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The Great Democracies (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Volume 4

by Winston S. Churchill, K.G.
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. In The Great Democracies, Winston Churchill makes his case for the unique and fundamental role the English-speaking people played in bringing economic progress and political freedom to the world at large. As a work...
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by Winston Churchill
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011

A tale of politics, money, and corruption, young Mr. Vane breaks with his father, chief counsel for the railroad that controls the politics of New Hampshire. Vane junior wins a damage suit against the railroad and hopes to run for governor, but his father blocks his nomination as his last act of duty to the railroad.
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by Winston Churchill
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012

On the exotic island of Madeira, an American Navy sailor meets a young British woman. As they decide to dispense with formalities, their sly and secretive arrangements (with a little help from a crewman friend) supply the humor in this 1896 story—the first by a master of American naturalism.
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by Charles Godfrey Leland
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012

Leland took up arms against King Louis-Philippe in the 1848 revolution in France, popularized the term “emancipation” of slaves, fought for the Union in the American Civil War, and unearthed a diverse collection of folklore, including the alleged “bible” of pagan witchcraft. A life-long truth-stretcher and story-teller, he tells his own tale in this disarming 1893 memoir.
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by George Washington Cable
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011

Cable draws on his Southern heritage and military service in the Civil War in this engaging novel about river life. A family finds trouble from the very start of their river adventure, including the dreaded cholera. Cable said about the novel, “it is so natural an outcome of my own experience . . . that I wonder how I came to leave it so long unwritten.”
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by George Washington Cable
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011

The prevailing theme in these three tales by George W. Cable is strength of spirit—or strong hearts. The collection includes one of Cable’s best-known stories, “The Solitary,” in which a man attempts to cure his alcoholism by marooning himself on a deserted island.
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by George Washington Cable
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011

This 1902 novel, set in a small New England town in the late nineteenth century, focuses on two families, the Byingtons and the Winslows. The families’ younger generations must face the challenges of a new century while navigating the currents of love and loss. 
Cover of Madame Delphine, Carancro, and Grande Pointe (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
by George Washington Cable
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011

These three tales are drawn from George W. Cable’s youth in New Orleans. Madame Delphine is filled with the exoticism of Creole culture and tells the story of an elderly woman and her attempt to arrange an advantageous marriage for her light-skinned daughter by passing her off as white. In Carancro,...
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by George Washington Cable
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011

Geoffrey Chester is charmed by the beautiful woman—Aline Chapdelaines—he glimpses daily on his way to work. For Geoffrey, it’s love at first sight. But romance seems impossible because of the exclusive Creole society to which she belongs. The discovery of an old manuscript brings him closer to her in this delicate depiction of the old régime in New Orleans.
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The British Battle Fleet: Volume 2 (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Its Inception and Growth Throughout the Centuries to the Present Day

by Fred T. Jane
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011

Volume Two of Fred T. Jane’s history of the development of the British battle fleet begins with the Barnaby era and continues through the White, Watts, and Dreadnought eras. The second half of the book studies submarines, naval aviation, and auxiliary navies. Jane’s detailed and an authoritative insight into the evolution of ship design makes this book an indispensable reference.
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by Horace Scudder
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011

To many Americans, the name of Noah Webster (1758-1843) is synonymous with “dictionary.” This 1881 biography covers his early life, his pioneering work on textbooks and spellers for children, his opposition to slavery, his political writings, and the years of preparation that went into his 1806 Compendious Dictionary of the English Language.
Cover of South (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)
by Ernest Shackleton
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009

For almost a century, Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton’s expeditions in the Antarctic have captured the hearts and imaginations of armchair explorers, scientists, historians, and most recently, even stockbrokers and CEOs, who laud Shackleton’s skills as a visionary and an exemplary leader. Books, movies,...
Cover of The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 12 (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
by Robert G. Ingersoll
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011

Cited by Ambrose Bierce, P. G. Wodehouse, and Sinclair Lewis, Ingersoll was a celebrity pundit of the nineteenth century. This final volume contains tributes to the man along with such miscellaneous writings as “The Children of the Stage,” “Address to the Press Club,” “The Great Banquet,”...
Cover of The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 11 (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
by Robert G. Ingersoll
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011

The eleventh volume of collected works of Ingersoll contains a miscellany of focused, on-point essays. Here the reader can learn about the tumultuous path of the Civil Rights Act in “Civil Rights,” the complications of recognizing God in the United States Constitution in “God in the Constitution,”...
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