Kara Shallenberg

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Frank R. Stockton - Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts

Buccaneers is non-fiction, a highly readable history of how piracy began and spread throughout the region in response to the plundering of Spanish colonialism. It is written with great flair for the dramatic by the...

Denny Sayers and 11 more 7 hours 15 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

468

P. G. Wodehouse - Girl on the Boat

Also published as «Three Men and a Maid». The maid of the title is red-haired, dog-loving Wilhelmina «Billie» Bennet, and the three men are Bream Mortimer, a long-time friend and admirer of Billie, Eustace Hignett, a...

Kara Shallenberg 7 hours 12 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

601

Edgar Rice Burroughs - Princess of Mars

Part One of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Mars-Series. Easy, swank, pulp read about an omnipotent gentleman teleported to Mars, finding an outlandish society of ape-, tree- and lizardmen, red-, white-, yellowmen, brains on...

Stephan Möbius and 9 more 7 hours 10 minutes

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Nature

500

John Muir - Yosemite

John Muir's adventure guide for the Yosemite Valley.

Denny Sayers and 13 more 6 hours 59 minutes

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Children's Fiction

512

Howard Pyle - Wonder Clock

«Four and twenty marvellous tales, one for each hour of the day,» retold in a novel and entertaining manner by a master of the form. While drawing on German, English, and Scandinavian folk literature for many of his...

Kara Shallenberg and 9 more 6 hours 59 minutes

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Detective Fiction

503

R. Austin Freeman - Red Thumb Mark

Missing diamonds, untouched safe, two blood smeared thumb prints and a mysterious Mr X. If these are present, Dr Thorndyke must be there too. Will he be able to solve this case? The Red Thumb Mark is the first...

Chelsea Baker and 7 more 6 hours 56 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

490

Wit and Humor of America, Vol 01

The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the first volume, 53 short stories and poems have been gathered from 44 authors. This volume is sure to delight listeners. (Summary by Linette Geisel)

Barry Eads and 20 more 6 hours 54 minutes Wit and Humor of America

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572

Henry Edward Krehbiel - How to Listen to Music

This book is «not written for professional musicians, but for untaught lovers of the art». It gives broad instruction on composers, styles, instruments, venues — and when to believe the critics. (Summary by Sarah...

Ruth Golding and 6 more 6 hours 47 minutes

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500

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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Science Fiction

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H. G. Wells - War of the Worlds

H. G. Wells wrote The War of the Worlds in 1898, when there was much speculation about life on the planet Mars. The book is considered to be one of the first science fiction novels. In the story, an English...

Stephan Möbius and 10 more 6 hours 43 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Ella Rodman Church - Among the Trees at Elmridge

«On that bright spring afternoon when three happy, interested children went off to the woods with their governess to take their first lesson in the study of wild flowers, they saw also some other things which made a...

RachClem and 12 more 6 hours 39 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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E. Nesbit - Phoenix and the Carpet

The Phoenix and the Carpet is a fantasy novel for children, written in 1904 by E. Nesbit. It is the second in a trilogy of novels that began with Five Children and It (1902), and follows the adventures of the same...

Kara Shallenberg and 7 more 6 hours 37 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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