Becky Cook

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Historical Fiction

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John R. Musick - Witch of Salem

A historical novel about the Salem Witch Trials. A fantastic illustrated historical novel by the prolific American author John R. Musick. From the author’s preface: The «Witch of Salem» is designed to cover...

Linette and 7 more 9 hours 1 minute

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War & Military

557

Gaius Julius Caesar - Commentaries on the Gallic War

Commentarii de Bello Gallico (English: Commentaries on the Gallic War) is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative. In it Caesar describes the battles and intrigues...

James Christopher and 6 more 7 hours 16 minutes

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Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

548

Sæmund Sigfusson - Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson

The most complete set of the epic Norse eddas, or poems. It contains in beautiful verse the pagan beliefs of the Old Norse. Luckily in this work both the Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson and the Younger Eddas of...

Becky Cook and 7 more 9 hours 14 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

502

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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Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

449

Margaret Sanger - Woman and the New Race

Margaret Sanger was an American sex educator and nurse who became one of the leading birth control activists of her time, having at one point, even served jail time for importing birth control pills, then illegal,...

Becky Cook 4 hours 6 minutes

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Travel & Geography

499

Reuben Gold Thwaites - Afloat on the Ohio

Afloat on the Ohio, An Historical Pilgrimage, of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, From Redstone to Cairo. There were four of us pilgrims—my Wife, our Boy of ten and a half years, the Doctor, and I. My object in...

David Lawrence and 9 more 7 hours 21 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

463

Reuben Gold Thwaites - Historic Waterways

Historic Waterways, Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing down the Rock, Fox and Wisconsin Rivers. This volume is the record of six hundred miles of canoeing experiences on historic waterways in Wisconsin and Illinois...

Linda Fredericks and 8 more 6 hours 9 minutes

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*Non-fiction

476

John Henry Ingram - Claimants to Royalty

A compilation of chronicles of the numerous impostors and impostures of kings, queens, and rulers. (Summary by Carmen H)

Guero and 12 more 6 hours 19 minutes

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Algonquin Legends of New England or Myths and Folk Lore of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot Tribes

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Charles Godfrey Leland - Algonquin Legends of New England or Myths and Folk Lore of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot Tribes

This work, then, contains a collection of the myths, legends, and folk-lore of the principal Wabanaki, or Northeastern Algonquin, Indians; that is to say, of the Passamaquoddies and Penobscots of Maine, and of the...

Amy Gramour and 13 more 10 hours 26 minutes

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Single author

445

Robert W. Service - Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses

Known as the Bard of the Yukon and as a people's poet, Robert Service immortalized his experience with the Yukon and its gold rush and this collection of poetry. While some poems are anecdotal and amusing, others...

Becky Cook 1 hour 20 minutes

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General Fiction

466

Mary Augusta Ward - Lady Rose's Daughter

«Julie Le Breton enchants almost everyone around her with her smart, charm, and excellent manners. She almost belongs to the English highest nobility, but just almost… Her parents, 2 aristocrats who ran away from...

ngocmai1196 and 12 more 13 hours 38 minutes

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General Fiction

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A. E. W. Mason - Four Feathers

The Four Feathers is a 1902 adventure novel by British writer A.E.W. Mason that has inspired many films of the same title. The novel tells the story of British officer, Harry Feversham, who resigns his commission in...

Becky Cook and 10 more 11 hours 26 minutes

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New

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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