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Story of Garfield: Farm Boy, Soldier and President

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William Gunion Rutherford - Story of Garfield: Farm Boy, Soldier and President

A short biography of President James A. Garfield — Summary by Eddie Frierson

Eddie Frierson 2 hours 37 minutes

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War & Military

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Lloyd Charles Sanders - Life of Viscount Palmerston

This is a short life of Henry John Temple (1784-1865), Third Viscount Palmerston, Great Britain's affable, able, and always available Foreign Secretary, Home Secretary, and Prime Minister. Sanders writes that by 1841...

Pamela Nagami 8 hours 38 minutes

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War & Military

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Robert Southey - Life of Nelson

In 1813, the year that he was appointed Poet Laureate, Robert Southey published «The Life of Nelson». Horatio, Lord Viscount Nelson was Britain's greatest Naval hero who had been killed during the Battle of Trafalgar...

NoelBadrian 11 hours 7 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Alberto Santos-Dumont - My Airships: The Story of My Life

The delightful tale of «le petit Santos» as he dances through the sky above the City of Light at the dawn of the aerial age. A note to the listener: Throughout this story the author makes several references to...

Scott Danneker 6 hours 8 minutes

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Two Diaries From Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February - May, 1865

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Mary Rhodes Waring Henagan - Two Diaries From Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February - May, 1865

Two diaries from Middle St. John’s, Berkeley, South Carolina, February – May, 1865. Journals kept by Miss Susan R. Jervey and Miss Charlotte St. Julien Ravenel, at Northampton and Poooshee Plantations, and...

David Wales 2 hours 4 minutes

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Emily Clemens Pearson - Gutenberg and the Art of Printing

This book is readable account of one of the greatest inventions of modern time: moveable type. Gutenberg's work lays the foundation for the printing press, without which the world would look very different… It reads...

Availle and 12 more 6 hours 41 minutes

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Elizabeth Ross Haynes - Unsung Heroes

This book consists of 17 biographies of remarkable men and women who, in 1921, were «unsung.» Some of them are now pretty well known while others are still, sadly, rather unrecognized. Written by Elizabeth Ross Haynes...

Jim Locke and 7 more 5 hours 19 minutes

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Alabama Student And Other Biographical Essays

Biography & Autobiography

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Sir William Osler - Alabama Student And Other Biographical Essays

Here are thirteen biographical sketches of physicians penned by one of the founders of modern medicine, William Osler, published in 1908. «Sir William Osler, one of the best-loved and most influential teachers of his...

David Wales 11 hours 16 minutes

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Geraldine Edith Mitton - Jane Austen and Her Times

This is a lively and highly accessible overview of the life and times of one of England's most beloved authors. Using excerpts from a wide variety of sources, such as Austen's own personal correspondence and the works...

Twinkle and 8 more 10 hours 11 minutes

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War & Military

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Thomas Frederick Tout - Edward the First

Edward I of England (1239-1307) will always be remembered as the «Hammer of the Scots» who condemned William Wallace (Braveheart) to a traitor's death in 1297. But Edward was one of England's greatest statesman-kings....

Pamela Nagami 8 hours 6 minutes

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Justin McCarthy - Story of Gladstone's Life

William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), four times Prime Minister of Great Britain, dominated the Liberal Party for thirty years, but ultimately divided it over the issue of Irish Home Rule, which he unsuccessfully...

Pamela Nagami 10 hours 40 minutes

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E. Luscomb Haskell - Life of Jesse Harding Pomeroy

«The Life of Jesse Harding Pomeroy: The Most Remarkable Case in the History of Crime or Criminal Law» by E. Luscomb Haskell was published in Boston, Massachusetts in 1892 by the Harvard Law School Library, and is part...

Roger Melin 2 hours 12 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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