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The classic perennial sellers are the books you trust to routinely give you hours of engaging entertainment. And every time you read it again, it's like the author has been busy editing and adding new material while you were away.Take any genre you love, and you'll find there are great authors who have delivered great content a decade, or a century, or even longer ago.
The trick is finding quality versions of these. The free ones have many errors, poor covers, and lacking descriptions. Quality editions treat each book as if it is just being released into today's market. They are properly proofread and styled for today's reading audience.
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Stories you can trust to take you into new worlds and give you hours of fascinating entertainment. You wonder why you haven't found these before...
The great women who fought harder, yet their story less heard.
Loveday Brooks is a classic worth discovering. Lady detectives at the time of Sherlock Holmes!?! The author puts a very feminine deduction skills to work in a male-dominated period. The prose is refreshingly clear and not stilted - an engaging read. 7 rare short stories out of print far too long. Claim Your Copy Now.
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The Handmaid's Husband by R. L. Saunders and Irving Cox
"… data compiled from old publications," the fragment began, "and interpreted by our most reliable authorities." At that point a part of the page was burned away. "… and perhaps less than ninety years ago men and women lived in equality. The evidence on that point is entirely conclusive. The present matriarchy evolved by accident, not design. Ninety years ago entertainment and advertising were exclusively directed at satisfying a woman's whim. No product was sold without some sort of tie-in with women. Fiction, drama, television, motion pictures—all glorified a romantic thing called love. In that same period business was in the process of taking over government from statesmen and politicians. Women, of course, were the stockholders who owned big business, although the directors and...
The Story of Henry Ford: An American Dream Come True - by Rose Wilder Lane, Henry Ford, Samuel Crowther
FEW PEOPLE have had the transformative success as Henry Ford of Dearborn Michigan, USA.
While his life-story transformed the nation and the world, the effects on its author are less understood.
The purpose of this book is to explore his story as an additional study to Napoleon Hill's bestselling “Think and Grow Rich.” In Hill's book, few individuals in it have more anecdotes used as examples than Ford – excepting Thomas Edison himself (who gave Ford an early boost in one of his companies.)
In most days, people are challenged by their environment. They can rise to the challenge, or succumb to it. A rare few among them can see opportunity and seize it – creating a new world from a unique and unstoppable vision they hold...
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The Art of War, a Samurai Master Class - by Sun Tzu, Mushashi Miyamoto, Imazo Nitobe
Few books have continued their bestselling status centuries after their author's death.
Like other classics, such as the Gospels of Jesus, and Lao Tze's Tao Te Chung, there is much discussion of who actually wrote them and how.
What is important is how such books are used. Because only extremely useful books continue in demand at bookstores, especially over generations.
Wikipedia notes: The Art of War has been applied to many fields well outside of the military. Much of the text is about how to fight wars without actually having to do battle: it gives tips on how to outsmart one's opponent so that physical battle is not necessary. As such, it has found application as a training guide for many competitive endeavors that do not involve actual combat...
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Get Rich In Spite of Yourself, A Collection - by Louis Grafe, et al.
Imagine having everything you've ever wanted.
All the wealth, fine clothes, nice house, good food - everything you've ever thought of having.
And your job or place in life is exactly as you ever dreamed of - you are being just what you always wanted to be.
The way you can get this can be as simple as considering any problem you want to solve just before sleeping and then waking with the solution in mind. Yes, that simply.
James Breckenridge Jones solved the problem of making millionaires by studying the books in this collection, along with Napoleon Hill, Robert Collier, Thomas Troward and others. And created an 8-figure income in just four years...
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The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles
Getting Rich is Simple. Learning How is Hard.
This new release is a reprint of the original 1910 edition of Wallace Wattles' guide to financial success and personal growth.
This book will without any doubt change your life, by changing your mind about the concept of "money."
The basic idea of this book is that "getting rich" is a science and can create wealth in everyone's life.
The ideas and concepts, once studied and applied will transform your mental approach to money. This is a book that will take you a day to read, but a life-time to understand fully. Give it serious study, and I guarantee you success...
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The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung, also sometimes translated as The Transformation) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been called one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in colleges and universities across the Western world.
