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Cover of The Splendid Idle Forties
by Gertrude Atherton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30, 1857 June 14, 1948) was an American writer…. She eloped with George H.B. Atherton when she was only 19, and had two children. Her husband discouraged her writing; and the serial publication of her first novel, The Randolphs of Redwoods...
Cover of Remember the Alamo
by Amelia Barr
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Amelia Edith Barr (Huddleston) (born March 29, 1831 in Ulverston, Lancashire, England, died March 10, 1919) was a British American novelist.
Cover of Australian Poetry: C. J. Dennis
by Clarence James Dennis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

This file includes: The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, Digger Smith, and The Glugs of Gosh. Clarence James DennisAccording to Wikipedia: "Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis, better known as C. J. Dennis, (7 September 1876 - 22 June 1938) was an Australian poet famous for his humorous poems, especially "The Sentimental Bloke", published in the early 20th century."
Cover of Songs of a Sentimental Bloke
by Clarence James Dennis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis, better known as C. J. Dennis, (7 September 1876 - 22 June 1938) was an Australian poet famous for his humorous poems, especially "The Sentimental Bloke", published in the early 20th century."
Cover of The Professor at the Breakfast Table
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., (August 29, 1809 October 7, 1894) was an American physician and professor who also achieved fame as a writer. During his lifetime, he was one of the best regarded poets of the 19th century and is considered a member of the Fireside Poets."
Cover of A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After: Adapted from "The Americanization of Edward Bok"
by Edward Bok
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Autobiography of an immigrant to America, first published in 1921.
Cover of The Wit and Humor of America Volume 9
by Marshall P. Wilder
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

First published in 1907, this large collection includes short humorous prose and verse by such writers as James Whitcomb Riley, Carolyn Wells, Bill Nye, William Henry Drummond, John Kendrick Bangs, and Eugene Field.
Cover of Romanzero, poetry collection in German
by Heinrich Heine
Language: German
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (13 December 1797 in Düsseldorf 17 February 1856 in Paris) was a journalist, essayist, and one of the most significant German romantic poets. He is remembered chiefly for selections of his lyric poetry, many of which were set to music in the form of lieder (art songs) by German composers."
Cover of The Homesteaders: A Novel of the Canadian West
by Robert J. C. Stead
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Robert James Campbell Stead (4 September 1880 - 1959) was born at Middleville, Ontario. The family homesteaded at Cartwright, Manitoba in 1882. Robert J.C. Stead began a weekly newspaper in Cartwright in 1899, at the age of 18 years. His first book, The Empire Builders and Other...
Cover of The Story of Isaac Brock: Hero, Defender and Saviour of Upper Canada, 1812
by Walter R. Nursey
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by total area,[6] and shares land borders with the United...
Cover of Canada: the Empire of the North, being the romantic story of the new dominion's growth from colony to kingdom
by Agnes C. Laut
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

First published in 1909. "To re-create the shadowy figures of the heroic past, to clothe the dead once more in flesh and blood, to set the puppets of the play in life's great dramas again upon the stage of action,--frankly, this may not be formal history, but it is what makes the past most real to the...
Cover of Myths of the Rhine (Illustrated)
by Saintine, X. B.
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015

Xavier Boniface Saintine (10 July 1798 21 January 1865) was a French dramatist and novelist... In 1823, he produced a volume of poetry in the manner of the Romanticists, entitled Poèmes, odes, épîtres. In 1836 appeared Picciola, a novel about the comte de Charney, a political prisoner in Piedmont,...
Cover of Young Knights of the Empire, Their Code and Further Scout Yarns
by Baden-Powell, Sir Robert
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015

Popular children's book, set in World War I, first published in 1917.
Cover of Not Like Other Girls
by Rosa Carey
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Popular novel, first published around 1900. According to Wikipedia: "Rosa Nouchette Carey (27 September 1840 9 July 1909) was an English children's novelist."
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