Laura Caldwell

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Maria Montessori - Montessori Method

In the early 1900's Dr. Maria Montessori began to reform educational methods with her work the 'Case dei Bambini' in Rome, Italy. Montessori began her work by developing methods to educate mentally retarded children,...

Leni and 15 more 11 hours 51 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Andrew Lang - Yellow Fairy Book

«Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's „Coloured“ Fairy Books are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of...

Sarah Jennings and 23 more 11 hours 23 minutes Andrew Lang's Fairy Books

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Science

J. Arthur Thomson - Outline of Science, Vol 1

The Outline of Science, Volume 1 was written specifically with the man-on-the-street in mind as the target audience. Covering scientific subjects ranging from astronomy to biology to elementary physics in clear,...

James Christopher and 8 more 9 hours 59 minutes The Outline of Science

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Anna Katharine Green - Initials Only

Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally...

Lucy Burgoyne and 14 more 9 hours 36 minutes

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Political Science

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Aristotle - Politics

The Politics , by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, is one of the most influential texts in political philosophy. In it, Aristotle explores the role that the political community should play in developing the...

ontheroad and 8 more 9 hours 15 minutes

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General Fiction

Gene Stratton-Porter - Freckles

Freckles is a young man who has been raised since infancy in a Chicago orphanage. His one dream is to find a job, a place to belong and people who accept him despite his youth and the disability of having only one...

Mary Anderson and 6 more 8 hours 43 minutes

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Travel & Geography

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Isabella L. Bird - Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

Isabella Bird began travelling while in her early twenties to help alleviate illness that had plagued her since childhood. She was a single woman in her early forties when she made her treck through the Rocky...

Laura Caldwell 7 hours 56 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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G. K. Chesterton - Charles Dickens

G. K. Chesterton was a great admirer of Charles Dickens, and wrote a noted critique of Dickens' works expressing his opinion in his own inimitable style. (Summary by Karen Merline)

Stuart Bell and 8 more 7 hours 30 minutes

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Science

Thornton W. Burgess - Burgess Bird Book for Children

The Burgess Bird Book for Children is a zoology book written in the form of a story featuring Peter Rabbit. Peter learns from his friend Jenny Wren all about the birds of North America, and we meet many of them in...

Laurie Anne Walden and 17 more 7 hours 28 minutes

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Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts (version 2)

Nautical & Marine Fiction

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Frank R. Stockton - Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts (version 2)

Buccaneers and Pirates of our Coasts is a non-fiction, rolicking story of the origins of piracy and of the famous pirates of the coasts of the United States. The stories don't cast pirates in the glowing light of...

Sibella Denton and 8 more 7 hours 25 minutes

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Short works

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Ontario Readers: Third Book

The Ontario Readers is a school book first published in 1919, by the Ontario Ministry of Education, containing short excerpts of literary works, both stories and poems, geared to grade-school age children. (Summary by...

David Lawrence and 20 more 7 hours 15 minutes

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Children's Fiction

George Hodges - When the King Came: Stories from the Four Gospels

THIS tells how once the King of Glory came from heaven to visit us here on earth and live amongst us; how He was born in Bethlehem and brought up in Nazareth; how He went about telling people of the Heavenly Kingdom,...

Laura Caldwell 7 hours 14 minutes

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New

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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