All of these books can be borrowed from the Internet Archive by anybody anywhere. All it takes is an email address to open an account. Depending on the book: 1. you can borrow by the hour (and read online) or 2. you can borrow for 14 days (in which case you can also download if you want) or 3. you can read and download at any time without borrowing (as the book has no copyright).
Note 9-15-24: The Internet Archive recently lost a lawsuit brought against it by major publishers, and thus had to remove hundreds of thousands of books from its library. Some of these links thus may not work. We’ll update the page as soon as we can.
• Illustration above, “Intemperance and Ridicule” from The passions, humourously delineated, by Tim Bobbin, published 1810. Caricatures and cartoons. Borrow.
• The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead, by Stephan A. Hoeller, published 1982. Borrow.
• Judges, mystery novellas translated from the Italian, by Andrea Camilleri, Carlo Lucarelli, and Giancarlo De Cataldo, published 2014. Borrow.
• The Faber Book of Comic Verse, by Michael Roberts, published 1942. Borrow.
• Murder at teatime, published 1996. “Mysteries in the classic cozy tradition from Ellery Queen’s mystery magazine and Alfred Hitchcock’s mystery magazine.”
The name on the wrapper / Margery Allingham — The necklace of pearls / Dorothy L. Sayers — The crime of Miss Oyster Brown / Peter Lovesey — Strychnine in the soup / P.G. Wodehouse — Murder at Rokeby house / C.M. Chan — The borgia heirloom / Julian Symons — Dr. Hyde, detective, and the white pillars murder / G.K. Chesterton — Policeman’s holiday / Michael Innes — The ministering angel / E.C. Bentley — Home is where the heart is / Nell Lamburn — The wicked ghost / Christianna Brand — The gallowglass / David Braly — Fen Hall / Ruth Rendell. Borrow.
• The short and bloody history of ghosts, by John Farman, published 2002. Borrow.
• Laughter, by Rossiter Johnson, published 1874. Short stories, wit and humor. Borrow.
• Laughter, by Henri Bergson, published 1911. Borrow.
• Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves : The Power of Change Within to Change the World, published 2005. Bringing God home / Barbara Marx Hubbard — Tomorrow’s God in action / Neale Donald Walsch — Healing the roots of fundamentalism / Saniel Bonder — The news of eternity / Huston Smith — Cybernetics and trust between nations / Mary Catherine Bateson — Compassion in action / The Dalai Lama — The nation that saved the world? / Helen Caldicott — Enemy images / Sylvia Haskvitz — Hate is not a sexy word / Debbie Ford — Mystical activism / Andrew Harvey — Coming down from the mountain / Ram Dass — Spiritual alchemy / Marsha Covington — Undefining the world / Kai Jakoma — The great turning point / Marshall Vian Summers — Non-local consciousness and the revolution in medicine / Larry Dossey — Simple solutions for global wellness / Barry Sears — The ching and I: bio-political musing of a transformed scientist / Bruce Lipton — The gray zone / Henry Han — Wisdom Communities / Nelson Kellogg — Proactive audacity: daily acts of revolutionary delight / Trathen Heckman — Heroes of ordinary life / Deepak Chopra — Birthing a new culture / Richard Moss — Every problem a prayer / Edward Viljoen — The shadow sode of money / Angie Grainger — Personal disarmament / Dawson Church — Living consistent with your values / Daryl Hannah — Bedroom wars meet Bosnian wars / Gay Hendricks — Reprogramming the global neural network / Duane Elgin — The new chivalry / Neriah Lothamer — The evolutionary leap / Patricia Sun — Women’s circles ripple into peace / Jean Shinoda Bolen — Putting the soul back in medicine / Joan Barysenko — Deep empathy / Anthony Scheving & Geralyn Gendreau — Quantum kin: creative communities in the new time / Marya Mann — Living treasure / John Easterling — Homo luminous: new shamans of the west / Alberto Villoldo. Borrow.
• The Heal Yourself Home Handbook of Unusual Remedies, by Lionel Rolfe. Borrow.
• The Book of Garlic, by Lloyd J. Harris, published 1980. Borrow.
• Nothing irregular in nature, or, Deformity a mere fancy : being a new set of original beauties, design’d by the celebrated E. Hemskirk, curiously etched on twelve copper plates : likewise twelve short poems on the variety of beauty, adapted to each print, by E. Hemskirk, published 1734. Borrow.
• The pleasures of human life : investigated cheerfully, elucidated satirically, promulgated explicitly, and discussed philosophically. In a dozen dissertations on male, female, and neuter pleasures. Interspersed with various anecdotes, and expounded by numerous annotations, by John Britton, published 1807. Borrow.
• Men! : the cartoon book, published 1990. Borrow.
• The art of fresco painting, as practised by the old Italian and Spanish masters, with a preliminary inquiry into the nature of the colours used in fresco painting, with observation and notes, by Mary P. Merrifield, published 1846. Mural painting and decoration. Borrow.
