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In all the pages of history there is no record of a struggle so unequal, so obstinately maintained, and so long contested as that by which the men of Holland and Zeeland won their right to worship God in their own way, and also--although this was but a secondary consideration with them--shook off the yoke of Spain and achieved their independence. The incidents of the contest were of a singularly dramatic character. Upon one side was the greatest power...
2) Clementina
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Alfred Edward Woodley Mason (7 May 1865 – 22 November 1948) was an English author and politician. He is best remembered for his 1902 novel of courage and cowardice in wartime, The Four Feathers and is also known as the creator of Inspector Hanaud, a French detective who was an early template for Agatha Christie's famous Hercule Poirot.
His prolific output in short stories and novels were frequently made and remade into films during his lifetime;...
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Afloat and Ashore is a nautical fiction novel by James Fenimore Cooper first published in 1844. Set in 1796-1804, the novel follows the maritime adventures of Miles Wallingford Jr. , the son of wealthy New York landowners who chooses to go to sea after the death of his parents. The novel ends abruptly part way through, and is followed by what critic Harold D. Langely called a "necessary" sequel Miles Wallingford, which resolves many thematic and plot...
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Excerpt from John Henry Smith: "A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life" John Henry Smith has requested me to revise and edit his diary, and, to use his own expression, "See if I can make some kind of a book from it." It was his idea that I should eliminate certain marked passages, and disguise others, so as to conceal the identity of the originals. Since Mr. Smith is abroad I can do as I please. Aside from renaming his characters, I have left them exactly...
5) Oddsfish!
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Oddsfish! (a title derived from King Charles' favorite epithet) is the last of Benson's historical romances and describes the plots and political movements of the closing scenes of the life of Charles II. Interwoven with the accurately portrayed events and places of the time are fictitious characters, including the narrator, Mr. Roger Mallock and his cousin and lady-love Dolly. Sent by Pope Innocent XI to Charles' court as a diplomatic representative...
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En este thriller histórico que se desarrolla en una línea temporal doble, la periodista de Seattle Alienor Crespo busca reconectarse con sus raíces sefardíes y viaja a España con la intención de obtener la ciudadanía ofrecida a los descendientes de los judíos expulsados en 1492. Mientras revive la historia a través de sus vijitas ( visitas) con sus antepasados, descubre en su árbol genealógico a familiares tanto judíos como musulmanes....
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As the War for Independence wore on into the 1780s, unrest ruled the Carolinas. Settlers who had cleared the land after the Cherokees withdrew were being mustered for battle as British forces pillaged their hard-won farms. Robert Morgan's stunning novel tells a story of two people caught in the chaos raging in the wilderness.
After sixteen-year-old Josie Summers murders her abusive stepfather, she runs away from home disguised as a boy. Lost in the...
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From WorldCat: "In 1860, with both parents dead, sixteen-year-old Tom, anxious to find a way to care for his sisters, begins a two-year adventure of danger and exploration when he leaves his native England to join his Uncle Harry and seek his fortune in the Rocky Mountain wilderness of Colorado."
From the Preface: "The marvellous canyons of the Colorado River extend through a country absolutely bare and waterless, and save the tales told by a few...
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Magic tree house volume 39
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"Jack and Annie are whisked away to Mongolia to meet the near-extinct little horses and their caretakers, but can they help protect the last of the horses from predators?"--
10) Father Goriot
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Father Goriot (1835) is a novel by French author Honoré de Balzac. An early work in his La Comédie humaine sequence, Father Goriot has since become one of Balzac's most critically and commercially successful novels. It contains several characters who appear throughout his other books and is considered to be the first novel in which he perfected his hallmark realist style.
The novel, set in Paris, follows Eugène de Rastignac, a young law student...
11) Her Own Legacy
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Her Own Legacy: A woman fights for her legacy and the lives of the four hundred families who depend upon her ancestors’ vineyard that produces the finest wines in France as the French Revolution erupts.
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A melancholic poet weathers tragedy, abuse, and self-doubt to keep a sacred promise.Included in the Lincoln Collection of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library. Seven-year-old Abraham Lincoln's boyhood dies when his father drags their family from the relative comfort of Kentucky into an unforgiving Indiana wilderness. While suffering rebuke for teaching himself to read and write, Abraham endures rumors of illegitimate birth, escapes death a half-dozen...
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In this book the design has been to portray man on a novel field of action, and to exhibit his dependence on the hand that does not suffer a sparrow to fall unheeded.
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Daughter of Faith, awake, arise, illume
The dread unknown, the chaos of the tomb
Melt, and dispel, ye spectre doubts that roll
Cimmerian darkness o'er the parting soul
Campbell.
Complete in One Volume.
1860
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James Edward Le Rossignol (24 October 1866 – 4 December 1959) was a Canadian-born American professor of economics with a particular interest in socialism, and also the author of several works of fiction with settings in Quebec.
James Edward Le Rossignol was born on 24 October 1866 in Quebec City, the son of Peter Le Rossignol and Mary (Gillispie) Le Rossignol. His father was born on the Jersey Channel Islands. He was educated at the Montreal High...
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Captain Frederick Marryat CB FRS[1] (10 July 1792 – 9 August 1848) was a Royal Navy officer, a novelist, and an acquaintance of Charles Dickens. He is noted today as an early pioneer of nautical fiction, particularly for his semi-autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy (1836). He is remembered also for his children's novel The Children of the New Forest (1847), and for a widely used system of maritime flag signalling known as Marryat's Code.-...
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John Gibson Lockhart (12 June 1794 – 25 November 1854) was a Scottish writer and editor. He is best known as the author of the seminal, and much-admired, seven-volume biography of his father-in-law Sir Walter Scott: Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott.
Between 1818 and 1825 Lockhart worked indefatigably. In 1819 Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk appeared, and in 1822 he edited Peter Motteux's edition of Don Quixote, to which he prefixed a life...
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Mateo Alemán y del Nero (September 1547–1615?) was a Spanish novelist and writer. The initial installment of his most celebrated work, 'Guzmán de Alfarache', appeared in 1599. It is a picaresque novel which was printed in sixteen editions over the next five years. The original volume was translated into French in 1600, into Italian in 1606, into German in 1615, into English (initially) in 1622 by James Mabbe, and into Latin in 1623. This etext,...
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Mateo Alemán y del Nero (September 1547–1615?) was a Spanish novelist and writer. The initial installment of his most celebrated work, 'Guzmán de Alfarache', appeared in 1599. It is a picaresque novel which was printed in sixteen editions over the next five years. The original volume was translated into French in 1600, into Italian in 1606, into German in 1615, into English (initially) in 1622 by James Mabbe, and into Latin in 1623. This etext,...
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Mateo Alemán y del Nero (September 1547–1615?) was a Spanish novelist and writer. The initial installment of his most celebrated work, 'Guzmán de Alfarache', appeared in 1599. It is a picaresque novel which was printed in sixteen editions over the next five years. The original volume was translated into French in 1600, into Italian in 1606, into German in 1615, into English (initially) in 1622 by James Mabbe, and into Latin in 1623. This etext,...
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"The mind and the soul are not in the keeping of king nor priest. No man has a lordship over another man's conscience. All history has proved that." - William of Orange
Here is a fascinating historical novel for teenagers and adults about one of the greatest heroes of all time. William of Orange, considered today the father of Europe (and who can also fittingly be called the step-father of North America and the whole free western world) sets the...
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