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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

Hamilton Wright Mabie - Young Folks' Treasury, Volume 2

This is the second book in a twelve volume series, and highlights myths and legendary heroes from around the world, from Ancient Greece to Scandinavia and the Far East. They are aimed at the junior audience. (Summary...

Lynne T and 25 more 18 hours 56 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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DeWitt C. Peters - Life and Adventures of Kit Carson

Kit Carson was a famous hunter, trapper, mountain man, guide — an American icon. Stories about him abounded in popular contemporary literature, but most was pure fiction. This work is the authorized biography, much of...

Lynne T and 10 more 15 hours 39 minutes

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Children's Non-fiction

925

Boy Scouts of America - Boy Scouts Handbook

The Boy Scouts of America was founded over a hundred years ago to serve the young men of the United States of America and give them the same oppurtunities that Boy Scouts all over the world were receiving. Modeled...

Kangaroo and 19 more 13 hours 34 minutes

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Memoirs

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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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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan the Untamed

This book follows Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar chronologically. The action is set during World War I. While away from his plantation home in East Africa, invading German troops destroy it and kill his wife Jane and...

Delmar H Dolbier and 7 more 11 hours 6 minutes Tarzan Series

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Harry Collingwood - Cruise of the Esmeralda

After his father died, Captain Saint Leger and his family are left destitute. However, the Saint Legers have a family secret: an ancestor is said to have buried a vast fortune in gold and jewels somewhere in the...

Christopher Webber and 5 more 10 hours 29 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Joseph A. Altsheler - Guns of Bull Run

The first volume in the Civil War series, following the adventures of Harry Kenton, who leaves his home in Kentucky. He travels through dangerous territory to South Carolina on a secret mission on the eve of the Civil...

Michael Packard and 6 more 9 hours 35 minutes The Civil War Series

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Science Fiction

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Ray Cummings - Astounding Stories 06, June 1930

Issue six of this seminal science-fiction magazine concludes the Ray Cummings story «Brigands of the Moon», and continues Murray Leinster's «Murder Madness». In addition there are three short stories, by various...

KHand and 5 more 8 hours 28 minutes Astounding Stories Magazines Issues 1-20

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Science Fiction

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Arthur J. Burks - Astounding Stories 08, August 1930

Issue eight of this seminal science-fiction magazine CONTENTS Murder Madness by Murray Leinster — the conclusion of this novel Earth the Maurader by Arthur J. Burks — Part 2 of a 3 Part novel as well as short...

Bill Boerst and 8 more 8 hours 23 minutes Astounding Stories Magazines Issues 1-20

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Humorous Fiction

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A. A. Milne - Happy Days

Although best known for his Winnie the Pooh stories, A.A. Milne spent years as an editor at the English humor magazine Punch. These sprightly essays were chosen from the hundreds he wrote during that period. As usual,...

Phil Chenevert and 17 more 8 hours 15 minutes

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Stories Polly Pepper Told to the Five Little Peppers in the Little Brown House

Children's Fiction

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Margaret Sidney - Stories Polly Pepper Told to the Five Little Peppers in the Little Brown House

Polly Pepper loves to tell stories, but there just isn't enough room in the other books to include her stories! So, since «the author has received from mothers and other persons interested in the Pepper Family, so...

Bill Boerst and 11 more 8 hours 11 minutes

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

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H. De Vere Stacpoole - Beach of Dreams

Two sailors, Harbutt and Raft, discuss their plight as workers under the thumb of a wealthy owner. During a windstorm, Raft and his fellow hands must climb a mast of the three-master to control a rigging gone astray....

Lynne T and 5 more 7 hours 54 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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