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Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great

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Elbert Hubbard - Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great

Elbert Hubbard visits the homes of authors, politicians, poets, philosophers and other prestigious people. If they are still living he speaks with them about their work. If they are dead he reflects on how their...

Mike Pelton and 8 more 8 hours 4 minutes Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great

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William Gunion Rutherford - Story of Garfield

A short biography of the 20th U.S. President. Garfield was raised in humble circumstances on an Ohio farm by his widowed mother and elder brother. Before he was elected president in the Republican party he was first...

William Tomcho 2 hours 24 minutes

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Frank W. Boreham - Handful of Stars

This is the second of a five volume series called «Texts That Made History». As with the first volume, «A Bunch of Everlastings», each chapter tell a brief biography with emphasis on the text from scripture that was...

Tim Bower and 4 more 6 hours 26 minutes

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Arthur T. Pierson - George Müller of Bristol

George Muller was a great hero of faith. His greatest aim was to demonstrate that God answers prayer and can be trusted for every minute detail of life. Spending countless hours asking God to provide his needs, he...

Dave Harrell 12 hours 29 minutes

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Manfred von Richthofen - Red Battle Flyer

Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (2 May 1892 – 21 April 1918), also widely known as the Red Baron, was a German fighter pilot with the Imperial German Army Air Service (Luftstreitkräfte) during World War I. He...

Tom Weiss 3 hours 48 minutes

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Saint Therese of Lisieux - Story of a Soul (Version 2)

She is also known as St.Thérèse of Child Jesus. She was born at Alençon, France, 2 January 1873; died at Lisieux 30 September 1897. When she was fifteen she applied for permission to enter the Carmelite Convent, and...

Susan Morin 13 hours 40 minutes

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William Still - Underground Railroad, Part 4

«The work is intensely interesting. Many of the narratives thrill the reader through and through. Some of them awaken an indignation, a horror, or a sense of humiliation and shame that makes the blood curdle or the...

Michele Fry and 7 more 8 hours 33 minutes The Underground Railroad by William Still

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Athanasius of Alexandria - Life of Anthony

Anthony (251-356CE) lived in Egypt, and became one of the fathers of Christian desert monasticism. When he was about 18 years old, and having inherited a large fortune, he heard a sermon about Jesus challenging the...

Matthew James Gray 2 hours 35 minutes

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Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers

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Charles Bradlaugh - Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers

This book presents a brief bio and a summary of important ideas & events in the lives of 23 great philosophers from ancient times through the 19th century. The book focuses on freethinkers, who are known to say things...

Ted Delorme 13 hours 34 minutes

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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

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Mary Seacole - Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

I should have thought that no preface would have been required to introduce Mrs. Seacole to the British public, or to recommend a book which must, from the circumstances in which the subject of it was placed, be...

Cori Samuel 5 hours 58 minutes

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Charles F. Horne - Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 1

Great Men and Famous Women is an 8-volume work by various authors containing “A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History.” The set is edited by...

Greg Giordano and 15 more 11 hours 46 minutes

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Jim Kjelgaard - Story of Geronimo

Geronimo (1829 – 1909) was a prominent leader of the Bedonkohe Apache who fought against Mexico and the United States for their expansion into Apache tribal lands for several decades during the Apache Wars. «Geronimo»...

Jules Hawryluk and 3 more 3 hours 28 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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