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Helen M. Urban - Woman as Decoration

A guide for women to complement their dress to their surroundings, be it in their own home, on outings or on stage. (Summary by Julie VW)

Julie VW and 11 more 4 hours 32 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

790

Dorothy Quigley - What Dress Makes of Us

A wickedly funny book of advice on women's dress. However old, fat or plain you are, Dorothy Quigley will tell you what not to wear. (Summary by Ruth Golding)

Ruth Golding and 7 more 1 hour 29 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Augusta Huiell Seaman - Mystery at Number Six

A mysterious girl, a mysterious pool, and a mysterious businessman combine to send two Florida teens to adventureland in this pre-Nancy Drew tale for young people.(Summary by Sibella)

Sibella Denton and 5 more 4 hours 6 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Edgar Allan Poe - Evening Star

LibriVox volunteers bring you 29 recordings of Evening Star by Edgar Allan Poe. This was the weekly poetry project in honor of Poe's 200th birthday, January 19th, 2009.

Anne Cheng and 28 more 32 minutes

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Short works

Ontario Readers: Third Book

The Ontario Readers is a school book first published in 1919, by the Ontario Ministry of Education, containing short excerpts of literary works, both stories and poems, geared to grade-school age children. (Summary by...

David Lawrence and 20 more 7 hours 15 minutes

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Chronicles of Canada Volume 16 - The War Chief of the Six Nations: A Chronicle of Joseph Brant

Early Modern

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Louis Aubrey Wood - Chronicles of Canada Volume 16 - The War Chief of the Six Nations: A Chronicle of Joseph Brant

'Thayendanegea!' The name was taken from the great book of nature. It was a birth-name of the Mohawks meaning two sticks of wood bound together, a sign of strength; and the woman hoped that her tiny child might...

Esther and 5 more 2 hours 40 minutes Chronicles of Canada Series

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Modern (19th C)

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The New York Times - Mounties in the News

A newspaper account of the activities in the Western Canada during the Riel Rebellion and some of the aftermath, articles dating from August 1880 to January 1895. (Summary by David Lawrence) Readers for this project...

Esther and 1 more 4 hours 1 minute

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Joseph Lewis French - Great Pirate Stories

Piracy embodies the romance of the sea at its highest expression. It is a sad but inevitable commentary on our civilization, that, so far as the sea is concerned, it has developed from its infancy down to a...

James Christopher and 11 more 8 hours 47 minutes

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Early Modern

Thomas Guthrie Marquis - Chronicles of Canada Volume 15 - The War Chief of the Ottawas: A Chronicle of the Pontiac War

This is the history of Pontiac's Conspiracy, 1763-1765. It includes the siege of Detroit and his ultimate defeat. Summary by Esther.

Esther and 6 more 3 hours Chronicles of Canada Series

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Mounted police life in Canada : a record of thirty-one years' service (1916)

Memoirs

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Richard Burton Deane - Mounted police life in Canada : a record of thirty-one years' service (1916)

Learn more about the famous and respected Royal Canadian Mounted Police. This book is the personal recollections of one ‘Mountie'; his life, experiences and trials as an officer in a new frontier – The Canadian...

Esther 9 hours 58 minutes

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Modern (19th C)

William Wood - Chronicles of Canada Volume 14 - The War With the United States: A Chronicle of 1812

«International disputes that end in war are not generally questions of absolute right and wrong. They may quite as well be questions of opposing rights. But, when there are rights on both sides; it is usually found...

Esther and 4 more 3 hours 57 minutes Chronicles of Canada Series

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Biography & Autobiography

Henry L. Williams - Lincoln Story Book

Subtitle: A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form — compiled by Henry L. Williams The Abraham Lincoln Statue at Chicago...

Ernst Schnell and 33 more 9 hours 55 minutes

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New

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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