Lynda Marie Neilson

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Hawaiian Legends of Ghosts and Ghost-Gods

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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William Drake Westervelt - Hawaiian Legends of Ghosts and Ghost-Gods

William Drake Westervelt was an eminent scholar of Hawaiian culture, language, and history. In this capacity, he collected the ghost stories inlcuded in this volume. We hear of gods, ghosts, and demons, love and hate,...

John Cairns and 6 more 8 hours 14 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

449

Arthur Bingham Walkley - Pastiche and Prejudice

Arthur Bingham Walkley was an exceedingly popular critic, working as a drama critic at The Times alone for no less than 26 years, and writing for several other newspapers and privately besides that. This book of...

Ulrike Denis and 21 more 8 hours 9 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Leopold Wagner - Humorous Readings and Recitations

Before radio, television, and electronic mass media, lectures, recitations, public readings, and other public performances were important ways of sharing new works with the public or attracting public attention to...

DrPGould and 9 more 7 hours 42 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Robert Barr - Chicago Princess

After working several years in foreign affairs, and after winning and then losing a fortune, Rupert Tremorne is stranded in Nagasaki, at the end of his wits and in some debt. His only chance is to take the post as...

Judy Guinan and 6 more 7 hours 22 minutes

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Astronomy, Physics & Mechanics

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George F. Chambers - Story of Eclipses

Solar eclipses have both frightened and fascinated humankind for thousands of years. At first believed to be caused by angry gods punishing the people on Earth, we now know that a solar eclipse occurs when the Moon...

Availle and 9 more 7 hours 2 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

435

Robert Nisbet Bain - Cossack Fairy Tales

This is a volume of fairy tales and folk tales from the Cossack people, compiled and translated by Robert Nisbet Bain. The tales are special as most children will not have heard them a hundred times before, and as...

Adam Wilkans and 10 more 6 hours 27 minutes

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Ballads

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Andrew Lang - Collection of Ballads

This is a collection of ballads, edited, with an introduction and notes by Andrew Lang. The ballads range widely in style, from the historic to the romantic, from the short to the epic, from Scotland to France. Some...

Lynda Marie Neilson and 7 more 6 hours 25 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Frank R. Stockton - Floating Prince and Other Fairy Tales

This is a collection of original and interesting fairy tales. We have here princes and princesses, pirates, wizards, and all the other ingredients for entertaining stories for kids. — Summary by Carolin

Lynda Marie Neilson and 6 more 6 hours 24 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Annie Roe Carr - Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall

The story of a young girl heading off to boarding school and the adventures that she has there. (Summary by Linda Ciano)

Linda Ciano and 3 more 6 hours 21 minutes

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Zone Policeman 88; A Close Range Study of the Panama Canal and Its Workers

History

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Harry A. Franck - Zone Policeman 88; A Close Range Study of the Panama Canal and Its Workers

Harry A. Franck was an American travel writer. After publishing Vagabond Journey Around the World , he spent 3 months in the Canal Zone of Panama as a census-taker and police officer. This work is a series of...

ToddHW and 3 more 6 hours 15 minutes

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Law

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Robert Vashon Rogers - Law and Medical Men

The idea that in the library of nearly every practitioner in the professions of both Physic and Law there has been for some time a small gap among the books, which could be filled by a little work like this now...

Lynne T and 6 more 6 hours 15 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Edmund Dulac - Edmund Dulac's Fairy Tale Book

Unusual Fairy Tales from around the world, this story collection contains; a mother with two daughters both named Caroline, a carriage drawn by winged frogs, a prince turned into a bird and a princess in the form of a...

Annyiee Hill and 5 more 6 hours 14 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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