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The American Baron, by James De Mille 13257
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The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army, by Margaret Vandercook 22095
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Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, 1845 and 1846, James Richardson 22094
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1845 and 1846]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/0/9/22094 ]
[Files: 22094-0.txt; 22094-h.htm]
Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant, by Snorri Sturluson 22093
[Full title: The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant
(Harald Haardraade)]
[Illustrator: Halfdan Egedius; Christian Krogh; Gerhard Munthe;
Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen; Erik Theodor
Werenskiold; Wilhelm Laurits Wetlesen]
[Translator: Ethel Harriet Hearn and Gustav Storm]
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Pasarse de listo, by Juan Valera 22092
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[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/0/9/22092 ]
[Files: 22092-8.txt; 22092-h.htm]
The Best Short Stories of 1920, by Various 22091
[Subtitle: and the Yearbook of the American Short Story]
[Editor: Edward J. O'Brien]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/0/9/22091 ]
[Files: 22091.txt; 22091-8.txt; 22091-h.htm]
The Task of Social Hygiene, by Havelock Ellis 22090
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/0/9/22090 ]
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The Liberty Minstrel, by George W. Clark 22089
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/0/8/22089 ]
[Files: 22089.txt; 22089-8.txt; 22089-h.htm]
Apologia Pro Vita Sua, by John Henry Cardinal Newman 22088
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/0/8/22088 ]
[Files: 22088.txt; 22088-8.txt; 22088-h.htm]
Hazel Squirrel and Other Stories, by Howard B. Famous 22087
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/0/8/22087 ]
[Files: 22087.txt; 22087-h.htm]
The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume II (of 2), by Alexandre Dumas père 22086
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/0/8/22086 ]
[Files: 22086.txt; 22086-8.txt; 22086-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20060914184551dumas]
Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose, by Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose 22085
[Subtitle: His Life and Speeches]
[Editor: Anonymous]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/0/8/22085 ]
[Files: 22085.txt; 22085-8.txt; 22085-h.htm]
Life and Character of Henry Winter Davis, by John A. J. Creswell 22084
[Full title: Oration on the Life and Character of Henry Winter Davis]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/0/8/22084 ]
[Files: 22084.txt; 22084-8.txt; 22084-h.htm]
Myths and Legends of the Great Plains, by Unknown 22083
[Editor: Katharine Berry Judson]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/0/8/22083 ]
[Files: 22083.txt; 22083-8.txt; 22083-h.htm]
The Emancipation Proclamation, by Abraham Lincoln 22082
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/0/8/22082 ]
[Files: 22082.txt; ]
Parodies of Ballad Criticism (1711-1787), by Wagstaffe and Griffin 22081
[Full author: William Wagstaffe and Gregory Griffin AKA George Canning]
[Subtitle: A Comment Upon the History of Tom Thumb, 1711, by Wm.
Wagstaffe; The Knave of Hearts, 1787, by Gregory Griffin
AKA George Canning]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/0/8/22081 ]
[Files: 22081.txt; 22081-8.txt; 22081-h.htm]
True Stories of Wonderful Deeds, by Anonymous 22080
[Subtitle: Pictures and Stories for Little Folk]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/0/8/22080 ]
[Files: 22080.txt; 22080-8.txt; 22080-h.htm]
The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service, by James R. Driscoll 22079
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/0/7/22079 ]
[Files: 22079.txt; 22079-8.txt; 22079-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20060715145421driscoll]
Aventures Extraordinaires d'un Savant Russe, by Faure and Graffigny 22078
[Full title: Aventures Extraordinaires d'un Savant Russe; III. Les
Planètes Géantes et les Comètes]
[Full author: Georges Le Faure and Henri de Graffigny]
[Illustrator: J. Cayron et d'Henriot]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/0/7/22078 ]
[Files: 22078-8.txt; 22078-0.txt; 22078-h.htm]
Les Origines et la Jeunesse de Lamartine 1790-1812,Pierre de Lacretelle 22077
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/0/7/22077 ]
[Files: 22077-8.txt; 22077-0.txt; 22077-h.htm]
The Second Chance, by Nellie L. McClung 22076
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/0/7/22076 ]
[Files: 22076.txt; ]
[Clearance: 20070701143131mcclung]
The Life of Duty, v. 2, by H. J. Wilmot-Buxton 22075
[Subtitle: A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/2/0/7/22075 ]
[Files: 22075.txt; 22075-8.txt]
The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade, by Edward Lord Gleichen 22074
[Subtitle: August 1914 to March 1915]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/0/7/22074 ]
[Files: 22074.txt; 22074-8.txt; 22074-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20051006134257gleichen]
The Repairman, by Harry Harrison 22073
[Illustrator: Kramer]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/0/7/22073 ]
[Files: 22073.txt; 22073-h.htm]
Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian, by Anonymous 22072
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/0/7/22072 ]
[Files: 22072.txt; 22072-8.txt; 22072-h.htm]
Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore, by Pauline Lester 22071
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/0/7/22071 ]
[Files: 22071.txt; 22071-8.txt; 22071-h.htm]
La Karavano, by Wilhelm Hauff 22070
[Translator: J. W. Eggleton]
[Language: Esperanto]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/2/0/7/22070 ]
[Files: 22070.txt; 22070-8.txt; 22070-0.txt; 22070-h.htm]
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII., by Guy de Maupassant 22069
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/0/6/22069 ]
[Files: 22069.txt; 22069-8.txt; 22069-h.htm]
Mémoires du duc de Rovigo, by Anne-Jean-Marie-René Savary, duc de Rovigo 22068
[Full title: Mémoires du duc de Rovigo, pour servir à l'histoire de
l'empereur Napoléon]
[Full author: Anne-Jean-Marie-René Savary, duc de Rovigo, 1774-1833]
[Subtitle: Tome Sixième]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/0/6/22068 ]
[Files: 22068-8.txt]
The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson, by Edward A. Moore 22067
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/0/6/22067 ]
[Files: 22067.txt; 22067-8.txt; 22067-h.htm]
The Long Roll, by Mary Johnston 22066
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/0/6/22066 ]
[Files: 22066.txt; 22066-h.htm]
Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara, by John Dee 22062
[Full title: The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie
of Euclid of Megara]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/0/6/22062 ]
[Files: 22062.txt; 22062-0.txt; 22062-h.htm]
An Elementary Spanish Reader, by Earl Stanley Harrison 22065
[Language: Spanish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/0/6/22065 ]
[Files: 22065-8.txt; 22065-h.htm]
Tess of the Storm Country, by Grace Miller White 22064
[Ill.: Howard Chandler Christy]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/0/6/22064 ]
[Files: 22064.txt; 22064-8.txt; 22064-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20060814135807white]
The Trail of '98, by Robert W. Service 22063
[Subtitle: A Northland Romance]
[Ill.: Maynard Dixon]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/0/6/22063 ]
[Files: 22063.txt; 22063-8.txt; 22063-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20060521194933service]
The Young Franc Tireurs, by G. A. Henty 22060
[Subtitle: And Their Adventures in the Franco-Prussian War]
[Illustrator: F. T. Young]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/2/0/6/22060 ]
[Files: 22060.txt; 22060-h.htm]
The Mountain that was 'God', by John H. Williams 22056
[Subtitle: Being a Little Book About the Great Peak Which the Indians
Named 'Tacoma' but Which is Officially Called 'Rainier']
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/0/5/22056 ]
[Files: 22056.txt; 22056-8.txt; 22056-h.htm]
Dame Duck's Lecture, by Unknown 22055
[Subtitle: Dame Duck's First Lecture on Education]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/0/5/22055 ]
[Files: 22055.txt; 22055-h.htm]
Les vivants et les morts, by Anna de Noailles 22054
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/0/5/22054 ]
[Files: 22054-8.txt]
Stories of King Arthur and His Knights, by U. Waldo Cutler 22053
[Subtitle: Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur"]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/0/5/22053 ]
[Files: 22053.txt; 22053-8.txt; 22053-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20070601111410cutler]
Standish of Standish, by Jane G. Austin 22052
[Subtitle: A story of the Pilgrims]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/0/5/22052 ]
[Files: 22052.txt; 22052-8.txt; 22052-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20051022212048austin]
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 1, 1890, by Various 22051
[Editor: Francis Burnand]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/0/5/22051 ]
[Files: 22051.txt; 22051-8.txt; 22051-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: OK 20050323112602various Punch prior to 1923 Various
Various 1920:p This is a blanket clearance for the entire run
of the magazine through 1922--Juliet ]
Life and Conduct, by J. Cameron Lees 22050
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/0/5/22050 ]
[Files: 22050.txt; 22050-8.txt; ]
[Clearance: 20070627150018lees]
The Love Affairs of an Old Maid, by Lilian Bell 22047
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/2/0/4/22047 ]
[Files: 22047.txt; 22047-8.txt; 22047-h.htm]
Kaksi laukausta, by Holger Drachmann 22006
[Translator: Elisabeth Löfgren]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/2/0/0/22006 ]
[Files: 22006.txt; 22006-8.txt]
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Jul 2007 The Yellow Snake, Edgar Wallace [070095xx.xxx] 1548A
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700951.txt or .zip
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700951h.html
Jul 2007 Trails Plowed Under, Charles M Russell [070094xx.xxx] 1547A
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700941.txt or .zip
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700941h.html
Jul 2007 Home Ranch, Will James [070093xx.xxx] 1546A
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700931.txt or .zip
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700931h.html
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