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In Pawn

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Ellis Parker Butler

Inspired by "Lives of the Saints", fat, lazy, good-for-nothing Harvey Redding decides to give up the junk-collecting business, and…

Dan, the Newsboy

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Horatio Alger, Jr.

Dan and his mother are poor, so he begins selling newspapers on the streets of New York City. His perseverance, hard work, and honesty are q…

Swatty: A Story of Real Boys

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Ellis Parker Butler

The fun adventures of Georgie, Swatty, and Bony, as they encounter flooding rivers, emotional girls, burning buildings, rotten stumps, mean …

Tombstone: An Iliad of the Southwest

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Walter Noble Burns

First published in 1927, "Tombstone" defined the legend of lawman-gunfighter Wyatt Earp. A mixture of fact and fiction, Walter Nob…

Kilo: Being the Love Story of Eliph' Hewlitt, Book Agent

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Ellis Parker Butler

Traveling salesman Eliph' Hewlitt finds the love of his life in Kilo, Iowa and decides to settle down there. - Summary by Dale Barkley

Bill Nye and Boomerang; Or the Tale of a Meek-Eyed Mule, and Some Other Literar…

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Bill Nye

Humorist Bill Nye was the first editor of the daily paper in Laramie, Wyoming, and named it the Laramie Boomerang in honor of his mule. As …

Letters of John Quincy Adams to His Son, on the Bible and Its Teachings

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John Quincy Adams

A collection of nine letters written by the sixth president of the United States, John Quincy Adams, to his teenage son. "Their purpose…

Bill Nye's Sparks

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Bill Nye

Humorist Bill Nye, in his brief 46 years, served as justice of the peace, newspaperman, miner, and postmaster in the rough town of Laramie, …