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A Practical Guide to SelfHypnosis, Melvin Powers

A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosi...

Melvin Powers
Published in 1961, A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis by Melvin Powers is a self help book that aims to bring the basic techniques of hypnosis to the ordinary reader and harness its legendary powers to...
Principles of Economics, Alfred Marshall

Principles of Economics

Alfred Marshall
The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings. An uncannily prophetic quote from an 1890 book, Principles of Economics by Alfred Marshall presents an idea that has been accepted by ...
The Adventures of Reddy Fox, Thornton W. Burgess

The Adventures of Reddy Fox

Thornton W. Burgess
In this charmingly illustrated volume, Reddy Fox, the young hero is sent to stay with his grandma. Grandmother Fox is the "wisest, slyest and smartest fox in all the country around" and she takes it up...
The Science of Getting Rich, Wallace D. Wattles

The Science of Getting Rich

Wallace D. Wattles
One of the first self help books to hit the stands in 1910, The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D Wattles was path breaking in its approach to the acquisition of wealth as a science. It went on to i...
Gulliverrsquos Travels, Jonathan Swift

Gulliver’s Travels

Jonathan Swift
Gulliver’s Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the &ldquo...
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon

History of the Decline and Fall o...

Edward Gibbon
Spanning a period of nearly 1500 years, this monumental work of history tracks the orbit of one of the greatest Empires of all time. The sheer scale and sweep of the narrative is breathtaking in its am...
The Man Who Knew Too Much, G. K. Chesterton

The Man Who Knew Too Much

G. K. Chesterton
Robbery, murder and treason. Strange happenings in quiet English villages. A book critic who happens to find a corpse with its head crushed, an Irish freedom fighter framed for a crime, the disappearan...
The Last Trail, Zane Grey

The Last Trail

Zane Grey
Return with us to those thrilling days of yesteryear as Mike Vendetti narrates this early Zane Grey novel of hardy pioneers taming the wild west. Yes, despite the difficult times, romance flourishes an...
The Island of Dr. Moreau, H. G. Wells

The Island of Dr. Moreau

H. G. Wells
One of the first instances of science fiction, Wells' classic tale published in 1986 examines various controversial philosophical issues active at the time of its publication, most notable being the im...
The Game of Life and How to Play It, Florence Scovel Shinn

The Game of Life and How to Play ...

Florence Scovel Shinn
Florence Scovel Shinn, an illustrator living in New York City, became a teacher of New Thought after a divorce. New Thought was a movement which holds the belief that individuals can create their own r...
Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter, Beatrix Potter

Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Pot...

Beatrix Potter
Whether you're a parent or a child, a young reader or an older one, the Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter is indeed just that a treasure chest of delightful, charming little stories full of animals...
Relativity The Special and General Theory, Albert Einstein

Relativity: The Special and Gener...

Albert Einstein
Einstein wrote this book for people who are interested in understanding the Theory of Relativity but aren't experts in scientific and mathematical principles. I'm sure many people have heard about Eins...
The Science of Being Well, Wallace D. Wattles

The Science of Being Well

Wallace D. Wattles
If you are seeking better health and ways to stay wellThis book is for you! Wallace D. Wattles was an American author and a pioneer success new thought movement writer. His most famous work and first b...
The Coming of the Fairies, Arthur Conan Doyle

The Coming of the Fairies

Arthur Conan Doyle
After a number of deaths in his close family, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle turned to spiritualism in hope of finding proof of the afterlife. Being open in this way, he wanted to believe that spirits and othe...
The House in the Mist, Anna Katharine Green

The House in the Mist

Anna Katharine Green
It was a night to drive any man indoors. Not only was the darkness impenetrable, but the raw mist enveloping hill and valley made the open road anything but desirable to a belated wayfarer like myself....
Initiative Psychic Energy, Warren Hilton

