The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories

By: Owen Wister

It helped to establish the cowboy as an archetypical, individualist hero.

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The Last of the Mohicans

By: James Fenimore Cooper

In the midst of the French and Indian War, Chingachgook, Uncas and Hawkeye take great risks to lead the two daughters of a British colonel to safety through the battle-torn northern wilderness. When the girls are captured by the vicious Huron tribe, they risk their very lives to rescue them.

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The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices

By: Charles Dickens

In this novel two idle apprentices, exhausted by the long, hot summer, and the long, hot work it had brought with it, ran away from their employer. They were bound to a highly meritorious lady (named Literature), of fair credit and repute, though, it must be acknowledged, not quite so highly esteemed in the City as she might be.

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The Littlest Christmas Angel

By: Michael Spoula

A short story about a young angel and how he helped at the first Christmas

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The man on the iron horse

By: Brett Healey

Its all about an eleven year old boy who has an extraordinary life, not yet finished.

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The Outsider

By: Christopher J. Cronin

Sex, fights, hockey, and struggles. Danny thought he could handle anything, but Branton was a different animal. Hockey is life in Branton, and anyone that steals the show is not looked upon too kindly. Unfortunately for Danny, his amazing skill poses exactly that problem; he's better than every kid in town, and they'll do anything they can to prevent him from stealing the show.

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The Owl and the Hawk

By: John Errett

Espionage thriller about counter terrorism

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The Pit

By: Frank Norris

After marrying Laura, the conservative speculator, after making a nice profit on the wheat market, becomes obsessive over controlling it. As his wealth grows in a short period of time and for a while he captures the market. Ultimately, though, the market corrects itself and he must save his fortune as well as his wife, Laura, whose love begins to flee from lack of attention from Jadwin.

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The Quest of the Silver Fleece

By: W. E. B. Du Bois

The Quest of the Silver Fleece is a remarkable portrait of racial prejudice at the turn of the twentieth century. Through the characters, Du Bois demonstrates the efficacy of self-sufficiency for those who face discrimination while championing the benefits of strength in diversity to American society as a whole.

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The Red Badge of Courage

By: Stephen Crane

In the novel The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, young soldier Henry Fleming entered the American Civil War as a nervous, unready boy. By convincing himself that others were more cowardly than he, however, Henry succeeded in making himself feel like a hero.

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