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Makers of Many Things
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Eva March Tappan
How are friction matches made? How do rags and trees become paper? Who makes the dishes on our tables? Published in 1916, this children's bo…
Clinical Medicine For Nurses
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Paul H. Ringer
The basics of clinical medicine for nurses in WWI-era America from a series of lectures by the author, an Asheville, NC physician. - Summary…
The Golden Bough: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, Volume 1
Read by Leon Harvey
James Frazer
The first volume in Frazer's seminal 12 volume set on anthropology and traditional systems of belief. Topics covered include extensive discu…
The Ideal Bartender
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Tom Bullock
The book was written by Tom Bullock, a well-known bartender at the St. Louis Country Club. His skills as a bartender were so remarkable that…
Commentary On The Book Of Genesis
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Matthew Henry
This is another commentary by Matthew Henry, well known for his commentaries on the Bible, this one is on Genesis, the first book of the Bib…
The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing
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Joseph Trienens and Joseph Triemens
Written in 1910, this "cyclopedia" is full of information that was quite useful at the time. A hundred years later, its text is mo…
1001 Questions and Answers on English Grammar
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Benjamin Hathaway
A book for students interested in finding out how many things about the English language have changed, and how many have weathered the test …
Carpenter's Geographical Reader: Europe
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Frank G. Carpenter
The book tries to give its young readers a living knowledge of Europe. The author conducts tours through various parts of Europe giving a gl…
Plan and Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Samuel Johnson
The published dictionary was a huge book: with pages nearly 1½ feet tall and 20 inches wide, it contained 42,773 words; it also sold …
Dwarf Fruit Trees
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Frank Albert Waugh
This book is a handbook for the home orchardist. The propagation, pruning, choice of variety, and management of dwarf fruit trees, specifica…
Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe
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Charlotte Mary Yonge
Travel with Little Lucy around the globe and learn a little geography and small bits about other cultures.(Summary by Laura Caldwell)
Carpenter's Geographical Reader: Australia and the Islands
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Frank G. Carpenter
The purpose of this book is to give the children who read it a living knowledge of Australia and the chief islands of the world, and especia…
A Guide to Mythology
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Helen Clarke
My aim in this book on Mythology for young readers has been to give them solid knowledge on the subject, as far as it is advisable to go wit…
Ontario Public School Geography
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Unknown
This Ontario Public School textbook, published in 1922, contains some fascinating facts of a world which no longer exists. It seems politica…
Carpenter's Geographical Reader: South America
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Frank G. Carpenter
In this book the children are taken by the author upon a personally conducted tour through the most characteristic parts of the South Americ…
A Soup of Alphabets from A-Z
Read by Sam Stinson
Various
A collection of children's alphabet rhymes including Footsteps On the Road to Learning - a short text from 1850 which teaches children the …
Instructions to Light Keepers
Read by Maria Kasper
United States Lighthouse Board
"Office of the Light-House Board, Washington, D.C. July 1, 1881. The following Instructions are published for the guidance of light-kee…
Carpenter's Geographical Reader: North America
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Frank G. Carpenter
The purpose of this book is to give to its readers a living knowledge of some of the wonders of the country and continent in which they live…
The Boys' and Girls' Pliny Vol. 1
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Pliny the Elder and John S. White
The Natural History of Pliny the Elder is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire. The full work consists of …
A Little Candy Book for a Little Girl
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Amy Lane Waterman
Join Betsey Bobbitt, a girl with an undeniable sweet tooth, as she discovers new recipes for candy and sweets to make with the reader. An en…