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General

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Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade - Our Little Siamese Cousin

A book written for children to see what life is like for their 'cousins' in Siam. This is part of the «Our Little Cousin» series and like the others, brings to life the day to day occurrences and celebrations of...

KHand and 5 more 1 hour 32 minutes Our Little Cousin Series

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Florence Nightingale the Angel of the Crimea

General

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Laura E. Howe Richards - Florence Nightingale the Angel of the Crimea

One evening, some time after the great Crimean War of 1854-55, a company of military and naval officers met at dinner in London. They were talking over the war, as soldiers and sailors love to do, and somebody said:...

Denise Nordell and 8 more 3 hours 23 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

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Randall Garrett - Quest of the Golden Ape

How could this man awaken with no past—no childhood—no recollection except of a vague world of terror from which his mother cried out for vengeance and the slaughter of his own people stood as a monument of infamy? —...

Mark Nelson 4 hours 3 minutes

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Art, Design & Architecture

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Wassily Kandinsky - Concerning the Spiritual in Art

Published in 1911, Kandinsky's book compares the spiritual life of humanity to a pyramid — the artist has a mission to lead others to the pinnacle with his work. The point of the pyramid is those few, great artists....

Expatriate 2 hours 27 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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Victor Appleton - Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat

Otherwise known as 'Under the Ocean for Sunken Treasure', is Volume 4 in the original Tom Swift novel series. Tom persuades his father to use his own submarine to hunt for treasure on a sunken ship. The book follows...

Ralph Crown and 12 more 4 hours 30 minutes Tom Swift Adventure Series

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Children's Fiction

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Hamilton Wright Mabie - Folk Tales Every Child Should Know

We have always loved stories. people have always entertained each other by telling tales around the campfire; traveling storytellers were huge crowd-pullers. Many of these stories were passed down through the...

Jennifer Dorr and 8 more 4 hours 9 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Thornton W. Burgess - Blacky the Crow

Blacky the Crow is a clever rascal who lives in the Green Forest and Meadow. He loves to play tricks on the other little people who are his neighbours, and is curious about Farmer Brown’s Boy. Blacky is always...

Jude Somers 2 hours 11 minutes

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Travel & Geography

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Robert Louis Stevenson - Inland Voyage

As a young man, Stevenson wished to be financially independent and began his literary career by writing travelogues. This is his first published work, written at a time when travel for pleasure was still a rarity. He...

Greg Giordano and 9 more 3 hours 56 minutes

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National Geographic Magazine Vol. 02 No. 3-5

Travel & Geography

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National Geographic Society - National Geographic Magazine Vol. 02 No. 3-5

National Geographic Magazine Volume 2 Number 3: The Arctic Cruise of the U.S.S. Thetis in the Summer and Autumn of 1889. The Law of Storms, considered with special reference to the North Atlantic. The...

ashleighjane and 7 more 5 hours 38 minutes National Geographic Magazines

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Dramatic Readings

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Lewis Carroll - Sylvie and Bruno (Dramatic Reading)

Sylvie and Bruno, first published in 1889, and its 1893 second volume Sylvie and Bruno Concluded form the last novel by Lewis Carroll published during his lifetime. Both volumes were illustrated by Harry Furniss....

7 hours 8 minutes

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Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life

Single Author Collections

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life

This is a collection of short stories focussing on the problems that present themselves to physicians and surgeons in the course of their work. The volume is named «Round the Red Lamp» as a reference to the red lamps...

Peter John Keeble and 9 more 7 hours 20 minutes

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Life of George Washington in Words of One Syllable

General

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Josephine Pollard - Life of George Washington in Words of One Syllable

The Life story of a public man cannot help being to some extent the same thing as a history of the times in which he lived, and to the case of none does this remark apply with more force than to that of the «Father of...

ACBowgus 3 hours 39 minutes

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