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Travel & Geography

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Frank G. Carpenter - Carpenter's Geographical Reader: Africa

Fascinating book for all ages telling of travels through Africa over 100 years ago. Covering the continent by steamer and train and other more primitive means of transport, the reader will enjoy learning of African...

BettyB 7 hours 39 minutes Carpenter's Geographical Readers

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Cooking

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Janet McKenzie Hill - Whys of Cooking

An entertaining yet informative look at the history of Crisco, its place in the «modern» kitchen, basic recipes and how to set up your kitchen layout and types of meal service including «when you don't have a maid.» —...

BettyB 4 hours 14 minutes

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Nature

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Birds and Nature, Vol. IX, No 2, February 1901

«Birds and Nature» was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems, stories and brief descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying...

Jonathan Paul Arnold and 8 more 2 hours 26 minutes Birds; Birds and All Nature; Nature and Art; Birds and Nature - Volumes I, IV-XII (Volume II in progress)

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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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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Flora Annie Steel - English Fairy Tales

This is a selection of the most well-known fairy tales told in England. It contains such very famous stories as Jack and the Beanstalk, and Little Red Riding-hood, but also some stories that are not included in every...

Robin Lamb and 14 more 8 hours 17 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Children's Wonder Book

This is a wild mix of different children's stories by different authors. All lof the stories are original, and some of them use a well-known story and bring a novel and often humorous twist to it. Children of all ages...

Patrick Saville and 10 more 5 hours 53 minutes

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Cooking

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Six Cups of Coffee

It is not much to say that nine-tenths of that decoction which passes under the name of coffee, is unworthy to be so called, and that many persons live and die without ever tasting a really good cup of that delicious...

BettyB and 4 more 1 hour 35 minutes

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Cooking

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Catherine Owen - Culture and Cooking; Or, Art in the Kitchen

This is not a cookery book. It makes no attempt to replace a good one; it is rather an effort to fill up the gap between you and your household oracle, whether she be one of those exasperating old friends who maddened...

BettyB and 4 more 3 hours 40 minutes

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National Geographic Magazine Vol. 08 - 01. January 1897

Travel & Geography

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National Geographic Society - National Geographic Magazine Vol. 08 - 01. January 1897

The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the January Number. It includes the following articles: The Gold Coast, Ashanti, and Kumassi, by George K. French All Around the Bay of Passamaquoddy,...

Rapunzelina and 4 more 1 hour 29 minutes National Geographic Magazines

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Biography & Autobiography

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Albert Payson Terhune - Superwomen

In this 1916 work, Albert Payson Terhune introduces twelve immensely influential women, whose actions influenced world history. Terhune chooses well-known figures whose stories are as much myth as history, like...

BettyB and 3 more 7 hours 55 minutes

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Short works

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Nora Archibald Smith - Tales of Laughter

Time to exercise your funny bone. This fun collection of stories from around the world will make children of all ages smile and chuckle. A LAUGHING SONG When the greenwoods laugh with the voice of joy, And the...

Lynne T and 14 more 15 hours 53 minutes

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Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 11, January 13, 1880

General

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Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 11, January 13, 1880

Harper's Young People, first published in 1879, was an illustrated weekly publication containing delightful serialized stories, short stories, fiction and nonfiction, anecdotes, jokes, artwork, craft projects, and...

acousticwave and 5 more 1 hour 53 minutes Harper's Young People

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New

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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