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Early Modern

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Allan Fea - Secret Chambers and Hiding Places

“Secret Chambers and Hiding Places” is a collection of concealments and their uses, almost all within England, although a very few passages and chambers in continental Europe are mentioned, Jacobite hidey holes in...

Peter Yearsley 3 hours 43 minutes

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Romance

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Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of the Island

This is the continuing story of Anne Shirley and the third book in the Anne of Green Gables series. In it Anne attends Redmond College where she is studying for her BA. She has many trials and tribulations along the...

JemmaBlythe and 13 more 7 hours 51 minutes

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Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers

*Non-fiction

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Elizabeth E. Lea - Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers

The compiler of [this book] having entered early in life upon a train of duties, was frequently embarrassed by her ignorance of domestic affairs. For, whilst receipt books for elegant preparations were often seen,...

Gesine and 13 more 8 hours 47 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

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Jean Webster - Dear Enemy

Dear Enemy is the sequel to Jean Webster's novel Daddy-Long-Legs . The story as presented in a series of letters written by Sallie McBride, Judy Abbott's college mate in Daddy-Long-Legs . Among the recipients of...

Kymm Zuckert and 8 more 6 hours 32 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Leo Tolstoy - Childhood

Childhood, published in 1852, is the first novel in Leo Tolstoy’s autobiographical trilogy, which also includes Boyhood, and Youth. Published when Tolstoy was twenty-three, the book gained immediate notice among...

Hugh McGuire and 7 more 4 hours 6 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Mark Twain - Chapters from my Autobiography

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) began writing his autobiography long before the 1906 publications of these Chapters from my Autobiography. He originally planned to have his memoirs published only after his death but...

John Greenman 10 hours 35 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jack London - Call of the Wild

In this novel (often mistakenly classified a children’s book) the main protagonist Buck, a St. Bernard/Collie mix, is abducted and sold to a trainer of sled dogs in Alaska. He adapts to the brutal conditions and is...

Gord Mackenzie and 3 more 3 hours 23 minutes

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Black Beauty (The Autobiography of a Horse)

Animals & Nature

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Anna Sewell - Black Beauty (The Autobiography of a Horse)

Black Beauty is Anna Sewell’s first and only novel. The story is told in the “first person” (or first horse) as an autobiographical memoir of a highbred horse named Black Beauty, from his carefree days as a foal on an...

Kara Shallenberg and 18 more 6 hours 15 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil

First published in 1886 at Nietzsche’s own expense, the book was not initially considered important. In it, Nietzsche denounced what he considered to be the moral vacuity of 19th century thinkers. He attacked...

Hugh McGuire and 8 more 8 hours 2 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Unknown - Beowulf

Beowulf. [Translated by Francis Barton Gummere].This is a short but beautiful book, and the Gummere translation really captures the feel of the Old English. Beowulf tells the story of a mysterious young warrior who...

Kara Shallenberg and 6 more 3 hours 1 minute

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Children's Fiction

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Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables

Lucy Maud Montgomery’s classic children’s novel, Anne of Green Gables tells the story of a red headed orphan girl with a personality you can’t help but love. Despite her “tragical” past, Anne’s optimism and...

Betsie Bush and 11 more 10 hours 31 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of Avonlea

Following Anne of Green Gables, the book covers the second chapter in the life of Anne Shirley. Anne of Avonlea follows Anne from the age of 16 to 18, during the two years that she teaches at Avonlea school. It...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 8 more 8 hours 48 minutes

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