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By: Lucy Leavenworth Wilder Morris (1865-1935) | |
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Old Rail Fence Corners
Old Rail Fence Corners is an historical treasure trove containing the stories of the first significant waves of European-American settlers in the now state of Minnesota (United States of America). This book has direct accounts of mid-19th century lives and experiences on the frontier, recounted by the frontiersmen and women when many of them were in their mid-90s. A group of volunteer women -- the Book Committee -- sought to record these recollections before they were lost with the passing of these remarkable adventurers... |
By: William Lawrence (1791-1867) | |
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The Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence A Hero of the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns |
By: George Thompson (1823-) | |
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My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson Being the Auto-Biography of an Author. Written by Himself. | |
By: Edward Alexander Moore (1842-) | |
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The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson In Which is Told the Part Taken by the Rockbridge Artillery in the Army of Northern Virginia |
By: William Black (1841-1898) | |
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Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series |
By: Daniel Frohman (1851-1940) | |
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Charles Frohman: Manager and Man |
By: John Ross (1777-1856) | |
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Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I |
By: J. Cuthbert (James Cuthbert) Hadden (1816-1914) | |
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Haydn |
By: Cecil B. Hartley | |
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Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer |
By: William Craft | |
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Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; or, the escape of William and Ellen Craft from slavery |
By: Demetrius Charles Boulger (1853-1928) | |
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The Life of Gordon, Volume I | |
The Life of Gordon, Volume II |
By: Carry Amelia Nation (1846-1911) | |
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The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation |
By: Matthew A. Henson (1866-1955) | |
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Negro Explorer at the North Pole
In this fascinating memoir, Matthew Henson describes the incredibly dangerous, exhausting, and bone-chilling trip to what was until then the never-before reached point on earth, the North Pole. "Robert Peary is remembered as the intrepid explorer who successfully reached the North Pole in 1909. Far less celebrated is his companion, Matthew Henson, a black man from Maryland. Henson's gripping memoir, first published in 1912, tells this unsung hero's story in his own words. Henson...was indispensable to the famous explorer's journey; he learned the language of the Eskimos, was an expert dog-sled driver and even built the sleds... |
By: Sam Cowan | |
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Sergeant York and His People
From a cabin back in the mountains of Tennessee, forty-eight miles from the railroad, a young man went to the World War. He was untutored in the ways of the world. Caught by the enemy in the cove of a hill in the Forest of Argonne, he did not run; but sank into the bushes and single-handed fought a battalion of German machine gunners until he made them come down that hill to him with their hands in air. There were one hundred and thirty-two of them left, and he marched them, prisoners, into the American line... |
By: Walter Bigges (-1586) | |
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A Svmmarie and Trve Discovrse of Sir Frances Drakes VVest Indian Voyage Wherein were taken, the townes of Saint Iago, Sancto Domingo, Cartagena & Saint Augustine. |
By: James Kennedy (1815-1899) | |
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Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 |
By: Seth Curtis Beach (1837-1932) | |
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Daughters of the Puritans A Group of Brief Biographies |
By: William Dallmann (1862-1952) | |
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John Hus A brief story of the life of a martyr |
By: Frank Berkeley Smith (1869-1931) | |
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Real Latin Quarter
"Cocher, drive to the rue Falguière"--this in my best restaurant French. The man with the varnished hat shrugged his shoulders, and raised his eyebrows in doubt. He evidently had never heard of the rue Falguière. "Yes, rue Falguière, the old rue des Fourneaux," I continued. Cabby's face broke out into a smile. "Ah, oui, oui, le Quartier Latin." And it was at the end of this crooked street, through a lane that led into a half court flanked by a row of studio buildings, and up one pair of dingy waxed steps, that I found a door bearing the name of the author of the following pages--his visiting card impaled on a tack... |
By: N. E. Dionne (1848-1917) | |
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The Makers of Canada: Champlain
A biography of Samuel de Champlain, French explorer, founder of Quebec, and father of New France. ( |
By: John Niles Hubbard (1815-1897) | |
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An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or Red Jacket, and His People, 1750-1830 |
By: DeWitt C. Peters | |
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Life and Adventures of Kit Carson
Kit Carson was a famous hunter, trapper, mountain man, guide - an American icon. Stories about him abounded in popular contemporary literature, but most was pure fiction. This work is the authorized biography, much of it in his own words. It was first published right around the time of his death. |
By: Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez (1856-1935) | |
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The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson |
By: Arthur Acheson (1864-1930) | |
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Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 |
By: Edmund Venables (1819-1895) | |
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The Life of John Bunyan |
By: Amelia Ruth Gere Mason | |
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The Women of the French Salons |
By: Mrs. Lang | |
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The Red Book of Heroes |
By: Henry Watterson (1840-1921) | |
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Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography |
By: W. P. (William Pringle) Livingstone | |
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The White Queen of Okoyong A True Story of Adventure Heroism and Faith |
By: Basil Hall (1788-1844) | |
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The Lieutenant and Commander Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from Fragments of Voyages and Travels |
By: W. P. (William Pringle) Livingstone | |
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Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary |
By: Henry Watterson (1840-1921) | |
