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What Dress Makes of Us
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Dorothy Quigley
A wickedly funny book of advice on women's dress. However old, fat or plain you are, Dorothy Quigley will tell you what not to wear. (Summar…
Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago
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Hannah Trager
Hannah Trager published Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago in 1926, so the book is a portrait of day to day life for a Jewish fami…
Hunting Dogs
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Oliver Hartley
The title of this book quotes its object. To tell something of night hunting, and especially to suggest how the ever necessary dog can best …
Epitome of the Formula of Concord
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Jakob Andreae
Formula of Concord (1577) is an authoritative Lutheran statement of faith (called a confession, creed, or "symbol") that, in its t…
The Masque of Anarchy
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Masque of Anarchy was Shelley's response to the Peterloo massacre at St Peter's Fields, Manchester, where 18 died and hundreds were inju…
Good Things to Eat As Suggested By Rufus
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Rufus Estes
Rufus Estes was born a slave in 1857 in Tennessee, and experienced first hand the turmoil of the Civil War. He began working in a Nashville …
Enquire Within Upon Everything
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Robert Kemp Philp
Enquire Within Upon Everything was a book of how to do things in domestic life It was first published in 1856 by Houlston and Sons of Patern…
Hallel (Psalms 113-118) (JPSA)
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Jewish Publication Society Of America
Hallel (Hebrew: הלל "Praise [God]") is part of Judaism's prayers, a verbatim recitation from Psalms 113-118, which is used for pr…
The Andes and The Amazon
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James Orton
This book, with the subtitle "Across the Continent of South America" describes the scientific expedition of 1867 to the equatorial…
The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children
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Jane Andrews
"You may think that Mother Nature, like the famous "old woman who lived in the shoe," has so many children that she doesn't k…
Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman
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Martha Summerhayes
"This is the lively autobiography of Martha Summerhayes, the wife of an officer in the American Army. Here, she tells many stories abou…
The Roaring Girl
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Thomas Middleton
The Roaring Girl is a rip-roaring Jacobean comedy co-written by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker and first published in 1611. The play is …
Old Ireland
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Walt Whitman
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Old Ireland by Walt Whitman. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 1st, 2010.
The Secret Doctrine, Volume I. Cosmogenesis. Part II. The Evolution Of Symbolism
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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
In this work of comparative religion, ontology and epistemology, Mme. Blavatsky presents science as a belief system of as much value as othe…
Coffee Break Collection 006 - Food and Drink
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Various
This is the sixth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in leng…
The Autobiography of Mother Jones
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Mary Harris Jones
Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones) was a legendary labor organizer. She was a founding member of the International Workers of the World (the I…
The Tale of Master Meadow Mouse
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Arthur Scott Bailey
This volume in the series, Sleepy-Time Tales, follows the adventures of Master Meadow Mouse as he moves his home to various (safer) places, …
Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History
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Allen H. Godbey
"Mankind is constantly astonished by reports of mishaps and disasters of manifold character, when there is seldom room for astonishment…
Old Chants
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Walt Whitman
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Old Chants by Walt Whitman. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 15, 2011.Walter &…
Treatise on Light
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Christiaan Huygens
Treatise on Light was published in 1690 and is probably the largest scientific volume on light published before Newton's Opticks. The book e…