.</p></div>


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<p>From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson―creator of the Stormlight Archive, the Mistborn saga, and numerous smash-hit works of science fiction and fantasy―comes Tailored Realities, a new short fiction collection including the never-before-published novella “Moment Zero.”Spanning the genres of fantasy and science fiction, Tailored Realities includes ten works of short fiction from the ingenious mind of one of the genre’s most beloved bestselling authors. </p>
<p>From futuristic detective thrillers to inventive space opera, superhero action, high-tech fantasy, and beyond, these gripping standalone reads have never before been gathered into one volume, with many available here in print for the first time. </p>
<p>Along with the thrilling new science fiction novella "Moment Zero," this collection includes:• “Snapshot”• “Perfect State”• “Defending Elysium” (from the world of Skyward)• “Firstborn”• “Mitosis” (from the world of the Reckoners)• and four other storiesAlso including author’s notes and stunning interior illustrations for each story, this visionary collection is a must-read whether you’re new to Sanderson or a longtime fan. </p>
<p>At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.</p></div>


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    "is_csp": false,
    "is_custom": false,
    "is_editable": true,
    "is_multiple": {},
    "kind": "field",
    "label": "size",
    "name": "Size",
    "rec_index": 4,
    "search_terms": [
      "size"
    ],
    "table": null
  },
  "sort": {
    "column": null,
    "datatype": "text",
    "display": {},
    "is_category": false,
    "is_csp": false,
    "is_custom": false,
    "is_editable": true,
    "is_multiple": {},
    "kind": "field",
    "label": "sort",
    "name": "Title sort",
    "rec_index": 11,
    "search_terms": [
      "title_sort"
    ],
    "table": null
  },
  "tags": {
    "category_sort": "name",
    "column": "name",
    "datatype": "text",
    "display": {},
    "is_category": true,
    "is_csp": false,
    "is_custom": false,
    "is_editable": true,
    "is_multiple": {
      "cache_to_list": ",",
      "list_to_ui": ", ",
      "ui_to_list": ","
    },
    "kind": "field",
    "label": "tags",
    "link_column": "tag",
    "name": "Tags",
    "rec_index": 6,
    "search_terms": [
      "tags",
      "tag"
    ],
    "table": "tags"
  },
  "timestamp": {
    "column": null,
    "datatype": "datetime",
    "display": {
      "date_format": "dd MMM yyyy"
    },
    "is_category": false,
    "is_csp": false,
    "is_custom": false,
    "is_editable": true,
    "is_multiple": {},
    "kind": "field",
    "label": "timestamp",
    "name": "Date",
    "rec_index": 3,
    "search_terms": [
      "date"
    ],
    "table": null
  },
  "title": {
    "column": null,
    "datatype": "text",
    "display": {},
    "is_category": false,
    "is_csp": false,
    "is_custom": false,
    "is_editable": true,
    "is_multiple": {},
    "kind": "field",
    "label": "title",
    "name": "Title",
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    "search_terms": [
      "title"
    ],
    "table": null
  },
  "uuid": {
    "column": null,
    "datatype": "text",
    "display": {},
    "is_category": false,
    "is_csp": false,
    "is_custom": false,
    "is_editable": true,
    "is_multiple": {},
    "kind": "field",
    "label": "uuid",
    "name": null,
    "rec_index": 16,
    "search_terms": [
      "uuid"
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    "table": null
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}


key: book_display_fields
val:
[
  [
    "title",
    false
  ],
  [
    "authors",
    true
  ],
  [
    "series",
    true
  ],
  [
    "identifiers",
    true
  ],
  [
    "tags",
    true
  ],
  [
    "formats",
    true
  ],
  [
    "path",
    true
  ],
  [
    "publisher",
    false
  ],
  [
    "rating",
    false
  ],
  [
    "author_sort",
    false
  ],
  [
    "sort",
    false
  ],
  [
    "timestamp",
    false
  ],
  [
    "uuid",
    false
  ],
  [
    "comments",
    true
  ],
  [
    "id",
    false
  ],
  [
    "pubdate",
    false
  ],
  [
    "last_modified",
    false
  ],
  [
    "size",
    false
  ],
  [
    "languages",
    false
  ],
  [
    "#edited",
    false
  ],
  [
    "#pages",
    true
  ]
]


key: qv_display_fields
val:
[
  [
    "title",
    true
  ],
  [
    "authors",
    true
  ],
  [
    "series",
    true
  ],
  [
    "languages",
    false
  ],
  [
    "formats",
    false
  ],
  [
    "publisher",
    false
  ],
  [
    "rating",
    false
  ],
  [
    "tags",
    false
  ],
  [
    "identifiers",
    false
  ],
  [
    "author_sort",
    false
  ],
  [
    "id",
    false
  ],
  [
    "last_modified",
    false
  ],
  [
    "path",
    false
  ],
  [
    "pubdate",
    false
  ],
  [
    "sort",
    false
  ],
  [
    "size",
    false
  ],
  [
    "timestamp",
    false
  ],
  [
    "uuid",
    false
  ],
  [
    "#edited",
    false
  ],
  [
    "#pages",
    false
  ]
]


key: plugboards
val:
{
  "any format": {
    "any device": [
      [
        "{series:|| - }{series_index:0>5.2f|[|] - }{title}",
        "title"
      ]
    ]
  }
}


key: namespaced:CountPagesPlugin:settings
val:
{
  "SchemaVersion": 1.61,
  "algorithmPages": 0,
  "customCharsPerPage": 1500,
  "customColumnFleschGrade": "",
  "customColumnFleschReading": "",
  "customColumnGunningFog": "",
  "customColumnPages": "#pages",
  "customColumnWords": ""
}


key: gui_view_history
val:
[
  [
    1832,
    "Oryx and Crake"
  ],
  [
    1809,
    "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"
  ],
  [
    1781,
    "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values"
  ],
  [
    1797,
    "The World of Robert Jordan's the Wheel of Time"
  ],
  [
    576,
    "The New Oxford Annotated Bible"
  ],
  [
    558,
    "THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE (UPDATED 2011 EDITION) The All-Time Bestselling Book on Writing English Newly Edited (Special 2011 Edition) The Elements of Style OVER 10 MILLION COPIES SOLD! [Revised]"
  ],
  [
    397,
    "Tress of the Emerald Sea"
  ],
  [
    179,
    "Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations"
  ],
  [
    541,
    "Avatar, The Last Airbender: The Rise of Kyoshi"
  ],
  [
    536,
    "Bauchelain and Korbal Broach"
  ],
  [
    532,
    "Gardens of the Moon"
  ],
  [
    522,
    "Yumi and the Nightmare Painter"
  ],
  [
    519,
    "A Memory of Light"
  ],
  [
    518,
    "Towers of Midnight"
  ],
  [
    517,
    "The Gathering Storm"
  ]
]


# tags

name:
Paradox; mathematics; logic; philosophy; social sciences; physics; Zeno; infinity; supertask; probability; social choice; game theory; self-reference; induction; geometry; special relativity; quantum mechanics


