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Louisa May Alcott - Shawl-Straps: A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag
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Francis Parkman, Jr. - Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada
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J. D. Jerrold Kelley - Story of the Barbary Corsairs
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