For over a century the French Quarter was the center of a city of sin and gaiety unique on the North American continent. The development of the New Orleans of legend was fostered by an improbable mixture of Creoles, river gamblers, pirates, politicians, reckless women,...

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Delve into the life and legacy of one of Canada's most influential leaders in "Sir John Macdonald" by W. Stewart Wallace. This captivating biography takes readers on a remarkable journey through the political landscape of 19th-century Canada, exploring the life and...

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''Pastors and Masters'' is largely a satirical depiction of Victorian institutions, and a character study of masculine authority and female subservience within the setting of a boys preparatory school after World War I. The narrative unfolds through sharp and often...

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“The Morning Watch” explores the thoughts and feelings of 12-year-old Richard, a student at an Episcopal boarding school (based on the author's schooling at St. Andrew's-Sewanee School in Sewanee, Tennessee), over the course of a few hours in the early morning of Good...

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Adultery, incest, and questions of racial identity simmer beneath the tranquil surface of suburban life in this novel, set in a small New Jersey town of the early 1900s. Lovely young Laurentine is obsessed with her "bad blood," inherited from a common-law interracial...

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This is the classic book on war as we know it. During his long life, Basil H. Liddell Hart was considered one of the world's foremost military thinkers--a man generally regarded as the "Clausewitz of the 20th century." Liddell Hart stressed movement, flexibilty,...

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One U-boat against one destroyer would have been a fair — if deadly — match. But Captain John Murrell’s  H.M.S. Hecate  was towing a crippled tanker whose cargo was as dangerous as it was precious — four million gallons of high-octane gas! The U-boat commander was...

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One U-boat against one destroyer would have been a fair — if deadly — match. But Captain John Murrell’s  H.M.S. Hecate  was towing a crippled tanker whose cargo was as dangerous as it was precious — four million gallons of high-octane gas! The U-boat commander was...

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In Magnolia Street, where Jews and Christians live on opposite sides of the road, feuds and alliances, gossip and good humour thrive. This is a classic saga of working-class life in 1920s Manchester. First published in 1932, it was a bestseller. “I loved this book......

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''The honest, dreadful, heart-breaking story of a Negro childhood and youth, as set down by that rarely gifted American author, Richard Wright.''--Dorothy Canfield Fisher.

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''Life at Happy Knoll'' is a novel by John P. Marquand published in Sports Illustrated as a collection of letters, that uses social satire to explore the issues within a fictional country club near New York. Through the letters of a club board member to the president...

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"It's Loaded, Mr. Bauer" takes readers on a suspenseful journey into the heart of a psychological thriller, where the boundaries between reality and illusion blur in a pulse-pounding tale of intrigue and danger. This gripping novel delves into the complexities of the...

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Frank Cowperwood, still married to his estranged wife Aileen, lives with his mistress Berenice. He decides to move to London, England, where he intends to take over and develop the underground railway system. Berenice becomes close to Earl Stane, whileFrank has an...

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"Heaven Lies About Us" recounts Spring's childhood in Cardiff during the closing years of the 19th century. He grew up in an impoverished but loving family and left school at age 12 to support them after his father's death. The path of a writer:  Spring's memoir...

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The story of William Essex, who rose from humble beginnings to become a successful dramatist and novelist, and his friend Dermot O'Riordon, a fervent Irish patriot and founder of a great London furnishing house; and their sons, Oliver Essex and Rory O'Riordon. Plus some...

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''Literature and Science,'' published in September 1963, was Aldous Huxley's last book - he died two months after it was published. In it, he strives to harmonize the scientific and artistic realms. He argues that language is what divides the two realms and makes...

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This book debates a wide range of subjects reflecting Huxley's views towards the direction society is going. He puts forward a number of predictions, many of which resonate far beyond the time when it was written. A consistent theme throughout the essay is Huxley's...

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The theme of this particular book (set around Manchester and Cornwall, as so many of his are) is that there is no armour against fate; and the period it covers was certainly a fateful one, ranging as it does from the close of the Victorian era through two World Wars....

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The Human Situation: Lectures at Santa Barbara, 1959 is a book by Aldous Huxley that compiles his lectures given at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1959, exploring human nature, society, and the modern world's challenges and potentials, synthesized with...

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From the pomp of Victoria’s reign to the end of World War II, a brilliant panorama of life in England and Europe is the setting of the story of an extraordinary woman. Sarah Rainborough was a little girl when she was taken away from the elegance of London society to...

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