Biography & Autobiography
- Voices from the Battlefield
- Criminal Lives: True Stories
- Voices of Social Change
- Voices of Political Change
- Voices of Resilience
- Voices from American History
- Pioneers in Health and Healing
- Adventures in Exploration
Wild Animals I Have Known
A BOOK THAT CHANGED AMERICA...
Ernest Thompson Seton was an influential naturalist, and a sometime professional hunter and trapper. Much of…
Charles I
Charles I by Jacob Abbott offers a concise yet insightful exploration of the life and legacy of one of England's most controversial monarchs…
The Story of Napoleon
This book gives an exciting account of Napoleon's rise to power. It opens with his humble beginning on the island of Corsica and ultimately …
Ruth
Ruth is a poignant narrative from the Old Testament that explores themes of loyalty, love, and redemption. Set in the time of the judges, it…
The Consolation of Philosophy
Consolation of Philosophy (Latin: Consolatio Philosophiae) is a philosophical work by Boethius written in about the year 524 AD. It has been…
Roughing It in the Bush
'Roughing It In the Bush' is Susanna Moodie's account of how she coped with the harshness of life in the woods of Upper Canada, as an Englis…
My School Days
A short memoir about the author's school days, serialised in The Girl's Own Paper from October 1896 to September 1897. It includes stories a…
Eminent Victorians
On Modern Library's list of 100 Best Non-Fiction books, "Eminent Victorians" marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also help…
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World
Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, was at one time Ambassador to the Hague, negotiated the second Treaty of Vienna, was a founding gover…
Clotel
Clotel; or, The President's Daughter is a novel by William Wells Brown (1814-84), a fugitive from slavery and abolitionist and was published…
Living on Half a Dime a Day
How to live on 5 cents a day! How to survive financial ruin without losing your house! How to keep to a bare bones budget and still have mon…
Book of Tobit
The Book of Tobit presents a rich narrative set in the ancient city of Nineveh, where Tobit, a devout Israelite from the Tribe of Naphtali, …
Days with the Great Composers
Days with the Great Composers invites listeners to step into the lives of some of history's most celebrated composers through a series of im…
Confessions of a Convert
Robert Hugh Benson was the youngest son of Edward White Benson, the Archbishop of Canterbury and his wife Mary. Benson was was a prolific …
Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass
These two articles were reproduced as an e-book by Project Gutenberg in 2008 to supplement "...several articles by Frederick Douglass,…
A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Spanish: Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias) is an ac…
Radioactive Substances
Marie Curie, born in Warsaw in 1867, was a Polish-French physicist and chemist famous for her work on radioactivity. She was a pioneer in th…
Saint Charles Borromeo
Saint Charles Borromeo offers an insightful exploration of the life and legacy of one of the most influential figures in the Catholic Church…
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex
A book on evolutionary theory by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871. It was Darwin's second great book on evolutiona…
The Story of a Soul
Marie Francoise Therese Martin, affectionately known as 'The Little Flower', was born on January 2, 1873, in Alencon, France to Louis Martin…