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Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen

Biography & Autobiography

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Elbert Hubbard - Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen

Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings may have influenced them. These short essays are part biography and part...

Juliana and 3 more 7 hours Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great

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Biography & Autobiography

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Benjamin Griffith Brawley - Women of Achievement

This volume, published in 1919 by the American Women's Baptist Home Mission Society, opens with an introduction spelling out the important work done by African American women. It speaks both to the «invisible work» of...

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Nature

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Birds and All Nature, Vol. VII, No 5, May 1900

«Birds and All Nature» was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and brief descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color...

Larry Wilson and 9 more 2 hours 29 minutes Birds; Birds and All Nature; Nature and Art; Birds and Nature - Volumes I, IV-XII (Volume II in progress)

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Science

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C. C. Long - Home Geography for Primary Grades

Lessons and exercises for young children, exploring map and compass, mountains and rivers, trees and flowers, wind and rain, and more. (Summary by Sarah Jennings)

Sarah Jennings and 10 more 2 hours 16 minutes

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Poetry

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Lord Alfred Douglas - Placid Pug, and Other Rhymes

This is a collection of ten humorous verses by Lord Alfred Douglas. — Summary by Carolin

Algy Pug and 3 more 23 minutes

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Poetry

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Arthur Weir - Snowflake and Other Poems

This is a volume of Canadian poet Arthur Weir. Many of the poems are set around the turn of a year, referencing the season in different ways, and touching upon almost every emotion and association we might connect...

Jason in Panama and 12 more 2 hours 44 minutes

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Family Life

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Harriet Beecher Stowe - Palmetto Leaves

After the Civil War, Harriet and her husband Charles bought an Orange Plantation in Mandarin, on the upper east coast of Florida, where they lived during the winter months. Over the years they expanded their cottage...

Michele Fry and 8 more 5 hours 18 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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Margaret Vandercook - Red Cross Girls in Belgium

Four young American women have joined the Allied forces under WWI. In this volume of the series they are in Belgium, and they are dealing with the mysterious past of one of the girls, the possible romance between a...

Kathrine Engan and 5 more 4 hours 34 minutes

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Nature

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Birds and All Nature, Vol. VII, No 4, April 1900

«Birds and All Nature» was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and brief descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color...

Larry Wilson and 11 more 2 hours 21 minutes Birds; Birds and All Nature; Nature and Art; Birds and Nature - Volumes I, IV-XII (Volume II in progress)

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Literary Collections

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Ontario Readers: Fourth Book

A fourth grade English textbook published by the Minister of Education for Ontario in 1909. This reader features various pieces of Poetry and Prose by well known authors of the time. — Summary by David Lawrence

David Lawrence and 21 more 9 hours 36 minutes

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Nature

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Birds and All Nature, Vol. VII, No 3, March 1900

«Birds and All Nature» was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and brief descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color...

Larry Wilson and 6 more 2 hours 31 minutes Birds; Birds and All Nature; Nature and Art; Birds and Nature - Volumes I, IV-XII (Volume II in progress)

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Sabine Baring-Gould - Book of Fairy Tales

This is a collection of fairy tales, retold by Sabine Baring-Gould. The collection contains such well-known stories as Cinderella and the Beauty and the Beast, but also tales which are now not as widely known, such as...

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