Patricia Oakley
23 books
*Non-fiction
529
Rufus Estes - Good Things to Eat As Suggested By Rufus
Rufus Estes was born a slave in 1857 in Tennessee, and experienced first hand the turmoil of the Civil War. He began working in a Nashville restaurant at the age of 16, and in 1883 took up employment as a Pullman...
6 hours 12 minutes
Animals
474
Helen M. Winslow - Concerning Cats: My Own and Some Others
«I have known, and loved, and studied many cats, but my knowledge of her (Pretty Lady, a cat) alone would convince me that cats love people--in their dignified, reserved way, and when they feel that their love is not...
5 hours 53 minutes
General Fiction
534
Sarah Orne Jewett - Country of the Pointed Firs
The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) is considered Jewett’s finest work, described by Henry James as her “beautiful little quantum of achievement.” Despite James’s diminutives, the novel remains a classic. Because...
4 hours 25 minutes
