Gillian Hendrie

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Fifty Years a Detective: 35 Real Detective Stories

True Crime

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Thomas Furlong - Fifty Years a Detective: 35 Real Detective Stories

Hitherto unpublished facts connected with some of Mr. Furlong's greatest cases—Other interesting incidents of his long and strenuous career which really began on September 14, 1862, when he was detailed from his...

Lynne T and 17 more 11 hours 25 minutes

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Philosophy

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William Turner - History of Philosophy

The History of Philosophy is the exposition of philosophical opinions and of systems and schools of philosophy. It includes the study of the lives of philosophers, the inquiry into the mutual connection of schools and...

Leni and 22 more 27 hours 18 minutes

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Health & Fitness

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George Wharton James - Quit Your Worrying!

«People will worry, they do worry. What they want to know and need to learn is how to quit worrying. This I have attempted herein to show, with the full knowledge, however, that no one person's recipe can...

Gillian Hendrie 5 hours 45 minutes

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Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Vol 3

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Arthur L. Hayward - Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Vol 3

This is the third volume in this collection of reports and newspaper stories regarding notorious criminals and their punishment, assembled by prison inspector Arthur Hayward from original sources originally published...

Larry Wilson and 20 more 9 hours 43 minutes Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals

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Biography & Autobiography

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Mildred Duff - Catherine Booth

Catherine Booth (1829 – 1890) was the wife of William Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army in England. She was a full-partner with her husband in the ministry and work of the movement which from the beginning...

Larry Wilson and 8 more 3 hours 16 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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George W. M. Reynolds - Mysteries of London Vol. IV

The Mysteries of London was a best-selling novel in mid-Victorian England, published in four volumes. This is the fourth and final volume. Initially serialized in weekly installments, they were the forerunners of...

Jim Locke and 20 more 45 hours 55 minutes

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Romance

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Richard Doddridge Blackmore - Mary Anerley

It is 1801, in the wild and rugged country that is northern England. A local Squire has died but his manor, Scargate Hall, is left to two sisters, Philippa and Eliza, while the squire's son is disinherited. The family...

Lynne T and 10 more 20 hours 24 minutes

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Mathematics

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Charles Babbage - Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

Some men write their lives to save themselves from ennui, careless of the amount they inflict on their readers. Others write their personal history, lest some kind friend should survive them, and, in showing off...

Lynne T and 17 more 15 hours 28 minutes

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London Labour and the London Poor Volume II

Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

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Henry Mayhew - London Labour and the London Poor Volume II

Subtitled, «A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.» «The history of a people from the lips of the people themselves… their...

Gillian Hendrie 62 hours 12 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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May Folwell Hoisington - Woodcraft Boys at Sunset Island

An adventure story for boys, it was included in the Every Boys' Library, a collection of works deemed the most popular among boys. Set on an island off the coast of Maine, Woodcraft Boys at Sunset Island is an account...

Marty and 7 more 5 hours 44 minutes

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Arabian Nights Entertainments, Volume 03

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Anonymous - Arabian Nights Entertainments, Volume 03

The third of four volumes of Middle Eastern tales, originally written in Arabic. Scheherazade tries to prolong her husband's interest in her — and therefore her life — by telling her tales in installments. — Summary...

Gillian Hendrie 15 hours 59 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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James Macdonald Oxley - My Strange Rescue

An anthology of short stories, anecdotes and observations of sport and adventure in Canada. Tobogganing, snowshoeing, ice skating and hockey all feature, along with other cold-weather pursuits.

brianna and 14 more 9 hours 50 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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