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Marse Henry (Volume 2) An Autobiography | |
Marse Henry (Volume 1) An Autobiography |
By: Slason Thompson (1849-1935) | |
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Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1 |
By: John Filson (1753?-1788) | |
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Life and Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon |
By: Helen Cody Wetmore | |
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Last of the Great Scouts : the life story of Col. William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill" as told by his sister |
By: William Sharp (1856-1905) | |
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Life of Robert Browning |
By: Clovis Gillham Chappell (1882-1972) | |
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Sermons on Biblical Characters |
By: Moses Montefiore (1784-1885) | |
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Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume I Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries From 1812 to 1883 |
By: Charles Alfred Downer (1866-1930) | |
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Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence |
By: Cecil Chisholm | |
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Sir John French An Authentic Biography |
By: Mary Caroline Crawford (1874-1932) | |
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The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees |
By: M. (Malcolm) Sterling Mackinlay (1876-1952) | |
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Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science |
By: John Brown (1810-1882) | |
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Rab and His Friends |
By: William Tuckwell (1829-1919) | |
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Biographical Study of A.W. Kinglake | |
Horace |
By: Henry Walcott Boynton (1869-1947) | |
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Washington Irving |
By: Charles Isaac Elton (1839-1900) | |
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The Great Book-Collectors |
By: Henry Bibb (1815-1854) | |
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave
Henry Walton Bibb was born a slave. His father was white although his identity was not positively known. Bibb was separated from his mother at a very young age and hired out to other slave owners for most of his childhood. Always yearning for his freedom, he made his first escape from slavery in 1842. He was recaptured and escaped, recaptured and escaped over and over; but he never gave up on his desire to be a man in control of his own destiny. |
By: Lucy Larcom (1824-1893) | |
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A New England Girlhood: Outlined From Memory
Lucy Larcom was an American poet, teacher, and mil-worker. According to Wikipedia: "Larcom served as a model for the change in women's roles in society." This is her colorful autobiography. Here, she tells about her happy childhood, and her time working in the mill. Along the way, she speaks about topics like morality, independence, love and loss inside a family, a strong belief in god, and the effects of being poor. Fans of Gene Stratton Porter, Fanny Fern and Susan Warner, and Ella Wheeler Wilcox will be delighted with this book. Lucy's sunny personality makes this book a very uplifting and interesting read. |
By: Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville (1796-1878) | |
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The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West |
By: Arthur T. Pierson (1837-1911) | |
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George Müller of Bristol
George Muller was a great hero of faith. His greatest aim was to demonstrate that God answers prayer and can be trusted for every minute detail of life. Spending countless hours asking God to provide his needs, he only relied upon God. God called him to care for orphans and he conducted his orphanage in the same way, on faith alone. When a certain need was apparent, they would immediately go to God in prayer. In this dynamic dependance on God, He always proved faithful. He also established over a hundred schools, educating over a hundred thousand people! His example of absolute dependence on God stands in the gap of history to declare that God is enough, and He is faithful! |
By: Elizabeth Garver Jordan (1867-1947) | |
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The Story of a Pioneer |
By: Nicholas Rowe (1674-1718) | |
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Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear (1709) |
By: Austin Bidwell | |
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Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude |
By: Teresa Guiccioli (1800-1873) | |
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My Recollections of Lord Byron |
By: Simon Newcomb (1835-1909) | |
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The Reminiscences of an Astronomer |
By: Edwin George Rundle (1838-) | |
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A Soldier's Life Being the Personal Reminiscences of Edwin G. Rundle |
By: P. C. (Phineas Camp) Headley (1819-1903) | |
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Half Hours in Bible Lands, Volume 2 Patriarchs, Kings, and Kingdoms
MANUAL OF SURGERY, OXFORD MEDICAL PUBLICATIONSBY ALEXIS THOMSON, F.R.C.S.Ed.PREFACE TO SIXTH EDITION Much has happened since this Manual was last revised, and many surgical lessons have been learned in the hard school of war. Some may yet have to be unlearned, and others have but little bearing on the problems presented to the civilian surgeon. Save in its broadest principles, the surgery of warfare is a thing apart from the general surgery of civil life, and the exhaustive literature now available on every aspect of it makes it unnecessary that it should receive detailed consideration in a manual for students... |
By: Sir Joseph Pope (1854-1926) | |
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Chronicles of Canada Volume 29 - The Day of Sir John Macdonald: A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion
A biography of Sir John A. Macdonald, the first Prime Minister of Canada. It was written by the man who served as Macdonald's private secretary from 1882 to 1891. |
By: Paul Hentzner (1558-1623) | |
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Travels in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and Fragmenta regalia; or, Observations on Queen Elizabeth, her times and favourites |
By: John McAllister Schofield (1831-1906) | |
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Forty-Six Years in the Army |
By: F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer (1847-1929) | |
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John the Baptist |
By: Adolphus William Ward (1837-1924) | |
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Chaucer |
By: Henry Ossian Flipper (1856-1940) | |
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The Colored Cadet at West Point
Henry Ossian Flipper--born into slavery in Thomasville, Georgia on March 21, 1856--did not learn to read and write until just before the end of the Civil War. Once the war had ended, Flipper attended several schools showing a great aptitude for knowledge. During his freshman year at Atlanta University he applied for admittance to the United States National Military Academy at West Point. He was appointed to the academy in 1873 along with a fellow African American, John W. Williams. Cadet Williams was later dismissed for academic deficiencies. |
