Kara Shallenberg

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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George Bird Grinnell - Blackfeet Indian Stories

The Blackfeet were hunters, travelling from place to place on foot. They used implements of stone, wood, or bone, wore clothing made of skins, and lived in tents covered by hides. Dogs, their only tame animals, were...

Sibella Denton and 6 more 4 hours 2 minutes

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Jennie Ellis Keysor - Great Artists: Volume 1

Biographies of Raphael Santi, Murillo, Peter Paul Rubens, and Albrecht Durer. This is a wonderful tool for art study as there are references for further study, as well as ideas for language arts to incorporate into...

Laura Caldwell and 3 more 2 hours 34 minutes

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Saint Distaffs day, or the morrow after Twelfth day

Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Robert Herrick - Saint Distaffs day, or the morrow after Twelfth day

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 different recordings of Saint Distaff's Day, or the Morrow After Twelfth Day, by Robert Herrick. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of January 6th, 2008. What is St....

Caitlin Teresa and 13 more 12 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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L. Frank Baum - Glinda of Oz

Glinda of Oz is the fourteenth Land of Oz book and is the last one written by the original author L. Frank Baum, although the series was continued after his death by several other authors. Dorothy and Ozma...

Luke Nelson and 9 more 4 hours 38 minutes Oz books

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Immanuel Kant - Critique of Practical Reason

The Critique of Practical Reason ( Kritik der praktischen Vernunft ) is the second of Immanuel Kant's three critiques, first published in 1788. It follows on from his Critique of Pure Reason and deals with his...

Sibella Denton and 9 more 6 hours 43 minutes

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Poetry

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Christmas Short Works Collection 2007

LibriVox’s 2007 Christmas Short Works Colletion containing public domain short stories, essays, poems, and scripture passages recorded by a variety of LibriVox members. Section 09: A Cornish Christmas Play, a...

Ralph Snelson and 13 more 5 hours 20 minutes

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History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 3, Chapter 13)

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Thomas Babington Macaulay - History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 3, Chapter 13)

This chapter traces the history of the Glorious Revolution in Scotland, including the reaction of the country's religious parties, the installment of William and Mary, and the campaigns of the Highland Army. (Summary...

Leon Mire and 6 more 4 hours 18 minutes Macaulay - History of England, from the accession of James II

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Children's Fiction

486

Lucretia P. Hale - Peterkin Papers (version 2)

The Peterkin Papers is a book-length collection of humorous stories by Lucretia Peabody Hale, and is her best-known work. The Peterkins are a lovable but comically inept family with ingenuity, logic, resourcefulness,...

Laura Caldwell and 8 more 4 hours 28 minutes

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Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children

Children's Fiction

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Charles Kingsley - Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children

The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children by Charles Kingsley is a collection of three Greek mythology stories: Perseus, The Argonauts, and Theseus. The author had a great fondness for Greek fairy tales and...

Laura Caldwell and 6 more 5 hours 24 minutes

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Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery

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Anonymous - Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery

This book, a reprint of a successful English publication, has been so enlarged as to be to all intents and purposes new. It has been carefully revised by a Reverend gentleman, who for some time filled the chair of...

Paul Williams and 8 more 7 hours 18 minutes

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Einhard - Life of Charlemagne (Einhard)

Einhard was employed by Charlemagne as a court historian. At the request of Charlemagne's son and successor Louis the Pious, he wrote a biography of Charlemagne, the Vita Karoli Magni or Life of Charlemagne (c....

Sibella Denton and 4 more 1 hour 14 minutes

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Poetry

440

Local Color Collection Vol. 001

In this celebration of diversity, learn about the myriad histories and cultures behind our volunteers. (summary by Eric Ray)

Alan Davis Drake and 14 more 3 hours 19 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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