Stories of the Nations, Volume 2
By: Lorene Lambert
4.27
Format: 210 pages, ebook
Mr. Morris’s narratives make you feel as if you are listening to a kindly grandfather recounting ta…
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1. Agnes Grey
By: Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau
3.71
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover edition can be found here. Drawing heavily from personal experience, Anne Bro… read more
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"Dakle,"-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
"No one cares for the exterior."-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
"But, God knows best, I concluded."-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
"If you require perfection, you never will"-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
2. Robinson Crusoe
By: Virginia Woolf , Daniel Defoe , Gerald McCann
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Daniel Defoe relates the tale of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three dec… read more
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- school
"For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first. "-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe
"On a horse? I was married on a horse? Gillian looked like she could kill the groom"-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe
"All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them."-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe
"for me to think of such a voyage was the most preposterous thing that ever man in such circumstances could be guilty of."-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe
3. The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
By: Peter Sís
4.08
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side—the Communist side—of the Iron Curtain. … read more
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- history
4. The Wind in the Willows
By: Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery
4.02
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he… read more
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"...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight..."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
5. Hannah Coulter
By: Wendell Berry
4.38
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry's seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman charac… read more
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"Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
"And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
"Living right on called for nothing out of the ordinary. We made no changes. We only accepted the changes as they came."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
"Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me."-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
6. Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians (Alcatraz, #1)
By: Brandon Sanderson
3.91
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians is the first adventure in a fantasy series for young readers by… read more
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"Wasing not of wasing is", Quentin added."-Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians (Alcatraz, #1)
"You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It's really funny."-Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians (Alcatraz, #1)
"Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people."-Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians (Alcatraz, #1)
"Great success often depends on being able to distinguish between the impossible and the improbable."-Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians (Alcatraz, #1)
7. Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille
By: Russell Freedman , Kate Kiesler
4.14
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A biography of the modest Frenchman who, after being blinded at the age of three, went on to develo… read more
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- history
8. Eve in Exile and the Restoration of Femininity
By: Rebekah Merkle
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
The swooning Victorian ladies and the 1950s housewives genuinely needed to be liberated. That much … read more
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9. The Haymeadow
By: Gary Paulsen , Ruth Wright Paulsen
4.25
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
Fourteen-year-old John Barron is asked, like his father and grandfather before him, to spend the su… read more
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10. Mission to Pluto: The First Visit to an Ice Dwarf and the Kuiper Belt
By: Mary Kay Carson
3.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In July of 2015 a robotic spacecraft reached Pluto after a nine-and-half-year journey. New Horizons… read more
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11. Beetle Busters
By: Loree Griffin Burns , Ellen Harasimowicz
1.00
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
The Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) has made news across the United States. These beetles came to Ame… read more
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12. The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
By: Susan Wise Bauer
3.42
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting his… read more
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13. The Children's Book of Virtues
By: William J. Bennett , Michael Hague
4.24
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
The perfect companion to William J. Bennett's number-one bestseller; The Book of Virtues, The Child… read more
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14. Homer Price
By: Robert McCloskey
4.09
Format: 149 pages, Paperback
Welcome to Centerburg! Where you can win a hundred dollars by eating all the doughnuts you want; wh… read more
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"By the time Uncle Ulysses and the sheriff arrived and pushed through the crowd, the lunchroom was a calamity of doughnuts! Doughnuts in the window, doughnuts piled high on the shelves, doughnuts stac…"-Robert McCloskey, Homer Price
"Homer got down from the chair and pushed a button on the machine marked, "start". Rings of batter started dropping into the hot fat. After a ring of batter was cooked on one side, an automatic gadget…"-Robert McCloskey, Homer Price
15. Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family
By: Paul David Tripp
4.57
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes parents wish there was a guaranteed formula for raising good kids--a certain list of rule… read more
