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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Loretta Ellen Brady - Green Forest Fairy Book

This is a volume of original fairy tales by Loretta Ellen Brady. — Summary by Carolin

Peter Yearsley and 9 more 5 hours 49 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Jean M. Thompson - Three Bears of Porcupine Ridge

Twenty-four delightful tales for children. Meet Timothy Mouse, Little Red Doe, Dame Woodchuck, King Moose and Unk-Wunk the Porcupine with their friends. Adventure and humor are skillfully wrapped around these lovable...

genesnowflake and 10 more 5 hours 46 minutes

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Memoirs

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Caroline Cowles Richards Clarke - Village Life in America

A diary of a young school girl in Canandaigua, New York during the Civil War. (Summary by MaryElizabeth)

Mary-Elizabeth Arndt and 7 more 5 hours 39 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Margaret Vandercook - Camp Fire Girls at Sunrise Hill

Betty Ashton is so very bored! She is in her home, wanting something interesting to do, when she meets her new companion, Esther Clark. Esther has just arrived at the request of Mrs Ashton, to live with Betty and to...

Debbie R. Baker Robinson and 6 more 5 hours 39 minutes

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Recollections of Old Liverpool by a Nonagenarian

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James Stonehouse - Recollections of Old Liverpool by a Nonagenarian

These reflections of a 93 year old Liverpudlian provide a unique view of life in late 19th to mid19th century Liverpool. They were transcribed as they were related by him and, as a result this narrative has the ring...

Phillip J Mather and 2 more 5 hours 38 minutes

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Literature in the Making, by Some of its Makers

Writing & Linguistics

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Joyce Kilmer - Literature in the Making, by Some of its Makers

This is a collection of 23 essays based on interviews conducted by Joyce Kilmer with some of the most famous authors of the time (1917). Kilmer's idea, as outlined in the Introduction, was that there is a deep divide...

BettyB and 10 more 5 hours 34 minutes

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Technology & Engineering

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Sir Charles Bright - Story of the Atlantic Cable

The electric telegraph, together with the railway-train and the steamship, constituted the three most conspicuous features of late 19th century civilization. Indeed, it may be truly said that the harnessing...

Maria Kasper and 7 more 5 hours 30 minutes

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Cooking

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Catherine Owen - Choice Cookery

Choice cookery is not intended for households that have to study economy, except where economy is a relative term; where, perhaps, the housekeeper could easily spend a dollar for the materials of a luxury, but could...

MaryAnn and 3 more 5 hours 29 minutes

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Meridiana: The adventures of three Englishmen and three Russians in South Africa

Travel Fiction

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Jules Verne - Meridiana: The adventures of three Englishmen and three Russians in South Africa

Three Englishmen and Three Russians travel across the width of South Africa to measure a meridian. The outbreak of the Crimean War makes the Russians enemy agents in an English colony. Summary by Kim.

Ryan and 8 more 5 hours 28 minutes

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Nature

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Mary Decker Wellcome - Talks About Flowers

To all Flower Lovers who may read these pages, we come with kindly greetings. To you we dedicate our Work. Encouraged by the many testimonials of favor with which our Flower Sketches have been received, which have...

Christine Lehman and 11 more 5 hours 25 minutes

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Short Stories

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Im Bang - Korean Folk Tales

«To any one who would like to look somewhat into the inner soul of the Oriental, and see the peculiar spiritual existences among which he lives, the following stories will serve as true interpreters, born as they are...

Lynne T and 11 more 5 hours 23 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 064

Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. Eucken's «The Failure of Speculative Philosophy,» is one of several essays devoted to timeless questions. Others are by James Howell on man, nature and the...

Peter Thomlinson and 12 more 5 hours 21 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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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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