Sibella Denton

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Georgette Heyer - Black Moth

The year is 1752. Devil, the Duke of Andover, and highwayman Jack, the Earl of Wyncham are at odds over a country squire's beautiful daughter. Cheating at cards, the marital problems of the younger sister of the Duke...

Sibella Denton 8 hours 50 minutes

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Giorgio Vasari - Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 1

The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori, as it was originally known in Italian, is a...

Viglione and 8 more 8 hours 42 minutes Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari, Volumes 1-7

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National Gambling Impact Study Commission Final Report

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National Gambling Impact Study Commission - National Gambling Impact Study Commission Final Report

The National Gambling Impact Study Commission was given the task of conducting a comprehensive legal and factual study on the social and economic implications of gambling in the United States. This report presents the...

Sam Stinson and 6 more 8 hours 37 minutes United States Government Reports

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Alexander William Kinglake - Eothen, or Impressions of Travel brought Home from the East

A classic of victorian travel writing, Kinglake’s book describes his journey through the Ottoman empire to Cairo, and his residence there in time of plague. [Summary by hefyd]

hefyd and 6 more 8 hours 34 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Charles Norris Williamson - Second Latchkey

Jewelry thefts, society parties, clairvoyance, and romance marks this mystery, which is set in England and the US in the early 20th century. (Summary by Gesine)

Esther and 5 more 8 hours 32 minutes

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Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys

Travel & Geography

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Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys

Amelia B. Edwards wrote this historical travelogue in in 1873. The book describes her travels through a relatively un-visited area in the South Tyrol district of Italy. The Dolomites are a part of that most famous of...

Sibella Denton 8 hours 31 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Arthur B. Reeve - Film Mystery

The Film Mystery is one of eighteen detective novels by Arthur B. Reeve starring his best known character Professor Craig Kennedy and his trusty sidekick Walter Jameson, a newspaper reporter. The pair bears an...

Sibella Denton and 12 more 8 hours 28 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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E. F. Benson - Miss Mapp

E. F. Benson's Mapp and Lucia series, consists of six novels and three short stories. The novels are: Queen Lucia, Lucia in London, Miss Mapp (including the short story The Male Impersonator), Mapp and Lucia, Lucia's...

Kara Shallenberg and 7 more 8 hours 25 minutes

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Antiquity

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Andrew Lang - Short History of Scotland

A Short History of Scotland is a consise introduction to the history of Scotland from Roman times to the last Jacobite rebellion, written by the author of a much longer Scottish history. (Summary by Sibella Denton.)

Sibella Denton 8 hours 25 minutes

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Travel & Geography

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John Overton Choules - Young Americans Abroad

It’s 1851 and the Crystal Palace Exhibition is on in England. English American the Reverend Dr. Choules leaves Newport, Rhode Island with three teenaged students — James Robinson, George Vanderbuilt, and Weld French,...

Sibella Denton 8 hours 15 minutes

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History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy, Vol. 2

Middle Ages/Middle History

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Niccolò Machiavelli - History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy, Vol. 2

History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy is an historical account by Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527). Toward the end of 1520, the Cardinal Giulio of Medici, later Pope Clement VII, offered Machiavelli the...

MorganScorpion and 7 more 8 hours 12 minutes History of Florence

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Children's Fiction

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Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne's House of Dreams

Anne's House of Dreams is book five in the series, and chronicles Anne's early married life, as she and her childhood sweetheart Gilbert Blythe begin to build their life together. (Summary from Wikipedia)

JemmaBlythe and 8 more 8 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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