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Elizabeth Keckley - Behind the Scenes

This is the autobiography of Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave who bought her freedom with the money she earned as a seamstress. She eventually worked for Mary Lincoln. It is a fascinating book, filled with many...

Laura Victoria and 10 more 6 hours 7 minutes

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Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College by Jessie Graham Flower

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Jessie Graham Flower - Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College by Jessie Graham Flower

The four series follow Grace Harlowe and her friends through high school, college, abroad during World War I, and on adventures around America. In The High School Girls Series, Grace attends Oakdale High School with...

ashleighjane 4 hours 32 minutes Grace Harlowe Series

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Paul Laurence Dunbar - Sport of the Gods

The Sport of the Gods is a novel by Paul Laurence Dunbar, first published in 1902, centered around urban black life. Forced to leave the South, a family falls apart amid the harsh realities of Northern inner city...

ashleighjane and 5 more 4 hours 34 minutes

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Law

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Walter Wood - Survivors' Tales of Famous Crimes

In this anthology of true crime tales, editor Walter Wood interviews those who were touched by the crimes recounted, sometimes as an acquaintance of the deceased or criminal or in the course of their professional...

Nullifidian and 12 more 8 hours 9 minutes

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Aurora Floyd

Aurora Floyd, the daughter of a rich banker and an actress, could not have had a better start: back from a finishing school in Paris, she is beautiful, clever and rich. Two men instantly fall in love with her. But...

Jacquerie and 12 more 20 hours 20 minutes

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Romance

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Gene Stratton-Porter - Daughter of the Land

Independent Kate Bates resents the fact that, as the youngest of a large family, she is expected to stay at home and help her parents while her brothers and sisters are free to pursue their desires. When she defies...

Arielle Lipshaw and 10 more 11 hours 36 minutes

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Ned Wayburn - Art of Stage Dancing

Ned Wayburn, a popular and outstanding choreographer of the early 1900's, writes about the different styles and requirements of dancing and his way of teaching it.

Jill Janovetz and 15 more 12 hours 43 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Andrew Lang - Green Fairy Book

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's «Coloured» Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the...

Aubrey Anne and 19 more 12 hours 7 minutes Andrew Lang's Fairy Books

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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George W. M. Reynolds - Mysteries of London Vol. I part 1

The Mysteries of London was a best-selling novel in mid-Victorian England. The first series was published in weekly instalments from 1844-46, priced at a penny each. Serialised novels sold in this way were known as...

Cori Samuel and 20 more 22 hours 43 minutes

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James Berry - My Experiences as an Executioner

From 1884 until 1891, James Berry was an executioner. In this time he carried out 131 hangings. In this memoir he writes about the methods he used, and the final moments of some of those he executed. — Summary by...

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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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