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Anthony Trollope - Macdermots of Ballycloran

This is the story of the Macdermots of Ballycloran the story is about the tragic demise of a landowning family. Larry Macdermot lives in a dilapidated mansion in Co. Leitrim, whose mortgage to Joe Flannelly he cannot...

Bob Neufeld and 8 more 16 hours 41 minutes

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General

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Unknown - Ontario Public School Geography

This Ontario Public School textbook, published in 1922, contains some fascinating facts of a world which no longer exists. It seems politically incorrect in some of its descriptions by modern day standards. (Summary...

David Lawrence and 16 more 12 hours 58 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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H. H. Bashford - Half-Past Bedtime - Version 2

The wonderful adventures of Marian after she meets the strange Mr. Jugg. «And who are you, Mr Jugg?» she inquired. «I'm the King of the Bumpies,» he replied. When Marian was puzzled there came a little straight line,...

Inah Derby and 7 more 4 hours 13 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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R. M. Ballantyne - Iron Horse

“Is that your bundle, sir?” repeated Mr Blunt a little louder. “Eh? yes, yes—all right,” replied Edwin, annoyed at the interruption, and thinking only of Emma Lee, to whom he turned, and went on—“Well, when Colonel...

Susan Morin and 10 more 9 hours 51 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Howard R. Garis - Uncle Wiggily in the Woods

Howard Garis, one of the most prolific children's writers of the 20th century, is credited with writing over 1500 Uncle Wiggily stories. In this collection, the loveable old rabbit stays close to home and visits...

Lynne T and 10 more 3 hours 50 minutes Uncle Wiggily Stories

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Action & Adventure

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Charles Edward Carryl - Davy and the Goblin

Eight-year-old Davy reads Lewis Carroll's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and begins to get very sleepy. Suddenly a goblin appears in the fire and takes Davy on a «believing voyage» much like Alice's own...

Frances Brown and 6 more 3 hours 12 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Captain Quincy Allen - Outdoor Chums in the Big Woods

“That looks like a challenge, Frank.” “It was well fired, at any rate, Bluff!” “I should say yes, because it knocked my hat clear off my head. Do we stand for that sort of thing, or shall we accept the dare?” “There...

Joy Leavesley and 4 more 4 hours 32 minutes

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Romance

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George MacDonald - Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood

This delightful story begins in a little town called Marshmallows, where a young man, the new vicar, Harry Walton, has just arrived. As he begins his work Harry realizes that everything is not quite 'right' in his...

Lee Smalley and 9 more 15 hours 25 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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William Harrison Ainsworth - Windsor Castle, Book 4

Book 4 — Cardinal Wolsey. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn as his wife. During Henry's pursuit of Boleyn, the novel describes other...

KHand and 7 more 2 hours 54 minutes Windsor Castle

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Biography & Autobiography

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Peter Hempson Ditchfield - Books Fatal to Their Authors

This is a collection of stories of authors who have lost their fortunes and sometimes their lives after writing a book. The liberty of a person's conscience was unknown in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; Why...

Anna Simon and 6 more 5 hours 44 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Roy J. Snell - Purple Flame

Two years after the conclusion of «The Blue Envelope», Marian is crossing the frozen Alaskan tundra alone with three reindeer in order to greet her unknown cousin in Nome. Patsy has traveled from Kentucky. Kentucky!...

Lynne T 4 hours 26 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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William Still - Underground Railroad, Part 3

«Never before has the working of the Underground Railroad been so thoroughly explained. Here we have in complete detail the various methods adopted for circumventing the enemies of freedom, and told, as it is, with...

Lynne T and 9 more 8 hours 33 minutes The Underground Railroad by William Still

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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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