Allyson Hester

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The 9/11 Commission - 9/11 Commission Report

9/11 Commission Report, formally titled Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, is the official report of the events leading up to the September 11, 2001 attacks. It was...

Sam Stinson and 17 more 23 hours 19 minutes United States Government Reports

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Biography & Autobiography

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John George Nicolay - Short Life of Abraham Lincoln

John G. Nicolay was Abraham Lincoln’s private White House secretary. With assistant secretary, John Hay, he wrote the two volume definitive biography of Lincoln, «Abraham Lincoln, a Biography.» Although this is a...

John Lieder and 8 more 18 hours 28 minutes

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Political Science

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Thames Williamson - Problems in American Democracy

Problems in American Democracy is a very detailed, specific explanation of some of the underlying and surface problems of a democracy system of government, particularly of the American form of democracy. Though...

Allyson Hester 16 hours 32 minutes

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Short Stories

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Edward Knatchbull-Hugesson - Uncle Joe's Stories

This is an entertaining collection of varying stories recounted as only a master storyteller could deliver them. (Summary by Allyson Hester)

Allyson Hester 10 hours 57 minutes

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Family Life

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Marshall Saunders - Beautiful Joe

Beautiful Joe is a real dog, and «Beautiful Joe» is his real name. He belonged during the first part of his life to a cruel master, who mutilated him in the manner described in the story. He was rescued from him,...

Allyson Hester 10 hours 2 minutes

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General Fiction

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R. M. Ballantyne - Dog Crusoe and His Master

This is a story of an adventure involving a young man, his dog, and two friends. Together they wander through the Western prairies on a mission to make peace between the «pale-faces» and the «Red men». They face many...

Allyson Hester 9 hours 2 minutes

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General

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Edward Channing - Short History of the United States

Channing's best known work, A History of the United States, is regarded as one of the most complete and accurate accounts of American history and received the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for History. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

Allyson Hester 8 hours 22 minutes

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Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters

Nautical & Marine Fiction

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Logan Marshall - Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters

This is a detailed and accurate account of the most awful marine disaster in history, constructed from the real facts as obtained from those on board who survived (gutenberg.org).

Allyson Hester 7 hours 51 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Daniel Boone

This is a detailed biography of the life and adventures of Daniel Boone. His accomplishments are brushed over in history classes these days and not given the recognition they deserve. This biography clearly paints a...

Allyson Hester 7 hours 48 minutes

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General Fiction

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Elliott O'Donnell - Animal Ghosts

This is a collection of ghost stories in which the antagonists are various animals. Divided up into chapters of ghost sightings by each group of animals, you will hear of hauntings by dogs, cats, birds, jungle...

Allyson Hester 7 hours 15 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Edgar Wallace - Angel of Terror (version 2)

Beautiful Jean Briggerland is the epitome of evilness in this twisting and turning thriller. She plots many different ways to steal her new victim's riches including lies and murder. Only Jack Glover the lawyer of...

Allyson Hester 6 hours 58 minutes

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History

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Bill Nye - Comic History of the United States

This text takes the reader on a comical journey from the time of the first European settlement through the Civil War. The author's caustic wit is evident throughout the book in his numerous sarcastic and humorous...

Allyson Hester 6 hours 14 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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