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W. E. B. Du Boiss seminal treatise on the African American experienceThe problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line.W. E. B. Du Bois was arguably the most progressive African American leader of the early twentieth century, and this collection of essays is his masterpiece. An examination of the black experience in America following emancipation, and an introduction to the historic concept of double-consciousness as it pertains to that experience, The Souls of Black Folk is an extraordinary literary achievementa provocative, profound, and courageous clarion call.This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

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The novel that introduced the first great American hero: the cowboyThe Virginian cuts an impressive figure when the unnamed narrator of Owen Wisters groundbreaking novel first encounters him in Medicine Bow, Wyoming. Dark-haired and physically imposing, the charismatic Virginian quickly befriends the narrator, whom he nicknames the tenderfoot, and the two embark on a three-hundred-mile journey to the ranch where the Virginian works. Life on the frontier is unforgivingfilled with hardship and violenceand as they travel together, the tenderfoot recognizes all the ways in which the stoic and principled Virginian exemplifies the heroism and romance of life in the Wild West.Published in 1902 and considered to be the first true Western, The Virginian broke the trail for every great poet of the frontier, from Zane Grey to Louis LAmour to John Ford.This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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The most infamous of horror storiesa disturbing examination of mans capacity for evilOne pitch-black London morning, a ghoulish little man tramples a young girl and continues heedlessly on his way. Caught by a passerby and returned to the scene of the crime, the man is forced to pay 100 in restitution. He produces ten pounds in gold and a check for the remainder. Curiously, the check bears the signature of the well-regarded Dr. Henry Jekyll. Even stranger, Dr. Jekylls will names this same awful and mysterious little man, Mr. Hyde, as the sole beneficiary. Troubled by the coincidence, Dr. Jekylls attorney visits his client. What he uncovers is a tale so strange and terrifying it has seeped into the very fabric of our consciousness.An immediate success upon its publication in 1886 and a cultural touchstone to this day, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is one of the most disturbing stories ever told.  This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

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An epic adventure and one of the most enduring fables in Western literatureEdmond Dantes has a life that any man would envy. A promising young sailor about to be made a captain, he has come home to Marseille to marry his beautiful fiancee, Mercedes. But on the eve of his wedding, Dantes is betrayed, accused of treason, and sentenced without trial to life in prison. For the first six years, Dantes can only mourn his stolen future and dwell on the treachery that landed him behind bars. On the verge of suicide, he meets a fellow prisoner who gives him not just an education in revenge, but the means to accomplish it, as well. After an ingenious escape, Dantes recovers a hidden treasure and returns to Marseille as the Count of Monte Cristo, a man whose unlimited resources are matched only by his boundless thirst for vengeance.An illuminating portrait of early nineteenth-century France and a timeless tale of justice achieved, The Count of Monte Cristo has inspired numerous adaptations, from comic books and Broadway plays to the hit TV series Revenge.

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Sometimes love comes when you least expect it . . .Between her career and raising her sisters orphaned little boys, industrial-planning consultant Jan Harper doesnt have time for romance. Famous last words. From the moment she meets tall, dark, swoon-worthy Kevin Toliver, she is in danger of losing the one thing she swore never again to give: her heart.When he walked into the boardroom of Toliver, Inc., Kevin was expecting a mannot a wholesome beauty with painful memories. But the New York entrepreneur is quickly drawn to Jan, even following her back to Pleasant Valley, Colorado, to offer the promotion of a lifetime. Try as she might, Jan cant deny the powerful attraction between them. Can Kevin help her move beyond the secrets of her past and find that special place where love can thrive and bloom?Recipient of the Washington Romance Writers Outstanding Achievement Award.This ebook features an extended biography of Mary Kay McComas.

