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By: Louisa May Alcott | |
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Under the Lilacs
"When two young girls decide to have a tea party with their dolls and a mysterious dog comes and eats their prized cake, they end up finding a circus run-away, Ben Brown. Ben is a horse master, and loves horses, so when the Moss' take the young boy in, they decide to give him work at the neighbors house driving cows (on a horse, of course). After that a series of events happens, and Ben finds out his beloved father is dead. Miss Celia, a neighbor, feels sorry and comforts him, and finally offers to let Ben stay with her and her fourteen-year-old brother, Thornton who is called Thorny... |
By: Louisa Stuart Costello (1799-1870) | |
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Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre |
By: Louise Lamprey (1869-1951) | |
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Days of the Discoverers | |
By: Louise Manly (1857-1936) | |
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Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader |
By: Lucien Biart (1829-1897) | |
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Adventures of a Young Naturalist |
By: Lucinda Lee Orr | |
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Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia, 1782 |
By: Lucy Abbot Throop | |
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Furnishing the Home of Good Taste
FURNISHING THE HOME OF GOOD TASTEA BRIEF SKETCH OF THE PERIOD STYLES IN INTERIOR DECORATION WITH SUGGESTIONS AS TO THEIR EMPLOYMENT IN THE HOMES OF TODAY BY LUCY ABBOT THROOP Preface To try to write a history of furniture in a fairly short space is almost as hard as the square peg and round hole problem. No matter how one tries, it will not fit. One has to leave out so much of importance, so much of historic and artistic interest, so much of the life of the people that helps to make the subject vivid, and has to take so much for granted, that the task seems almost impossible... |
By: Lucy Aikin (1781-1864) | |
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Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth, Volumes I & II
Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth from a variety of sources within the monarch's court, compiled and interpreted by Lucy Aikin. |
By: Lucy Ann Delaney (c. 1830-?) | |
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From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom
In From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom Delaney tells the story of how she was born into slavery of her mother--a freeborn black woman who had been kidnapped and sold on the blocks--but escaped while a teenager and eventually sued in court for her freedom. After the Civil War, Delaney spent the rest of her life inspiring other African Americans to take advantage of the new opportunities available to them as a result of their new found freedom, and to constantly strive to improve their lives and the lives of their progeny |
By: Lucy Fitch Perkins (1865-1937) | |
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The Puritan Twins |
By: Lucy Foster Madison (1865-1932) | |
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In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls |
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: Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) | |
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Rainbow Valley
If you've read and loved Anne of Green Gables, you'd definitely like to add Rainbow Valley by Lucy Maud Montgomery to your collection. Published in 1919, it is the seventh book in the series and follows the further life and adventures of Anne Shirley. At Ingleside, Anne is now happily married to her childhood friend the devoted Gilbert Blythe and have now been together blissfully for fifteen years. They have six children. The book opens with the return of Anne and Gilbert (who is now a brilliant doctor) from a sojourn in London, where they had gone to attend a big medical congress... |
By: Ludwig Leichhardt (1813-1848) | |
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Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 |
By: Lydia Maria Francis Child (1802-1880) | |
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An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans |
By: Lyman Carrier (1877-1963) | |
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Agriculture in Virginia, 1607-1699 |
By: Lyndon Orr pseudonym of Harry Thurston Peck (1856-1914) | |
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Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion
"Famous Affinities of History" is a book of passion-filled accounts of the most famous love affairs of history. The stories of Cleopatra, Victor Hugo, Honore de Balzac, Jonathan Swift, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Byron, George Sand and other famous people of all times (even those of royal blood are not spared), are dealt with in Lyndon Orr's own interesting and suspenseful style. Written in four volumes, this book makes for an informative, interesting and thoroughly enjoyable read, giving us an insight into the lives and lifestyles of various popular figures of history. |
By: Lysander Spooner | |
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Essay on the Trial by Jury
FOR more than six hundred years that is, since Magna Carta, in 1215 there has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law, than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the right and duty of juries to judge what are the facts, what is the law, and what was the moral intent of the accused; but that it is also their right, and their primary and paramount duty, to judge of the justice of the law, and to hold all laws invalid, that are, in their opinion, unjust or oppressive, and all persons guiltless in violating, or resisting the execution of, such laws... |
By: Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) | |
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Queen Victoria
