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A Winter of Content
A charming memoir recounting 10 months spent among the country people of Ontario at the outbreak of the Great War. Resplendent in its descri…
Isles of Eden
A charming and thoughtful view of life in Canada experienced while vacationing on a small island in summer. The author is a women who is ind…
Frank Merriwell at Yale
Gilbert Patten, writing under the pen name of Burt L. Standish, wrote innumerable novels that were very popular in their time. His Frank Mer…
Your Negro Neighbor
An historical and sociological view of race relations in America as it pertains to the African-American. - Summary by KevinS
The Life of Josiah Henson
The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself is an autobiographical narrative given by J…
The Old Peabody Pew
A charming tale of a small New England congregation preparing for Christmas and the unexpected arrival of a woman's long held hope. - Summar…
Travels in Brazil
A well-written and informative first-hand account of a young man's travels within Brazil during the period shortly before Brazil's independe…
In Italy with the 332nd Infantry
A brief, personal recounting of the 332nd Infantry in World War I, including training in America, a brief billet in France, activities in It…
Above the French Lines
A collection of letters written by Stuart Walcott while training to be an aviator in France to prepare for combat. Walcott died in his first…
Ante-Nicene Christian Library
This LibriVox collection is the second volume in a series of New Testament Apocrypha. - Summary by KevinS
The Brown Brethren
The Brown Brethren tells the story of friends and comrades who fought together during World War I on the Western Front. The principal charac…
All Else Is Folly
This novel, published in 1929, more than a decade after the close of the First World War, is an insightful and disturbing view of a Canadian…
Ruth Fielding At the War Front
Ruth Fielding, a Red Cross worker in France during the First World War must travel behind enemy lines to find a lost American soldier. An ex…
Secrets of the Friendly Woods
Rex Brasher is best known for his having painted in watercolor a complete set of all the extant American birds during his lifetime. This is …
The African Problem and the Peace Settlement
In this essay, the author directs our attention on the African continent and describes how the exploitation and colonization of Africa by Eu…
in our time
This is the first edition of Hemingway's in our time, published in a very small run in France in 1924. And American edition was released the…
On Being Negro in America
A penetrating, insightful, and thoroughly honest view of one's life in the United States as an African-American. - Summary by KevinS
Travels in Brazil
A well-written and informative first-hand account of a young man's travels within Brazil during the period shortly before Brazil's independe…
England In The Middle Ages
A short study examining the historical framework of England from the period of the Norman Conquest to the end of the fifteenth century.The p…
Child Whispers
Enid Blyton's first published book; a short collection of poetry (28 poems and a short introduction.) - Summary by Peter Why