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The Skylark of Space, by Edward Elmer Smith and Lee Hawkins Garby 20869
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Cat and Dog, by Julia Charlotte Maitland 20868
[Subtitle: Memoirs of Puss and the Captain]
[Ill.: Harrison Weir]
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Bolivia, by Emile Barbier 20867
[Full title: Bolivia.--Een in wording zijnde Staat aan den
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[Subtitle: De Aarde en haar Volken, 1907-1908]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/6/20867 ]
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Infantry Drill Regulations, United States Army, 1911, by Department 20866
[Author: United States War Department]
[Subtitle: Corrected to April 15, 1917 (Changes Nos. 1 to 19)]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/6/20866 ]
[Files: 20866.txt; 20866-8.txt; 20866-h.htm; ]
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Bulletin de Lille, 1916.07, by Anonymous 20865
[Subtitle: publié sous le contrôle de l'autorité allemande]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/6/20865 ]
[Files: 20865-8.txt; 20865-h.htm]
La foire aux vanités, Tome II, by William Makepeace Thackeray 20864
[Translator: Georges Guiffrey]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/6/20864 ]
[Files: 20864-8.txt; 20864-h.htm]
Major Vigoureux, by A. T. Quiller-Couch 20863
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Jerry's Reward, by Evelyn Snead Barnett 20862
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Friendship, by Hugh Black 20861
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The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast, by Mr. Roscoe 20860
[Commentator: Charles Welsh]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/6/20860 ]
[Files: 20860.txt; 20860-8.txt; 20860-h.htm]
Wandl the Invader, by Raymond King Cummings 20859
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Ang Bagong Robinson (Tomo 1), by Joachim Heinrich Campe 20858
[Translator: Tomas de Iriarte and Joaquin Tuason]
[Language: Tagalog]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/5/20858 ]
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Spacehounds of IPC, by Edward Elmer Smith 20857
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Ten From Infinity, by Paul W. Fairman 20856
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Estatuto de la L.F (Liga Filipina), by Jose Rizal 20855
[Language: Spanish]
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Muuan suomalainen soturi Kristiina kuningattaren aikakaudella, Jahnsson 20854
[Full author: Evald Ferdinand Jahnsson]
[Language: Finnish]
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Northland Heroes, by Florence Holbrook 20853
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Descripcion del rio Paraguay, by Jose P. Quiroga 20852
[Full title: Descripcion del rio Paraguay, desde la boca del Xauru
hasta la confluencia del Parana]
[Language: Spanish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/5/20852 ]
[Files: 20852-8.txt; 20852-h.htm]
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, by E. Cohen Brewer 20851
[Subtitle: A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3]
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Prince Prigio, by Andrew Lang 20850
[Ill.: Gordon Browne]
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[Files: 20850.txt; 20850-h.htm]
The Big Brother, by George Cary Eggleston 20849
[Subtitle: A Story of Indian War]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/4/20849 ]
[Files: 20849.txt; 20849-8.txt; 20849-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20050810120852eggleston]
An Elementary Study of Chemistry, by McPherson and Henderson 20848
[Full author: William McPherson and William Edwards Henderson]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/4/20848 ]
[Files: 20848.txt; 20848-8.txt; 20848-h.htm]
India: What can it teach us?, by F. Max Müller 20847
[Subtitle: A Course of Lectures Delivered
before the University Of Cambridge]
[Commentator: Alexander Wilder]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/4/20847 ]
[Files: 20847.txt; 20847-8.txt; 20847-0.txt; 20847-h.htm]
Handwork in Wood, by William Noyes 20846
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/4/20846 ]
[Files: 20846.txt; 20846-8.txt; 20846-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20050316123535noyes]
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844, by Various 20845
[Subtitle: Volume 23, Number 4]
