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Bram Stoker - Famous Impostors

Aliases. Fraudsters. Confidence tricksters. People pretending to be what they are not, for financial, political or personal gain. Fiction is filled with them to entertain us; but would not be anywhere near as...

Bridget Paul and 8 more 8 hours 48 minutes

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War & Military

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Thomas Hodgkin - Life of Charlemagne

Charlemagne (Charles the Great) c. 742-814 was King of the Franks, conqueror of Lombard Italy, and on Christmas day 800, was crowned by Pope Leo III as the first Holy Roman Emperor. The author tells us that he «was a...

Pamela Nagami 8 hours 19 minutes

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Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Karl-Ludwig Sand

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Alexandre Dumas - Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Karl-Ludwig Sand

This is the fourth volume of Alexandre Dumas' studies of celebrated crimes and their perpetrators. This volume is concerned with the story of Karl Ludwig Sand, who stabbed August von Kotzebue to death in 1819. August...

mbm0rxi and 2 more 2 hours 10 minutes

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John Hay - Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 4)

Abraham Lincoln: A History is an 1890 ten-volume account of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, written by John Nicolay and John Hay, who were his personal secretaries during the American Civil War. Volume 4...

Jim Locke and 4 more 14 hours 8 minutes Abraham Lincoln: A History in 10 Volumes

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James Franck Bright - Maria Theresa

By the time of his death in 1740, the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles VI, had done everything possible to secure the succession to the throne of his daughter, Maria Theresa, but practically nothing to train her how to...

Pamela Nagami 7 hours 11 minutes

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Children's Non-fiction

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Margaret Duncan Kelly - Story of Sir Walter Raleigh

«Relates the story of Raleigh from his boyhood days on the coast of Devonshire, to his exploits in Ireland and his unexpected entry into the court of Queen Elizabeth. We travel with him as he pursues the ships of the...

Lazlo and 4 more 2 hours 3 minutes

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War & Military

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Eleanor C. Price - Cardinal de Richelieu

Armand-Jean du Plessis, Cardinal de Richelieu (1585-1642), the dreaded red eminence, mentor and manager of Louis XIII, skilled in logistics, he subdued in battle the unruly Huguenot aristocracy, successfully resisted...

Pamela Nagami 11 hours 46 minutes

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Frederick James Furnivall - Shakespeare: Life and Work

William Shakespeare: actor, poet, playwright. He is often called England's greatest writer, the Bard of Avon, a national treasure. But who was he? An average boy, born to an average family of the period; a romantic...

Lynne T and 3 more 7 hours 36 minutes

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Twenty Years' Experience as a Ghost Hunter

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Elliott O'Donnell - Twenty Years' Experience as a Ghost Hunter

After having a difficult time establishing a career as a novelist, O’Donnell discovered to his happy surprise that the reading public was very interested in his hobby of chasing ghosts, which he called “Superphysical...

Mark F. Smith 8 hours 20 minutes

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Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Compiled from her Letters and Journals

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Charles Edward Stowe - Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Compiled from her Letters and Journals

Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896), of Cincinnati, was the most famous female American author of her age, and is said to have touched off the American Civil War with her novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin...

Michele Fry 15 hours 18 minutes

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Casper S. Yost - Patience Worth

Patience Worth is an examination of the communications between a seventeenth century woman and a certain Mrs. Curran of St. Louis, in 1913. Contact with the spirit world or parlor trick? If the latter, it was well...

Lynne T 5 hours 5 minutes

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A. Taylor Innes - John Knox

A scholarly and thoughtful biography of the Scottish Reformer. (Jael Baldwin)

Jael Baldwin 4 hours 45 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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