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1) The prince
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1350L
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The classic handbook of statecraft written by an Italian nobleman recommends guile and craftiness to attain and maintain political power.
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When John Shefford rode into Utah's valley in search of a new life and met Fay Larkin, he knew he had found it. Even when she was charged with murder, he did not care. She was worth life itself. Breaking her out of jail was the easy part. After that he has posses to worry about, violent bands of Indians to out run, a murderous trek across a trackless waste, and a brutal passage through white water hell. Busting her out of jail had been a cinch. After...
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"The came from a settled land--to a place of beauty, blood and war... Jim and Joe Downs came from Virgina--one led by the call of God, the other by a thirst for adventure. In the Ohio River Valley, the handsome young preacher and his rogue and charming brother entered a storm of Indian wars, white men's treachery, and into the wilderness of a legendary fighter whose enemies knew him as the 'Deathwind...'" -- Page [4] cover.
Known to the Ohio Valley...
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Pub. Date
1915
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372 pages ; olor illustrations ; 20 cm.
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When John Shefford rode into Utah's valley in search of a new life and met Fay Larkin, he knew he had found it. Even when she was charged with murder, he did not care. She was worth life itself. Breaking her out of jail was the easy part. After that he has posses to worry about, violent bands of Indians to out run, a murderous trek across a trackless waste, and a brutal passage through white water hell. Busting her out of jail had been a cinch. After...
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.
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Lucy Watson leaves home when she finishes her schooling and joins a pioneer community in the Old West. She is appointed welfare instructor of isolated backwoods folk. She quickly overcomes their fears, and achieves popularity by the practical results of her work. She is especially successful with a strong, uncouth bee-hunter.
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"Along the notorious Rogue River, gold seekers, crazed by the discovery of nuggets that made them rich overnight, are at war with one another. The river itself swarms with salmon, bringing along with them another kind of wealth and violent fighting between the fishermen and the fish-packing monopoly. Into this scene comes Keven Bell, returning to face life after being handicapped by a disfiguring wound he received in World War I. Keven teams up with...
9) Sunset Pass
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Great western edition volume 36
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English
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"Trueman Rock was a man who used his gun only out of necessity--against cattle rustlers and crooked men. When he returned to Wagontongue, he expected to have a run-in with old enemies, but found they were all dead. They'd been bad hombres and had met with their own kind of justice. What Rock hadn't counted on was running into Ash Preston--a man more vicious and dishonest than any of them. Now he would have to use his gun to save his skin!" -- Page...
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"Is Frayne an outlaw?" Holly Ripple asked. "Miss Holly, it takes bad men to cope with bad men on this frontier. If you could hire him, he'd be a whole outfit in himself. Course, a lady like you wouldn't have Frayne's sort around your ranch." ... "Wouldn't I?" When her father dies, sheltered young Holly Ripple gains possession of his vast cattle empire, plagued by rustlers and desperadoes. But she stands firm and soon has earned the reputation of a...
11) War and peace
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1130L
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Set against the sweeping panoply of Napoleons invasion of Russia, "War and Peace" is often considered the greatest novel ever written.
By turns philosophical and poetic, this sweeping Russian novel recounts the events surrounding the French invasion of Russia during the Napoleonic era. It covers the years between 1805 and 1813 and is based on extensive historical research. Readers are introduced to the Bolkonskys, the Rostovs, the Kuragins, and the...
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1300L
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Gulliver's strange adventures in some of the most unusual lands ever imagined have made this one of the rare classics with an enduring and wide-ranging appeal to all ages. Gulliver's bad luck at sea not only gets him shipwrecked and castaway, but repeatedly throws him into strange societies of even stranger people. Readers are likely aware of Gulliver's experiences in Lilliput, where he meets a kingdom of six-inch-tall people with a set of prejudices...
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In the midst of World War I, Kurt Dorn cannot agree with his German-born father that America is making a mistake by siding with Great Britain. Meanwhile area farmers come into conflict with the IWW, which doesn't want the area's wheat to go to support the troops.
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Great western edition volume 25
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English
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The story of "Hell Bent", a terrible gunfighter with a strange history, and Columbine Belllounds, a lost child brought up by a stern old rancher who expects her out of gratitude to marry his rascally son.
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Great books of the Western world volume 7
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1952
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vii, 814 pages ; 24 cm.
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The Dialogues of Plato, written between 427 and 347 b.c., rank among the most important and influential works in Western thought. Most famous are the first four, in which Plato casts his teacher Socrates as the central disputant in colloquies that brilliantly probe a vast spectrum of philosophical ideas and issues. Socrates' ancient words are still true, and the ideas found in Plato's Dialogues still form the foundation of a thinking person's education....
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Great books of the Western world volume 32
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1952
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vii, 412 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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Great books of the Western world volume 25
Pub. Date
1952
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viii, 543 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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Great books of the Western world volume 47
Pub. Date
1952
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294 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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Great books of the Western world volume 6
Pub. Date
1952
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ix, 616 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
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English