Holly Jenson
10 books
General Fiction
432
Anna Hamlin Weikel - Betty Baird's Golden Year
It seems that all the people close to Betty are going through major life changes. Lois is certainly spending a lot of time with Dunmore Lane these days. Is Betty about to lose her friend and confidante forever? Even...
5 hours 59 minutes
General Fiction
431
Anna Hamlin Weikel - Betty Baird's Ventures
Betty has graduated from the Pines and is now with her parents at their new home on Long Island. When Betty finds out that her father is having trouble paying the mortgage, she decides to spread her entrepreneurial...
6 hours 37 minutes
*Non-fiction
472
Ida B. Wells-Barnett - Mob Rule In New Orleans
Born into slavery in Mississippi in 1862, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist, leader in the Civil Rights Movement, and one of the founders of...
2 hours 27 minutes
*Non-fiction
422
Olive Gilbert - Narrative of Sojourner Truth (version 2)
Sojourner Truth (born Isabella Baumfree) was born into slavery in 1797 (or thereabouts) in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York. This narrative, as told by Sojourner Truth to her friend Olive Gilbert, recounts to the...
3 hours 58 minutes
*Non-fiction
416
Elizabeth Bisland - In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World by Elizabeth Bisland
In November 1889, the New York World announced that it was sending its reporter Nellie Bly around the world, in a bid to beat Phileas Fogg's fictitious 80-day journey in Jules Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty...
4 hours 9 minutes
