Cheri Gardner

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Essays

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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne - Essays book 1

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary genre and is popularly thought of as the father of Modern Skepticism. He...

Martin Geeson and 17 more 17 hours 5 minutes Essays by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Version 2)

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Jules Verne - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Version 2)

Professor Pierre Aronnax is an academic whose thirst for knowledge carries him out of his ivory tower and on the trail of a mysterious sea beast. His curiosity at last is satiated when he finds himself in the belly...

Chris Donnelly and 17 more 16 hours 43 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Hamilton Wright Mabie - Famous Stories Every Child Should Know

The group of stories brought together in this volume differ from legends because they have, with one exception,no core fact at the centre, from myths because they make no attempt to personify or explain the forces or...

Lynne T and 8 more 10 hours 24 minutes

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Religion

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Martha Finley - Elsie's Girlhood

In the third book of Martha Finley's much-loved Elsie Dinsmore series, Elsie's life is traced from the tender age of 12 or 13 to the mature age of 21. Her life is not all sunshine and roses, but she is secure in the...

GabrielleC and 5 more 9 hours 1 minute Elsie Dinsmore Series

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*Non-fiction

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Sarah Knowles Bolton - Lives of Girls Who Became Famous

This book is a collection of short biographies of notable women, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Florence Nightingale, and many others. (Summary by Arielle Lipshaw)

Stephanie Lee and 12 more 8 hours 57 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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John C. Hutcheson - Ghost Ship

This book intentionally veers in and out of the supernatural, as the title implies. The officers get more and more bewildered as they work out their position, and yet again encounter the same vessel going in an...

Richard Kilmer and 4 more 8 hours 30 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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James T. Nichols - Birdseye Views of Far Lands

Birdseye Views of Far Lands is an interesting, wholesome presentation of something that a keen-eyed, alert traveler with the faculty of making contrasts with all classes of people in all sorts of places, in such...

RudeJohn and 12 more 6 hours 23 minutes

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Vegetable Garden: A Manual for the Amateur Vegetable Gardener

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Ida Dandridge Bennett - Vegetable Garden: A Manual for the Amateur Vegetable Gardener

This book is a good reference on vegetable gardening. It covers the economic value of a vegetable garden, planning and locating the garden, maintaining soil fertility, hotbeds, garden tools, sowing seeds,...

Michael Packard and 8 more 5 hours 40 minutes

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General

L. Frank Baum - Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work

The novel carries forward the continuing story of the three cousins Louise Merrick, Beth De Graf, and Patsy Doyle, and their circle. The title is somewhat misleading; it could more accurately have been called Aunt...

Linda Andrus and 15 more 5 hours 11 minutes Aunt Jane's Nieces series

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Short Stories

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David Cory - Jumble Book

This is a lovely collection of short stories and poems some well known others not so well known. Something to appeal to everyone. (Summary by Michele Eaton )

Halle Kill and 20 more 4 hours 40 minutes

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Historical

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Alice Turner Curtis - Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter

Sylvia Fulton is a ten-years-old girl from Boston who stayed in Charleston, South Carolina, before the opening of the civil war. She loves her new home, and her dear friends. However, political tensions are rising,...

Amber Hamilton and 8 more 3 hours 52 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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L. Frank Baum - Dot and Tot of Merryland

Dot and Tot of Merryland is a 1901 novel by L. Frank Baum. After Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, he wrote this story about the adventures of a little girl named Dot and a little boy named Tot in a land reached...

Zaradaqaw and 12 more 3 hours 26 minutes

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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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