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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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L. Frank Baum - Mother Goose in Prose (Version 2)

Before he wrote the Oz books, L. Frank Baum wrote this book which was the best selling book of 1897. Taking 22 beloved nursery rhymes, he explains their meaning and fascinating history. What is the true story of...

Phil Chenevert 4 hours 29 minutes

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Animals & Nature

468

Annie Fellows Johnston - Little Colonel's Hero

In this sixth volume of “The Little Colonel Series” for girls, Lloyd is surprised with a gift for her twelfth birthday, of a summer trip to Europe. In Geneva she becomes friends with an old Prussian major and his Red...

Lars Rolander and 2 more 6 hours 1 minute The Little Colonel Series

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General

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Edward Lear - Book of Nonsense

In 1846 Lear published A Book of Nonsense, a volume of limericks that went through three editions and helped popularize the form. This book contains 112 of these funny, imaginative verses that have been well loved by...

Phil Chenevert 28 minutes

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Eva K. Betz - Yankee at Molokai

As a daring soldier in the Union Army, Ira Dutton earned the respect and affection of the men around him. Handsome and affable, he could have had a full social life when the war was over. But he felt that his «wild...

Maria Therese 2 hours 39 minutes

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Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy

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Pádraic Colum - Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy

Also known as «The Children's Homer,» this is Irish writer Padraic Colum's retelling of the events of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey for young people. Colum's rich, evocative prose narrates the travails of Odysseus, King...

Elizabeth Klett 5 hours 19 minutes

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Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus

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Jessie Graham Flower - Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus

The four series follow Grace Harlowe and her friends through high school, college, abroad during World War I, and on adventures around America. In The High School Girls Series, Grace attends Oakdale High School with...

ashleighjane 5 hours 14 minutes Grace Harlowe Series

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Family

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Annie Fellows Johnston - Little Colonel's Holidays

«What happened after the Little Colonel's house party?» they demand, and they send letters to the Valley by the score, asking «Did Betty go blind?» «Did the two little Knights of Kentucky ever meet Joyce again or find...

Amanda Friday and 2 more 5 hours 13 minutes The Little Colonel Series

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Carroll Watson Rankin - Girls of Gardenville

It is pleasant to have another book about a group of merry, natural girls, who have the attractions of innocence and youthful faults. «The Sweet Sixteen» Club made fudge, and went on picnics, and behaved just as...

Betsie Bush 5 hours 5 minutes

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L. Frank Baum - Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work

The novel carries forward the continuing story of the three cousins Louise Merrick, Beth De Graf, and Patsy Doyle, and their circle. The title is somewhat misleading; it could more accurately have been called Aunt...

Linda Andrus and 15 more 5 hours 11 minutes Aunt Jane's Nieces series

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Animals & Nature

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Thornton W. Burgess - Mrs. Peter Rabbit

A wonderful book in which we meet the lucky little bunny who becomes Mrs. Peter Rabbit! This is one of many delightful animal books written by Thornton W. Burgess. I grew up reading and enjoying these tales of talking...

C. L. W. Rollins 2 hours 4 minutes

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James Parton - Captains of Industry

In this volume are presented examples of men who shed lustre upon ordinary pursuits, either by the superior manner in which they exercised them or by the noble use they made of the leisure which success in them...

Issa Deas and 8 more 9 hours 56 minutes

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Romance

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Eleanor H. Porter - Dawn

Dawn (also known in England as «Keith’s Dark Tower»), was published in 1919, and is set during World War I. Keith Burton is going blind. It is hard for him and his family. Most of the book deals with their ways —...

alwpoe and 6 more 8 hours 20 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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