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Memoirs

415

Caroline Cowles Richards Clarke - Village Life in America

A diary of a young school girl in Canandaigua, New York during the Civil War. (Summary by MaryElizabeth)

Mary-Elizabeth Arndt and 7 more 5 hours 39 minutes

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Animals

436

Hunting In Many Lands

The first volume published by the Boone and Crockett Club, entitled «American Big Game Hunting,» confined itself to sport on the American continent. This second volume presents a number of interesting sketches written...

Michele Fry and 8 more 10 hours 8 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

541

Edwin Arnold Brenholtz - Recording Angel

«The Recording Angel,» by Edwin Arnold Brenholtz, is one of the earliest examples of an American proletarian novel, a work intended to promote social reform or political revolution among the working classes. The...

Linette and 2 more 10 hours 41 minutes

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Political Science

582

Bruce Jenkins - Anti-Coup

Supporters of political democracy, human rights, and social justice have good reasons to be alarmed about coups d'état. These abrupt seizures of the state apparatus have occurred with great frequency in recent...

Benjamin Gittins and 3 more 2 hours 46 minutes

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Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book

Arts

466

Jane Eayre Fryer - Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book

Mary Frances is a little girl whose Aunt Maria intends to teach her to knit and crochet, but she's very strict and demanding. It's a good thing the Knitting People are around to help Mary Frances out! This book...

Arielle Lipshaw and 6 more 5 hours 47 minutes

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Children's Fiction

436

Lucy Fitch Perkins - Belgian Twins

This story is based upon the experiences of two Belgian refugees in World War I. When their parents are marched of by Germans, Jan and Marie are left alone. Now they, along with their dog, have to find their parents!...

ashleighjane and 4 more 2 hours 20 minutes

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Historical Fiction

461

John R. Musick - Witch of Salem

A historical novel about the Salem Witch Trials. A fantastic illustrated historical novel by the prolific American author John R. Musick. From the author’s preface: The «Witch of Salem» is designed to cover...

Linette and 7 more 9 hours 1 minute

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Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories

General

478

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories

She had not been brought up in America at all. She had been born in France, in a beautiful château, and she had been born heiress to a great fortune, but, nevertheless, just now she felt as if she was very poor,...

ashleighjane and 2 more 2 hours 36 minutes

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Action & Adventure

493

James Otis - Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus

Toby Tyler tells the story of a ten year-old orphan who runs away from a foster home to join the traveling circus only to discover his new employer is a cruel taskmaster. The difference between the romance of the...

Patti Cunningham and 11 more 5 hours 15 minutes

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General Fiction

511

Gertrude Stein - Geography and Plays

Geography and Plays is a 1922 collection of Gertrude Stein's «word portraits,» or stream-of-consciousness writings. These stream-of-consciousness experiments, rhythmical essays or «portraits», were designed to evoke...

Arielle Lipshaw and 16 more 12 hours 35 minutes

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Bibles

435

Jewish Publication Society of America - Torah (JPSA) 02: Exodus

The second book of the Pentateuch — Exodus. Presented according to weekly parshah. Praised are You, Adonai, Our G-d, ruler of the Universe, who has made us holy with commandments and commanded us to engage in the...

Rhonda Federman and 4 more 3 hours 34 minutes

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General Fiction

471

Wit and Humor of America, Vol 10

The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the tenth volume, 62 short stories and poems have been gathered from 42 authors. This volume is sure to delight listeners. (Summary by Linette Geisel)

Snapdragon and 13 more 6 hours 9 minutes Wit and Humor of America

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New

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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