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Children's Fiction

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Edward Ormondroyd - David and the Phoenix

David knew that one should be prepared for anything when one climbs a mountain, but he never dreamed what he would find that June morning on the mountain ledge. There stood an enormous bird, with a head like an...

Greg Weeks 3 hours

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Other religions

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Buddhist Writings

An anthology of Buddhist scriptures, appropriate as an introduction to its vast literature, or as a sampler for those who want to better understand Buddhism. The selections in this anthology are primarily from the...

Leon Mire and 16 more 7 hours 38 minutes

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Family Life

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Kathleen Norris - Mother

With seven children and a home to take care of, Margaret wondered how her Mother could be so happy living a life that seemed all drudgery. As Margaret has new experiences, she comes to realize that «her mother was...

Megan Kunkel 2 hours 48 minutes

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Family Life

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Marshall Saunders - Beautiful Joe

Beautiful Joe is a real dog, and «Beautiful Joe» is his real name. He belonged during the first part of his life to a cruel master, who mutilated him in the manner described in the story. He was rescued from him,...

Allyson Hester 10 hours 2 minutes

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Ballads

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Chrétien de Troyes - Yvain, or the Knight with the Lion

Yvain, the Knight of the Lion is a romance by Chrétien de Troyes. It was probably written in the 1170s simultaneously with Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, and includes several references to the action in that poem....

poormedea 4 hours 27 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Sara Cone Bryant - How to Tell Stories to Children

Sarah Cone Bryant was an educator and storyteller who wrote several books on the importance of oral storytelling to children, and stories to tell children. This volume expounds on her theories and practices of...

Sean McGaughey and 4 more 5 hours 54 minutes

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Poetry

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William Shakespeare - Shakespeare's Sonnets (version 3)

Shakespeare’s Sonnets , or simply The Sonnets , comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality. The poems were...

Sam Stinson 2 hours 19 minutes

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Religion

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Jesse Lyman Hurlbut - Hurlbut's Story of the Bible Part 5

Some years ago, the editor of an English magazine sent a communication to «the hundred greatest men in Great Britain» asking them this question: «If for any reason you were to spend a year absolutely alone, in a...

dolce and 10 more 2 hours 54 minutes Hurlbut's Story of the Bible

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Christianity - Other

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Martin Luther - Treatise on Good Works

In this exposition of the Ten Commandments, Martin Luther attempts to build a bridge between justification by faith and the life of the Christian manifested by good works. — Summary by Larry Wilson

Philip Naudus and 4 more 5 hours 12 minutes

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General Fiction

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Virginia Woolf - Voyage Out

The Voyage Out is the first novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1915 by Duckworth; and published in the U.S. in 1920 by Doran. One of Woolf's wittiest social satires. Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America...

Grant Hurlock 17 hours 38 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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John George Nicolay - Short Life of Abraham Lincoln

John G. Nicolay was Abraham Lincoln’s private White House secretary. With assistant secretary, John Hay, he wrote the two volume definitive biography of Lincoln, «Abraham Lincoln, a Biography.» Although this is a...

John Lieder and 8 more 18 hours 28 minutes

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Short non-fiction

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G. K. Chesterton - All Things Considered

Another delightful and sharply pointed excursion into the topics of the day, and of this day as well, with Gilbert Keith Chesterton. These reprinted magazine articles are filled with his good natured wit, his...

Ray Clare 6 hours 39 minutes

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