Bill Boerst

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Art, Design & Architecture

433

Frank Berkeley Smith - Real Latin Quarter

«Cocher, drive to the rue Falguière»--this in my best restaurant French. The man with the varnished hat shrugged his shoulders, and raised his eyebrows in doubt. He evidently had never heard of the rue Falguière....

Bill Boerst 2 hours 37 minutes

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Science Fiction

508

Arthur J. Burks - Astounding Stories 08, August 1930

Issue eight of this seminal science-fiction magazine CONTENTS Murder Madness by Murray Leinster — the conclusion of this novel Earth the Maurader by Arthur J. Burks — Part 2 of a 3 Part novel as well as short...

Bill Boerst and 8 more 8 hours 23 minutes Astounding Stories Magazines Issues 1-20

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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring

Performing Arts

452

Professor Louis Hoffman - Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring

This «how-to» book covers everything for the 1800's illusionist, from stage presence & dress, program and stage arrangement, to how to do tricks with cards, coins, watches, rings, handkerchiefs, dominoes and dice,...

Bill Boerst and 17 more 19 hours 8 minutes

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Historical Fiction

472

Nathan Gallizier - Under the Witches' Moon

The scene is Rome, 935 A.D. Thirty-year-old Tristan, dressed as a pilgrim, overhears a conversation between Basil, the Grand Chamberlain, and Il Gobbo, his assistant. After the two have left, Tristan continues to...

Bill Boerst 13 hours 28 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

439

Lloyd Osbourne - Wrecker

The Wrecker (1892) is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. The story is a 'sprawling, episodic adventure story, a comedy of brash manners and something of a...

Antony Brown and 9 more 14 hours 24 minutes

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Action & Adventure

388

Grace May North - Phantom Town Mystery

Two girls from the East, out on a horseback ride in the mountains of Arizona, find a house in the mountains. The house's history reveals that an eccentric miner once lived there. As they turn to leave, a gunshot goes...

Bill Boerst 5 hours 16 minutes

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*Non-fiction

481

George Blackie - Our Knowledge Box

This practical guide to solving all sorts of problems includes secrets and discoveries covering the Liquor Trade, Druggists' Aids, Manufacturing Hints, Toiletries and Perfumeries, Hunting and Trapping, the Fine Arts...

Bill Boerst 3 hours 22 minutes

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Memoirs

435

Venture Smith - Life and Adventures of Venture

Venture Smith (1729–1805) was an African captured as a child and transported to the American colonies to be sold as a slave. As an adult, he purchased his freedom and that of his family. His history was documented...

Bill Boerst 56 minutes

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Romance

523

George MacDonald - Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood

This delightful story begins in a little town called Marshmallows, where a young man, the new vicar, Harry Walton, has just arrived. As he begins his work Harry realizes that everything is not quite 'right' in his...

Lee Smalley and 9 more 15 hours 25 minutes

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Fantasy Fiction

502

Lily Dougall - Mermaid

"'What a fool I was not to go where she beckoned!' mused Caius. 'Where? Anywhere into the heart of the ocean, out of this dull, sordid life into the land of dreams.' For it must all have been a dream—a sweet,...

Barry Eads and 13 more 7 hours 49 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Hamilton Wright Mabie - Young Folks' Treasury, Volume 2

This is the second book in a twelve volume series, and highlights myths and legendary heroes from around the world, from Ancient Greece to Scandinavia and the Far East. They are aimed at the junior audience. (Summary...

Lynne T and 25 more 18 hours 56 minutes

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History

478

William Sanger - History of Prostitution

Common sense asks for a full investigation of all the evils attending prostitution. In the every-day affairs of life, any man who feels the pressure of a particular evil looks at once for its cause. He may be neither...

Anna Simon and 25 more 31 hours 55 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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