Mary Schneider

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Arthur Schopenhauer - World as Will and Idea Volume 1

Schopenhauer used the word «will» as a human's most familiar designation for the concept that can also be signified by other words such as «desire,» «striving,» «wanting,» «effort,» and «urging.» Schopenhauer's...

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William H. Herndon - Herndon's Lincoln

A biography of Abraham Lincoln by his long-time law partner, William Herndon and Herndon's collaborator, Jesse Weik. The book is notable for its extensive use of first hand interviews (unusual for its time) and for...

Ralph Kerwin and 9 more 19 hours 5 minutes

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Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1b

War & Military

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

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...

Bill Mosley and 10 more 18 hours 52 minutes

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Children's Non-fiction

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Rosalie Kaufman - Our Young Folks' Plutarch

Plutarch's Lives is a series of fifty biographies of famous Greek and Roman men written around 100 AD. In Our Young Folks' Plutarch , Rosalie Kaufman has adapted these biographies for young readers. In the preface...

April Walters and 14 more 18 hours 40 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Flavius Philostratus - Life of Apollonius of Tyana

Apollonius of Tyana (ca. 40-120 AD) was a Greek Pythagorean philosopher and teacher. He hailed from the town of Tyana in the Roman province of Cappadocia in Asia Minor. His date of birth is a matter of conjecture as...

Fr. Richard Zeile of Detroit and 5 more 18 hours 19 minutes

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Political Science

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government

What Is Property?: or, An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government (French: Qu'est-ce que la propriété? ou Recherche sur le principe du Droit et du Gouvernment) is an influential work of nonfiction on the...

Deborah Brabyn and 16 more 17 hours 29 minutes

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Final Report from the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling

Technology & Engineering

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National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spi - Final Report from the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling

On April 20, 2010, the Macondo well blew out, costing the lives of 11 men, and beginning a catastrophe that sank the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and spilled over 4 million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of...

Availle and 9 more 17 hours 5 minutes United States Government Reports

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Animals & Nature

Olive Beaupre Miller - From the Tower Window of My Bookhouse

Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the fifth volume of the «My Bookhouse» series for little ones. Originally published in the 1920's as a six volume set, these books, edited...

Anastasiia Solokha and 20 more 15 hours 21 minutes My Bookhouse Series

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Detective Fiction

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Lock and Key Library

A collection of classic mystery and detective stories, collected and edited by Julian Hawthorne. Note: the second chapter of Dickens’ The Haunted House is not included in this edition. (Summary by Julie VW)

Julie VW and 4 more 14 hours 33 minutes

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 6

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 6

In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious short stories from all corners of the world. Some of the stories appeared in...

Leni and 15 more 11 hours 50 minutes Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

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Biography & Autobiography

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Charles F. Horne - Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 1

Great Men and Famous Women is an 8-volume work by various authors containing “A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History.” The set is edited by...

Greg Giordano and 15 more 11 hours 46 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Elia Wilkinson Peattie - Precipice

Elia Peattie was an outspoken journalist and social activist who gave her attention to such areas as orphanages, charity hospitals, the Wounded Knee massacre, capital punishment, and the like. The Precipice is...

Mary Schneider 10 hours 55 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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