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  • The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing by Joseph Trienens
  • The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche
  • The Yosemite by John Muir
  • Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty by Sir John Barrow
  • Make It Make Sense with Sureka Thanenthiran-Dharuman
  • Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  • Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
  • The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
  • Ten Books on Architecture by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
  • Hurlbut’s Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
  • Mental Efficiency and Other Hints to Men and Women by Arnold Bennett
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
  • The Lives of the Twelve Caesars by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
  • The Heavenly Life by James Allen
  • Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K. Jerome
  • A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird
  • 9/12
  • As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
  • Ten Days in a Madhouse by Nellie Bly
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    Big Table

    Big Table

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    Since Mar 15, 2021 00:30 UTC
    The BIG TABLE podcast is about books and conversation, an exploration into art and culture, as told through interviews with […]
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    The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing by Joseph Trienens

    The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing by Joseph Trienens

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    Since Nov 21, 2023 00:00 UTC
    Written in 1910, this “cyclopedia” is full of information that was quite useful at the time. A hundred years later, […]
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    The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche

    The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Since Dec 26, 2023 00:00 UTC
    Save for his raucous, rhapsodical autobiography, Ecce Homo, The Antichrist is the last thing that Nietzsche ever wrote, and so […]
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    The Yosemite by John Muir

    The Yosemite by John Muir

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    Since Dec 9, 2023 00:00 UTC
    Anyone who’s ever visited the Yosemite National Park will find this book a treasure trove of descriptions, information and evocations […]
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    Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty by Sir John Barrow

    Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty by Sir John Barrow

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    Since Dec 11, 2023 00:00 UTC
    On December 31 1787, the HMS Bounty, a small sailing vessel embarked from Spithead Harbor, England bound for Tahiti. Her […]
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    Make It Make Sense with Sureka Thanenthiran-Dharuman

    Make It Make Sense with Sureka Thanenthiran-Dharuman

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    Since Feb 9, 2022 09:28 UTC
    Make It Make Sense with Sureka Thanenthiran-Dharuman is a podcast that aims to demystify the publishing industry by speaking with […]
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    Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

    Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

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    Since Nov 29, 2023 00:00 UTC
    The strands woven together in Gustave Flaubert’s famous, path breaking 1856 novel Madame Bovary include a provincial town in Normandy, […]
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    Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

    Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

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    Since Jul 30, 2020 00:00 UTC
    A river memoir documenting Twain’s early days as an apprentice steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil […]
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    The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

    The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

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    Since Dec 17, 2019 00:00 UTC
    RESPECTABILITY, n. The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account. BEAUTY, n. The power by […]
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    Ten Books on Architecture by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

    Ten Books on Architecture by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

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    Since Nov 25, 2023 00:00 UTC
    On Architecture is a treatise on architecture written by the Roman architect Vitruvius and dedicated to his patron, the emperor […]
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    Hurlbut’s Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

    Hurlbut’s Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

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    Since Nov 28, 2020 00:00 UTC
    As a parent, many of us would like our children to be familiar with our sacred books, no matter to […]
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    Mental Efficiency and Other Hints to Men and Women by Arnold Bennett

    Mental Efficiency and Other Hints to Men and Women by Arnold Bennett

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    Since Sep 27, 2020 00:00 UTC
    Mental Efficiency and Other Hints to Men and Women is one of the many self help books that Bennett wrote, […]
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    The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

    The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

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    Since Dec 13, 2023 00:00 UTC
    Inventor, author, printer, scientist, politician, diplomat—all these terms do not even begin to fully describe the amazing and multitalented, Benjamin […]
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    The Lives of the Twelve Caesars by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

    The Lives of the Twelve Caesars by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

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    Since Nov 25, 2020 00:00 UTC
    The Twelve Caesars is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman […]
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    The Heavenly Life by James Allen

    The Heavenly Life by James Allen

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    Since Dec 24, 2024 00:00 UTC
    Many of us live with the belief that we can achieve heaven or the ultimate peace and happiness only in […]
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    Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K. Jerome

    Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K. Jerome

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    Since Dec 19, 2023 00:00 UTC
    Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, published in 1886, is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. It […]
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    A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird

    A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird

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    Since Dec 11, 2023 00:00 UTC
    Isabella Bird began travelling while in her early twenties to help alleviate illness that had plagued her since childhood. She […]
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    9/12

    9/12

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    Since Aug 31, 2021 18:52 UTC
    How did 9/11 the day become 9/11 the idea? That question drives Pineapple Street Studios and award-winning host Dan Taberski […]
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    Ten Days in a Madhouse by Nellie Bly

    Ten Days in a Madhouse by Nellie Bly

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    Since Dec 26, 2019 00:00 UTC
    Long before Christiane Amanpour, Frances Fitzgerald and Martha Gellhorn blazed a trail in courageous investigative journalism, a pioneering and intrepid […]
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