Lynda Marie Neilson

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World’s Story Volume I: China, Japan and the Islands of the Pacific

Historical Fiction

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Eva March Tappan - World’s Story Volume I: China, Japan and the Islands of the Pacific

This is the first volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art , edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature,...

Sonia and 26 more 18 hours 32 minutes World's Story

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History

Agnes C. Laut - Canada: The Empire of the North

Canada's past is more dramatic than any romance ever penned.... All that has been attempted here is such a story of the romance and adventure in Canada's nation building as will give the casual reader knowledge of the...

Lynda Marie Neilson 18 hours 18 minutes

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Cooking

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Alexis Soyer - Pantropheon

Soyer was a 'celebrity chef', devising innovations such as water-cooled refrigerators and adjustable temperature ovens. He developed many popular recipes and catered for 2000 guests at Queen Victoria's coronation...

Lynne T and 11 more 17 hours 36 minutes

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General Fiction

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Lady's Mile

If you drive through the Lady's Mile, the most fashionable district in London, you will see people whose most distinguished ambition was to be known in that circle. A novelist, a painter, and some aristocrats, willing...

Elsie Selwyn and 4 more 16 hours 54 minutes

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Short works

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Nora Archibald Smith - Tales of Laughter

Time to exercise your funny bone. This fun collection of stories from around the world will make children of all ages smile and chuckle. A LAUGHING SONG When the greenwoods laugh with the voice of joy, And the...

Lynne T and 14 more 15 hours 53 minutes

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General Fiction

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Rosa Nouchette Carey - Herb of Grace

Malcolm Herrick has it all: he is a lawyer, he has no financial problems, and he has wonderful friends and even an adopted sister. He is a dutiful boy to his mother. He is a loving friend. But he wanted something...

Peter Eastman and 3 more 15 hours 40 minutes

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Romance

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Mrs. Hungerford - April's Lady: A Novel

This is a delightful Victorian romance by Irish novelist Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, published in 1890. The heroine of this novel, Joyce, finds herself to be in high demand, receiving the attentions of two eligible...

Lynda Marie Neilson and 8 more 15 hours 7 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Rosa Nouchette Carey - Mollie's Prince

Mr. Ward is a failing artist. His two daughters, Mollie and Waveney, are very close. However when the financial situation becomes insufferable, and Waveney has to enter service, the sisters have to part for the first...

Jim Locke and 3 more 14 hours 25 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Beyond These Voices

This novel tells the fictional life story of Veera Davis. The daughter of a poet and a poor noble woman, who is left in the care of her grandmother to a lonely and monotonous childhood, she has to make her way up in...

Jim Locke and 6 more 14 hours 1 minute

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Epistolary Fiction

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Elizabeth Griffith - History Of Lady Barton

This is the story of the three Cleveland siblings: Fanny, the innocent yet very sympathetic sister; Louisa, the strong willed sister whose miserable marriage to Sir William is the center of the novel; and Sir George...

Beth Thomas and 4 more 13 hours 25 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

Laura Valentine - Old Old Fairy Tales

«Once upon a time a king had an extreme passion for silkworms...» So begins one story in this unusual collection. Here you may also find a farm girl cursed by becoming a queen, a prince blessed with having his every...

Charlie Grey and 13 more 13 hours 15 minutes

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 7)

Children's Fiction

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Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 7)

A slightly more complex sequel to Mark Twain's original book, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, this book really shows the true side of racism in quite a different light. A brilliant masterpiece, The Adventures of...

JayKitty76 and 16 more 11 hours 58 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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