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Travel & Geography

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Nathaniel Parker Willis - American Scenery, Vol. 1

Although the focus of this book is the engravings depicting scenic sites of 19th century America, each is accompanied by a short description of the site and location. These vignettes give us rare glimpses of scenic...

Larry Wilson and 14 more 6 hours 57 minutes

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National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 12. December 1896

Travel & Geography

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National Geographic Society - National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 12. December 1896

The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the December Number. It includes the following articles: The Geography of the Southern Peninsula of the United States, by Rev. John N. MacGonigle The...

Carol Cotter and 3 more 1 hour 35 minutes National Geographic Magazines

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Action & Adventure Fiction

Jules Verne - Steam House

Jules Verne is back with another action-packed adventure--this time in India with a steam-powered elephant! Maucler, Captain Hood, Banks, and Colonel Munro set out for a pleasure trip across India in their train...

J. E. Vorble and 10 more 11 hours 48 minutes

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Children's Non-fiction

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Boy Scouts of America - Boy Scouts Handbook

The Boy Scouts of America was founded over a hundred years ago to serve the young men of the United States of America and give them the same oppurtunities that Boy Scouts all over the world were receiving. Modeled...

Kangaroo and 19 more 13 hours 34 minutes

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Old Friends, Essays in Epistolary Parody

Epistolary Fiction

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Andrew Lang - Old Friends, Essays in Epistolary Parody

«Every fancy which dwells much with the unborn and immortal characters of Fiction must ask itself, Did the persons in contemporary novels never meet? In so little a world their paths must often have crossed, their...

BettyB and 10 more 3 hours 36 minutes

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School

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Laura Lee Hope - Bobbsey Twins at School

The Bobbsey Twins is a series of books attributed to Laura Lee Hope, a house pseudonym of the Stratemeyer Syndicate. The family includes a pair of older twins, Nan and Bert, and a pair of younger twins, Freddie and...

Bethany Baldwin and 8 more 3 hours 42 minutes

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Children's Fiction

Louisa May Alcott - Shawl-Straps: A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag

Unlike the other volumes in this series, which are books of childrens' stories, Shawl-Straps is a novel. It is the story of Amanda, Matilda, and Lavinia, three sisters who are travelling in Europe. The book is based...

Rachel and 3 more 4 hours 26 minutes

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War & Military

Mary Roberts Rinehart - Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front

A personal account of the American author's visit to Europe in January 1915 while a war correspondent in Belgium for The Saturday Evening Post. She writes: «War is not two great armies meeting in a clash and frenzy of...

Mary in Arkansas and 11 more 10 hours 27 minutes

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National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 08. August 1896

Travel & Geography

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National Geographic Society - National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 08. August 1896

The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the August Number. It includes the following articles: The Work of the National Geographic Society Eighth Annual Field Meeting of the National...

Carol Cotter and 3 more 1 hour 33 minutes National Geographic Magazines

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Family

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Mary Martha Sherwood - Fairchild Family

The adventures of Lucy, Emily and Henry are described in this short novel, written and set in Regency England. Their naughtiness, their activities and their interactions with the children next door; Miss Augusta and...

flutterby93 and 16 more 12 hours 38 minutes

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Son of the Gods and A Horseman in the Sky

War & Military

996

Ambrose Bierce - Son of the Gods and A Horseman in the Sky

Two short stories from the American Civil War by Ambrose Bierce. The first story is about a brave soldier who follows orders and risks his life without question. The second is about a soldier who falls asleep on guard...

William A Crenshaw and 1 more 37 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Thornton Hall - Love Romances of the Aristocracy

There are countless romances set in the British upper class, but the hearts of the real-life counterparts of the fictional heroes have also been conquered, lost, or broken. The real peerage has lived through romances...

SaraHale and 7 more 9 hours 55 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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