Country Life Press
1) So Big
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English
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Life story of Selina De Jong, the wife of a Dutch farmer, whose indomitable spirit rises above her many years of hardship.
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English
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Set in the Midwest in the early twentieth century--the dawn of the automobile age--the novel begins by introducing the richest family in town, the Ambersons. Exemplifying aristocratic excess, the Ambersons have everything money can buy--and more. But George Amberson Minafer--the spoiled grandson of the family patriarch--is unable to see that great societal changes are taking place, and that business tycoons, industrialists, and real estate developers...
5) Penrod
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English
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Penrod Schofield was neither overwhelmingly bad nor the complete little gentleman. He was an ordinary twelve-year-old boy growing up in early twentieth-century America. With his gang members Sam, Herman, and Verman and his long-suffering dog, Duke, he romps through adventures and misadventures.
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Publisher
Doubleday, Page & Company
Pub. Date
1922.
Language
English
Description
In One Man in His Time, Ellen Glasgow portrays Virginia in the aftermath of the Great War. Here is the story of Gideon Vetch, who rises from the lower class to become governor of Virginia, challenging the outdated interests and attitudes of the old Southern aristocracy, a popular theme in Glasgow's acclaimed novels.
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Publisher
Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
1944.
Language
English
Description
A candid, rollicking literary travelogue from a pioneering New Yorker writer, an intrepid heroine who documented China in the years before World War II. Deemed scandalous at the time of its publication in 1944, Emily Hahn's now classic memoir of her years in China remains remarkable for her insights into a tumultuous period and her frankness about her personal exploits. A proud feminist and fearless traveler, she set out for China in 1935 and stayed...
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Series
Publisher
Doubleday & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
1951.
Language
English
Description
Few men ever cross the boundary between the Chinook Basin and Yellowstone and come back alive... but now Morgan and Eddie Banning, tough and sure of themselves, are charging in the savage land to find their lost cattle, battle vicious bandits, and confront their own deadly, sibling rivalry.
12) Claire Ambler
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Publisher
Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
1928.
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English
Description
"Character sketch of Claire and the long procession of men who loved her." --
13) Mirthful Haven
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Publisher
Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
1930.
Language
English
Description
The daughter of a dissolute fisherman in a Maine village is educated by a wealthy relative.
16) Command
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Series
Publisher
Doubleday, Page & Co
Pub. Date
1922.
Language
English
Description
Adventures of a mate on a British freighter.