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  • The Country Life Omnibus Collection: 47 Captivating Books

    47 Pastoral Tales of Village Life, Nature, Family, and Rural Adventure

    The Country Life Omnibus Collection gathers forty-seven works into a capacious literary portrait of rural experience: village custom, farming, childhood, domesticity, animal life, landscape, and the moral pressures of community. Its range is unusually broad, moving among pastoral fiction, social observation, nature writing, juvenile adventure, household narrative, and reflective essay. Tales of ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Love in a Dry Season

    by Shelby Foote ...
    Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 14 min

    Shelby Foote’s magnificently orchestrated novel anticipates much of the subject matter of his monumental Civil War trilogy, rendering the clash between North and South with a violence all the more shocking for its intimacy. Love in a Dry Season describes an erotic and economic triangle, in which two wealthy and fantastically unhappy Mississippi families—the Barcrofts and the Carrutherses—are ... Read more

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  • The Satire Compendium: 70 Must-Reads

    A 70-Work Anthology of Comic Dissent, Social Critique, and Satirical Tradition

    The Satire Compendium: 70 Must-Reads maps satire's remarkable durability from classical invective and Roman social comedy to Enlightenment irony, Victorian caricature, modernist experiment, and twentieth-century absurdism. Its selections traverse dramatic farce, mock-heroic prose, utopian fantasy, political allegory, comic essay, parody, and epigrammatic wit. Canonical assaults on hypocrisy, ... Read more

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  • Stories by American Authors (Volume 4)

    "Stories by American Authors (Volume 4)" is a collection of short stories edited by H. C. Bunner. This anthology features works by various American writers, showcasing a diverse range of styles, themes, and voices from the late 19th century.While the specific stories included in this volume may vary depending on the edition, anthologies like this typically offer readers a glimpse into the literary ... Read more

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  • The Civil War: A Narrative

    Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville

    by Shelby Foote ...
    Series series Vintage Civil War Library
    This first volume of Shelby Foote's classic narrative of the Civil War opens with Jefferson Davis’s farewell to the United Senate and ends on the bloody battlefields of Antietam and Perryville, as the full, horrible scope of America’s great war becomes clear. Exhaustively researched and masterfully written, Foote’s epic account of the Civil War unfolds like a classic novel.Includes maps throughout ... Read more

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  • The Evolution of Cetacean Societies

    Uncovering the Social Complexity of Whales and Dolphins

    From leading cetacean biologists, an up-to-date, comprehensive collection exploring advancements in our understanding of cetacean ecology, behavior, and societies.Cetaceans—whales, dolphins, and porpoises—represent an evolutionary peak with respect to their advanced cognitive capacities; flexible communication systems; and structured, multilevel societies. Indeed, the social lives of whales and ... Read more

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  • The Universal Counterfeit and Altered Bank Note Detector, at Sight

    by Foote ...
    The Universal Counterfeit and Altered Bank Note Detector, at Sight is a comprehensive 19th-century guide designed to assist bankers, merchants, and the general public in identifying counterfeit and altered bank notes with ease and accuracy. Compiled by L. Mendelson, this invaluable manual provides detailed descriptions of the genuine characteristics of bank notes issued by various banks across the ... Read more

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  • In Columbus's Time

    by Timothy Foote ...
    We think of the period when Christopher Columbus traveled to the New World as a golden age exploration and discovery: bold journeys across uncharted seas; archaeological forays back in time to revive the lost learning of ancient Rome and Greece; and that explosion of artistic creativity never since equaled, the Renaissance. It was the dazzling moment when Western civilization as we know it today ... Read more

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  • Incomplete: An Elementalists Novel (Book 1)

    Elementalists, #1

    by SI Foote ...
    Series Book 1 - Elementalists
    No one who enters the Council chambers leaves it alive.25,000 feet (7,620 meters) above the Gulf of Mexico floats Elementōrum Patriam, the eighth continent for the elementalist people, where the seven-member Council rules. Those born with the elementalist gene mutation are taken to Elementōrum Patriam, but if they can't control one of the seven elements, they are killed.Nineteen-year-old Ethan ... Read more

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  • The Civil War: A Narrative

    Volume 3: Red River to Appomattox

    by Shelby Foote ...
    Series series Vintage Civil War Library
    This final volume of Shelby Foote’s masterful narrative history of the Civil War brings to life the military endgame, the surrender at Appomattox, and the tragic dénouement of the war—the assassination of President Lincoln.Features maps throughout."An unparalleled achievement, an American Iliad, a unique work uniting the scholarship of the historian and the high readability of the first-class ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Civil War: A Narrative

    Volume 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian

    by Shelby Foote ...
    Series series Vintage Civil War Library
    Focused on the pivotal year of 1863, the second volume of Shelby Foote’s masterful narrative history brings to life the Battle of Gettysburg and Grant’s Vicksburg campaign and covers some of the most dramatic and important moments in the Civil War.Includes maps throughout."This, then, is narrative history—a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition.... The writing is superb.. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Immigrant Tongues

    Exploring How Languages Moved, Evolved, and Defined Us

    by Patrick Foote ...
    Tracing the Journey of Global LanguagesPatrick Foote's Immigrant Tongues is the ultimate language history book, blending stories of migration, culture, and evolution to uncover how languages have shaped our world. Perfect for fans of linguistics gifts and etymology dictionaries, this book combines the fascinating history of English language development with tales of other lingua francas and their ... Read more

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