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Travel & Geography

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John Muir - Travels in Alaska

In 1879 John Muir went to Alaska for the first time. Its stupendous living glaciers aroused his unbounded interest, for they enabled him to verify his theories of glacial action. Again and again he returned to this...

Esther and 9 more 9 hours 6 minutes

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Animals & Nature

566

Emily Neville - It's Like This, Cat (Version 2)

This novel won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1964. This delightful story revolves around a 14 year old boy, Dave and his adopted cat, called just «Cat», who turns his ordinary...

Chance D. Ervin and 8 more 3 hours 26 minutes

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Historical Fiction

587

Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace, Book 15: 1812-1813

War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story...

renee.houle and 8 more 2 hours 30 minutes War and Peace (Maude Translation Books 1-17)

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General Fiction

545

George du Maurier - Trilby

Trilby, published in 1894, fits into the gothic horror genre which was undergoing a revival during the Fin de siècle and is one of the most popular novels of its time, perhaps the second best selling novel of the Fin...

Christian Al-Kadi and 7 more 11 hours 12 minutes

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Animals

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John Henry Patterson - Man-Eaters of Tsavo

In 1898, during the construction of river-crossing bridge for the Uganda Railway at the Tsavo River, as many as 135 railway workers were attacked at night, dragged into the wilderness, and devoured by two male lions....

James Christopher and 8 more 6 hours 22 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Victor Hugo - Misérables Vol. 4

This is book 4 of 5. — An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the way, the ex-convict joins a revolution, adopts a daughter, and beats people...

Emma Joyce and 17 more 15 hours 36 minutes Les Misérables (English Version)

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 1

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 1

In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious short stories from all corners of the world. Some of the stories appeared in...

Jim Jacobson and 10 more 10 hours 55 minutes Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

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Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Vol 2

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Benvenuto Cellini - Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Vol 2

Cellini's autobiographical memoirs, which he began writing in Florence in 1558, give a detailed account of his singular career, as well as his loves, hatreds, passions, and delights, written in an energetic, direct,...

P Moscato and 8 more 7 hours 21 minutes

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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-madinah and Meccah

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Richard Francis Burton - Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-madinah and Meccah

Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 – 1890) was an English explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, ethnologist, linguist, poet, hypnotist, fencer and diplomat. He was known for his travels and explorations...

hefyd and 14 more 31 hours 49 minutes

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General Fiction

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Anthony Trollope - Prime Minister

The Prime Minister is the fifth in Trollope's series of six Palliser novels. With Phineas' difficulties resolved, Trollope introduces new characters. A respectable young girl forsakes the man her family had always...

Nicholas Clifford and 9 more 28 hours 28 minutes Palliser Novels by Anthony Trollope

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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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