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Science

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Richard A. Proctor - Light Science for Leisure Hours

In preparing these Essays, my chief object has been to present scientific truths in a light and readable form—clearly and simply, but with an exact adherence to the facts as I see them. I have followed—here and...

Lynda Marie Neilson and 9 more 9 hours 40 minutes

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Anthologies

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It Can Be Done

This book contains many poems of inspiration, joy and hope. Just the thing to encourage our spirits and strengthen our backbone when troubles seem too much. The purpose of this volume is to bring men courage and...

Phil Chenevert and 29 more 7 hours 15 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm - Household Tales

The complete Brothers Grimm stories, as translated directly from the German. Some of the stories will be familiar such as The Frog Prince, Rapunzel, and Cinderella. Other tales are less well known such as The Three...

Beth Thomas and 39 more 30 hours 18 minutes

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Night-Side of Nature; Or, Ghosts and Ghost-Seers

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Catherine Crowe - Night-Side of Nature; Or, Ghosts and Ghost-Seers

The stories in Volume 1 centre on dreams, psychic presentiments, traces, wraiths, doppelgängers, apparitions, and imaginings of the after-life. Crowe's vivid tales, written with great energy and imagination, are...

Marialuisa Ruiz and 12 more 17 hours 39 minutes

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Poetry

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Harriet Beecher Stowe - May Flower and Miscellaneous Writings

Included herein are 35 charming short stories or humorous sketches, some written as exercises for the literary Semi-Colon Club of Cincinnati which Stowe belonged to for years, others published in magazines of the...

Michele Fry and 7 more 14 hours 33 minutes

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Art, Design & Architecture

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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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Anthologies

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John Lomax - Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads

John Avery Lomax is a towering figure in the field of early American musicology and folklore. Through intensive field work, Lomax built up the core body of work for the Library of Congress Archive. «Cowboy Songs and...

Larry Wilson and 21 more 6 hours 36 minutes

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Antiquity

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William Jennings Bryan - World’s Famous Orations, Vol. II: Rome

In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey compiled a series of the most famous orations of all time. They are ordered by both geographic area and time period,...

alaskart and 8 more 7 hours 31 minutes World's Famous Orations

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*Non-fiction

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Mentor 2

The Mentor Association was established to increase interest and knowledge among the public in the areas of art, literature, science, nature, history and travel. The association published a magazine twice monthly, each...

Colleen McMahon and 13 more 20 hours 44 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Emma Lazarus - New Colossus, Version 2

My Grandma's father arrived in this country through New York City, and often spoke to my dad, when he was a boy, of what it was like to first see the Statue of Liberty. Most of my relatives arrived through...

Bruce Kachuk and 16 more 23 minutes

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Nature

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Nature and Art, Vol. VIII, No 1, June 1900

«Birds and All Nature» was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and brief descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color...

realisticspeakers and 6 more 2 hours 29 minutes Birds; Birds and All Nature; Nature and Art; Birds and Nature - Volumes I, IV-XII (Volume II in progress)

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State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1829 - 1836)

Literary Collections

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Andrew Jackson - State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1829 - 1836)

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...

Will Thompson and 3 more 9 hours 44 minutes State of the Union Addresses

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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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