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1) Desert gold
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Over 40 Million Copies Of Zane Grey's Novels Sold
The premier chronicler of the American West, legendary storyteller Zane Grey has captivated millions of readers with his timeless adventures of life, death, gunfire, and justice. This is the Old West in all its glory and grandeur. Forged in blood. Enflamed by passion. Emblazoned with bullets. . .
Desert Gold
A border town like Casita is no place for a drifter—especially...
The premier chronicler of the American West, legendary storyteller Zane Grey has captivated millions of readers with his timeless adventures of life, death, gunfire, and justice. This is the Old West in all its glory and grandeur. Forged in blood. Enflamed by passion. Emblazoned with bullets. . .
Desert Gold
A border town like Casita is no place for a drifter—especially...
3) Little men
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In the treasured follow-up to Little Women, Jo March returns as a mother of two sons and schoolmaster to twelve orphans. Now Jo Bhaer, literature's beloved heroine has transformed Plumfield, the decorous New England estate of the March sisters' youth, into a progressive school. During the coming year, newcomer Nat Blake joins the other restless, rascally seedlings as they grow under the tutelage of an equally spirited woman who extols the virtues...
4) The prophet
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"In Kahlil Gibran's inspirational masterpiece--the most famous work of spiritual fiction of the twentieth century--a prophet named Almustafa is about to board a ship to travel back to his homeland after twelve years in exile when he's stopped by a group of people who ask him to share his wisdom before he leaves. In twenty-eight poetic essays, he does so, offering profound and timeless insights on many aspects of life, including love, pain, friendship,...
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"Aesop's Fables belong to every one of us. They were once simply the words of a man who lived 600 years before Christ. The world in which Aesop lived was brutal--a place where death could happen in a moment--but in his imagination it was also a vibrant and magical place, where gods walked among mortals and animals could speak. Aesop's fables were first written down in ancient Greek, and then Latin, where they spread, like the armies of Rome, across...
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Enriched classics
New Directions paperbook volume no. 65
Bantam Books volume 553
New classics volume 34
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New Directions paperbook volume no. 65
Bantam Books volume 553
New classics volume 34
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"Written in a prose of almost biblical simplicity and beauty, Siddhartha is the story of a soul's long quest for the answer to the enigma of man's role on earth. As a youth, the young Indian Siddhartha meets the Buddha but isn't content with the disciple's role. He must work out his own destiny-- a torturous road on which he experiences a love affair with the beautiful courtesan Kamala, the temptation of success and riches, the heartache of struggling...
10) The black tulip
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A prize of 100,000 guilders awaits the gardener who can produce a black tulip, a rich reward that incites a bitter competition in 17th-century Holland. Cornelius von Baerle, a gifted and passionate florist, has dedicated himself to cultivating the elusive flower. But a ruthless rival, capitalizing on accusations that led to the assassination of Cornelius's godfather, falsely accuses the young horticulturist of treason. Sentenced to life imprisonment,...
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First serialized in 1907 and then published as a book in 1908, Mary Roberts Rinehart's "The Circular Staircase" is the popular mystery story about the dowager Rachel Innes as she reveals and prevents a series of strange crimes at the home she has rented for the summer. "The Circular Staircase" was Rinehart's first bestseller and was the originator of the popular "had I but known" genre of mystery writing, where the main character narrates the tale...
12) Pollyanna
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A young orphan, Pollyanna Whittier, is sent to live with her wealthy and stern Aunt Polly. Yet rather than letting her seemingly gloomy situation get her down, the high-spirited girl is dtermined to see the best in everything. Playing what she and her father used to call "The Glad Game," Pollyanna always finds something to be happy about. Her hopeful outlook brings joy to the dour New England town she now calls home, and even to Aunt Polly - inspiring...
14) Just so stories
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How did the whale get his throat? Why was the lazy camel lumbered with a hump? And how did the elephant's insatiable curiosity earn him a trunk? Kipling first invented these delightful stories about the beginning of the world and the first animals in it for his own daughter, Josephine, who tragically died when she was six. Devastated by her loss, Kipling compiled the stories they had shared together into a treasury, which was first published in 1902....
15) Pinocchio
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When Geppetto carves himself a son from an enchanted piece of wood, the mischievous Pinocchio is born and a fantastical story begins. Along the way, Pinocchio is swindled by a fox and a cat, saved by a fairy, turned into a donkey and swallowed by a shark, all before he learns what it truly takes to become a real boy.
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One of the greatest mystery thrillers ever written, Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White was a phenomenal bestseller in the 1860s, achieving even greater success than works by Dickens, Collins's friend and mentor. Full of surprise, intrigue, and suspense, this vastly entertaining novel continues to enthrall readers today. The story begins with an eerie midnight encounter between artist Walter Hartright and a ghostly woman dressed all in white who seems...
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"In a lonely mountain kingdom, eight-year-old Princess Irene explores the labyrinthine halls of her father's castle, where secrets abound. Who is the beautiful, silver-haired woman whom Irene discovers alone in the castle tower? And what lurks in the tunnels beneath the castle? After being attacked by fanged creatures and rescued just in time by Curdie, a courageous miner boy, Irene learns about a race of vengeful goblins. Along with her newfound...
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Alone--it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end. The Original 1897 Classic. A curious man, wearing a long coat, a wide-brimmed hat, and whose face is entirely swathed in bandages save for an obvious fake pink nose, walks into an English inn to the shock and horror of many of the townspeople. Beakers and chemicals in tow, the man demands his solitude. It's strange enough as it is until his...
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"Set in the magical Wessex landscape so familiar from Thomas Hardy's early work, Tess of the D'Urbervilles is unique among his great novels for the intense feeling that he lavished upon his heroine, Tess, a pure woman betrayed by love. Hardy poured all of his profound empathy for both humanity and the rhythms of natural life into this story of her beauty, goodness, and tragic fate. In so doing, he created a character who, like Emma Bovary and Anna...
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