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The Country Life Omnibus Collection: 47 Captivating Books

47 Pastoral Tales of Village Life, Nature, Family, and Rural Adventure

by Renee Richmond Huntley Ormsbee, Thomas H. Ormsbee, Will Levington Comfort, G. J. Whyte-Melville, Edward Eggleston, Berthold Auerbach, S. R. Crockett, Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, Harriet S. Caswell, Archibald Marshall, Alice Vansittart Strettel Carr, Charles Battell Loomis, M. E. Francis, Arthur Christopher Benson, George Walter Fiske, Randolph Caldecott, Martha Foote Crow, William Howitt, David Grayson, Dallas Lore Sharp, Warren H. Wilson, W. J. Dawson, Tickner Edwardes, Ernest R. Groves, Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Lillian Elizabeth Roy, George Manville Fenn, Charlotte M. Vaile, Mary Grant Bruce, Edward Payson Roe, William O. Stoddard, Amy Walton, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Amy Brooks, Laura Lee Hope, Johanna Spyri, Elizabeth Gordon, Clara Ingram Judson, Josephine Franklin, Sophie Fox Sea, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, L. T. Meade, Albert Bigelow Paine, Jacob Abbott, William John Hopkins, Howard Roger Garis ...

The Country Life Omnibus Collection gathers forty-seven works into a capacious literary portrait of rural experience: village custom, farming, childhood, domesticity, animal life, landscape, and the moral pressures of community. Its range is unusually broad, moving among pastoral fiction, social observation, nature writing, juvenile adventure, household narrative, and reflective essay. Tales of ... Read more

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The Country Life Omnibus Collection gathers forty-seven works into a capacious literary portrait of rural experience: village custom, farming, childhood, domesticity, animal life, landscape, and the moral pressures of community. Its range is unusually broad, moving among pastoral fiction, social observation, nature writing, juvenile adventure, household narrative, and reflective essay. Tales of
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The World of Magic: 13 Classic Books on Tricks and Illusions

Thirteen Classic Guides to Conjuring, Sleight of Hand, and Stage Illusion

by Albert A. Hopkins, Henry Ridgely Evans, A. Anderson, H. Boaz, Professor Hoffmann, L. H. Branson, Arthur Ainslie, Herbert De Caston, George Arnold, Frank Cahill, William K. David, Henry Perkins, Chung Ling Soo ...

The World of Magic gathers thirteen classic manuals and reflections on conjuring, illusion, and stagecraft into a capacious archive of theatrical knowledge. Ranging from practical instructions for sleight of hand and apparatus to discussions of mentalism, grand illusion, and the psychology of deception, the volume reveals magic as both popular entertainment and a sophisticated art of perception. ... Read more

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The World of Magic gathers thirteen classic manuals and reflections on conjuring, illusion, and stagecraft into a capacious archive of theatrical knowledge. Ranging from practical instructions for sleight of hand and apparatus to discussions of mentalism, grand illusion, and the psychology of deception, the volume reveals magic as both popular entertainment and a sophisticated art of perception.
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Magic Tricks Collection: 16 Fascinating Books

Victorian and Edwardian Secrets of Sleight, Escapology, Illusion, and Misdirection

by Albert A. Hopkins, Henry Ridgely Evans, A. Anderson, H. Boaz, Professor Hoffmann, L. H. Branson, Arthur Ainslie, Herbert De Caston, George Arnold, Frank Cahill, William K. David, Henry Perkins, Chung Ling Soo, Hercat, Hereward Carrington, Harry Houdini ...

Magic Tricks Collection: 16 Fascinating Books surveys the rich, hybrid literature of conjuring: practical manuals, theatrical reflections, puzzle-like explanations, historical anecdotes, and accounts of illusion's psychological force. Its pages move between sleight of hand, apparatus magic, mind-reading, stage presentation, and the ethics of deception, revealing magic as both a craft and a form of ... Read more

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Magic Tricks Collection: 16 Fascinating Books surveys the rich, hybrid literature of conjuring: practical manuals, theatrical reflections, puzzle-like explanations, historical anecdotes, and accounts of illusion's psychological force. Its pages move between sleight of hand, apparatus magic, mind-reading, stage presentation, and the ethics of deception, revealing magic as both a craft and a form of
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Second Sight

by David Williams ...