[Editor: Lewis Gaylord Clark]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/4/20845 ]
[Files: 20845.txt; 20845-8.txt; 20845-h.htm]
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3), by John Morley 20844
[Subtitle: Essay 5: On Pattison's Memoirs]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/4/20844 ]
[Files: 20844.txt; 20844-8.txt; 20844-h.htm]
Works of Fiction in Modern Times, by Thomas Hill Green 20843
[Full title: An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of
Fiction in Modern Times]
[Editor: Fred Newton Scott]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/4/20843 ]
[Files: 20843.txt; 20843-8.txt; 20843-h.htm]
Dreams, by Henri Bergson 20842
[Translator: Edwin E. Slosson]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/4/20842 ]
[Files: 20842.txt; 20842-8.txt; 20842-h.htm]
Os Pobres, by Raul Brandão 20841
[Contributor: Guerra Junqueiro]
[Language: Portuguese]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/4/20841 ]
[Files: 20841-8.txt]
Rebel Spurs, by Andre Norton 20840
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/4/20840 ]
[Files: 20840.txt; 20840-8.txt; 20840-0.txt; 20840-tei.tei;
20840-h.htm; 20840-pdf.pdf]
The Mountain Chant, A Navajo Ceremony, by Washington Matthews 20839
[Subtitle: Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84,
Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 379-468]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/3/20839 ]
[Files: 20839-8.txt; 20839-0.txt; 20839-h.htm]
The Infra-Medians, by Sewell Peaslee Wright 20838
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/3/20838 ]
[Files: 20838.txt; 20838-8.txt; 20838-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20061114061952wright]
Peggy in Her Blue Frock, by Eliza Orne White 20837
[Illustrator: Alice B. Preston]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/3/20837 ]
[Files: 20837.txt; 20837-h.htm]
Ting-a-ling, by Frank Richard Stockton 20836
[Ill.: E. B. Bensell]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/3/20836 ]
[Files: 20836.txt; 20836-8.txt; 20836-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20060807193806stockton]
The Monctons: A Novel, Volume I, by Susanna Moodie 20835
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/3/20835 ]
[Files: 20835.txt; 20835-8.txt; 20835-h.htm]
Ruth Fielding at the War Front, by Alice B. Emerson 20834
[Subtitle: or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/3/20834 ]
[Files: 20834.txt; 20834-8.txt; 20834-h.htm]
Exciting Adventures of Mister Robert Robin, by Ben Field 20833
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/3/20833 ]
[Files: 20833.txt; 20833-h.htm]
Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes, by Stella M. Francis 20832
[Subtitle: The Quest of a Summer Vacation]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/3/20832 ]
[Files: 20832.txt; 20832-h.htm]
Short Stories of Various Types, by Various 20831
[Editor: Laura F. Freck]
[Contents: The Gift of the Magi, by O. Henry]
[ A Reward of Merit, by Booth Tarkington]
[ "American, Sir!", by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews]
[ John G., by Katherine Mayo]
[ Friends, by Myra Kelly]
[ A Camping Trip, by Hamlin Garland]
[ A Thread Without a Knot, by Dorothy Canfield Fisher]
[ Chu Chu, by Francis Bret Harte]
[ Feathertop, by Nathaniel Hawthorne]
[ The Red-Headed League, by Arthur Conan Doyle]
[ The Inconsiderate Waiter, by James Matthew Barrie]
[ The Siege of Berlin, by Alphonse Daudet]
[ The Silver Mine, by Selma Lagerlf]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/3/20831 ]
[Files: 20831.txt; 20831-8.txt; 20831-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20050909184316freck]
The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book, by Various 20830
[Editor: William F. Bigelow]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/3/20830 ]
[Files: 20830.txt; 20830-8.txt; 20830-h.htm]
Souvenirs de voyage, by M. et Mme Mercier-Thoinnet 20829
[Subtitle: dans le midi de la France... dans la Ligurie, à Gênes,
Rome, Naples... sur l'Adriatique, dans l'Albanie... la
Dalmatie, l'Illyri]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/2/20829 ]
[Files: 20829-8.txt]
Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3), by J. A. Jones 20828
[Full author: James Athearn Jones]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/2/20828 ]
[Files: 20828.txt; 20828-8.txt; 20828-h.htm]
Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3), by J. A. Jones 20827
[Full author: James Athearn Jones]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/2/20827 ]
