The Federalist Papers

By Alexander Hamilton

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One of the most important set of documents at the heart of our nation's birth, The Federalist Papers were first published in early American newspapers between 1787 and 1788. Here the thoughts and hope ...

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Khan Academy Video Course: Finance

By Khan Academy

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From buying a home to filing taxes, finance underlies much of what we do. This Khan video series explains the key concepts and elements of the financial world, from securities and investments to IRAs ...

Madame Bovary

By Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert's 1856 novel, for all of its modern sense of honesty and power, could have been written yesterday. Here we have one of literature's tragic heroines—the beautiful Emma Bovary&mda ...

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Secret Adversary

By Agatha Christie

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Down on their luck and without any prospect of employment, Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley, the hero and heroine of Agatha Christie’s 1922 mystery novel The Secret Adversary come up with a plan ...

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The Moonstone

By Wilkie Collins

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On her eighteenth birthday, beautiful Rachel Verinder receives a present like no other—an enormous, glittering, diamond. Little does she know that this legendary stone will bring with it a world ...

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The French Revolution

By Thomas Carlyle

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VOLUME I. BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV. CHAPTER 1.1.I. LOUIS THE WELL-BELOVED. President Henault, remarking on royal Surnames of Honour how difficult it often is to ascertain not only why, but even whe ...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself

By Harriet Ann Jacobs

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One woman's amazing story of abuse, degradation, and courage as she faces the devastating hardships of America's "peculiar institution."

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The Pickwick Papers

By Charles Dickens

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The Pickwick Papers was Charles Dickens's first novel, published in serial form in 1837. This is the story of the "Pickwick Club," a private society of eccentric gentlemen who feel themselve ...

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Time Traders

By Andre Norton

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DRAFTED INTO THE ARMY OF TIME ... Intelligence agents have uncovered something which seems beyond belief, but the evidence is incontrovertible: the USA's greatest adversary on the world stage is sendi ...

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The Koran

By Marmaduke Pickthall (Translator)

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In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. The Beneficent, the Merciful. Thee (alone) we worship; Thee (alone) we ask for help. The path of those whom Thou hast favoured; Not the (path) of th ...

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Unleashing the Ideavirus

By Seth Godin

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Stop marketing AT people! Turn your ideas into epidemics by helping your customers do the marketing for you.

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Sense and Sensibility

By Jane Austen

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The death of Henry Dashwood forces his daughters and their mother to give up their comfortable home and fashionable lifestyle. Stuck in a modest rural cottage, the eldest Dashwood sisters, Elinor and ...

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Of Human Bondage

By W. Somerset Maugham

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A lonely young orphan struggling with a physical deformity, Philip Carey is sent to live with his cold and aloof aunt and uncle. His only joy in their home comes from reading. Great works of literatur ...

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Robin Hood

By J. Walker Mcspadden

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The Prince

By Niccolò Machiavelli

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Published in 1532, The Prince is a shockingly frank guide to the art of cultivating power. How does one establish power and maintain control over other people—or an entire nation? How does a pri ...

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The Mysterious Affair at Styles

By Agatha Christie

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Here is the great Agatha Christie's first novel and the debut of her infallible detective Hercule Poirot. In the midst of World War One, a group of guests at an old mansion in the countryside find the ...

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Bleak House

By Charles Dickens

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A mysterious lawsuit, a dark secret, a framed murder, and an illegitimate child: these are the themes of Charles Dickens’ suspenseful, intricate book. The narrator and heroine, Esther Summerson, is ...

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Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant

By Ulysses Grant

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Civil War hero and former President Ulysses S. Grant penned this autobiography in 1885, at the end of his life. In his Memoirs, he describes various life events, but devotes the most attention to his ...

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