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Bag of Bones
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Bag of BonesBag of Bones

Stephen King - Bag of Bones

Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write, and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls Sara Laughs, Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway. There, he finds his beloved Yankee town held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max Devore, whose vindictive purpose is to take his three-year-old granddaughter, Kyra, away from her widowed young mother, Mattie.

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Tags: Bones, beloved, Yankee, millionaire, finds, powerful, Devore
Classics Illustrated 024 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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Classics Illustrated 024 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Bicycles and baseball meet the Knights of the Round Table in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. In Mark Twain’s brilliant satire on the Victorian sentimental obsession with All Things Medieval, Hank Morgan, a practical Connecticut Yankee, travels in time to Camelot—thanks to a blow to his head—and turns 6th-century England into a parody of 19th-century industrial America. As “Sir Boss,” Morgan introduces newspapers, electricity, and, in the end, modern warfare.
 
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Tags: Yankee, Connecticut, Court, Morgan, 19th-century
I Believe In Yesterday: My Adventures in Living History
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I Believe In Yesterday: My Adventures in Living HistoryI Believe In Yesterday: My Adventures in Living History

In 1989, Tim Moore moved into the last house in Chiswick with an outside toilet. Intrigued by a subsequent encounter with an elderly former resident, he finds himself inspired to travel back to the land before now, experiencing the hardships and pleasures enjoyed and endured by Moores gone by.

 
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Tags: world, Moore, Yankee, master, sharing, Believe, Living, History, Yesterday, Adventures
Mark Twain - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (audiobook + text)
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Mark Twain - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (audiobook + text)When Hank Morgan is cracked on the head by a crowbar in 19th-century Connecticut, one of literature’s most extraordinary fantasy tales begins to unfold. Humorous, devilishly insightful, and resoundingly contemporary, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court remains one of the most celebrated stories in the canon of American writing. Awakening to find himself in the England of King Arthur, Morgan discovers a world of fear, injustice, and ignorance hiding behind a Utopian mirage.

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The Desperado (Gold Medal, 1950)
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"The Desperado"The Desperado

Clifton Adams’ The Desperado was one of the earliest Westerns in the Gold Medal roster. Published in 1950. The novel is set immediately after the end of the Civil War, when carpetbaggers and the Yankee army are overrunning Texas. Talbert Cameron, also known as “Tall,” is only nineteen, but already he is on the run. After taking a few swings at a Yankee, he and his friend Ray Novak find themselves hitting the trails to avoid the work gang. But when Tall hears word that the Yankees are roughing up his family and friends, he must decide whether to keep running, or to risk being captured or killed in the name of vengeance.
 
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