This classic, much-loved novel tells the story of Jennie Logan, a woman caught between two worlds, two times, and the two men she loves—one her husband and one an artist who may have died in 1899. David Williams’ novel is a thrilling read, part love story, part mystery—a tale of time travel (or is it madness?) that keeps the reader guessing until the very end. Now back in print, this exquisitely ... Read more

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This classic, much-loved novel tells the story of Jennie Logan, a woman caught between two worlds, two times, and the two men she loves—one her husband and one an artist who may have died in 1899. David Williams’ novel is a thrilling read, part love story, part mystery—a tale of time travel (or is it madness?) that keeps the reader guessing until the very end. Now back in print, this exquisitely
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A People's History of the Civil War

Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom

by David Williams ...

"Does for the Civil War period what Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States did for the study of American history in general." — Library JournalHistorian David Williams has written the first account of the American Civil War as viewed though the eyes of ordinary people—foot soldiers, slaves, women, prisoners of war, draft resisters, Native Americans, and others. Richly illustrated ... Read more

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"Does for the Civil War period what Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States did for the study of American history in general." — Library JournalHistorian David Williams has written the first account of the American Civil War as viewed though the eyes of ordinary people—foot soldiers, slaves, women, prisoners of war, draft resisters, Native Americans, and others. Richly illustrated
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African Americans in Indianapolis

The Story of a People Determined to Be Free

by David L. Williams ...

Indianapolis has long been steeped in important moments in African American history, from businesswoman Madame C. J. Walker's success to the rise of the Ku Klux Klan to the founding of Crispus Attucks High School, which remained segregated through the 1960s.In African Americans in Indianapolis, author and historian David Leander Williams explores this history by examining the daunting and ... Read more

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Indianapolis has long been steeped in important moments in African American history, from businesswoman Madame C. J. Walker's success to the rise of the Ku Klux Klan to the founding of Crispus Attucks High School, which remained segregated through the 1960s.In African Americans in Indianapolis, author and historian David Leander Williams explores this history by examining the daunting and
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In Titanic's Shadow

The World's Worst Merchant Ship Disasters

by David L. Williams ...

While the near 1,500 victims of Titanic accounted for a huge loss of life, each of the ships here had a greater number of casualties, in some cases more than five times as many. In total, these 27 merchant ship sinkings resulted in a staggering loss of life at sea – more than 96,000 in total, 3,840 per ship. While the circumstances were different to Titanic, the outcome in each case was no less ... Read more

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While the near 1,500 victims of Titanic accounted for a huge loss of life, each of the ships here had a greater number of casualties, in some cases more than five times as many. In total, these 27 merchant ship sinkings resulted in a staggering loss of life at sea – more than 96,000 in total, 3,840 per ship. While the circumstances were different to Titanic, the outcome in each case was no less
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Lifeline Across the Sea

Mercy Ships of the Second World War and their Repatriation Missions

by David L. Williams ...

The safe exchange of wounded or gravely ill prisoners of war, 'protected personnel' – medical staff and clergy – and diplomats, civilians and alien internees is a little known dimension of the Second World War, yet it was highly dangerous work. Here, David L. Williams tells the gripping story of some fifty mercy ships engaged in these repatriation voyages, each of the exchanges arranged ... Read more

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The safe exchange of wounded or gravely ill prisoners of war, 'protected personnel' – medical staff and clergy – and diplomats, civilians and alien internees is a little known dimension of the Second World War, yet it was highly dangerous work. Here, David L. Williams tells the gripping story of some fifty mercy ships engaged in these repatriation voyages, each of the exchanges arranged
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Ophthalmology of Exotic Pets

by David L. Williams ...

This quick reference handbook covers the diagnosis and treatment of eye disease in a range of exotic companion animal species, including rabbits, rodents, reptiles, birds, amphibians and fish. It clarifies when extrapolation from cat or dog eyes is appropriate, or when new information is needed to ensure that diagnoses and treatments are appropriate for the particular species. Writing in an ... Read more

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This quick reference handbook covers the diagnosis and treatment of eye disease in a range of exotic companion animal species, including rabbits, rodents, reptiles, birds, amphibians and fish. It clarifies when extrapolation from cat or dog eyes is appropriate, or when new information is needed to ensure that diagnoses and treatments are appropriate for the particular species. Writing in an
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Heavy is the head for those who wear crowns

The entrepreneurial kingdom

by David Williams ...

