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Topaz Story Book: Stories and Legends of Autumn, Hallowe'en, and Thanksgiving

Animals & Nature

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Ada M. Skinner - Topaz Story Book: Stories and Legends of Autumn, Hallowe'en, and Thanksgiving

From the Introduction: «Nature stories, legends, and poems appeal to the young reader’s interest in various ways. Some of them suggest or reveal certain facts which stimulate a spirit of investigation and attract the...

Larry Wilson and 15 more 6 hours 56 minutes

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Poetry

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Ignatius Brennan - Humorous Poems

This is a collection of fun poems by West Virginia poet M. Ignatius Brennan. In his poems, the poet makes fun of the people in his surroundings, and the society in which he lived. In most instances his humor is...

BettyB and 21 more 6 hours 37 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Charles Norris Williamson - Great Pearl Secret

It is the afternoon before a grand society wedding between Juliet Phayre and the Duke of Claremanagh, when Emmy West drops by to visit the bride and to see the famed Tsarina pearls, only ever to be worn by the...

ToddHW and 10 more 6 hours 31 minutes

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Humor

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Kate Sanborn - Wit of Women

It is refreshing to find an unworked field all ready for harvesting. While the wit of men, as a subject for admiration and discussion, is now threadbare, the wit of women has been almost utterly ignored and...

Joseph Tabler and 9 more 6 hours 26 minutes

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Christianity - Other

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Hamilton Wright Mabie - Fruits of the Spirit

A collection of essays written by the renowned lecturer and author during the First World War, when he was quite depressed. The general themes of the collection are persevering in faith, guidance by the Holy Spirit...

Beth Thomas and 9 more 6 hours 8 minutes

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Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book 3

Political Science

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Niccolò Machiavelli - Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book 3

In «Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius», posthumous work by the author of The Prince, Machiavelli discusses the useful lessons that could be learnt from the past for the present. As the title mentions, the...

Josh Kibbey and 8 more 5 hours 47 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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G. K. Chesterton - Uses of Diversity

A collection of 35 essays by G.K. Chesterton originally published in his weekly columns in «The Illustrated London News» and the «New Witness». The subjects vary greatly from lamp posts to Jane Austen's Emma, from «On...

thestorygirl and 14 more 5 hours 37 minutes

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School

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Mary C. Hungerford - Friendly Five

«There were neither examinations nor graduation exercises at the Coventry Institute. The only ceremony peculiar to the last day of school, except the farewells, was a little sermon from Mrs. Abbott, the principal,...

Annike Lindhout and 16 more 5 hours 37 minutes

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Romance

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Mary Stewart Cutting - Little Stories of Married Life

Marriage is a big adventure. It makes for great stories, too: both in case of a happy marriage and in case of an unhappy one. Eleven of these stories are collected in this collection, concerning all the different...

EJWiley and 5 more 5 hours 20 minutes

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Fairy Stories my Children Love Best of All

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Edgar Dubs Shimer - Fairy Stories my Children Love Best of All

In this collection, we get to know which fairy tales Mr Shimer loved to tell his kids. Some of the stories may be familiar, but most of them may be new to you. We hope that you will enjoy listening to these stories...

Matt Bounds and 17 more 4 hours 36 minutes

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Family

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Carroll Watson Rankin - Adopting of Rosa Marie

In this charming girl's book we meet again the four chums of Dandelion Cottage. Their friendship knit closer than ever by their summer at playing house, the girls enlarge their activity by mothering a pretty little...

Teresa Bauman and 4 more 4 hours 28 minutes

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Christianity - Biographies

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Louise Imogen Guiney - Blessed Edmund Campion

Saint Edmund Campion, S.J., (1540 – 1581) was an English Catholic Jesuit priest and martyr. While conducting an underground ministry to the persecuted Catholics of Elizabethan England, Campion was arrested by priest...

KevinS and 6 more 3 hours 48 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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