Lytton Strachey’s first great success, and his most famous achievement, was “Eminent Victorians” (1918), a collection of four short biographies of Victorian heroes. With a dry wit, he exposed the human failings of his subjects and what he saw as the hypocrisy at the centre of Victorian morality. This work was followed in the same style by “Queen Victoria” (1921). |
By: M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham (1863-1944) | |
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Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle |
By: M. F. (Manning Ferguson) Force (1824-1899) | |
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From Fort Henry to Corinth |
By: M. François Guizot (1787-1874) | |
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Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 |
By: M. H. (Marion Harry) Spielmann (1858-1948) | |
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The History of "Punch" |
By: M. J. (Michael Joseph) Canavan | |
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Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59 |
By: M. L. (Mason Locke) Weems (1759-1825) | |
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The Life of General Francis Marion |
By: M. M. Pattison Muir (d1931) | |
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The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
A light journey through the history of chemistry, from its start in the obscure mysteries of alchemy to what was, for the author, the cutting edge of the development of modern atomic theory … and whose developing blind ends we can now see with the advantage of hind sight. |
By: M. Mignet (1796-1884) | |
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History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 |
By: M. Pearson Thomson | |
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Denmark |
By: Mabel Powers | |
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Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children |
By: Madame de (Henriette Elizabeth) Witt (1829-1908) | |
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World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France |
By: Madame de La Fayette (1634-1693) | |
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The Princess of Cleves | |
The Princess De Montpensier |
By: Madame de Staël (1766-1817) | |
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Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy |
By: Madeline Leslie (1815-1893) | |
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Minnie's Pet Cat | |
Minnie's Pet Horse | |
Minnie's Pet Dog | |
Minnie's Pet Parrot | |
Minnie's Pet Lamb | |
Minnie's Pet Monkey |
By: Mainwaring George Jacson | |
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The Record of a Regiment of the Line Being a Regimental History of the 1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment during the Boer War 1899-1902 |
By: Marc Monnier (1827-1885) | |
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The Wonders of Pompeii |
By: Marcel Dupont (1879-1964) | |
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In the Field (1914-1915)
I have merely tried to make a written record of some of the hours I have lived through during the course of this war. A modest Lieutenant of Chasseurs, I cannot claim to form any opinion as to the operations which have been carried out for the last nine months on an immense front. I only speak of things I have seen with my own eyes, in the little corner of the battlefield occupied by my regiment. |
By: Marcus Joseph Wright (1831-1922) | |
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General Scott |
By: Marcus Lee Hansen (1892-1938) | |
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Old Fort Snelling 1819-1858 |
By: Marcus Tullius Cicero | |
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The Philippics
A philippic is a fiery, damning speech delivered to condemn a particular political actor. The term originates with Demosthenes, who delivered an attack on Philip II of Macedon in the 4th century BCE.Cicero consciously modeled his own attacks on Mark Antony, in 44 BC and 43 BC, on Demosthenes’s speeches, and if the correspondence between M. Brutus and Cicero are genuine [ad Brut. ii 3.4, ii 4.2], at least the fifth and seventh speeches were referred to as the Philippics in Cicero’s time. They were also called the Antonian Orations by Aulus Gellius... |
By: Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (75 BC - c. 15 BC) | |
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Ten Books on Architecture
On Architecture is a treatise on architecture written by the Roman architect Vitruvius and dedicated to his patron, the emperor Caesar Augustus as a guide for building projects. The work is one of the most important sources of modern knowledge of Roman building methods as well as the planning and design of structures, both large (aqueducts, buildings, baths, harbours) and small (machines, measuring devices, instruments). He is also the prime source of the famous story of Archimedes and his bath-time discovery. |
By: Margaret Bemister (1877-) | |
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Thirty Indian Legends |
By: Margaret Blake Alverson (1836-1923) | |
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Sixty Years of California Song |
By: Margaret Devereux | |
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Plantation Sketches |
By: Margaret Junkin Preston (1820-1897) | |
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Beechenbrook A Rhyme of the War |
By: Margaret Nevinson (1858-1932) | |
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Workhouse Characters
In 1904, Margaret Nevinson, a respectable lady and active suffragette, joined the board of guardians in Hampstead Heath. The guardians had responsibility over the parish workhouse. In the UK, before the 1930s, one could not receive welfare assistance unless he or she entered the workhouse. A house for which one had to work. The conditions were so poor, sometimes even poorer then conditions in prison. The workhouse inspired many novels, the most famous is Oliver Twist. This collection of short stories is about the horrors Margaret saw, chiefly about things women had to endure... |
