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  Come On Seabiscuit!

  Ralph Moody

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  During the Great Depression, Seabiscuit captured American hearts from the soup kitchens to the White House. In this classic story, Ralph Moody recounts the true story of a plucky horse that refused to quit, a down-on-his-luck jockey determined to help his horse win, and the trainer who brought out the best in both.

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  Far Flies the Eagle

  Evelyn Anthony

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  Imperial Russia’s Czar Alexander I battles Napoleon for control of Europe   After declaring himself Emperor of France following a sweeping victory in Europe, General Napoleon Bonaparte, the son of a poor Corsican lawyer, is ready for his next conquest. He has no doubt that he can defeat Austria, and is confident that Russia will soon follow. After all, he triumphed in revolution and recast an empire. What has he to fear from the twenty-nine-year-old czar of a barbaric country?   The grandson of Catherine the Great, Alexander I is tall, irresistibly handsome, and known for his liberal leanings and winning ways with women who are not his wife. He ascended to the throne by murdering his father and is now determined to vanquish the French emperor. Napoleon will soon learn that he has a formidable adversary in Alexander.   Sweeping from St. Petersburg to Paris, from the Kremlin to the battlefield, and filled with historic authenticity, Far Flies the Eagle offers a fascinating glimpse into the Romanov family, including the controversy surrounding Alexander’s relationship with his beautiful, power-hungry sister, the Grand Duchess Catherine, whom Napoleon considers marrying if he can rid himself of his years-older wife Josephine.  Far Flies the Eagle is the 3rd book in the Romanov Trilogy, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

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  So Many Kingdoms

  Jeanne Williams

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  THEY CAME IN SEARCH OF A DREAM. THEY FOUND A KINGDOM OF EXOTIC BEAUTY, DANGEROUS PASSION...AND ETERNAL LOVE. Brazil...lush with jungles, rich with gold...a wild and mysterious land that lured generations of men and women with visions of glory – to be caught in a crossfire of passion, danger, and betrayal as they struggled to hold on to their dreams in the turbulent land that was their heritage. One family, would pass down a mighty legacy. Rachel, a brave and beautiful orphan survived the cruel lust of a ruthless Brazilian slave owner, until a renegade sea captain set her free and claimed her passionate heart forever. Her daughters and their daughters would be the women willing to stand against the world...to live forever in paradise with the men they loved.

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  The Nightingale's Angel - An...

  Jamie Davis

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  An Angel, a Valkyrie, and a Vampire Army in the 1850's Crimea. 
  Someone is harvesting souls from the battlefields of the Crimea, turning dying soldiers into a vampire army. The leaders of nearby Constantinople are calling in the hunter clans to cleanse their city, even if it means killing all the law-abiding creatures living among their human neighbors. 
  British nurse, Florence Nightingale, summons her old friend, an angel and fellow nurse, to find the source of the vampires in her hospital. Ashley Moore, together with her Valkyrie sister, Ingrid, begins the hunt for clues. They must track down the rogue vampire and stop him before it's too late. 
  This spinoff from the best-selling Extreme Medical Services series by author Jamie Davis, is an exciting look at the past of angel Ashley Moore. Ashley travels through history, helping the best healers in each age bridge the gap between the human and paranormal worlds. 
  Click now to buy The Nightingale's Angel.

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  Moriarty Takes His Medicine

  Anna Castle

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  Professor & Mrs. Moriarty tackle a case too ticklish for Sherlock Holmes to handle on his own. 
  James and Angelina Moriarty are settling into their new marriage and their fashionable new home — or trying to.Then Sherlock Holmes comes to call with a challenging case. He suspects a prominent Harley Street specialist of committing murders for hire, sending patients home from his private hospital with deadly doses or fatal conditions. Holmes wants to investigate, but the doctor’s clientele is exclusively female. He needs Angelina’s help. 
  While Moriarty, Holmes, and Watson explore the many ways a doctor can murder patients with impunity, Angelina poses as a nervous woman seeking treatment from their primary suspect. Then half-truths and angry words drive James and Angelina apart, sending her deep into danger. They must find the courage to trust each other as they race the clock to win justice for the murdered women before they become victims themselves.

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  Mark Twain - Collected Works

