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The Ontario Readers: Third Book

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The Ontario Readers is a school book first published in 1919, by the Ontario Ministry of Education, containing short excerpts of literary wo…

Bill Nye's Cordwood

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Bill Nye


From Galileo to Grover Cleveland, from wasps to cattle, from dinosaurs to the railroad, Bill Nye's wide ranging wit pokes gentle fun at ever…

The Jumble Book

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David Cory


This is a lovely collection of short stories and poems some well known others not so well known. Something to appeal to everyone. (Summary b…

Richard Cory

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Edwin Arlington Robinson


This was the weekly poetry project for 3 June 2006. Many “character” poems cut straight to the inmost psychology of their subjects, but here…

Modern Essays

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Christopher Morley


Thirty three essays by more or less well-known authors of Britain, the United States, and Canada, each fronted by an introductory paragraph.…

The Journal of a Disappointed Man

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W. N. P. Barbellion


The journal of British naturalist Bruce Frederick Cummings, spanning from his early childhood through to his early death from complications …

Adam Bede (version 2)

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George Eliot


George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans – an ironic ‘deception’ given that Adam Bede, her first novel, is written unashamedly from a…

The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers Vol. 1

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Robert Henry Newell


These are a collection of humorous "letters" written by a fictional character to a relation in the north during the Civil War. The…

Alan Butler Aiden Dooley's Homecoming


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Afternoon Play: Aiden Dooley's Homecoming Thu 29th May 2003, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM By Alan Butler. After years in artistic exile, world-fa…

How to Write a Novel

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William James Mcglothlin


I address myself to the man or woman of talent—those people who have writing ability, but who need instruction in the manipulation of charac…

Child Whispers

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Enid Blyton


Enid Blyton's first published book; a short collection of poetry (28 poems and a short introduction.) - Summary by Peter Why

Educide

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S. Lawrence Parrish


Meet Avery Carmichael, student-teacher. This year he's teamed up with Mr. Samuel Petersen, veteran teacher. Avery is about to get an educati…

The Sign at Six

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Stewart Edward White


It started out as a nuisance--odd electrical problems in the Atlas building that cleared themselves up. But then it got worse, the problems …

Through Glacier Park, Seeing America First with Howard Eaton

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Mary Roberts Rinehart


This is about a three-hundred mile trip across the Rocky Mountains on horseback with Howard Eaton. It is about fishing, and cool nights arou…

Capitol Coven

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Peter E. Abresch


Ninety percent of the federal laws, resolutions, and appropriations pass or fail in the U. S. Congress by a handful of votes. When Alexand…

Lost Leaders

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Andrew Lang


Andrew Lang, best beloved for his series of fairy books, has collected here essays on wide ranging topics from golf and shaving to Thackeray…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 088

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"With opinions, possession is more than nine points of the law. It is next to impossible to dislodge them." Woodrow Wilson's Study…

Stories I Told Myself

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Patrick E. McLean


Funny, moving and always exquisitely well-produced, this collection of short stories and essays from the award-winning Seanachai podcast is …

Biltmore Oswald

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J. Thorne Smith, Jr.


The hilarious diary of a young man's recruitment into, and service in a navy, which, though well equipped and disciplined, remains woefully …

Tremendous Trifles

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G. K. Chesterton


“None of us think enough of these things on which the eye rests. But don't let us let the eye rest. Why should the eye be so lazy? Let us ex…

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