By: James Cotter Morison (1832-1888) | |
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Gibbon |
By: John Hayward (1781-1869) | |
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The Book of Religions Comprising the Views, Creeds, Sentiments, or Opinions, of All the Principal Religious Sects in the World |
By: Sydney Howard Gay (1814-1888) | |
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James Madison |
By: James Hooper | |
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Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration Norwich, July 5th, 1913 |
By: A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances) Robinson (1857-1944) | |
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Emily Brontë |
By: William Dobein James (1764-1838) | |
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A Sketch of the life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion and a history of his brigade |
By: Alice Birkhead | |
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Heroes of Modern Europe |
By: R. J. (Robert J.) Creswell | |
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Among the Sioux A Story of the Twin Cities and the Two Dakotas |
By: J. M. (Joseph Maria) Gordon (1856-1929) | |
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The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon |
By: J. Stephen (James Stephen) Jeans (1846-1913) | |
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Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities |
By: Margaret Moyes Black | |
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Robert Louis Stevenson |
By: Clayton Edwards | |
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Treasury of Heroes and Heroines
It would be pleasant indeed to gather the characters of this book together and listen to the conversation of wholly different but interested couples—for this is a book of contrasts and has been written as such. Lives of the most dramatic and adventurous quality have been gathered from all corners of the earth, and from every age in history, in such a way that they may cover the widest possible variety of human experience. The publishers believe that such a book would not be complete without some characters that are no less real because they have lived only in the minds of men... |
By: John Howie (1735-1793) | |
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Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies |
By: J. (John) Kincaid (1787-1862) | |
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Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, in the Peninsula, France, and the Netherlands from 1809 to 1815 |
By: Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744-1817) | |
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Richard Lovell Edgeworth A Selection From His Memoirs |
By: Sarah Knowles Bolton (1841-1916) | |
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Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous
These characters have been chosen from various countries and from varied professions, that the youth who read this book may see that poverty is no barrier to success. It usually develops ambition, and nerves people to action. Life at best has much of struggle, and we need to be cheered and stimulated by the careers of those who have overcome obstacles.If Lincoln and Garfield, both farmer-boys, could come to the Presidency, then there is a chance for other farmer-boys. If Ezra Cornell, a mechanic, could become the president of great telegraph companies, and leave millions to a university, then other mechanics can come to fame... |
By: John Beatty (1828-1914) | |
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The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer |
By: Henry Noel Brailsford (1873-1958) | |
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Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle |
By: L. S. (Lucy S.) Thompson | |
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The Story of Mattie J. Jackson Her Parentage—Experience of Eighteen years in Slavery—Incidents during the War—Her Escape from Slavery |
By: Marianne Farningham (1834-1909) | |
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Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands |
By: Mary Somerville (1780-1872) | |
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Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville |
By: Frederick L. (Frederick Lyman) Hitchcock | |
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War from the Inside The Story of the 132nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Suppression of the Rebellion, 1862-1863 |
By: M. L. (Mason Locke) Weems (1759-1825) | |
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The Life of General Francis Marion |
By: Godfrey Rathbone Benson Charnwood (1864-1945) | |
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Abraham Lincoln |
By: John Cann Bailey (1864-1931) | |
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Dr. Johnson and His Circle |
By: Friedrich Trenck (1726-1794) | |
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The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 1 | |
The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 2 |
By: John Cann Bailey (1864-1931) | |
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Milton |
By: Basil Joseph Mathews (1879-1951) | |
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Book of Missionary Heroes
Through the centuries, the world has been witness to an unbroken trail of heroes--men and women who braved privation, danger, and death to bring the light of Jesus Christ to the darkest corners of the earth. Some are well known, others long forgotten, but all belong to the same indomitable band of torch-bearers. Join a few of these heroes as they face cannibals, battle slave traders, and care for sick enemies, always with one mission at the forefront--to serve their Lord and bring others into His light. |
By: Lauren Ann Isaacson (1961-1986) | |
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Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer |
By: Annie L. Burton (c. 1858-) | |
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Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days
This is a short and simple, yet poignant autobiography of Annie Burton, who recounts her early carefree childhood as a slave on a southern plantation while the Civil War raged around her, and after the Emancipation Proclamation, how her life changed as she struggled to maintain herself and family, manage her finances, and develop as a free person of color. The last half of the narrative relies heavily upon speeches, poems, and hymns written by others that stirred Annie's religious passions and increased her pride in her heritage, including a very powerful speech by Dr... |
By: Charles Kent (1823-1902) | |
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Charles Dickens as a Reader |
By: John Doyle Lee (1812-1877) | |
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The Mormon Menace The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite |
By: Hutchins Hapgood (1868-1944) | |
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Paul Jones |