The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed (metamorphosed) into a large, monstrous insect-like creature. The cause of Gregor's transformation is never revealed, and Kafka himself never gave an explanation. The rest of Kafka's novella deals with Gregor's attempts to adjust to his new condition as he deals with being burdensome to his parents and sister, who are repelled by the horrible, verminous creature Gregor has become...
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How to Speak and Write Correctly by Joseph Devlin
Learn the Easy Way to Speak and Write Well.
I found this book by accident while browsing through a now-defunct Los Angeles bookstore/cafe. It was the luckiest accident of my life.At that point I had been a professional writer for more than twenty years, but I rarely enjoyed my work, and I felt all of it was disposable in one way or another.
At first, reading this book gave me an incredible, if unfamiliar, feeling of joy and self-confidence. Afterwards, I began to surprise the hell out of myself in terms of what I was able to accomplish.
This little book is very practical and precise.
The best plan is to follow the best authors and these masters of language will guide you safely along the way...
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Queen of the Martian Catacombs by Leigh Brackett
"Gaunt giant and passionate beauty, they dragged their thirst-crazed way across the endless crimson sands in a terrible test of endurance. For one of them knew where cool life-giving water lapped old stones smooth -- a place of secret horror that it was death to reveal!"
Erik John Stark is sent on a perilous mission into the Valkis and encounters the Queen of the Martian Catacombs.
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The leader of the four men rode slowly toward the tor, his right arm raised.His voice carried clearly on the wind.
"Eric John Stark!" he called, and the dark man tensed in the shadows.The rider stopped. He spoke again, but this time in a different tongue. It was no dialect of Earth, Mars or Venus, but a strange speech, as harsh and vital as the blazing Mercurian valleys...
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Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective - by C. L. Pirkis
One of the first woman detectives - in the times of Sherlock Holmes.
In the days of Doyle's "Sherlock Holmes" there were also feminine characters who solved crime in their own fashion. Such were the cases of Loveday Brooke.
This collection of seven short stories are along the line of Doyle's, where most of Holmes adventures were rarely in novel-length stories.
Loveday Brooke was a private detective who operated in London. She had been an upper class lady until hard times left her penniless and without many friends. She found employment with Ebenezer Dyer, the chief of a well-known detective agency in Lynch Court, Fleet Street. Although her new profession of investigating crimes further distanced her from high society...
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Your Invisible Power - Secrets to the Law of Attraction - by Genevieve Behrend
IMAGINE sitting at the feet of the most brilliant thinker of this century - as his only pupil.
This was the scene for this author, as she applied what she had learned from Thomas Troward:
"From the Edinburgh Lectures I had read something about the Law of Attraction, and from the Chapter of "Causes and Conditions" I had gleaned a vague idea of visualizing. So every night, before going to sleep, I made a mental picture of the desired $20,000... I wrote out my picture, saw myself buying my steamer ticket, walking up and down the ship's deck from New York to London, and, finally, saw myself accepted as Troward's pupil."
Now you can learn, as she did - with her unique and personal insight into Troward and his genius...
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All Cats Are Gray by Andre Norton
Under normal conditions a whole person has a decided advantage over a handicapped one. But out in deep space the normal may be reversed—for humans at any rate.
The "Empress" was a derelict. It had become legend. A luxury space cruiser that is devoid of life and runs the spaceways with its lights on. All the wealth of its passengers intact. Waiting for salvage. But no one who goes after her ever returns...
It was Steena who told Bub Nelson about the Jovan moon-rites—and her warning saved Bub’s life six months later. It was Steena who identified the piece of stone Keene Clark was passing around a table one night, rightly calling it unworked Slitite. That started a rush which made ten fortunes overnight for men who were down to their last jets...
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Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells
When a woman finds her true self, she can then open her eyes to love.
Ann Veronica deals with contemporary political issues of Edwardian England, concentrating specifically on feminist issues. In the course of the action the heroine matures from an innocent and naïve girl to a representative of the New Woman. Wells portrays the attitudes of that time, in particular those of the heroine's father and boyfriends who are completely unable to understand why a woman should want to be independent, study science, have the right to vote, and so on. These male chauvinists are not portrayed as bad people, but as men blindered by the education of the time.
