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15/06/2024
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Red Cross Girls With The Russian Army

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Red Cross girls Nona, Mildred, and Barbara continue their nursing on the unfamiliar Russian frontier. In the course of their work, Mildred encounters a distinguished Russian general, while Barbara battles homesickness and her growing longing for Dick. At the same time, Nona renews an old acquaintance and makes several shocking discoveries. But when Nona’s friend is arrested and the girls are separated on the eve of battle, it will take all their courage and judgment to see them safely through the danger. Summary by BookAngel7.     [chương_files]  

15/06/2024
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National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 – 05. May 1896

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The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the May Number. It includes the following articles: * Africa Since 1888, by Hon. Gardiner G. Hubbard, LL. D. * Fundamental Geographic Relation of the Three Americas, by Robert T. Hill * The Kansas River, by Arthur P. Davis * Annual Report of the Superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, by Herbert G. Ogden along with geographic literature, and a few miscellaneous notes.     [chương_files]  

15/06/2024
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Odyssey for Boys and Girls

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A retelling of the adventures of Ulysses, including his adventures both the Cyclops and Circe, as he journeys home to his home of Ithaca. The story then continues to include his quest to rejoin his wife and family of whom he has been separated from for twenty years. This is Homer’s Odyssey for the younger set. (Summary by Ginny Blankenship)     [chương_files]  

15/06/2024
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Child of the Moat

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Ian Holborn (professor of archaeology and a writer) was on board the RMS Lusitania when it was torpedoed, and as it sank he rescued a 12 year old girl named Avis Dolphin. She later complained that books for girls were not very interesting, so he decided to write one for her “as thrilling as any book written for boys!” This book is dedicated to her. From the Preface: This story is not written for grown-ups, and if they want to know why it begins with such a gruesome first chapter, let them ask the children. Children like the horrors first and the end all bright. Many grown-ups like the tragedy at the end. But perhaps the children are right and the grown-ups are standing on their heads. – Summary by Beth Thomas     [chương_files]  

15/06/2024
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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 043

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Nineteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the role of “people of color” in New Orleans and Louisiana history, the question of voting rights for Blacks after the Civil War; W.E.B.Du Bois on the American Negro Academy, and a biography of Harriet Tubman; Irish patriot Robert Everet’s execution appeal; Swendenborg and spiritism; the optics of the kaleidoscope; the daily life of sailors and housewives; the relation of meteor showers to a massive earthquake in 1755; John Ruskin; Friedrich Schelling; Bramah’s Kai Lung stories; and articles on the bottlenose whale and botrytis mold. (Summary by Sue Anderson)     [chương_files]  

15/06/2024
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Boy Scouts on the Trail

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The Silver Fox Patrol is up in the Maine Woods, hiking and hunting for big game. The boys find out that guns, and other explosives, can be fun, and dangerous, too! But all the fun comes to an end when some fugitives enter the woods nearby. Herbert Carter is one of many pseudonyms used by St George Rathborne. (Summary by Ann Boulais)     [chương_files]  

15/06/2024
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When Shadows Die

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A sequel to “Her Mothers Secret” and “Love’s Bitterest Cup” (Bridget Gaige)     [chương_files]  

15/06/2024
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Shandygaff

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A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life & Letters, interspersed with Short Stories & Skits, the whole most Diverting to the Reader. (Title page) SHANDYGAFF: a very refreshing drink, being a mixture of bitter ale or beer and ginger-beer, commonly drunk by the lower classes in England, and by strolling tinkers, low church parsons, newspaper men, journalists, and prizefighters. Said to have been invented by Henry VIII as a solace for his matrimonial difficulties. It is believed that a continual bibbing of shandygaff saps the will, the nerves, the resolution, and the finer faculties, but there are those who will abide no other tipple. (John Mistletoe: Dictionary of Deplorable Facts.) Christopher Morley (1890 – 1957) was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet. Here are thirty-five of his humorous essays. – Summary by Book Preface and david wales     [chương_files]  

15/06/2024
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Nursery ”Alice”

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A shortened version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland . . . adapted by the author himself for children “from nought to five”. . . . It is written as though the story is being read aloud by someone who is also talking to the child listener, with many interpolations by the author, pointing out details in the pictures and asking questions, such as “Which would you have liked the best, do you think, to be a little tiny Alice, no larger than a kitten, or a great tall Alice, with your head always knocking against the ceiling?” There are also additions, such as an anecdote about a puppy called Dash, and an explanation of the word “foxglove”. – Summary by Wikipedia     [chương_files]  

14/06/2024
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Secret Pact

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PENNY PARKER is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysteries. The only daughter of widower Anthony Parker, publisher of the “Riverview Star,” Penny has been raised to be self-sufficient, outspoken, innovative, and extraordinarily tenacious. Her cheerful, chatty manner belies a shrewd and keenly observant mind. Penny was the creation of Mildred A. Wirt, who was also the author of the original Nancy Drew series (under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene). Wirt became frustrated when she was pushed to “tone down” Nancy Drew and make her less independent and daring. With Penny Parker, Wirt had a freer hand and received full credit. Wirt once said, ” ‘I always thought Penny Parker was a better Nancy Drew than Nancy is.” In THE SECRET PACT, Penny sees a man savagely pushed off a bridge into the river one foggy night. The man is rescued, but his stubborn denial of the attack, combined with the grotesque octopus tattoo he bears on his back, alerts Penny to the possibility of a deeper mystery. When her editor father, reporter friends, and even the highschool newspaper all reject her story about the incident, she takes matters into her own hands. With her friend Louise’s help, Penny starts her own local paper, operating out of a formerly abandoned newspaper plant. As new clues emerge to the “Octopus tattoo” mystery, she enlists the help of anyone willing, even persuading Mrs. Weems to go “under cover.” Nothing, not even threats […]