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The novel that T. S. Eliot called the first, the longest, and the best of the modern English detective novelsGuarded by three Brahmin priests, the Moonstone is a religious relic, the centerpiece in a sacred statue of the Hindu god of the moon. It is also a giant yellow diamond of enormous value, and its temptation is irresistible to the corrupt John Herncastle, a colonel in the British Army in India. After murdering the three guardian priests and bringing the diamond back to England with him, Herncastle bequeaths it to his niece, Rachel, knowing full well that danger will follow. True to its enigmatic nature, the Moonstone disappears from Rachels room on the night of her eighteenth birthday, igniting a mystery so intricate and thrilling it has set the standard for every crime novel of the past one hundred fifty years.Widely recognized, alongside the stories of Edgar Allan Poe, as establishing many of the most enduring conventions of detective fiction, The Moonstone is Wilkie Collinss masterwork and one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century.This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

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The classic tale of terrorism from one of the twentieth centurys greatest novelists To his friends and family Adolf Verloc is a typical London businessman. But in reality he is a secret agent for a foreign government. His assignment has been to stir up trouble among the local anarchist groups, but when his handlers become frustrated with his lack of progress, they demand a new course of action: Verloc will bomb the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. A masterpiece of intricate plotting and dark realism, The Secret Agent skips backward and forward in time as the repercussions of its central event are felt by every characterfrom the radicals who think Verloc is one of their own to the wife and brother-in-law he traps in his whirlwind of destruction. This is one of Joseph Conrads finest novels, and a portrait of the devastating effects of extremism, as relevant today as when it was first published more than a century ago. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

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Featuring twins, triplets, and multiple identities, this is a whimsical, romantic tale about the perils of living someone elses lifeIt starts when Katherine Ashers sister makes a date with two different men. When she asks her triplet to take her place with one of them, Katherine tells herself this is the last time she will agree to a bait and switch. That is, until the take-no-prisoners attorney meets her date. Architect John Wesley is nice, well mannered . . . and drop-dead gorgeous. And he thinks hes kissing her sister Corrie!  Pretending to be his twin brother has its occasional perks, but meeting Corrie makes Peter wish he had gotten there first. When he finds out who she really iswith two sisters who are mirror images of one anotherhe realizes that he and Katherine have a lot in common. Until they find themselves on opposite sides of an explosive case.  The One for Me is a delightful story of love and romance . . . and being yourself.This ebook features an extended biography of Mary Kay McComas.

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In a world of rapidly changing values and traditions, an Indian woman enters into an arranged marriage to a man she barely knows and moves to distant CanadaThirty-year-old Nina is an English teacher living alone in Jangpura, India. With diminishing prospects, she agrees to an arranged union. Her groom is the Indian-born Ananda, who lives in Canada. He once dreamed of becoming a doctor but settled for dentistry. He is lonely, and also in want of a spouse.Their life together is not what either expected. Unable to find work teaching in Nova Scotia, Nina takes a job at the local library. Ananda is troubled by his own response to the sexual aspects of their relationship. Assimilating into a new culture pales in comparison to the trials of marriageits ups and downs, its inevitable compromises . . . and the temptations of illicit passion.

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An inside look at the high-stakes trading floors of major financial exchanges and the men and women who hold the chipsSonny Kleinfield spent months with individual traders on five of Americas biggest financial exchanges. The investors he followed are the ultimate gamblers, trading only for themselves, not for clients, and sometimes going all in on stocks, options, and, ultimately, their own futures. These mavericks display a unique intensity and a savage brand of competitiveness. Acclaimed reporter Kleinfield gets inside their minds and worlds, showing what drives them to a stressful, high-stakes profession.From the trading floors of the New York Stock Exchange, Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Commodity Exchange Center, and American Stock Exchange, Kleinfield delivers a riveting portrait of a dying breed of go-for-broke entrepreneurs. Readers feel the frenzied excitement of the brokers and traders, and gain access to a risky, adrenaline-charged world where fortunes come and go in a single moment.

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A look inside New Yorks icon of luxury: Reading [The Hotel] is at least as enjoyableand certainly less expensivethan staying at the Plaza (Publishers Weekly). When it opened its doors in 1907, the Plaza was considered the worlds finest luxury hotel. Since then, the grand building at the southern tip of Central Park has hosted kings and queens, the rich and famous, and countless world leaders. And like any hotel, it has seen its share of crimes, suicides, and drunken mayhem as well.   A fascinating read for fans of Stephen Birminghams Life at the Dakota or Justin Kaplans When the Astors Owned New York, this book combines Manhattan history with a guided behind-the-scenes tour, interviewing the hospitality industry employees who tote the luggage, change the light bulbs, and clean the rooms. From a Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist who has written for the New York Times and Rolling Stone, The Hotel offers the kind of day-to-day detail that brings the Fifth Avenue French Renaissance landmark to vivid, colorful life.

