Sinclair
21) The Machine
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A three-act drama about political corruption in early—twentieth century New York. First published in 1912, Upton Sinclair's “The Machine” tells the story of political grafting in New York City. The corrupt politicians of the Tammany Hall syndicate are using their business connections for their own financial gain, while some of the city's most vulnerable are drawn into a human trafficking ring. But a journalist, a lawyer, and an activist are...
22) Ryder
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This is the third book of the Full Moon Security series containing over 80,000 words of paranormal romantic suspense. For the best reading experience, it is highly recommended to start with the first book of Full Moon Security.It started with an investigation that turned out nothing extraordinary in Philadelphia. But now Ryder Williams, panther shifter, has run over a phantasmal ghost on the highway outside Camelot, the most haunted town in the US....
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This early work by Sinclair Lewis was originally published in 1917 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Sinclair Lewis was born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, USA in 1885. A lonely and socially awkward child, Lewis tried unsuccessfully to run away from home, before entering Yale University in 1903. It was here that, in the Yale Courant and the Yale Literary Magazine, Lewis had his first works – mostly romantic poetry...
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In an unputdownable crime thriller from the author of The Essence of Evil, everyone connected to a closed case is getting killed. Let the games begin . . .
Henry and Caroline Redfearne's annual ball is the hottest social event of the year.
But the fun is cut short by the discovery of their son's body, apparently the victim of a frenzied assault. He was last seen heading off with seventeen-year-old Sophie Blackwood, and a blood trail seems...
25) Joss
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Joss is a stand-alone novel containing over 50,000 words. If you enjoy the characters, you can continue with more books in the Gray Wolf Security series. This is the third book of the first series. Carrington: She doesn't talk.How the hell am I supposed to trust the life of my child to a woman who won't talk? I'm paying thousands of dollars to Gray Wolf Security to protect my child from potential kidnappers, and they give me this emotionally broken...
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Born into the first generation of an immigrant family from Norway, Carl Ericson was always bound to have differing philosophies than his parents. However, when these new, freethinking ideas result in an expulsion from college, Carl must find a way to fit in with the society's culture and values without stifling his independence. However, Carl has a difficult time achieving this in the rigid workplace standards of the 20th-century. He becomes a vagabond...
27) Jimmie Higgins
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An idealist Jimmie Higgins gets involved with the socialist movements that had begun to spread in Europe and the United States in the early 1900s. Jimmie Higgins is hired by German socialists and later joins the army to fight European imperialism, and finally ends up in Archangel in the Siberian Arctic to be introduced to Bolsheviks during the little known U.S. Attempt to restore the czarists to power.
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Excerpt: "The whole class came to the meeting. There hadn't been such an important meeting at West Point for many a day. The yearling class had been outrageously insulted. The mightiest traditions of the academy had been violated, "trampled beneath the dust," and that by two or three vile and uncivilized "beasts"-"plebes"-new cadets of scarcely a week's experience. And the third class, the yearlings, by inherent right the guardians of West Point's...
29) Peter
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This is the FIFTH and final book of the FROST SECURITY series, containing over 80,000 words of paranormal romantic suspense. For the best reading experience, it is recommended to start at the beginning with the first book: RICHARD. Peter Frost, alpha shifter, ex-Navy SEAL, and leader of Frost Security has spent his life in search of something. Whether it's the people who murdered his family while he was overseas serving his country, a pack to call...
30) Jack
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This is the first book of the second series of Stone Security. For the best reading experience, it is highly recommended to start from the beginning with Jack, Stone Security Volume One. This book has over 50,000 words of romantic suspense.Jack goes to a small town in Arizona where a local militant group has taken over, harassing honest business owners in an attempt to run them out of town. Jack is pulled into a war between the right and the righteous,...
31) Matthew
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Matthew is the fifth book of Stone Security Volume Two. For the best reading experience, it is highly recommended to start from the beginning with Jack, Stone Security Volume One. This book has over 50,000 words of romantic suspense.Matthew Pearce was a member of the Guardians, the militant religious group responsible for the death of Harry Cravits. He hadn't been able to save Harry, but he did what he could to help Jack Stone put his killer in jail....
32) Hayden
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HAYDEN is the fifth book of the Dragon Security Volume One series, containing over 50,000 words of romantic suspense. For the best reading experience, it is highly recommended to start from the beginning with COLE, Dragon Security Volume One. SAMI have had about enough of Hayden. Yeah, I know how plain and frumpy I am, but does he have to be such an ass to me all the time? He torments me every day, calling me "grandma" because of my modest cardigans,...
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A great expose about the perils of gonorrhoea -- estimated that at the time, 70-90% of men had it (even the doctor who provided that estimate had it). Women were kept in the dark -- didn't want to corrupt their innocence. Women were to be subservient to their husbands -- but with the help of an older woman, a suffragette who worked to eliminate child labor, Sylvia fought against society's norms. A great book that demonstrates how far women have come...
34) Damaged Goods
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Novelized version of the Great Play, Les Avaries, with the approval of the author Eugene Brieux. American novelist, essayist, playwright, and short story writer, whose works reflect socialistic views. Among Sinclair's most famous books is The Jungle, which launched a government investigation of the meatpacking plants of Chicago, and changed the food laws of America. In Damaged Goods the horrors of venereal disease are explored in this social drama....
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In the early part of the twentieth century, Upton Sinclair earned a reputation as a prolific writer, committed socialist, and political activist. He gained enormous popularity when his eloquent 1906 novel The Jungle exposed conditions in the U.S. meat-packing industry, and years later, he earned a Pulitzer Prize for his series tale, Dragon's Teeth. In The Money Changers, Sinclair explores the Wall Street panic of 1907 in novel form, exposing greed...
36) Our Mr. Wrenn
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2023
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This charming 1914 novel-the author's first-tells the tale of Mr. William Wrenn, a meek bachelor who works at a tedious job and dreams of traveling to exotic lands. His only escape entails frequent visits to the moving picture shows, but after a small inheritance comes his way, Wrenn is able to actualize his dream of going abroad. He travels-and returns to New York City a changed man. In fact, this new perspective leads to positive changes in all...
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B. W. Dodge and Co.
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Sinclair's novel follows the journey of Samuel Prescott, an idealistic young farm boy who strikes out on his own to strike it rich when his father dies shortly after losing all of his savings in a bad stock market investment. What would typically be a rags-to-riches story becomes a rags-to-rags exercise in futility, as Samuel is confronted with every form of social injustice and societal ill that you can imagine. Upton introduces Samuel to the reader...
38) Sylvia
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The John C. Winston Co.
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2023
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English
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This is the story of Sylvia Castleman, of her love and her marriage. The story goes back to the days of her golden youth; but it has to be told by an old woman who had no youth at all, and who never dreamed of having a story to tell. It begins with scenes of luxury among the proudest aristocracy of the South; it is told by one who for the first thirty years of her life was a farmer’s wife in a lonely pioneer homestead in Manitoba, and who, but for...
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Macmillan
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2023
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Raised in a restrictive and oppressive household, Harriet Frean is used to sacrificing her own happiness and comfort for the sake of others, in fact, she's proud of it. Taught that women were to be submissive, pious, kind, and quiet, Harriet molds herself into the perfect Victorian woman. Though she struggles with the crushing expectations of Victorian gender roles, Harriet finds comfort in her close relationship with Prissy, her best friend. As the...
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What would Jesus make of California in the 1920s? A man named Carpenter miraculously appears from the stained-glass window of a church to rescue a young man from a violent mob. Carpenter is soon appalled by the modern world's injustices in this 1922 satirical fantasy.