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Harrison Weir - Our Cats and All About Them

The Englishman Harrison Weir organized the first cat show in England in 1871. In 1887 he founded the National Cat Club and was its first President and Show Manager until his resignation in 1890. Our Cats and all...

Availle and 15 more 8 hours 34 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

501

H. P. Nichols - Women of History

An intriguing look at well known women in history from BC 500 to the mid 1800's. Each chapter is a brief overview of one woman's life. An interesting read. (Summary by Michele Eaton)

Lucretia B. and 24 more 8 hours 28 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

471

Mór Jókai - Tales from Jókai

Móric Jókay de Ásva, known as Mór Jókai or Maurus Jokai, was a Hungarian dramatist and novelist. He was a very prolific writer from an early age and wrote hundreds of novels, novellas, and short stories in his...

Availle 8 hours 26 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Andrew Lang - Historical Mysteries

Edited by Andrew Lang, Historical Mysteries is a collection of infamous unsolved mysteries from various points in history.

Colleen McMahon and 11 more 8 hours 17 minutes

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Mountain Adventures in the Various Countries of the World

Travel & Geography

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John Timbs - Mountain Adventures in the Various Countries of the World

Mountains have always been fascinating as places of special adventure. This book. first published in 1869, collects true stories of real-life adventurers climbing the world's most famous and most challenging...

Gail Timmerman Vaughan and 12 more 8 hours 14 minutes

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Education

John S. Hart - In the School Room

In the first place, teaching is not simply telling. A class may be told a thing twenty times over, and yet not know it. Talking to a class is not necessarily teaching. I have known many teachers who were brimful of...

Joseph Abell and 13 more 8 hours 11 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Henry Parker Manning - Fourth Dimension Simply Explained

In January 1909 a friend of the Scientific American paid the sum of 500$ which was to be awarded as a prize for the best popular explanation of the Fourth Dimension. The object being to set forth in an essay not...

Availle 8 hours 6 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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My First Book (Version 2)

Have you ever wondered how your favorite author started on his or her writing career? Did they launch themselves wholeheartedly into literature? Did they slave away every evening after a hard day at the office? Did...

Jim Gallagher and 12 more 8 hours 4 minutes

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Art, Design & Architecture

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Harold Speed - Practice and Science of Drawing

This book is an attempt to teach beginning students how to draw. Starting out with intuition and vision, Harold Speed explains line and mass drawing, and how rhythm is conveyed in art by means of balance and...

ogbog and 13 more 7 hours 48 minutes

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Family & Relationships

565

Alice Bacon - Japanese Girls and Women

A clear and delightful peek into the world of Japanese girls and women of the late 1800s: their childhood, education, marriage and intimate family life. And it is done by someone who admires the immense resources,...

Dan Froese and 8 more 7 hours 46 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Short Ghost and Horror Collection 031

A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder.

Nemo and 18 more 7 hours 45 minutes Short Ghost and Horror Story Collections

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Biography & Autobiography

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Edmund Gosse - Raleigh

Sir Walter Raleigh's plan in 1584 for colonization in the «Colony and Dominion of Virginia» (which included the present-day states of North Carolina and Virginia) in North America ended in failure at Roanoke Island,...

musil and 7 more 7 hours 43 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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