  Mark Twain

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  Mark Twain - a great collection. Including:
  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
   The innocents abroad
   Mark twain's (burlesque) auto-biography
   First romance 
   Roughing it 
   The gilded age (with charles dudley warner)
   Sketches new and old
   My watch
   Political economy
   The jumping frog
   Journalism in Tennessee
   The story of the bad little boy
   The story of the good little boy
   A couple of poems by twain and moore
   Niagara
   Answers to correspondents
   To raise poultry 
   Experience of the McWilliamses with membranous croup
   My first literary venture
   How the author was sold in Newark
   The office bore
   Johnny Greer
   The facts in the case of the great beef contract 
   Disgraceful persecution of a boy
   The judges "spirited woman"
   Information wanted
   Some learned fables, for good old boys and girls
   My late senatorial secretaryship
   A fashion item
   Riley-newspaper correspondent 
   A fine old man
   Science vs. Luck
   The late Benjamin Franklin
   Mr. Bloke's item
   A medieval romance
   Petition concerning copyright 
   After-dinner speech
   Lionizing murderers
   A new crime
   A curious dream
   A true story
   The siamese twins
   Speech at the Scottish banquet in London
   A ghost story
   The capitoline venus
   Speech on accident insurance
   How i edited an agricultural paper
   The petrified man
   My bloody massacre
   The undertaker's chat 
   Concerning chambermaids
   Aurelia's unfortunate young man
   "after" jenkins
   About barbers
   "party cries" in Ireland
   The facts concerning the recant resignation
   History repeats itself
   Honored as a curiosity
   First interview kith artemus ward
   Cannibalism in the cars
   The killing of julius caesar "localized"
   The widow's protest 
   The scriptural panoramist 
   Curing a cold
   A curious pleasure excursion
   Running for governor
   A mysterious visit 
   The curious republic of gondour and other whimsical sketches
   The curious republic of gondour
   A memory
   Introductory to "memoranda".
   About smells
   A couple of sad experiences
   Dan murphy
   The "tournament" in a.d. 1870
   Curious relic for sale
   A reminiscence of the back settlements
   A royal compliment 
   The approaching epidemic
   The tone-imparting committee
   Our precious lunatic
   The european war
   The wild man interviewed
   Last words of great men
   1601—conversation at the social fireside of the tudors
   The facts concerning the recent carnival of crime in connecticut 
   The adventures of tom sawyer
   The loves of alonzo fitz clarence and rosannah ethelton and other stories
   The loves of alonzo fitz clarence and rosannah ethelton
   On the decay of the art of lying
   About magnanimous-incident literature
   The grateful poodle
   The benevolent author
   The grateful husband
   Punch, brothers, punch
   The great revolution in pitcairn
   The canvasser's tale
   An encounter with an interviewer
   Paris notes
   Legend of Sagenfeld, in Germany
   Speech on the babies
   Speech on the weather
   Rogers
   Some rambling notes of an idle excursion
   The stolen white elephant 
   A tramp abroad
   The prince and the pauper
   Life on the mississippi
   A connecticut yankee in King Arthur's court 
   The american claimant 
   Extracts from adam's diary
   In defense of harriet shelley
   Fennimore cooper's literary offences
   Essays on Paul Bourget 
   Tom Sawyer abroad
   The tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
   Those extraordinary twins
   Personal recollections of Joan of Arc
   Tom Sawyer, detective
   Following the equator, a journey around the world
   The man that corrupted hadleyburg and other stories
   The man that corrupted hadleyburg
   My first lie, and how i got out of it 
   The esquimaux maiden's romance
   Christian science and the book of mrs. Eddy
   Is he living or is he dead?
   My debut as a literary person
   At the appetite-cure
   Concerning the jews
   From the 'london times' of 1904
   About play-acting
   Travelling with a reformer
   Diplomatic pay and clothes
   Luck
   The captain's story
   Stirring times in austria
   Meisterschaft 
   My boyhood dreams
   To the above old people
   In memoriam—olivia susan clemens
   What is man and other essays
   What is man?
   The death of Jean
   The turning-point of my life
   How to make history dates stick
   The memorable assassination
   A scrap of curious history
   Switzerland, the cradle of liberty
   At the shrine of St. Wagner
   William Dean Howells
   English as she is taught 
   A simplified alphabet 
   As concerns interpreting the deity
   Concerning tobacco
   Taming the bicycle
   Is Shakespeare dead?
   The mysterious stranger and other stories
   The mysterious stranger
   A fable
   Hunting the deceitful turkey
   The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm
   A double barreled detective
   The $30,000 bequest and other stories 
   A dog's tale
   Was it heaven? Or hell?
   A cure for the blues
   The enemy conquered; or, love triumphant 
   The californian's tale
   A helpless situation
   A telephonic conversation
   Edward Mills and George Benton: a tale
   The five boons of life
   The first writing-machines
   Italian without a master
   Italian with grammar
   A burlesque biography
   How to tell a story
   General Washington's negro body-servant 
   Wit inspirations of the "two-year-olds"
   An entertaining article
   A letter to the secretary of the treasury
   Amended obituaries
   A monument to adam 
   Advice to little girls
   Post-mortem poetry
   The danger of lying in bed
   Portrait of King William III
   Does the race of man love a lord?
   Extracts from adam's diary
   Eve's diary
   A horse's tale
   Christian science
   Extract from captain stormfield's visit to heaven
   Is Shakespeare dead?
   On the decay of the art of lying
   Goldsmith's friend abroad again
   How to tell a story and other stories
   The wounded soldier
   The golden arm
   Mental telegraphy again
   The invalids story
   Mark twain's speeches
   Plymouth rock and the pilgrims
   Compliments and degrees
   Books, authors, and hats
   Dedication speech
   The horrors of the German language
   German for the Hungarians
   Unconscious plagiarism
   The weather
   The babies
   Our children and great discoveries
   Educating theatre-goers
   The educational theatre
   Poets as policemen
   Pudd'nhead Wilson dramatized
   Daly theatre
   The dress of civilized woman
   Dress reform and copyright 
   College girls
   Girls
   The ladies
   Woman's press club
   Votes for women
   Woman-an opinion
   Advice to girls
   Taxes and morals
   Tammany and croker
   Municipal corruption
   Municipal government 
   China and the Philippines
   Theoretical and practical morals
   Layman's sermon
   University settlement society
   Public education association
   Education and citizenship
   Courage
   The dinner to Mr. Choate
   Henry M. Stanley
   Dinner to Mr. Jerome
   Henry Irving
   Rogers and railroads
   The old-fashioned printer
   Society of american authors
   Reading-room opening
   Literature
   Disappearance of literature
   The alphabet and simplified spelling
   Spelling and pictures
   Books and burglars
   Authors' club
   Booksellers
   Morals and memory
   Joan of Arc 
    Accident insurance
   
  
  and much more

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