Kara Shallenberg

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Children's Fiction

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Olive Beaupre Miller - In the Nursery of My Bookhouse

Full of delightful nursery rhymes, charming poems and engaging stories, folk and fairy tales, this is the first volume of the «My Bookhouse» series for little ones. Originally published in the 1920's as a six volume...

Snapdragon and 37 more 7 hours 15 minutes My Bookhouse Series

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Nature

National Geographic Society - National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 2

National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 2 published in 1889. Topics of articles are: Africa, its Past and Future Reports on: Geography of the Land Geography of the Sea Geography...

MJ Franck and 4 more 3 hours 2 minutes National Geographic Magazines

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Biography & Autobiography

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Sarah Knowles Bolton - Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous

These characters have been chosen from various countries and from varied professions, that the youth who read this book may see that poverty is no barrier to success. It usually develops ambition, and nerves people to...

Pamela Krantz and 15 more 9 hours 31 minutes

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Earth Sciences

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J. G. M'Pherson - Meteorology; or Weather Explained

Weather Explained: Fog, clouds, rain, haze, thunder, cyclones, dew point and how to count dust motes are just a few of the 35 topics covered in short, easy to read and understand chapters in this book published in...

Pamela Krantz and 9 more 3 hours 36 minutes

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Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England

Middle Ages/Middle History

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The Venerable Bede - Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England

Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England is a work in Latin by Bede on the history of the Christian Churches in England, and of England generally; its main focus is on the conflict between Roman and Celtic...

Kara Shallenberg and 14 more 13 hours 6 minutes

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Romance

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Amanda McKittrick Ros - Irene Iddesleigh

Amanda McKittrick Ros, a Northern Irish writer, did for the novel what William McGonagall did for poetry and Florence Foster Jenkins for the coloratura voice. She published a number of novels (all at her own...

Andy Minter and 7 more 3 hours 55 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Charles Major - When Knighthood Was in Flower

Set during the Tudor period of English history, When Knighthood Was in Flower tells the tribulations of Mary Tudor, a younger sister of Henry VIII of England who has fallen in love with a commoner. However, for...

Kara Shallenberg and 14 more 9 hours 2 minutes

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Animals & Nature

E. Nesbit - Pussy and Doggy Tales

Charming Tales about cats and dogs. (Summary by Elli)

Kara Shallenberg and 3 more 1 hour 31 minutes

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Short works

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Kayray's Storytime

A collection of my favorite short children's stories and rhymes. Each book can be found online at http://gutenberg.org if you wish to look at the wonderful pictures while you listen! ( Summary by Kara )

Kara Shallenberg 2 hours 42 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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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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Reference

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Eva March Tappan - Makers of Many Things

How are friction matches made? How do rags and trees become paper? Who makes the dishes on our tables? Published in 1916, this children's book explains the origins of everyday items in an entertaining and informative...

Kara Shallenberg 2 hours 27 minutes

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Arts

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Thomas Tapper - Stories of Great Composers for Children

This is a collection of ten short, entertaining, informative picture-book biographies of famous composers. Each book tells about the childhood and great achievements of a composer, and includes a short musical...

Kara Shallenberg 2 hours 15 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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