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Alice Prescott Smith Montlivet

Fiction
English
97543 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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The May Sun Was Shining On Michillimackinac, And I, Armand De Montlivet, Was Walking The Strip Of Beach In Front Of The French Garrison. I Did Not Belong To Michillimackinac. I Had Come In Only The Day Before With Two Canoes And Four Men, And I Was Bound For The Beaver Lands Further West. A Halt Was Necessary, For The Trip Had Been Severe, And Remembering That It Was Necessity, And Not Idleness, That Held Me, I Was Enjoying The Respite. My Heart Was Light, And Since The Heart Is Mistress Of The Heels, I Walked Somewhat Trippingly. I Was On Good Terms With Myself At The Moment. My Venture Was Going Well, And I Was Glad To Be Alone, And Breathe Deep Of The Sweet Spring Air, And Let My Soul Grow Big With The Consciousness Of What It Would Like To Do. So Content Was I, That I Was Annoyed To See La Mothe-Cadillac Approach. Yet Cadillac Was Important To Me Then. He Was Commandant At Michillimackinac,--The Year Was 1695,--And So Was In Control Of The Strategic Point Of Western New France. [more]

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MARGARET DIXON McDOUGAL THE LETTERS OF "NORAH" ON HER TOUR THROUGH IRELAND

BEING A SERIES OF LETTERS TO THE MONTREAL "WITNESS" AS SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT TO IRELAND

Letters
English
106277 Words
Ages 18 and up
1
0

On January 27th I bade good-bye to my friends and set my face resolutely towards the land whither I had desired to return. Knowing that sickness and unrest were before me, I formed an almost cast-iron resolution, as Samantha would say, to have one good night's rest on that Pulman car before setting out on the raging seas. Alas! a person would persist in floating about, coming occasionally to fumble in my belongings in the upper berth. Prepared to get nervous. Before it came to that, I sat up and enquired if the individual had lost anything, when he disappeared. Lay down and passed another resolution. Some who were sitting up began to smoke, and the fumes of tobacco floated in behind the curtains, clung there and filled all the space and murdered sleep. Watched the heavy dark shelf above, stared at the cool white snow outside, wished that all smokers were exiled to Virginia or Cuba, or that they were compelled to breathe up their own smoke, until the morning broke cold and foggy. [more]

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MARGARET DIXON MCDOUGALL THE LETTERS OF "NORAH" ON HER TOUR THROUGH IRELAND

BEING A SERIES OF LETTERS TO THE MONTREAL "WITNESS" AS SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT TO IRELAND

Fantasy
English
107910 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
0

On January 27th I bade good-bye to my friends and set my face resolutely towards the land whither I had desired to return. Knowing that sickness and unrest were before me, I formed an almost cast-iron resolution, as Samantha would say, to have one good night's rest on that Pulman car before setting out on the raging seas. Alas! a person would persist in floating about, coming occasionally to fumble in my belongings in the upper berth. Prepared to get nervous. Before it came to that, I sat up and enquired if the individual had lost anything, when he disappeared. Lay down and passed another resolution. Some who were sitting up began to smoke, and the fumes of tobacco floated in behind the curtains, clung there and filled all the space and murdered sleep. Watched the heavy dark shelf above, stared at the cool white snow outside, wished that all smokers were exiled to Virginia or Cuba, or that they were compelled to breathe up their own smoke, until the morning broke cold and foggy. [more]

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Noah Daniels Scaling Back

How To Simplify and De-clutter Your Life And Enjoy The Things That Really Matter

Self-Help
English
11717 Words
Ages 6 and up
154
0

If you feel like life is getting too much, or as though you’re just surviving and not really living, then this book is the perfect antidote. Get ready to scale back, take control and start building the life you really want! It’s much easier than you think. What you'll discover in this eBook: How to de-clutter in all areas of your life so you can finally "breathe" How to accept and learn from your mistakes How to train your mind to replace negative thoughts with positive ones How to set and achieve your short and long term goals for happiness How to minimize stress How to create stronger relationships with family and friends by living in the moment How to take control of your own happiness How you can reap the benefits of meditation How to be grateful more often How to choose foods that boost good mental health How to gain control of your finances How to remove toxic people from your life. ...and much, much more! [more]