[Files: 20827.txt; 20827-8.txt; 20827-h.htm]
Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3), by J. A. Jones 20826
[Full author: James Athearn Jones]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/2/20826 ]
[Files: 20826.txt; 20826-8.txt; 20826-h.htm]
Bulletin de Lille, 1916.06, by Anonymous 20825
[Subtitle: publié sous le contrôle de l'autorité allemande]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/2/20825 ]
[Files: 20825-8.txt; 20825-h.htm]
Bulletin de Lille, 1916.05, by Anonymous 20824
[Subtitle: publié sous le contrôle de l'autorité allemande]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/2/20824 ]
[Files: 20824-8.txt; 20824-h.htm]
Bulletin de Lille, 1916.04, by Anonymous 20823
[Subtitle: publié sous le contrôle de l'autorité allemande]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/2/20823 ]
[Files: 20823-8.txt; 20823-h.htm]
The Camp Fire Girls on the March, by Jane L. Stewart 20822
[Subtitle: Bessie King's Test of Friendship]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/2/20822 ]
[Files: 20822.txt; 20822-h.htm]
Betty Wales Senior, by Margaret Warde 20821
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/2/20821 ]
[Files: 20821.txt; 20821-8.txt; 20821-h.htm]
Larawan, by Vincente Rama 20820
[Subtitle: Mga Sugilanon ug Dinalídalí]
[Language: Cebuano]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/2/20820 ]
[Files: 20820-8.txt; 20820-h.htm]
Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women, by George Sumner Weaver 20819
[Subtitle: On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual,
And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress,
Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home
Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood
And Happiness.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/1/20819 ]
[Files: 20819.txt; 20819-8.txt; 20819-h.htm; 20819-page-images.zip]
On the Genesis of Species, by St. George Mivart 20818
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/1/20818 ]
[Files: 20818.txt; 20818-8.txt; 20818-h.htm]
The Death of Saul and Other Eisteddfod Poems, by J. C. Manning 20764
[Full title: The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and
Miscellaneous Verses]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/7/6/20764 ]
[Files: 20764.txt; 20764-8.txt]
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Mar 2007 The Islington Mystery, Arthur Machen [070040xx.xxx] 1493A
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700401.txt or .zip
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Mar 2007 Charles Sturt, J H L Cumpston [070039xx.xxx] 1492A
[Title: Charles Sturt - His Life and Journeys of Exploration]
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20771 Species Plantarum: Monandria, Diandria and Triandria by Carolus
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20772 Agriculture for beginners, Rev. ed. by Charles William Burkett,
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20773 Marchand de Venise by Shakespeare, trans. by M. Guizot. original 1821,
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20774 The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties by Richard Runciman Terry
(1864-1938) 1921
20775 The annals of the Cakchiquels: The original text, with a translation,
notes, and introduction by Francisco Ernantez Arana (fl.1582), trans. by
and edit. by Daniel G. Brinton (1837-1899) 1885 English/Cakchiquel Mayan
20776 Encyclopedia of Needlework, by Therese de Dillmont originally from 1884
20777 R. Caldecott's First Collection of Pictures and Songs
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20778 Sylva, or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees by John Evelyn (1620-1706) 1664
20779 Heimatlos by Johanna Spyri, 1890 German
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20781 Heidi by Johanna Spyri, trans. Elisabeth P. Stork, with an intro
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20783 Como atravessei @frica (v. II), by Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de Serpa
Pinto (aka Serpa Pinto) 1881 Portuguese
20784 Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, ed. John Wesley Powell
20785 Slave Narratives, Oklahoma (A Folk History of Slavery in the United
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The Mother and Her Child, by William S. Sadler and Lena K. Sadler 20817
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/1/20817 ]
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Socialism As It Is, by William English Walling 20816
