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Daniel Doyle

The inspirational true story of a 16-year-old American farm girl who sailed to France to open a Catholic religious order in 1919.Mary Margaret Doyle spoke no French and knew nothing of the social, political, and religious challenges facing Europe between world wars. Her Irish American farm family in America at the same time coped with physical and financial hardship during the post-World War I farm crisis that led to the Great Depression. Their daughter, meanwhile,...

This volume explores ancient conceptions of desire and the role it plays in human action. It focuses specifically on models of moral psychology and practical rationality developed by Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics.What is desire and what role should it play in human life? This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges and issues related to desire as presented by ancient philosophers, offering fresh insights and scholarly perspectives on this essential aspect of h...

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Arthur Conan Doyle

This e-book features the complete text found in the print edition of Dangerous Work, without the illustrations or the facsimile reproductions of Conan Doyle's notebook pages.In 1880 a young medical student named Arthur Conan Doyle embarked upon the “first real outstanding adventure” of his life, taking a berth as ship’s surgeon on an Arctic whaler, the Hope. The voyage took him to unknown regions, showered him with dramatic and unexpected experiences, and plunged ...

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Daniel G. Doyle

In 1980 adult Jamie Ferguson returned to his hometown to collect an inheritance and is forced to relive the Polio scourge of the summer of 1946. He was nine-years-old and the nation was recovering from the trauma of World War II. His mother had died, the grandparents’ farm had been lost and his father, a navy veteran, dealt with his war wound pain with alcohol. Despite all the difficulties, nine-year-old Jamie was naively determined to earn money to buy back his grandparents’ farm. He coll...

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Daniel Morales-Doyle

A call to action championing equity and social justice in K–12 science curriculum

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Emily Doyle

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Alice Dodd, Daniel Henning

Bloomsbury presents Please Don't Touch the Body by Emily Doyle, read by Alice Dodd and Daniel Henning“A magnificent debut” (Laila Lalami) that explores loneliness and community, religion and repression, and the pleasure and pain of womanhood.By turns tender and irreverent, the 11 genre-bending stories in Please Don’t Touch the Body are thrillingly concerned with the devastation—and power—of being alive today.In the collection’s firs...

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Daniel Crosby

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Matthew R Doyle

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Laws of Wealth, an enlightening and practical guide to using psychology to inform your investments.In The Behavioral Investor, psychologist and behavioral finance expert Dr. Daniel Crosby examines the sociological, neurological and psychological factors that influence our investment decisions. He sets forth practical solutions for improving both investment returns and behaviour, and for re...

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Daniel J. Doyle, Douglas A. Lea, Pietro Lorenzini, David S. Sims, Thomas J. Edward Walker, Cynthia Gwynne Yaudes

Illusive Identity is a transnational exploration of the evolution of working-class consciousness within modern Western culture. The work traces how the rise of popular culture blurred the definition and dulled the influence of class identity in Europe and the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Chapters tackling changing class consciousness in Britain, Germany, Italy, and the United States offer rich insight into the movement from a traditional community...

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Arthur Conan Doyle

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Digital Voice Daniel E

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Looking for a mystery to keep you company while you relax or drift off to sleep? This classic Sherlock Holmes case blends the peaceful setting of the English countryside with a tangled web of suspicion, secrets, and deduction.In The Boscombe Valley Mystery, Holmes is called upon to investigate the murder of a local man—his own son standing accused. With Dr. Watson by his side, Holmes follows a trail of ...

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Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, James Joyce, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Golden Deer Classics, Dante Alighieri, Honoré de Balzac, Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë, Samuel Butler, Miguel de Cervantes, Daniel Defoe, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, Gustave Flaubert, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Nikolai Gogol, The Brothers Grimm, Homer, Victor Hugo, Washington Irving, Henry James, Gaston Leroux, Jack London, Arthur Machen, Herman Melville, Marcel Proust, Mary Shelley, Stendhal, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sun Tzu, Jonathan Swift, William Makepeace Thackeray, Mark Twain

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names - The Divine Comedy [Dante Alighieri] - Emma [Jane Austen] - Persuasion [Jane Austen] - Pride and Prejudice [Jane Austen] - Father Goriot [Honoré de Balzac] - Jane Eyre [Charlotte Brontë] - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall [Anne Brontë] - Wuthering Heights [Emily Brontë] - The Way of All Flesh [Samuel Butler] - Don Quixote [Miguel de Cervantes] - Heart of Darkness [Joseph Conrad] - Nostromo [Joseph Conrad] - Mo...

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Arthur Conan Doyle

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Daniel Duffy

The Lost World is a novel released in 1912 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin in Brazil that encountered prehistoric animals. It has been the inspiration for subsequent fiction, including Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

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Digital Voice Daniel E

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Need something calm, clever, and classic to unwind with? This short story from the Sherlock Holmes collection is perfect for bedtime listening or a peaceful moment of literary escape.In A Case of Identity, Holmes takes on the peculiar case of a young woman whose fiancé has mysteriously vanished. What follows is a quiet, clever unraveling of motives and misdirection—proof that not all mysteries involve crime, but all require shar...