Keywords: brain, mind, surface, train your mind, minimize stress, meditation

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Beth Cam Darkness and Light

Fantasy
English
7551 Words
Ages 14 and up
195
3

__With eyes as black as night And skin as pale as snow He rides before the first ray of light To vanquish the chosen foe. From the The Oracles of Valta. __She was alone. She always had been. But it was more a fact now than ever before as those she had known her whole pathetic life died all around her... literally. She had always been acquainted with fear, but now, she knew it inside out and her familiarity with it was only growing. First, she had been afraid that they would discover her, than, it was that AND fear that the meagre amount of food she had found in that pit of dead decaying bodies she hid in wouldn't suffice until they left. But when then they had, and she finally allowed herself to breathe... To believe that she had cheated death and would be okay, she met her doom. For the moment she had made her escape he had found her. The most demonic one of them all. The one who had led the bloody attack upon her village. The one that spat blue fire from his finger tips and who's eyes flashed like electricity. He had found her and now, she no longer feared death but how she would meet it. __This is merely a sample as the book has not as yet been completed [more]

Keywords: Oracles of Valta, Chosen one, Magic, Fear, Torture, Love

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Darren Hobson Geo.

and the interference that is poetry noise.

Poetry
English
8305 Words
Ages 16 and up
100
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We live in complicated times all that we are and what we do is connected with everything that surrounds us, any action will cause a reaction and no matter how hard you try not to interfere in other people’s lives it is totally impossible to do so. This book is about consequences about a person who may or may not be fragile in the mind, how every action will push our subject to the extremes, opening deep wounds and manipulating his paranoid ways. It shows how a simple smile can push a person gently through the day without hindrance from the usual problems that we all face, yet on the other hand just a misplaced word could cast our subject into a whirlpool of despair that will make the next twenty hours hell. There is a chain reaction in every second that we breathe, a knock on effect that like a domino run will continue rippling into the future colliding with unsuspecting victims, this is the GEO in our lives as we are all anchored to this earth and we are all interacting lost souls. The poet continues to explore the dark regions of our lives bringing the cockroaches into the open but for all the bad news in-between the chaotic verses there will always be a little hidden silver lining waiting to be found. [more]

Keywords: poetry, geo, connecting, people, life, trauma, mental illness, dark thoughts, conflict, self help, self awareness, addiction, health

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Joseph A. Altsheler The Guns of Europe (Illustrated)

History
English
80893 Words
Ages 10 and up
154
0

John turned a little to the left, going nearer to the window, where he could gain a better view of the Madonna, which he had heard so often was the most famous picture in the world. He was no technical judge of painting-he was far too young for such knowledge-but he always considered the effect of the whole upon himself, and he was satisfied with that method, feeling perhaps that he gained more from it than if he had been able to tear the master-work to pieces, merely in order to see how Raphael had made it. "Note well, John, that this is the Sistine Madonna," began William Anson in his didactic, tutorial tone. "Observe the wonderful expression upon the face of the Holy Mother. Look now at the cherubs gazing up into the blue vault, in which the Madonna like an angel is poised. Behold the sublime artist's mastery of every detail. There are those who hold that the Madonna della Sedia at Florence is its equal in beauty and greatness, but I do not agree with them. To me the Sistine Madonna is always first. Centuries ago, even, its full worth was appreciated. It brought a great price at--" The rest of his speech trailed off into nothingness. John had impatiently moved further away, and had deliberately closed his ear also to any dying sounds of oratory that might reach him. He had his own method of seeing the wonders of the Old World. He was interested or he was not. It was to him a state of mind, atmospheric in a way. He liked to breathe it in, and the rattle of a guide or tutor's lecture nearly always broke the spell. [more]

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Herbert Croly The Promise Of American Life

House & Home
English
183527 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
1