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Siddartha by Hermann Hesse
When All Roads Lead to Nirvana
The word Siddhartha is made up of two words in the Sanskrit language, siddha (achieved) + artha (what was searched for), which together means "he who has found meaning (of existence)" or "he who has attained his goals". In fact, the Buddha's own name, before his renunciation, was Siddhartha Gautama, Prince of Kapilvastu. In this book, the Buddha is referred to as "Gotama".
In Hesse’s novel, deals with the spiritual journey of an Indian boy called Siddhartha during the time of the Buddha.Experience, the totality of conscious events of a human life, is shown as the best way to approach understanding of reality and attain enlightenment.
Hermann Hesse (d. 1962) published this first in 1922, and in the U.S. in 1952. Please respect your country's copyright laws.
The Hunted Woman by James Oliver Curwood
A tale of a great fight in the "valley of gold" for a woman.
Joanne Gray is a determined young woman traveling alone through the wild and rough parts of the West.
As the train stops for a while, she asks for a place to stay, but gets sent to Bill Quade, one of the most crooked guys in that part of the back woods. Fortunately she meets a well-known writer John Aldous who becomes her guardian, ready to step up when a lady is in danger.
For readers who love the romantic Western, this authentic book tells the story of how the west was civilized by women, championed by the men they loved.
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The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
"The Raven" is a classic narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness. The lover, often identified as being a student, is lamenting the loss of his love, Lenore. Sitting on a bust of Pallas, the raven seems to further instigate his distress with its constant repetition of the word "Nevermore". The poem makes use of a number of folk, mythological, religious, and classical references.
A quick read to have with you for odd moments (when you'd like some horror...)
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The Case of Jennie Brice by Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Case of Jennie Brice is a crime novel that tells the story of a blood-stained rope and towel, and a missing tenant, Jenny Brice—all of which convince Mrs. Pittman that a murder has been committed in her boarding house. But without a body, the police say there is no case. Pittman tries to ferret out the killer by using the key to Jennie's apartment to investigate.
In this classic mystery from "American Agatha Christie" Mary Roberts Rinehart, a terrible crime unfolds amidst the worst possible circumstances-devastating flooding that has incapacitated the city of Allegheny, Pennsylvania.
In a flooded house, Mrs. Pittman has to solve a classic case using only her wits - and a key to missing tenant's apartment. This classic whodunit will leave you guessing.
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Shambleau by C. L. Moore
HAD Northwest Smith, the famous outlaw of the spaceways, been able to foresee the future, he would not have shielded the frightened, scarlet-clad girl from the wild mob pursuing her through the narrow streets of Lakkdarol, Earth's last colony on Mars. "Shambleau! Shambleau!" the crowd cried with loathing and disgust, but Smith drove them off with his blaster and took the exhausted girl to his quarters. There was no hair upon her face — neither brows nor lashes; but what lay hidden beneath the tight scarlet turban bound around her head?
So begins one of the strangest, and possibly the most famous, of stories by C. L. Moore. When it first appeared "Shambleau" was acclaimed by readers, authors, and editors as the debut of a truly gifted talent...
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No Good From A Corpse by Leigh Brackett
**A hardboiled crime novel in the vein of Raymond Chandler**
Laurel Dane was no angel. She’d changed men as often as she’d changed her hair color, and there was plenty in her past she’d like to forget. But no one deserved to be beaten to death, and private eye Ed Clive didn’t believe that her boyfriend had killed her. Pursuing her own lonely trail, he found out just how easily jealousy and twisted rage could turn a human being into a monster of violence.
Originally published in 1944, this is Leigh Brackett’s unputdownable pulp fiction debut novel.
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Lady Molly of Scotland Yard by Baroness Orczy
When her fiancee is falsely accused and the police are unable to find evidence to support his innocence, Lady Molly does the unheard of - she joins the police to improve their methods.
Lady Molly, like her fictional contemporaries, most often succeeded because she recognised domestic clues foreign to male experience. Her entry into the police is motivated by a desire to save her fiancé from a false accusation. Once her superior intuition has triumphed, Lady Molly marries and leaves the force.
This collection of short stories about Molly Robertson-Kirk was written by Baroness Orczy, who is best known as the creator of The Scarlet Pimpernel.
First published in 1910, Orczy's female detective was the precursor of the lay sleuth who relies on brains rather than brawn.
