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Around the Wicket Gate
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Charles H. Spurgeon
Millions of men are in the outlying regions, far off from God and peace; for these we pray, and to these we give warning. But just now we h…
The Secret of Everyday Things
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Jean-Henri Fabre
The clearness, simplicity, and charm of the great French naturalist's style are nowhere better illustrated than in this work, which in its v…
The Borough Treasurer
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J. S. Fletcher
Messrs. Mallalieu and Cotherstone were outsiders who had built a prosperous business in Highmarket and even been elected as Mayor and Treasu…
My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard
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Elizabeth Cooper
"I hope that this book, based on letters shown me many years after they were written, will give a faint idea of the life of a Chinese l…
The Sword of Deborah
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F. Tennyson Jesse
"The Sword of Deborah" contains the reflections of a woman journalist visiting women working behind the lines in France during Wor…
The Pilgrim's Progress (version 2)
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John Bunyan
The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come is a Christian allegory written by John Bunyan and originally published in F…
Hymns and Spiritual Songs
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J. C. Ryle
In sending forth a new collection of Hymns, I feel it necessary to preface the work by a few words of explanation. The volume now in the re…
Pearls
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William John Dakin
"The use of pearls as jewels and their recognition as objects of value date back into the far beyond when the histories of ancient peop…
The Directory of the Devout Life
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Frederick Brotherton Meyer
We can never allow the great objective facts of Christianity, and their attendant doctrines, to sink low on our horizon; but we must give eq…
An English Woman-Sergeant in the Serbian Army
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Flora Sandes
Flora Sandes was the only British woman officially to serve as a soldier in World War I. Initially a St. John Ambulance volunteer, she trave…
Eighteen Months in the War Zone: A Record of a Woman's Work on the Western Front
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Kate John Finzi
"But it is not for those who heard the call in the later months so much as in memory of those early heroes of Mons, who knew the bitter…
A Happy Boy
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Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"A Happy Boy" was written in 1859 and 1860. It is, in my estimation, Bjørnson's best story of peasant life. In it the aut…
Physiology of the Opera
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John H. Swaby
Trust Scrici for a tell all, no holds barred exposé of the modern opera . . . well, modern as of . . . er . . . say, 1852. (Summary …
Lyrics from the Chinese
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Helen Waddell
Thirty-six short Chinese poems from the 12th to the 7th Century B.C. are translated into English by Irish Poet Helen Waddell. Summary by Ma…
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels - St. John Vol. 1
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J. C. Ryle
I send forth the volume now in the reader's hands, with much diffidence, and a very deep sense of responsibility. It is a peculiarly seriou…
Trees Every Child Should Know
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Julia Ellen Rogers
The best time to being to study the trees is to-day! The place to begin is right where you are, provided there is a tree near enough, for a…
Quilts, Their Story and How to Make Them
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Marie D. Webster
Although the quilt is one of the most familiar and necessary articles in our households, its story is yet to be told. In spite of its unive…
History of the World War
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Francis Andrew March
This is a popular narrative history of the world's greatest war. Written frankly from the viewpoint of the United States and the Allies, it…
Religions of Ancient China
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Herbert Allen Giles
An overview of the religions of China, beginning with Fu Hsi, B.C. 2953-2838, and continuing through the 19th Century.
North and South (version 3)
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
North and South is set in the fictional industrial town of Milton in the North of England. Forced to leave her home in the tranquil rural so…