Kristine Bekere

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George Francis Scott-Elliot - Romance of Plant Life

Romance needs not always indicate a love story. In the series «The Library of Romance», authors look at the romantic side of science. The different books cover all different disciplines, including chemistry,...

Linda Johnson and 8 more 11 hours 55 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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H. Rider Haggard - She

At 5 years old Leo Vincey is left in the care of a Cambridge professor by the name of Horace Holly. His father leaves him a strange casket which he is to open on his 25th Birthday. On opening the Casket Leo and...

Geoff Cowgill and 11 more 11 hours 35 minutes

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Astronomy, Physics & Mechanics

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Archibald Williams - Romance of Modern Mechanism

In 1910, when this book was published, the advancement of modern mechanism was still moving at a rapid pace. It must have seemed like very day, new inventions were made to make life easier. Most of these are still...

Kristine Bekere and 12 more 11 hours 34 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Frederick Marryat - Children of the New Forest

The children of Colonel Beverley, a Cavalier officer killed at the Battle of Naseby are believed to have died in the flames when their house, Arnwood, is burned by Roundhead soldiers. However, they escape and are...

bryfee and 11 more 10 hours 56 minutes

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Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 10

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Anonymous - Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 10

This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No...

Josh Kibbey and 11 more 10 hours 42 minutes Thousand Nights and a Night

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Zachariah Atwell Mudge - North-Pole Voyages

For more than three hundred years an intense desire has been felt by explorers to discover and reveal to the world the secrets of the immediate regions of the North Pole. Nor has this desire been confined to mere...

Kristine Bekere 10 hours 37 minutes

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History

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Anna Harriette Leonowens - English Governess at the Siamese Court

In 1862 Anna Leonowens accepted an offer made by the Siamese consul in Singapore, Tan Kim Ching, to teach the wives and children of Mongkut, king of Siam. The king wished to give his 39 wives and concubines and 82...

Sibella Denton and 1 more 10 hours 34 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Thomas Bulfinch - Age of Chivalry

Thomas Bulfinch explains the his work is «an attempt to tell the stories of mythology in such a manner as to make them a source of amusement. We have endeavored to tell them correctly, according to the ancient...

Marlim and 14 more 10 hours 32 minutes

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Foxe's Book of Martyrs Vol 1, A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Early Christian and the Protestant Martyrs

Christianity - Biographies

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William Byron Forbush - Foxe's Book of Martyrs Vol 1, A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Early Christian and the Protestant Martyrs

The Book of Martyrs, by John Foxe, is an English Protestant account of the persecutions of Protestants, many of whom had died for their beliefs within the decade immediately preceding its first publication. It was...

Fr. Richard Zeile of Detroit and 9 more 10 hours 29 minutes

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Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Vol 2

Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

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Arthur L. Hayward - Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Vol 2

This is the second volume in this collection of reports and newspaper stories regarding notorious criminals and their punishment, assembled by prison inspector Arthur Hayward from original sources originally published...

KirksVoice and 13 more 10 hours 24 minutes Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals

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Education

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George Herbert Betts - Mind And Its Education

«We are to study the mind and its education; but how? It is easy to understand how we may investigate the great world of material things about us; for we can see it, touch it, weigh it, or measure it. But how are we...

Mike Justice and 11 more 10 hours 23 minutes

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Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Part 1

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Charles Darwin - Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Part 1

A book on evolutionary theory by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871. It was Darwin's second great book on evolutionary theory, following his 1859 work, On The Origin of Species. In The Descent...

Denny Sayers and 11 more 10 hours 17 minutes Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin

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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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