Maire Rhode

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Football Days: Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball

Modern (20th C)

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William Hanford Edwards - Football Days: Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball

A book reminiscent of the days when football was gaining popularity in America.(summary by Ian Hatley)

Ian Hatley and 17 more 10 hours 26 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Charles King - Daughter of the Sioux

Charles King was a United States soldier and a distinguished writer. He was the son of Civil War general Rufus King and great grandson of Rufus King, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He...

Maire Rhode and 6 more 7 hours 52 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Adele Garrison - Revelations of a Wife

Adele Garrison was the nom de plume of Nana Springer White, an American writer. Her career included time as a schoolteacher in Milwaukee. She later worked as an editor for the Milwaukee Sentinel and then a reporter...

Maire Rhode 11 hours 47 minutes

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Self-Help

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Henry Stanton - Sex

Henry Stanton’s 1922 book Sex – Avoided Subjects Discussed in Plain English is intended as a frank (although consevative and moralistic) guide to human sexual behaviour and relationships. It is partly a self-help...

Maire Rhode and 9 more 1 hour 44 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

589

Edward Bulwer-Lytton - Coming Race

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803-1873) was an English novelist, poet, playright, and politician. Lord Lytton was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined such phrases as «the...

Maire Rhode 6 hours 55 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Anthony Trollope - Eustace Diamonds

Lizzie Greystock, a fortune-hunter who ensnares the sickly, dissipated Sir Florian Eustace, is soon left a very wealthy widow and mother. While clever and beautiful, Lizzie has several character flaws; the greatest...

Laura Koskinen and 19 more 27 hours 31 minutes Palliser Novels by Anthony Trollope

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*Non-fiction

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The 9/11 Commission - 9/11 Commission Report

9/11 Commission Report, formally titled Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, is the official report of the events leading up to the September 11, 2001 attacks. It was...

Sam Stinson and 17 more 23 hours 19 minutes United States Government Reports

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Detective Fiction

589

Arthur J. Rees - Hampstead Mystery

A murder whodunit… Location: Hampstead, England. Victim: Sir Horace Fewbanks, a distinguished High Court judge. Cause of death: gun shot wound. Investigator: Private Detective Crewe, a wealthy bachelor...

Lars Rolander and 3 more 12 hours 25 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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E. Phillips Oppenheim - Cinema Murder

Phillip Romilly is a poor art teacher in London. He finds out that his wealthy cousin Douglas has been seeing his girl friend Beatrice behind his back. He strangles Douglas, throws him in the canal, and assumes his...

Julie Levi and 13 more 8 hours 6 minutes

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George L. Apperson - Social History of Smoking

This work tells the history of smoking in England from the social point of view. Thus it does not deal with the history of tobacco growing or tobacco related manufacture, but is rather the story of how smoking has...

Maire Rhode and 10 more 7 hours 3 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Francis Marion Crawford - American Politician

In 1880’s Boston, Mass. the good life is lead according to all the Victorian era societal rules of the New World. Political ambitions and the business of making money go hand in hand. A Senate seat suddenly opens up...

Maire Rhode and 5 more 9 hours 28 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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George Bird Grinnell - Blackfeet Indian Stories

The Blackfeet were hunters, travelling from place to place on foot. They used implements of stone, wood, or bone, wore clothing made of skins, and lived in tents covered by hides. Dogs, their only tame animals, were...

Sibella Denton and 6 more 4 hours 2 minutes

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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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