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  The Way to Wealth

  Benjamin Franklin

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  The first American book on personal finance, "The Way to Wealth" by Benjamin Franklin is still the best and wisest money book ever written. Originally published in 1758 as the preface to "Poor Richard's Almanack," this little gem has been through innumerable printings and sold millions of copies to those in search of smart but entertaining advice about hard work, earning and saving money and debt.

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  Introducing Johnny Quick

  Johnny Quick

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  Some call him a psychopath, and others call him a hero. But everybody agrees that Johnny Quick gets the job done.

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  The American Experience - A...

  Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton,...

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  Ten superbly narrated stories that help explain America by America's best writers. Irving's incredible and amusing tale of the archetypal "Rip Van Winkle" relates the story of a man who slept through history. Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge of Courage" tells of a young soldier who must struggle with his conscience no matter what the consequences. "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is Mark Twain's hilarious story of a contest to end all contests in the rowdy days of the Forty-Niners. Edgar Allan Poe's "The Man of the Crowd" tells of one man's strange fascination with another. "The Ransom of Red Chief" is another of O. Henry's tales of a kidnapping that goes horribly, horribly, wrong. 
   
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  "Rip Van Winkle" 
  by Washington Irving, 
  narrated by George Vafiadis 
   
  "The Man of the Crowd" 
  by Edgar Allan Poe, 
  narrated by Ralph Cosham 
   
  "The Red Badge of Courage" 
  by Stephen Crane, 
  narrated by Sean Pratt 
   
  "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" 
  by Mark Twain, 
  narrated by Thomas Becker 
   
  "The Ransom of Red Chief" 
  by O'Henry, 
  narrated by Michael Hanson 
   
  "The Call of the Wild" 
  by Jack London, 
  narrated by Michael Kramer 
   
  "Desiree's Baby" 
  by Kate Chopin, 
  narrated by Jacquilin Kinlow 
   
  "Miss Tempy's Watchers" 
  by Sarah Orne Jewett, 
  narrated by Tana Hickens 
   
  "The Eyes" 
  by Edith Wharton, 
  narrated by Ralph Cosham 
   
  "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" 
  by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 
  narrated by Kimberly Schraf

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  The Raven and Other Poems

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  When a modern film script draws inspiration from a poem written more than a century ago, readers can judge its impact on our collective imagination. Such is the resonance of the poem "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe. 
  First published in 1845, "The Raven" is a masterpiece of atmosphere, rhythmic quality and use of language. Constructed in narrative form, it tells the story of a young man who is mourning the loss of his beloved. One December night as he wearily sits up browsing through a classical volume, a mysterious tapping against his window disturbs him. When he opens it to investigate, a strange and mournful raven enters his room and perches on the bust of a Greek goddess inside. The rest of the poem deals with the melancholy and mournful one-sided conversation between the two. The narrator desperately questions the Raven about Lenore, his lost love, but the Raven only gives a single dismal word "Nevermore" in reply. What happens to the narrator in the course of this conversation makes up the rest of the poem. 
  Beside The Raven, there are Alone; A Dream Within A Dream; Annabel Lee; City In the Sea; The Bells; A Dream Within a Dream; Annabel Lee; Dreamland; Evening Star; Lenore; Eldorado; A Valentine and "The Happiest Day".

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  Farewell Navigator - Stories

  Leni Zumas

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  “A powerful, irresistible collection” of short stories about outsiders by the bestselling author of Red Clocks (Publishers Weekly).   A teenage boy discovers his blind mother making a pass at his new best friend. A woman works in a factory by day and tends to a menagerie of sick animals by night. An aspiring witch is disillusioned by her spiritual shortcomings. A girl from a town so small it doesn’t exist on any map runs away with a rock band—all the while attempting to chart her way back home.   The odds stacked against them, the lovingly rendered outsiders in these stories find connectedness and redemption in the unlikeliest of circumstances. Even the most surreal and ethereal moments take on a surprising familiarity, and the darkest experiences are imbued with unexpected hope. To become engrossed in Zumas’s world is a strange and beautiful delight.   “Zumas gives socially awkward, mysteriously gifted and self-destructive outcasts spellbinding, unflinching voice in her debut collection. The heroes in this collection are trapped; some are resigned to years of caregiving, many are institutionalized and nearly all haunt the fringes of normalcy (or disregard the normal altogether).” —Publishers Weekly   “Attention unrequited lovers, sisters of suicidal brothers, children of the legally blind: you are not alone. Leni Zumas understands your quiet agony.” —Miranda July, author of No One Belongs Here More Than You

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  The Hammer of God

  G. K. Chesterton

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  The Colonel's body is discovered in the blacksmith's yard, the skull smashed like a crushed eggshell. No man for 40 miles around could have struck such a blow, except the giant of a blacksmith... and the blackmith has a cast-iron alibi.Only the reticent catholic priest Father Brown can deduce the extraordinary truth behind this bizarre murder.

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