By: Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897) | |
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Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets |
By: Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) | |
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Woman and the New Race
Margaret Sanger was an American sex educator and nurse who became one of the leading birth control activists of her time, having at one point, even served jail time for importing birth control pills, then illegal, into the United States. Woman and the New Race is her treatise on how the control of population size would not only free women from the bondage of forced motherhood, but would elevate all of society. The original fight for birth control was closely tied to the labor movement as well as the Eugenics movement, and her book provides fascinating insight to a mostly-forgotten turbulent battle recently fought in American history. | |
Margaret Sanger; an autobiography
Margaret Sanger, an advocate for birth control rights, chronicles the story of her struggles, including her times in jail and in exile, in order to legalize birth control options for women. She details the uphill battles of not only convincing lawmakers, but of doctors as well. Her relentless pursuit is told against the backdrop of courtrooms, her personal life, and her travels across the globe, giving a glimpse into the world during and post-WW I. This riveting account is a must read for those interested in a key moment in woman’s history and reform. |
By: Margaret Williamson (1886-) | |
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John and Betty's History Visit |
By: Margaret Wilson (1882-1973) | |
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Able McLaughlins
The Able McLaughlins won the Pulitzer Prize for a novel in 1924 in Margaret Wilson's debut work. Aptly described as "Little House on the Prairie - but for adults" the novel follows a group of Scottish families who pioneer the Iowa prairie in the 1860’s. The main storyline concerns Wully, the eldest McLaughlin son, who returns home from the Civil War to find that his sweetheart, Chirstie, has experienced an unspeakable tragedy that will profoundly affect the couple's lives. Their story is one of shame and honor, secrets and guilt, fear and loathing, revenge and forgiveness... |
By: Margot Asquith (1864-1945) | |
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Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One |
By: Marguerite Stockman Dickson | |
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Vocational Guidance for Girls
VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE FOR GIRLSBy MARGUERITE STOCKMAN DICKSONA FOREWORDFortunate are we to have from the pen of Mrs. Dickson a book on the vocational guidance of girls. Mrs. Dickson has the all-round life experiences which give her the kind of training needed for a broad and sympathetic approach to the delicate, intricate, and complex problems of woman's life in the swiftly changing social and industrial world. Mrs. Dickson was a teacher for seven years in the grades in the city of New York. She then became the partner of a superintendent of schools in the business of making a home... |
By: Maria Antonia Field (1885-) | |
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Chimes of Mission Bells; an historical sketch of California and her missions |
By: Maria Callcott (1785-1842) | |
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Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 |
By: Maria Louise Greene | |
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The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut |
By: Marian Gouverneur | |
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As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century |
By: Marian Minnie George (1865-) | |
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Little Journey to Puerto Rico For Intermediate and Upper Grades |
By: Mariano Azuela (1873-1952) | |
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The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution |
By: Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868-1947) | |
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The Lodger
The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes was inspired by the Jack the Ripper murders. An older couple, the Buntings, are forced to take in lodgers to make ends meet. They are on the verge of starvation when a mysterious man, Mr. Sleuth, appears at their door and asks for lodging, paying in advance. However, when the murders of young women in London attributed to a man known only as “The Avenger” continue, the Buntings, particularly Mrs. Bunting, grow fearful that their lodger may be the murderer. |
By: Marie Hay (1873-1938) | |
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A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg |
By: Marie L. McLaughlin (1842-) | |
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Myths and Legends of the Sioux |
By: Marie Thérèse Louise de Savoie-Carignan Lamballe (1749-1792) | |
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Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI |
By: Mark Twain (1835-1910) | |
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Roughing It
The semiautobiographical travel memoir records Twain’s, more or less, personal journey across the Wild West in search of adventure while exploring variable locations. Accompanying his brother on what becomes a trip of a lifetime, the young Samuel Clemens finds himself in many different vocational roles as he explores and observes the magnificence of the American West. Not refraining from the usual social commentary, Twain directs criticism on various social and moral issues which he approaches through his sly and witty style... | |
Extracts from Adam's Diary
Get the true story of Adam and Eve, straight from the source. This humorous text is a day-to-day account of Adam’s life from happiness in the “GARDEN-OF-EDEN” to their fall from grace and the events thereafter. Learn how Eve caught the infant Cain, and Adam takes some time to learn exactly what it is. | |
