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Biography & Autobiography

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John M. Burke - Buffalo Bill from Prairie to Palace

William Frederick «Buffalo Bill» Cody is one of the legends of the American western frontier. As a teen he rode for the pony expressed and then drove for the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War. He later rejoined the...

Larry Wilson and 8 more 7 hours 13 minutes

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General Fiction

466

Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Strangers And Pilgrims

Strangers and Pilgrims follows the journey of Elizabeth Lutterell from a vain, beautiful and self-centred although good-hearted 19 year old to a mature woman. She begins her journey to maturity when she meets the...

annie70 and 1 more 20 hours 43 minutes

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Venerable Don Bosco the Apostle of Youth

Biography & Autobiography

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M. S. Pine - Venerable Don Bosco the Apostle of Youth

This brief sketch of the holy life and marvelous achievements of a great inheritor of the spirit of Saint Francis of Sales, Saint Don Bosco is intended only to stimulate souls to a wider study of this loving Apostle...

KevinS and 8 more 5 hours 7 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Albert Bigelow Paine - Life and Lillian Gish

An authorized biography of Lillian Gish, the renowned silent film star known in her heyday as the First Lady of American Cinema. Albert Bigelow Paine chronicles Gish's early life, her close relationship with her...

Tomas Peter and 11 more 10 hours 2 minutes

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Secret history revealed by Lady Peggy O'Malley

General Fiction

466

Charles Norris Williamson - Secret history revealed by Lady Peggy O'Malley

«If, two years ago, when I was sixteen, I hadn’t wanted money to buy a white frock with roses on it, which I saw in Selfridge’s window, a secret crisis between the United States and Mexico would have been avoided; and...

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Short Stories

561

Richard Middleton - Ghost Ship & Other Stories

Richard Middleton is one of the many authors who, despite great merit, have been almost entirely forgotten today. This English author was an eminent literary figure in his day, admired by, among others, Edgar Jepson,...

Nemo and 10 more 5 hours 39 minutes

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Nature

518

Robert Hooke - Micrographia

Published in 1665, this is the first publication of the Royal Society and considered to be the first scientific best-seller. As opposed to the Latin of other publications of the time like Newton's 'Principia...

DrPGould and 22 more 17 hours 11 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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John Hay - Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 10)

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 10...

RussellEric and 6 more 9 hours 40 minutes Abraham Lincoln: A History in 10 Volumes

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Family Life

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Sarah Grand - Heavenly Twins

First published in 1893, this novel came to question many subjects which were considered taboo. Through a few interconnected plots and sub plots, the story examines the role of women and the different opportunities...

Jim Locke and 14 more 29 hours 53 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

470

George William Curtis - From the Easy Chair Vol. 2

The second volume of essays and observations From the Easy Chair of William Curtis, editor of Harper's Weekly and one of the founders of the American Republican party, and served Ulysses S. Grant; although he split...

Lynne T and 6 more 4 hours 33 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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Thomas Mayne Reid - No Quarter!

There is no page in England’s history so bright, nor of which Englishmen have such reason to be proud, as that covering the period between 1640 and 1650. This glorious decade was ushered in by the election of the...

Shasta and 12 more 15 hours 58 minutes

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General

432

Mary Elting Folsom - Trains at Work

This is a wonderful children's book about trains, specifically those exciting steam engines that covered our country in the early 1900's. It describes what it was like to ride in them, work in them, repair them, fix...

Larry Wilson and 4 more 1 hour 26 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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