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What Is Heaven Like?: Retired Professor’s Book of 50 Near-Death Experiences Gives a Glimpse
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Moral Tales for Children From McGuffey’s Readers: Holding the Fort
August 27, 2022
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This is the 16th installment in our McGuffey Readers series, in which we reproduce some of the best moral tales from the classic 1800s schoolbooks that sold an estimated 122 million copies by 1960, the largest circulation of any book in the world next to the Bible and Webster’s Dictionary. McGuffey’s Readers played an important…
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