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When orphaned, eleven-year-old Pollyanna comes to live with austere and wealthy Aunt Polly, her philosophy of gladness brings happiness to her aunt and other unhappy members of the community.

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is a classic American 1903 children’s novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin that tells the story of Rebecca Rowena Randall and her two stern aunts in the fictional village of Rive

Sixteen-year-old Lisa, smart, attractive, and outwardly successful, suffers from a nervous breakdown that only her closest friends seem to notice and care enough about to try to find a way to help

This is the first complete English-language translation of a classic of Yiddish literature, one of the great comic novels of the 20th century.

In Teaching to Transgress, Bell Hooks–writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual–writes about a new kind of education, educations as the practice of freedom.

What is feminism? In this short, accessible primer, bell hooks explores the nature of feminism and its positive promise to eliminate sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.

John Yudkin was the first to sound the alarm about the excess of sugar in the diet of modern Americans.

An inspiration book uses twelve short, visual exercises that provoke thought and help the reader to figure out how to do more "great work"--The type of creative work that moves a business forward.

The adventures of Peter Rabbit, Johnny Chuck, Reddy Fox, the Merry Little Breezes, and all their companions in the fields, the woods, and the streams.

12 Years a Slave is the harrowing account of a black man, born free in New York State, who was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in 1841.

This near-future political satire about the election of a new president argues that socialism and populism will eventually give rise to chaos and disaster.

Set in the 1870s, Edith Wharton examines the American elite culture on the East Coast. Newland Archer is a lawyer and heir to one of New York City's most prominent families.

The America that Alexander Hamilton knew was largely agricultural and built on slave labor.

James Allen's literary essay and book As a Man Thinketh was originally published in 1903.

Originally published anonymously in 1912, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man revealed as never before the color line dividing America, and the price it exacted on those souls who could traverse