Phil Chenevert

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Science Fiction

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Murray Leinster - Machine that Saved the World

They were broadcasts from nowhere--sinister emanations flooding in from space--smashing any receiver that picked them up. What defense could Earth devise against science such as this? In the far future of 1972, on a...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 36 minutes

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Science

759

Maurice Maeterlinck - Children's Life of the Bee

Buzz, buzz, buzz. A fascinating and beautifully written explanation of the life of the honey bee. Maeterlinck, who won the Noble Prize for Literature, wrote a more scholarly work called The Life of the Bee but then...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 42 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Henry Beston - Firelight Fairy Book

One pleasant summer day, as the fairy-tale lover sat reading a book beneath the low spreading branches of an oak tree, he heard a hum of wings, and looking up startled from his book, he discovered the Fairy Goldenwand...

Phil Chenevert and 10 more 4 hours 15 minutes

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Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (Version 2)

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L. Frank Baum - Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (Version 2)

Dorothy is swallowed by an earthquake! And that is just the start of Dorothy's adventures in this exciting and fun book. She and her kitten, Eureka are on their way home and stop to visit a relative in California. But...

Phil Chenevert 4 hours 23 minutes Oz books

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Animals & Nature

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Thornton W. Burgess - Adventures of Reddy Fox (version 2)

This timeless story tells of an overconfident little fox who steals a plump pet hen and is hotly pursued by Farmer Brown's boy and Bowser the Hound. Children will delight in Reddy's risky antics and the commotion...

Little Tee and 7 more 1 hour 58 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 026

A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass history, travel, embroidery, science,...

Eberle Thomas and 15 more 5 hours 44 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Single Author Collections

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Edna Ferber - One Basket

This sparkling collection of 7 short stories by Ferber includes some that are considered her all time best like The Woman Who Tried To be Good and The Maternal Feminine. Writing for and about women, Edna Ferber...

Phil Chenevert 5 hours 7 minutes

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Historical Fiction

909

Ambrose Bierce - Monk and the Hangman's Daughter

A tragic but very captivating tale of a monk in the 17th century.

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 45 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

830

Fanny Coe - Book of Stories for the Storyteller

This group project is a collection of 43 fairy tales (both old and new), folk lore, myths and real life stories by a variety of authors, brought together by writer Fanny E Coe. They are mostly short and are fun to...

Jing Li and 15 more 6 hours 5 minutes

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Christianity - Other

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G. K. Chesterton - Orthodoxy (Version 2)

Orthodoxy is a book that has become a classic of Christian apologetics. In the book's preface Chesterton states the purpose is to «attempt an explanation, not of whether the Christian faith can be believed, but of how...

Phil Chenevert 7 hours 1 minute

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Action & Adventure

L. Frank Baum - Ozma of Oz (version 3)

Ozma of Oz: A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, Tiktok, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger; Besides Other Good People too Numerous to Mention...

Phil Chenevert 4 hours 11 minutes Oz books

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Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 1, 1835 to 1842

Children's Fiction

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Hans Christian Andersen - Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 1, 1835 to 1842

A collection of some of Hans Christian Andersen's works. He is a Danish author and poet most famous for his fairy tales. (Summary by Kristingj)

doonaboon and 12 more 9 hours 41 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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