Mike Pelton

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Joseph Hocking - Weapons of Mystery

Justin Blake receives an invitation from his old school-fellow Tom Temple to join him and his family for the Christmas holidays in Yorkshire. Having no other plans, he decides to go. Though he is normally much the...

MaryAnn and 4 more 5 hours 50 minutes

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Hero Tales from American History (version 2)

General

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Henry Cabot Lodge - Hero Tales from American History (version 2)

The purpose of this book «is to tell in simple fashion the story of some Americans who showed that they knew how to live and how to die; who proved their truth by their endeavor; and who joined to the stern and manly...

MaryAnn and 8 more 5 hours 42 minutes

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Short Stories

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O. Henry - Four Million (Version 2)

The man with the surprise endings: that was O. Henry's trademark. This is the second published collection of short stories by O. Henry originally released in 1906. There are twenty five stories of various lengths...

Mike Pelton and 13 more 5 hours 36 minutes

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Literature in the Making, by Some of its Makers

Writing & Linguistics

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Joyce Kilmer - Literature in the Making, by Some of its Makers

This is a collection of 23 essays based on interviews conducted by Joyce Kilmer with some of the most famous authors of the time (1917). Kilmer's idea, as outlined in the Introduction, was that there is a deep divide...

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Wonder Book for Girls and Boys (version 2)

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Nathaniel Hawthorne - Wonder Book for Girls and Boys (version 2)

THE author has long been of opinion that many of the classical myths were capable of being rendered into very capital reading for children. In the little volume here offered to the public, he has worked up half a...

Mike Pelton and 7 more 5 hours 34 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Gertrude Landa - Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends

«My desire is to give boys and girls something Jewish which they may be able to regard as companion delights to the treasury of general fairy-lore and childish romance.» from the preface. These tales deal with the...

Mike Pelton and 8 more 5 hours 33 minutes

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Melor of the Silver Hand; and Other Stories of the Bright Ages

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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David Bearne - Melor of the Silver Hand; and Other Stories of the Bright Ages

This is a collection of fairy tales by Rev. David Bearne. The stories take place in the «Bright Ages» as opposed to the more common epithet «dark ages», where heroes saved the world, saints performed miracles, and...

Mike Pelton and 5 more 5 hours 32 minutes

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Meridiana: The adventures of three Englishmen and three Russians in South Africa

Travel Fiction

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Jules Verne - Meridiana: The adventures of three Englishmen and three Russians in South Africa

Three Englishmen and Three Russians travel across the width of South Africa to measure a meridian. The outbreak of the Crimean War makes the Russians enemy agents in an English colony. Summary by Kim.

Ryan and 8 more 5 hours 28 minutes

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Some Haunted Houses of England and Wales

Psychology

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Elliott O'Donnell - Some Haunted Houses of England and Wales

Old buildings necessarily have a history. It is not always a happy history and folklore abounds. Sometimes unhappy souls come back to haunt the current residents or their guests. Whether you believe in ghosts or not,...

Lynne T and 7 more 5 hours 21 minutes

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Sports Fiction

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Morgan Scott - Rival Pitchers of Oakdale

Play Ball!!! It's the start of another baseball season at Oakdale Academy. But there is a rivalry brewing between the pitchers. One wants to be a starting pitcher, but he is inconsistent. Another, a new kid from...

Michele Eaton and 7 more 5 hours 21 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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R. M. Ballantyne - Island Queen

The story of Dominic, Otto and Pauline Rigonda, three siblings who are blown onto an island after being shipwrecked, and are later joined by the immigrant passengers and crew of a ship that is wrecked on the same...

Rachel and 3 more 5 hours 19 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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Frank Gee Patchin - Pony Rider Boys in the Grand Canyon

Yee-Haaww! The Pony Rider Boys are on the move again. The boys are back home, but as they are chopping wood, it is decided that they need a new adventure out west. Mr. Perkin's, Walter's dad, has suggested the Grand...

Richard Kilmer and 3 more 5 hours 16 minutes The Pony Rider Boys series

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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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