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What Can a President Really Do?
Penguin Workshop 试读
2022-07-05上架Direct from Who HQ, the team that brings you the New York Times Best-Selling Who Was? biography series, comes Who HQ Presents. These short illustrated e-Books provide quick, simple answers to the important questions being asked today about politics, social issues, the environment, and more!How much power does a US president really have?
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The All Souls Real-time Reading Companion
Deborah Harkness 试读
2022-07-04上架A richly illustrated real-time reading guide that brings to life the world created by Deborah Harkness in A Discovery of WitchesandShadow of Night retracing the events of the bestselling novels with illuminating behind-the-scenes details;A world of witches, vampires, and;daemons. A manuscript that holds the secrets of their past and the key to their future.Diana and Matthew—the forbidden love at the heart of the adventure.
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Is He Popenjoy
Anthony Trollope 试读
2021-01-22上架In mid-19th century England, an era full of celebrated novelists, Anthony Trollope was one of the most popular and critically acclaimed of them all. Even today, his Chronicles of Barsetshire series is widely read, as are his other novels, many of which deal with criticisms of English culture at the time, from its politics to its customs and norms.
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Imperium in Imperio – A Study of the Negro Race Problem A Novel
Griggs 试读
2021-01-10上架"Cum er long hunny an' let yer mammy fix yer 'spectabul, so yer ken go to skule. Yer mammy is 'tarmined ter gib yer all de book larning dar is ter be had eben ef she has ter lib on bred an' herrin's, an' die en de a'ms house." These words came from the lips of a poor, ignorant negro woman,
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Virus, Virus, You Cannot Scare Me!
穆相珍 试读
2020-04-27上架Besides, it also introduces the idea of harmonious coexistence between human and nature, in hope of raising children's awareness of protecting wildlife as well as the natural environment.
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The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 试读
2017-02-03上架I ask the indulgence of the children who may read this book for dedicating it to a grown-up. I have a serious reason:he is the best friend I have in the world. I have another reason: this grown-up understands everything, even books about children. I have a third reason: he lives in France where he is hungry and cold. He needs cheering up. If all these reasons are not enough, I will dedicate the book to the child from whom this grown-up grew.All grown-ups were once children-- although few of them remember it.
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Glengarry School Days – a story of early days in Glengarry
Ralph Connor 试读
2016-08-04上架The "Twentieth" school was built of logs hewn on two sides. The cracks were chinked and filled with plaster, which had a curious habit of falling out during the summer months, no one knew how; but somehow the holes always appeared on the boys' side, and being there, were found to be most useful,
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Guy Rivers – A Tale of Georgia
William Gilmore Simms 试读
2016-08-04上架Our scene lies in the upper part of the state of Georgia, a region at this time fruitful of dispute, as being within the Cherokee territories. The route to which we now address our attention, lies at nearly equal distances between the main trunk of the Chatahoochie and that branch of it which bears the name of the Chestatee, after a once formidable, but now almost forgotten tribe.
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Hardings luck
Edith Nesbit 试读
2016-08-04上架Dickie lived at New Cross. At least the address was New Cross, but really the house where he lived was one of a row of horrid little houses built on the slope where once green fields ran down the hill to the river, and the old houses of the Deptford merchants stood stately in their pleasant gardens and fruitful orchards.
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Minnies Pet Horse
Madeline Leslie 试读
2016-03-30上架In the other books of this little series, I have told you about Minnie’s pet parrot, her pet cat, and her pet dog. In this one, I shall give you an account of her pet pony, and also tell you anecdotes of other horses.
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Old Greek Stories
James Baldwin 试读
2016-01-29上架Perhaps no other stories have ever been told so often or listened to with so much pleasure as the classic tales of ancient Greece. For many ages they have been a source of delight to young people and old, to the ignorant and the learned, to all who love to hear about and contemplate things mysterious, beautiful, and grand. They have become so incorporated into our language and thought, and so interwoven with our literature, that we could not do away with them now if we would. They are a portion of our heritage from the distant past, and they form perhaps as important a part of our intellectual life as they did of that of the people among whom they originated.
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Studies of Trees
Jacob Joshua Levison 试读
2016-01-29上架In presenting this volume, the author is aware that there are several excellent books, dealing with one phase or another of tree life, already before the public. It is believed, however, that there is still need for an all-round book, adapted to the beginner, which gives in a brief and not too technical way the most important facts concerning the identification.....
