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1) Makers
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
Perry and Lester invent things—seashell robots that make toast, Boogie Woogie Elmo dolls that drive cars. They also invent entirely new economic systems, like the “New Work,” a New Deal for the technological era. Barefoot bankers cross the nation, microinvesting in high-tech communal mini-startups like Perry and Lester’s. Together, they transform the country, and Andrea Fleeks, a journo-turned-blogger, is there to document it.
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor R. D. Blackmore - Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor is a novel by English author Richard Doddridge Blackmore, published in 1869. It is a romance based on a group of historical characters and set in the late 17th century in Devon and Somerset, particularly around the East Lyn Valley area of Exmoor.Set in the 17th century in the Badgworthy Water region of Exmoor in Devon and Somerset, England. John Ridd is the son of...
3) Merry Tales
Author
Publisher
Charles L. Webster
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
At the heart of this collection of seven stories is the masterful tale "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed." Part autobiographical account of Twain's adventures in the Civil War and part fiction, the story is by turns brimming with satire and a sober indictment of the cruel realities of war. Also included are "A Curious Experience," the account of a boy whose fantasy world collides with the real world during war time, and "The Invalid's...
4) This Freedom
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Arthur S. Hutchinson was hailed by the New York Times as having the "touch of a master hand." Here he tackles the question of a woman's place in the home in This Freedom. Attacked as an anti-feminist novel, it is an intriguing portrait of a marriage in the early twentieth century.
5) Clementina
Author
Publisher
University Press John Wilson and Son
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Alfred Edward Woodley Mason (7 May 1865 – 22 November 1948) was an English author and politician. He is best remembered for his 1902 novel of courage and cowardice in wartime, The Four Feathers and is also known as the creator of Inspector Hanaud, a French detective who was an early template for Agatha Christie's famous Hercule Poirot.
His prolific output in short stories and novels were frequently made and remade into films during his lifetime;...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday, Page & Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Excerpt from John Henry Smith: "A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life" John Henry Smith has requested me to revise and edit his diary, and, to use his own expression, "See if I can make some kind of a book from it." It was his idea that I should eliminate certain marked passages, and disguise others, so as to conceal the identity of the originals. Since Mr. Smith is abroad I can do as I please. Aside from renaming his characters, I have left them exactly...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown, and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"If Winter Comes is not only a thrilling tale, it is an important work of art" – so stated the New York Times review of A. S. M. Hutchinson's novel. A humorous but thoughtful and advanced portrait of an unhappy marriage, this captivating novel deals with death, divorce, and everything inbetween.
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Series
Publisher
Amazing Stories
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"Skylark Three" (1948) is the second book in the Skylark series and is set a year after the events of The Skylark of Space, during which year antagonist Marc "Blackie" DuQuesne has used the wealth obtained in the previous book to buy a controlling interest in the story's 'World Steel Corporation', a large company known for its ruthless attitude. When the story begins DuQuesne announces a long absence from Earth, to find another species more knowledgeable...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
After eleven years in space, the Argo landed on the dangerous, unknown planet Lucifer. The crew faced an untamed world of huge, carnivorous birds with wolverine heads and flashing black teeth; furred, ten-foot-tall men; and red-skinned, man-eating pygmies. They fought for mere survival. But their duty was to colonize and populate the planet ... with four men and only two women!
10) Jane Oglander
Author
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Marie Adelaide Elizabeth Rayner Lowndes (née Belloc; 5 August 1868 – 14 November 1947), who wrote as Marie Belloc Lowndes, was a prolific English novelist, and sister of author Hilaire Belloc.
Active from 1898 until her death, she had a literary reputation for combining exciting incidents with psychological interest. Four of her works were adapted for the screen: The Chink in the Armour (1912; adapted 1922), The Lodger (1913; adapted several times),...
Author
Publisher
F.J. Shulte & Co.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century is a novel by Ignatius Donnelly, famous as the author of Atlantis: The Antediluvian World. Caesar's Column was published pseudonymously in 1890. The book has been variously categorized as science fiction, speculative fiction, dystopian fiction, and/or apocalyptic fiction; one critic has termed it an "Apocalyptic Utopia." The book is also a political novel, and a romance. It was a popular success as...
12) Oddsfish!
Author
Publisher
NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Oddsfish! (a title derived from King Charles' favorite epithet) is the last of Benson's historical romances and describes the plots and political movements of the closing scenes of the life of Charles II. Interwoven with the accurately portrayed events and places of the time are fictitious characters, including the narrator, Mr. Roger Mallock and his cousin and lady-love Dolly. Sent by Pope Innocent XI to Charles' court as a diplomatic representative...
14) Witch-Doctors
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In a bayou in the south-eastern corner of the Victoria Nyanza was the station of Ingonya, a brown scab on the face of the green earth. The round mud huts of the askaris were like two columns of khaki troops marching rigidly on each side of the parade ground. To the north, upon a slight rise of ground, were the white men's quarters; the non-commissioned officers had four bungalows to the south of the orderly room and Court House; and beyond a green...
Author
Publisher
Lothrop Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Published in 1900, this popular novel was the first of Bacheller's books to focus on upper New York State. Here a young orphan, Willie Brower, is adopted by the old woodcutter Eben Holden and the story follows their struggle to survive. Willie grows to be a journalist, join the Union Army, and fight in the Battle of Bull Run.
16) Precaution
Author
Publisher
A. T. Goodrich & Co.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
It has been said that Precaution, James Fenimore Cooper's first novel, was written as the result of a wager Cooper made with his wife. A novel of English society, manners, and morals, Precaution imitates the works of Jane Austen and its intriguing style sets it apart from Cooper's subsequent fiction.
17) Better Dead
Author
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote a number of successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (first included in Barrie's 1902 adult novel...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Excerpt: "There was nothing unusual about the traffic accident victim with a broken leg until intern Frank Corson found he had two heartbeats. He thought that strange, but not as strange as passing the identical man in the street a few minutes later. One by one eight identical strangers are discovered, five dead, and each with two hearts. Eight artificial creatures, identical in every respect down to the fingerprints, and none of them human. They...
19) Two Years Ago
Author
Publisher
The University of Adelaide
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Committed to improving social conditions for the poor, author and clergyman Charles Kingsley worked tirelessly on behalf of the needy, including teaching the importance of proper hygiene during a cholera epidemic in London. His work influenced his writing, as evidenced in this engrossing novel about how poor sanitary conditions and public apathy cause an outbreak of cholera.
20) Kipps
Author
Publisher
Standard Ebooks
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Kipps is the story of Arthur “Artie” Kipps, an illegitimate orphan raised by his aunt and uncle on the southern coast of England in the town of New Romney. Kipps falls in love with neighbor friend Ann Pornick but soon loses touch with her as he begins an apprenticeship at a drapery establishment in the port town of Folkestone. After a drunken evening with his new friend Chitterlow, an aspiring playwright, Kipps discovers he is to inherit
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