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The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar Maurice Leblanc - Arsène Lupin, with his characteristic wit, plots over the course of nine short stories to steal many of Frances best antiques and artworks from under their owners noses. Only his classic opponent Detective Ganimard has the brilliance to attempt to foil Arsènes plans, albeit with mixed results.
This first collection of nine Arsène Lupin stories were originally serialised...
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Mike and Psmith P. G. Wodehouse - Pelham Grenville Wodehouse on born on 15th October, 1881 in Guildford, England to distinguished parents who were visiting the UK from Hong Kong where his father was a magistrate.
After two years in Hong Kong Wodehouse and his two brothers were sent back to England to live and be schooled.
Failing family finances meant that Wodehouse did not go on to University but began work straight away. He wrote in the evenings...
3) Utopia
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First published in 1516, Saint Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most important works of European humanism. Through the voice of the mysterious traveler Raphael Hythloday, More describes a pagan, communist city-state governed by reason. Addressing such issues as religious pluralism, women's rights, state-sponsored education, colonialism, and justified warfare, Utopia seems remarkably contemporary nearly five centuries after it was written, and it...
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Jane Austen's‚ Love and Friendship, is an epistolary story, written in 1790 when she was fourteen, and dedicated to her cousin Eliza de Feuillide. Featuring improbable coincidences and turns of fate, in form, the story satirizes conventional romance novels of the time, and shows the early development of wit and observation that would make Austen one of the most famous of all British writers. Even the subtitle, "Deceived in Friendship and Betrayed...
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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
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Michael is an atheist. So as he walks through the doors at St. Clare's-a strict Catholic school-sporting a plaid tie, things can't get much worse. His dad has just made the family move again, and Michael needs a friend. When a girl challenges their teacher in class, Michael thinks he might have found one, and a fellow nonbeliever at that. Only this girl, Lucy, is not just Catholic . . . she wants to be a priest. But Lucy introduces Michael to other...
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Terrrence Grrr, the terrier, reluctantly becomes a Member of Parliament, but it's soon clear that he's in the wrong party. He switches sides, but his public and private lives crash, and the press are on to him, drunk under the statue of Sir Winston Churchill. He loses his health, his rat advisor, and his dog friends, and considers ending it all. A stay on the sunny beaches of France with a crocodile helps, but can he ever really turn his fortunes...
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Terrence the Terrier never dreamed of becoming a politician. Heavens no, he was perfectly happy living with his owner, The Duke of Hampstead, and other rescue dogs in a castle on Hampstead Heath. Life was good, walks were plentiful, as were the pies, but when his beloved owner dies, so too does the lovely, comfortable life he had known.
The Duke's evil niece, Grizelda, forges her uncle's will, and kicks his dog out into the snow, where they are left...
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In this third book in the series, Terrrence's political career is going from strength to strength; no dog has ever done so much for canine-kind. As Minister for Dogs, he has improved the lives of dogs all over the nation, bringing happiness, careers, playfights and travel passes to all. His groundbreaking move to allow dogs to be, treated in NHS hospitals really got tails wagging. It seemed there was, nothing that this, dog could not do.
But, Terrrence...
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When Nicholas Nickleby is left penniless after his father's death, he appeals to his wealthy uncle to help him find work and to protect his mother and sister. But Ralph Nickleby proves both hard-hearted and unscrupulous, and Nicholas finds himself forced to make his own way in the world. His adventures gave Dickens the opportunity to portray an extraordinary gallery of rogues and eccentrics: Wackford Squeers, the tyrannical headmaster of Dotheboys...
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Probes were dispatched from the planet Earth in 2080. Two planets orbiting around a sun were adjudged suitable for colonization in deep space. Just as the Quakers and Pilgrims established colonies in the New World, a Galilean religious sect colonized the two planets named Kaire and Greyce. Having resisted the influence of the early church, the Galileans lived similarly to Christ's apostles 2000 years ago, as sheepherders, carpenters and fishermen....
11) The ambassadors
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The Ambassadors, by Henry James, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
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Three young candidates for student body president at Lincoln High School are forced to sink to unprecedented levels of rivalry in a campaign that is shaped by popularity, duplicity and a love of chocolate milk: Stacey Wynn was the clear front-runner for Lincoln High student council president. But then French-Canadian transfer student Julia Romero entered the race and put the moves on Stacey's best friend/campaign adviser, Brian. Stacey also didn't...
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Be careful what you wish for!
Long, long ago or just a year ago — depending on when you read this — the Astu Devas wake up and grant the absurd wishes of two citizens of Orum, leaving the town isolated from the rest of civilization.
It is now up to Vikram, his reluctant fiancée Ponni, and his friends, Kalla, a thief, and Bana, an aspiring playwright, to steal a fabled blood jewel and save Orum. Oh, did we mention the jewel hangs around the...
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Not all wizards were born to be heroes.
Things not to do when you find out you're a wizard:
#1 Do not destroy your apartment with magical fire. You WILL NOT get the security deposit back.
#2 Do not form an alliance with the guy who is trying to murder you. This will end badly.
#3 Do not drag the girl you're desperately in love with into your wizard mess. You risk her watching you fail miserably.
#4 Under no circumstances should you get in the middle...
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President Whalebone of Victriola dies unexpectedly when he gets mashed by a bus, and though Vice President Starbuck planned on being president, Whalebone names his physician, Doctor Atlaas Emerald his successor. That's when Emerald discovers his cCabinet is a bunch of buffoon and that President Zolga has absconded a piece of borderland ten meters wide running the length of their mutual border. Emeral challenges Xolga to a boxing match since War has...
19) Rebuild
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Solo mode is no longer an option.Billy doesn't need friends, especially when playing The Realm Online. So long as he wields the legendary artifact weapon Banhammer, he has little need of parties.After his character is deleted for terms of service violations, he's determined to rebuild his character in all its glory. Without help, of course…because parties are lame AF. But when an angry god nerfs his new character with a curse, he'll have little...
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