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Steele Rudd - On Our Selection

The humorous account of Dad and Dave and the rest of the Rudd clan as they attempt to carve a farming 'selection' out of the Australian wilderness in spite of fire, famine, snakebite, and a loony hired hand. — Summary...

Son of the Exiles 4 hours 45 minutes

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Olive Wadsley - Almond-Blossom

At the beginning of the story, Tony and Fay had lost a child. One day, Tony saves a little girl, Doro, from drowning. He and Fay end up adopting Doro. Soon after this, Fay discovers that she is with-child. She gives...

mlcui 8 hours 53 minutes

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W. Bert Foster - Heron Nest

Pleasant family drama set in early 1900's or late 1890's upstate New York. The Herron clan, led by heroic, inventive, handicapped older brother Billy, has fallen on hard times due to one of the depressions that...

Bellona Times 7 hours 42 minutes

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Eleanor Gates - Biography of a Prairie Girl

This book is a wonderful way to learn about how the prairies were years ago, but you will hardly feel you are learning because you will be caught up with the 'little girl', living with her as she grows up far away...

Teresa Bauman 5 hours 46 minutes

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Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages

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Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages

A delightful collection of short stories by some of the luminary authors of the Victorian era. These stories explore the truth behind the victorian marriage. — Summary by Gina Belmonde

Gina Belmonde 2 hours 39 minutes

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Cyrus Townsend Brady - Christmas When The West Was Young

Babies, new life, a bitter winter blizzard, death circling. How will it all end? (David Wales )

David Wales 43 minutes

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Maria Montessori - Mother and the Child

«The mother and the child» is a lecture given by Maria Montessori in 1915. The famous educational reformer speaks about the importance to give children freedom and a suitable environment, so they will be able to fully...

Edith van der Have-Raats 32 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

445

Elizabeth Cooper - My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard

«I hope that this book, based on letters shown me many years after they were written, will give a faint idea of the life of a Chinese lady. The story is told in two series of letters conceived to be written by...

MaryAnn 5 hours 2 minutes

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Pansy - Household Puzzles

Household Puzzles peeks into the life of the Randolph family, four daughters and one son. They are financially strapped but must follow societal expectations... and the expectations of Helen, the eldest daughter,...

TriciaG 7 hours 58 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Clement Clarke Moore - Old Santeclaus

Clement Clarke Moore (July 15, 1779 – July 10, 1863) was an American Professor of Oriental and Greek Literature, as well as Divinity and Biblical Learning, at the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant...

Claudia Salto and 9 more 20 minutes

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Martha Finley - Elsie's Children

This book continues the delightful «Elsie Dinsmore» series. Elsie's children, introduced in the previous volume, live life, grow up, and encounter various problems of their own. — Summary by GabrielleC...

David Lawrence and 12 more 6 hours 53 minutes Elsie Dinsmore Series

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Barbara Baynton - Human Toll

Ursula (Ursie) Ewart, orphaned as a young child, is sent away from her home in the Australian bush. While Ursie was previously doted on by station hands, Boshy, Nungi,and Queeby, at her new home, in a nearby country...

Kirsty Leishman 6 hours 55 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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