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Publisher
Duke Classics
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Dip into the mysterious world of sorcery with this comprehensive take on the topic. Published anonymously due to the incendiary nature of the subject matter, Magic and Witchcraft offers a historical overview of magic throughout the ages, all rendered in the deliciously ornate prose of the nineteenth century. Reading this volume is like poring over one of the musty old textbooks that Harry Potter and his fellow students would have been issued
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Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
"Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible. Apocrypha" by Anonymous. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal...
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
This brief pamphlet, also called 'The Tree of Life' was published in 1732. It is outrageously scatological but in a truly brilliant way. It is conceivable that some would read it and not realise what the subject of the story was (the male member), with its not too carefully disguised.
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Excerpt: "On going to my room to dress for dinner, I found a servant-girl engaged in making some of the arrangements which the change of apartments had necessitated. On my entrance she was going to leave the room, but seeing that she was a very nice-looking young girl, I said she need not run away in such a hurry, that surely she was not afraid of me. She gave me an arch look as if taking the measure of my capacities, and replied with a smile that...
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
The String of Pearls is the first installment of the Sweeney Todd penny part serial. It introduces the homicidal barber who became a staple of Victorian melodrama. In his barber shop on Fleet Street, Sweeney Todd murders his clients by tipping them down a chute and cleaning them off afterward with his straight razor. The bodies are then carried through an underground passage to Mrs. Lovett's pie shop, where they're made into pies.
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Excerpt: "I began these memoirs when about twenty-five years old, having from youth kept a diary of some sort, which perhaps from habit made me think of recording my inner and secret life. When I began it, I had scarcely read a baudy book, none of which excepting "Fanny Hill" appeared to me to be truthful, that did, and it does so still; the others telling of recherche eroticisms, or of inordinate copulative powers, of the strange twists, tricks,...
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Series
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Originally published in 1915, this work gives a first-hand account of what life was like for a front line nurse during the First World War.
This book is part of the World War One Centenary series; creating, collating and reprinting new and old works of poetry, fiction, autobiography and analysis. The series forms a commemorative tribute to mark the passing of one of the world's bloodiest wars, offering new perspectives on this tragic yet fascinating...
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The "Dhammapada," or "Path to Virtue," is one of the most practical ethical handbooks of Buddhism. It is included in the canon of Buddhistic Scriptures, and is one of the Eastern books, which can be read with delight to-day by those who are classed as general readers. It is divided into twenty-six chapters, and the keynote of it is struck by the phrase "The virtuous man is happy in this world, and he is happy in the next, he is happy in both. He is...
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A confessional diary follows the experiences of a star football player who copes with high pressure and expectations by harboring a dark secret that changes everything when revealed.
39) Lucy in the sky
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Simon Pulse ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"The author of this diary began journaling on her sixteenth birthday. She lived in an upper middle class neighborhood in Santa Monica with her mom, dad, and Berkeley-bound older brother. She was a good girl, living a good life...but one party changed everything. One party, where she took one taste -- and liked it. Really liked it. Social drinking and drugging lead to more, faster, harder... She convinced herself that she was no different from anyone...
40) Letting Ana go
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st Simon Pulse hardcover ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Required by her cross-country coach to keep a food diary, an insecure teen finds that writing helps organize her thoughts, especially about issues that she, her best friend, and her mother face related to weight and eating.