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James W. Donovan - Don't Marry

This book doesn't advise against marriage but just offers advice on the errors some people can make who make the wrong choice when entering into so long a contract. — Summary by Michele Eaton

Kathrine Engan and 3 more 1 hour 49 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Alain René Lesage - Adventures of Gil Blas de Santillane

Gil Blas is born in misery to a stablehand and a chambermaid of Santillana in Cantabria, and is educated by his uncle. He leaves Oviedo at the age of seventeen to attend the University of Salamanca. His bright future...

Jim Locke 34 hours 25 minutes

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Romance

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Gertrude Atherton - Black Oxen

Lee Clavering, a young playwright falls in love with an Austrian countess, not noticing the adoring glances from the outgoing flapper, Janet. Unknown to the young lover, the object of his devotion is defying age with...

Lynne T 13 hours 10 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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A. A. Milne - If I May

A. A. Milne (18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems. 'If I May' is a collection of short essays on desultory...

SK 4 hours 43 minutes

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War & Military

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Justin McCarthy - Reign of Queen Anne, Volume II

Anne Stuart (1665-1714), Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland, succeeded William III to the throne in 1702. She was the daughter of the deposed Catholic king, James II, but was of the Anglican faith. Liberal, Irish...

Pamela Nagami 11 hours 44 minutes

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Christianity - Commentary

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G. Campbell Morgan - Practice of Prayer

God has made prayer possible to us through Jesus. We can pray prevailingly only as we respond to the truths which create the possibility. The sphere of prayer includes the coming of the Kingdom of God and the...

MaryAnn 2 hours 50 minutes

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Guides to Belle Vue Zoological Gardens 1891-1917

Sports & Recreation

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Guides to Belle Vue Zoological Gardens 1891-1917

Guides to the Belle Vue Zoological Gardens from the Chetham's Library Virtual Belle Vue Collection. The Belle Vue gardens opened in 1836 as a place of genteel entertainment for the middle classes of industrial...

Phil Benson 2 hours 57 minutes

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Nature

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Birds and All Nature, Vol. VII, No 1, January 1900

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

Larry Wilson and 9 more 2 hours 28 minutes Birds; Birds and All Nature; Nature and Art; Birds and Nature - Volumes I, IV-XII (Volume II in progress)

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Anting-Anting Stories And Other Strange Tales of the Filipinos

Single Author Collections

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Sargent Kayme - Anting-Anting Stories And Other Strange Tales of the Filipinos

«No less wonderful and varied are the inhabitants and the phenomena of the Philippines, and a new author, showing rare knowledge of the country and its strange peoples, now gives us a collection of simple yet...

mlcui 3 hours 40 minutes

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Boston Blackie: Stories Around the Opium Lamp

Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Jack Boyle - Boston Blackie: Stories Around the Opium Lamp

Boston Blackie had his birth in the imagination of a self confessed “opium eater.” Jack Boyle was a San Francisco newspaper man who became dependent upon the drug to make his deadlines, lost his job, and turned to...

Winston Tharp 2 hours 40 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Sigrid Undset - Jenny

Jenny Winge is a Norwegian expatriate studying art in Rome, part of a Bohemian group of friends who explore the ancient City in an intoxicating passion for Beauty. Yearning for an immortal Love, she allows herself to...

Expatriate 9 hours 16 minutes

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Narrative of Sojourner Truth (version 2)

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Olive Gilbert - Narrative of Sojourner Truth (version 2)

Sojourner Truth (born Isabella Baumfree) was born into slavery in 1797 (or thereabouts) in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York. This narrative, as told by Sojourner Truth to her friend Olive Gilbert, recounts to the...

Holly Jenson 3 hours 58 minutes

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