Kathrine Engan

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Letters from Victorian Pioneers

A series of letters on the early occupation of the colony, the Aborigines, etc addressed by Victorian pioneers to his Excellency Charles Joseph La Trobe Esq., Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Victoria in response...

Beth Thomas and 15 more 12 hours 44 minutes

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Action & Adventure

446

Thomas Mayne Reid - Ocean Waifs

«The “vulture of the sea,” borne upon broad wing, and wandering over the wide Atlantic, suddenly suspends his flight to look down upon an object that has attracted his attention. It is a raft, with a disc not...

Anton and 19 more 12 hours 41 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

572

Jules Verne - Steam House

Jules Verne is back with another action-packed adventure--this time in India with a steam-powered elephant! Maucler, Captain Hood, Banks, and Colonel Munro set out for a pleasure trip across India in their train...

J. E. Vorble and 10 more 11 hours 48 minutes

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School

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Edmondo de Amicis - Heart: a Schoolboy's Journal

Little Enrico Bottini is a ten year-old third grade student in Italy who keeps a diary for one whole school year. It records the general problems, excitements, and successes any third grader might deal with, all...

Kathrine Engan and 6 more 10 hours 18 minutes

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Christianity - Other

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Saint Francis de Sales - Introduction to the Devout Life

First published in the early 17th century, it has proven its value as a daily spiritual guide and helpful reference for living an authentic Christian life. Written specifically for laymen, it began as letters from...

Phil Chenevert and 23 more 10 hours 11 minutes

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Animals

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Hunting In Many Lands

The first volume published by the Boone and Crockett Club, entitled «American Big Game Hunting,» confined itself to sport on the American continent. This second volume presents a number of interesting sketches written...

Michele Fry and 8 more 10 hours 8 minutes

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Religion

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Stories Worth Rereading

A collection of short stories about many people. Some being tested, some being rewarded, all worth rereading! Many of them are the type to build character and inspire the readers to become men and women for God. They...

Teresa Bauman and 23 more 10 hours 1 minute

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Leonora Blanche Lang - Strange Story Book

A collection of stories compiled by the widow of the renowned children's short-story collector, Andrew Lang. She describes this as the final installment of his series of fairy stories and includes some of those...

Kalyn Heminger and 21 more 9 hours 54 minutes

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Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Sæmund Sigfusson - Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson

The most complete set of the epic Norse eddas, or poems. It contains in beautiful verse the pagan beliefs of the Old Norse. Luckily in this work both the Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson and the Younger Eddas of...

Becky Cook and 7 more 9 hours 14 minutes

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War & Military

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International Committee of the Red Cross - Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949

«This Convention represents the fourth updated version of the Geneva Convention on the wounded and sick following those adopted in 1864, 1906 and 1929. It contains 64 articles. These provide protection for the wounded...

BettyB and 5 more 8 hours 46 minutes

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Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 5

Art, Design & Architecture

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Giorgio Vasari - Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 5

The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri, as it was...

MorganScorpion and 8 more 8 hours 36 minutes Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari, Volumes 1-7

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Biography & Autobiography

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William Still - Underground Railroad, Part 3

«Never before has the working of the Underground Railroad been so thoroughly explained. Here we have in complete detail the various methods adopted for circumventing the enemies of freedom, and told, as it is, with...

Lynne T and 9 more 8 hours 33 minutes The Underground Railroad by William Still

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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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