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Books & documents
- Elson Grammar School Literature, book 4 — William H. Elson and Christine M. Keck Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- Der Sturm, oder Die bezauberte Insel (German) — William Shakespeare Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- The International library of famous literature : selections from the world's great writers, ancient, mediaeval, and modern, with biographical and explanatory notes and with introductions (1898) — Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell, Nathan Haskell Dole, Forrest Morgan, Caroline Ticknor Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- CIA Reading Room cia-rdp13x00001r000100230003-6: OSS - MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE (1945) — CIA Reading Room Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Making sense of death, dying and bereavement : an anthology (2009) — Unknown Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Grange melodies : published by the National Grange of Patrons of Husbandry, for use in the granges of the United States (1910) — Orr, James L Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- List of characters China (2021) — Journal- Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- CIA Reading Room cia-rdp13x00001r000100090006-9: OSS - CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO PERSONNEL MATTERS (1946) — CIA Reading Room Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- So forth : poems (1998) — Brodsky, Joseph, 1940-1996 Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Deaf American poetry : an anthology (2009) — Unknown Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Hong Kong Sunday Herald 1935-04-14 (1935) — Unknown Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Golden Links in the Chain That Connects Mother, Home and Heaven (1890) — Mrs. J. P. Newman, Angeline Ensign Newman, Various Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/]
- The Poets And Poetry Of The West: With Biographical And Critical Notices (1860) — Coggeshall, William Turner, 1824-1867 Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/]
- New departures (2012) — Write by the Rails Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Complete poetical works of John Milton (1965) — Milton, John, 1608-1674, author Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Novel preaching : tips from top writers on crafting creative sermons (2010) — McKenzie, Alyce M., 1955- Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- List of principal characters in China, 1900-1949 (2024) — Pal-imp-sest Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/]
- CIA Reading Room cia-rdp13x00001r000100030009-2: OSS - IMPACT OF GERMAN DEFEATS ON BULGARIAN OPINION OF THE WAR/UK VIEW OF DOCUMENT ENTITLED, "LONG RANGE PLAN FOR BULGARIA"/PROPOSAL FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE AIRMED AT BULGARIA/PROPERTY BOARD AND TABLE OF ORGANIZATION/ROSTER OF OVERSEAS AS (1943) — CIA Reading Room Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Frankfurt School — Unknown Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Modern music and musicians for vocalists (1918) — Unknown Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Visions of My Father - Ode to Killer Joe (2012) — MaryJo Romano Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Kukche sijang (2016) — Che-gyun Yun, Su-jin Pak, Tal-su O, Pyŏng-u Yi Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Visions of My Father (2012) — MaryJo Romano Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- My Father's House (2025) — John Conyers III Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Milton's Poems (1605) — John Milton Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Odes of Solomon (2009) — Michael Lattke Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Man of the people (2008) — Peter Magubane Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Father Kemp's old folks' sacred and popular songs (1850) — Dance and Music (Harvard Theatre Collection) Fredric Woodbridge Wilson Collection of Theater Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- The complete poetical works (1786) — Robert Burns Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- A fresh footpath (2011) — George S. Chappell Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Misrepresented People (2018) — Unknown Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- The good old songs we used to sing, '61 to '65 (1902) — Osborn H. Oldroyd Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Poems from Guantánamo (2007) — Marc Falkoff, Flagg Miller, Ariel Dorfman, Gündüz Vassaf, Bilgin Adalı Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Selected African American writing from 1760 to 1910 (1995) — Arthur Paul Davis Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Carmina Mariana (1893) — Shipley, Orby Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Elizabeth of Boonesborough, and other poems (1909) — Pattie French Witherspoon Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Wrinkles in paradise (2010) — Wanda Lane Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- The last of his family (1842) — Nathan Lanesford Foster Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Other people (2017) — David Shields Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- A century of American literature and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors (1901) — William Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Blueberry State of Mind, a collection of reflective truths — Unknown Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition (1952) — James Edwin Miller, Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer, Kerry M. Wood, John Smith, William Bradford, Sarah Kemble Knight, William Byrd II, Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, Anne Bradstreet, Taylor, Edward, Phillis Wheatley, Philip Morin Freneau, Benjamin Franklin, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, James W. C. Pennington, Francis Wright, W. E. B. Du Bois, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Rowe Snow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Seattle Chief, Margaret Fuller, Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Mollie Dorsey Sanford, Sidney Lanier, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Satanta, Chief Joseph, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Edgar Lee Masters, James Thurber, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Katherine Anne Porter, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, Eudora Welty, Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, Carl Sandburg, Langston Hughes, Marianne Moore, Archibald MacLeish, Robert Frost, Countee Cullen, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Elinor Wylie, Sara Teasdale, T. S. Eliot, James Weldon Johnson, John Crowe Ransom, Wallace Stevens, Jean Toomer, William Carlos Williams, E. E. Cummings, Phyllis McGinley, Arna Bontemps, Claude McKay, Margaret Walker, Robinson Jeffers, Louise Bogan, Lewis Thomas, Dorothy Parker, Tennessee Williams, Robert Anderson, Lillian Hellman, Patrick F. McManus, William Least Heat Moon, Richard Rodriguez, Sabine R. Ulibarrí, Lorraine Hansberry, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Mona Van Duyn, Richard Wilbur, Denise Levertov, David Wagoner, Theodore Roethke, Robert Hayden, Karl Jay Shapiro, Adrienne Rich, Richard Eberhart, May Swenson, Mari Evans, Maxine Kumin, Elizabeth Bishop, Howard Nemerov, Robert Lowell, Galway Kinnell, William Stafford, Randall Jarrell, Gwendolyn Brooks, John N. Morris, Sylvia Plath, Amiri Baraka, Vern Rutsala, N. Scott Momaday, Lawson Fusao Inada, Jim Wayne Miller, James Masao Mitsui, Gary Soto, Leslie Silko, Teresa Palomo Acosta, Isaac Asimov, John Updike, Bernard Malamud, Carson McCullers, Kurt Vonnegut, Flannery O'Connor, Ray Bradbury, Eugenia Collier, Annie Dillard, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Walter Blair, Paul Farmer, Theodore Hornberger, Margaret Wasson, Conrad Richter, Bernard Augustine De Voto, Pearl S. Buck, Robert Penn Warren, William Saroyan, Conrad Aiken, Sinclair Lewis, Esther Forbes, Byrd, William, John Smith, George Washington, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Herman Melville, Paul Hamilton Hayne, Henry Timrod, Abram Joseph Ryan, Bret Harte, Sarah Orne Jewett, O. Henry, Tom Wolfe, Stephen Vincent Benét, Irwin Shaw, Paul Engle, W. H. Auden, Vachel Lindsay, Leonie Adams, James Wright, Ogden Nash, David McCord, Morris Bishop, Richard Willard Armour, Don Marquis, E. J. Kahn, Paul Horgan, W. L. White, John Davenport, E. B. White, Jacques Barzun, George Santayana, Cleveland Amory, Norman Cousins, Frank C. Laubach, Vannevar Bush, Jesse Stuart, Douglas Southall Freeman, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Philip Hamburger, Eugene O'Neill, Robert C. Pooley, Clarence Day, Thornton Wilder, Theresa Helburn, Brad Schulberg Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- The poets and poetry of the West (1860) — William Turner Coggeshall Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- An anthology of Turkish literature (2006) — Kemal Sılay Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
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