Ralph Cosham
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Superbly designed and freshly illustrated, this book tells the story of man from the stone age to the atomic bomb. What emerges is a colorful picture of wars and conquests, grand works of art, and the spread and limitations of science.
Tells the story of man from the stone age to the atomic bomb.
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"This convenient single-volume edition contains all three parts of Dante's 14th-century poem; Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso; in an acclaimed translation by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Combining classical and Christian history as well as medieval politics and religion, this trilogy of sublime verse is among Western civilization's most important artistic works and essential reading for students of literature and history. Dante's allegory...
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The Divine Comedy is a narrative poem by Dante Alighieri that describes the author’s travels through Hell (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio), and Paradise (Paradiso). This trio of books, or canticas, is one example of the number three as a theme throughout the work. Each book consists of 33 cantos, which added to an introductory canto, totals 100. Each cantica follows a pattern of 9 phases plus 1 for a total of ten—9 circles of hell plus Lucifer,...
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How Green Was My Valley volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 28
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Sixty year-old Huw Morgan looks back on his childhood in a small Welsh mining town. His reminiscences reveal the disintegration of the close knit Morgans, and his devoted parents, while capturing the sentiments and issues of their time.
25) Treasure Island
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"Young Jim Hawkins and his friends set sail for Treasure Island, hoping to find the buried loot of Captin Flint, fiercest of all the pirates. But, unknown to them, the crew of their own ship is made up of Flint's former crew, led by the evil one-legged pirate Long John Silver. Once on the island Jim and his friends must find the buried treasure and escape before the pirates capture them. Robert Louis Stevenson's timeless tale of greed and gold remains...
27) The sign of four
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Sherlock Holmes mysteries volume 2
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When an Englishwoman receives mysterious gifts of pearls and a letter promising to right wrongs done to her, she calls upon Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to investigate.
28) 1812: a novel
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American story 1800-1860 volume 2
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A novel on the War of 1812 between the United States and England. Providing the big picture are President Madison, General Jackson and their wives, while everyday action is seen through the eyes of Winfield Scott, a young soldier, and Sally McQuirk, a war correspondent. By the author of Dream West.
29) High stakes
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A racehorse owner determines to get even with the trainer who has been cheating him.
30) Smokescreen
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From a New York Times–bestselling author, “a supersized action-suspense novel” about a celebrity turned amateur sleuth investigating a horseracing mystery (Kirkus Reviews).
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
Edward Lincoln may be an international film star who plays daring detectives...
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
Edward Lincoln may be an international film star who plays daring detectives...
31) Enquiry
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This New York Times bestselling author “captures our attention and holds us spellbound” with a mystery about a horse jockey accused of fixing a race (The New York Times).
Dick Francis, Edgar-Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
A closed-door enquiry has found Kelly Hughes guilty of the lowest crime imaginable by a professional...
Dick Francis, Edgar-Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
A closed-door enquiry has found Kelly Hughes guilty of the lowest crime imaginable by a professional...
32) Pure
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The clearing of a cemetery stokes the fires of revolution in eighteenth-century France.
Paris, 1785. An ambitious young engineer, Jean-Baptiste Baratte arrives in Paris charged with emptying the overflowing cemetery of Les Innocents, an ancient site whose stench is poisoning the neighborhood's air and water. A self-styled modern man of reason, Baratte sees his work as a chance to clear away the burden of history. But he soon suspects that the destruction...
33) Adolf Hitler
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A biography of Adolf Hitler, based in part on more than one hundred and fifty interviews with people directly involved with his life.
34) Odds against
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From the New York Times–bestselling "master of crime fiction and equine thrills," a jockey turned investigator tackles crime in the horse racing world (Newsday).
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
A hard fall took hotshot jockey Sid Halley out of the horse racing game, leaving him with a crippled hand, a broken heart, and the desperate need for a new...
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CLASSIC FICTION (PRE C 1945). Franz Kafka's 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish transformation became a worldwide classic and remains a century later one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. It is the story of traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect. This hugely influential work inspired George Orwell, Albert Camus, Jorge Louis Borges, and Ray Bradbury,...
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"Exploring the South Downs of the well-to-do town of Weldisham, Carole Seddon is caught in a sudden rainstorm. She finds refuge in an old barn - but relief turns to revulsion when she discovers the bones of a human skeleton packed inside two bags." "After Carole informs the police, it isn't long before local gossip spreads. People are saying the remains are those of a missing girl named Tamsin Lutteridge, who was suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome...
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The locals in the southern Italian town where he lives call him Signor Farfalla—Mr. Butterfly—for he is a discreet gentleman who paints rare butterflies. His life is inconspicuous—mornings spent brushing at a canvas, afternoons idling in the cafes, and evenings talking with his friend, the town priest, over a glass of brandy.
Yet there are other sides to this gentleman's life: Clara, the young student who moonlights in the
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"The immense talent, passion and literary brilliance that Conan Doyle brought to his work gives him a unique place in English letters."-Stephen Fry
"Doyle's modesty of language conceals a profound tolerance of the human complexity"-John Le Carré
"Holmes has a timeless talent, passion and literary brilliance that puts him heads, shoulders and deerstalker above all other detectives."- Alexander McCall Smith
Arthur Conan Doyle's The Memoirs...
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1991
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No words can describe the greatness of this work, a greatness both of theme and artistry. The theme that Dante treats is universal; it involves the greatest concepts which man has ever attained. Only a genius could find the loftiness of tone and the splendor and variety of images and scenes that are presented in The Divine Comedy.