The Average American Is Nothing If Not Patriotic. "The Americans Are Filled," Says Mr. Emil Reich In His "Success Among The Nations," "With Such An Implicit And Absolute Confidence In Their Union And In Their Future Success That Any Remark Other Than Laudatory Is Inacceptable To The Majority Of Them. We Have Had Many Opportunities Of Hearing Public Speakers In America Cast Doubts Upon The Very Existence Of God And Of Providence, Question The Historic Nature Or Veracity Of The Whole Fabric Of Christianity; But Never Has It Been Our Fortune To Catch The Slightest Whisper Of Doubt, The Slightest Want Of Faith, In The Chief God Of America--Unlimited Belief In The Future Of America." Mr. Reich'S Method Of Emphasis May Not Be Very Happy, But The Substance Of What He Says Is True. The Faith Of Americans In Their Own Country Is Religious, If Not In Its Intensity, At Any Rate In Its Almost Absolute And Universal Authority. It Pervades The Air We Breathe. As Children We Hear It Asserted Or Implied In The Conversation Of Our Elders. Every New Stage Of Our Educational Training Provides Some Additional Testimony On Its Behalf. Newspapers And Novelists, Orators And Playwrights, Even If They Are Little Else, Are At Least Loyal Preachers Of The Truth. The Skeptic Is Not Controverted; He Is Overlooked. It Constitutes The Kind Of Faith Which Is The Implication, Rather Than The Object, Of Thought, And Consciously Or Unconsciously It Enters Largely Into Our Personal Lives As A Formative Influence. We May Distrust And Dislike Much That Is Done In The Name Of Our Country By Our Fellow-Countrymen; But Our Country Itself, Its Democratic System, And Its Prosperous Future Are Above Suspicion. [more]

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Guy Thorne The Great Acceptance

Fiction
English
74618 Words
No Age Recommendation
180
0

In the year 1882 the most popular novelist of his day wrote as follows about the East End of London— "Two millions of people, or thereabouts, live in the East End of London. That seems a good-sized population for an utterly unknown town. They have no institutions of their own to speak of, no public buildings of any importance, no municipality, no gentry, no carriages, no soldiers, no picture-galleries, no theatres, no opera,—they have nothing. It is the fashion to believe they are all paupers, which is a foolish and mischievous belief, as we shall presently see. Probably there is no such spectacle in the whole world as that of this immense, neglected, forgotten great city of East London. It is even neglected by its own citizens, who have never yet perceived their abandoned condition. They are Londoners, it is true, but they have no part or share in London; its wealth, its splendours, its honours, exist not for them. They see nothing of any splendours; even the Lord Mayor's Show goeth westward: the City lies between them and the greatness of England. They are beyond the wards, and cannot become aldermen; the rich London merchants go north and south and west; but they go not east. Nobody goes east, no one wants to see the place; no one is curious about the way of life in the east. Books on London pass it over; it has little or no history; great men are not buried in its churchyards, which are not even ancient, and crowded by citizens as obscure as those who now breathe the upper air about them. If anything happens in the east, people at the other end have to stop and think before they can remember where the place may be." [more]

Keywords: The Great Acceptance, Guy Thorne, The Great Acceptance By Guy Thorne

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Mrs. Humphry Ward Milly And Olly

Juvenile Fiction
English
47529 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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After Many Years This Little Book Is Once More To See The Light. The Children For Whom It Was Written Are Long Since Grown Up. But Perhaps The Pleasure They Once Took In It May Still Be Felt By Some Of The Millys And Ollys Of To-Day. Up In The Dear Mountain Country Which It Describes, The Becks Are Still Sparkling; "Brownholme" Still Spreads Its Green Steeps And Ferny Hollows Under Rain And Sun; The Tiny Trout Still Leap In Its Tiny Streams; And Fairfield, In Its Noble Curve, Still Girdles The Deep Valley Where These Children Played: The Valley Of Wordsworth And Arnold--The Valley Where Arnold's Poet-Son Rambled As A Boy--Where, For Me, The Shy And Passionate Ghost Of Charlotte Brontë Still Haunts The Open Door-Way Of Fox How--Where Poetry And Generous Life And Ranging Thought Still Dwell, And Bring Their Benediction To The Passers-By. "Aunt Emma" In Her Beautiful Home, Unchanged But For Its Vacant Chairs, Is Now As She Ever Was, The Friend Of Old And Young; And The Children Of To-Day Still Press To Her Side As Their Elders Did Before Them. The Parrot Alas! Is Gone Where Parrots May; But Amid The Voices That Breathe Around Fox How--The Voices Of Seventy Years--His Mimic Speech Is Still Remembered By The Children Who Teased And Loved Him. For Love, While Love Lasts, Gives Life To All Things Small And Great; And In Those Who Have Once Felt It, The Love Of The Fairfield Valley, Of The Gray Stone House That Fronts The Fells, And Of Them That Dwell Therein, Is "Not Time's Fool--" [more]

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