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• The Federalist PapersAlexander HamiltonLocalBooks Classics

  Writing as 'Publius' in New York newspapers, Hamilton, Madison and Jay published 85 essays urging the state to ratify the new Constitution. They explain why a stronger union was needed and how its separated powers were meant to check one another.

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• The Gods of MarsEdgar Rice BurroughsLocalBooks Classics

  John Carter returns to Mars after ten years and lands in the valley the Martians believe is paradise. It turns out to be a trap, and the gods behind it are anything but holy.

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• The Great GatsbyF. Scott FitzgeraldLocalBooks Classics

  In the summer of 1922 Nick Carraway rents a cottage on Long Island next to the mansion of Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire who throws enormous parties every weekend and seems to be waiting for one particular guest.

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• The HistoriesHerodotusLocalBooks Classics

  Herodotus of Halicarnassus sets out to explain how the Greeks and Persians came to war, and on the way tours Egypt's pyramids, Babylon's walls and the customs of Scythian nomads. The story builds to Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis, told with an ear for gossip, oracles and the odd tall tale.

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• The History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingHenry FieldingLocalBooks Classics

  A baby is found in Squire Allworthy's bed in Somerset and raised as his ward, growing into a good-hearted young man with no talent for keeping out of trouble. Thrown out and in love with the neighbour's daughter Sophia, Tom takes the road to London, through coaching inns, mistaken identities and a famously chaotic night at Upton.

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• The Home and the WorldRabindranath TagoreLocalBooks Classics

  In Bengal during the swadeshi movement, Bimala steps out of seclusion and is swept up by her husband's charismatic friend Sandip, a nationalist firebrand, testing her marriage and the ideals of all three.

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• The Hound of the BaskervillesArthur Conan DoyleLocalBooks Classics

  The heir to an old estate on Dartmoor is warned that a spectral hound has hunted his family for generations, and his uncle has just been found dead with the tracks of a giant dog beside him. Holmes sends Watson to the moor ahead of him.

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• The House of MirthEdith WhartonLocalBooks Classics

  Lily Bart is beautiful, charming and twenty-nine, with expensive tastes and almost no money. She needs to marry well, but she keeps sabotaging her own chances, in New York society around 1900.

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• The House of the Seven GablesNathaniel HawthorneLocalBooks Classics

  In an old Salem house built on land taken by fraud, the impoverished Pyncheon family lives under a curse laid two hundred years before. When a long-imprisoned brother comes home, the past starts to catch up.

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• The House Without a KeyEarl Derr BiggersLocalBooks Classics

  John Quincy Winterslip, a proper young Bostonian, sails to Honolulu to bring his adventurous aunt home, and arrives to find his wealthy relative Dan Winterslip murdered. Helping the police is a patient, courteous detective named Charlie Chan, here in his first appearance. A 1920s Waikiki of beach houses, steamer days and old family secrets.

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• The Hunchback of Notre-DameVictor HugoLocalBooks Classics

  In fifteenth-century Paris, the deaf bell-ringer Quasimodo, the tormented archdeacon Frollo and the dashing captain Phoebus are all drawn to Esmeralda, a young street dancer, with tragic results in the shadow of the great cathedral.

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• The IliadHomerLocalBooks Classics

  In the tenth year of the Trojan War, the Greek hero Achilles quarrels with King Agamemnon and withdraws from battle, with devastating consequences for both armies. Homer's epic of rage, honor and grief, as gods take sides on Mount Olympus.

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• The Invisible ManH. G. WellsLocalBooks Classics

  A muffled stranger with a bandaged face takes a room at a village inn in winter and refuses to let anyone see him. He is a scientist who has made himself invisible and cannot find a way back.

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• The Island of Doctor MoreauH. G. WellsLocalBooks Classics

  Shipwrecked and stranded on a remote Pacific island, Edward Prendick discovers that its owner, the exiled surgeon Moreau, is reshaping animals into creatures that walk and speak like men, and keeps them in line with a law he may not be able to enforce.

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• The Jewel of Seven StarsBram StokerLocalBooks Classics

  A young lawyer is called to a London house where an Egyptologist lies unconscious in a room full of mummies and relics, and keeps being attacked by something no one can see. His collection centers on the tomb of an ancient queen.

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• The JungleUpton SinclairLocalBooks Classics

  Jurgis Rudkus and his family come from Lithuania to Chicago full of hope and go to work in the stockyards and meatpacking plants. Sinclair's exposé of the industry shocked readers and helped bring about America's first food-safety laws.

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• The Lair of the White WormBram StokerLocalBooks Classics

  Adam Salton comes to his great-uncle's estate in the Peak District and finds the countryside shadowed by an ancient evil: Lady Arabella March, whose house sits above a bottomless well and who may be something far older than she appears.

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• The Land That Time ForgotEdgar Rice BurroughsLocalBooks Classics

  After a German U-boat attack in the First World War, a band of survivors reaches Caprona, an uncharted island near Antarctica, where dinosaurs still roam and evolution follows strange rules.

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• The Last ManMary ShelleyLocalBooks Classics

  In the late twenty-first century a plague spreads across the world, and one man tells how his family and friends tried to hold on to love and hope as humanity dwindled. Mary Shelley's apocalyptic novel came eight years after Frankenstein.

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• The Last TrailZane GreyLocalBooks Classics

  The last of Zane Grey's Ohio Valley trilogy: around Fort Henry in the years after the Revolution, the frontiersmen Lewis Wetzel and Jonathan Zane hunt the outlaws and horse thieves preying on the settlement, while Helen Sheppard, newly arrived from the East, learns what life on the border asks of people.

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• The Legend of Sleepy HollowWashington IrvingLocalBooks Classics

  Ichabod Crane, a lanky, superstitious schoolmaster in a sleepy Hudson Valley village, courts a rich farmer's daughter and annoys her other suitor. Then one night, riding home, he meets the Headless Horseman.

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• The Lost WorldArthur Conan DoyleLocalBooks Classics

  A young reporter who needs to impress the woman he loves joins the volcanic Professor Challenger on an expedition to a South American plateau where, Challenger insists, dinosaurs still live.

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• The Maltese FalconDashiell HammettLocalBooks Classics

  When his partner is shot dead on a San Francisco street, private detective Sam Spade gets tangled with a beautiful liar, a perfumed fixer and a fat man, all chasing a jewel-encrusted statuette of a bird.

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• The Man in the Brown SuitAgatha ChristieLocalBooks Classics

  Anne Beddingfeld, bored and penniless, sees a man fall to his death on the London Underground and follows a clue onto a ship bound for South Africa, toward diamonds, spies and danger.

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