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The Chronicles of America Volume 01 - The Red Man's Continent

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Ellsworth Huntington



Characteristics of the peoples and environment of the earliest stages of America. - Summary by Jim LockeGroup: Chronicles of America Series

The Chronicles of America Volume 02 - The Spanish Conquerors

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Irving Berdine Richman



A discussion of the adventures of the Spanish explorers from Columbus to Pizarro. - Summary by Jim LockeGroup: Chronicles of America Series

Paul Clifford

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton



Most men who with some earnestness of mind examine into the mysteries of our social state will perhaps pass through that stage of self-educa…

The Chronicles of America Volume 03 - Elizabethan Sea-Dogs

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William Wood



Citizen, colonist, pioneer! These three words carry the history of the United States back to its earliest form in 'the New World called Amer…

Heroines of Fiction

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William Dean Howells



This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bro…

Transition

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Emma Francis Brooke



Honora Klaper is beautiful, distinguished, smart, and charming. A woman who turns heads. She is on an errand. No, it is not an errand to get…

The Chronicles of America Volume 04 - Crusaders of New France

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William Bennett Munro



The previous volumes in the Chronicles of America series placed Spain and England at the fore in the discovery and development of the New Wo…

The Chronicles of America Volume 05 - Pioneers of the Old South

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Mary Johnston



In this remarkably detailed and sweeping fifth installment, Mary Johnston takes us from discoveries and settlements to the evolution into th…

The Frozen North

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Richard Mayde



It is in this world that Mayde has created his fascinating The Frozen North: "Great as are the barren grounds, or tundri, as they are c…

Biography of an American Bondman, By His Daughter

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Josephine Brown



Josephine Brown's Biography of an American Bondsman faithfully follows the trajectory of her father's life as previously explored in his own…

Our Friend The Charlatan

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George Gissing



Dice Lashmore will do everything he can in in his quest to become rich. The key is, of course, finding a rich wife. This book describes his …

Doctor Luttrell's First Patient

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Rosa Nouchette Carey



Doctor Markus Luttrell and his new wife Olivia, a former governess, are trying to start building their nest. Problems arise when doctor Lutt…

The Chronicles of America Volume 06 - The Fathers of New England

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Charles Andrews, Charles Mclean Andrews and Charles Morris



This sixth installment in the series, as one would expect, deals with events in the northern settlements that were taking place at the same …

The Chronicles of America Volume 07 - Dutch and English on the Hudson

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Maud Wilder Goodwin



Geography is the maker of history. The course of Dutch settlement in America was predetermined by a river which runs its length of a hundred…

My Bondage and My Freedom

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Frederick Douglass



The life of Frederick Douglass, recorded in the pages which follow, is not merely an example of self elevation under the most adverse circum…

The Inheritance

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Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier



"As the noblest attribute of man, family pride had been cherished time immemorial by the noble race of Rossville. Deep and incurable, t…

Sons of Fire

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon



"He was a stranger in Matcham, a 'foreigner' as the villagers called such alien visitors. He had never been in the village before, knew…

The Chronicles of America Volume 09 - Colonial Folkways

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Charles Mclean Andrews and Charles Morris



This work according to the subtitle is "a chronicle of American life in the reign of the Georges." It describes land, locales, hou…

The Chouans

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Honoré de Balzac



Les Chouans is one of the novels in Balzac's series La Comedie Humaine. Its ostensible focus is a historical military conflict, but it also …

The Chronicles of America Volume 08 - The Quaker Colonies

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Sydney Fisher



The Quaker Colonies describes the Quaker emigration to the colonies in the sixteen and seventeen hundreds and at the same time its involveme…

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