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Romance

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Mary Roberts Rinehart - Street of Seven Stars

Published in 1914, this novel tells the story of Harmony Wells, an innocent and beautiful American in Austria to study violin. Harmony has talent and she dreams of a career in music. After her friends run out of money...

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Published 1900 onward

426

Nina Wilcox Putnam - Laughter Limited

When some people write the story of their life it is a sign that they are dead. There are in the motion-picture world also a class of dead ones who allow somebody else to write their biography. Dead from the neck up,...

MaryAnn and 5 more 7 hours 33 minutes

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General Fiction

445

Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors

A 1908 NaNoWriMo forerunner, told in twelve chapters, each with a different author. The basic plot was to show how an engagement or marriage would affect and be affected by an entire family. The project became...

Tom Lennon and 11 more 7 hours 32 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

394

Rose Macaulay - Making of a Bigot

“How various is man! How multiplied his experience, his outlook, his conclusions!”—H. Belloc. “And every single one of them is right.”—R. Kipling. Written while Macaulay worked in the Propaganda Department of...

Rhys Lawson and 6 more 7 hours 31 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

518

Mabel E. Wotton - Word Portraits of Famous Writers

Mabel Elizabeth Wotton, an author herself, moved in the literary circles of the late nineteenth century establishing many close friendships, She presents for us here, not literary criticism nor biographical sketches,...

Larry Wilson and 22 more 7 hours 26 minutes

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General

512

Louisa May Alcott - Under the Lilacs

When two young girls decide to have a tea party with their dolls and a mysterious dog comes and eats their prized cake, they end up finding a circus run-away, Ben Brown. Ben is a horse master, and loves horses, so...

MaryAnn and 7 more 7 hours 21 minutes

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Nature

477

Charles William Burkett - Agriculture for Beginners

A textbook used by many public schools in the early 20th century. The authors believe that «agriculture is eminently a teachable subject. They see no difference between teaching the child the fundamental principles of...

Sarah Jennings and 7 more 7 hours 21 minutes

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Detective Fiction

512

J. S. Fletcher - Chestermarke Instinct

Bank manager John Hornbury is missing, as are securities and jewels from the bank’s vault. Gabriel Chestermarke and his nephew Joseph have unaccountably refused to call in the police to investigate the theft from...

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Child in the Midst: A Comparative Study of Child Welfare in Christian and Non-Christian Lands

Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

385

Mary Shauffler Labaree - Child in the Midst: A Comparative Study of Child Welfare in Christian and Non-Christian Lands

Chapters follow the progression of a child from birth through working years.Thus, Chapter 1 traces the child from newborn to toddler stage in the home. It includes assumed rights of children and mothers,...

Bill Boerst and 2 more 7 hours 18 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

471

Flavius Josephus - Minor Works of Josephus

There are 3 parts to this collection. (1) Against Apion is a two-volume defence of Judaism as classical religion and philosophy, stressing its antiquity, as opposed to what Josephus claimed was the relatively...

Bill Mosley and 6 more 7 hours 17 minutes

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Romance

472

Molly Elliot Seawell - Throckmorton

This is a novel about the lives of the members of the Temple family and their connections in Tidewater, Virginia, in the Reconstruction era. The widow Judith Temple and her sister in law Jacqueline live quietly on the...

MaryAnn and 5 more 7 hours 16 minutes

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Christian Fiction

567

Charles Monroe Sheldon - In His Steps

In His Steps takes place in the railroad town of Raymond. The main character is the Rev. Henry Maxwell, pastor of the First Church of Raymond, who challenges his congregation to not do anything for a whole year...

Megan Kunkel and 8 more 7 hours 9 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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