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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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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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My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard

My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard by Elizabeth Cooper

My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard by Elizabeth Cooper

I hope that this book, based on letters shown me many years after they were written, will give a faint idea of the life of a Chinese lady. The story is told in two series of letters conceived to be written by Kwei-li, the wife of a very high Chinese official, [the first series were written] to her husband when he accompanied his master, Prince Chung, on his trip around the world.” The second series of letters were written 25 years later to Kwei-li’s mother-in-law as China faces revolution and political intrigue. “They are, therefore, the letters of the present-day Chinese woman of the old school, a woman who had by education and environment exceptional opportunities to learn of the modern world, but who, like every Eastern woman, clings with almost desperate tenacity to the traditions and customs of her race.

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Recollections of a Busy Life

Recollections of a Busy Life by William Forwood

Recollections of a Busy Life by William Forwood

Liverpool in the second half of the 19th century was burgeoning with rich merchants and swollen with poor immigrants. It was known variously as the “New York of Europe” and the “Black Spot on the Mersey.” Waist-deep in this mosaic we find William Bower Forwood making a busy life for himself, making his fortune in cotton trading (including running the American blockade of the Southern States) and then delving into public affairs. We see the civic leader, dedicated to the betterment of “the good old town and the trade thereof,” and we see the statesman and tourist, dining with kings and wrestling with presidents. We see the effect that social environment has on a man’s view of the world, with Sir William’s casual categorization of the various races’ assumed work habits, from the Caribbean ‘Negro’ to the Indian ‘Coolie,’ his breezy dismissal of the Jamaican rebellion, his confidence in the steady hand of the Mexican dictator and his pride in the English superiority of business sense and management. But we also see the profound effect that a man can have on the society around him, working tirelessly to build libraries, parks and gardens, public transport, housing for the poor and a great cathedral for Liverpool. Forwood records these memoirs for his family members, and anyone they care to share them with, “to inspire them to make some effort on behalf of our great and glorious city—to elevate its social and intellectual life, to adorn and beautify its public streets and places, to brighten the lives and homes of the people, to carry forward and onward the great temple we are building to the glory of God,” at a time when such things mattered to people.

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Opticks

Opticks by Sir Isaac Newton

Opticks by Sir Isaac Newton

The famous physicist Sir Isaac Newton lectured on optics from 1670 – 1672. He worked on the refraction of light into colored beams using prisms and discovered chromatic aberration. He also postulated the corpuscular form of light and an ether to transmit forces between the corpuscles. His “Opticks”, contains his postulates about the topic. This is the fourth edition in English, which Newton corrected from the third edition before his death.

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The Pebble, The Sword, The Bullet

The Pebble, The Sword, The Bullet by Mike Bozart

The Pebble, The Sword, The Bullet by Mike Bozart

An artist-writer and a comedian-musician violently clash in the NoDa area of Charlotte. Friends no more. Based on real events.

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The Story of My Boyhood and Youth

The Story of My Boyhood and Youth by John Muir

The Story of My Boyhood and Youth by John Muir

“The only fire for the whole house was the kitchen stove, with a fire box about eighteen inches long and eight inches wide and deep,- scant space for three or four small sticks, around which in hard zero weather all the family of ten shivered, and beneath which in the morning we found our socks and coarse, soggy boots frozen solid.” Thus, with perceptive eye for detail, the American naturalist, John Muir, describes life on a pioneer Wisconsin farm in the 1850’s. Muir was only eleven years old when his father uprooted the family from a relatively comfortable life in Dunbar, Scotland, to settle in the backwoods of North America.

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The Satires

The Satires by Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis

The Satires by Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis

Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD. The details of the author’s life are unclear, although references within his text to known persons of the late 1st and early 2nd centuries AD fix his terminus post quem (earliest date of composition). The Satires are a collection of satirical poems by Juvenal written in the late 1st and early 2nd centuries AD. Juvenal is credited with sixteen known poems divided among five books; all are in the Roman genre of satire, which, at its most basic in the time of the author, comprised a wide-ranging discussion of society and social mores in dactylic hexameter. These five books were discrete works, and there is no reason to assume that they were published at the same time or that they are identical in theme or in approach. The poems are not individually titled, but translators have often added titles for the convenience of readers. (Summary by wikipedia)

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San Francisco During April 1906

San Francisco During April 1906 by James B. Stetson

San Francisco During April 1906 by James B. Stetson

A first hand account essay of the earthquakes that shook San Francisco during 1906

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La Constantin

La Constantin by Alexandre Dumas

La Constantin by Alexandre Dumas

Dumas chronicles the court intrigues that led to the execution of Marie La Roux Constantin. La dame Constantin was known by French nobility in the 17th century as the “midwife to the Queen’s daughters.” This title was, in reality, a dark jest as her business was providing dangerous (often maternally fatal) abortions to women ensnared in the machinations of powerful noblemen. This case also highlights how strongly gender inequalities permeated the justice system of this time as reviews by historians, like Dr. Leigh Whaley, found La Constantin was condemned “without any tangible evidence against her.”

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