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The Prisoner of Zenda
Anthony HopeThe Life of an English Gentleman Rudolf V of Ruritania is about to be crowned king when he is drugged on the eve of his coronation and is unable to...
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Dhan Gopal MukerjiIndia Kari, the elephant, lives in India with his 9 year old owner where they bond during their adventures in the cities, jungles, and countryside....
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Mary AustinThe American Southwest The story of the Mojave Desert in the American Southwest. Written for audiences unfamiliar with life in the desert, the book...
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Luise MühlbachA Historical Novel Luise Mühlbach’s historical fiction novel about Marie Antoinette and her son, Louis XVII, during the French Revolution. The book...
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Charles DickensFor These Times The shortest of Dicken’s novels, Hard Times surveys English society and satirizes the social and economic conditions of the era. “M...
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Frederick OberSpanish Explorer and Conquistador Frederick Ober’s biography of Juan Ponce de León. The book starts with a background of the Ponce de León family i...
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Ferdynand OssendowskiThe Russian Civil War Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski’s retelling of his escape from Red Army-controlled Siberia with fellow Poles and White Russians....
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Thomas PaineAnswer to Mr. Burke’s Attack Thomas Paine was a very strong supporter of the French Revolution that began in 1789; he visited France the following ...
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H. G. Wells‘Are we or they Lords of the World?’ One of the earliest works of fiction to detail a conflict between mankind and an extra-terrestrial race, the s...
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Joseph ConradA Tale Jim, a young British seaman, becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of “pilgrims of an exacting belief.” When the ship starts rapidly ...
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F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Great Gatsby It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous entertainments, and of his love for Dais...
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Sir Walter RaleighRecords of Expedition The first hand account of Sir Walter Raleigh during his first and second voyages to Guiana. Raleigh and his men were in searc...
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Nathaniel HawthorneA Romance A classic work of historical fiction set in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1642 to 1649. The novel tells the story of Hester P...
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