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My Airships

My Airships by Alberto Santos-Dumont

My Airships by Alberto Santos-Dumont

The delightful tale of “le petit Santos” as he dances through the sky above the City of Light at the dawn of the aerial age.
A note to the listener: Throughout this story the author makes several references to helpful figures and illustrations.

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Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass by Charles W. Chesnutt

Frederick Douglass by Charles W. Chesnutt

Born into slavery, Frederick Douglass became one of America’s great icons. He escaped slavery to become one of our great abolitionists, statesman, writer, orator, all around social reformer and intellectual of our time.

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Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters

Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters

Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters

This is a detailed and accurate account of the most awful marine disaster in history, constructed from the real facts as obtained from those on board who survived.

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Born Again

Born Again by Chrys Romeo

Born Again by Chrys Romeo

Being reborn is the power of redefining existence and having a new life.

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The Deluge – Volume 1

The Deluge - Volume 1 by Henryk Sienkiewicz

The Deluge – Volume 1 by Henryk Sienkiewicz

The Deluge (Polish: Potop) is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz. It is the second volume of a three-volume series known to Poles as “the Trilogy,” having been preceded by With Fire and Sword and followed by Fire in the Steppe. The novel tells a story of a fictional Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth soldier and noble Andrzej Kmicic and shows a panorama of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Swedish invasion of Poland known in the Polish tradition as „Potop” (hence the title). Kmita is a patriot who, nevertheless, unexpectedly and unwittingly finds himself on the wrong side of the conflict as a new war starts to ravage the already weakened Commonwealth. This decision costs him dearly as his beloved Olenka now sees him as a traitor. This is an epic panorama of a country that is torn not only by a war with the external enemy, but also by a struggle with unscrupulous nobles who use their country’s plight as an opportunity to magnify their power and zone of influence even if that means siding with the enemy. On the other hand we also see valiant soldiers, who, both with their swords and their wits, fight to expel the invading army. (Summary by Wikipedia)

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Yep, That Was Me

Yep, That Was Me by Mike Bozart

Yep, That Was Me by Mike Bozart

A rambunctious Australian is determined to see the world at an early age. He stows away on a jetliner. But, just after takeoff …

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Biographical Stories

Biographical Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Biographical Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

collection of stories based on different biographies of the famous.

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London Labour and the London Poor

London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew

London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew

Subtitled, “A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.” “The history of a people from the lips of the people themselves .. their labour, earnings, trials and sufferings, in their own unvarnished language, and to pourtray the condition of their homes and their families by personal observation of the places …” “My earnest hope is that the book may serve to give the rich a more intimate knowledge of the sufferings, and the frequent heroism under those sufferings, of the poor …” Henry Mayhew was a social researcher and journalist. He compiled a four volume work in minute detail on the lives of the poor in London.

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Tell It All

Tell It All by Fanny Stenhouse

Tell It All by Fanny Stenhouse

Fanny relates the experiences of a 19th century missionary as she and her young husband proselytize throughout Europe in search of converts to the new Mormon faith. Her religious zeal is sorely tested upon receipt of news from America revealing that their religion has adopted the practice of polygamy as the means to exaltation. The couple is summoned to Utah only to find themselves firmly ensconced in Brigham Young’s inner circle and called upon to practice plural marriage or risk a fall from family, friends, and faith.

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A Son of the Middle Border

A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland

A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland

In all the region of autobiography, so far as I know it, I do not know quite the like of Mr. Garland’s story of his life, and I should rank it with the very greatest of that kind in literature. . . . It is the poet who sees the vast scale of human struggle with nature or the things she will withhold unless they are forced from her by man’s tireless toil and mighty mechanism, and in the vision he knows a battle-joy as distinctive of this Son of the Middle Border as his fidelity to the sordid and squalid details of the campaign, or his exultation of the beauty of the West which he has so passionately hated and finally so passionately loves. As you read the story of his life you realize it the memorial of a generation, of a whole order of American experience; as you review it you perceive it an epic of such mood and make as has not been imagined before.(Introduction by William Dean Howells, New York Times review, August 26, 1917)

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