Self Help

The Flower Garden: A Handbook of Practical Garden Lore

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Ida Dandridge Bennett


This book is a good reference on the perennial flower gardening and landscaping. It contains information on growing the plants from seed and…

Cottage Economy

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William Cobbett


How can you tell when your pig is fat enough? Why should you never buy mustard? What's wrong with eating potatoes? Which is better, beer or …

Industrial Conspiracies

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Clarence Darrow


Publisher's Note.—This address was delivered shortly after Mr. Darrow's triumphant acquittal on a charge growing out of his defense of the M…

Cocoa and Chocolate

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Arthur William Knapp


As that heavenly bit of chocolate melts in our mouths, we give little thought as to where it came from, the arduous work that went in to its…

The Compleat Angler

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Izaak Walton


The Compleat Angler is a celebration of the art and spirit of fishing in prose and verse. Walton did not profess to be an expert with the fl…

Acres of Diamonds (Version 2)

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Russell Conwell


One of the most requested motivational lectures of all time. "I say that you ought to get rich, and it is your duty to get rich ... Th…

The Morals (Moralia), Book 2

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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus


The Moralia (loosely translatable as "Matters relating to customs") of the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea is an e…

The Prairie Traveler

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Randolph B. Marcy


Commissioned by the US War Department and written in 1859 by a decorated US Army captain, The Prairie Traveler is a complete how-to travel g…

Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers

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Elizabeth E. Lea


The compiler of [this book] having entered early in life upon a train of duties, was frequently embarrassed by her ignorance of domestic aff…

Beautiful Girlhood

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Mabel Hale


The transitioning years between girlhood and womanhood are an exciting time for a girl, as well as tumultuous and confusing. Beautiful Girlh…

Hope for the Brokenhearted: Biblical Solutions for Survivors of Abuse and Rape

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Todd R. Cook


This book does not dig into your past. Instead it presents practical answers to the problems and struggles that survivors of abuse and rape …

The Complete Book of Cheese

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Bob Brown


Bob Brown, after living thirty years in as many foreign lands and enjoying countless national cheeses at the source, returned to New York an…

Wherein?

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G. Campbell Morgan


These studies in the book of Malachi were delivered as addresses to the students at Mr. Moody’s Bible School in Chicago, and then to my own …

The Feast of St. Friend

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Arnold Bennett


In The Feast of St. Friend, a Christmas book, Arnold Bennett shares his views on Christmas as the season of goodwill. As always, Bennett's w…

Concise Commentary on the Bible - Book of Matthew

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Matthew Henry


Spiritual and practical lessons are extracted from every verse of the Book of Matthew, as well as detailed explanation of the text. The Book…

How to Tell Stories to Children

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Sara Cone Bryant


Sarah Cone Bryant was an educator and storyteller who wrote several books on the importance of oral storytelling to children, and stories to…

Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers

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Charles E. Jefferson


Charles Edward Jefferson was pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle in Brooklyn, New York for 33 years. In Quiet Hints, published in 1901, he pro…

The Art of Conversation: Twelve Golden Rules

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Josephine Turck Baker


Many of us find it challenging to speak to other people, for various reasons. Some of us are afraid of being called a bore. Others are worri…

Happy Homes and the Hearts that Make Them: Or Thrifty People and why They Thrive

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Samuel Smiles


Samuel Smiles was a Scottish author and government reformer, but he concluded that more progress would come from new attitudes than from new…

A Chesterton Calendar

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G. K. Chesterton


Go through the year, day by day, with the wit and wisdom of G.K. Chesterton! Compiled from the writings of 'G.K.C', both in verse and in pro…

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