Cate Barratt
55 books
Historical
779
Alice Turner Curtis - Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter
Sylvia Fulton is a ten-years-old girl from Boston who stayed in Charleston, South Carolina, before the opening of the civil war. She loves her new home, and her dear friends. However, political tensions are rising,...
3 hours 52 minutes
Children's Fiction
1.1K
Thomas Bailey Aldrich - Story of a Bad Boy
Thomas Bailey Aldrich was a child when his father moved to New Orleans from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. After 10 years, Aldrich was sent back to Portsmouth to prepare for college. This period of his life is partly...
5 hours 50 minutes
General Fiction
846
Jacob A. Riis - Neighbors - Life Stories of the Other Half
These stories have come to me from many sources—some from my own experience, others from settlement workers, still others from the records of organized charity, that are never dry, as some think, but alive with vital...
2 hours 58 minutes
*Non-fiction
869
François Pierre Guillaume Guizot - Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 5
François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (October 4, 1787 -September 12, 1874) was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior to the Revolution of 1848, actively opposing...
22 hours 16 minutes