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The Echo of Old Books meets The Lost Apothecary in this evocative and charming novel full of mystery and secrets. 'The thing about books,' she said 'is that they help you to imagine a life bigger and better than you could ever dream of.' On a quiet street in Dublin, a lost bookshop is waiting to be found... For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives. But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these...
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"In twelfth century, Persia, clever and dreamy Shaherazade stumbles on the Malik’s beloved wife entwined with a lover in a sun-dappled courtyard. When Shaherazade recounts her first tale, the story of this infidelity, to the Malik, she sets the Seljuk Empire on fire. Enraged at his wife’s betrayal, the once-gentle Malik beheads her. But when that killing does not quench his anger, the Malik begins to marry and behead a new bride each night. Furious...
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Fern Lover's Companion" (A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada) by George Henry Tilton. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion...
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Cape Cod illustrated Henry David Thoreau - First published in 1908, "Cape Cod" is a collection of articles by Henry David Thoreau based on numerous trips to the Cape in the early 1880s. A fantastic work that walks the reader through the beauty of Cape Cod and the natural wonders that surround it, this volume is not to be missed by lovers of nature writing. Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) was an American poet, philosopher, essayist, abolitionist,...
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Set during the same years of Henry VIII's life as The Tudors, this book charts his rise as a magnificent and ruthless monarch
Immortalized as a domineering king, notorious philanderer, and the unlikely benefactor of a new church, Henry VIII became a legend during his own reign. Who, though, was the young royal who would grow up to become England's most infamous ruler? Robert Hutchinson's Young Henry examines Henry Tudor's childhood beginnings and...
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Classic works by naturalist John Burroughs on his beloved Catskill region.
Henry James called John Burroughs (1837-1921) "a more humorous, more available, and more sociable Thoreau." Walt Whitman in turn extolled Burroughs as "a child of the woods, fields, hills-native to them in a rare sense (in a sense almost a miracle)." Throughout his many books and essays, Burroughs was never more eloquent on nature themes than when writing about his native...
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Planning a wedding for three is the least of their problems. Since nearly losing Jay, Henry is driven by an inescapable urge to collar his submissives. Jay's certain to be all in, but Alice has fled from commitment before. Negotiating their needs is a treacherous tightrope. Can he sketch a path to forever? As Alice's career takes off, the new demands steal time from Henry and Jay. The stress is crushing when every decision hurts the ones she loves....
8) Touch: Poems
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Henri Cole's last three books have shown a continuously mounting talent. In his new book, Touch, written with an almost invisible but ever-present art, he continues to render his human topics-a mother's death, a lover's addiction, war-with a startling clarity. Cole's new poems are impelled by a dark knowledge of the body-both its pleasures and its discontents-and they are written with an aesthetic asceticism in the service of truth. Alternating between...
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It takes more than one person to bring about War. This book will follow the lives of six key players during one of the most controversial wars in history.
Profiles is so much more than just your typical biography. This book in our six-in-one, full-color bio series will focus on the five W's of the Vietnam War--who, what, where, when, and why. Kids will learn all of the biographical information they need to know (background, family, education, accomplishments,...
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Contents: Scenes of Clerical Life (1858): The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton, Mr. Gilfil's Love Story, Janet's Repentance Adam Bede (1859) The Lifted Veil (1859) The Mill on the Floss (1860) Silas Marner, the Weaver of Raveloe (1861) Romola (1863) Brother Jacob (1864) Felix Holt, the Radical (1866) The Spanish Gypsy (1868) Middlemarch (1871/72) The Legend of Jubal, and Other Poems (1874): The Legend of Jubal, Agatha, Armgart, How Lisa Loved...
11) Just One Night
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Read this classic romance by USA TODAY bestselling author Carole Mortimer, now available for the first time in e-book! Previously published as Witchchild in 1988.
'I am not prepared to let a little gold-digger like you anywhere near my son!'
It was a case of mistaken identity, but Leonie Spencer wasn't about to clear the air immediately and make things easy for Henry Hawker Sinclair. After all, he had accused her of wanting to marry his nineteen-year-old...
12) Private Road
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In this, the companion volume to his earlier autobiographical Apostate (1926), Forrest Reid continues his 'chronicle of a prolonged personal adventure'. Private Road (first published in 1940) offers Reid's descriptions of his early writing efforts; a youthful correspondence with Henry James that began with promise yet ended disappointingly ('the Master was not pleased...'); his Cambridge encounters with such luminaries as Ronald Firbank and W.B. Yeats;...
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Musaicum Books presents to you this meticulously edited Alexander Hamilton collection.
Contents:
Novels:
Adam Bede
The Mill on the Floss
Silas Marner
Romola
Felix Holt, the Radical
Middlemarch
Daniel Deronda
Short Stories:
Scenes of Clerical Life
The Lifted Veil
Brother Jacob
Poetry:
The Spanish Gypsy
The Legend of Jubal and Other Poems:
The Legend of Jubal
Agatha
Armgart
How Lisa Loved the King
A Minor Prophet
Brother and Sister
Stradivarius
A College...
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Table of Contents:
Novels:
Adam Bede
The Mill on the Floss
Silas Marner
Romola
Felix Holt, the Radical
Middlemarch
Daniel Deronda
Short Stories:
Scenes of Clerical Life
The Lifted Veil
Brother Jacob
Poetry:
The Spanish Gypsy
The Legend of Jubal and Other Poems:
The Legend of Jubal
Agatha
Armgart
How Lisa Loved the King
A Minor Prophet
Brother and Sister
Stradivarius
A College Breakfast-Party
Two Lovers
Self and Life
Sweet Endings Come and Go, Love
The...
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Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection:
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
Macbeth (Shakespeare)
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Henry Fielding)
Tristram Shandy (Laurence Sterne)
Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)
Ode to the West Wind (P. B....
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Musaicum Books presents to you the collection of the great love stories of the past, the best historical novels in one edition:
Uarda: A Romance of Ancient Egypt (Georg Ebers)
The New Abelard: Love in the Times of Cathedrals (Robert Williams Buchanan)
Hildebrand: The Days of Queen Elizabeth (Anonymous)
Love-at-Arms (Rafael Sabatini)
The Making Of A Saint (W. Somerset Maugham)
The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade)
The Princess of Cleves (Madame...
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The warriors of Asgard Island are keeping a secret from their new brides… Kidnapped from a trade fair by a mysterious swordsman, Lady Avril de Varennes awakens on Asgard Island, an enchanted paradise cloaked in mists and mystery, kept secret from the world for centuries. Against her will, Avril weds her arrogant captor, Hauk Valbrand-even as she vows to escape. Hauk believes himself beyond the reach of love, until his fiery captive bride begins...
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