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Michael, Brother of Jerry
Jack London 试读
2016-01-29上架Very early in my life, possibly because of the insatiable curiosity that was born in me, I came to dislike the performances of trained animals. It was my curiosity that spoiled for me this form of amusement, for I was led to seek behind the performance in order to learn how the performance was achieved.
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Speaking of Operations
Irvin S. Cobb 试读
2016-01-29上架1915. American humorist and newspaper columnist for The Saturday Evening Post and Cosmopolitan. He is best known for his Judge Priest stories. Speaking of Operations is a monologue about the author's experience in having an operation in 1915 written in his typical tongue-in-cheek style. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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Milly and Olly
Humphry Ward 试读
2016-01-29上架Mary Augusta Ward (nee Arnold; June 11, 1851 - March 26, 1920), was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward.
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Otto of the Silver Hand
Howard Pyle 试读
2016-01-29上架Between the far away past history of the world, and that which lies near to us; in the time when the wisdom of the ancient times was dead and had passed away, and our own days of light had not yet come, there lay a great black gulf in human history, a gulf of ignorance, of superstition, of cruelty, and of wickedness.
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The Magic Skin
Honoré de Balzac 试读
2016-01-29上架Towards the end of the month of October 1829 a young man entered the Palais-Royal just as the gaming-houses opened, agreeably to the law which protects a passion by its very nature easily excisable. He mounted the staircase of one of the gambling hells distinguished by the number 36, without too much deliberation.
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Jonas on a Farm in Winter
Jacob Abbott 试读
2016-01-28上架Early one winter morning, while Jonas was living upon the farm, in the employment of Oliver's father, he came groping down, just before daylight, into the great room.
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From Place to Place
Irvin S. Cobb 试读
2016-01-28上架THIS man that I have it in mind to write about was, at the time of which I write, an elderly man, getting well along toward sixty-five. He was tall and slightly stooped, with long arms, and big, gnarled, competent-looking hands, which smelled of yellow laundry soap, and had huge, tarnished nails on the fingers.
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Lady Roses Daughter
Humphry Ward 试读
2016-01-28上架So saying--on a February evening a good many years ago--an elderly gentleman in evening dress flung himself out of his cab, which had just stopped before a house in Bruton Street, and hastily went to meet a young man who was at the same moment stepping out of another hansom a little farther down the pavement.
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Andy Grants Pluck
Horatio Alger 试读
2016-01-28上架Part of a series of rags to riches stories of boys achieving the American dream of wealth through hard work, these works can also be seen as helpful in understanding the development of American cultural and social ideals.
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Facing the World
Horatio Alger 试读
2016-01-28上架Horatio Alger, Jr., in "Facing the World," gives us as his hero a boy whose parents have both died and the man appointed as his guardian is unjust and unkind to him. In desperation he runs away and is very fortunate in finding a true friend in a man who aids him and makes him his helper in his work as magician.
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Helping Himself
Horatio Alger 试读
2016-01-28上架Part of a series of rags to riches stories of boys achieving the American dream of wealth through hard work, these works can also be seen as helpful in understanding the development of American cultural and social ideals.
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Jacks Ward
Horatio Alger 试读
2016-01-28上架Horatio Alger, Jr., an author who lived among and for boys and himself remained a boy in heart and association till death, was born at Revere, Mass., January 13, 1834. He was the son of a clergyman; was graduated at Harvard College in 1852, and at its Divinity School in 1860; and was pastor of the Unitarian Church at Brewster, Mass., in 1862-66.
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Lydia of the Pines
Honoré Morrow 试读
2016-01-28上架They are as poor as a family can be, among those rolling northern hills. Amos and his girls, Lydia and Patience -- with the hired help Lizzie whom Amos can barely afford -- scrape out a meager living on the edge of a town nestled among maple-edged farmlands. But Lydia is as rich with life as the motherless family is poor of pennies. With her friend Kent and even the spoiled Margery she finds play and joy aplenty. Troubles loom ahead, though: sickness, worries, and debts -- and then political turmoil so fierce it threatens to tear the community apart -- and that even more direly threatens the nearby Indians on their ancestral lands. Lydia has no choice but to face the difficulties as they arrive. Yet it is when she learns about the old pine woods, and takes to heart what they mean, that she moves at last, and forever, beyond girlhood.
