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Miss Maitland, Private Secretary

Read by Holly Jenson

Geraldine Bonner

Semi-retired sleuth Molly Morgenthau Babbitts goes undercover as a governess to investigate a robbery at the aristocratic Janney mansion on …

Mob Rule In New Orleans

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Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Born into slavery in Mississippi in 1862, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist…

Betty Baird's Ventures

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Anna Hamlin Weikel

Betty has graduated from the Pines and is now with her parents at their new home on Long Island. When Betty finds out that her father is hav…

Betty Baird

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Anna Hamlin Weikel

This is the first book in the Betty Baird Series of boarding school books, a genre which was popular among young girls in the early 1900s. O…

Betty Baird's Golden Year

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Anna Hamlin Weikel

It seems that all the people close to Betty are going through major life changes. Lois is certainly spending a lot of time with Dunmore Lane…

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (version 2)

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Olive Gilbert

Sojourner Truth (born Isabella Baumfree) was born into slavery in 1797 (or thereabouts) in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York. This narrati…

In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World by Elizabeth Bisland

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Elizabeth Bisland

In November 1889, the New York World announced that it was sending its reporter Nellie Bly around the world, in a bid to beat Phileas Fogg's…

The Transformation of the Viceroy

In Birds and All Nature, Vol. VI, No 4, November 1899

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Various

"Birds and All Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and br…

77 - Singular case of Ophthalmia

In Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Volume 2

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Songling Pu

"Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" or "Strange Tales of Liaozhai" is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly super…