• The art of painting, with the lives and characters of above 300 of the most eminent painters : containing a complete treatise of painting, designing, and the use of prints : with reflexions on the works of the most celebrated masters, and of several schools of Europe, as well ancient as modern, being the most perfect work of the kind extant, by Roger de Piles, published late 17th century. Borrow.
• Books fatal to their authors, by P.H. Ditchfield, published 1895. Borrow.
• Illustration : a visual history, by Steven Heller, published 2008. Borrow.
• 9 heads : a guide to drawing fashion, by Nancy Riegelman, published 2012. Fashion drawing. Borrow.
• The art of illustration, by Michel Melot, published 1984. Borrow.
• “In the Rocky Mountains” : great difficulties and dangers encountered by Captains Lewis and Clarke; discoveries of the headwaters of the Columbia River, by Paul Allen, Meriwether Lewis. Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Selections, published 1915. Borrow.
• One pan roasts : easy, delicious meals for every night of the week, by Molley Shuster, published 2017. Borrow.
• A compleat guide for justices of the peace : in two parts. The first containing the common and statute laws relating to the office of a justice of the peace, alphabetically digested. The second consisting of the most authentick precedents which are now in use, and do properly concern the same, by J. Bond, published 1707. Borrow.
• A cheap, sure, and ready guide to health : or, A cure for a disease call’d the doctor : instructing, how to prevent being cheated and destroyed by the exactions and unmerciful usage of ignorant and oppressive physicians and apothecaries : and to prepare at home the proper medicines for usual distempers : with the prices, to save ninteen shillings in twenty, and expend little more tha a penny a dose : likewise a new account of the connection of distempers, a key to al physic, and to know any disease, published 1742. Borrow.
• 400 Questions on the rudiments of music, by James Simpson, Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (Great Britain), published 1900. Borrow.
• 22 autumn trips : September and October, 1891 : autumn tours through the Yellowstone National Park and across the continent, by Raymond-Whitcomb, Inc., published 1891. Borrow.
• “Guess if you can!” : a collection of original enigmas and charades, in verse, together with fifty in the French language, by “A Lady,” et al., published 1851. Borrow.
• “The house I live in” : a guide to the preservation of health and the attainment of longevity : being a condensed treatise on the importance of physical education, and on the subject of bathing, by J.W. Ford, published 1838. Borrow. Gems Press created and sells a Kindle version* of this book.
• The Art Of Conversation Twelve Golden Rules, by Josephine Ruck Baker, published 1907. Borrow.
• Charlie Chaplin’s own story : being a faithful recital of a romantic career, beginning with early recollections of boyhood in London and closing with the signing of his latest motion-picture contract, by Charlie Chaplin and Rose Wilder Lane, published circa 1916. Borrow.
• Psychiasis; healing through the soul, by Charles H. Mann, published 1900. Borrow.
• Scientific mental healing, by H. Addington Bruce, published 1911. Borrow.
• Anecdotes of impudence, published 1827. Borrow.
• Spiritual healing, by William Frederick Geikie-Cobb, published 1914. Borrow.
• Love poems, published 1895. Borrow.
• A thousand ways to please a husband with Bettina’s best recipes, by Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles Le Cron, published 1917. Borrow.
• How to work, by Amos R. Wells, published 1900. Borrow. Gems Press created and sells a Kindle version* of this book.
• How to succeed, by J. MacDonald [from old catalog], published 1898. Astrology. Borrow.
• How to paint signs and sho’ cards, by E.C. Matthews, published 1920. Borrow.
• How to Get Strong and how to Stay So, by William Blaikie, published 1879. Borrow.
• How To Improve Your Conversation, by Grenville Kleiser, published 1932. Borrow.
• Character How To Strengthen It, by D. Starke, published 1916. Borrow.
• How To Be An Alien, by George Mikes, published 1946. This book was written by a Hungarian describing how to act like an Englishman. Borrow.
• How to Enjoy the Countryside, by Marcus Woodward. Borrow.
• How To Know Your Child, by M.F. Scott, published 1915. Borrow.
• Personality How To Build It, by H. Laurent, published 1916. Borrow.
• How To Abandon Ship, by John J. Banigan, published 1942. Borrow.
• How to do it; to which is added, How to live, by Edward Everett Hale, published 1900. Borrow.
• How To Live With Yourself, by Murray Banks, published 1916. Borrow.
• How To Look At Pictures, by Robert Clermont Witt, published 1921. Borrow.
• The Big Book of Secret Hiding Places – Loompanics Unlimited, by Jack Luger, published 1987. Borrow.
• Methods of Disguise – Loompanics Unlimited, by John Sample, published 1984. Borrow.
• Essential pleasures : a new anthology of poems to read aloud, by Robert Pinsky, published 2009. Borrow.
• The first book of birds, by Margaret Williamson, published 1951. Borrow.
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