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The money master
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Gilbert Parker |
Against the charmingly sketched background of a little French-Canadian town, the author traces with pathos, yet with whimsical humor, the development of the character of Jean Jacques Barbille, miller… |
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Lord Stranleigh Abroad
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Robert Barr |
Describes the visit of a young laconic English Earl of great wealth to the USA. Four short stories are set at sea or in big cities; one long story of three chapters is set in the Wild West (<a href=h… |
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The measure of the rule
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Robert Barr |
A novel of somewhat melodramatic style. Closes with a deathbed scene. Title comes from a quotation from 2 Corinthians 10:15 in New Testament of the Bible, King James Version, " . . . According to th… |
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Story Girl
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Lucy Maud Montgomery |
Beverly King and his younger brother, Felix, are sent to live with an aunt and uncle in Carlisle when their widowed father finds work in a distant land. This story is told from Bev's point of view. H… |
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Anne of Avonlea
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Lucy Maud Montgomery |
"A tall, slim girl, "half-past sixteen," with serious gray eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on the broad red sandstone doorstep of a Prince Edward Island farmhouse one ripe… |
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A strange manuscript found in a copper cylinder
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James De Mille |
Four men aboard a boat find the titular strange manuscript in a cylindar floating in the sea. It turns out to be the story of Adam More, a sailor stranded in a savage hidden country in Antarctica. In… |
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