Susan Morin

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Robert Kemp Philp - Enquire Within Upon Everything

Enquire Within Upon Everything was a book of how to do things in domestic life It was first published in 1856 by Houlston and Sons of Paternoster Square in London. Robert Kemp Philp. It was then continuously reprinted...

Susan Morin and 15 more 33 hours 20 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Saint Therese of Lisieux - Story of a Soul (Version 2)

She is also known as St.Thérèse of Child Jesus. She was born at Alençon, France, 2 January 1873; died at Lisieux 30 September 1897. When she was fifteen she applied for permission to enter the Carmelite Convent, and...

Susan Morin 13 hours 40 minutes

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Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

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Alice Morse Earle - Home Life in Colonial Days

CHAPTER I HOMES OF THE COLONISTS When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable. The colonists found a...

Susan Morin 13 hours 2 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - Fairy Book

The sleeping beauty in the wood — Hop-O'-My-Thumb — Cinderella; or, the little glass slipper — Adventures of John Dietrich — Beauty and the Beast — Little One Eye, Little Two Eyes, and Little Three Eyes — Jack the...

Woolly Bee and 20 more 12 hours 53 minutes

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Historical

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Alice Morse Earle - Child Life in Colonial Days

The accounts of oldtime child life gathered for this book are wholly unconscious and full of honesty and simplicity, not only from the attitude of the child, but from that of his parents, guardians, and friends. The...

Susan Morin 11 hours 57 minutes

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Children's Non-fiction

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Nathaniel Hawthorne - True Stories from History and Biography

In writing this ponderous tome, the author's desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals, in such a form and style, that the YOUNG might make acquaintance with them of their...

Susan Morin 11 hours 39 minutes

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Nature

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Jean-Henri Fabre - Story Book of Science

The famed French naturalist Fabre covers a large variety of subjects in these 70 short but fascinating essays about insects, animals and nature in general. The translator explains in her foreword, «The young in heart...

Frances Brown and 12 more 10 hours 51 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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William Still - Underground Railroad, Part 5

«I congratulate you that, after much patient research, careful preparation, and untiring labor, you have completed your voluminous work on „THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD.“ I am sure your work will be found to be one of...

Michele Fry and 9 more 9 hours 56 minutes The Underground Railroad by William Still

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Children's Fiction

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R. M. Ballantyne - Iron Horse

“Is that your bundle, sir?” repeated Mr Blunt a little louder. “Eh? yes, yes—all right,” replied Edwin, annoyed at the interruption, and thinking only of Emma Lee, to whom he turned, and went on—“Well, when Colonel...

Susan Morin and 10 more 9 hours 51 minutes

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Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 4

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Edgar Allan Poe - Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 4

This, the fourth of 5 volumes containing Poe's works, contains 22 of his short stories. Warning: Section 7, «A Predicament,» contains some racial stereotypes and a word describing the race of one of the...

Megan Argo and 16 more 9 hours 17 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Henry R. Schoolcraft - Indian Fairy Book

These Indian fairy tales are chosen from the many stories collected by Mr. Henry R. Schoolcraft, the first man to study how the Indians lived and to discover their legends. He lived among the Indians in the West and...

Susan Morin and 11 more 7 hours 11 minutes

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Knights of Art - Stories of the Italian Painters

Children's Non-fiction

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Amy Steedman - Knights of Art - Stories of the Italian Painters

A children's version of the Lives of Artists by Vassari with many Illustrations. Of course we won't be able to show the paintings but the descriptions and the anecdotes are interesting and may lead a child to further...

Susan Morin 6 hours 29 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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