Kristine Bekere

118 books

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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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Jules Verne - Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon

First published in 1881, Eight Hundred Miles on the Amazon is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, having elements of codes and cryptography. Unlike many of his other stories, it is not a work of science fiction....

Scott Robbins and 12 more 10 hours 15 minutes

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Children's Fiction

983

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...

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Plato (Πλάτων) - Timaeus

«Our intention is, that Timaeus, who is the most of an astronomer amongst us, and has made the nature of the universe his special study, should speak first, beginning with the generation of the world and going down...

Leni and 6 more 7 hours 51 minutes

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Detective Fiction

959

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He was devised by Scottish author and doctor Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant...

David Jaquay and 9 more 8 hours 34 minutes

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Animals

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Helen M. Winslow - Concerning Cats: My Own and Some Others

«I have known, and loved, and studied many cats, but my knowledge of her (Pretty Lady, a cat) alone would convince me that cats love people--in their dignified, reserved way, and when they feel that their love is not...

Patricia Oakley and 1 more 5 hours 53 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Thomas Bulfinch - Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Fable

Bulfinch’s Mythology, first published in 1855, is one of the most popular collections of mythology of all time. It consists of three volumes: The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry, and Legends of Charlemagne. This is...

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Detective Fiction

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Wilkie Collins - Moonstone

The story concerns a young woman called Rachel Verinder who inherits a large Indian diamond, the Moonstone, on her eighteenth birthday. The book is widely regarded as the precursor of the modern mystery and...

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Children's Fiction

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Hugh Lofting - Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

Doctor John Dolittle is the central character of a series of children's books by Hugh Lofting. He is a doctor who shuns human patients in favour of animals, with whom he can speak in their own languages. He later...

James Smith and 18 more 7 hours 42 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Alexandre Dumas - Twenty Years After

Let's continue the D'Artagnan Romances that we've already started with The Three Musketeers.

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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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