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  The Jungle

  by Upton Sinclair

  “Practically alone among the American writers of his generation,” wrote Edmund Wilson, “Sinclair put to the American public the fundamental questions raised by capitalism in such a way that they could not escape them.” When it was first published in 1906, The Jungle exposed the inhumane conditions of Chicago’s stockyards and the laborer’s struggle against industry and “wage slavery.” It was an immediate... (more)
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  Isaac Bell Adventure: Book 1

  The Chase

  by Clive Cussler

  For decades, Clive Cussler has been delighting readers with novels filled with suspense, action, and sheer audacity. Now he does it again, in one of the wildest, most entertaining historical thrillers in years. April 1950: The rusting hulk of a steam locomotive rises from the deep waters of a Montana lake. Inside is all that remains of three men who died forty-four years before. But it is not the engine or... (more)
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  The Bachelor Portraits

  by James Irwin Kruger

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  Josefine Mutzenbacher

  Die Lebensgeschichte einer wienerischen Dirne, von ihr selbst erzählt

  by Josefine Mutzenbacher

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  The Jungle

  by Peter Kuper

  Peter Kuper’s Classics Illustrated adaptation of Upton Sinclair's whistle-blowing novel on the conditions at the Chicago slaughter houses in the early 20th century is brought back to press in a beautiful larger size hardcover. One of his best and most poignant works.
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  In the Shadow of the Cypress

  by Thomas Steinbeck

  In 1906, the Chinese in California lived in the shadows. Their alien customs, traditions, and language hid what they valued from their neighbors . . . and left them open to scorn and prejudice. Their communities were ruled — and divided — by the necessity of survival among the many would-be masters surrounding them, by struggles between powerful tongs, and by duty to their ancestors. Then, in the wake of natural... (more)
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  Sherlock Holmes and the San Franciscan Affair

  by Jessica Griffin

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  Secret of the White Rose   [SECRET OF THE WHITE ROSE] [Hardcover]

  by Stefanie(Author) Pintoff

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  A Northern Light

  or, A Gathering Light

  by Jennifer Donnelly

  Sixteen-year-old Mattie Gokey has big dreams but little hope of seeing them come true. Desperate for money, she takes a job at the Glenmore, where hotel guest Grace Brown entrusts her with the task of burning a secret bundle of letters. But when Grace's drowned body is fished from the lake, Mattie discovers that the letters could reveal the grim truth behind a murder. Set in 1906 against the backdrop of the... (more)
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  A Crack in the Edge of the World

  America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

  by Simon Winchester

  Unleashed by ancient geologic forces, a magnitude 8.25 earthquake rocked San Francisco in the early hours of April 18, 1906. Less than a minute later, the city lay in ruins. Bestselling author Simon Winchester brings his inimitable storytelling abilities to this extraordinary event, exploring the legendary earthquake and fires that spread horror across San Francisco and northern California in 1906 as well as its... (more)
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  Beneath the Wheel

  by Hermann Hesse

  Hans Giebernath lives among the dull and respectable townsfolk of a sleepy Black Forest village. When he is discovered to be an exceptionally gifted student, the entire community presses him onto a path of serious scholarship. Hans dutifully follows the regimen of study and endless examinations, his success rewarded only with more crushing assignments. When Hans befriends a rebellious young poet, he begins to... (more)
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  Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß

  by Robert Musil

  Bei diesem Werk handelt es sich um eine urheberrechtsfreie Ausgabe. Der Kauf dieser Kindle-Edition beinhaltet die kostenlose, drahtlose Lieferung auf Ihren Kindle oder Ihre Kindle-Apps.
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  A companion to the Samantha Books

  Nellie's Promise

  by Valerie Tripp

  Grade 3-5–Nellie O'Malley lost both of her parents to influenza and she is charged with caring for her younger sisters, Bridget and Jenny. Forced to live with their vile Uncle Mike, who took their money and abandoned them, the girls ended up in an orphanage, where Nellie's friend Samantha found them and took them to live with her at her Uncle Gard and Aunt Cornelia's house. In this companion to the "Samantha"... (more)
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  Magic Tree House: Book 24

  Earthquake in the Early Morning

  by Mary Pope Osborne

  The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to San Francisco in 1906, in time for them to experience one of the biggest earthquakes the United States had ever known.
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  The Fire and the Gold

  by Phyllis A. Whitney

  On the eighteenth of April in 1906 a violent earthquake shook San Francisco. The fires that followed turned the city into a burning, smoky nightmare. That was the day Melora Cranby returned from Chicago. Unaware of the crisis ahead, her thoughts were on handsome Quent Seymour of Nob Hill. Their engagement must be broken when she reached home, however much it might disturb her mother.But in one day the... (more)