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Originally published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1886.

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A title, in which, every character is dead. And the dead speak. The speakers lie together in a graveyard in a small, rural community in central Illinois. As they moulder in their earthen tombs, they spill forth their secrets to the living. They speak for all of us, and their secrets are the hidden things that prick at the hearts of each of us.

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A girl came out of lawyer Royall's house at the end of the one street of North Dormer and stood on the doorstep.

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Features the eccentric detective from 221B Baker Street in London. This book includes such favorites as: "The Red-Headed League", "Five Orange Pips", and "Adventure of the Speckled Band".

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Beginning with Marlborough's victory at Blenheim in 1704 and ending with Wellington's defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815, the author recounts Britain's rise to world leadership over the course of the eighteenth century.

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M. Nioche wore a glossy wig of an unnatural color which overhung his little meek white vacant face and left it hardly more expressive than the unfeatured block upon which these articles are displayed in the barber's window.

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Offers practical advice on how to make your way in a chaotic world, and how to make it well. As much poetry as instruction, this title features three hundred aphorisms that address us today as practical guides for civility in an often uncivil world, and may serve as invitations to participate in making an uncivil world as civil as possible.

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Argues the importance of the tension between what the author called Apollonian and Dionysian forces. In this title, the author boldly combines aesthetics and psychology in a creative meditation on the sources of artistic inspiration. It also addresses the problem of nihilism in modern culture.

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Reveals a universe that is vaster, darker, and stranger than anything previously imagined. The author's cosmic horror reflects a peculiarly modern philosophical belief system in which human beings are regarded as insignificant in light of the vastness of time and space.

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Presents Julius Caesar's personal account of his war with Pompey the Great - the war which destroyed the five hundred-year old Roman Republic.

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Based on the lectures - which were given at the Lowell Institute in Boston and subsequently published in 1880, this title mirrors what common law is: a complex and diffuse combination of actual cases, history, analysis, and philosophy - all woven together to create the rules by which we live.

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Tells how Julius Caesar and his legions conquered much of modern France in less than a decade (58-51 BCE), despite determined resistance. This is a story of diplomatic maneuverings, shifting alliances, and military actions; the final chapters culminate in the revolt of the united Gallic tribes under Vercingetorix, France's first national hero.

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Tells the epic story of a wagon train on the Oregon Trail. First published in 1922, this historical novel is based on actual firsthand accounts of the grueling four-month overland journey, featuring cameos by famous frontiersmen Kit Carson and Jim Bridger.

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Describes the purification, or 'night', that the human soul must experience if it is to enter into loving union with God in this life. This title is suitable for readers, both lay and religious, who seek to experience on earth the kind of intimacy with God that will characterize the lives of the blessed in heaven.

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A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers -- particularly to those who love not wisely but other men's wives.

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Tells the story of the overthrow of the kings and the development of the Roman Republic. This title depicts the qualities that allowed the early Romans to overcome internal disputes and foreign enemies and to recover after the nearly total destruction of their city in 390 BC.

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A book of rituals that offers modern readers imaginative insights into the universal human condition and the desire for a blissful afterlife. It is written by unknown Egyptian priests over a period of nearly 1000 years.