[Subtitle: A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/1/20816 ]
[Files: 20816.txt; 20816-8.txt; 20816-h.htm]
A Soldier of the Legion, by C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson 20815
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/1/20815 ]
[Files: 20815.txt; 20815-8.txt; 20815-h.htm]
The Psychology of Nations, by G.E. Partridge 20814
[Subtitle: A Contribution to the Philosophy of History]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/1/20814 ]
[Files: 20814.txt; 20814-8.txt; 20814-h.htm]
How Lisa Loved the King, by George Eliot 20813
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History of the English People, Volume III (of 8), by John Richard Green 20812
[Subtitle: The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/1/20812 ]
[Files: 20812.txt; 20812-8.txt; 20812-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: gbn0403132046]
Two Decades, by Frances W. Graham and Georgeanna M. Gardenier 20811
[Subtitle: A History of the First Twenty Years' Work of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union of the State of New York]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/1/20811 ]
[Files: 20811.txt; 20811-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: gbn0301292202]
The "Ladies of Llangollen", by John Hicklin 20810
[Subtitle: as Sketched by Many Hands; with Notices of Other Objects
of Interest in "That Sweetest of Vales"]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/1/20810 ]
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Archie's Mistake, by G. E. Wyatt 20809
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Three People, by Pansy 20808
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Better Dead, by J. M. Barrie 20807
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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 446, by Various 20806
[Subtitle: Volume 18, New Series, July 17, 1852]
[Editor: William Chambers and Robert Chambers]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/0/20806 ]
[Files: 20806.txt; 20806-8.txt; 20806-h.htm]
Lloyd George, by Frank Dilnot 20805
[Subtitle: The Man and His Story]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/0/20805 ]
[Files: 20805.txt; 20805-h.htm]
Lucretia Borgia, by Ferdinand Gregorovius 20804
[Subtitle: According to Original Documents and Correspondence of
Her Day]
[Translator: John Leslie Garner]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/0/20804 ]
[Files: 20804.txt; 20804-8.txt; 20804-h.htm]
The War of Independence, by John Fiske 20803
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/0/20803 ]
[Files: 20803.txt; 20803-8.txt; 20803-h.htm]
Ce la koro de la tero, by Edgar Rice Burroughs 20802C
[Translator: Gary Mickle]
[Language: Esperanto]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/0/20802 ]
[Files: 20802.txt; 20802-0.txt; 20802-h.htm]
Some Remains (hitherto unpublished) of Joseph Butler, LL.D., by Butler 20801
[Author: Joseph Butler]
[Editor: Edward Steere]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/0/20801 ]
[Files: 20801.txt; 20801-h.htm]
London Lectures of 1907, by Annie Besant 20800
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/8/0/20800 ]
[Files: 20800.txt; 20800-8.txt; 20800-0.txt; 20800-h.htm]
Novelleja II, by Samuli Suomalainen 20799
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/7/9/20799 ]
[Files: 20799-8.txt]
The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 28, April 1893, by Various 20798
[Subtitle: An Illustrated Monthly]
[Editor: George Newnes]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/7/9/20798 ]
[Files: 20798.txt; 20798-8.txt; 20798-h.htm]
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 445, by Various 20797
[Subtitle: Volume 18, New Series, July 10, 1852]
[Editor: William Chambers and Robert Chambers]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/7/9/20797 ]
[Files: 20797.txt; 20797-8.txt; 20797-h.htm]
The Colors of Space, by Marion Zimmer Bradley 20796
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/7/9/20796 ]
[Files: 20796.txt; 20796-8.txt; 20796-h.htm]
The Cricket on the Hearth, by Charles Dickens 20795
[Illustrator: George Alfred Williams]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/7/9/20795 ]
[Files: 20795.txt; 20795-h.htm]
[See also etext #678 which was taken from a different print edition]
Majoor Frans, by Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint 20794
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/7/9/20794 ]
[Files: 20794-8.txt; 20794-h.htm]
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 443, by Various 20793
