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Historical Fiction

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Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina, Book 7

Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. In Book 7, Levin, in town for Kitty’s confinement, finds himself drawn to the corruptive...

MaryAnn 4 hours 20 minutes Anna Karenina (Garnett English Translation)

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Upas Tree, A Christmas Story for all the Year

General Fiction

435

Florence Louisa Barclay - Upas Tree, A Christmas Story for all the Year

Ronald West has a brilliant idea for his next novel, but to do it right, he wants to spend the next six months tramping around central Africa to experience the setting first hand. His wife Helen fully supports his...

MaryAnn 4 hours 15 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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William Butler Yeats - Celtic Twilight

I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world, and to show in a vision something of the face of Ireland to any of my...

Shakira Searle and 19 more 4 hours 10 minutes

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Enquiry Into The Causes Of The Late Increase Of Robbers

Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

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Henry Fielding - Enquiry Into The Causes Of The Late Increase Of Robbers

Early eighteenth century England saw the criminal element bargaining with magistrates and lawyers to be released or receive lenient sentences. Neither party could be trusted and the situation grew worse. Enter famed...

Lynne T and 5 more 4 hours 10 minutes

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Travel & Geography

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John Muir - Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf

Muir was a preservationist and naturalist. His activism helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which he founded, is now one of the most important...

MaryAnn 4 hours 6 minutes

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National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 3

Travel & Geography

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National Geographic Society - National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 3

National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 3 published in 1889. Topics of articles are: The Rivers and Valleys of Pennsylvania Topographic Models International Literary Contest...

MaryAnn and 5 more 3 hours 58 minutes National Geographic Magazines

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Elsie Spicer Eells - Islands of Magic

LEGENDS, FOLK AND FAIRY TALES FROM THE AZORES. Some three-fourths of the distance between America and Europe there is a group of nine beautiful islands called the Azores which belong to Portugal. Their names are...

MaryAnn and 13 more 3 hours 57 minutes

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War & Military

436

Ward Muir - Observations of an Orderly

Ward Muir brings us into the heart of an English war hospital, describing scenes of cleanliness, triumph, order and sadness. Through the eyes of the orderly we get to see the processes that kept the wards running,...

skoval and 6 more 3 hours 51 minutes

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Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Volume 4

Literary Fiction

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Marguerite of Navarre - Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Volume 4

THE HEPTAMERON (here Volume 4 of 5), first published posthumously in 1558, is divided into seven complete days containing 10 stories each, and an eighth day containing only 2 stories. The stories, many of which deal...

MaryAnn and 6 more 3 hours 51 minutes

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General Fiction

547

Rabindranath Tagore - Mashi and Other Stories

A 1918 collection of short stories, by the popular Bengali writer.(Summary by BellonaTimes)

om123 and 7 more 3 hours 51 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

459

E. W. Hornung - Shadow of a Man

Set in rural Australia, this mystery novel follows a pair of newlyweds who are determined to make their improbable marriage work, no matter the odds. But little do they know exactly how high the odds are stacked...

Brendan Nelson-Weiss and 11 more 3 hours 50 minutes

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Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

529

Ida M. Tarbell - Business of Being a Woman

How were women's roles changing in the 1900's? Ida Tarbell explores this in a well written, witty and insightful series of essays. «The object of this little volume is to call attention to a certain distrust, which...

MaryAnn and 7 more 3 hours 46 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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