Initiative Psychic Energy

Warren Hilton
Learn how to accomplish your goals through increasing your mental power, avoiding energy drains, and becoming more mentally efficient.
The Wisdom of Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton

The Wisdom of Father Brown

G. K. Chesterton
The Wisdom of Father Brown explores many characters and fascinating themes such as the following. An eminent criminologist is persuaded by the mild yet persistent Father Brown to sort out a family matt...
Candide, Voltaire

Candide

Voltaire
A picaresque novel written by French satirical polemicist and philosopher Voltaire, Candide blatantly attacks the ideology of philosopher Leibniz. Candide follows the series of unfortunate events encou...
Paradise Lost, John Milton

Paradise Lost

John Milton
Magnificent in its scale and scope, this monumental poem by the blind poet John Milton was the first epic conceived in the English language. It describes an omniscient, all powerful God, the Fall of Ma...
Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Notes from the Underground

Fyodor Dostoyevsky
One of the earliest polished examples of existential literature, Notes from the Underground follows the life of a recluse and depicts his antagonistic attitude toward society. Written in two parts with...
The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx
The Communist Manifesto was conceived as an outline of the basic beliefs of the Communist movement. The authors believed that the European Powers were universally afraid of the nascent movement, and we...
The Scarlet Pimpernel, Emma Orczy

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Emma Orczy
The Scarlet Pimpernel narrates the story of a rich English baronet who rescues French aristocrats facing the guillotine. He also taunted his enemies after each rescue by leaving behind a card that has ...
The Thirtynine Steps, John Buchan

The Thirty-nine Steps

John Buchan
The typical action hero with a stiff upper lip whose actions speak louder than his words, a mysterious American who lives in dread of being killed, an anarchist plot to destabilize Greece, a deadly Ger...
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases, Grenville Kleiser

Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

Grenville Kleiser
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases is a practical handbook written by Grenville Kleiser. Grenville is known for his writings on humor, positive thinking and inspirational thought. This serves as a handboo...
The Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton

The Federalist Papers

Alexander Hamilton
In order to promote the ratification of the United States Constitution in the late 1780s, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Hay wrote a series of 85 articles and essays explaining their reason...
Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse

Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse
Once regarded as a cult book in the 1960s by the Flower Power generation, Siddhartha by Herman Hesse remains even today a simple and fresh tale of a man's spiritual quest. Penned by a deeply spiritual ...
Christmas, A Story, Zona Gale

Christmas, A Story

Zona Gale
This is a gentle Christmas story, whose message is that if we didn't already have Christmas, we'd find a way to invent it. It's hard times in Old Trail Town as the Season of Giving approaches. The fact...
A Midsummer Nights Dream, William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare
Summer nights, romance, music, comedy, pairs of lovers who have yet to confess their feelings to each other, comedy and more than a touch of magic are all woven into one of Shakespeare's most delightfu...
The Master of the World, Jules Verne

The Master of the World

Jules Verne
Published in 1904, The Master of the World is the penultimate novel in the Voyages Extraordinaires series, by renowned French novelist and pioneer of science fiction, Jules Verne. The novel acts as a s...
The Haunted Bookshop, Christopher Morley

The Haunted Bookshop

Christopher Morley
Roger Mifflin is the somewhat eccentric proprietor of The Haunted Bookshop, a second-hand bookstore in Brooklyn that is haunted by the ghosts of all great literature. Beginning with the arrival of a yo...
Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft She...
A precursor to gothic literature and science fiction genres, Frankenstein is a novel fuming with imagination as it depicts a well known horror story. Shellys gothic fiction is written in epistolary for...
The Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Lost World

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A journalist who undertakes a life threatening mission to impress the woman he loves, a mysterious plateau in South America that none of the locals dare to enter and an adventurous English aristocrat a...
The Science of Being Great, Wallace D. Wattles

The Science of Being Great

Wallace D. Wattles
The Science of Being Great is the second book of Wattles' triology. In this volume he argues that the power of thought and positive self-esteem is the only true measure of a person's greatness.
The Land that Time Forgot, Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Land that Time Forgot

