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Biography & Autobiography

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John Hay - Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 5)

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 5...

Jim Locke and 5 more 13 hours 12 minutes Abraham Lincoln: A History in 10 Volumes

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Family Life

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Unknown - Mabel Ross, the Sewing Girl

Orphaned Mabel struggles to raise her sisters by working as a sewing girl for long hours and low wages. She meets her challenges with a calm steady faith while her younger sister chafes against the injustice of their...

Jennifer Fournier 8 hours 56 minutes

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Nature

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Birds and All Nature, Vol. VII, No 4, April 1900

«Birds and All Nature» was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and brief descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color...

Larry Wilson and 11 more 2 hours 21 minutes Birds; Birds and All Nature; Nature and Art; Birds and Nature - Volumes I, IV-XII (Volume II in progress)

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Biography & Autobiography

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Albert Keim - Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) famously said, «In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.» Pasteur brought to the study of chemistry, microbiology, and applied immunology, a mind open, innovative,...

Pamela Nagami 4 hours 22 minutes

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School

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Edmondo de Amicis - Heart: a Schoolboy's Journal

Little Enrico Bottini is a ten year-old third grade student in Italy who keeps a diary for one whole school year. It records the general problems, excitements, and successes any third grader might deal with, all...

Kathrine Engan and 6 more 10 hours 18 minutes

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Nature & Animal Fiction

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Ernest Thompson Seton - Animal Heroes

A hero is an individual of unusual gifts and achievements. Whether it be man or animal, this definition applies; and it is the histories of such that appeal to the imagination and to the hearts of those who hear them....

Ginny Blankenship and 7 more 6 hours 16 minutes

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Poetry

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Benjamin King - Ben King's Verse

This is a volume of Benjamin King's collected verse, published shortly after his sudden death in 1894. The American humorist was very famous during his lifetime, and is still widely referenced and quoted until today....

Larry Wilson and 11 more 3 hours 35 minutes

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Poetry

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Lilian Whiting - From Dreamland Sent

This is a volume of poetry by Lilian Whiting. As the title of the volume already hints at, the poems share a dreamy atmosphere, and in that are a typical example of American poetry of the end of the 19th century. —...

Elise Heinbuch and 14 more 1 hour 53 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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John Neihardt - Splendid Wayfaring

Quote: «In the following pages I have told the story of that body of adventurers who, from 1822 to 1829, opened the way for the expansion of our nation beyond the Missouri. I have made Jedediah Smith the central...

Phil Schempf 6 hours 45 minutes

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Art, Design & Architecture

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Ferdinand de Lesseps - History of the Suez Canal

A lively picture of the origin and completion of the Suez Canal (built between 1859 and 1869) and his architect, Vicomte de Lesseps. This is the translation of a lecture given before the Societe de Gens Lettres in...

Availle 1 hour 37 minutes

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Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Karl-Ludwig Sand (version 2)

Biography & Autobiography

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Alexandre Dumas - Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Karl-Ludwig Sand (version 2)

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...

John Van Stan 1 hour 59 minutes

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Literary Collections

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Ontario Readers: Fourth Book

A fourth grade English textbook published by the Minister of Education for Ontario in 1909. This reader features various pieces of Poetry and Prose by well known authors of the time. — Summary by David Lawrence

David Lawrence and 21 more 9 hours 36 minutes

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