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Poems of Nature

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Henry David Thoreau


The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved. Many of the…

A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818

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Elisabeth G. Stryker


This is a brief biography of Samuel J. Mills who was instrumental in establishing the first missionary society in the United States, and als…

Clara A. Swain, M.D.

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Mrs. Robert Hoskins


This is a brief biography of Clara A. Swain, M.D. who is regarded as the "first Medical Missionary to the Women of the Orient." S…

G.K. Chesterton in The Open Road

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G. K. Chesterton


A collection of 2 book reviews written by G.K. Chesterton in "The Open Road", both from 1911. (Summary by Maria Therese)

Haiti: Its Dawn of Progress after Years in a Night of Revolution

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John Dryden Kuser


This book is part history and part travelogue, an account of a brief visit by a wealthy, white U.S. politician during a lamentable time in H…

G.K. Chesterton in The Bibliophile Magazine

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G. K. Chesterton


Two essays/articles by G.K. Chesterton, published in 'The Bibliophile' magazine in 1908. (Summary by Maria Therese)

The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems

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Edwin Markham


Edwin Markham was an American poet whose poems often drew attention to the laborers of the world and frequently expressed elements of faith.…

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interview…

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Various


These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…

Songs by the Sea

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Rebecca Ruter Springer


Best known for her mystical writing, IntraMuros, Rebecca Ruter Springer was also a sensitive poet. This a short volume of her poems celebra…

California at Christmas Tide

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Ella M. Sexton


Ten short poems about Christmas in California - Summary by Larry Wilson

The New Joan and Other Poems

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Katherine Hale


Katherine Hale is the pen name of Amelia Beers Warnock Garvin, a Canadian poet and literary critic. This volume is one of her collections w…

The command of Maria Theresa, by John S. C. Abbott

In The World’s Story Volume VI: Russia, Austria-Hungary, the Balkan States and Tur…

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Eva March Tappan


This is the sixth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Ta…

Dedication & Foreword

In Mobilizing Woman-Power

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Harriot Stanton Blatch


Harriot Stanton Blatch, a suffragist in her own right, was the daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton who was one of the champions of women’s ri…

Long I Thought that Knowledge - Read by LCW

In Long I Thought that Knowledge

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Walt Whitman


LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Long I Thought that Knowledge by Walt Whitman.This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 30,…

The discovery of Florida by Ponce de Leon (1512): Parkman's account

In Great Epochs in American History, Volume I

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Francis Whiting Halsey


This is the first volume in ten volume series of great epochs in the history of the United States, from the landing of Columbus to the build…

Introduction

In Gadsby

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Ernest Vincent Wright


Fifty-year-old John Gadsby is alarmed by the decline of his hometown, Branton Hills, and rallies the city's young people to form an "Or…

My Creed

In Life Waves

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Frances Cook Steen


This is a volume of poetry by American author Frances Cook Steen, published in 1922. These poems reflect with clarity on the preceding decad…