The book is about a small town lawyer who runs for the Washington State Senate as a libertarian candidate. He is elected into a body evenly divided by Republicans and Democrats. He becomes the tie-breaking vote on every major piece of legislation. This book is about one man who gets his very independent foot in the door of a very intense political arena.
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Few of the more astute critics who have appraised the work of James Branch Cabell have failed to call attention to that extraordinary cohesion which makes his very latest novel a further flowering of the seed of his very earliest literary work.
A certain king had a beautiful garden, and in the garden stood a tree which bore golden apples. These apples were always counted, and about the time when they began to grow ripe it was found that every night one of them was gone.
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The small East Texas town of Coreyville is shaken by brutal murders and kidnappings, striking too close to home for Greg Tenorly. And the only witness is a mentally ill neighbor whose remarks are rejected by the police as gibberish. But Greg listens carefully to the man’s seemingly incoherent statements, and later realizes that they just might contain enough clues to point him in the direction of the killer.
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The fighting history of the Australian Forces is one long series of magnificent achievements,beginning on that day of sacred and glorious memory.
Recollections of a Long Life, an Autobiography by Theodore Ledyard Cuyler.
One of the most fascinating experiments in American literature resulted in The Whole Family. This unusual composite novel numbers among its twelve authors such luminaries as Henry James, William Dean Howells, Mary E. Wilkins.
If you're easily offended, then this book is definitely not for you. However, if you've an open mind and enjoy a good laugh, then this is just the tonic.
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In it the author has succeeded in drawing the characters with remarkable distinctness, while his profound psychological insight, his perfectly artless simplicity of style, and his thorough sympathy with the hero and his surroundings are nowhere more apparent.
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A Laodicean features a heroine torn between the dilapidated aristocratic romance of the past and the energetic technocracy of the modern world. The World's Classics edition of A Laodicean is unique in its use of the original text of 1881.