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War & Military

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Georges Lacour-Gayet - Bismarck

Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) famously said, «The great questions of the day will not be settled by speeches or the decisions of the majority...but by iron and blood.» Prince Bismarck unified the German states under...

Pamela Nagami 7 hours 20 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Ann Hawkshaw - Cecil's Own Book

Ann Hawkshaw's fourth and final collection was published privately and named for her young grandson, Cecil Wedgwood. Written for children, the volume alternates prose with poetry and is lighter in tone than her...

Phil Benson 2 hours 37 minutes

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World's Best Poetry, Volume 3: Sorrow and Consolation (Part 2)

Anthologies

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World's Best Poetry, Volume 3: Sorrow and Consolation (Part 2)

This is the third of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, includes a range of famous poems relating to such topics as comfort and...

Lian Pang and 3 more 6 hours 21 minutes World's Best Poetry

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Old New Zealand: Being Incidents of Native Customs and Character in the Old Times

Biography & Autobiography

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Frederick Edward Maning - Old New Zealand: Being Incidents of Native Customs and Character in the Old Times

Introduction to Old New Zealand Philip Steer Victoria University February 2004 Frederick Edward Maning is best known as an author, but he was also at times a trader and a judge of the Native Land Court. He was...

Gnomesb 5 hours 55 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Charles Alden Seltzer - Coming of the Law

A young Easterner, Hollis, a newspaper reporter, arrives in a small western town, to inherit his father’s ranch and his newspaper. He discovers that the town and the entire county are controlled by an unscrupulous...

Richard Kilmer 8 hours 24 minutes

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State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1790 - 1816)

Literary Collections

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John Adams - State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1790 - 1816)

The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress, typically delivered annually. The address not only reports on the condition...

Jennifer Fournier and 8 more 7 hours 35 minutes State of the Union Addresses

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Fairy Realm: A Collection Of The Favourite Old Tales Told in Verse

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Tom Hood - Fairy Realm: A Collection Of The Favourite Old Tales Told in Verse

Here are five of the most loved Fairy Tales retold in verse by the English humourist and writer, Tom Hood (1835 — 1874). The tales are; The Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, Cinderella and Hop o'...

NoelBadrian 2 hours 33 minutes

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Family Life

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Lodore

The author of Frankenstein returns with her take on an Austen novel. The mother is proud, the father has many vices, yet the aristocratic name must be kept. Even more so when lord Lodore dies. His wife and daughter...

Jim Locke and 3 more 17 hours 1 minute

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Historical Fiction

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Florence Morse Kingsley - Paul: A Herald of the Cross

This is an exciting sequel to the earlier books Titus: A Comrade of the Cross and Stephen: A Soldier of the Cross . It tells the story of the apostle Paul, from his conversion through his imprisonment. ( Rachel)

Rachel and 12 more 11 hours 6 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Homer Greene - Riverpark Rebellion

A tale of the Riverpark Academy for cadets, in which there is growing discontent leading to a revolt against the academy's leaders. The rebellion takes the form of an unauthorized «holiday» in which a number of cadets...

Donald Cummings 2 hours 39 minutes

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Travel & Geography

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Charles Francis Saunders - Under The Sky In California

This is a 1913 travelogue by a then-well-known botanist who wrote many books about the American Southwest and California in particular. This popular book went into three printings. “…the main concern of the author has...

David Wales 8 hours 17 minutes

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Health & Fitness

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James Hinton - Mystery of Pain

This book is addressed to the sorrowful,… to whom their own or others' pain is a daily burden, upon whose hearts it weighs with an intolerable anguish. I seek to speak to these; not as a teacher, but as a fellow....

Ethan D. Gilkey 2 hours 2 minutes

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