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Children's Fiction

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Arthur Ransome - Old Peter's Russian Tales

Arthur Ransome is best known for his Swallows and Amazons series of children’s books. This is the only example of his fiction in the public domain. These stories are all from Russian folklore, some comparatively...

Andy Minter and 6 more 7 hours 42 minutes

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General Fiction

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Mary Webb - Gone to Earth

«Gone to Earth» is the cry of fox hunters as the fox takes to its den and they lose the chase. Here, Mary Webb tells the story of Hazel Woodus whose understanding of her half tame fox cub contrasts with her...

Rachel Lintern 9 hours 41 minutes

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Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians

Christianity - Commentary

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Martin Luther - Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians

Martin Luther strove to give a verse by verse exegesis of the Epistle to the Galatians in the work. The original work, written in Latin in around 1516, was much longer. This translation by Theodore Graebner strove to...

Tim Perkins and 6 more 10 hours 42 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Robert Louis Stevenson - Kidnapped

David Balfour, a lad of seventeen and newly orphaned, is directed to go and live with his rich uncle, the master of the estate of Shaws in the lowlands of Scotland near Edinburgh. His uncle, Ebenezer (as close a miser...

Mark F. Smith 8 hours 18 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Arthur William Knapp - Cocoa and Chocolate

As that heavenly bit of chocolate melts in our mouths, we give little thought as to where it came from, the arduous work that went in to its creation, and the complex process of its maturation from a bean to the...

Allyson Hester 4 hours 45 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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L. Frank Baum - Sea Fairies

In 1910, Baum hoped to end the Oz series and follow with a new series about a little girl named Trot and her sailor companion, Cap'n Bill. The Sea Fairies (1911) was the first book in the projected series and took...

Judy Bieber 4 hours 15 minutes

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General Fiction

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Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of the Island (version 2)

Anne is off to Redmond College! She will spend the next three years living and learning, making new friends, and deepening old friendships. Other books in this series by this reader: Anne of Green Gables Anne...

Karen Savage 6 hours 44 minutes Anne of Green Gables and related works

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Humorous Fiction

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Herbert George Jenkins - Patricia Brent, spinster

A romantic comedy, written in 1918, but with a modern feel to it. Patricia Brent one day overhears two fellow-boarders pitying her because she «never has a nice young man to take her out». In a thoughtless moment of...

Anna Simon 6 hours 44 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Murasaki Shikibu - Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji)

The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari) is a classic work of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu in the early eleventh century, around the peak of the Heian Period. It is sometimes...

Moira Fogarty and 7 more 8 hours 52 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Charles King - Daughter of the Sioux

Charles King was a United States soldier and a distinguished writer. He was the son of Civil War general Rufus King and great grandson of Rufus King, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He...

Maire Rhode and 6 more 7 hours 52 minutes

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Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 2

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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus - Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 2

Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving lives contain twenty-three pairs of...

Leni and 5 more 8 hours 55 minutes Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans by Plutarch

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Law

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Fabian Franklin - What Prohibition Has Done to America

In What Prohibition Has Done to America , Fabian Franklin presents a concise but forceful argument against the Eighteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Beginning in 1920, this Amendment prohibited the sale and...

Joshua B. Christensen and 5 more 2 hours 21 minutes

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