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Juana
Honoré de Balzac 试读
2016-01-28上架Notwithstanding the discipline which Marechal Suchet had introduced into his army corps, he was unable to prevent a short period of trouble and disorder at the taking of Tarragona. According to certain fair-minded military men, this intoxication of victory bore a striking resemblance to pillage, though the marechal promptly suppressed it.
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An Historical Mystery
Honoré de Balzac 试读
2016-01-28上架The autumn of the year 1803 was one of the finest in the early part of that period of the present century which we now call "Empire."' (Excerpt from text)
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Joan of Arc of the North Woods
Holman Day 试读
2016-01-28上架Holman Francis Day (1865-1935) was an American author, born at Vassalboro, Me., and a graduate of Colby College (class of 1887). In 1889-90 he was managing editor of the publications of the Union Publishing Company, Bangor, Me. He was also editor and proprietor of the Dexter Eastern Gazette, a special writer for the Lewiston (Me. ) Journal, Maine representative of the Boston Herald, and managing editor of the Lewiston Daily Sun. In 1901-04 he was military secretary to Gov. John F. Hill of Maine. His works include Up in Maine (1901), Pine Tree Ballads (1902), Kin O'Ktaadn (1904), Rainy Day Railroad War (1906), The Eagle Badge (1908), King Spruce (1908), The Ramrodders (1910), The Skipper and the Skipped (1911), The Red Lane: A Romance of the Border (1912), The Landloper (1915), Blow the Man Down (1916), Kavanagh's Clare (1917), The Rider of the King Log (1919), All-Wool Morrison (1920), When Egypt Went Broke (1921), and Joan of Arc of the North Woods (1922).
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New User Guide-iOS
iReader 试读
2016-01-27上架This guide takes you through the fundamentals of using iReader.
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Quality Street A Comedy
James Matthew Barrie 试读
2016-01-27上架The scene is the blue and white room in the house of the Misses Susan and Phoebe Throssel in Quality Street; and in this little country town there is a satisfaction about living in Quality Street which even religion cannot give.
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Sketches of the Covenanters
J. C. Mcfeeters 试读
2016-01-27上架"We bind and obligate ourselves to defend ourselves and one another, in our worshiping of God, and in our natural, civil, and divine rights and liberties, till we shall overcome, or send them down under debate to posterity, that they may begin where we end."
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Fires of Driftwood
Isabel Ecclestone Mackay 试读
2016-01-27上架Isabel Ecclestone Mackay (1875-1928) was a Canadian poet, playwright and novelist. She was born in Woodstock, Ontario. She received her education in Ontario and moved to Vancouver along with her husband, Peter J. Mackay, in 1909. There she wrote all her major works. She is the author of several novels, a book of lyrics, and a volume of poems for children. Her play Treasure (1926) won the open, all Canadian I.O.D.E. Contest in 1926.
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Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories
Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen 试读
2016-01-27上架Prof, Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen (1848-1895) was the Norwegian author of: Gunnar (1874), A Norseman's Pilgrimage (1875), Tales From Two Hemispheres (1877), Goethe and Schiller (1879), Falconberg (1879), Queen Titania (1881), Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories (1881), Boyhood in Norway (1892), The Golden Calf (1892), Essays on German Literature (1892) and A Good-For-Nothing ( ).
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Hills and the Sea
Hilaire Belloc 试读
2016-01-27上架"Hills and the Sea, "first published in 1906 to critical acclaim, collects thirty-eight of Hilaire Belloc's essays, spanning several periods of time and travel. The "New York Times" noted, " This] book abounds in sweetness and light, and one must be something more than human or something less not to find therein some congenial and sympathetic message--possibly many." Belloc captures the essence of each place he visits--whether on the gloomy English fens, or the sunny Provence and Languedoc regions of France, or navigating the North Sea in a leaky boat. Praised for his blend of wit and philosophy, Belloc also weaves together fantasy and fact, producing portraits that take on mythic proportions.
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The Philosophy of Style
Herbert Spencer 试读
2016-01-27上架Keeping in mind these general truths, we shall be in a condition to understand certain causes of effect in composition now to be considered. Every perception received, and every conception realized, entailing some amount of waste--or, as Liebig would say, some change of matter in the brain; and the efficiency of the faculties subject to this waste being thereby temporarily, though often but momentarily, diminished; the resulting partial inability must affect the acts of perception and conception that immediately succeed.
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Red Saunders Pets and Other Critters
Henry Wallace Phillips 试读
2016-01-27上架"Of all the worlds I ever broke into, this one's the most curious," said Red. "And one of the curiousest things in it is that I think it's queer. Why should I, now? What put it into our heads that affairs ought to go so and so and so, when they never do anything of the sort?
