Mike Pelton

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Laurence Housman - Stories from the Arabian Nights

Scheherazadè, the heroine of the Thousand and one Nights, ranks among the great story-tellers of the world but the great quantity of her stories were meant to stave off her death and so we can expect a few to be not...

Tony Addison and 4 more 2 hours 47 minutes

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Charles A. Conant - Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton was a significant figure in the political and economic development of the early United States. He served in the American Revolutionary War and became an aide to General George Washington. He was...

Mike Pelton and 6 more 2 hours 46 minutes

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Historical

801

Charles Alexander Eastman - Indian Child Life

The author was raised as an American Indian and describes what it was like to be an Indian boy (the first 7 chapters) and an Indian Girl (the last 7 chapters). This is very different from the slanted way the white man...

Phil Chenevert and 3 more 2 hours 43 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

783

Jim Kjelgaard - Rescue Dog of the High Pass

Jim Kjelgaard has long wanted to tell the story of the gallant dogs who have gone out with the monks of St. Bernard Hospice to rescue travelers lost in the deep snows of the Swiss mountain passes. Unable to find the...

Mike Pelton and 1 more 2 hours 41 minutes

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Historical Fiction

931

Eugène Sue - Gold Sickle

The Gold Sickle; or, Hena the Virgin of the Isle of Sen. A Tale of Druid Gaul is the first part of Eugène Sue's The Mysteries of the People; or, History of a Proletarian Family Across the Ages, in which he intended to...

Nadine Eckert-Boulet and 1 more 2 hours 38 minutes

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Children's Fiction

826

Eva Katherine Gibson - Zauberlinda, the Wise Witch

Annie Elfrida McLane lives in a little brown house of the South Dakota prairie, within sight of the Black Hills. Her father is a widower and prospects for gold there; Annie lives at home with her grandmother and the...

Miriam Esther Goldman and 6 more 2 hours 30 minutes

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Modern (19th C)

Agnes C. Laut - Chronicles of Canada Volume 23 - The Cariboo Trail: A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia

Between the California and Yukon/Klondike gold rushes was the Cariboo Gold Rush in what would become northern British Columbia. The first discovery was made in 1859, but the rush didn't get underway in earnest until...

Claire M and 3 more 2 hours 24 minutes Chronicles of Canada Series

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Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Karl-Ludwig Sand

Biography & Autobiography

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Alexandre Dumas - Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Karl-Ludwig Sand

This is the fourth volume of Alexandre Dumas' studies of celebrated crimes and their perpetrators. This volume is concerned with the story of Karl Ludwig Sand, who stabbed August von Kotzebue to death in 1819. August...

mbm0rxi and 2 more 2 hours 10 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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A. J. Glinski - Polish Fairy Tales

These are selections from a large collection made by A. J. Glinski, printed at Wilna in 1862. These fairy tales come from a far past and may even date from primitive times. They represent the folklore current among...

Woolly Bee and 3 more 2 hours 5 minutes

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Kings and Queens of England with Other Poems

Poetry

844

Mary Ann H. T. Bigelow - Kings and Queens of England with Other Poems

This is a volume of poems by Mary Ann Bigelow, who turned her historical research into a poem in «the Kings and Queens of England». This volume also contains a number of her other poems, especially acrostics, many of...

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James W. Donovan - Don't Marry

This book doesn't advise against marriage but just offers advice on the errors some people can make who make the wrong choice when entering into so long a contract. — Summary by Michele Eaton

Kathrine Engan and 3 more 1 hour 49 minutes

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Single Author Collections

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Elbert Hubbard - Mintage

Elbert Hubbard is best known as the author of the «Little Journeys To The Homes of Famous People». These 11 short stores show the side of him that celebrated caring, friendship love among humans. The first describes...

Phil Chenevert and 5 more 1 hour 44 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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