Tag Archives: 19th Century

Hellboy Volume 8: Darkness Calls (Hellboy (Graphic Novels)) (Hellboy (Graphic Novels))

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Mike Mignola, Duncan Fegredo, Dave Stewart
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics

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Hellboy has finally returned from his adventures at sea, but no sooner has he settled on land than a conclave of witches drags him from his respite and into the heart of Russian folklore, where he becomes the quarry [...]

People of the Book: A Novel

Rating: (105 reviews)
Author: Geraldine Brooks
Publisher: Viking Adult

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Amazon Best of the Month, January 2008: One of the earliest Jewish religious volumes to be illuminated with images, the Sarajevo Haggadah survived centuries of purges and wars thanks to people of all faiths who risked their lives to safeguard it. Geraldine Brooks, the Pulitzer [...]

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Prestwick House Inc.

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This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader’s notes to help the modern reader contend with Twain’s language, allusions, and deliberate misstatements and malapropisms. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain’s sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, became [...]

Cracking the AP English Literature Exam, 2008 Edition (College Test Prep)

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Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review

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Scoring high on the AP English Literature Exam is very different from earning straight A’s in school. We don’t try to teach you everything there is to know about English literature—only the strategies and information you’ll need to get your highest score. In Cracking [...]

Barron’s AP United States History 2008 (Barron’s How to Prepare for the Ap United States History Advanced Placement Examination)

Author: William O. Kellogg Ed.M.
Publisher: Barron’s Educational Series

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Barron’s newly updated Advanced Placement U.S. History test preparation manual presents two full-length practice exams with answer keys and explanatory comments covering all questions. The author also provides extensive study and test-taking advice, followed by an overview of U.S. history from the Colonial era to [...]

Favorite Jane Austen Novels: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion (Dover Thrift Editions)

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Author: Jane Austen
Publisher: Dover Publications

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Three of the author’s most popular works — widely admired for their satiric wit, subtlety, and perfection of style — brilliantly re-create the provincial world of the early-19th-century English countryside, focusing, respectively, on husband-hunting mothers and daughters, the humbling of proud lovers, and the [...]

Cracking the AP World History Exam, 2008 Edition (College Test Prep)

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Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review

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Scoring high on the AP World History Exam is very different from earning straight A’s in school. We don’t try to teach you everything there is to know about World history—only the strategies and information you’ll need to get your highest score. In Cracking [...]

Persuasion (Penguin Classics)

Rating: (21 reviews)
Author: Jane Austen
Publisher: Penguin Classics

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New chronology and further reading.

The Complete Novels (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

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Author: Jane Austen
Publisher: Penguin Classics

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Now in Penguin Classics—a treasure trove of Jane Austen’s novels Few novelists have conveyed the subtleties and nuances of their own social milieu with the wit and insight of Jane Austen. Here in one volume are her seven great novels: Sense and Sensibility, [...]

Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)

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Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Penguin Classics

Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics)

Rating: (31 reviews)
Author: Jane Austen
Publisher: Penguin Classics

Book Description
New chronology and further reading; Tony Tanner’s original introduction reinstated
Edited with an introduction by Ros Ballaster.

Cracking the AP U.S. History Exam, 2008 Edition (College Test Prep)

Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review

Book Description
Scoring high on the AP U.S. History Exam is very different from earning straight A’s in school. We don’t try to teach you everything there is to know about American history—only the strategies and information you’ll need to get your highest score. In Cracking the AP U.S. History [...]

A Christmas Carol and Two Other Christmas Books (Collector’s Library)

Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Collector’s Library

Jane Austen: The Complete Novels, Deluxe Edition (Library of Literary Classics)

Rating: (22 reviews)
Author: Jane Austen
Publisher: Gramercy

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One of the great and ever popular masters of the English novel is represented here by every one of her novels. Includes Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and the lesser-known Lady Susan. This Library of [...]

The Story of Martin Luther King Jr.

