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Culture & Heritage Fiction

507

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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Action & Adventure

479

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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Action & Adventure Fiction

535

James Macdonald Oxley - My Strange Rescue

An anthology of short stories, anecdotes and observations of sport and adventure in Canada. Tobogganing, snowshoeing, ice skating and hockey all feature, along with other cold-weather pursuits.

brianna and 14 more 9 hours 50 minutes

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Action & Adventure

481

Thomas Mayne Reid - No Quarter!

There is no page in England’s history so bright, nor of which Englishmen have such reason to be proud, as that covering the period between 1640 and 1650. This glorious decade was ushered in by the election of the...

Shasta and 12 more 15 hours 58 minutes

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Action & Adventure

498

Thomas Mayne Reid - Wild Huntress

Marian and Lilian are two sisters living in the backwoods, somewhere in America, with their father as squatters. One May morning a man shows up, wanting to take Marian away as his wife while he makes his mark with the...

Shasta and 10 more 18 hours 21 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

464

John Hay - Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 7)

Abraham Lincoln: A History is an 1890 ten-volume account of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, written by John Nicolay and John Hay, who were his personal secretaries during the American Civil War. Volume 7...

MaryAnn and 5 more 13 hours 3 minutes Abraham Lincoln: A History in 10 Volumes

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Children's Fiction

475

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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Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century

Astronomy, Physics & Mechanics

436

Agnes Mary Clerke - Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century

Melanie T and 9 more 23 hours 50 minutes

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

484

Frederick Marryat - Peter Simple

Peter Simple, 'the fool of the family', son of a parson but heir presumptive to a title, goes to sea as midshipman during the Napoleonic wars. Naturally, at sea in this period is where adventures are just waiting for...

Sylviamb and 7 more 16 hours 12 minutes

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Children's Fiction

492

Victor G. Durham - Submarine Boys for the Flag

It certainly has been an odd day for our Submarine Boys! First Jack Benson is asked by a German Professor to speak with him a hotel, then a French Chevalier wants to speak to Eph Somers. Both foreigners want the same...

Kenneth Sergeant Gaghan and 5 more 5 hours 12 minutes The Submarine Boys series

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Art, Design & Architecture

487

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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Published 1800 -1900

469

Frederic Werden Pangborn - Alice; or The Wages of Sin

This book is given to the reader, as the exposition of a terrible possibility in actual life. Should there be found, in its pages, any warm tints, any cheering or amusing passages, the author will be glad to know that...

Ashley M. and 4 more 2 hours 46 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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