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Sunday July 4, 2010
Happy Independence Day to our American readers! Take advantage of the long weekend to start a new book from the ArcaMax Book Club -- it also has dozens of books commonly assigned as summer reading, so it's a great way to help your kids get ready for the new school year. For the newest and hottest summer reads, check out BookDaily.com.

This Week's Featured Books

Fiction
- Ardath, Marie Corelli
- Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
- Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka

Non Fiction
- History of California, Helen Elliot Bandini
- The Ancient East, D. G. Hogarth
- Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, Charles Babbage

Short Stories
- The Troll Garden and Selected Stories, Willa Cather
- The Best American Humorous Short Stories, Various
- Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling

Poetry
- A Hidden Life and Other Poems, George MacDonald
- The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2, Alexander Pope
- The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe

Plays
- Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw
- The Birds, Aristophanes
- Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand

Sci Fi
- The War of the Worlds, Herbert George Wells
- The Land That Time Forgot, Edgar Rice Burroughs
- The Moon Pool, A. Merritt

Philosophy
- Selections from the Principles of Philosophy, Rene Descartes
- Varieties of Religious Experience, William James
- Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche

Religion
- Bible - Book 17: Tobias, Challoner Revision
- Bible - Book 05: Deuteronomy, Challoner Revision
- The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: the Book of the Spiritual Man, Patanjali

Biography
- A Personal Record, Joseph Conrad
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass
- The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

(July 4, 1806 - May 19, 1864)

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts, where his ancestor John Hathorne oversaw the Salem Witch Trials - the "w" added to Hawthorne's name was to disassociate himself from Hathorne. He began his career writing anonymously or under pseudonyms, and began using his own name after collecting and publishing "Twice-Told Tales." His various writings denouncing the questionable morality of the time are believed to have stemmed from his own Puritan background.

Featured book by Nathaniel Hawthorne: House of the Seven Gables

This week's quizzes:
Jamestown Trivia
American Trivia
Presidential Nicknames

This Week's Birthdays

Robert A. Heinlein -- July 7, 1907
Along with Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke, one of the masters of science fiction writing.
Read The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein at BookDaily.

Barbara Cartland -- July 9, 1901
British romance novelist who wrote more than 700 books.
Marcel Proust -- July 10, 1871
French novelist known for his stream-of-consciousness style.
Read Swann's Way by Marcel Proust at BookDaily.

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