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  The Seer of Shadows

  by Avi

  A young boy, Horace, is an apprentence of a photographer in 19th century New York City. One day the photographer, Mr. Middleditch, decides to play a trick on one of the customers. He wants to add a gostly image of the customers duaghter, Elenora, who has recently passed away. To do this however he needs Horace to secretly gets pictures of the girl's portraits around the house. He soon runs into Pegg, the servant... (more)
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  Frankenstein

  or, The Modern Prometheus

  by Mary Shelley

  A monster assembled by an eccentric scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.
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  Sarah Plain and Tall: Book 1

  Sarah, Plain and Tall

  by Patricia MacLachlan

  "Did Mama sing every day?" Caleb asks his sister Anna. "Every-single-day," she answers. "Papa sang, too." Their mother died after Caleb was born. Their house on the prairie is quiet now, and Papa doesn't sing anymore. Then Papa puts an ad in the paper, asking for a wife, and he receives a letter from one Sara Elisabeth Wheaton, of Maine. Papa, Ana, and Caleb write back. Caleb asks if she sings. Sarah desides... (more)
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  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn: Book 2

  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  by Mark Twain

  Mark Twain's classic novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, tells the story of a teenaged misfit who finds himself floating on a raft down the Mississippi River with an escaping slave, Jim. In the course of their perilous journey, Huck and Jim meet adventure, danger and a cast of characters who are sometimes menacing and often hilarious. Though some of the situations in Huckleberry Finn are funny in themselves... (more)
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  The 19th Wife

  by David Ebershoff

  Jordan returns from California to Utah to visit his mother in jail. As a teenager he was expelled from his family and religious community, a secretive Mormon offshoot sect. Now his father has been found shot dead in front of his computer, and one of his many wives - Jordan's mother - is accused of the crime.Over a century earlier, Ann Eliza Young, the nineteenth wife of Brigham Young, Prophet and Leader... (more)
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  Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

  by Edgar Allan Poe

  This single volume brings together all of Poe's stories and poems, and illuminates the diverse and multifaceted genius of one of the greatest and most influential figures in American literary history.
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  Sense and Sensibility

  by Jane Austen

  'Young women who have no economic or political power must attend to the serious business of contriving material security.' Jane Austen's sardonic humour lays bare the stratagems, the hypocrisy and the poignancy inherent in the struggle of two very different sisters to achieve respectability. "Sense and Sensibility" is a delightful comedy of manners in which the sisters Elinor and Marianne represent these two... (more)
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  Dracula

  by Bram Stoker

  When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula purchase a London house he makes horrifying and unbelievable discoveries in his client's castle. In the ensuing battle of wits between the sinister Count and a determined group of adversaries, Bram Stoker presents a classic gothic horror that continues to inspire vampire myths to this day.
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  War and Peace

  by Leo Tolstoy

  War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Pre-reform Russian: «Война и миръ») is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, published in 1869. The work is epic in scale and is considered one of the most celebrated works of fiction. It is regarded as Tolstoy's finest literary achievement, along with his other famous work Anna Karenina (1873–1877).War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events leading up to... (more)
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  Great Expectations

  by Charles Dickens

  Great Expectations, described by G. K. Chesterton as a “study in human weakness and the slow human surrender,” may be called Charles Dickens' finest moment in a remarkably illustrious literary career. Written in the last decade of his life, Great Expectations reveals Dickens’ dark attitudes toward Victorian society, its inherent class structure and its materialism. Yet this novel persists as one of Dickens’ most... (more)
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  Heart of a Samurai

  by Margi Preus

  After a horrific storm strikes the small boat of the young boy, Manjiro, and the rest of the fishermen on board are forced to find shelter outside of their own homeland. These lowly Japanese fishermen board a large ship referred to as the John Howland, by the commands of the captain of this ship and his crew from America who had rescued them from the island they got stranded on. Captain Whitfield starts to... (more)
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  Day of Tears

  A Novel in Dialogue

  by Julius Lester

  On March 2 and 3, 1859, the largest auction of slaves in American history took place in Savannah, Georgia. More than 400 slaves were sold. On the first day of the auction, the skies darkened and torrential rain began falling. The rain continued throughout the two days, stopping only when the auction had ended. The simultaneity of the rain storm with the auction led to these two days being called " the weeping... (more)
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  Crime and Punishment

  by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. This was first published in the Russian literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866. It was later published in a single volume. This is the second of Dostoevsky's full-length novels following his return from five years of exile in Siberia, where he was serving his sentence in Katorga camps, the Tsarist... (more)
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  Persuasion

  by Jane Austen

  Anne Elliot is living under the spectre of regret. Many years ago, she was convinced to break off an engagement to a penniless Mr. Frederick Wentworth. Now, he has returned as the rich and successful Captain Wentworth, hero of the Napoleonic War. How will Anne bear seeing him be the admirer of a young and beautiful relative? Will her quiet and shy nature deny her a second chance at love?
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  The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg

  by Rodman Philbrick

  Master storyteller Rodman Philbrick takes readers on a colorful journey as young Homer Figg sets off to follow his brother into the thick of the Civil War. Through a series of fascinating events, Homer's older brother has been illegally sold to the Union Army. It is up to Homer to find him and save him. Along the way, he encounters strange but real people of that era: two tricksters who steal his money, a... (more)
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  Anna Karenina

  by Leo Tolstoy

  Anna Karenina (Russian: Анна Каренина; Russian pronunciation: <ˈanə kɐˈrʲenʲɪnə>) (sometimes Anglicised as Anna Karenin) is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. Tolstoy clashed with its editor Mikhail Katkov over issues that arose in the final installment; therefore, the novel's first complete appearance was in... (more)
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  Asian Saga: Book 2

  Tai-Pan

  by James Clavell

  Dirk Straun, a pirate, smuggler, and ruthless individual, finds glory beyond his dreams as the Tai-Pan, or supreme leader, of Hong Kong. Reissue.
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  The Devil in the White City

  Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

  by Erik Larson

  Bringing Chicago circa 1893 to vivid life, Erik Larson's spellbinding bestseller intertwines the true tale of two men--the brilliant architect behind the legendary 1893 World's Fair, striving to secure America’s place in the world; and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their death. Combining meticulous research with nail-biting storytelling, Erik Larson has crafted a narrative... (more)
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  Moby-Dick

  or, The Whale

  by Herman Melville

  Written with wonderfully redemptive humor, Moby Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. Their story ends with disaster as things steadily go bad.
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  The Birchbark House: Book 1

  The Birchbark House

  by Louise Erdrich

  "<In this> story of a young Ojibwa girl, Omakayas, living on an island in Lake Superior around 1847, Louise Erdrich is reversing the narrative perspective used in most children's stories about nineteenth-century Native Americans. Instead of looking out at 'them' as dangers or curiosities, Erdrich, drawing on her family's history, wants to tell about 'us', from the inside. The Birchbark House establishes its... (more)