Kathleen Moore

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Biography & Autobiography

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Lucy Maud Montgomery - Alpine Path: The Story of My Career

L.M. Montgomery's autobiography highlighting her childhood and early literary career. Published in 1917 after she had written several novels. — Summary by Carolyn Agee

Carolyn Agee and 3 more 2 hours 41 minutes

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Nature

633

Frank Albert Waugh - Dwarf Fruit Trees

This book is a handbook for the home orchardist. The propagation, pruning, choice of variety, and management of dwarf fruit trees, specifically apples, pears, peaches, and plums, are outlined. In addition, there is a...

Ian Bradford Ngotngotaha Pugh and 2 more 2 hours 35 minutes

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Science

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Mary Proctor - Stories of Starland

Henry asks his sister Mary about the sky. She tells him all about the Sun, the Planets, the Moon, Comets and Meteors, and Stars. Mary tells her brother about mythologies people believed about the earth and sky along...

Patrick Saville and 3 more 2 hours 34 minutes

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Animals & Nature

490

Richard Barnum - Slicko, the Jumping Squirrel

The Squirrel family lived half-way up a tall tree in their cozy little home, lined with soft, dried leaves and white, fluffy cotton. Slicko and her siblings are getting jumping lessons today from Mr. Squirrel. Slicko...

snarkychaser and 6 more 2 hours 33 minutes

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My Queen: A Weekly Journal for Young Women. Issue 1, Sept 1900

General

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Lurana Sheldon - My Queen: A Weekly Journal for Young Women. Issue 1, Sept 1900

This is the first issue of a wonderful weekly magazine aimed at young women. They each contain a novella following the adventures of Marion Marlowe, «Only a Farmer's Daughter» who went from «Farm to Fortune» and all...

CrystalMercy and 4 more 2 hours 32 minutes

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Animals & Nature

730

Thornton W. Burgess - Buster Bear's Twins

Continuing the adventure of Buster Bear, we meet his twins, Boxer and Woof-Woof, from their first bath to misadventures with neighbors including Peter Rabbit. — Summary by Larry Wilson

Larry Wilson and 6 more 2 hours 32 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

440

Harold Gaze - Coppertop

The story is about a little girl who meets all manner of strange gnomes, fairies and creatures after she goes to sleep at night. She also has two invisible brothers whom she created so as to not be alone while her...

Corrinne LePage and 6 more 2 hours 30 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Alice Meynell - Spirit of Place and Other Essays

Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League. She and her husband Wilfrid Meynell were active in publishing...

Larry Wilson and 6 more 2 hours 28 minutes

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Cooking

490

Hugh Smith - Treatise on Foreign Teas

What would England be without tea? It is difficult to imagine, but there was a time in which tea was not quite as ubiquitous in Europe as it is today. This 1780 treatise contains some interesting observations on how...

Larry Wilson and 5 more 2 hours 28 minutes

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Poetry

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Frances Cook Steen - Life Waves

This is a volume of poetry by American author Frances Cook Steen, published in 1922. These poems reflect with clarity on the preceding decade, including the war and all the other personal and historical events which...

Larry Wilson and 9 more 2 hours 26 minutes

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New Hampshire - A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes

Single author

470

Robert Frost - New Hampshire - A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes

New Hampshire is a volume of poems written by Robert Frost, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize. The titular poem is the longest, and it has cross-references to 14 of the following poems. These are the «Notes»...

Larry Wilson and 11 more 2 hours 25 minutes

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Nature & Animal Fiction

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Clara Doty Bates - On The Tree Top

A collection of Nursery Rhymes retold by the author and others. — Summary by David Lawrence *Additional Proof-listening by Christine Lehman.

BettyB and 6 more 2 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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