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The Roman Hat Mystery (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

The Roman Hat Mystery (1929) is more than just a classic whodunit—it’s the landmark debut of the writing team known as Ellery Queen, the pseudonym for cousins Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee. The novel introduces readers to Inspector Richard Queen and his son Ellery, an amateur detec...

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Saddleback Educational Publishing

The New World: 1500-1750- Graphic U.S History (Saddleback Graphic: American History)

1500-1750; Fast-paced and easy-to-read, these graphic U.S. history titles teach students about key historical events in American history from 1500 to the present. Dramatic and colorful graphics highlight the text with easy transitions, which avoids a choppy narrative. These history titles offer a va...

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe: The Great Storyteller - 8 Revised Classics for Youth and ESL Students - American Literary Classics

Edgar Allan Poe was an American Literary Legend. Prime Press presents this revised edition of his popular works features carefully reworded text to make these classic stories easier for youth, ESL and EFL readers to digest. A term glossary is included to make it easier to decipher more difficult...

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The Portable Steinbeck (Penguin Classics)

A selection of essential writings by one of the greatest writers in American history It would be impossible to overstate John Steinbeck's enduring influence on American letters. Profuse with a richness of language, sly humor, and empathy for even his most flawed characters, Steinbeck's books are s...

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Thornton Wilder

Our Town: The Timeless Pulitzer Prize-winning Drama (Perennial Classics)

"[ Our Town ] leaves us with a sense of blessing, and the unspoken but palpable command to achieve gratitude in what remains of our days on earth." — The New Yorker Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the mythical village of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire―an allegori...

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Louisa May Alcott

Little Women (Flame Tree Collectable Classics)

Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Litera...

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Alexis Tocqueville

Democracy in America (Classics of World Literature) (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature)

Democracy in America is a classic of political philosophy. Hailed by John Stuart Mill and Horace Greely as the finest book ever written on the nature of democracy, it continues to be an influential text on both sides of the Atlantic, above all in the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe. De Tocque...

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The Outermost House: English Odyssey Classics – Original Text with Annotations

The Outermost House by Henry Beston is a timeless work of American nature writing, inspired by a year spent living alone on the great outer beach of Cape Cod. What began as a short retreat became a deep immersion in the rhythms of wind, tide, light, and solitude. From a small dune house facing the ...

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Pot Pies: 46 Comfort Classics to Warm Your Soul (CompanionHouse Books) Cookbook Packed with Recipes for Perfect Crust, Chicken Pot Pie, Gluten-Free,

Delicious comfort food wrapped in the perfect crust! Over 45 recipes for stocks, crusts, savory pot pies, desserts, and more - Step-by-step directions take the guesswork out of cooking - Special diet recipes for gluten-free, vegetarians, and vegans - History of the pot pie from its origins to it...

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Raoul Walsh: The True Adventures of Hollywood's Legendary Director (Screen Classics)

Raoul Walsh (1887–1980) was known as one of Hollywood's most adventurous, iconoclastic, and creative directors. He carved out an illustrious career and made films that transformed the Hollywood studio yarn into a thrilling art form. Walsh belonged to that early generation of directors―along with...

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby: Large Print Edition – Junco Classics

“Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a dazzling, unforgettable portrait of the American Dream in the Roaring Twenties. First published in 1925, this iconic novel is set against the glittering backdrop of Ja...

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Enough Rope (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

On its publication in 1926, Enough Rope —Dorothy Parker’s debut collection of poems—was an instant bestseller and established her as the wittiest woman in America. Full of cynical humor, lighthearted wisecracks, and hilarious satire, her poems mercilessly skewer sentimentality and provide rap...

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Lolita Chakrabarti

Red Velvet (Modern Classics)

“Chakrabarti has crafted a rich psychological study that's also a shrewd portrait of the theatre as an institution - its vanities and strange conventions, its politics and sense of community, the opportunities it presents for both progress and blinkered traditionalism.” Evening Standard Theat...

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Jessica Hagedorn

Charlie Chan Is Dead 2: At Home in the World (An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction-- Revised and Updated)

More than a decade after its initial publication, the groundbreaking anthology Charlie Chan Is Dead remains the best available source for contemporary Asian American fiction. Edited by acclaimed novelist and National Book Award nominee Jessica Hagedorn, Charlie Chan Is Dead 2: At Home in the Worl...

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Greenline Goods

Greenline Goods Whiskey Glasses – United States Constitution + Declaration Glass (Set of 2) - 10 oz Tumblers - American US Patriotic Gift Set - Old

Patriotism personified - One whiskey glass reflects the unmistakable United States Constitution and the other reflects the declaration of independence. These celebrated historical documents wrap around the entire glass for a unique and distinctive effect. The founding fathers would no doubt be proud...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Modern Library Classics)

Introduction by Mary Oliver Commentary by Henry James, Robert Frost, Matthew Arnold, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Henry David Thoreau The definitive collection of Emerson’s major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson chronicles the life’s work of a ...

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Great American Stories: 10 Unabridged Classics

These ten treasured stories from the most influential authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are selected for their literary importance as well as their dramatic, oral qualities. The following stories are included in this collection: "The One-Million-Pound Bank Note" by Mark Twain ...

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Wallace Stegner

Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West (Modern Library Classics)

Nominated for a National Book Critics Circle award, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs gathers together Wallace Stegner’s most important and memorable writings on the American West: its landscapes, diverse history, and shifting identity; its beauty, fragility, and power. With subje...

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First Generation: Recipes from My Taiwanese-American Home [A Cookbook]

In this stunning exploration of identity through food, the blogger behind Little Fat Boy presents 80 recipes that are rooted in his childhood as a first-generation Taiwanese American growing up in the Midwest. “This book will transport you, it will make you cry (again and again), and it will de...

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Abraham Chapman

Black Voices (Signet Classics)

“If you don’t know my name, you don’t know your own.”—James Baldwin An anthology of African-American literature featuring contributions from some of the most prominent Black and African-American authors of our time, including James Baldwin, Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, W. E. B. Du Boi...

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