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  Summer

  Edith Wharton

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  Rescued from a poverty-stricken mountain life, Charity Royall lives as ward to Lawyer Royall in the New England town of North Dormer. However, Charity is bored by her job at the local library–until a young man Lucius Harney plucks her from the drabness of North Dormer life.  A young architect and sophisticated man about town, Herney’s good looks and refinement awaken Charity’s passionate nature. Meanwhile, Charity contends with unwanted matrimonial advances from Lawyer Royall.   
  Summer is a heart-wrenching coming-of-age story regarded by Wharton as one of her best works.

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  Walking

  Henry David Thoreau

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  In this essay, Henry David Thoreau expounds upon the virtues of a simple walk in the wild. One of his most read lectures, this piece was originally published in 1851. 

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  Louise de la Valliere Volume 1

  Alexandre Dumas

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  In Louise de la Vallière Volume 1, Alexandre Dumas delves into the tumultuous world of French court intrigue during Louis XIV’s reign. The story follows Louise, a humble lady-in-waiting, whose beauty captures the king's heart, thrusting her into a web of politics and jealousy. Meanwhile, the legendary Musketeers—Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and d'Artagnan—navigate shifting alliances and personal challenges. As love blossoms amidst betrayal and ambition, Dumas masterfully blends historical detail with romance and adventure, setting the stage for a dramatic exploration of power, loyalty, and the human spirit.

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  Cordelia the Crude - From their...

  Wallace Thurman

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  The bookshelves of American literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centu-ries of very talented authors.  From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Wallace Thurman.

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  The King in Yellow - A...

  Robert W. Chambers

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  There is a play so exquisitely beautiful and utterly horrifying that reading past the first act will drive you inexorably insane. Have you seen the Yellow Sign? 
  In a surreal, alternate 1920s New York where lethal chambers stand on street corners and society teeters on the brink of collapse, a terrifying cultural contagion is spreading. A published manuscript—a forbidden play—is circulating the globe. Those who read it are immediately haunted by visions of black stars, the alien twin suns of the Lake of Hali, and the mysterious, tattered entity known only as the King in Yellow. As delusional aristocrats plot bloody rebellions, ambitious sculptors unlock cursed alchemical secrets, and paranoid artists are hunted by shadowy figures in the echoing churches of Paris, reality itself begins to fray for anyone touched by the accursed pages. 
  Why you will love this: This unparalleled masterpiece of Weird Fiction stands as a crucial bridge between gothic literature and modern cosmic horror. If you crave atmospheric terror, decadent psychological thrillers, and rich mythologies filled with unreliable narrators, madness, and eldritch dread, this mind-bending descent into Carcosa will utterly consume your imagination. 
  About the Author: Robert W. Chambers was an American artist and fiction writer whose early weird and supernatural tales deeply influenced H.P. Lovecraft, the Cthulhu Mythos, and the evolution of modern horror. His creation of a sprawling, mind-bending mythology secured his place as one of the most vital architects of the weird fiction genre.

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  Queenie hetherton

  Mary Jane Holmes

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  The morning mail for Merrivale had just arrived, and the postmaster was distributing the letters. Col. Rossiter, who lived in the large stone house on the Knoll, had two; one from his wife, who, with his two daughters, was spending the summer at Martha's Vineyard, and one from his son Philip, a young graduate from Harvard, who had been off on a yachting excursion, and was coming home for a few days before joining his mother and sisters at the sea-side. There was also one for Mrs. Lydia Ann Ferguson, who lived on Cottage Row, and was the fashionable dressmaker of the town. Mr. Arthur Beresford, the only practicing lawyer in Merrivale, had six, five of which he read hastily, as he stood in the post-office door, and then for a moment studied the superscription of the other, which was soiled and travel-worn, and bore a foreign postmark...FROM THE BOOKS.

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