Edgar Rice Burroughs
Off the coast of Greenland, a man finds a floating thermos bottle. Wedged tightly inside is a sheaf of papers covered with minute handwriting. As he begins to read, a fantastic tale begins to unwind. T...
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, Frank Baum

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

Frank Baum
In this novel, Dorothy visits her Uncle Henry in his California ranch. She, her friends, her cousins and a few pets are traveling in a buggy when the earth suddenly splits open and the entire lot falls...
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame
The Wind in the Willows allows every person who has always wished animals could talk to dream a little more. In this amazing book, Toad, Ratty, Mr. Toad and Badger form a tight friendship and have many...
The Man Who was Thursday, G. K. Chesterton

The Man Who was Thursday

G. K. Chesterton
Two poets in a London park at sunset, debating on the attributes of poetry and whether it's really a metaphor for anarchy. A group that meets in secret, planning to overthrow the world order. Disguises...
Love and Friendship, Jane Austen

Love and Friendship

Jane Austen
Austen experts feel that this story was written, like many others, only for the pleasure of her family and friends. It is scribbled across three notebooks, in childish handwriting, and the complete wor...
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, Montague R. James

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

Montague R. James
An English tourist in a small, rural town in the South of France discovers an ancient manuscript with a strange illustration on the last page. A young orphan is sent to live with his elderly cousin, a ...
A Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett

A Little Princess

Frances Hodgson Burnett...
Frances Hodgson Burnetts book "A Little Princess" begins as seven year old Sara Crewe is dropped off at a boarding school by her rich father. She has grown up in India and has lived a very pampered lif...
A Short History of the United States, Edward Channing

A Short History of the United Sta...

Edward Channing
First published in 1908, A Short History of The United States by Edward Channing aims to provide a compact and concise account of the events that went into the making of the United States of America.
Meditations, Marcus Aurelius

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius was a Roman Emperor and philosopher who wrote Meditations; insights which were considered to give the meaning of life. The book was not written with the intent to be published. It offer...
The Valley of Fear, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Valley of Fear

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Doyle's final novel featuring the beloved sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, brings the detective and his friend to a country manor where they are preceded by either a murder or a suicide. A secretive organizati...
Anne of Avonlea, Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anne of Avonlea

Lucy Maud Montgomery
If you've read and loved Anne of Green Gables you will surely be delighted to follow Anne's further adventures in Anne of Avonlea. In this sequel, we find Anne Shirley teaching in Avonlea School though...
The Constitution of the United States of America, Founding Fathers of the United States

The Constitution of the United St...

Founding Fathers of the...
The Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776. It announced that the thirteen American colonies, who were at war with Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, no longer considered ...
The Wendigo, Algernon Blackwood

The Wendigo

Algernon Blackwood
Another camper tale, this time set in the Canadian wilderness. A hunting party separates to track moose, and one member is abducted by the Wendigo of legend. Robert Aickman regarded this as "one of the...
The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka
One morning Gregor Samsa woke from anxious dreams to find himself transformed into a disgusting insect... Thus opens one of the most famous books of the twentieth century, The Metamorphosis by Franz Ka...
Short Mystery Story Collection, Various

Short Mystery Story Collection

Various
The Short Mystery Story Collection by Various is a real treat for intrigue enthusiasts! This volume features such greats as Ambrose Bierce, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Anton Chekov. Some unexpected name...
Deathworld, Harry Harrison

Deathworld

Harry Harrison
Jason dinAlit, an inhabitant of the planet Porgostrosaand, is a fast talking, conniving, tough as nails, gun toting gambler whose ethics wax and wane with each planet he travels to. He also has amazing...
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens

David Copperfield

Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens is one of the most appreciated Victorian writers, his novels gaining worldwide recognition by both critics and readers. First published in 1850, David Copperfield begins with avid the t...