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Poetry from a writer celebrated as one of the most distinctive voices of her generationAmong the thirty-five poems in Skylight are sonnets, sestinas, and free verse forms on topics ranging from politics to architecture and science. In one volume, Muske-Dukes, National Book Award finalist and former Poet Laureate of California, incorporates multitudes, unified by her lyrical style and rapier-sharp observations. The sonnet Fireflies explores a strained relationship that is healed, for one moment, in a nighttime walk lit by the pulsing signals of firefly life. The Funeral confronts the stark playground atmosphere in the wake of a childs funeral. In the melancholy and unforgettable title poem, an apartment in the sky in New York City spins before the readers eyes.

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Consumed by her pursuit of a Theory of Everything, a brilliant California scientist struggles to deal with life in and outside the labDoctor Esme Charbonneau Tallichs passion is cosmology, the science of the origin of the universe; specifically, she is searching for a TOE, or a Theory of Everything. Esme is a feminist maverick, a rogue thinker. Hired as a professor of molecular biology at the University of Greater California, she prefers the bench science of organic chemistry at one extreme and walking out into space at the other. Her marriage to a TV director and aspiring stand-up comedian is rocky. Esmes five-year-old daughter, Ollie, the sun in her galaxy, seems an enigma. Too readily diagnosed by professionals as challenged, even possibly autistic, she is, like Esme, a renegade thinker and creative mind. Her use of language is poetic, not deficit driven or conventional.As her marriage dissolves, Esmes struggle to maintain custody of Ollie and autonomy for herself and her work is set against the backdrop of the beckoning cosmos. Her tantalizing closeness to discovery of a grand unified theoryas psychiatric professionals, lawyers, and Esmes estranged husband also close in on Ollie, seeking to medicate and restructure herheightens tension while also offering hope. The discovery that Esme seeks is twofold: enlightenment and equilibrium in the troubled universes of her personal and professional lives. Saving St. Germ is a provocative, dramatic look at a single mothers life at the edge of the universeand the center of the human heart.

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A con man takes to the road with a blond drifter, trying to stay one step ahead of a vengeful killer in this chilling thriller from New York Timesbestselling author John LutzLou Roebuck couldnt tell the truth if his life depended on it. If he could, he might not have lost his job and his wife, or ended up driving over his old nemesis, Ingrahm, in his Thunderbird. Now Roebucks a thief and a murderer on the run with nobody to listen to his tall tales but Ellie, a pretty blonde whos looking for excitement. Theyll have to keep moving, though, because not only are the cops dangerously close behind, but Ingrahms cold killer friend, Gipp, is coming after them as well. Roebucks going to have to do some pretty fast talking if he and Ellie want to keep breathing. And if he cant lie his way out of this one, hes going to find himself lying in an early grave.A true master of suspense, John Lutz dazzles with a breakneck thriller that has more twists and turns than a winding country road. The Truth of the Matter is a bravura display of Lutzs justifiably acclaimed storytelling prowess.

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The Objective Behind-the-Scenes Account of the Shocking Attempted Murder Case

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The true story of heiress Sunny von Bulows coma and the attempted-murder trial of her husband, Clausthe case that inspired the film Reversal of Fortune. On December 21, 1980, millionaire socialite Sunny Von Bulow was found unconscious on her bathroom floor. She would remain in a coma for twenty-seven years. Although her condition appeared to be the result of hypoglycemia, Sunnys children suspected their stepfather, the debonair Claus Von Bulow, of attempting to murder his wife and abscond with her fortune. Claus went on trial for attempted murder in 1982, initiating a legal circus that would last for years. In the greatest society trial of the twentieth century, the opulence of Newport and New York provides a backdrop for one of the most intriguing family feuds of all time. In this comprehensive account of the trial and its aftermath, Wright draws on court transcripts and interviews with those involved to present an unparalleled behind-the-scenes look into the legal proceedings as well as the Von Bulows private lives. This ebook contains photos.

