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  The Treasure-Train - Craig...

  Arthur B. Reeve

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  Craig Kennedy, professor of chemistry at Columbia, against a gold shipment, a wireless telegraph, a poisoned needle and a war-time spy ring — with the apparatus explained as he goes. Reeve wrote eighty-two of these and was called the American Conan Doyle; half the instruments in them did not yet exist in any police laboratory, and within twenty years most of them did. Fifty-nine plates of painting from 1855 to 1924, among them John Sloan and W. J. Stevenson, trace the same turn-of-the-century world of laboratories, streets and war that Kennedy moves through.

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  Uncomfortable Bed An - From...

  Guy De Maupassant

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  Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was born on August 5th, 1850 near Dieppe in France.  
  Maupassant’s early life was badly torn when at age 11 (his younger brother Hervé was then five) his mother, Laure, a headstrong and independent-minded woman, risked social disgrace in order to obtain a legal separation from her husband. 
  After the separation, Laure kept custody of her two boys. With the father now forcibly absent, Laure became the most influential and important figure in the young boy's life.   
  Maupassant’s education was such that he rebelled against religion and other societal norms but a developing friendship with Gustave Flaubert began to turn his mind towards creativity and writing. 
  After graduation he volunteered for the Franco-Prussian war. With its end he moved to Paris to work as a clerk in the Navy Department.  Gustave Flaubert now took him under his wing.  Acting as a literary guardian to him, he guided the eager Maupassant to debuts in journalism and literature.  For Maupassant these were exciting times and the awakening of his creative talents and ambitions. 
  In 1880 he published what is considered his first great work, ‘Boule de Suif’, (translated as ‘Dumpling’, ‘Butterball’, ‘Ball of Fat’, or ‘Ball of Lard’) which met with a success that was both instant and overwhelming.  Flaubert at once acknowledged that it was ‘a masterpiece that will endure.’ Maupassant had used his talents and experiences in the war to create something unique.  
  This decade from 1880 to 1891 was to be the most pivotal of his career.  With an audience now made available by the success of ‘Boule de Suif’ Maupassant organised himself to work methodically and relentlessly to produce between two and four volumes of work a year.  The melding of his talents and business sense and the continual hunger of sources for his works made him wealthy. 
  In his later years he developed a desire for solitude, an obsession for self-preservation, and a fear of death as well as a paranoia of persecution caused by the syphilis he had contracted in his youth.  
  On January 2nd, 1892, Maupassant tried to commit suicide by cutting his throat.  Unsuccessful he was committed to the private asylum of Esprit Blanche at Passy, in Paris.  It was here on July 6th, 1893 that Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant died at the age of only 42.

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  The Return of Tarzan

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

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  The king of the jungle returns, brought to life in a whole new way. 
   
  Tarzan left the jungle once. He tried civilization, tried society, tried living by rules that never quite fit a man raised by apes in the African wilderness. And then the woman he loved chose someone else, and the world he'd been trying to belong to made it very clear it didn't know what to do with him. 
   
  So he goes back. 
   
  The Return of Tarzan picks up where the first book left off and takes everything further - further into the jungle, further into danger, and further into the question of where exactly a man like Tarzan actually belongs. There are assassins, ancient cities, buried treasure, and a lost civilization that has been waiting in the heart of Africa for someone worthy of finding it. 
   
  Edgar Rice Burroughs was at the height of his powers writing this one. The adventure is relentless, the stakes are real, and the ending delivers everything the first book promised. 
   
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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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  A Dark Brown Dog

  Stephen Crane

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  A dog. A child. A rope that drags, and a bond that tightens.
  In this brief, haunting tale, Stephen Crane casts a quiet, unflinching gaze at innocence, cruelty, and the strange bargains we make in the name of love.
  Told in spare, evocative prose, A Dark Brown Dog is more than it appears — a fable with no moral, a friendship with no promise, a home with no safety.
  You may not be sure where the pain ends and the loyalty begins.
  But you will know you've seen something true.

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  Between the Acts

  Virginia Woolf

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  As a rural community prepares for a pageant, private lives and changing times quietly intersect beneath the surface.
  
  Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts takes place around an English country house on the eve of the Second World War.
  
  As members of the community gather for a theatrical pageant, the performance becomes a lens through which Woolf explores memory, identity, family relationships, history, social change, and the fragile connections between people.
  
  Written with Woolf's characteristic attention to consciousness and perception, the novel offers a subtle meditation on England, art, and a society standing at the edge of profound transformation.
  
  Experience Woolf's lyrical final novel and discover a thoughtful exploration of art, history, identity, and human connection.

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