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85 books
Biography & Autobiography
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Smith Burnham - Hero Tales from History
This volume celebrates stories of great heroes from the pages of history from Moses and David through Clara Barton and Henry Longfellow. It is divided into nine sections: Mighty Men of Long Ago, Heroes of the Middle...
10 hours 50 minutes
True Crime
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Thomas Furlong - Fifty Years a Detective: 35 Real Detective Stories
Hitherto unpublished facts connected with some of Mr. Furlong's greatest cases—Other interesting incidents of his long and strenuous career which really began on September 14, 1862, when he was detailed from his...
11 hours 25 minutes
Cooking
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Maurice Grenville Kains - Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation, Harvesting, Curing and Uses (Version 2)
Culinary Herbs may be regarded as the secret to preparing good food from antiquity to the the height of culinary art. Maurice Grenville Kains gives a thorough introduction the the subject considering the history of...
4 hours 17 minutes
*Non-fiction
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Book of American Explorers
This book tells the story of exploration in America in the words of the explorers themselves. It consists of extracts from narratives of the early discoverers and explorers of the American continent from the Northmen...
9 hours 54 minutes
