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The House of a Thousand Candles

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Meredith Nicholson


A top ten bestseller of 1906, The House of a Thousand Candles is part adventure/mystery and part romance. The book begins with young Jack Gl…

The Crevice

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William J. Burns


The sudden death of wealthy and prominent financier, Pennington Lawton from an apparent heart attack, followed by the shocking revelation of…

Miss Frances Baird, Detective

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Reginald Wright Kauffman


The Eye of Osiris

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R. Austin Freeman


The Eye of Osiris is an early example from the Dr. Thorndyke series of detective stories written by R. Austin Freeman. In these stories, th…

The Dead Letter

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Metta Victoria Fuller Victor


Published in 1866, "The Dead Letter: An American Romance" written by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor under the pseudonym, Seeley Rege…

A Master of Mysteries

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L. T. Meade


"It so happened that the circumstances of fate allowed me to follow my own bent in the choice of a profession. From my earliest youth t…

Fanny Herself

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Edna Ferber


Fanny Herself is the story of Fanny Brandeis, a young girl coming of age in the Midwest at the turn of the 20th century. It is generally co…

Chemical Phenomena in Life

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Frederick Czapek


Published in 1911 as part of the "Harper's Library of Living Thought," this volume presents an introduction to the chemistry of ce…

The Dragon's Secret

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Augusta Huiell Seaman


Sixteen year old Leslie Crane has come to the New Jersey shore as a companion to ailing Aunt Marcia, whose doctor has sent her there for a s…

That Affair at Portstead Manor

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Gladys Edson Locke


An English country home during a house party becomes the scene of a double mystery. One of the three detectives employed on the case is a w…

The Stillwater Tragedy

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Thomas Bailey Aldrich


Thomas Bailey Aldrich was an American poet, novelist and editor. Of his many books of poetry and fiction, he may be best known for his semi…

The Romance of Modern Chemistry

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James C. Philip


A fascinating look back at the state of the art of chemistry 100 years ago, this book by James C. Philip, PhD, an assistant professor of che…

The Miss Florence Cusack Mysteries

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L. T. Meade


Miss Florence Cusack was featured as an amateur detective who assists in solving crimes in five short stories authored by L. T. Meade and Ro…

The Mystery of the Four Fingers

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Fred M. White


A fabulously rich gold mine in Mexico is known by the picturesque and mysterious name of The Four Fingers. It originally belonged to an Azte…

The Green Jacket

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Jennette Lee


The Slipper Point Mystery

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Augusta Huiell Seaman


When fourteen year old Sally Carter shares her secret about When fourteen year old Sally Carter decides to share the secret she has discover…

The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings

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L. T. Meade


"THAT a secret society, based upon the lines of similar institutions so notorious on the Continent during the last century, could ever …

The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

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Thomas Henry Huxley


Thomas H. Huxley, an English biologist and essayist, was an advocate of the theory of evolution and a self-proclaimed agnostic. A talented w…

Essay on the Creative Imagination

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Théodule-Armand Ribot


"It is quite generally recognized that psychology has remained in the semi-mythological, semi-scholastic period longer than most attemp…

Rocks and Their Origins

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Grenville A. J. Cole


Do you know the difference between sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks? Are you interested in their geologic origin, chemical compos…

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