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Mary MacLane - I, Mary MacLane

Described as «the first blogger», Mary MacLane lived a tortured life, ahead of her time. Her beloved father died when she was a young child, and at the age of 8, her stepfather moved the family from its home in...

Lynne T 7 hours 51 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Clara Dillingham Pierson - Among the Meadow People

Lovely book of nature written for children by teacher and naturalist Clara Dillingham Pierson. This book in the «Among the People» series explores the animal inhabitants of the meadow and garden. The charming prose...

Frances Brown and 8 more 2 hours 40 minutes Among the People Series

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General

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Frances Little - Little Sister Snow (version 2)

This is a story of a little Japanese girl, her life in Japan and her loves. The story opens just before the festival of Hinamatsuri on the third day of the third month, which was set apart as the big birthday of all...

Claudia Salto and 4 more 1 hour 37 minutes

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Fantasy Fiction

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Ernest Bramah - Wallet of Kai Lung

The Wallet of Kai Lung is a collection of fantasy stories by Ernest Bramah, all but the last of which feature Kai Lung, an itinerant story-teller of ancient China. The collection's importance in the history of fantasy...

Alan Winterrowd and 4 more 8 hours 57 minutes

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Memoirs

888

Lucy Leavenworth Wilder Morris - Old Rail Fence Corners

Old Rail Fence Corners is an historical treasure trove containing the stories of the first significant waves of European-American settlers in the now state of Minnesota (United States of America). This book has direct...

Jill Engle and 15 more 11 hours 48 minutes

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Anthologies

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Princess Mary's Gift Book

In 1914, Princess Mary, then 17 years of age, gave her name to this collection of short stories and essays from the most prominent authors of the time for the purpose of raising funds for the «Work For Women Fund». A...

Greg Giordano and 7 more 5 hours 21 minutes

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Family Life

994

Fireside Christmas Short Stories

A collection of Christmas-themed short stories, intended to warm the heart and share with the family. Each story or poem in this collection is unique: some make us pause to consider the meaning of Christmas, others...

Lynne T and 11 more 3 hours 35 minutes

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Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great

Biography & Autobiography

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Elbert Hubbard - Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great

Elbert Hubbard visits the homes of authors, politicians, poets, philosophers and other prestigious people. If they are still living he speaks with them about their work. If they are dead he reflects on how their...

Mike Pelton and 8 more 8 hours 4 minutes Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great

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Published 1900 onward

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James Lane Allen - Doctor's Christmas Eve

A gentle reminiscence of a fictional country doctor as the year is drawing to a close. Unlike city doctors, the personal and professional life of a country doctor are closely intertwined. — Summary by Lynne Thompson

Lynne T and 2 more 5 hours 31 minutes

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Family

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Blanche McManus - Our Little English Cousin

This delightful little book is another in the «Our Little Cousin» series that offered American children insight into what their young counterparts in other lands were like; the games they played and the life they...

Frances Brown and 4 more 1 hour 45 minutes Our Little Cousin Series

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Crafts & Hobbies

Frederic Maccabe - Maccabe's Art of Ventriloquism and Vocal Illusions

This manual offers instructions on how to become a ventriloquist. Starting out from a general introduction of ventriloquism, it explains how sounds are formed in the human body and how the voice is used. It then...

tazzle and 4 more 2 hours 17 minutes

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Nature & Animal Fiction

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Thornton W. Burgess - Adventures of Prickly Porky

A stranger from the North Woods has just arrived in the Green Forest causing a great stir among the woodland creatures who live there. They quickly discover that this odd fellow with the barbed spikes in his fur is...

Diana Majlinger and 6 more 1 hour 45 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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