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By: Robert Shea (1933-1994) | |
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The Helpful Robots |
By: Charles Louis Fontenay (1917-2007) | |
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Service with a Smile | |
The Jupiter Weapon | |
Disqualified |
By: Robert Shea (1933-1994) | |
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Resurrection | |
Mutineer |
By: Charles Louis Fontenay (1917-2007) | |
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The Gift Bearer | |
Wind | |
Atom Drive |
By: Robert Shea (1933-1994) | |
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Star Performer |
By: Eliza Leslie (1787-1858) | |
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Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches | |
Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes and Sweetmeats, by Miss Leslie | |
Stories for Helen |
By: James Monteith | |
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First Lessons in Geography |
By: Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) | |
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The Orchestral Conductor Theory of His Art |
By: Dorothy Richardson (1873-1957) | |
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Pointed Roofs
Miriam Henderson is one of what novelist Dolf Wyllarde (in her great work, The Pathway of the Pioneer) termed "nous autres," i.e., young gentlewomen who must venture forth and earn their living after their fathers have been financially ruined. Also, she has read Villette; she thus applies for and is offered a job teaching conversational English at a girls' school, albeit in Germany rather than France. Pointed Roofs describes her year abroad, as she endeavors to make her way in the hotbed of seething female personalities that populate the school, overseen by her employer, the formidable Fraulein... | |
The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself |
By: St. Catherine of Genoa (1447-1510) | |
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Treatise on Purgatory
Saint Catherine of Genoa (Caterina Fieschi Adorno, born Genoa 1447 – 15 September 1510) is an Italian Roman Catholic saint and mystic, admired for her work among the sick and the poor. She was a member of the noble Fieschi family, and spent most of her life and her means serving the sick, especially during the plague which ravaged Genoa in 1497 and 1501. She died in that city in 1510.In 1551, 41 years after her death, a book about her life and teaching was published, entitled Libro de la vita mirabile et dottrina santa de la Beata Caterinetta de Genoa... |
By: Pliny the Younger (61 - ca. 112) | |
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Letters of Pliny
The largest surviving body of Pliny's work is his Epistulae (Letters), a series of personal missives directed to his friends, associates and the Emperor Trajan. These letters are a unique testimony of Roman administrative history and everyday life in the 1st century CE. Especially noteworthy among the letters are two in which he describes the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in August 79, during which his uncle Pliny the Elder died (65 and 66 in this edition), and one in which he asks the Emperor for instructions regarding official policy concerning Christians (Trajan Letter 97)... |
By: William Charles Henry Wood (1864-1947) | |
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Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray | |
Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas |
By: the Younger Pliny (62?-113) | |
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Letters of the Younger Pliny, First Series — Volume 1 |