Kathrine Engan

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Mountain Adventures in the Various Countries of the World

Travel & Geography

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John Timbs - Mountain Adventures in the Various Countries of the World

Mountains have always been fascinating as places of special adventure. This book. first published in 1869, collects true stories of real-life adventurers climbing the world's most famous and most challenging...

Gail Timmerman Vaughan and 12 more 8 hours 14 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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My First Book (Version 2)

Have you ever wondered how your favorite author started on his or her writing career? Did they launch themselves wholeheartedly into literature? Did they slave away every evening after a hard day at the office? Did...

Jim Gallagher and 12 more 8 hours 4 minutes

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Short works

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Boy Scout Book of Campfire Stories

The Editor likes to think that quite a few of the stories found in the Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories present companions for the mind of this hardy sort, and hopes, whether boys read or are told these stories,...

Monty Spanarro and 6 more 7 hours 55 minutes

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Action & Adventure

400

Charles Boardman Hawes - Dark Frigate

The frigate Rose of Devon rescues from a wreck in mid-ocean twelve men who show their gratitude by seizing the Rose, killing her captain and sailing toward the Caribbean where they hope to plunder Spanish towns and...

Kathrine Engan 7 hours 23 minutes

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Antiquity

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William Jennings Bryan - World's Famous Orations, Vol. I: Greece

This is the first volume in the ten volume collection of the world's most famous orations, as compiled by William Jennings Bryant and Francis Whiting Halsey. The first volume concerns ancient Greece, and contains such...

Jason in Panama and 12 more 7 hours 8 minutes World's Famous Orations

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Selma Lagerlöf - Christ Legends

These are beautiful little stories about Christmas from the Swedish storyteller Selma Lagerlöf. As she explains in the first story, they were told her by her grandmother «I remember that grandmother told story after...

Phil Chenevert and 8 more 5 hours 56 minutes

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Science

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Jean-Henri Fabre - Insect Adventures

This book is composed of selections from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos’ Translation of Fabre’s “Souvenirs Entomologiques,” retold for children. It's made up of first-person narratives, and using his exceptional...

AnnaLisa Bodtker and 12 more 5 hours 52 minutes

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Art, Design & Architecture

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Leonardo da Vinci - Thoughts on Art and Life

This is a compilation of the thoughts on art, science and life of Leonardo da Vinci, translated by Maurice Baring and edited by Lewis Einstein. — Summary by A. Gramour

Kathrine Engan and 4 more 5 hours 17 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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Margaret Vandercook - Red Cross Girls in Belgium

Four young American women have joined the Allied forces under WWI. In this volume of the series they are in Belgium, and they are dealing with the mysterious past of one of the girls, the possible romance between a...

Kathrine Engan and 5 more 4 hours 34 minutes

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Single Author Collections

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Edmund Gill Swain - Stoneground Ghost Tales

The Stoneground Ghost Tales is a collection of nine short stories set in and around a church and parish on the edge of England's fen country. The protagonist, the Rector of Stoneground, the Reverend Roland Batchel, is...

Dan Gurzynski and 6 more 4 hours 17 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Knut Hamsun - Pan

Pan tells the story Lieutenant Glahn and his summer in a forest north in Norway. He lives in a hut with his dog Aesop and they spend their days to hunting and fishing. In poetic language, Hamsun paints troubled...

Kathrine Engan 4 hours 11 minutes

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Little Busybodies: The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, and Others

Science

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Jeannette Augustus Marks - Little Busybodies: The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, and Others

These short stories about crickets, ants, bees, beetles and other little busybodies are intended by the two authors to show their children the wonderland of insectcs if we just take the time to look closely. «We hope...

Linette and 7 more 3 hours 28 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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