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  • An Enemy of the People
    Henrik Johan Ibsen
    An Enemy of the People addresses the irrational tendencies of the masses, and the hypocritical and corrupt nature of the political system that they support. It is the story of one brave man’s struggle to do the right thing and speak the truth in the face of extreme social intolerance. ...
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    17,88 €

  • A Child’s Journey Through a Broken World
    Lydia Elise Salvatore / Melodee Benner
    How have I become the person that I am today? Come take the journey through the eyes of me languishingly climbing up the steps of my childhood. Take a peek and explore the travails and triumphs as I was formed like a lump of clay is formed by a potter. The bend that forged my being was the unconditional love of my beloved Gramps and Granny. The chaos that surrounded my life sta...
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    8,89 €

  • Industrial Revolution
    Poul Anderson
    Ever think how deadly a thing it is if a machine has amnesia-or how easily it can be arranged . . . . Paul Anderson has woven a web of adventure, heroism, and revolution. Anderson asks the hard questions about our future. ...
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    20,63 €

  • Rollo in Holland
    Jacob Abbott
    Follow Rollo, and his friends, on their many adventures. You will have fun learning about subjects such as ethics, history, science, friendship and family. He will take you on adventures around the block, and around the globe! ...
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    20,54 €

  • Rollo on the Atlantic
    Jacob Abbott
    Follow Rollo, and his friends, on their many adventures. You will have fun learning about subjects such as ethics, history, science, friendship and family. He will take you on adventures around the block, and around the globe! ...
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    20,39 €

  • Planet Nightmare
    Murray Leinster
    In a far distant future mankind must cope with huge insects and titanic fungus growths. Life has been greatly altered, and Man is now in the process of becoming acclimated to the change. Burl, our hero, must not only deal with the huge insects and the terror that they inspire but with a far greater danger menacing the human race the deadly Red Dust. Preoccupied with staying ali...
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    20,28 €

  • Rollo on the Rhine
    Jacob Abbott
    Follow Rollo, and his friends, on their many adventures. You will have fun learning about subjects such as ethics, history, science, friendship and family. He will take you on adventures around the block, and around the globe! ...
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    20,42 €

  • Rollo at Work
    Jacob Abbott
    Follow Rollo, and his friends, on their many adventures. You will have fun learning about subjects such as ethics, history, science, friendship and family. He will take you on adventures around the block, and around the globe! ...
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    20,53 €

  • Rollo in London
    Jacob Abbott
    Follow Rollo, and his friends, on their many adventures. You will have fun learning about subjects such as ethics, history, science, friendship and family. He will take you on adventures around the block, and around the globe! ...
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    20,51 €

  • The Accused
    Harold R. Daniels / Harold RDaniels
    He stands before the court. The crime: Murder in the First Degree. The victime: his wife. They said he killed her. They didn’t say why. ...
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    20,26 €

  • The Sleeper Awakes
    H.G. Wells / H.GWells
    'Trying to cure his insomnia, Londoner Graham falls into a drug-induced coma in 1897… and wakes up 203 years later. He discovers a world in turmoil, a world shocked at his awakening, a world… that he owns.Thus begins H.G. Wells’ classic tale of a man out of time.Thrust into this new world, Graham becomes a symbol both for those who want to keep him as a figure head to maintain ...
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    25,29 €

  • THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
    F. Scott Fitzgerald / FScott Fitzgerald
    The powerful story of Benjamin Button, who starts his life as an old man and gradually becomes younger, is one of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s best known stories, and now a major motion picture.'This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain’s to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end. By trying the experiment up...
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    18,12 €

  • Tales of the Jazz Age
    F. Scott Fitzgerald / FScott Fitzgerald
    F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of America’s greatest writers. His novel The Great Gatsby remains on the bestseller lists 70 years after his death. Tales of the Jazz Age defined a generation. It was Fitzgerald himself who coined the phrase. He and his wife lived a decadent, fast-paced lifestyle that is reflected in his writing. ...
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    27,74 €

  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    The miracle of Sherlock Holmes is that for twenty-five pounds in 1887, Conan Doyle created a truly universal and immortal literary figure. Sherlock Holmes is a household word in virtually every country in the world. A few of Shakespeare’s characters are nearly that well known, probably Hamlet and McBeth. Other possible rivals include Robinson Crusoe, Dracula, Tarzan, and James ...
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    36,88 €

  • Tales of the Alhambra
    Irving Washington
    The Alhambra : a series of tales and sketches of the Moors and Spaniards was published in May 1832, Consisting of a series of essays and short fiction pieces, it was referred to as his 'Spanish Sketch Book.' In 1851 Irving wrote the 'Author’s Revised Edition', also titled Tales of the Alhambra. Tales of the Alhambra is a collection of essays, verbal sketches, and stories. ...
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    27,92 €

  • The Iliad & the Odyssey for Boys and Girls
    Alfred J. Church / Alfred JChurch
    The Iliad is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time. Set during the Trojan War, this timeless poem vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amid devastation and destruction. Homer’s tale is a compassionate view of human life lived under the shadow of suffering and death in the face of an oft...
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    24,01 €

