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The Sailor's Word-book, H - M
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William Henry Smyth
A digest of sea terms and phrases, including flora, fauna, fish, fowl and fable of the sea, weaponry aboard ship, parts of a ship, qualities…
Napoleon and Marie-Louise: The Fall of the Empire
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Walter Geer
FOREWORD: In a former volume, the legend of Joséphine was considered, and an attempt was made to substitute for it the truth of Histo…
Christmas Short Works Collection 2024
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Various
As we approach Christmas 2024, we invite you to join us in some heart-warming tales and uplifting carols and poems. We wish you compliments …
What America Owes to Women
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Lydia Hoyt Farmer
As American women have been imperfectly represented in the world, it is our aim in this volume to give a pen protrait of the American Woman …
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 107
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Various
"Editors of some of the most sensational newspapers say they make a newspaper to suit the public... it must startle with incident and s…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 101
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Various
"Of all effects of weather, snow makes the greatest change in animal economy in the countryside, and weeks often pass before the old or…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 102
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Various
"It is difficult for the human mind to take a comprehensive view of a subject." This is how librarian Arthur Bostwick begins his e…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 103
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Various
"When money gives out, sense ensues." This pithy saying is from Yugoslav Proverbs, one of the twenty reader-chosen selections in v…
Why Are So Few Men in the Churches? And Remedies
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Charles N. Queen
The strength of the book is in its facts and suggestions considered in a matter of fact and suggestive way. It offers criticism in the spiri…
The Thames to the Solent by Canal and Sea
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J. B. Dashwood
An attempt to sail a small boat from the River Thames to the Solent in the English Channel, using a canal and river route. (Summary by Garth…
Lecture on Artificial Flight
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William G. Krueger
Lecture on artificial flight given on request of the Academy of Natural Sciences on August 7, 1876 in San Francisco, California by William G…
An Evenings OTR Entertainment - June 12, 2016
PDGazette2
Eight old-time radio programs originally aired in June of their respective years.
The Return of the Exiles and the West African Church
Read by Faith Abiola-Ellison
Edward Wilmot Blyden
A lecture delivered at the Breadfruit school house, Lagos, West Africa, January 2, 1891E.W. Blyden (1832 to 1912) was born in the Caribbean …
Plum Pudding (version 2)
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Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley: A modern humorist with the tang of an Elizabethan. Plum Pudding: Thus Mr. Morley entitles his new volume, in which he ha…
The Return of the Exiles and the West African Church
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Edward Wilmot Blyden
A lecture delivered at the Breadfruit school house, Lagos, West Africa, January 2, 1891E.W. Blyden (1832 to 1912) was born in the Caribbean …
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 099
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Various
"Instead of letting ourselves, at the thought of mealtime, fall into a state of chronic mental flutter that incapacitates us for any se…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 106
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Ricardo Fernández Montalvo
"It is a foolish thing to speak on every kind of work, for he that disputeth thy words shall put them unto proof." Proverbs of Fai…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 104
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Various
"Grandmother and Stockhausen are of the opinion that Wagner will one day totally disappear. His music, they argue, is too unhealthy.&qu…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 105
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Various
In May 1919, three U.S. Navy sea-planes made the first successful trans-Atlantic crossing to Europe. Lieutenant Walter Hinton was a pilot. H…
Present Day Gardening: Orchids
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James O'Brien
A meticulously written treatise on the structure, care and cultivation of orchids. This book benefits both the orchid obsessed and the amate…