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The Spirit of Christmas
Henry van Dyke 试读
2016-01-27上架It was the hour of rest in the Country Beyond the Stars. All the silver bells that swing with the turning of the great ring of light which lies around that land were softly chiming; and the sound of their commotion went down like dew upon the golden ways of the city, and the long alleys of blossoming trees, and the meadows of asphodel, and the curving shores of the River of Life.
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Morning Star
Henry Rider Haggard 试读
2016-01-27上架Haggard's classic Egyptian novel, filled with magic, wandering Kas (or spirit-doubles), old gods, romance, and adventure -- as only Haggard could write it Features an introduction by Lin Carter.
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Moon of Israel
Henry Rider Haggard 试读
2016-01-27上架This is the story of me, Ana the scribe, son of Meri, and of certain of the days that I have spent upon the earth. These things I have written down now that I am very old in the reign of Rameses, the third of that name, when Egypt is once more strong and
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Maiwa‘s Revenge
Henry Rider Haggard 试读
2016-01-27上架"From about forty yards away came a tremendous snorting -- more like that of an engine getting a heavy train under weigh than anything else in the world." "A great crashing followed. Before I could even get up, the bush behind me burst asunder, and there appeared not eight yards from me the great horn and wicked twinkling eye of a charging rhinoceros." Allan Quatermain has determined to go farther afield than he had ever traveled before, into the depths of the African jungle -- on a march inland to the hills between lands controlled by the chiefs Wambe and Nala. Quatermain has heard of the elephants dwelling in the dense forests at the foot of the mountains edging Wambe's lands -- and also stories of Wambe himself, so ruthless a ruler he murdered in cold blood an entire party of English party who, seven years before, entered his country to hunt elephants. Quatermain determines to go elephant-hunting all the same. Before he has gone far, however, he faces rebellion among his own men, unexpected dangers from massive beasts of the jungle -- and then receives from an old friend a strange message, hidden within a bowl of bartered food
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Queen Shebas Ring
Henry Rider Haggard 试读
2016-01-27上架Every one has read the monograph, I believe that is the right word, of my dear friend, Professor Higgs—Ptolemy Higgs to give him his full name—descriptive of the tableland of Mur in North Central Africa, of the ancient underground city in the mountains which surrounded it, and of the strange tribe of Abyssinian Jews, or rather their mixed descendants, by whom it is, or was, inhabited.
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Joe Wilson and His Mates
Henry Lawson 试读
2016-01-27上架There it stood, behind a calico screen that the coach-painters used to keep out the dust when they were varnishing. It was a first-class piece of work -- pole, shafts, cushions, whip, lamps, and all complete. If you only wanted to drive one horse you could take out the pole and put in the shafts, and there you were. There was a tilt over the front seat; if you only wanted the buggy to carry two, you could fold down the back seat, and there you had a handsome, roomy, single buggy. It would go near fifty pounds.
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Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn
Henry Kingsley 试读
2016-01-27上架A novel by the English novelist, Henry Kingsley, who was the brother of the better known Charles Kingsley. After emigrating to Australia, Henry Kingsley became involved in golddigging, and later joined the mounted police. On his return to the United Kingdom in 1858 he devoted himself to literature, and wrote several well-regarded novels, including The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn (1859), set in Colebrooke, Devon, and Australia.
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Louisa Pallant
Henry James 试读
2016-01-27上架1879 novel by the prolific American-born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He spent much of his life in Europe and became a British subject shortly before his death. He is primarily known for novels, novellas and short stories based on themes of consciousness and morality.
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The Iron Game A Tale of the War
Henry Francis Keenan 试读
2016-01-27上架When expulsion from college, in his junior years, was visited upon Jack Sprague, he straightway became the hero of Acredale. And, though the grave faculty had felt constrained to vindicate college authority, it was well known that they sympathized with the infraction of decorum that obliged them to put this mark of disgrace upon one of the most promising of their students.
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Better Dead
James Matthew Barrie 试读
2016-01-26上架"Better Dead" by J.M. Barrie is a thrilling *vel. Andrew Riach, moves to London after university and struggles to find a job until he meets the president of The Society For Doing Without, which is an organization that exterminates unneeded citizens. Andrew ends up working for this society and danger ensues.
