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David Waterhouse holds one of the highest IQ scores possible…and you’re about to transform yourself into a living Sherlock Holmes with super genius intelligence - fast!

Katie and John Duncan are enjoying, well - attempting to enjoy a quiet, long week in Edinburgh, Scotland together. During a day tour to Glasgow, they visit a medieval museum on a whim - something Katie is not so excited about. As John falls in love with the medieval displays, Katie can't help but notice a strange, squirmy little man seemingly following her.

Perhaps the most famous labor activist and union organizer in history, Mary Harris Jones was an Irish emigre, who watched her husband and four children die of yellow fever, saw her modest dressmaking shop go up in flames in the Great Chicago Fire, and, as a lonely, poor widow in the late 19th century, was facing a bleak future.

"The Valley of Fear" is the fourth and final full novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that featured his greatest creation: the world's first consulting detective, the brilliant and legendary Sherlock Holmes.

A.A. Milne, the beloved author of the Winnie-the-Pooh series, followed up his success to the first two Pooh books, When We Were Very Young and Winnie-the-Pooh, with Now We Are Six, a collection of poems that has become a classic in children's literature.

Two great pieces by Frederick Douglass! Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and My Bondage and My Freedom. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during his time in Lynn, Massachusetts. My Bondage and My Freedom is the second autobiography written by Douglass and is mainly an expansion of his first, discussing in greater detail his transition from bondage to liberty.

Every great hero has an origin story and for the legendary Sherlock Holmes, it was A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle's 1887 novel which introduced the world's leading (and only) consulting detective to the reading public. Though not an immediate sensation (the novel was received with moderate acclaim), it has gone on to become one of the most revered detective novels in history and its protagonists—Dr. John Watson and Sherlock Holmes—are easily the most recognized and celebrated crime fighting duo in all of literature.

P.G. Wodehouse, the master of British humor, produced dozens of books and hundreds of short stories in his long and prolific career. But none of his creations has quite captured the world's imagination as much as his bumbling, empty-headed man-about-town Bertie Wooster and Bertie's faithful knight-in-shining tuxedo Jeeves. Collected here are three of Wodehouse's most beloved Jeeves and Wooster tales—including 10 short stories from the anthology Carry On, Jeeves, as well as the complete novels The Inimitable Jeeves and Right Ho, Jeeves.

P.G. Wodehouse, the master of British humor, produced dozens of books and hundreds of short stories in his long and prolific career. But none of his creations has quite captured the world's imagination as much as his bumbling, empty-headed, man-about-town Bertie Wooster and Bertie's faithful, knight-in-shining-tuxedo Jeeves. Collected here are three of Wodehouse's most beloved "Jeeves and Wooster" tales—including eight short stories from the anthology My Man, Jeeves, as well as the complete novels The Inimitable Jeeves and Right Ho, Jeeves.

Here is Hugh Lofting's classic tale of the English doctor who learns how to speak to his non-human patients—dogs, cats, rhinos, and monkeys alike—as he travels from England to the jungles of Africa and back again. Doctor Dolittle's entourage of animal friends, including Polynesia the parrot, Gub-Gub the pig, Jip the dog, and Dab-Dab the duck, journey with the doctor and team up to help him out of one scrape after another.

A.A. Milne's first collection of stories about his son's endearing and not-very-bright toy bear and his friends, Winnie-the-Pooh, is the original source material for one of children's literature's most enduring and beloved characters. We follow Pooh Bear as he tries to extract honey from a beehive, overstays his welcome at Rabbit's house, attempts to find Eeyore's missing tail, and hunts for the elusive Heffalump. The stories are presented here, in their original and unabridged form.

Daniel Ford learned to fly at the age when most men are well into retirement. In this short book, he tells how it was to have a flight instructor one-third his age, to make a sentimental journey to the Pennsylvania airport where the Piper Cub first saw the light of day, to practice spins and aerobatic turns in a Great Lakes biplane, to make a leisurely tour around Lake Winnipesaukee and into his past, and to have a close encounter with the National Defense Emergency of September 11, 2001.

They say one in every 25 people is a sociopath. They live among us, these master manipulators with no regard for other people. With every flattering compliment they give you, there is an ulterior motive, and once they discover what's most important to you, they will exploit you to no end. They'll take advantage of you, and, if you allow them to get to close to or intimate with you, they might just take you for every cent you have.

Requested by a frightened Lady Elisabeth Montague, Holmes and Watson travel all the way to the Montague home, situated on a remote desolate island, to investigate her somewhat fanciful fears. Are the family in mortal danger? And why have the Montagues, once the darlings of London society, now shut themselves away from civilization in this bleak, god-forsaken retreat?

In this collection, P.G. Wodehouse - the master of 20th-century humor - presents 10 of his most celebrated stories about the perpetually befuddled Bertie Wooster and his knight-in-shining-tuxedo Jeeves. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories have long been hailed as the most entertaining and hilarious short fiction ever written and Wodehouse holds a special place in literary history as history's premier English humorist. In this collection, Bertie pinballs from crisis to crisis but, as always, his faithful manservant Jeeves is there to bail him out.

Clarisse Garcia walks the arduous path of a spirit hunter. Arriving in the small Australian township of Hartley for work, she immediately senses the area is mired in a centuries-old curse. And when a local paranormal expert shares his evidence, the prescient woman finds herself face to face with a malevolent demon.

Captain Jeff Bowers has been resurrected by an alien race - leaving him with mysterious powers...powers that could turn the tide of galactic war in the humans’ favor. While testing those powers, a final experiment lands Jeff and his crew in an alternate reality, very much the same as their universe...and very different. Uncertain who to trust, Jeff discovers that enemies are friends, and old friends turn out to be enemies...and nothing is as it seems.

Two of the greatest science fiction classics of all time...in one collection! H.G. Wells (1866 -1946) - the master of the genre - created his "scientific romances" and set the standard for futuristic literature that also teemed with both social commentary and a prescient view of the world to come.

As anyone who has had the misfortune of seeing someone suffering from a chronic condition knows, living and existing are two very different things. How old are you now? How old do you expect to be when you have grandchildren? What about great grandchildren? Do you want to be around to see them? Do you want to just be around, or do you want to be able to stay independent and mobile? I know, these all sound like a bunch of random questions, but they're really not - in fact, they are all basically the same question.

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