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James Baldwin - Four Great Americans

Written for children, James Baldwin's history of Washington, Franklin, Webster, and Lincoln brings these men to life in a way that will be interesting for adults as well. The stories touch on the little humanities of...

Sibella Denton 3 hours 39 minutes

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Doris Stevens - Jailed For Freedom

A first-hand account of the 1913-1919 campaign of American suffragettes, detailing their treatment at the hands of the courts, and the true conditions of their incarceration. (Summary by Sarah Jennings)

Blazin48 and 9 more 10 hours 6 minutes

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Anonymous - Keepsake

«The Keepsake, or, Poems and Pictures For Childhood and Youth», is a collection of twenty pastoral poems published as one collection in London, 1818. The topics are moral encouragement for children, young and old...

Sam Stinson 30 minutes

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George L. Apperson - Social History of Smoking

This work tells the history of smoking in England from the social point of view. Thus it does not deal with the history of tobacco growing or tobacco related manufacture, but is rather the story of how smoking has...

Maire Rhode and 10 more 7 hours 3 minutes

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Eva March Tappan - Heroes of the Middle Ages

«The object of this book is to bring together stories of the most important movements in the history of Europe during the Middle Ages, and to make familiar the names of the most important figures in those scenes. I...

Kristine Bekere 5 hours 5 minutes

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Jacob Abbott - Cleopatra

A biography of the famous Cleopatra of Egypt, written in a manner, equally interesting to children and to adults.

Alana Jordan and 8 more 6 hours 28 minutes

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Bible (ASV) 22: Song of Solomon (version 2)

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American Standard Version - Bible (ASV) 22: Song of Solomon (version 2)

The Song of Songs (Hebrew title שיר השירים, Shir ha-Shirim), is a book of the Hebrew Bible—Tanakh or Old Testament—one of the five megillot (scrolls). It is also known as the Song of Solomon or as Canticles, the...

Sam Stinson 20 minutes Bible (American Standard Version)

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M. B. Synge - Awakening of Europe

The Awakening of Europe by M. B. Synge is the third book in the series, Story of the World. Included in this history is a myriad of interesting men, women, and events that shaped Europe during the years 1520-1745....

Laura Caldwell 6 hours 1 minute

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Family Life

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Marshall Saunders - Beautiful Joe

Beautiful Joe is a real dog, and «Beautiful Joe» is his real name. He belonged during the first part of his life to a cruel master, who mutilated him in the manner described in the story. He was rescued from him,...

Allyson Hester 10 hours 2 minutes

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Sara Cone Bryant - How to Tell Stories to Children

Sarah Cone Bryant was an educator and storyteller who wrote several books on the importance of oral storytelling to children, and stories to tell children. This volume expounds on her theories and practices of...

Sean McGaughey and 4 more 5 hours 54 minutes

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Sigmund Freud - Reflections on War and Death

Anyone, as Freud tells us in Reflections on War and Death , forced to react against his own impulses may be described as a hypocrite, whether he is conscious of it or not. One might even venture to assert—it is still...

D.E. Wittkower 1 hour 15 minutes

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Henri Bergson - Introduction to Metaphysics

An Introduction to Metaphysics (Introduction a la Metaphysique) is a 1903 essay by Henri Bergson that explores the concept of reality. For Bergson, reality occurs not in a series of discrete states but as a process...

Mark Cawley and 1 more 1 hour 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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