Esther
149 books
Early Modern
565
Charles W. Colby - Chronicles of Canada Volume 07 - The Fighting Governer: A Chronicle of Frontenac
The Canada to which Frontenac came in 1672 was no longer the infant colony it had been when Richelieu founded the Company of One Hundred Associates. Though its inhabitants numbered less than seven thousand, the...
3 hours 24 minutes
Cooking
522
Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma - Chocolate: or, An Indian Drinke
The Author sings the praises of Chocolate. «By the wise and Moderate use whereof, Health is preserved, Sicknesse Diverted, and Cured, especially the Plague of the Guts; vulgarly called _The New Disease_; Fluxes,...
57 minutes
Westerns
524
Edward L. Wheeler - Deadwood Dick's Doom; or, Calamity Jane's Last Adventure
This western, published around 1899, is a dime novel that has it all: roguish gun men, hostile Indians, chilvarous gentlemen to protect the hapless females, and — in Calamity Jane — even a female who can hold her...
2 hours 41 minutes
Science Fiction
500
William Shuler Harris - Life in a Thousand Worlds
A jolly romp, which could be perhaps be described as Gulliver’s Travels Through Our Solar System and Beyond, as written by a great admirer of C. S. Lewis, on a rainy Sunday afternoon, after one too many mugs of cocoa....
5 hours 45 minutes
Early Modern
511
Thomas Chapais - Chronicles of Canada Volume 06 - The Great Intendant: A Chronicle of Jean Talon in Canada 1665-1672
Talon worked closely with lieutenant-general Prouville de Tracy to achieve the surrender of the Iroquois in 1627, thereby ending the threat that had hung over the colony for 20 years. Although Talon did not join the...
2 hours 55 minutes
