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Reuben Gold Thwaites - Daniel Boone (Thwaites)

Daniel Boone was a great hunter, explorer, surveyor, and excellent rifleman; he knew Indians and fought them skillfully. His life was filled with adventures and, with this biography, Reuben Gold Thwaites takes us...

William Tomcho 4 hours 31 minutes

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DeWitt C. Peters - Life and Adventures of Kit Carson

Kit Carson was a famous hunter, trapper, mountain man, guide — an American icon. Stories about him abounded in popular contemporary literature, but most was pure fiction. This work is the authorized biography, much of...

Lynne T and 10 more 15 hours 39 minutes

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Emmeline Pankhurst - My Own Story

Emmeline Pankhurst was a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement. She was widely criticized for her militant tactics, but her work is recognised as a crucial element in achieving...

Petra and 1 more 8 hours 8 minutes

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William Still - Underground Railroad, Part 2

«This is one of the most remarkable volumes of the century. Its publication has only been made possible by a combination of circumstances which seldom attend the birth of a book. Before emancipation, and while the...

Maria Kasper and 6 more 9 hours 7 minutes The Underground Railroad by William Still

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Edward Weitzel - Intimate Talks with Movie Stars

A collection of interviews originally published in Moving Picture World that aims to give the movie-mad public «intimate pen pictures of the stars of the screen.» Weitzel interviews some of the most renowned film...

Greg Giordano and 6 more 2 hours 42 minutes

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William Still - Underground Railroad, Part 1

”It was my good fortune to lend a helping hand to the weary travelers flying from the land of bondage.” William Still. «Dear Sir:—For most of the years I have lived, the escape of fugitives from slavery, and...

MaryAnn and 8 more 6 hours 44 minutes The Underground Railroad by William Still

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James Boswell - Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. IV

This is the fourth volume of the Biography of Samuel Johnson. Samuel Johnson's Life has been documented in great detail by his friends, this biography being originally published by James Boswell, and then edited...

Barbara Baker and 12 more 24 hours 58 minutes The Life of Samuel Johnson

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War & Military

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Andrew Lang - Story of Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc is a folk heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint. Claiming divine guidance, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, which paved the way for the...

timothyFR 2 hours 6 minutes

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Grant M. Overton - Women Who Make Our Novels

”This book, the rather unpremeditated production of several months’ work, is by a man who is not a novelist and who is therefore entirely unfitted to write about women who are novelists.” The author is a literary...

MaryAnn and 13 more 10 hours 20 minutes

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Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne - Memoirs of Napoleon, Vol. 1

The author and Napoleon become boyhood friends when they are eight years old in Corsica. They separate when Napoleon is transferred from the Military College of Brienne to another college in Paris in 1784. Napoleon...

Tom Geller and 5 more 3 hours 31 minutes

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Tim Bobbin: A View of the Lancashire Dialect

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Tim Bobbin: A View of the Lancashire Dialect

A comic dialogue written in John Collier's idiosyncratic version of the 18th century South Lancashire dialect together with a collection of 19th century texts on Collier and his work. Egged on by Meary (Mary),...

Phil Benson 10 hours 21 minutes

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Frances Alice Forbes - Life of St. Vincent de Paul

Vincent De Paul [c. 1581 — 1660] was a man renowned during his own century for his compassion, humility and generosity. During the days when galleys were part of any countries' war machine and these galleys were rowed...

Bellona Times and 1 more 1 hour 57 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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