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Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods
Isabel Hornibrook 试读
2016-01-26上架Now, Neal Farrar, you've got to be as still as the night itself, remember. If you bounce, or turn, or draw a long breath, you won't have a rag of reputation as a deer-hunter to take back to England. Sneeze once, and we're done for. That means more diet of flapjacks and pork, instead of venison steaks. And I guess your city appetite won't rally to pork much longer, even in the wilds. Neal Farrar sighed as if there was something in that. "But, you know, it's just when an unlucky fellow would give his life not to sneeze that he's sure to bring out a thumping big one," he said plaintively.
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Dragons blood
Henry Milner Rideout 试读
2016-01-26上架"Dragon's Blood" by Henry Milner Rideout was first published in 1909. One of the heroes of the story is a twenty-two year old German man by the name of Rudolph Hackh who, green and untried, is making his first trip to China as an agent for Fliegelman and Sons. On the last leg of his journey to the village of "Stink-Chau" he meets the book's other hero -- the indefatigable and ever-cheerful, Maurice Heywood. Heywood introduces Hackh to the beauties and dangers of this unknown land and will prove to be Rudoph's greatest friend; standing with him through fire and blood under the shadow of a dragon-shaped mountain.
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Esther
Henry Adams 试读
2016-01-26上架Esther (1884), the second of two novels by noted American historian Henry Adams (1838-1918), deals with a woman's inability to accept religious faith as men have formulated it. Esther Dudley, a young New York socialite and artist raised without religion, falls in love with Episcopal clergyman Stephen Hazard, but she cannot embrace his Christianity and remain true to herself. Displaying the subtle interplay of mind found in the best work of Henry James, Esther suggests the symbolism of the Virgin Mary that Adams would take up some twenty years later in his Mont Saint-Michel and Chartres, a Study in Thirteenth-Century Unity: Esther rejects Hazard just as the Virgin rejected the scholastic formulation of the Trinity and the whole medieval system of moral law.
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Beverly of Graustark
George Barr McCutcheon 试读
2016-01-25上架Far off in the mountain lands, somewhere to the east of the setting sun, lies the principality of Graustark, serene relic of rare old feudal days. The traveler reaches the little domain after an arduous, sometimes perilous journey from the great European capitals, whether they be north or south or west—never east. He crosses great rivers and wide plains; he winds through fertile valleys and over barren plateaus; he twists and turns and climbs among sombre gorges and rugged mountains; he touches the cold clouds in one day and the placid warmth of the valley in the next. One does not go to Graustark for a pleasure jaunt. It is too far from the rest of the world and the ways are often dangerous because of the strife among the tribes of the intervening mountains. If one hungers for excitement and peril he finds it in the journey from the north or the south into the land of the Graustarkians. From Vienna and other places almost directly west the way is not so full of thrills, for the railroad skirts the darkest of the dangerlands.
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New User Guide
iReader 试读
2016-01-21上架This guide takes you through the fundamentals of using iReader.
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Blix
Frank Norris 试读
2016-01-21上架It had just struck nine from the cuckoo clock that hung over the mantelpiece in the dining-room, when Victorine brought in the halved watermelon and set it in front of Mr. Bessemer's plate. Then she went down to the front door for the damp, twisted roll of the Sunday morning's paper, and came back and rang the breakfast-bell for the second time.
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Brigands of the Moon
Ray Cummings 试读
2016-01-21上架Our ship, the space-flyer, Planetara, whose home port was Greater New York, carried mail and passenger traffic to and from both Venus and Mars. Of astronomical necessity, our flights were irregular. The spring of 2070, with both planets close to the Earth, we were making two complete round trips. We had just arrived in Greater New York, one May evening, from Grebhar, Venus Free State. With only five hours in port here, we were departing the same night at the zero hour for Ferrok-Shahn, capital of the Martian Union.
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Kincaids Battery
George Washington Cable 试读
2016-01-21上架"If any one alive," he cried, "knows any cause why this thing should not be"Anna"'Tis good-by, Kincaid's Battery"And the next instant she was in his arms"No! not under this roof--nor in sight of these things.""You 'ave no ri-ight to leave me! Ah, you shall not!"She dropped into a seat, staring like one demented.
