Susan Morin

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Venerable Don Bosco the Apostle of Youth

Biography & Autobiography

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M. S. Pine - Venerable Don Bosco the Apostle of Youth

This brief sketch of the holy life and marvelous achievements of a great inheritor of the spirit of Saint Francis of Sales, Saint Don Bosco is intended only to stimulate souls to a wider study of this loving Apostle...

KevinS and 8 more 5 hours 7 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Henry R. Schoolcraft - Indian Fairy Book

These Indian fairy tales are chosen from the many stories collected by Mr. Henry R. Schoolcraft, the first man to study how the Indians lived and to discover their legends. He lived among the Indians in the West and...

Susan Morin and 11 more 7 hours 11 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

400

Thomas A. Janvier - Uncle Of An Angel

In what I have read so far this book appears to be a humorous character study on two levels. That between the uncle and niece and that of polite society in the 19th century. Anything can happen. I for one want to find...

Susan Morin 1 hour 57 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Robert Kemp Philp - Enquire Within Upon Everything

Enquire Within Upon Everything was a book of how to do things in domestic life It was first published in 1856 by Houlston and Sons of Paternoster Square in London. Robert Kemp Philp. It was then continuously reprinted...

Susan Morin and 15 more 33 hours 20 minutes

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Children's Non-fiction

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Nathaniel Hawthorne - True Stories from History and Biography

In writing this ponderous tome, the author's desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals, in such a form and style, that the YOUNG might make acquaintance with them of their...

Susan Morin 11 hours 39 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Noel E. Sainsbury, Jr. - Dorothy Dixon and the Mystery Plane

Young peoples book of adventure in aviation with young women in the lead rolls. This is in the earlier days of aviation. — Summary by Susan Morin

Susan Morin 5 hours 19 minutes

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Knights of Art - Stories of the Italian Painters

Children's Non-fiction

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Amy Steedman - Knights of Art - Stories of the Italian Painters

A children's version of the Lives of Artists by Vassari with many Illustrations. Of course we won't be able to show the paintings but the descriptions and the anecdotes are interesting and may lead a child to further...

Susan Morin 6 hours 29 minutes

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Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

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Alice Morse Earle - Home Life in Colonial Days

CHAPTER I HOMES OF THE COLONISTS When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable. The colonists found a...

Susan Morin 13 hours 2 minutes

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Historical

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Alice Morse Earle - Child Life in Colonial Days

The accounts of oldtime child life gathered for this book are wholly unconscious and full of honesty and simplicity, not only from the attitude of the child, but from that of his parents, guardians, and friends. The...

Susan Morin 11 hours 57 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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William Still - Underground Railroad, Part 5

«I congratulate you that, after much patient research, careful preparation, and untiring labor, you have completed your voluminous work on „THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD.“ I am sure your work will be found to be one of...

Michele Fry and 9 more 9 hours 56 minutes The Underground Railroad by William Still

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Biography & Autobiography

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Saint Therese of Lisieux - Story of a Soul (Version 2)

She is also known as St.Thérèse of Child Jesus. She was born at Alençon, France, 2 January 1873; died at Lisieux 30 September 1897. When she was fifteen she applied for permission to enter the Carmelite Convent, and...

Susan Morin 13 hours 40 minutes

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Art, Design & Architecture

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Percy M. Turner - Van Dyck

A biography and critique of Van Dyck in The Masterpieces in Colour series. The Plates of the paintings are fully described and the artistic periods in his life's work are given as well as his place in history....

Susan Morin 1 hour 19 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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