A Blueprint for kings and queens on the rise. David uses this book as a yellow brick road for others that may come behind him on their own journeys. ... Read more

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A Blueprint for kings and queens on the rise. David uses this book as a yellow brick road for others that may come behind him on their own journeys.
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Star Yawns Episode 3. By David Williams. Smashwords Edition. Copyright (2012) by David Williams

Star Yawns, #3

by David Williams ...

Series Book 3 - Star Yawns
The crew of the DVD go through a time rift and become twenty fours years older. This is life threatening to some of the crew so they head for the closest planet to ask for the coordinates so they can go back through the time rift. The people on the planet like to play games and force the Captain to take part in a scavenger hunt before they will tell them what they need to know. Will they be given ... Read more

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The crew of the DVD go through a time rift and become twenty fours years older. This is life threatening to some of the crew so they head for the closest planet to ask for the coordinates so they can go back through the time rift. The people on the planet like to play games and force the Captain to take part in a scavenger hunt before they will tell them what they need to know. Will they be given
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The Everlasting Masterpieces of World Literature in One Edition

Enriched edition. Romeo and Juliet, Notre Dame, Anna Karenina, Great Expectations, Jane Eyre, Tao Te Ching, Odyssey…

by Marcel Proust, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, William Shakespeare, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Kahlil Gibran, John Milton, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding0, Laurence Sterne1, Jane Austen2, William Makepeace Thackeray3, P. B. Shelley4, Mary Shelley5, John Keats6, Charlotte Brontë7, Emily Brontë8, George Eliot9, Thomas Hardy0, Elizabeth von Arnim1, D. H. Lawrence2, Ann Ward Radcliffe3, Bram Stoker4, Arthur Conan Doyle5, Joseph Conrad6, Oscar Wilde7, Lewis Carroll8, Frances Hodgson Burnett9, C. S. Lewis0, George Weedon Grossmith1, H. G. Wells2, Wilkie Collins3, G. K. Chesterton4, E. M. Forster5, T. S. Eliot6, James Joyce7, George Bernard Shaw8, W. B. Yeats9, Sir Walter Scott0, Robert Louis Stevenson1, Kenneth Grahame2, George MacDonald3, J. M. Barrie4, Mark Twain5, Jack London6, Herman Melville7, Nathaniel Hawthorne8, Louisa May Alcott9, Willa Cather0, Edith Wharton1, Kate Chopin2, Harriet Beecher Stowe3, Frederick Douglass4, James Fenimore Cooper5, Henry James6, Edgar Allan Poe7, H. P. Lovecraft8, Lewis Wallace9, L. M. Montgomery0, Homer1, Plato2, Apuleius3, Marcus Aurelius4, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe5, Herman Hesse6, Friedrich Nietzsche7, Jules Verne8, Victor Hugo9, Gustave Flaubert0, Gaston Leroux1, Honoré de Balzac2, Stendhal3, Voltaire4, Charles Baudelaire5, Alexandre Dumas6, Emile Zola7, Henrik Ibsen8, Leo Tolstoy9, Ivan Turgenev0, Anton Chekhov1, Nikolai Gogol2, Miguel de Cervantes3, Benito Pérez Galdós4, Pedro Calderon de la Barca5, Dante6, Giovanni Boccaccio7, Niccolò Machiavelli8, Rabindranath Tagore9, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee0, Kalidasa1, Válmíki2, Laozi3, Sun Tzu4, Confucius5, Cao Xueqin6, Princess Der Ling7, Inazo Nitobé8, Kakuzo Okakura9, Soseki Natsume00, Jayden Walsh03 ...

The Everlasting Masterpieces of World Literature in One Edition' is a rich tapestry woven from the myriad threads of human expression and thought spanning across centuries and continents. This anthology, featuring luminary figures such as Shakespeare, Tolstoy, and Tagore, alongside philosophers like Plato and Laozi, not only bridges geographical divides but also a vast range of literary styles, ... Read more

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The Everlasting Masterpieces of World Literature in One Edition' is a rich tapestry woven from the myriad threads of human expression and thought spanning across centuries and continents. This anthology, featuring luminary figures such as Shakespeare, Tolstoy, and Tagore, alongside philosophers like Plato and Laozi, not only bridges geographical divides but also a vast range of literary styles,
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Magic Tricks Collection: 16 Fascinating Books

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A People's History of the Civil War

African Americans in Indianapolis

In Titanic's Shadow

Lifeline Across the Sea

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Star Yawns Episode 3. By David Williams. Smashwords Edition. Copyright (2012) by David Williams

The Everlasting Masterpieces of World Literature in One Edition

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