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  • Dahlias, Gladioli and Begonias

    The Amateur Gardener's Guide to Their Cultivation

    by H. H. Thomas ...
    This 1926 gardening handbook focuses on the growing of three types of flower: Begonias, Gladioli, and Dahlias. Dahlias and Gladioli are popular summer and autumn flowering plants, whereas the Begonia is suited to summer outdoors and winter under glass. This vintage book includes a wealth of useful information related to these particular flowers, as well as step-by-step instructions and expert tips ... Read more

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  • Instruments of Night

    Will the truth bring peace—or pain? A "once-in-a-lifetime masterpiece" by the Edgar Award–winning author ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).Mystery writer Paul Graves, a man with a painful past, has come to an artists' retreat in New York's quiet, picturesque Hudson Valley. But his purpose for being there is not a pleasant escape. He's been tasked with something more unusual.Long ago, when ... Read more

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  • John Hunt Morgan and His Raiders

    This lively Civil War biography presents an unbiased chronicle of the controversial Confederate General who led the 2nd cavalry in Morgan's Raid.Whether one thinks of him as a dashing cavalier or shameless horse thief, it is impossible not to regard John Hunt Morgan as a fascinating Civil War figure. Morgan led his men into the most dangerous adventures by convincing them that the honor of the ... Read more

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  • Sacrificial Ground

    Series Book 1 - The Frank Clemons Mysteries
    Edgar Award Finalist: A troubled cop obsessively searches for a young girl's killer.The young girl lies in a ditch without a scratch on her—a white high school student stretched out dead in the black part of Atlanta. She was a rich girl from a cold family, too genteel for the neighborhood where she died, and only the baby in her belly suggests how she might have gotten there.For Detective Frank ... Read more

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  • Blood Echoes

    The Infamous Alday Mass Murder and Its Aftermath

    Edgar Award Finalist: A true-crime account of a vicious massacre and the legal battles that followed.It was not a clever killing. On May 5, 1973, three men escaped from a Maryland prison and disappeared. Joined by a fifteen-year-old brother, they surfaced in Georgia, where they were spotted joyriding in a stolen car. Within a week, the four young men were arrested on suspicion of committing one of ... Read more

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  • The Cloud of Unknowing

    A "gripping" mystery revolving around a family tragedy, and a woman who may or may not be descending into madness, by the Edgar Award–winning author ( Entertainment Weekly).David Sears grew up terrorized by the ravings of his schizophrenic father, a frustrated literary genius who openly preferred David's sister, Diana, for her superior intelligence. When the old man died, David thought the madness ... Read more

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  • Death in Venice (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Psychological Novella of Artistic Obsession, Forbidden Desire, Classical Beauty, and Decay in Cholera-Stricken Venice

    Translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter ...
    Death in Venice is a tightly wrought novella of artistic obsession, erotic longing, and moral dissolution, set against the luminous yet pestilential atmosphere of early twentieth-century Venice. Thomas Mann's prose combines classical restraint with psychological intensity, tracing the celebrated writer Gustav von Aschenbach's descent from disciplined aesthetic idealism into feverish infatuation ... Read more

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  • The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel Comprising Ancient and Modern History: The Biography of Eminent Men of Europe and America, and the Lives of Distinguished Travelers

    One of the most useful directions for facilitating the study of history, is to begin with authors who present a compendium, or general view of the whole subject of history, and, afterwards, to apply to the study of any particular history with which a more thorough acquaintance is desired. The Historical Department of this work has been compiled with a view to furnishing such a compendium. It ... Read more

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  • Sandrine's Case

    In this Edgar Award finalist and "slow-burning, intricate" thriller, a professor falls for his wife all over again . . . while he stands trial for her murder ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).Samuel Madison always wondered what Sandrine saw in him. He was a meek, stuffy doctoral student while she was a beautiful bohemian with limitless talent and imagination. On the surface their marriage ... Read more

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  • Blood Innocents

    In Thomas H. Cook's Edgar Award–nominated first novel, a weary detective tracks a blood-crazed psychopathBlood seeps into the gutters at the children's zoo in Central Park. Two deer have been slaughtered, one stabbed fifty-seven times and the other slashed across the neck. Normally it would be a case for the Parks Department, but these are no ordinary deer. The pride of the small menagerie, they ... Read more

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  • The Holy Sinner

    by Thomas Mann ...
    Translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter ...
    The ringing of bells, the surging and swelling of bells supra urbem, above the whole city, in its airs overfilled with sound. Bells, bells, they swing and sway, they wag and weave through their whole arc on their beams, in their seats, hundred-voiced, in Babylonish confusion. Slow and swift, blaring and booming—there is neither measure nor harmony, they talk all at once and all together, they ... Read more

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  • The Crime of Julian Wells

    A Novel

    From the Edgar Award–winning author of Red Leaves: An "intelligent and elegant" thriller in the grand tradition of Eric Ambler and Graham Greene ( The Wall Street Journal).When the body of famed true-crime writer Julian Wells is found in a boat drifting on a Montauk pond, the question is not how he died, but why? Philip Anders, Wells's best friend and literary executor, vows to find out what drove ... Read more

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