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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jules Verne - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Captain Nemo, The Nautilus, and the mysterious depths of the ocean. Unforgettable. Come join an adventure that will roam among coral and pearls, sharks and giant squid, with wonders of biology and engineering that...

Marlo Dianne and 26 more 16 hours 11 minutes

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Junior Classics Volume 1: Fairy and Wonder Tales

Children's Fiction

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William Allan Neilson - Junior Classics Volume 1: Fairy and Wonder Tales

The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, stories, and poems, both ancient and modern, suitable for boys and girls of...

Robin Cotter and 31 more 14 hours 30 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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George MacDonald - At the Back of the North Wind

Diamond the little boy sleeps in the hayloft above the stall of Diamond the horse. The loft is snug but drafty, and after plugging a hole in the wall one night, Diamond is scolded by the beautiful Lady North Wind for...

Meredith Hughes and 16 more 8 hours 57 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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J. S. Fletcher - Paradise Mystery

A quiet cathedral town in England, full of gossips and people who are not quite who they seem to be, is the setting for this murder mystery. (Summary by Gesine)

JimmyLogan and 12 more 8 hours 39 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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J. S. Fletcher - Middle Temple Murder

The dead body of a man is found on the steps to some chambers of Middle Temple Lane, near London's law courts. A journalist and a young lawyer start investigating. — This classic English murder mystery was written in...

Betsie Bush and 15 more 8 hours 16 minutes

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Science Fiction

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H. G. Wells - Sleeper Awakes

The Sleeper Awakes is a dystopian novel about a man who sleeps for two hundred years, waking up in a completely transformed London, where, because of compound interest, he has become the richest man in the world. He...

James Christopher and 13 more 8 hours 14 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Thornton W. Burgess - Burgess Animal Book for Children

Peter Rabbit goes to school, with Mother Nature as his teacher. In this zoology book for children, Thornton W. Burgess describes the mammals of North America in the form of an entertaining story, including plenty of...

Laurie Anne Walden and 16 more 8 hours 10 minutes

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Black Beauty (The Autobiography of a Horse)

Animals & Nature

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Anna Sewell - Black Beauty (The Autobiography of a Horse)

Black Beauty is Anna Sewell’s first and only novel. The story is told in the “first person” (or first horse) as an autobiographical memoir of a highbred horse named Black Beauty, from his carefree days as a foal on an...

Kara Shallenberg and 18 more 6 hours 15 minutes

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Poetry

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Edgar Lee Masters - Spoon River Anthology

This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, gossiping about their neighbors' lives. It's interesting to hear how other people...

Lokon and 43 more 6 hours 12 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Stephen Leacock - Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912. It is generally considered to be one of the most enduring classics of Canadian humorous literature. The...

Esther and 7 more 5 hours 59 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Sara Cone Bryant - How to Tell Stories to Children

Sarah Cone Bryant was an educator and storyteller who wrote several books on the importance of oral storytelling to children, and stories to tell children. This volume expounds on her theories and practices of...

Sean McGaughey and 4 more 5 hours 54 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Hans Christian Andersen - Andersen's Fairy Tales

A collection of eighteen fairy tales — some popular, some lesser known — by famous Danish author H.C. Andersen. (Summary by Gesine)

Kara Shallenberg and 14 more 5 hours 51 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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