Maria Kasper

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Why do we need a public library?

Internet Archive, which hosts our audio books, is in the midst of their annual fund-raising. They have also begun a drive to provide a mirror site in Canada to ensure IA's availability to all users. The IA is a vast...

Michele Fry and 14 more 16 hours 25 minutes

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Modern (19th C)

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Albert Richardson - Secret Service

Albert Richardson was a reporter for Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune when he volunteered to hazard an undercover journey through the American south, reporting incognito on the growing secession crisis in that...

Maria Kasper and 1 more 16 hours 19 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Insomnia Collection Vol. 003

Soporific dullness is in the ear of the listener, and what's tedium incarnate to one person will be another person's passion and delight. However, it is hoped that at least one from the range of topics here presented...

TriciaG and 9 more 15 hours 48 minutes

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Final Report of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities (Watergate Report), Volume 1

Political Science

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Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activi - Final Report of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities (Watergate Report), Volume 1

This report presents the findings and recommendations of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities based on its investigation of the Watergate break-in and coverup, illegal and improper campaign...

MaryAnn and 10 more 15 hours 44 minutes United States Government Reports

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Junior Classics Volume 7: Stories of Courage and Heroism

General

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William Patten - Junior Classics Volume 7: Stories of Courage and Heroism

The stories in this volume are true stories, and have been arranged in chronological order, an arrangement that will aid the reader to remember the times to which the stories relate. Almost any encyclopedia can...

Greg Laughland and 13 more 14 hours 43 minutes The Junior Classics

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Technology & Engineering

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John Kenlon - Fires and Fire-Fighters

John Kenlon became a New York City firefighter in 1887, and was appointed Fire Chief in 1911. In 1913, he wrote this authoritative book surveying the history of fire-fighting from ancient Rome to 20th-century New...

Maria Kasper 14 hours 12 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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1916: First Chapters Collection

These are first chapters to books first published in 1916. Readers, following is a tentative list culled from Wikipedia's article on the year in Literature; most of the works are to be found on Project Gutenberg. —...

John Burlinson and 9 more 14 hours 5 minutes

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Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1a

Political Science

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Jefferson Davis - Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1a

The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is written by Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Davis wrote the book as a straightforward...

Robert Hoffman and 7 more 12 hours 56 minutes

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

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Sea Stories

Most of us have passed through a period of life during which we have ardently longed to be, if not actually a rover, a buccaneer, or a pirate, at least and really a sailor! To run away to sea has been the misdirected...

Lynne T and 12 more 11 hours 56 minutes

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War & Military

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John Billings - Hardtack and Coffee

Hard Tack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life (1887) is a memoir by John D. Billings, a veteran of the 10th Massachusetts Volunteer Light Artillery Battery in the American Civil War. Hard Tack and Coffee is...

Maria Kasper and 1 more 11 hours 42 minutes

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Modern (19th C)

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Joshua Giddings - Exiles of Florida

“The Author of the following work has endeavored to give a faithful record of … the Exiles of Florida. Torn from their native land, their friends and homes, they were sold in the markets of Carolina and Georgia....

Greg Giordano and 1 more 11 hours 34 minutes

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Fifty Years in Chains; or The Life of an American Slave

Memoirs

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Charles Ball - Fifty Years in Chains; or The Life of an American Slave

This is the story of Charles Ball, an American slave who was born in 1780 and remained a slave for fifty years thereafter. Ball told his story to a lawyer who turned it into this written work. (Summary by Tom Causby)

Tom Causby and 7 more 10 hours 47 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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