Mike Pelton

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Animals

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Hunting In Many Lands

The first volume published by the Boone and Crockett Club, entitled «American Big Game Hunting,» confined itself to sport on the American continent. This second volume presents a number of interesting sketches written...

Michele Fry and 8 more 10 hours 8 minutes

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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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Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History

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Allen H. Godbey - Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History

«Mankind is constantly astonished by reports of mishaps and disasters of manifold character, when there is seldom room for astonishment. A large proportion of the calamities reported from day to day are directly due...

Mike Pelton and 13 more 15 hours 27 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

563

George W. M. Reynolds - Mysteries of London Vol. II

The Mysteries of London was a best-selling novel in mid-Victorian England, published in four volumes. This is the second volume. Initially serialized in weekly installments, they were the forerunners of today's soap...

Lynne T and 26 more 47 hours 27 minutes

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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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Action & Adventure

540

R. M. Ballantyne - Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished

A runaway carriage, a spunky little girl, and a street urchin combine on the first page of Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished: a Tale of City Arab Life in a hilarious combination that you won't want to leave. This...

Joseph DeNoia and 11 more 8 hours 43 minutes

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Science Fiction

566

H. G. Wells - Twelve Stories and a Dream

Thirteen short stories by HG Wells, the master of speculative fiction! Included in this collection is «Mr Skelmersdale in Fairyland» where a man finds his way into fairyland where a fairy queen tries to seduce him...

Charbelí Ramos Chávez and 10 more 7 hours 48 minutes

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Action & Adventure

448

Thomas Mayne Reid - Ocean Waifs

«The “vulture of the sea,” borne upon broad wing, and wandering over the wide Atlantic, suddenly suspends his flight to look down upon an object that has attracted his attention. It is a raft, with a disc not...

Anton and 19 more 12 hours 41 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Short Ghost and Horror Collection 028

A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder.

TRUEBRIT and 11 more 9 hours 12 minutes Short Ghost and Horror Story Collections

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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 7

Anthologies

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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 7

The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering «American households a mass of good reading», the editors drew from...

Mike Pelton and 16 more 17 hours 59 minutes Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern

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Single author

770

Clark Ashton Smith - Ebony and Crystal

As stated in L'Alouette: A Magazine of Verse, «Ebony and Crystal is an artist's intrepid repudiation of the world of trolleys and cash-registers, Freudian complexes and Binet-Simon tests, for realms of exalted and...

Mike Pelton and 14 more 3 hours 46 minutes

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Mathematics

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Silvanus P. Thompson - Calculus Made Easy

Calculus Made Easy: Being a Very-Simplest Introduction to Those Beautiful Methods of Reckoning which Are Generally Called by the Terrifying Names of the Differential Calculus and the Integral Calculus is is a book...

Adam and 11 more 10 hours 7 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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