Jim Locke

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Religion

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Louis Ginzberg - Legends of the Jews, Volume 3

Rabbi Louis Ginzberg was one of the outstanding Talmudists of the twentieth century. He was born on November 28, 1873, in Kovno, Lithuania; he died on November 11, 1953, in New York City. Ginzberg taught at the Jewish...

Larry Wilson and 7 more 16 hours 35 minutes Legends of the Jews vol 1-4

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History

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E. A. Wallis Budge - Book of the Dead

The Egyptian Book of the Dead, or the Book of Coming Forth by Day, is an Ancient Egyptian funerary text consisting of spells to protect the soul on its journey to Duat, or Afterlife.

Patrick Saville and 1 more 16 hours 29 minutes

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World’s Story Volume III: Egypt, Africa and Arabia

Historical Fiction

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Eva March Tappan - World’s Story Volume III: Egypt, Africa and Arabia

This is the third volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art , edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature,...

Sonia and 23 more 16 hours 12 minutes World's Story

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Published 1800 -1900

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Charlotte's Inheritance

A lesser known novel by the sensational English novelist, Charlotte's Inheritance opens in Paris in a dilapidated boarding house let to students by a scarcely adequate landlady. Enter Gustave, a young provincial,...

Lynne T and 4 more 16 hours 9 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Fergus Hume - Lady Jim of Curzon Street

Faced with bankruptcy and trapped in an unhappy marriage, Lady Jim Kaims has to solve her problems alone. After every decent way fails her, and with no friend to assist, she resorts to committing crimes. Fergus Hume...

Jim Locke 15 hours 8 minutes

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Historical Fiction

447

Georg Ebers - Cleopatra

The world knows the fate of the classic lovers Cleopatra and Mark Antony, so there is no need to announce a spoiler alert. Georg Ebers was a German Egyptologist who deftly applied his comprehensive knowledge of Rome...

Jim Locke 15 hours 8 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Francis Marion Crawford - Witch of Prague: A Fantastic Tale

The Wanderer is looking far and wide for the love of his life, Beatrice. Try as he may, he cannot find her again. Appealing to a witch might help, but instead of using her powers to help the lovers find one another...

Mark Nelson and 7 more 14 hours 44 minutes

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Poetry

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Harriet Beecher Stowe - May Flower and Miscellaneous Writings

Included herein are 35 charming short stories or humorous sketches, some written as exercises for the literary Semi-Colon Club of Cincinnati which Stowe belonged to for years, others published in magazines of the...

Michele Fry and 7 more 14 hours 33 minutes

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Family Life

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Rosa Campbell Praed - Policy and Passion

«Policy and Passion, a Novel of Australian Life» tells the story about a father and daughter, torn between the policy of the country in which they live and the passions both have. The father, Thomas, is a rising...

Lynne T and 3 more 14 hours 32 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Rosa Nouchette Carey - Mollie's Prince

Mr. Ward is a failing artist. His two daughters, Mollie and Waveney, are very close. However when the financial situation becomes insufferable, and Waveney has to enter service, the sisters have to part for the first...

Jim Locke and 3 more 14 hours 25 minutes

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Romance

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Harriet Beecher Stowe - Minister's Wooing

Harriet Beecher Stowe is today best known for her classic novel Uncle Tom's Cabin . However, that book was certainly not her only remarkable anti-slavery work. In The Minister's Wooing , Stowe takes the reader into...

J. M. Smallheer and 7 more 14 hours 10 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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John Hay - Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 4)

Abraham Lincoln: A History is an 1890 ten-volume account of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, written by John Nicolay and John Hay, who were his personal secretaries during the American Civil War. Volume 4...

Jim Locke and 4 more 14 hours 8 minutes Abraham Lincoln: A History in 10 Volumes

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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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