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With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local author, it is never too late to visit Burlington . Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the ‘Greater Than a Tourist’ series, this book will give you candid travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination. This guide book will not tell you exact addresses or store hours but instead gives you knowledge that you may not find in other smaller print travel books.

In The Remarkable Rocket, Oscar Wilde delivers a brilliantly witty and satirical tale of vanity, self-importance, and misplaced ambition. As the fireworks gather in the King’s garden, each prepares for their moment of glory. Yet none is more convinced of his own greatness than the Rocket—an absurdly proud and overly emotional figure who believes the entire celebration exists in his honor.

A Cheerful Temper is the story of a man who inherits from his father not wealth, nor status, but something far rarer—a disposition inclined toward good humor. The father, a hearse driver who led funeral processions with a round, sunlike face that discouraged despair, leaves behind a legacy of perspective rather than property.

In The Bottle Neck, Hans Christian Andersen tells a quietly extraordinary story through the long life of a simple object—a glass bottle that passes from celebration to ruin, from usefulness to neglect, and back again.

The playground has eyes. The hallways have ears. And Tim is the only one standing between recess and total chaos. To his teachers, Tim is just an ordinary fourth-grader with a knack for losing his homework. But to the secret world of the Elite Kid-Guard, he is "The Lens" the sharpest scout in the business.

A gripping testament to human endurance and the indifference of nature, The Open Boat by Stephen Crane captures the harrowing true story of survival at sea after the wreck of the steamer Commodore. Based on Crane’s own near-death experience, this masterpiece of American naturalism follows four men—the captain, the cook, the correspondent, and the oiler—as they struggle against exhaustion, hunger, and the merciless power of the ocean in a tiny dinghy adrift off the Florida coast.

Mark Twain’s "The Jumping Frog", also know as The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is one of America’s most beloved humorous short stories—a tale brimming with wit, mischief, and the charm of small-town life. When a visiting stranger hears the outlandish story of a gambler and his extraordinary frog, “Dan’l Webster,” he’s drawn into a web of good-natured trickery and tall-tale tradition. Twain’s keen ear for dialect and his playful satire of human gullibility make this story a timeless piece of frontier folklore.

Step into the quiet mystery of the night with Henry David Thoreau’s Night and Moonlight, a luminous essay that transforms a simple moonlit walk into a meditation on nature, philosophy, and the rhythms of the cosmos.

Welcome to The Problem Club, where logic takes a holiday and wit is the law of the land. In this delightful collection of early 20th-century comic tales by Barry Pain, twelve eccentric gentlemen gather regularly in an upscale London club to tackle bizarre, imaginative challenges—each one a “problem” designed to confound, amuse, and showcase their cleverness.

Four decades ago, when I started my own small business, I looked for a book that would explain all the nuts and bolts of day-to-day survival as a small business. There wasn’t one. And there still isn’t one. So, I wrote one.

For years, people have thought day trading was impossible. Or, they started trading and totally lost their shirt. But while beginners might read a book or take a course and it leads to a few big wins, they can never keep these profits consistent. The secret behind day trading is that it can be life-changing if you have a system in place to minimize your risks and maximize your profits. Once you finally get it (aka how to build your profit system), turning a massive profit in day trading is incredibly easy!