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Good Lady Ducayne
A pale dawn breaks over the Italian Riviera, yet shadows linger in the marble halls where secrets p
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My pets
A sudden flutter of wings, the soft trill of a canary at dawn, and the gentle chaos of an aviary br
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Life in the forests of the Far East (Volume 2)
Mist drapes the towering trees, sunlight flickers through tangled canopies, and the pulse of discov
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Life of St. Vincent de Paul
A peasant boy, once overlooked by the world, became the architect of compassion for generations to
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Last winter in the United States
Smoke still lingers over battered towns, and the rails stretch endlessly into the unknown West-here
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Eric, a waif
A thin mist clings to the gaslit streets of Victorian England, where a child's future can be shaped
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Experimental glass blowing for boys
A flicker of flame, a swirl of molten glass, and the thrill of shaping the impossible with your own
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Latin America
A continent in tumult, its fate shaped by revolution and resilience-here, the sweep of nineteenth-c
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Leaves From the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, From 1848 to 1861
A crackling fire, a Highland mist, the hushed intimacy of royal voices unguarded-within these pages
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Frank Merriwell's danger
A thunder of cheers echoes across the sunlit playing fields, yet beneath the camaraderie and compet
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Primitive Athens as described by Thucydides
In the shadowed streets and bustling agora of fifth-century Athens, the pulse of a civilisation in
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Life's little stage
A snow-dusted morning in the Swiss Alps, a restless young woman peers from her window, yearning for
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A Little Garden Calendar for Boys and Girls
A window ledge transformed into a miniature Eden, tiny hands sowing seeds as the world outside stir
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Tarzan and the Ant-Men
A lost world shrouded in the heart of the African jungle, where civilisation is measured not by its
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The Irish Guards in the Great War, Volume 2
Mud and memory mingle in the battered fields of France, where young men from the Irish Guards carve
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Mystery of the inn by the shore
A storm lashes the lonely coastline, and within the shadowed halls of a weathered inn, whispers of
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The Magic Christian
A millionaire hurls banknotes from a rooftop, watching the crowd below abandon all dignity for a ha
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Lives of Famous Indian Chiefs; From Cofachiqui, the Indian Princess, and Powhatan; down to and including Chief Joseph and Geronimo. Also an answer, from the latest research, of the query, Whence came
Smoke curls above the endless plains, where the destinies of indigenous leaders were shaped by cour
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The complete works of John Gower, volume 4
A world of gilded manuscripts and candlelit scriptoria flickers to life in these pages, where the p
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With Boone on the frontier
A hush falls over the wild Kentucky woods, broken only by the crackle of a campfire and the distant
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A Little Girl in Old Boston
A candle flickers in a narrow Boston parlour, casting curious shadows as a young girl peers out at
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The Slave Brand of Sleman bin Ali
A single gunshot echoes through the tangled heart of colonial Africa, shattering the hush of the ju
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Iamblichus on the mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians
A world veiled in incense and shadow, where priests whispered secrets to the stars and philosophers
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Little Books About Old Furniture (Volume II) The Period of Queen Anne
A single chair leg, elegantly curved and poised as if mid-dance, conjures the spirit of an entire e
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A Madeira Party
A crystal decanter glints in the gaslight, laughter rises and falls like a waltz, yet beneath the s
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The Bandit of Hell's Bend
A plume of dust rises on the horizon, the sun scorched and relentless, as the American wild west te
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What America did
Shellfire and hope, sacrifice and ingenuity-across the Atlantic, a nation once distant from the thu
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The face of China
A swirl of dust on a remote northern road, the hush of ancient temples, and the vibrant chaos of ci
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George's Mother
A young man's dreams flicker dimly against the relentless shadows of urban poverty, while his mothe
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The tower
A solitary tower stands beneath an unsettled Irish sky, its shadow stretching across a landscape ha
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The Burning of Rome
Flames lick the night sky as marble temples collapse and the ancient world teeters between ruin and
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The Great Automation
If machines can draft, analyse, and decide, what remains distinctly ours? This book shows how to ke
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The heart of Africa, Vol. 2
In the restless dawn of the Victorian era, a world of mystery and grandeur unfurled at the heart of
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The Knight of Leon and The Orphan Boy's Prayer
A clash of swords in the shadowed streets of medieval Spain, a desperate prayer whispered beneath t
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Soul Frequency
There are days when life feels strangely tuned: conversations flow, ideas land easily, and your bod
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Londinium, Architecture and the Crafts
Imagine walking the ancient streets of Roman-era London, where every column tells a story and each
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Luther (Volume 6)
A thunderclap splits the silence of sixteenth-century Europe, and the world is never the same again
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The doctor, &c., vol. 5
A wise man once said that the line between fact and fancy is as thin as a page, and nowhere is this
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Catching of the whale and seal
A cold wind sweeps across the nineteenth-century North Atlantic, carrying with it the salt, danger,
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Luther (Volume 4)
A hammer strikes a church door in Wittenberg, and the echoes reverberate across centuries-challengi
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A Lodge in the Wilderness
A fire crackles in the heart of the Rhodesian wilderness, casting flickering shadows on the faces o
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A Lost Lady of Old Years
A moonlit Scottish moor, the air thick with the scent of heather and the thunder of distant hooves-
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14000 miles, a carriage and two women
A pair of determined women, a horse-drawn carriage, and the boundless roads of the nineteenth centu
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The Perversity of Human Nature
A chilling fog hangs over the cobbled streets of Victorian England, where every polished surface hi
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Dusty answer
A sunlit riverbank, a hush of longing, and the pulse of youth-here, the boundaries between innocenc
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My larger education
A world shaped by prejudice and promise comes alive through the eyes of one of history's most influ
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Orion the Gold Beater
Gold glimmers in the furnace, but it is the human spirit that endures the true test of fire. In the
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Marbleface
A bruised fist meets the green baize of a poker table, and the dust of the American West settles on