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  Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

  by T. S. Eliot

  T.S. Eliot’s famous collection of nonsense verse about cats.Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway and West End musical "Cats" was based on selections from this collection of poetry.
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  Riding the Rails

  Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression

  by Errol Lincoln Uys

  "There is no feeling in the world like sitting in a side-door Pullman and watching the world go by, listening to the clickety-clack of the wheels, hearing that old steam whistle blowing for crossings and towns."--George Phillips in Riding the Rails At the height of the Great Depression, 250,000 teenage hoboes were riding the rails and roaming America. Some left home out of desperation and went looking for work... (more)
• The Essential ComteStanislav Andreski

  

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  The Essential Comte

  Selected from Cours de Philosophie Positive

  by Stanislav Andreski

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  Operation Sea Lion

  by Peter Fleming

  In the summer of 1940 the Germans prepared to launch Operation Sea Lion, the invasion of England. The British, barely recovered from Dunkirk, rallied their defenses. Both sides operated in great secrecy and, because the invasion never took place, the dramatic preparations for what would have been one of the watershed battles of history faded from memory. Not, however, before Peter Fleming rescued this... (more)
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  Piddler on the Hoof

  by S.I. Fishgal

  A towering French dame totally ignores the law and environment, cheerfully smokes the sky and personifies the USA. A little Belgian schmendrick holds the same disregard, joyfully piddles the downtown and personifies the European Union. This novel's piddler personifies nobody and tactfully says nothing about Brussels' pee drinkers. History knows no shortest, most horrible and intense schlock than the Kursk Battle... (more)
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  Comments from a Tea Partier

  by IV Thomas G. Foster

  Tom Foster is a retired Special Forces Officer and a combat veteran of the war in El Salvador. In Comments from a Tea Partier – I guess if you’re not a Communist, you might be a mild Fascist, Tom vents his anger with our current politicians and identifies critical issues that should be the cornerstone of the 2010 elections. He makes a case for specific actions such as the repeal of the 16th Amendment and the... (more)
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  I am Lubo

  by Lou Pechi

  This is a true story of growing up, before, during, and after the Holocaust. It tells about his struggle, not only to survive, but also to keep his true identity throughout those difficult years. This is also an inspirational story that needs to be told. The story narrated through the eyes of a young boy, fascinated by the all the happenings yet unaware of the dangers that surround him. Despite all the fear,... (more)
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  The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

  by Umberto Eco, Geoffrey Brock

  Yambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer who lives in Milan, has suffered a loss of memory-he can remember the plot of every book he has ever read, every line of poetry, but he no longer knows his own name, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters, and remembers nothing about his parents or his childhood. In an effort to retrieve his past, he withdraws to the family home somewhere in the hills between Milan and... (more)
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  A Writer at War

  Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945

  by Antony Beevor, Vasily Grossman

  Edited and translated from the Russian by Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova Knopf Canada is proud to present a masterpiece of the Second World War, never before published in English, from one of the great Russian writers of the 20th century – a vivid eyewitness account of the Eastern Front and “the ruthless truth of war.” When the Germans invaded Russia in 1941, Vasily Grossman became a special correspondent for... (more)