Jim Locke
Wild Bird Guests
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Ernest Baynes
How to entertain them; with chapters on the destruction of birds, their economic and aesthetic values, suggestions for dealing with their en…
William The Outlaw (Abridged)
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Richmal Crompton
This 1927 abridged book contains seven of the ten hilarious adventures by the world's most misunderstood eleven-year-old English boy. - Summ…
The House of Evil
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William Le Queux
Intrigue and murder stemming from excessive greed in upper-class society of England in the early twentieth century.
Sowing and Reaping
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Frances E. W. Harper
This novel is subtitled A Temperance Story, which identifies explicitly the focus of the work. Frances Harper is a Christian moralist and us…
Walker's Appeal
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David Walker
The Appeal grabbed readers’ attention in as dramatic a manner as Walker could have possibly imagined. In her book, Maria W. Stewart and the …
The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer
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Alice Dunbar Nelson
Ms. Pinckney says in her "Forward" to this book the following: "It is against this background of the world need that Mrs. Ali…
Prejudices, Second Series
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H. L. Mencken
Mencken is famous for his sometimes-savage attacks on almost everything humans can in their stupidity and priggishness and prejudice conjure…
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
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Thornton Wilder
The deaths of five people resulting from the collapse of a bridge over a ravine prompts an observer to investigate the lives of the fallen a…
Discoveries: Essays in Literary Criticism
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John Middleton Murry
Introductory Note: I have called these essays and lectures by a title that some people may think presumptuous: first, because it is the titl…
The Uncalled
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
Orphaned Freddie Brent ends up adopted by an old local Christian lady who knows nothing about raising a child. And matters are worsened by h…
True Love: A Story of English Domestic Life
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Sarah Farro
The author is aware that she is entering a field which has been diligently cultivated by the best minds in Europe and America. Her design in…
Chicago May: Her Story
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May Churchill Sharpe
This is a cold-blooded recital of fact, a plain, unvarnished statement from a client to a lawyer. It is the history of the life of a notorio…
We
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Charles Lindbergh
"We" is comprised of two parts. The first ten chapters (sections) where he traces his steady and remarkable genius for flying are …
Finding a Way Out: An Autobiography
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Robert R. Moton
He says about this work: "I have tried to record the events that have given character and colour to my own life, and at the same time t…
The Primitive
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Chester Himes
A nerve-twisting novel of passion and destruction (Summary by a literary critic)
Scarlet Sister Mary
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Julia Peterkin
How did 1929 Pulitzer winner and white plantation mistress Julia Peterkin become a favorite of the Harlem Renaissance? According to W.E.B. D…
The Love of Landry
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Love of Landry is one of Dunbar's four novels, and one of three that are about white people. In this case, the story is about the recupe…
The State of Society in France Before the Revolution of 1789
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Alexis de Tocqueville and Alexis De Tocqueville
A thorough analysis of the social, religious, and political dynamics of French society which led to the French Revolution.
The Forged Note: A Romance of the Darker Races
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Oscar Micheaux
This novel investigates the black urban community of the early twentieth century, highlighting the base degradation and violence there. But …
The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories
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Alice Dunbar Nelson
These stories focus on the Creole society of New Orleans and in the process reveals issues facing black Americans at the end of the nineteen…