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Daniel Wallace Culp - Twentieth Century Negro Literature or A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro

The object of this book is… (1) To enlighten the uninformed white people on the intellectual ability of the Negro. (2) To give to those, who are interested in the Negro race, a better idea of the extent to which he...

Devorah Allen and 13 more 32 hours 6 minutes

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Family

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Charlotte Mary Yonge - Daisy Chain, or Aspirations

Join the endearing May family in small-town England as each member lives through some pivotal years. How will they face the changes that shake their family to the core? To quote the preface: «It would beg to be...

Hannah Mary and 6 more 29 hours 54 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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David Kalakaua - Legends and Myths of Hawaii

A collection of legends and myths of the Hawaiian islands and their 'strange people' as told by His Majesty King Kalakaua, the last king of Hawaii. Introduction, including a history, geography and social and religious...

Lynne T and 6 more 22 hours 34 minutes

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Nature

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Robert Hooke - Micrographia

Published in 1665, this is the first publication of the Royal Society and considered to be the first scientific best-seller. As opposed to the Latin of other publications of the time like Newton's 'Principia...

DrPGould and 22 more 17 hours 11 minutes

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Animals

556

Frank Evers Beddard - Book of Whales

A Book of Whales is a natural history of whales for the layman. — Summary by A. Gramour

Pinchcliff and 8 more 10 hours 24 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Hector Malot - Nobody's Boy

One day, French mason Jerome Barberin finds an abandoned baby boy. As the boy is wearing fine clothes, Barberin hopes that he is the son of rich parents who will reclaim him soon and offer a reward to Barberin for...

Elli and 9 more 9 hours 23 minutes

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Life and Sayings of Mrs. Partington and Others of the Family

Humorous Fiction

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B. P. Shillaber - Life and Sayings of Mrs. Partington and Others of the Family

Mrs. Partington, not unlike Mrs. Malaprop, is prone to using the wrong words when expressing her sentiments. However, the «inappropriate» word choices often cause one to look at a situation in a new way. (Introduction...

Debra Lynn and 3 more 8 hours 21 minutes

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Mark Twain - Adventures of Tom Sawyer (version 3)

An adventure story for children, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a fun-filled book that shows life along the Mississippi River in the 1840s. Written by Mark Twain, the book shows masterfully-done satire, racism,...

JayKitty76 and 18 more 7 hours 30 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Henry Blake Fuller - Cliff-Dwellers

Between the former site of old Fort Dearborn and the present site of our newest Board of Trade there lies a restricted yet tumultuous territory through which, during the course of the last fifty years, the rushing...

Bhavya and 12 more 7 hours 28 minutes

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Family

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Ruth Ogden - Little Queen of Hearts

A charming children's story following the trials and tribulations of the simple life of Marie-Celeste as she endears herself to everyone whose life she touches. With her parents, she moves to Windsor Castle to live...

Lynne T and 10 more 7 hours 27 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman - With Her in Ourland

Third in the trilogy of the feminist classics, after Moving the Mountain and Herland . It was published serially in Perkins Gilman's periodical The Forerunner . In Herland , three American young men discover a...

Amelia Chesley and 4 more 5 hours 53 minutes

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School

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Mary C. Hungerford - Friendly Five

«There were neither examinations nor graduation exercises at the Coventry Institute. The only ceremony peculiar to the last day of school, except the farewells, was a little sermon from Mrs. Abbott, the principal,...

Annike Lindhout and 16 more 5 hours 37 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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