J. M. Smallheer

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 032

Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the history of aeroplanes, political speeches, travel, philosophy, Japan, the United Nations, Congressional...

Craig Campbell and 10 more 4 hours 51 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Through Magic Glasses and Other Lectures

Science

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Arabella B. Buckley - Through Magic Glasses and Other Lectures

«The present volume is chiefly intended for those of my young friends who have read, and been interested in, The Fairyland of Science . It travels over a wide field, pointing out a few of the marvellous facts which...

J. M. Smallheer 4 hours 50 minutes

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Modern

499

John Stuart Mill - Subjection of Women

The Subjection of Women is the title of an essay written by John Stuart Mill in 1869, possibly jointly with his wife Harriet Taylor Mill, stating an argument in favor of equality between the sexes. It offers both...

Andy and 8 more 4 hours 49 minutes

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Life Sciences

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Grace Coleridge Frankland - Bacteria in Daily Life

The author provides a fascinating look at the emerging science of bacteriology at the start of the twentieth century including early progress in understanding and preventing diseases such as tuberculosis and...

J. M. Smallheer 4 hours 46 minutes

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Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers

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Jacques Futrelle - Elusive Isabel

Elusive Isabel is a novel by Jacques Futrelle (April 9, 1875 — April 15, 1912) first published in 1909. Set in Washington, D.C., it is a spy novel about an international conspiracy of the «Latin» countries against the...

J. M. Smallheer and 7 more 4 hours 45 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Paul Thorne - Sheridan Road Mystery

A shot rings out in the middle of the night in a quiet Chicago neighborhood. Patrolman Murphy is directed to an apartment where a man says the shot came from. The apartment is locked and apparently empty. Was there a...

J. M. Smallheer 4 hours 40 minutes

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Little Masterpieces of Science - Health and Healing

Medical

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George Iles - Little Masterpieces of Science - Health and Healing

One of a series of books, «Little Masterpieces in Science» edited by George Iles, Health and Healing is a collection of articles written by prominent physicians and scientists describing key advances in medicine...

J. M. Smallheer and 6 more 4 hours 39 minutes

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 012

A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass humor, history,...

Bellona Times and 6 more 4 hours 37 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Florence A. Merriam - A-Birding on a Bronco

Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey was an American ornithologist and nature writer. She started observing bird behavior at a time when most bird study was based on collections and skins. By 1885, she began to write...

J. M. Smallheer 4 hours 33 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 010

A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass...

Jerome Lawsen and 11 more 4 hours 33 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Gene Stratton-Porter - Moths of the Limberlost

Gene Stratton-Porter (August 17, 1863 — December 6, 1924) was an American author, amateur naturalist, wildlife photographer, specializing in the birds and moths in one of the last of the vanishing wetlands of the...

J. M. Smallheer 4 hours 32 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Lucretia P. Hale - Peterkin Papers (version 2)

The Peterkin Papers is a book-length collection of humorous stories by Lucretia Peabody Hale, and is her best-known work. The Peterkins are a lovable but comically inept family with ingenuity, logic, resourcefulness,...

Laura Caldwell and 8 more 4 hours 28 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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