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Captivating Mary Carstairs
Henry Sydnor Harrison 试读
2016-01-20上架This book, representing the writer's first effort at a long story, has something of a story of its own. First planned in 1900 or 1901, it was begun in 1905, and finished at length, in a version, three years later. Through the two years succeeding it underwent various adventures, including, if memory serves, two complete overhauling. Having thus reached by stages something like its present form, it was, in August, 1910, favorably reported on by the publishers; but yet another rewriting preceded its final acceptance, a few weeks later. Meanwhile, I had turned to fresh work; and, as it chanced, "Queed" was both begun and finished in the interval while "Captivating Mary Carstairs" was taking her last journeys abroad. Turned away by two publishers, the newer manuscript shortly found welcome from a third. So it befell that I, as yet more experienced in rejections, suddenly found myself with two books, of widely different sorts and intentions, scheduled for publication by different publishers, almost simultaneously. As this seemed to be more books than society required from an unknown writer, it was decided to put out the present story—which is a "story," as I conceive the terms, and not a novel—over a pen name.
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Fair Margaret-Henry Rider Haggard
Henry Rider Haggard 试读
2016-01-20上架In the turbulent reign of King Henry VII, Peter Brome finds himself with a soldier's blood on his hands -- blood the Spanish ambassador's men demand be repaid. Poor and fatherless, Peter delivered the killing blow in self-defense -- and because of his helpless love for Margaret -- dark-eyed daughter of John Castell, the kindly and wealthy merchant who has overseen his upbringing. Now another pursues fair Margaret -- the powerful Marquis d'Aguilar of Spain, traveling in England upon a secret mission for the Inquisition. More than love hangs in the balance
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Jess
Henry Rider Haggard 试读
2016-01-20上架The day had been very hot even for the Transvaal, where the days still know how to be hot in the autumn, although the neck of the summer is broken—especially when the thunderstorms hold off for a week or two, as they do occasionally. Even the succulent blue lilies—a variety of the agapanthus which is so familiar to us in English greenhouses—hung their long trumpet-shaped flowers and looked oppressed and miserable, beneath the burning breath of the hot wind which had been blowing for hours like the draught from a volcano. The grass, too, near the wide roadway that stretched in a feeble and indeterminate fashion across the veldt, forking, branching, and reuniting like the veins on a lady's arm, was completely coated over with a thick layer of red dust. But the hot wind was going down now, as it always does towards sunset. Indeed, all that remained of it were a few strictly local and miniature whirlwinds, which would suddenly spring up on the road itself, and twist and twirl fiercely round, raising a mighty column of dust fifty feet or more into the air, where it hung long after the wind had passed, and then slowly dissolved as its particles floated to the earth.
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King Midas – a Romance
Upton Sinclair 试读
2016-01-20上架It was that time of year when all the world belongs to poets, for their harvest of joy; when those who seek the country not for beauty, but for coolness, have as yet thought nothing about it, and when those who dwell in it all the time are too busy planting for another harvest to have any thought of poets; so that the latter, and the few others who keep something in their hearts to chime with the great spring-music, have the woods and waters all for their own for two joyful months, from the time that the first snowy bloodroot has blossomed, until the wild rose has faded and nature has no more to say. In those two months there are two weeks, the ones that usher in the May, that bear the prize of all the year for glory; the commonest trees wear green and silver then that would outshine a coronation robe, and if a man has any of that prodigality of spirit which makes imagination, he may hear the song of all the world.
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Little Wizard Stories of Oz
Lyman Frank Baum 试读
2016-01-20上架After concluding the fourteenth volume of his popular series, L. Frank Baum returned to the land of Oz in 1914 with six short stories featuring Dorothy, Toto, and other beloved characters. Written for slightly younger readers, these hard-to-find tales offer a fine introduction to Baum's enchanted world.Featured stories include "The Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger," "Little Dorothy and Toto," "Tiktok and the Nome King," "Ozma and the Little Wizard," "Jack Pumpkinhead and the Sawhorse," and "The Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman." This facsimile edition re-creates the charm of the original, including its distinctive blue type and more than 40 full-color illustrations.
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Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
Ambrose Bierce 试读
2016-01-20上架This collection of short and chilling ghost stories was originally published in 1913 and is loosely organized into four categories: The Ways of Ghosts, including "An Arrest," in which a murderer is escorted back to jail by the prison guard he murdered to escape; Soldier Folk including "A Man with Two Lives," in which a man dead and buried returns to claim his belongings, Some Haunted Houses, including "The Other Lodgers," in which a man checks into what he believes is a hotel only to discover it is an abandoned hospital, and Mysterious Disappearances, including "The Difficulty of Crossing a Field," in which a man disappears in full view of witnesses while crossing a field.