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The Civil War alters life for a Louisiana plantation mistress and a poor seamstress in this novel by the New York Timesbestselling author of Jubilee Trail.   Corrie May Upjohn stands on the levee, watching men unload the riverboats and wishing she could travel far away. A poor preachers daughter, she is only fourteen and her life is already laid out for her: marriage in a year or two, and then decades of drudgery.   At nearby Ardeith Plantation, Ann Sheramy Larne lives in luxury, but feels just as imprisoned as Corrie May. Their lives could not be more different, but when the horrors of war and Reconstruction come to Louisiana and the Old South begins to fall, these two women will band together to survive.   From the bestselling author of Calico Palace, this is the second novel in the poignant Plantation Trilogy, which also includes Deep Summer and This Side of Glory.

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Two award-winning masters of crime fiction, Bill Pronzini and John Lutz, join forces for a chilling tale of a serial killer who targets the residents of a single city block on Manhattans Upper West Side Lewis Collier watches the people living on West 98th Street through his telescope, the Eye of God, ready to mete out the ultimate punishment for every perceived sin. Those who transgress must suffer and die, and no one is safenot the building superintendent or his junk collector friend, not the musician or the brave and beautiful woman who has struggled back from a nightmare of pain and brutality.   Detective E. L. Oxman of the NYPD is assigned to investigate the bloody horror that has descended on the frightened residents of the terrorized neighborhood. But Oxmans adulterous attraction to Jennifer, an abuse survivor, has caught Colliers attention. And all sin is punishable by death.   Separately, Bill Pronzini and John Lutz have won numerous prizes for their acclaimed mystery and suspense novels, including the coveted Edgar and Shamus Awards, two of crime fictions most prestigious honors. With The Eye, these giants of the mystery genre have combined their remarkable talents in a truly unforgettable collaboration.  

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A wife and mother grapples with love and loss in World War IIera Hollywood in a New York Timesbestselling authors emotional tour de force. For two decades, Elizabeth Herlong has been a devoted wife, supporting her husband as he built an empire in Hollywoods budding motion picture industry. But far from the bright glamour of her current life, World War II rages in Europe, forcing Elizabeth to remember her past, awakening feelings and longings she thought she would never experience again. Most of all, she fears for her eldest son, who will turn eighteen in less than a year and have to enlist in the army.   Then one night, Elizabeths husband introduces her to a German screenwriter hes been working with. Erich Kessler is a disabled veteran of World War I attempting to make a new life for himself. Something in his face stirs Elizabeths heartsetting her on a journey of discovery about the meaning of true love and the things that war cannot destroy.   Made into a film starring Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles, and Natalie Wood, this is a novel of a woman haunted by the shadows of war both past and present, from the New York Timesbestselling author of Jubilee Trail, Deep Summer, and other acclaimed novels.  

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A uniquely witty novel exploring sex, freedom, and the process of growing upSydney Skate considers himself shockproof. For as long as he can remember, hes known that his fashionable Manhattan mother is secretly a lesbian, although hes never let on that he knows. He spends his summer days caring for snakes at the local pet shop before leaving for college at Cornell, shrugging off his fathers demands that he skip college and join the exciting world of swimming pool sales for suburbanites.Far from throwing himself into work, Sydney cant seem to keep his thoughts from wandering to women. He has memorized the sex scenes of every book hes ever read in order to better seduce the opposite gender. When hes called to help remove a snake from a bathtub that belongs to the gorgeous and sophisticated Alison Gray, everything changes. But nothing could prepare him for his glamorous mother sweeping the girl of his dreams off her feet.This hypnotizing coming-of-age story captures the timeless ecstasies and struggles of adolescence, and has been a classic of lesbian literature since it was first published in 1973. Hailed as the Catcher in the Rye of the seventies, Shockproof Sydney Skate exposes the confusion of its time and remains keenly relevant to the sexual absurdities of today.This ebook features an illustrated personal history of Marijane Meaker including rare images from the authors collection. 

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A vanished corpse leads a hard-drinking PI on a madcap chaseMore than forty corpses fill the cold Chicago basement, but no crime has been committed here. After all, there are supposed to be bodies in the city morgue. Tonight, one is attracting particular attention: a beautiful young woman whose apparent suicide captured the imagination of every newspaper editor in town. Learning how and why she died is too great a task for any cub reporter. Only Detective Bill Crane is up to the job.A few minutes after Crane wakes from a nap in the morgue, the mysterious womans body has disappeared. With the howls of the mental patients as a soundtrack, Crane leads the police on a wild search through the hospital and across Chicago, stopping for a nap or a cocktail whenever the situation demands. It may be a matter of life and death, but that is no reason to rush.