[Subtitle: Volume 17, New Series, June 26, 1852]
[Editor: Robert Chambers and William Chambers]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/7/9/20793 ]
[Files: 20793.txt; 20793-8.txt; 20793-h.htm]
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 442, by Various 20792
[Subtitle: Volume 17, New Series, June 19, 1852]
[Editor: Robert Chambers and William Chambers]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/7/9/20792 ]
[Files: 20792.txt; 20792-8.txt; 20792-h.htm]
For Love of Country, by Cyrus Townsend Brady 20791
[Subtitle: A Story of Land and Sea in the Days of the Revolution]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/7/9/20791 ]
[Files: 20791.txt; 20791-8.txt]
Nouvelles histoires extraordinaires, by Edgar Allan Poe 20790
[Translator: Charles Baudelaire]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/7/9/20790 ]
[Files: 20790-8.txt; 20790-0.txt; 20790-h.htm]
The Grammar School Boys Snowbound, by H. Irving Hancock 20789
[Subtitle: or, Dick & Co. at Winter Sports]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/7/8/20789 ]
[Files: 20789.txt; 20789-h.htm]
Storm Over Warlock, by Andre Norton 20788
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/7/8/20788 ]
[Files: 20788.txt; 20788-8.txt; 20788-h.htm]
Punctuation, by Frederick W. Hamilton 20787
[Subtitle: A Primer of Information about the Marks of Punctuation and
their Use Both Grammatically and Typographically]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/7/8/20787 ]
[Files: 20787.txt; 20787-8.txt; 20787-h.htm]
An heiligen Wassern, by Jakob Christoph Heer 20786
[Subtitle: Roman aus dem schweizerischen Hochgebirge ]
[Language: German ]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/0/7/8/20786 ]
[Files: 20786-8.txt; 20786-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20051212125009heer ]
Slave Narratives, Oklahoma, by Various 20785
[Subtitle: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From
Interviews with Former Slaves]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/7/8/20785 ]
[Files: 20785.txt; 20785-8.txt; 20785-h.htm]
Eighth Annual Report, by Various 20784
[Subtitle: of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing
Office, Washington, 1891]
[Editor: John Wesley Powell]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/7/8/20784 ]
[Files: 20784.txt; 20784-8.txt; 20784-0.txt; 20784-h.htm]
Como atravessei Àfrica (Volume II), by A. A. da Rocha de Serpa Pinto 20783
[Full author: Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de Serpa Pinto]
[Language: Portuguese]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/7/8/20783 ]
[Files: 20783-8.txt; 20783-h.htm]
Triplanetary, by Edward Elmer Smith 20782
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/7/8/20782 ]
[Files: 20782.txt; 20782-h.htm]
Heidi, by Johanna Spyri 20781
[Subtitle: (Gift Edition)]
[Commentator: Charles Wharton Stork]
[Illustrator: Maria Kirk]
[Translator: Elisabeth Stork]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/7/8/20781 ]
[Files: 20781.txt; 20781-8.txt; 20781-h.htm]
Heimatlos, by Johanna Spyri 20780
[Subtitle: Geschichten für Kinder und auch für solche, welche die
Kinder lieb haben, 1. Band]
[Language: German]
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Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2), by John Evelyn 20778
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R. Caldecott's First Collection of Pictures and Songs, by Various 20777
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Encyclopedia of Needlework, by Thérèse de Dillmont 20776
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The Annals of the Cakchiquels, by Daniel G. Brinton 20775
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Le marchand de Venise, by William Shakespeare 20773
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Agriculture for Beginners, by Burkett, Stevens and Hill 20772
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Species Plantarum, by Carolus Linnaeus 20771
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Apple Growing, by M. C. Burritt 20770
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A Field Book of the Stars, by William Tyler Olcott 20769
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Memories and Studies, by William James 20768
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The Life of Mansie Wauch, by David Macbeth Moir 20767
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Diary of Anna Green Winslow, by Anna Green Winslow 20765
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