Maria Therese

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Edward Jesse - Anecdotes of Dogs

«Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.» The character, sensibilities, and intellectual faculties of animals have always been a favourite study, and they are, perhaps,...

Stephanie Lee and 16 more 13 hours 30 minutes

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Nature & Animal Fiction

454

Kate Douglas Wiggin - Diary of a Goose Girl

The «Goose Girl» is a young and somewhat independent lady who, in fleeing from her lover with whom there had been a «little tiff,» became a «paying guest» at poultry farm in a quiet, out-of-the-way Sussex village, in...

Maria Therese 1 hour 51 minutes

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Historical Fiction

463

Robert Hugh Benson - Come Rack! Come Rope!

Come Rack! Come Rope! is a historical novel by the English priest and writer Robert Hugh Benson, a convert to Catholicism from Anglicanism. Set in Derbyshire at the time of the Elizabethan persecution of Catholics,...

Maria Therese and 3 more 14 hours 21 minutes

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Oliver Hartley - Hunting Dogs

The title of this book quotes its object. To tell something of night hunting, and especially to suggest how the ever necessary dog can best be selected, trained, maintained and utilized, is the consideration of first...

jedopi and 6 more 4 hours 21 minutes

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General Fiction

471

Louisa May Alcott - Rose in Bloom

Opening several years after the close of «Eight Cousins», we find Rose coming home fresh from a voyage overseas, to find much changed about her. Now of a marriageable aged and heiress to a fortune, Rose finds...

Maria Therese 8 hours 58 minutes

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Lives of the Saints: With Reflections for Every Day in the Year

Christianity - Biographies

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Alban Butler - Lives of the Saints: With Reflections for Every Day in the Year

Compiled from the much larger 12 book set of «Butler's Lives of the Saints», this volume contains short biographies of the Saints, for each day of the year, followed by a reflection for each entry. (Summary by Maria...

Maria Therese 14 hours 12 minutes

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Family

458

Louisa May Alcott - Eight Cousins (Version 2)

This is the story of Rose Campbell, a rich but lonely and sickly girl who has been recently orphaned and sent to live with her maiden aunts. When Rose’s guardian, Uncle Alec, returns from abroad he takes over her...

Maria Therese 6 hours 59 minutes

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Action & Adventure

458

Brother Ernest Ryan - Eddie of Jackson's Gang

Eddie. That is the only name our young, musically talented hero knew for himself. After being left at a Catholic orphanage as a young child, at the age of nine he is unwittingly adopted into a gang of thieves. Will he...

Maria Therese 3 hours 42 minutes

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General

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Eva K. Betz - Man Who Fought the Devil

Jean Marie Vianney always found it hard to learn. In fact, he made history by receiving a zero as his examination mark after his first year of study in the seminary. But with determination, and with God’s help, he won...

Maria Therese 3 hours 4 minutes

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Children's Non-fiction

478

J. Walker McSpadden - Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers

These 12 stories give a personal portrait of twelve famous soldiers from the past two centuries. Each story explores the early life of the soldier —to trace his career up from boyhood through the formative years. Such...

Maria Therese and 7 more 6 hours 6 minutes

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Action & Adventure

454

Mary T. Waggaman - Captain Ted

When tragedy hits his family, in the form of a sudden illness to his father, young Teddy Thornton is forced to leave school and find work to help support his family. Without his realization he is thrown into a world...

Maria Therese 3 hours 39 minutes

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Religion

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Eva K. Betz - Knight of Molokai

Hurricane! Volcano eruptions and fire! Leprosy! Nothing deterred Father Damien from doing the work to which he had been called. Outstandingly big and strong as a boy, he was notably kind as a young man. He needed all...

Maria Therese 3 hours 25 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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