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A Separate Peace
A Separate Peace

by John Knowles

As the novel opens, Gene Forrester returns to Devon, the New Hampshire boarding school he attended during World War II.

1959 103 ed.
The Story of Philosophy
The Story of Philosophy

by Will Durant

IF YOU look at a map of Europe you will observe that Greece is a skeleton-like hand stretching its crooked fingers out i...

1926 141 ed.
The Red Badge of Courage
The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

¿Has oído hablar, amigo lector, siquiera alguna vez, de Stephen Crane?

1855 639 ed.
A Study in Scarlet
A Study in Scarlet

by Arthur Conan Doyle

IN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...

1887 1447 ed.
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Death Comes for the Archbishop

by Willa Cather

One afternoon in the autumn of 1851 a solitary horseman, followed by a pack-mule, was pushing through an arid stretch of...

1732 339 ed.
The Violet Fairy Book (Large Print)
The Violet Fairy Book (Large Print)

by Andrew Lang

Long, long ago there stood in the midst of a country covered with lakes a vast stretch of moorland called the Tontlawald...

1901 459 ed.
The Reptile Room
The Reptile Room

by Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist

The stretch of road that leads out of the city, past Hazy Harbor and into the town of Tedia, is perhaps the most unpleas...

1999 58 ed.
The Chessmen of Mars
The Chessmen of Mars

by Edgar Rice Burroughs, E. R. Burroughs

TARA of Helium rose from the pile of silks and soft furs upon which she had been reclining, stretched her lithe body lan...

1922 196 ed.
Peter's Chair
Peter's Chair

by Ezra Jack Keats

Peter stretched as high as he could.

1967 46 ed.
Eugénie Grandet
Eugénie Grandet

by Honoré de Balzac

IN certain provincial towns there are houses whose appearance arouses a melancholy as great as that of the gloomiest clo...

1868 261 ed.
Guide des mouvements de musculation
Guide des mouvements de musculation

by Frédéric Delavier

Sit on a bench holding a dumbbell in each hand with your palms facing inward: - Inhale and raise one arm at a time, turn...

2001 20 ed.
Clouds of Witness
Clouds of Witness

by Dorothy L. Sayers

Lord Peter Wimsey stretched himself luxuriously between the sheets provided by the Hotel Meurice.

1926 80 ed.
City of Night
City of Night

by John Rechy

LATER I WOULD THINK OF AMERICA as one vast City of Night stretching gaudily from Times Square to Hollywood Boulevard-juk...

1963 31 ed.
K
K

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

THE Street stretched away north and south in two lines of ancient houses that seemed to meet in the distance.

1915 123 ed.
Children of the Frost
Children of the Frost

by Jack London

A weary journey beyond the last scrub timber and straggling copses, into the heart of the Barrens where the niggard Nort...

1800 301 ed.
Patternmaking for fashion design
Patternmaking for fashion design

by Helen Joseph Armstrong

To work efficiently, the patternmaker must have the proper tools and supplies.

1987 16 ed.
The Flame and the Flower
The Flame and the Flower

by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

Somewhere in the world, time no doubt whistled by on taut and widespread wings, but here in the English country it plodd...

1972 17 ed.
Double Standards
Double Standards

by Judith McNaught

PHILIP WHITWORTH GLANCED UP, HIS ATTENTION drawn by the sound of swift footsteps sinking into the luxurious Oriental car...

1985 11 ed.
John Dies at the End
John Dies at the End

by David Wong

(excerpt) * * Prologue * * Solving the following riddle will reveal the awful secret behind the universe, assuming y...

2007 8 ed.