In Their Own Words: Original Documents, Speeches, Poems, and Stories from World History
By: Ray Notgrass
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A collection of oroginal sources brings the story of our world to life. Explore history through the…
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1. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
By: Harriet Beecher Stowe
3.91
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
The narrative drive of Stowe's classic novel is often overlooked in the heat of the controversies s… read more
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"Liberty! -- Electric word!"-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
"Some jokes are less agreeable than others"-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
"Still waters run deepest, they used to tell me."-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
"What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear."-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
2. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
By: Benjamin Franklin , None
3.86
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
Written initially to guide his son, Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography is a lively, spellbinding acc… read more
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"Never confuse Motion with Action."-Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
"it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright"-Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
"When the well is dry we know the value of water"-Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
"...there will be sleeping enough in the grave...."-Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
3. The Wrong Side of Goodbye (Harry Bosch, #19; Harry Bosch Universe, #29)
By: Michael Connelly
4.34
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
Harry Bosch is California's newest private investigator. He doesn't advertise, he doesn't have an o… read more
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"Politicians could talk about building walls and changing laws to keep people out, but in the end they were just symbols. Neither would stop the tide any more than the rock jetties at the mouth of the…"-Michael Connelly, The Wrong Side of Goodbye (Harry Bosch, #19; Harry Bosch Universe, #29)
4. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
By: Frederick Douglass
4.11
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Doug… read more
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"For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?"-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
5. The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
By: James Fenimore Cooper
3.70
Format: 410 pages, Paperback
The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans … read more
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"Is it justice to make evil, and then punish for it?"-James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
"Do my brothers know the name of this favored people?"-James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
"Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!"-James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
"Indijanac je stvorenje što ćete ga prije osjetiti nego vidjeti."-James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
6. Rip Van Winkle
By: Washington Irving
3.81
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
What would you do if you met the Strange Men in the mountains? Would you dare to pass the haunted t… read more
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7. A Tale of Two Cities
By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Richard Maxwell
3.87
Format: 489 pages, Paperback
A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval … read more
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"We'll start to forget a place once we left it"-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
"Tell the Wind and the Fire where to stop; not me."-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
"A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self."-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
8. The Trouble With Tink (Tales of Pixie Hollow, #1)
By: Judith Holmes Clarke , Kiki Thorpe
4.17
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
Tinker Bell is supposed to be the best there is at fixing pots and pans, but when she loses her ham… read more
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9. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
By: Robert Louis Stevenson , Robert Mighall
3.92
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
'He put the glass to his lips and drank at one gulp... his face became suddenly black and the featu… read more
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"I was still cursed with my duality of purpose."-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
"Don't you know Poole, you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril?"-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
"I saw what I saw, I heard what I heard, and my soul sickened at it; and yet now when that sight has faded from my eyes, I ask myself if I believe it, and I cannot answer."-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
"Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged. With a transport of glee, I mauled the unresisting body, tasting delight from every blow; and it was not till weariness had begun to succeed, that …"-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
10. The House of the Seven Gables
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne , Robert S. Levine
4.33
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brood… read more
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11. Devil's Food Cake Murder (Hannah Swensen, #14)
By: Joanne Fluke
3.65
Format: 448 pages,
These days, everyone in Lake Eden, Minnesota, is buzzing with activity, and Hannah Swensen is no ex… read more
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12. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
By: Washington Irving
3.44
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Headless horsemen were staples of Northern European storytelling, featuring in German, Irish (e.g. … read more
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13. Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, #1)
By: Lee Child
2.96
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He's just passing through Margrave, Georgia, and i… read more
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14. The Pilgrim's Progress
By: John Bunyan
4.06
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
This famous story of man's progress through life in search of salvation remains one of the most ent… read more
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"Follow your heart"-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
"Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none."-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
"They are my fears of him, too. But who can hinder that which will be?"-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
"Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion."-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
15. Cry, the Beloved Country
By: Alan Paton
3.71
Format: 435 pages, Hardcover
Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa's history, was an imm… read more
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16. The Abolition of Man
By: C.S. Lewis
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0060652944 The Abolition of Man, Lewis uses his graceful prose, del… read more
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17. Geometry
By: Harold R. Jacobs
4.36
Format: 94 pages, Hardcover
Jacobs' highly successful, distinctive text was revised on the basis of users' comments and ten yea… read more
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18. Moby-Dick or, The Whale
By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco
3.55
Format: 720 pages, Paperback
"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more
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"Call me Ishmael."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Ignorance is the parent of fear."-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
19. Two Kinds of Truth (Harry Bosch, #22; Harry Bosch Universe, #29)
By: Michael Connelly
3.77
Format: None pages,
Harry Bosch searches for the truth in the new thriller from #1 NYT bestselling author Michael Conne… read more
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20. The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
By: John Sherrill , Elizabeth Sherrill , Corrie ten Boom
3.81
Format: None pages,
At one time Corrie ten Boom would have laughed at the idea that there would ever be a story to tell… read more
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21. Across Five Aprils
By: Irene Hunt
4.41
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
The Newbery Award winning author of Up a Road Slowlypresents the unforgettable story of Jethro Crei… read more
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22. The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul
By: Brian Kilmeade
4.23
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and th… read more
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23. Dark Sacred Night (Renée Ballard, #2; Harry Bosch, #21; Harry Bosch Universe, #32)
By: Michael Connelly
4.18
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
LAPD Detective Renée Ballard teams up with Harry Bosch in the new thriller from #1 NYT bestselling … read more
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24. Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
By: Bill O'Reilly
3.67
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
With over 19 million copies in print and a remarkable record of #1 New York Times, Wall Street Jour… read more
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25. The Night Fire (Renée Ballard, #3; Harry Bosch, #22; Harry Bosch Universe, #33)
By: Michael Connelly
4.28
Format: 405 pages, Hardcover
Harry Bosch and LAPD Detective Renee Ballard come together again on the murder case that obsessed B… read more
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26. Stuck
By: Chris Grabenstein
3.53
Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio
On his 11th birthday, Jackson is nervous about moving up to middle school where he knows he'll be b… read more
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27. Our Constitution Rocks
By: Juliette Turner
4.29
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Discover the United States Constitution like never before, from the viewpoint of a child! Learn how… read more
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28. The American Revolution, 1763-1783 (Drama of American History)
By: Christopher Collier
3.81
Format: 96 pages, Library Binding
Examines the people and events involved in the significant war by which the thirteen original colon… read more
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29. Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennesse
By: David Crockett
4.33
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennesse by David Crockett. University of T… read more
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30. Early American History: Native Americans through the Forty-Niners
By: Linwood Thompson
3.90
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Make American history come alive for your student with these 30 excellent lectures that cover the f… read more
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31. In Their Own Words: Original Documents, Speeches, Poems, and Stories from World History
By: Ray Notgrass
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A collection of oroginal sources brings the story of our world to life. Explore history through the… read more
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