Jill Preston

19 books

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Course of Lectures on the Principles of Domestic Economy and Cookery

Cooking

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Juliet Corson - Course of Lectures on the Principles of Domestic Economy and Cookery

«This course of lectures is designed to meet the wants of two classes of persons: First—Those who are experienced housekeepers, familiar with the principles and practice of cookery, but who desire information...

Foon and 4 more 4 hours 39 minutes

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Psychology

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Wilhelm Stekel - Depths of the Soul

Wilhelm Stekel was an Austrian physician and psychologist and one of Freud’s earliest followers. This title, originally published in 1921, was the author’s favorite of his own work. Covering a variety of topics he...

Lee Smalley and 11 more 6 hours 14 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - Henry D. Thoreau

A biography of the famous and popular poet-naturalist, author, philosopher, historian, written by a family friend who spent time with Thoreau almost daily during the last seven years of his life and who knew and...

Lynne T and 10 more 6 hours 55 minutes

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Christianity - Other

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Jeremy Taylor - Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying

Written by a Church of England clergyman in the time of Cromwell, this work is praised for both its style and content. Taylor's work was much admired by John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, for its devotional...

KHand and 13 more 10 hours 22 minutes

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Dynamic Thought; Or, The Law of Vibrant Energy

Psychology

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William Walker Atkinson - Dynamic Thought; Or, The Law of Vibrant Energy

This is a queer book. It is a marriage of the Ancient Occult Teachings to the latest and most advanced conceptions of Modern Science--an odd union, for the parties thereto are of entirely different temperaments. The...

Sandra Knight and 4 more 5 hours 18 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Walter Besant - Blind Love

Blind Love, also published under the titles Iris and The Lord Harry is Wilkie Collins' last novel, completed after his death by Walter Besant. The blind love in the title refers to the love of Iris, a woman of...

Tony Foster and 17 more 14 hours 44 minutes

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Fantasy Fiction

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Lily Dougall - Mermaid

"'What a fool I was not to go where she beckoned!' mused Caius. 'Where? Anywhere into the heart of the ocean, out of this dull, sordid life into the land of dreams.' For it must all have been a dream—a sweet,...

Barry Eads and 13 more 7 hours 49 minutes

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Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904

General Fiction

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Lucy Maud Montgomery - Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904

Lucy Maud Montgomery (L.M. Montgomery) was a prolific Canadian writer of books and short stories for children and adults during the first half of the twentieth century. Her writings, frequently set in Prince Edward...

Andee and 14 more 5 hours 12 minutes Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories

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Lessons on Manners for Home and School Use

Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

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Edith E. Wiggin - Lessons on Manners for Home and School Use

It is true that good manners, like good morals, are best taught by the teacher's example. It is also true that definite lessons, in which the subject can be considered in its appropriate divisions, are of no little...

David Barnes and 1 more 1 hour 39 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Thomas H. Burgoyne - Light of Egypt Volume II

«The Light of Egypt» will be found to be an Occult library in itself, a textbook of esoteric knowledge, setting forth the «wisdom Religion» of life, as taught by the Adepts of Hermetic Philosophy. It will richly repay...

Jill Preston 6 hours 8 minutes

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Bhakti Seva - Hindu Book of Astrology

”Each person is born in or under one of the twelve signs of the Zodiac and is thus influenced throughout life by the planetary conditions at their time of birth. By referring to your sign, which is indicated by your...

Jill Preston 2 hours 24 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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P. T. Barnum - Art of Money Getting

Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891) was an American showman, businessman, and entertainer, remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the circus that became the Ringling Bros. and...

Jill Preston 1 hour 39 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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