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Children's Fiction

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Elbridge Streeter Brooks - Historic Girls

Twelve short stories of real girls who have influenced the history of their times. (Summary by Carmen H)

Carmen H and 7 more 4 hours 49 minutes

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458

Hiram Bingham - Inca Lands

Prof. Hiram Bingham of Yale Makes the Greatest Archaeological Discovery of the Age by Locating and Excavating Ruins of Machu Picchu on a Peak in the Andes of Peru. There is nothing new under the sun, they say....

elmay and 4 more 9 hours 55 minutes

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415

H. C. Bailey - Highwayman

A romance and adventure novel, set in England during the reign of Queen Anne. The book is much unlike the author's later detective short stories. The actual book is difficult to locate and appears to have been...

James E. Carson 9 hours 6 minutes

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George MacDonald - Cruel Painter

This is the story of a daring college student's quest to win the icy heart of a beautiful girl. Unfortunately, the girl is the daughter of a cunning and sadistic master artist, who takes the student as an apprentice...

Ned Troxel 1 hour 23 minutes

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James B. Hendryx - Snowdrift

The story revolves around Carter Brent, an alcoholic and gambler who had struck gold many times in the Yukon, but gambled and drank it away in Dawson; and Snowdrift, the half-breed who had spent her life with a...

Roger Melin 11 hours 21 minutes

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Rudyard Kipling - Brushwood Boy

The experiences in public school, Sandhurst and military life in India of Major George Cotter together with his adventures in the dream world he discovers and frequents. (Summary by Liam Neely)

Liam Neely 1 hour 32 minutes

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Camp-Fire Girls in the Country or The Secret Aunt Hannah Forgot

Children's Fiction

398

Stella M. Francis - Camp-Fire Girls in the Country or The Secret Aunt Hannah Forgot

Teen-ager Hazel Edwards and the other twelve members of the Flamingo Camp-Fire Girls experience some real adventure when they are invited to spend part of their summer as guests of Hazel’s elderly aunt on her large...

Lee Ann Howlett 3 hours 28 minutes

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Joseph Hocking - Weapons of Mystery

Justin Blake receives an invitation from his old school-fellow Tom Temple to join him and his family for the Christmas holidays in Yorkshire. Having no other plans, he decides to go. Though he is normally much the...

MaryAnn and 4 more 5 hours 50 minutes

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Edgar Rice Burroughs - Mad King

Shades of The Prisoner of Zenda! All our old friends are here—the young king, the usurping uncle and his evil henchman, the beautiful princess, the loyal retainer and the unwilling imposter. What more could you...

Delmar H Dolbier 9 hours 22 minutes

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William Dean Howells - Indian Summer

In his novel Indian Summer, William Dean Howells presents a mellow but realistic story that has the complete feel of that delightful time of the year, although the plot actually spans several seasons. The Indian...

Leonard Wilson 10 hours 42 minutes

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Booth Tarkington - Monsieur Beaucaire

A madcap Frenchman posing as an ambassador's barber blackmails a dishonest duke to introduce him as a nobleman to a wealthy belle of Bath. Since the duke himself hopes to mend his fortunes by wedding this very woman,...

Thomas A. Copeland 1 hour 29 minutes

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Unknown - Fall of the Nibelungs

«The Fall of the Nibelungs» is Margaret Armour's plain prose translation from the middle high German of the «Nibelungenlied», a poetic saga of uncertain authorship written about the year 1200. The story is believed by...

Michael Wolf and 1 more 7 hours 41 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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