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16. The Code of the Woosters (Jeeves, #7)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.27
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new… read more
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17. The Merchant of Venice
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , None
3.78
Format: 247 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the … read more
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"He will fence with his own shadow."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"i buy a thousand pound a year! i buy a rope!"-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
18. That Quail, Robert
By: Margaret A. Stanger
3.94
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
The perennially bestselling and acclaimed classic of the little bird who preferred human companions… read more
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19. The Mouse and the Motorcycle (Ralph S. Mouse, #1)
By: Tracy Dockray , Beverly Cleary , Louis Darling
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Pb-pb-b-b-b. Pb-pb-b-b-b." With these magic vocables, Ralph the mouse revs up a dream come true--h… read more
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20. Toliver's Secret
By: Esther Wood Brady
3.99
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
When her grandfather is injured, 10-year-old Ellen Toliver replaces him on a top-secret patriotic m… read more
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- school
21. Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
By: Kadir Nelson
3.84
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Kadir Nelson's Heart and Soulis the winner of numerous awards, including the 2012 Coretta Scott Kin… read more
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22. Cheaper by the Dozen (Cheaper by the Dozen, #1)
By: Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
3.99
Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition
"Dad had enough gall to be divided into three parts." Dad was Frank B. Gilbreth, to the world a dis… read more
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"Some simpleton with pimples in his voice wants to speak to Ernestine," he grumbled to Mother when he answered the phone."-Frank B. Gilbreth Jr., Cheaper by the Dozen (Cheaper by the Dozen, #1)
"Ernestine used to remark, in a tone tinged with envy, that Lill was probably New Jersey's youngest gold digger, and that few adult gold diggers ever had received more, in return for less."-Frank B. Gilbreth Jr., Cheaper by the Dozen (Cheaper by the Dozen, #1)
"But it was Mother who spun the stories that made the things we studied really unforgettable. If Dad saw motion study and teamwork in an ant hill, Mother saw a highly complex civilization governed, pe…"-Frank B. Gilbreth Jr., Cheaper by the Dozen (Cheaper by the Dozen, #1)
23. Howards End
By: E.M. Forster
3.96
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
A már életében klasszikusnak számító angol írónak ez volt a negyedik, a kritikusok szerint a legjob… read more
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"So never give in,"-E.M. Forster, Howards End
"Tulips were a tray of jewels."-E.M. Forster, Howards End
"Love and Truth, their warfare seems eternal."-E.M. Forster, Howards End
"Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him."-E.M. Forster, Howards End
24. Everything Sad Is Untrue
By: Daniel Nayeri
4.32
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Da… read more
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"Every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
"I won't tell you about her yet, because sometimes love has to be kept secret. If other people find out, they will attack it."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
"Sometimes you just want somebody to look at a thing with you and say, "Yes. That is a thing you're looking at. You haven't lied to yourself."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
"Maybe there isn’t just one person designated for everybody. Maybe there’s a lot more to it---maybe you choose and you practice, and that’s what makes the love true."-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
25. The Mysterious Benedict Society (The Mysterious Benedict Society, #1)
By: Trenton Lee Stewart
4.20
Format: 497 pages, Kindle Edition
"Are you a gifted child looking for special opportunities?"When this peculiar ad appears in the new… read more
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"Poor Kate,"-Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society (The Mysterious Benedict Society, #1)
"Remember the White Knight."-Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society (The Mysterious Benedict Society, #1)
"Children are capable of such open rudeness."-Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society (The Mysterious Benedict Society, #1)
"Every great thinker keeps a journal, you know."-Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society (The Mysterious Benedict Society, #1)
26. Modern Miss Mason
By: Leah Boden
4.30
Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition
For every mother who desires to cultivate a lasting foundation of curiosity and wonder for her chil… read more
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27. Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration
By: Elizabeth Partridge
4.53
Format: 132 pages, Hardcover
This important work of nonfiction features powerful images of the Japanese American incarceration c… read more
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28. The Galveston Diet: The Doctor-Developed, Patient-Proven Plan to Burn Fat and Tame Your Hormonal Symptoms
By: Mary Claire Haver
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A comprehensive, medically-tested eating and lifestyle program--including 40 delicious recipes--to … read more
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29. Stories of America, Volume 2
By: Charles Morris
4.00
Format: 239 pages, Paperback
Settle back with these stories of American history and watch your children's eyes light up with int… read more
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30. Stories of the Nations, Volume 2
By: Lorene Lambert
4.27
Format: 210 pages, ebook
Mr. Morris’s narratives make you feel as if you are listening to a kindly grandfather recounting ta… read more
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31. In the Days of Giants
By: Abbie Farwell Brown
3.81
Format: 262 pages, hardcover
Originally published at In the Days of Giants: A Book of Norse Tales, this collection was reprinted… read more
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