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1) The Odyssey
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English
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"A landmark new translation of Homer's most popular epic by distinguished author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn. In 1961, the University of Chicago Press published Richmond Lattimore's translation of Homer's The Iliad. For more than sixty years, it has served to introduce readers to the ancient Greek world of gods and heroes and has been one of the most popular and respected versions of the work. Yet through all those decades, Chicago never published...
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English
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The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century. Who could forget the pranks, the adventures, the sheer fun of Tom Sawyer? It's something every child should experience and every child will love. From Tom's sly trickery with the whitewashed fence, when he cleverly manipulates everyone so they happily do his work for him, to his and Becky Thatcher's calamities in Bat Cave, the...
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English
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"Chip Chippendale met Reese Balleen after the War Between the States, when the two cowboys drove a herd up from Texas together. When Chip laid eyes on Wyoming, he knew he was home, and the two friends split off on different trails. But when Reese's home is burned by a marauding band of Cheyenne warriors, he's faced with ruin--and makes matters worse by gunning down the Cheyenne leader's son. Now a target of the most vicious renegade on the high plains,...
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Tantor Media
Pub. Date
p2010
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7 sound discs (7 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Celebrating the 50th anniversary of when Dick Proenneke first broke ground and made his mark in the Alaskan wilds in 1968, this special edition of the best-selling memoir features an all-new foreword by Nick Offerman plus color photographs not seen in print for over 20 years. To live in a pristine land unchanged by man . . . to roam a wilderness through which few other humans have passed . . . to choose an idyllic site, cut trees, and build a log...
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English
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It is the summer of 1948 when a handsome, charismatic stranger, Charlie Beale, recently back from the war in Europe, shows up in the town of Brownsburg, a sleepy village nestled in the Valley of Virginia. All he has with him are two suitcases: one contains his few possessions, including a fine set of butcher knives; the other is full of money. A lot of money. Heading Out to Wonderful is a haunting, heart-stopping novel of love gone terribly
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G.K. Hall
Pub. Date
c2000
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237 p. (large print) ; 25 cm.
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English
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This rather simple plot is a most compelling drama that bristles with suspense as it contains all the elements of a classic 19th-century mystery including, reversed identities, a horrible crime, an eccentric detective, and a tense courtroom scene.
Set in the fictional frontier town of Dawson's Landing on the banks of the Mississippi River in the first half of the 19th century, the book turned from a farce to a tragedy in the course of Twain's writing...
8) The rifle
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English
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A priceless, handcrafted rifle, fired throughout the American Revolution, is passed down through the years until it fires on a fateful Christmas Eve of 1994.
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Old Testament volume 11
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Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2004
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2 sound discs (2 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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Hailed as "a sort of Catcher in the Rye out West," this classic coming-of-age story set during World War II is "a true delight" (Washington Post Book World).
In the summer of 1944, Frank Arnold, a wealthy shipbuilder in Mobile, Alabama, receives his volunteer commission in the U.S. Navy and moves his wife, Ann, and seventeen-year-old son, Josh, to the family's summer home in the village of Corazon Sagrado, high in the New...
In the summer of 1944, Frank Arnold, a wealthy shipbuilder in Mobile, Alabama, receives his volunteer commission in the U.S. Navy and moves his wife, Ann, and seventeen-year-old son, Josh, to the family's summer home in the village of Corazon Sagrado, high in the New...
11) Life Goes On
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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A small-town clergyman tries to hold it together while tending to his eccentric flock in this cozy, comic entry in the beloved, bestselling series.
"This is sweet, homespun storytelling, as comfy and reassuring as warm socks in a wet spring." —Publishers Weekly
Squarely in the crosshairs of the Church's heresy hunters, can Pastor Sam survive?
It's a madcap year in Harmony, Indiana, as Sam Gardner struggles through...
"This is sweet, homespun storytelling, as comfy and reassuring as warm socks in a wet spring." —Publishers Weekly
Squarely in the crosshairs of the Church's heresy hunters, can Pastor Sam survive?
It's a madcap year in Harmony, Indiana, as Sam Gardner struggles through...
12) Home to Harmony
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Series
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Welcome to Harmony ...
In this acclaimed inaugural volume in the Harmony series, master American storyteller Philip Gulley draws us into the charming world of minister Sam Gardner in his first year back in his hometown, capturing the essence of small-town life with humor and wisdom.
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English
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He was Sam Clemens, steamboat pilot, before he was Mark Twain, famous author. His better-known name originated with the lingo of navigation, and much of his writing was informed by his shipboard adventures on one of the world's great rivers. In this classic of American literature, Twain offers lively recollections ranging from his salad days as a novice pilot to views from the passenger deck in the twilight of the river culture's heyday. Under the...
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Old Testament volume 9
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Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2004
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6 sound discs (5.75 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The inspiration for the major motion picture Rebel in the Rye
One of the most popular and mysterious figures in American literary history, the author of the classic Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger eluded fans and journalists for most of his life. Now he is the subject of this definitive biography, which is filled with new information and revelations garnered from countless interviews, letters,...
One of the most popular and mysterious figures in American literary history, the author of the classic Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger eluded fans and journalists for most of his life. Now he is the subject of this definitive biography, which is filled with new information and revelations garnered from countless interviews, letters,...
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Little, Brown & Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xxv, 399 p. : ill., maps, plans ; 25 cm.
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English
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In October 1934, the Chinese Communist Army found itself surrounded and facing annihilation. Rather than surrender, these 86,000 Red Army soldiers embarked on an epic journey to safety, covering more than four thousand brutal miles on foot over the next year.
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Weiser Books
Pub. Date
2006
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xii, 157 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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On the one hand, we have traditional science, based on the premises of materialism, reductionism, and randomness, with a belief that reality consists solely of matter and energy, that everything can be measured in the laboratory or observed by a telescope. If it can't, it doesn't exist. On the other hand, we have traditional religious dogma concerning God that fails to take into account evolution, a 4. 6 billion-year-old Earth, and the conflicting...
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Basic Books
Pub. Date
2014
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xi, 347 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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English
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Abraham Lincoln grew up in the long shadow of the Founding Fathers. Seeking an intellectual and emotional replacement for his own taciturn father, Lincoln turned to the great men of the founding, Washington, Paine, Jefferson, and their great documents, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, for knowledge, guidance, inspiration, and purpose. Out of the power vacuum created by their passing, Lincoln emerged from among his peers as the true...
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Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013
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ix, 388 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling historian James MacGregor Burns explores the most daring and transformational intellectual movement in history, the European and American Enlightenment In this engaging, provocative history, James MacGregor Burns brilliantly illuminates the two-hundred-year conflagration of the Enlightenment, when audacious questions and astonishing ideas tore across Europe and the New World, transforming thought, overturning...
20) Roughing it
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English
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Mark Twain's semi-autobiographical travel memoir, "Roughing It" was written between 1870-1871 and subsequently published in 1872. Billed as a prequel to "Innocents Abroad", in which Twain details his travels aboard a pleasure cruise through Europe and the Holy Land in 1867, "Roughing It" conversely documents Twain's early days in the old wild west between the years 1861-1867. Employing his characteristically humoristic wit and flare for regional dialect,...