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State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1869 - 1876)

Literary Collections

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Ulysses S. Grant - State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1869 - 1876)

The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress, typically delivered annually. The address not only reports on the condition...

Colleen McMahon and 5 more 7 hours 44 minutes State of the Union Addresses

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Historical

527

Annie Fellows Johnston - Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware

This volume is the result of an avalanche of letters that, reached the author, Annie Fellows Johnston, complaining that she skipped in the Little Colonel series. To entreaties she has responded with this charming,...

Ruth Logrono and 8 more 7 hours 4 minutes The Little Colonel Series

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

493

H. L. Mencken - Prejudices, First Series

Mencken sharpens his pen and in a collection of short essays delivers acerbic opinions on issues and persons of the time. Among his targets in this volume (the first of six) are critics, H.G. Wells Thorstein Veblen,...

DrPGould and 4 more 7 hours

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Art, Design & Architecture

473

Arts and Crafts Essays

A series of essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society with a preface by William Morris who writes «It is this conscious cultivation of art and the attempt to interest the public in it which the Arts...

realisticspeakers and 11 more 6 hours 41 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Raymond Fisher Jones - Year When Stardust Fell

The story of The Year When Stardust Fell is not a story of the distant future or of the remote past. It is not a story of a never-never land where fantastic happenings take place daily. It is a story of my town and...

Larry Wilson and 8 more 6 hours 23 minutes

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Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

527

Charles C. Burleigh - Thoughts on the Death Penalty

This 1845 publication, written by a prominent reformer of the day, argues against capital punishment from several perspectives, including historical, philosophical and biblical arguments. It is broken into 3 chapters:...

Larry Wilson and 5 more 6 hours 22 minutes

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Psychology

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Wilhelm Stekel - Depths of the Soul

Wilhelm Stekel was an Austrian physician and psychologist and one of Freud’s earliest followers. This title, originally published in 1921, was the author’s favorite of his own work. Covering a variety of topics he...

Lee Smalley and 11 more 6 hours 14 minutes

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Action & Adventure

470

St. George Henry Rathborne - Boy Scouts in the Rockies

Starting off their trip to the Rockies with Step-Hen getting bitten by a snake, then Allan stepping on a bear trap, the Silver Fox Patrol is in for a big adventure! Thad has a lot to do looking after these boys, but...

Kenneth Sergeant Gaghan and 4 more 6 hours 7 minutes Rathborne Boy Scouts series

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Science Fiction

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Lee Sutton - Venus Boy

If you ever make a trip to the green planet of Venus, the first thing you'll see will be the fifty-foot high statue of Venus' greatest hero. It stands on the very top of towering New Plymouth Rock at the edge of the...

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Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book 3

Political Science

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Niccolò Machiavelli - Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book 3

In «Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius», posthumous work by the author of The Prince, Machiavelli discusses the useful lessons that could be learnt from the past for the present. As the title mentions, the...

Josh Kibbey and 8 more 5 hours 47 minutes

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Action & Adventure

467

St. George Henry Rathborne - Boy Scouts Through the Big Timber

The Silver Fox Patrol is out in the Rocky Mountains, camping in the Big Timber. Many adventures await these boys, including a dunking in the river, an adventure involving a grizzly bear, and the appearance of some...

AnthonyJackson and 3 more 5 hours 43 minutes Rathborne Boy Scouts series

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Children's Fiction

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Margaret Vandercook - Camp Fire Girls at Sunrise Hill

Betty Ashton is so very bored! She is in her home, wanting something interesting to do, when she meets her new companion, Esther Clark. Esther has just arrived at the request of Mrs Ashton, to live with Betty and to...

Debbie R. Baker Robinson and 6 more 5 hours 39 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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