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U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Migration of Birds

Snow Geese which left James Bay, Canada, arrived at the Louisiana Gulf coast «60 hours later after a continuous flight of over 1,700 miles at an average speed of 28 miles per hour.» This is just one of the many...

Sue Anderson 4 hours 8 minutes

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Poetry

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Louisa Stuart Costello - Second Rubaiyat Miscellany

In 1840 Louisa Stuart Costello published in Fraser’s Magazine an article on classic Persian poetry, which included a section on Omar Khayyam with translations of some verses. Interest in the poetry of Omar Khayyam...

Algy Pug 2 hours 58 minutes

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Science - History of the Universe Vol. 6: Zoology & Botany

Animals

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Francis Rolt-Wheeler - Science - History of the Universe Vol. 6: Zoology & Botany

Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The sixth volume is on Zoology written by Dr. WM. D. Matthew and on Botany written by Marion E. Latham. The section on Zoology examines the development,...

Nichalia Schwartz and 7 more 11 hours 11 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Ellis Parker Butler - Jack-Knife Man

A lighthearted tale which revolves around old Peter Lane, who lives in a houseboat on the Mississippi River and mostly whiles away his time whittling with his jack-knife and not really doing much else. That is,...

Roger Melin 5 hours 46 minutes

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Little Pilgrimages Among the Women Who Have Written Famous Books

Biography & Autobiography

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Edward Francis Harkins - Little Pilgrimages Among the Women Who Have Written Famous Books

The purpose of this book is to renew an intimate acquaintance with the women whom the American reading public regards as favorites, and to establish a like intimate acquaintance with the promising newcomers. The...

MaryAnn and 6 more 4 hours 59 minutes

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Short works

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Children's Short Works, Vol. 028

Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 028: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

Elsie Selwyn and 12 more 2 hours 35 minutes Children's Short Works Collections

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Single author

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Adelaide Crapsey - Verse

Adelaide Crapsey's experimental poetry included her creation of the cinquain. This recording was taken from the posthumously published and expanded 1922 edition of her verse. (Summary by Newgatenovelist)

Newgatenovelist 1 hour 11 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Geoffrey Chaucer - Chaucer Storybook

Geoffrey Chaucer's classic «Canterbury Tales» has here been rendered into clear and contemporary English prose. These classic stories are now available to those who would like to read them without struggling through...

Beth Thomas and 11 more 3 hours 56 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 054

Sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include Science and Exploration--a tribute to Egyptologist Amelia Edwards, and discourses on gravitation and relativity...

Phil Schempf and 8 more 5 hours 19 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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William Makepeace Thackeray - Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

First published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844 as The Luck of Barry Lyndon, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq is a picaresque novel, narrated (occasionally charmingly, always unreliably) by a member of the...

mb 13 hours 49 minutes

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Fantasy Fiction

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Robert E. Howard - Hour of the Dragon (version 2)

This is absolutely the best Conan novel ever written in my opinion. It follows Conan when at the peak of his power as king of Aquilonia, he is overthrown by dark, evil magic from Stygia and turned into a hunted...

Phil Chenevert 8 hours 50 minutes Conan the Cimmerian

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Wonder Book for Girls and Boys (version 2)

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Nathaniel Hawthorne - Wonder Book for Girls and Boys (version 2)

THE author has long been of opinion that many of the classical myths were capable of being rendered into very capital reading for children. In the little volume here offered to the public, he has worked up half a...

Mike Pelton and 7 more 5 hours 34 minutes

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