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On the beautiful island of Mauritius, Paul and Virginia lead a simple lifestyle in harmony with nature. Slaveowners, they aspire to treat their slaves with as much dignity and respect as possible, much to the chagrin of their more traditional neighbors. Paul and Virginia is a novel by Bernardin de St. Pierre.

In this groundbreaking political text, Gandhi makes the case for Indian independence and the establishment of home rule while proposing the adoption of nonviolent or passive resistance to British rule. Written while Gandhi was travelling from London to South Africa by boat, Indian Home Rule is an essential philosophical and political text that truly changed the world as we know it.

As a young woman, Susan was among New York’s most desirable beauties. Despite her elusiveness, she too fell captive to the institution of marriage. Now “a demure, sedate wife, enslaving as she was enslaved, ” she finds herself torn between devotion and desire when an old flame returns to her life. The Simple Case of Susan is a novel by Jacques Futrelle.

An expert jeweler, even Harry Latham is forced to admit he has never in his life seen such a diamond. Unable to appraise it, let alone uncover its origins, he seeks the advice of other experienced jewelers. Soon, it is determined that five flawless diamonds have been delivered, prompting confusion and fear. The Diamond Master is a novel by Jacques Futrelle.

Although he is more widely known as a popular storyteller whose Peter Pan books are filled with the wit and wonder of history’s greatest fairytales, J. M. Barrie was also a gifted memoirist and biographer. Margaret Ogilvy is the story of his mother and their life as a family in Scotland.

“The beautiful part about the colored race in America, is the future. As a mixed race we are undeveloped. We may become whatever we WILL to become.” In The Colored Girl Beautiful, Emma Azalia Hackley envisions the future as an opportunity for African American girls to grow into intelligent, independent young women for whom nothing is impossible.

In this groundbreaking work of nonfiction, Poe allows his audience a peak behind the curtain at the creative process informing his beloved and acclaimed poems and short stories. Dismissing the myth of spontaneous art, Poe argues that a true artist depends upon detail and adherence to a logical creative process. The Philosophy of Composition is an essay by Edgar Allan Poe.

“We first saw light in Canada, the land beloved of God, / We are the pulse of Canada, its marrow and its blood.” In her poetry collection Canadian Born, E. Pauline Johnson attempts to unify her mixed Mohawk and English ancestry while ensuring her readers that “White Race and Red are one if they are but Canadian born.”

“Too green the springing April grass, / Too blue the silver-speckled sky, / For me to linger here, alas, / While happy winds go laughing by.” Amid so much beauty, the speaker is unable to escape the daily reality of backbreaking work, the nights of sheer exhaustion. Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems is a poetry collection by Claude McKay.

Abolitionist, author, orator, editor, and statesman. Frederick Douglass was a man determined to achieve freedom for those whose lives were reduced and destroyed by the institution of American slavery. In Frederick Douglass: A Biography, Charles W. Chesnutt attempts to do justice to his legacy while providing a portrait of a human being whose idealism and willpower reshaped the modern world.

“I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, / When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore…” When he died at just thirty-three years of age, Paul Laurence Dunbar had achieved more than any African American poet before him. Paul Laurence Dunbar: Poet Laureate of the Negro Race is a portrait of a man, his talent, and his legacy.

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Unfortunately, sometimes children experience the unexpected death of a loved one or friend and struggle to understand it and cope with it. At the same time many parents struggle to help their kids during this difficult time. This book helps children and parents deal with this complex issue in a simple and comforting way as a young girl named Mya learns to deal with the loss of her grandmother.

Her first night in a Tanzanian tent began with a prowling lion's roar. Will the savage terrors open her eyes to an unseen world?Sue Tidwell lived in awe of Africa's extraordinary wildlife. After years spent appreciating the animals in her imagination, the tenderhearted American hated the idea of joining her husband on a big game hunt. And getting attacked by blood-sucking tsetse flies the moment she stepped off the plane gave no hint of the mi...

Propositioning the Iron Wraiths' money man seemed like a good idea at the time... Diane Donner-recently divorced pillar of polite society-is craving danger. She's tired of playing it safe and she knows just the sexy criminal motorcycle man to proposition for a good time. Problem is, she doesn't actually know his name. Jason "Repo" Doe never takes risks. So when the queen of local commerce walks into his club, looking to get risky and frisk...

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What do you do when your mind tells you to move on, but your heart tells you to stay? Alicia Powell Torres is sick of her joyless career, in a town full of painful memories. She wants to seize life again and she won't get that by staying still. It's time for a big change, and Brooklyn seems like the right place for a fresh start. Gathering her courage, she begins the arduous process of selling her family home and leaving her past behind. But b...

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