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Jesuits in North America in the 17th Century

*Non-fiction

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Francis Parkman, Jr. - Jesuits in North America in the 17th Century

Parkman has been hailed as one of America's first great historians and as a master of narrative history. Numerous translations have spread the books around the world. The American writer and literary critic Edmund...

David Lawrence and 7 more 12 hours 1 minute Parkman - France and England in North America

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Thomas Bulfinch - Legends of Charlemagne

Bulfinch (July 15, 1796 — May 27, 1867) explains the his work is «an attempt tell the stories of mythology in such a manner as to make them a source of amusement. We have endeavored to tell them correctly, according...

Jacquerie and 7 more 9 hours 10 minutes

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Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915

Medical

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Anonymous - Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915

The title is, I think, self explanatory. The nurse in question went out to France at the beginning of the war and remained there until May 1915 after the second battle of Ypres when she went back to a Base Hospital...

Ruth Golding and 3 more 6 hours 58 minutes

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General Fiction

623

Anthony Trollope - Prime Minister

The Prime Minister is the fifth in Trollope's series of six Palliser novels. With Phineas' difficulties resolved, Trollope introduces new characters. A respectable young girl forsakes the man her family had always...

Nicholas Clifford and 9 more 28 hours 28 minutes Palliser Novels by Anthony Trollope

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Published 1900 onward

518

William John Locke - Red Planet

Set during WWI in England, The Red Planet is a rich tale about the life in a little English town from the point of view of Major Duncan Meredyth, a disabled veteran of the Boer Wars. As he struggles to keep his life...

Ruth Golding and 9 more 10 hours 13 minutes

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Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 1: The Borgias and The Cenci

Biography & Autobiography

637

Alexandre Dumas - Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 1: The Borgias and The Cenci

Dumas's 'Celebrated Crimes' was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language--has minced no words--to describe the violent scenes of a violent time. In some instances facts appear distorted out...

Neeru Iyer and 11 more 10 hours 17 minutes

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Romance

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Edith Wharton - Reef

George Darrow, Anna Leath’s first love, is finally coming from London to propose to her. However, he drifts to an affair with Sophy Viner, Anna’s daughter’s naïve and young governess. Sophy’s relationship with Darrow...

Elli and 8 more 9 hours 33 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Miles Franklin - My Brilliant Career

Sybella «There is no plot in this story, because there has been none in my life or in any other life which has come under my notice. I am one of a class, the individuals of which have no time for plots in their life,...

Annise and 11 more 9 hours 13 minutes

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General Fiction

481

Helen Hunt Jackson - Ramona

Ramona, a novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson (1884), is the story of a part-Scottish and part-Native American orphan girl growing up and getting married in Southern California, suffering racial discrimination and...

Elli and 6 more 15 hours 49 minutes

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Early Modern

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Francis Parkman, Jr. - Pioneers of France in the New World

Parkman has been hailed as one of America's first great historians and as a master of narrative history. Numerous translations have spread the books around the world. The American writer and literary critic Edmund...

Sibella Denton and 7 more 10 hours 22 minutes Parkman - France and England in North America

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History of the Inquisition of Spain, Vol. 1

Middle Ages/Middle History

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Henry Charles Lea - History of the Inquisition of Spain, Vol. 1

The first volume of Lea’s monumental work on the Inquisition of Spain, covering its origin and establishment and its relations with the state. Also included are appendices listing Tribunals, Inquisitors-General,...

Kristine Bekere and 19 more 24 hours 55 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

555

Jane Porter - Scottish Chiefs

An adventure novel about William Wallace, one of the most popular books ever written by Jane Porter. The French version was even banned by Napoleon, and the book has remained very popular with Scottish children,...

Shirley Ellen and 14 more 29 hours 51 minutes

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