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  The Youngest Girl in the School...

  Evelyn Sharp

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  A new girl arrives at an English boarding school in mid-term, is placed in a form of older pupils, and has to find out for herself what the rules actually are. The school story of this period ran on such arrivals; what distinguishes this one is the amount of ordinary school work in it. The friendships are made and broken over small things, exactly as they are at that age.

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  The Genesis of the Doughnut Club

  LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY

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  Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. The book was an immediate success. The title character, orphan Anne Shirley, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following.
  The Genesis of the Doughnut Club: When John Henry died there seemed to be nothing for me to do but pack up and go back east. I didn't want to do it, but forty-five years of sojourning in this world have taught me that a body has to do a good many things she doesn't want to do, and that most of them turn out to be for the best in the long run.

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  The Jew and Other Stories -...

  Iván Turguénev

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  Turgenev at short range: an officer's memory of a Jewish spy hanged in wartime, and other stories that turn on a single decision and its cost. He was the first Russian to hold a European readership — Flaubert and Henry James both learned from him — and his gift was for the moment when a life turns without anyone noticing. These pieces show it working at close quarters.

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  Stella Maris - An Invalid Girl...

  William John Locke

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  A girl raised in one room, kept from all knowledge of the world because of an illness, is finally shown it. Locke handles the sentiment carefully and the 1918 film gave Mary Pickford both leading parts.

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  Queen of the Black Coast

  Robert E. Howard

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  Queen of the Black Coast by Robert E. Howard is one of the most iconic tales of Conan the Barbarian—a gripping fantasy adventure filled with passion, piracy, and peril. When Conan flees tyranny and joins the infamous pirate queen Bêlit, their fiery romance ignites a saga of blood-soaked raids, supernatural horrors, and tragic destiny. Set against a backdrop of cursed rivers, haunted lands, and ruthless battles, this early 20th-century sword-and-sorcery classic blends high-seas adventure with themes of love, honor, and loss. Perfect for fans of epic fantasy, pulp adventure, and timeless tales of heroism and doom.

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  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

  Mark Twain

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  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (also simply known as Tom Sawyer) is an 1876 novel by Mark Twain about a boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the town of St. Petersburg, which is based on Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy. In the novel, Tom Sawyer has several adventures, often with his friend Huckleberry Finn. Originally a commercial failure, the book ended up being the best-selling of Twain's works during his lifetime. Though overshadowed by its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the book is considered by many to be a masterpiece of American literature. It was one of the first novels to be written on a typewriter.

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