Kara Shallenberg

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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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Biography & Autobiography

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Theodore Roosevelt - Theodore Roosevelt: an Autobiography

In his vital, illustrative and dynamic autobiography, Theodore Roosevelt let us into the life that formed one of the greatest and outspoken presidents in American history. Not only are we privy to the formation of...

Marfschen and 15 more 21 hours 51 minutes

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Arts

506

Agnes Ethel Conway - Book of Art for Young People

This is a charming book on Art History for children (and everyone else). Each chapter focuses on a great painting, reproduced in color in the original text. The authors explain the story behind the paintings, as well...

Kara Shallenberg 4 hours 12 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

504

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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*Non-fiction

457

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

531

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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*Non-fiction

499

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

530

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

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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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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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