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CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series = CIHM/ICMH collection de microfiches volume no. 78212
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C. Scribner's Sons
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1899
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CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series = CIHM/ICMH collection de microfiches volume no. 78432
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The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade.
A small portion of this tale appeared in Once a Week, July-September, 1859, under the title of "A Good Fight".)
The Cloister and the Hearth is a historical novel by the English author Charles Reade. Set in the 15th century, it relates the story revolving about the travels of a young scribe and illuminator, Gerard Eliassoen, through several European countries.
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From the author of McTeague: The classic novel of corporate corruption and violent rebellion in the railroad industry. On May 11, 1880, at a San Joaquin Valley ranch, a shootout between tenant farmers and a sheriff's posse left seven dead. The dispute was over land rights. The law was acting in the service of the Southern Pacific Railroad. This tragedy marked the beginning of the end for the American frontier, and it became the inspiration for Frank...
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CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series = CIHM/ICMH collection de microfiches volume no. 82069
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Joe Louden, once a poor outcast in Canaan, Indiana, returns as a lawyer to find much has changed. After dealing with a love triangle involving a judge's daughter, he decides to defend an innocent man accused of murder, but must defy the town's vested interests to do so. This 1905 novel features Tarkington's gimlet-eyed view of small-town life.
8) Smoke Bellew
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CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series = CIHM/ICMH collection de microfiches volume no. 74933
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From the author of the classic novel Call of the Wild, Jack London's Smoke Bellew features a vivacious depiction of a gold rush adventure. Christopher Bellew, more commonly known as Kit, lives a comfortable life in San Francisco. He writes daily for a paper and his inherited wealth promises to keep him well-off for a long while. Still, Kit cannot help but feel complacent. As a young man, he has not completely figured out what he really wants in life....
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CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series = CIHM/ICMH collection de microfiches volume no. 84092
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Grosset & Dunlap
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[1913]
10) Penrod
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Penrod sat morosely upon the back fence and gazed with envy at Duke, his wistful dog. A bitter soul dominated the various curved and angular surfaces known by a careless world as the face of Penrod Schofield. Except in solitude, that face was almost always cryptic and emotionless; for Penrod had come into his twelfth year wearing an expression carefully trained to be inscrutable. Since the world was sure to misunderstand everything, mere defensive...
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CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series = CIHM/ICMH collection de microfiches volume no. 78275
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Dodd, Mead
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c1915
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This book takes you back to Montana's Flying U Ranch with its wonderful group of cowboys. Andy Green, Pink, the Native Son, Irish, Weary, and Happy Jack were all here, along with Chip and his wife the Little Doctor and their son The Kid (real name Claude, and he is six years old and big for his age). The gang has to deal with changing times, progress, and civilization, all of which threaten the very existence of the Flying U. Homesteaders! Farmers!...
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Old Applehead Furrman, jogging home across the mesa from Albuquerque, sniffed the soft breeze that came from opal-tinted distances and felt poignantly that spring was indeed here. The grass, thick and green in the sheltered places, was fast painting all the higher ridges and foot-hill slopes, and with the green grass came the lank-bodied, big-kneed calves; which meant that roundup time was at hand. Applehead did not own more than a thousand head of...
14) Penrod and Sam
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Among only three other novelists to have won the Pulitzer Prize more than once, Tarkington was one of the greatest authors of the 1910s and 1920s who helped usher in Indiana's Golden Age of literature. First published in 1916, Tarkington's novel "Penrod and Sam" is the second installment to "The Penrod Series" and concentrates on the relationship between Penrod Schofield and his best friend, Sam Williams. A charming tale of youth reminiscent of Mark...
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The Wizard of Oz series volume 11
CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series = CIHM/ICMH collection de microfiches volume no. 78969
CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series = CIHM/ICMH collection de microfiches volume no. 78969
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The Lost Princess of Oz (1917) is the eleventh novel in L. Frank Baum's beloved Land of Oz series. According to the author, the story began with a letter from a young reader and soon took on a life of its own.
When Princess Ozma goes missing from her palace in the Emerald City, and the instruments upon which Glinda the Good Witch and the Wizard of Oz are nowhere to be found, Dorothy bravely gathers a group of trustworthy companions in order to solve...
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CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series = CIHM/ICMH collection de microfiches volume no. 73505
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George H. Doran
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c1918
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This work is one of Arthur Conan Doyle's ventures into the world of spiritualism and the paranormal.
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This masterly character study of human transformation, written by Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) during the First World War, chronicles a youth's passage into manhood upon becoming the commander of his first ship. In this poignant tale of maturation, Conrad explores the initiation of this transitional occurrence and delivers a portrait of physical and psychic exile; sensory disorientation; and the final crossover toward a new identity. With realism born...
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CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series = CIHM/ICMH collection de microfiches volume no. 76975
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This classic tragicomic tale from George Barr McCutcheon transforms everyone's favorite caviar-and-champagne dream into a soul-shaking test of mistrust and reckless spending Popular, good-looking, and enterprising, Montgomery Brewster is the toast of New York. While celebrating his twenty-fifth birthday among friends, Monty receives word that his grandfather has died. Before long, New York is abuzz with the news. When Monty inherits $1 million from...
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The bestselling novel of financial speculation in the Progressive Era from the author of McTeague. Curtis Jadwin had to compete with other suitors to secure his wife's hand in marriage, but after a year of marital bliss, he finds himself captivated by another: the high-stakes competition at the Chicago Board of Trade. At first merely dabbling in wheat speculation, Jadwin soon becomes obsessed with making deals and the roaring excitement of the trading...
20) The Scarlet Car
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CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series = CIHM/ICMH collection de microfiches volume no. 72532
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Intrepid motorists of the early twentieth century encountered rough roads, mechanical problems, and a less-than-excited populace as they drove their exciting new "horseless carriages." The novel captures with humor the adventure and uncertainty that faced anyone who traveled by automobile while at the same time telling a love story.
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