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Children's Fiction

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Children's Book of Christmas Stories

Many librarians have felt the need and expressed the desire for a select collection of children's Christmas stories in one volume. This book claims to be just that and nothing more. Each of the stories has already won...

Alisa 7 hours 40 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Elizabeth von Arnim - Elizabeth and her German Garden

Elizabeth and Her German Garden is a novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, first published in 1898; it was very popular and frequently reprinted during the early years of the 20th century. The story is a year's diary written...

ashleighjane 4 hours 53 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Bolesław Prus - Pharaoh and the Priest

The Pharaoh and the Priest (Polish: Faraon) is the fourth and last major novel by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus. It was the sole historical novel by an author who had earlier disapproved of historical novels on the...

Piotr Nater and 13 more 26 hours 23 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Eva K. Betz - Quiet Flame

“You will never be a leper nor will any Sister of our Order.” The amazing promise was made by Mother Marianne of Molokai, the “Quiet Flame” of the this title who, as a Sister of St. Francis, spent 30 years on...

Maria Therese 3 hours 10 minutes

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Hagar's Daughter. A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice

Historical Fiction

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Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins - Hagar's Daughter. A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice

Hagar's Daughter was first published serially in «The Colored American Magazine» in 1901-1902 by Pauline E. Hopkins, a prominent African-American novelist, journalist, historian, and playwright. The book was described...

Novella Serena and 4 more 8 hours 38 minutes

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Swiss Family Robinson in Words of One Syllable

Nautical & Marine Fiction

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Lucy Aikin - Swiss Family Robinson in Words of One Syllable

All the excitement, danger, heartbreaks and triumphs of this well known story, but without the big words. Lucy Aikin, an accomplished writer and writing as Mary Godolphin, accomplishes this with apparent ease in this...

Gregory Eccles and 5 more 2 hours 13 minutes

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General Fiction

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Stendhal - Red and the Black, Volume II

Stendhal — a German pen-name for a French writer who hated the English. Contemporary to some of the great names of French literature like Balzac and Flaubert, Stendhal is quite often considered a writer that doesn't...

Malone and 8 more 12 hours 15 minutes

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Children's Non-fiction

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Hallam Hawksworth - Adventures of a Grain of Dust

This charming book for children is full of interesting facts about all sorts of plants, insects, birds and animals and how they all help to enrich the soil for farmers — each in its own special way. Join our...

J. M. Smallheer 5 hours 9 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Alexandre Dumas - Count of Monte Cristo (version 3)

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo is an adventure novel and one of the author's most popular works. He completed the work in 1844. The story takes place in France, Italy, islands in the Mediterranean and in the Levant during...

David Clarke 54 hours 17 minutes

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Plays

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Gilbert Parker - Seats of The Mighty

For the time of his story Mr. Parker has chosen the most absorbing period of the romantic eighteenth-century history of Quebec. The curtain rises soon after General Braddock's defeat in Virginia, and the hero, a...

13 hours 39 minutes

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Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective

Humorous Fiction

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Ellis Parker Butler - Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective

Philo Gubb, not being content with his job as wallpaper-hanger, has higher aspirations: to become a detective, just like Sherlock Holmes. To that end, he enrolls in a correspondence course, where he gets lessons...

Margaret Espaillat and 7 more 9 hours 3 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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William Carleton - Black Prophet: A Tale of Irish Famine

A story about the Irish, just before the onset of the famine of 1847, with all the color and dialogue of a man who lived it. (Summary by JCarson)

James E. Carson 16 hours 22 minutes

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