  • Work
    Louisa May Alcott
    It is one of several nineteenth-century novels which uncovers the changes in women’s work in the new industrial era, as well as the dilemmas, tensions, and the meaning of that work. The story depicts the struggles of a young woman trying to support herself. The main character, Christie Devon, works outside the home in a variety of different jobs, but the end of her story marks ...
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    36,78 €

  • The Wonder Clock
    Howard Pyle
    Here Howard Pyle has compiled twenty-four marvelous tails. One for every hour of the day! ...
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    28,05 €

  • Sherlock Holmes
    Mark Twain
    A Double Barreled Detective Story by Mark Twain features Sherlock Holmes in the American west. Twain uses Sherlock Holmes to brilliantly parody the entire mystery genre. Holmes slavishly employs the scientific method to a ridiculous degree and to a widely incorrect conclusion while attempting to solve a crime. Holmes nephew, Fetlock Jones, provides us with Twain’s opinion of Ho...
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    14,18 €

  • Vanity Fair
    William Makepeace Thackeray
    The book’s title comes from John Bunyan’s allegorical story The Pilgrim’s Progress. Vanity fair refers to a stop along the pilgrim’s progress: a never-ending fair held in a town called Vanity, which is meant to represent man’s sinful attachment to worldly things. The novel is now considered a classic, and has inspired several film adaptations. ...
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    41,64 €

  • The Professor’s House
    Willa Cather
    Professor Godfrey St. Peter doesn’t like the new direction that his life has taken. When he and his wife move into their new house, he decides to keep his study at the old house so that he will not have to let go of the way life used to be. After a gas leak, causing a near death experience, that he almost welcomed, he realizes that he needs to find a new way to cope. ...
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    28,16 €

  • The Moorland Cottage
    Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
    A touching portrait of a complicated family. The Moorland Cottage is a story about a woman asked to give up her hopes and dreams to further her bother’s Gaskell expertly confronts the mores and social problems faced by Victorian women while highlighting their strength and grace. ...
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    20,50 €

  • The Martyr of the Catacombs
    Anonymous
    The Martyr of the Catacombs chronicles the treatment of early Christian’s by the Romans. A well written novel with a message. ...
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    20,55 €

  • The Lost Princess
    George MacDonald
    A wise woman kidnaps a spoiled Princess. As a result the Princess and her parents learn what is truly important. A story that asks whose fault is it when a child grows up to be selfish adult. ...
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    20,57 €

  • Islands of Space
    John W. Jr. Campbell / John WJrCampbell
    As Earth’s faster-than-light spaceship hung in the void between galaxies, Arcot, Wade, Morey and Fuller could see below them, like a vast shining horizon, the mass of stars that formed their own island universe. Morey worked a moment with his slide rule, then said, 'We made good time! Twenty-nine light years in ten seconds! Yet you had it on at only half power....' ...
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    27,97 €

  • Women in Love
    D. H. Lawrence / DHLawrence
    Women in Love is a sequel to The Rainbow. Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen are two sisters living in the Midlands of England in the 1910s. Ursula is a teacher, Gudrun an artist. They meet two men who live nearby, Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich. The four become friends. Ursula and Birkin become involved and Gudrun eventually begins a love affair with Gerald. All four are deeply concer...
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    36,34 €

  • Lost Illusions
    Honoré De Balzac
    Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multi-faceted characters; even his lesser characters are complex, morally ambiguous, and fully human. Inanimate objects are imbued with character as well; the city of Paris, a backdrop for much of his writing, takes on many human qualities. Lost Illusions concerns Lucien de Rubem...
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    35,81 €

  • Hidden Within the Bling
    Kathleen Jill Balota
    Socialite, Noel Noirty, suspects that her dashing husband is having an affair. Not only is she devastated, but she realizes that her status in the community is due to her husband's yacht dealership and not by her own contributions. Unwilling to confide to her gossipy friends, she turns to an unlikely acquaintance, Francine 'Fanny Pack' Pacque, a travelling business woman. F...
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    10,98 €

  • Go To It
    Deborah CSang / Deborah Sang
    Gee St. Canopy tells her own story as she sees it. Living in the Big Apple, New York City is everything Gee thought it would be. As a successful working woman enjoying an executive lifestyle, she is strong, independent, versatile, and family oriented.But the one thing she doesn’t have down pat, is the man.After a relationship gone bad, Gee takes on life as a single mother, hopi...
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    8,29 €

  • The Rise of the Serpents
    Raymond Tolman
    In this second volume of The Serpent Trilogy, following The Family at Serpiente, the history detectives discover the relationship between serpents and the ancient cultures of the Americas, uncovering the predictable histories of growth and collapse due to the serpents. Sensing imminent danger, Quetzalcoatl and Kulcalcan declare war on the human tribes throughout Aztlan, their a...
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    19,25 €


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