Eve's Diary
Eve's Diary is a comic short story by Mark Twain. It was first published in the 1905 Christmas issue of the magazine Harper's Bazaar, and in book format in June 1906 by Harper and Brothers publishing house. It is written in the style of a diary kept by the first woman in the Judeao-Christian creation myth, Eve, and is claimed to be "translated from the original MS." The "plot" of this novel is the first-person account of Eve from her creation up to her burial by, her mate, Adam, including meeting and getting to know Adam, and exploring the world around her, Eden... | |
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, Volumes 1 & 2
Mark Twain’s work on Joan of Arc is titled in full “Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte.” De Conte is identified as Joan’s page and secretary. For those who’ve always wanted to “get behind” the Joan of Arc story and to better understand just what happened, Twain’s narrative makes the story personal and very accessible. The work is fictionally presented as a translation from the manuscript by Jean Francois Alden, or, in the words of the published book, “Freely Translated out of the Ancient French into Modern English from the Original Unpublished Manuscript in the National Archives of France... | |
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences
This is Mark Twain's vicious and amusing review of Fenimore Cooper's literary art. It is still read widely in academic circles. Twain's essay, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses (often spelled "Offences") (1895), particularly criticized The Deerslayer and The Pathfinder. Twain wrote at the beginning of the essay: 'In one place in Deerslayer, and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has scored 114 offenses against literary art out of a possible 115. It breaks the record.' Twain listed 19 rules 'governing literary art in domain of romantic fiction', 18 of which Cooper violates in The Deerslayer. (Introduction by Wikipedia and John Greenman) | |
Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again
This satire on the U.S.A.'s myth of being the "Home of the Oppressed, where all men are free and equal", is unrelenting in its pursuit of justice through exposure. It draws a scathingly shameful portrait of how Chinese immigrants were treated in 19th century San Francisco. (Introduction by John Greenman) | |
Essays on Paul Bourget
Collection of short essays concerning French novelist and critic Paul Bourget. Included: "What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us" and "A Little Note to M. Paul Bourget". | |
Christian Science
Christian Science is a 1907 collection of essays Mark Twain wrote about Christian Science, beginning with an article that was published in Cosmopolitan in 1899. Although Twain was interested in mental healing and the ideas behind Christian Science, he was hostile towards its founder, Mary Baker Eddy . He called her, according to American writer Caroline Fraser, "[g]rasping, sordid, penurious, famishing for everything she sees—money, power, glory—vain, untruthful, jealous, despotic, arrogant, insolent, pitiless where thinkers and hypnotists are concerned, illiterate, shallow, incapable of reasoning outside of commercial lines, immeasurably selfish... |
By: Marmaduke William Pickthall (1875-1936) | |
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Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 |
By: Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) | |
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Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets |
By: Marshall Ora Leighton (1874-1958) | |
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The Passaic Flood of 1903 |
By: Martha Finley (1828-1909) | |
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Elsie Dinsmore
Elsie, young and motherless, has never met her father and is being raised by her father’s family. As a strong Christian, she has many trials within the unbelieving family. Her greatest comforts are her faith and her mammy, Chloe. Finally, her father returns home. Will her father love her? Will her father learn to love Jesus? | |
Holidays at Roselands
This is the second book of the much loved Elsie Dinsmore series and starts where the first book left off. Elsie is still recuperating from her weakness, with her kind and indulgent father by her side.The story revolves around how a strong bond of love and understanding takes root between the father and daughter, as they holiday at Roselands, and visit exciting places, with some of our favorite friends from the first book, Mr. Travilla, Adelaide, Chloe, Lora and the others. | |
Elsie's Children
This book continues the delightful "Elsie Dinsmore" series. Elsie's children, introduced in the previous volume, live life, grow up, and encounter various problems of their own. Additional Proof Listeners: AlaynaMay & Rachel. | |
Elsie's Kith and Kin | |
Mildred at Home: With Something About Her Relatives and Friends
Book 5 of the story of Mildred Keith by Martha Finley. We join Mildred as she settles into home life as wife and mother. We also see the rest of the Keith children begin to make starts of their own - some near to home, and others far away and perhaps lost forever. The Dinsmore cousins continue to be part of the story as well. - Summary by Michelle Hannah |
By: Martha Foote Crow (1854-1924) | |
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Lafayette |
By: Martin B. (Martin Bronn) Ruud (1885-1941) | |
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An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway |
By: Martin I. (Martin Ingham) Townsend (1810-1903) | |
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Prehistoric Structures of Central America Who Erected Them? |
By: Martin I. J. (Martin Ignatius Joseph) Griffin (1842-1911) | |
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The Story of Commodore John Barry |
By: Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885) | |
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The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States |