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Author: Johnny Ray Moore
Publisher: Ideals Publications

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This little boardbook uses only approximately 200 words to tell about the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and to explain, in simple terms, how he ended segegation in America

The Shepherd And Other Christmas Stories: The Gift Of The Magi, The Cricket On The Hearth, Yes, Virginia There Is A Santa Claus, Hoodoo Mcgiggin And Christmas Cake Recipe

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Author: Frederick Forsyth, O. Henry, Charles Dickens, Francis P. Church, Stephen Leacock
Publisher: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio)

Timothy Cratchit’s Christmas Carol, 1917

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Author: Dale Powell, Charles Dickens
Publisher: Dickens World

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The original sequel to a Christmas Carol from DickensWorld. Get it in its original form. No more copies of this version of this critically acclaimed masterpiece will be printed.

The Annotated Wizard of Oz (Centennial Edition)

Rating: (31 reviews)
Author: L. Frank Baum
Publisher: W. W. Norton

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An updated version of the definitive guide, The Annotated Wizard of Oz provides a facsimile color version of the first edition of L. Frank Baum’s children’s classic along with extensive notes and a thorough history of the immense Oz project. [...]

Pride and Prejudice (Bantam Classics)

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Author: Jane Austen
Publisher: Bantam Classics
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Elizabeth Bennet is the perfect Austen heroine: intelligent, generous, sensible, incapable of jealousy or any other major sin. That makes her sound like an insufferable goody-goody, but the truth is she’s a completely hip character, who if provoked is not above skewering her antagonist with [...]

The Man in the High Castle

Rating: (158 reviews)
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Vintage

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It’s America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. the few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost a war–and [...]

The Chosen

Rating: (291 reviews)
Author: Chaim Potok
Publisher: Fawcett
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Few stories offer more warmth, wisdom, or generosity than this tale of two boys, their fathers, their friendship, and the chaotic times in which they live. Though on the surface it explores religious faith–the intellectually committed as well as the passionately observant–the struggles addressed in The [...]

The Night before Christmas

Rating: (42 reviews)
Author: Clement Clarke Moore
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
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Whose tiny faces are peeking out from Santa’s golden sleigh? Yikes! It’s two of Santa’s elves who are Christmas Eve stowaways. Beloved illustrator Jan Brett’s version of The Night Before Christmas lets these two mischievous elves add their rambunctious spirit to this familiar 1823 [...]

The Torn Skirt

Rating: (36 reviews)
Author: Rebecca Godfrey
Publisher: Harper Perennial

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I was born with a fever, but it seemed to subside for sixteen years. . . . And then as I turned sixteen and stopped smiling, the fever returned though my skin stayed pale and sure, showing no sign of the heat inside [...]

A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)

Rating: (40 reviews)
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Penguin Classics

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Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Richard Maxwell.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Rating: (1228 reviews)
Author: Stephen Chbosky
Publisher: MTV
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What is most notable about this funny, touching, memorable first novel from Stephen Chbosky is the resounding accuracy with which the author captures the voice of a boy teetering on the brink of adulthood. Charlie is a freshman. And while’s he’s not the biggest geek [...]

The Time Machine (Signet Classics)

Rating: (311 reviews)
Author: H.G. Wells
Publisher: New American Library

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The story that launched Wells’s successful career-the classic tale of the Time Traveler and the extraordinary world he discovers in the far distant future. A haunting portrayal of Darwin’s evolutionary theory carried to a terrible conclusion.
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When the Time Traveler courageously stepped out [...]

The Complete Novels of Jane Austen (Wordsworth Special Editions) (Special Editions)

Author: Jane Austen
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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Jane Austen is without question, one of England’s most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature’s most charismatic and believable heroines, she mesmerises her readers as much today as when her novels were first published. [...]

Emma (Penguin Classics)

Rating: (195 reviews)
Author: Jane Austen, Fiona Stafford
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Of all Jane Austen’s heroines, Emma Woodhouse is the most flawed, the most infuriating, and, in the end, the most endearing. Pride and Prejudice’s Lizzie Bennet has more wit and sparkle; Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey more imagination; and [...]