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A collection of short stories, each a "love story" in its own way, ranging from a bittersweet World War I romance to the delightfully funny "Jane," a tale of a temperamental and not-so-ill patient in a hospital with the staff on strike. Most of the stories feature the hospital setting familiar to Rinehart from her own training as a nurse.
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A wonderfully humorous book of interconnected short stories set in the small Canadian town of Mariposa—tales of its social life and politics, its romances and mishaps and everyday occurrences; charmingly nostalgic and often laugh-out-loud hilarious.
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A nobleman's nephew begins to entertain unsettling suspicions of his uncle's lovely young second wife after the mysterious disappearance of a man who was on his way to see her. Who is Lady Audley, really, and what is she hiding? An entertaining Victorian suspense novel with an engrossing trail of clues to follow.
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Widowed Mrs. Pepper and her five lively children struggle to make ends meet, and eventually enter upon new adventures after making friends with a wealthy old man and his young son.
A free edition is not currently available at Amazon.
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Written in the form of the protagonist's journal, Stepping Heavenward chronicles one woman's sometimes tempestuous, sometimes joyful journey from girlhood on through marriage and motherhood, and her struggles and successes with faith and family life.
NOTICE: Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
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In one of the most famous pieces of American literature, young Huckleberry Finn and a runaway slave named Jim escape their old lives and set out to raft down the Mississippi River, encountering a plethora of strange and often humorous adventures along the way.
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A fascinating and emotional diary from a young Louisiana girl whose family was divided by the Civil War, and who lived through the hardships of war and occupation.
(This early version, published in the author's lifetime and now in the public domain, is apparently not her full diaries, which have since been published in their entirety.)
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A collection of familiar phrases that have become woven into familiar English usage, traced to their sources in the Bible, Shakespeare, and the works of dozens more poets and writers. There are two different editions of this book available at Project Gutenberg: one that seems to be the original edition, and then the ninth edition, published in 1905. A free version is not currently available at Amazon, though there are several inexpensive ones.
