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General

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Arthur Ransome - Pond And Stream

This book is part of the author’s «Nature Books For Children» series (three books), which is probably the best indication of its target audience and subject matter. The book is fun and charming, even for adults....

David Wales 1 hour 15 minutes

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General

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Arthur Ransome - Child's Book Of The Seasons

This book is part of the author’s «Nature Books For Children» series (three books), which is probably the best indication of its target audience and subject matter. The book is fun and charming, even for adults....

David Wales 1 hour 12 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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E. Pauline Johnson - Camper

It is eminently fitting that this daughter of Nature should have been laid to rest in no urban cemetery. According to her own request she was buried in Stanley Park, Vancouver's beautiful heritage of the forest...

elliot and 11 more 14 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Walter George Bell - Tower of London

A short book, whose chapters were originally published in The Daily Mail, which explores the history and facts of each of the structures that make up the Tower. — Summary by Janet 99

Janet 3 hours 1 minute

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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L. Frank Baum - John Dough and the Cherub

An evil Arabian sorcerer loans a golden flask full of the Great Elixir — a magic liquid that endows a person with pronounced health, strength, and longevity — to a colorblind baker's wife to stop it falling into the...

Beth Thomas and 7 more 4 hours 27 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Thornton W. Burgess - Adventures of Sammy Jay

There's nothing that sly troublemaker Sammy Jay likes better than stealing corn — unless it's playing tricks on the other animals in the forest. Yet Chatterer the Red Squirrel would like to keep his corn, thank you...

Rachel 1 hour 29 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Yei Theodora Ozaki - Romances of Old Japan

A collection of romances from old Japan rendered into English by Yei Theodora Ozaki. Filled with tales of honor, adventure, tragedy, and romance, this collection will surely give anyone interested in Japanese culture...

mlcui 6 hours 57 minutes

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National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 01. January 1896

Travel & Geography

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National Geographic Society - National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 01. January 1896

The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the January Number. It includes the Introductory by the editor, John Hyde, and the following articles: Russia in Europe, an annual address by Hon....

BettyB and 4 more 2 hours 15 minutes National Geographic Magazines

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Biography & Autobiography

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A. Taylor Innes - John Knox

A scholarly and thoughtful biography of the Scottish Reformer. (Jael Baldwin)

Jael Baldwin 4 hours 45 minutes

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Tragedy

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Euripides - Alcestis (Way Translation)

Alcestis, queen of Pherae, is one of the noblest heroines in all of Greek drama. Her husband Admetus is the supposedly virtuous king of Pherae who wins the friendship of the god Apollo. Apollo tricks the Eumenides...

Expatriate 1 hour 13 minutes

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With the Judæans in the Palestine Campaign

War & Military

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John Henry Patterson - With the Judæans in the Palestine Campaign

From the Preface: The formation of a Battalion of Jews for service in the British Army is an event without precedent in our annals, and the part played by such a unique unit is assured of a niche in history owing to...

Beth Thomas and 6 more 6 hours 40 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Honoré de Balzac - Father Goriot (version 2)

Father Goriot (Le Père Goriot), published in 1835, is widely considered to be Balzac's finest and most popular novel. It is set in Paris in 1819, after Napoleon's defeat and the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy....

Bruce Pirie 11 hours 27 minutes

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