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Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall - 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 emperor of over half of Europe. This book focuses on his victorious military...

Patrick Saville 2 hours 5 minutes

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Charles Morris - Historical Tales, Volume VIII: Russian

These Russian tales span the time of Russia's founding in the 800s-900s all the way to the early twentieth century and are factually based, although particularly the older tales have become legendary. ( DrPGould)

Kalynda and 7 more 9 hours 6 minutes Historical Tales

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Little Pillows, or Good-Night Thoughts for Little Ones

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Frances Ridley Havergal - Little Pillows, or Good-Night Thoughts for Little Ones

Thirty-one little evening devotionals, simple enough for the child audience for which they were written, but also inspiring for adults needing spiritual refreshment. (Jael Baldwin)

Jael Baldwin 1 hour 15 minutes

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Gertrude Chandler Warner - Star Stories for Little Folks

Gertrude Chandler Warner, known mainly for her «Boxcar Children» series of mystery books, published this small book of Astronomy, Constellations, and the stories behind them in 1918. It follows the story of a little...

DebK and 3 more 39 minutes

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Margaret Duncan Kelly - Story of Sir Walter Raleigh (Version 2)

The story of Sir Walter Raleigh from his boyhood days to his exploits in Ireland and his unexpected entry into the court of Queen Elizabeth. We travel with him as he pursues the ships of the Spanish Armada and makes...

Aaron M. Lebowitz and 1 more 2 hours 16 minutes

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Upward Path: A Reader For Colored Children

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Upward Path: A Reader For Colored Children

From the preface of the book: «To the present time, there has been no collection of stories and poems by Negro writers, which colored children could read with interest and pleasure and in which they could find a...

Diana Schmidt and 3 more 6 hours 32 minutes

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H. A. Guerber - Story of Old France

The aim of this volume is to give a complete graphic account of the main features of the history of France to 1715 A.D., with as much additional illuminating detail as limited space permits. Besides outlines of the...

Kangaroo and 14 more 9 hours 57 minutes

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Sæmund Sigfusson - Elder Edda (Bray Translation)

The Elder or Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems dating from the thirteenth century CE. Though no two translators or editors seem to agree on precisely which poems should be included in this collection, the...

Expatriate 6 hours 39 minutes

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Margaret Duncan Kelly - Story of Sir Walter Raleigh

«Relates the story of Raleigh from his boyhood days on the coast of Devonshire, to his exploits in Ireland and his unexpected entry into the court of Queen Elizabeth. We travel with him as he pursues the ships of the...

Lazlo and 4 more 2 hours 3 minutes

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Frederick Winthrop Hutchinson - Men Who Found America

This Book is about the Men Who Found America and how it started — Summary by Elijah

Elijah Fisher 3 hours 35 minutes

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Boy Scouts of America - Boy Scouts Handbook

The Boy Scouts of America was founded over a hundred years ago to serve the young men of the United States of America and give them the same oppurtunities that Boy Scouts all over the world were receiving. Modeled...

Kangaroo and 19 more 13 hours 34 minutes

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Rosalie Kaufman - Our Young Folks' Plutarch

Plutarch's Lives is a series of fifty biographies of famous Greek and Roman men written around 100 AD. In Our Young Folks' Plutarch , Rosalie Kaufman has adapted these biographies for young readers. In the preface...

April Walters and 14 more 18 hours 40 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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