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Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 10

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Anonymous - Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 10

This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No...

Josh Kibbey and 11 more 10 hours 42 minutes Thousand Nights and a Night

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Essays & Short Works

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G. K. Chesterton - Uses of Diversity

A collection of 35 essays by G.K. Chesterton originally published in his weekly columns in «The Illustrated London News» and the «New Witness». The subjects vary greatly from lamp posts to Jane Austen's Emma, from «On...

thestorygirl and 14 more 5 hours 37 minutes

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Christian Fiction

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Grace Livingston Hill - Pansies for Thoughts

The young Grace Livingston compiled this book using quotes from her aunt's works; Isabella Macdonald Alden (who wrote under the pen name «Pansy»). It is a quote for each day of the year from one of the «Pansy Books»...

LikeManyWaters and 3 more 2 hours 53 minutes

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Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery

Biography & Autobiography

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Charles Raymond Beazley - Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery

Prince Henry was a significant explorer and adventurer in a period of enlightenment and expansion of European trade and knowledge of the world beyond its borders. He is considered a prime instigator of what has become...

Kathleen Nelson and 5 more 10 hours 9 minutes

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Religion

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George Frederick Kunz - Curious Lore of Precious Stones

Full title is «The Curious Lore of Precious Stones, being a description of their sentiments and folklore, superstitions, symbolism, mysticism, use in medicine, protection, prevention, religion, and divination, crystal...

BettyB and 11 more 12 hours 31 minutes

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Health & Fitness

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Henry Clyde - Pleasure Cycling

«In this little book, the writer, looking back to his own days of inexperience in cycling, has endeavored to furnish some useful information and advice to those who intend joining the army of wheelmen, or who, in...

TriciaG 3 hours 14 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 058

Sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. The human condition is variously explored in Chesterton's essay «The Contented Man,» Shōtoku Taishi's «Laws» outlining the...

Larry Wilson and 10 more 5 hours 3 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Mountain Adventures in the Various Countries of the World

Travel & Geography

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John Timbs - Mountain Adventures in the Various Countries of the World

Mountains have always been fascinating as places of special adventure. This book. first published in 1869, collects true stories of real-life adventurers climbing the world's most famous and most challenging...

Gail Timmerman Vaughan and 12 more 8 hours 14 minutes

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Christian Fiction

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Pansy - Twenty Minutes Late

Sequel to Miss Dee Dunmore Bryant. Being 20 minutes late after a day out with the Kedwins and Ben and Daisy, her siblings, starts a series of events in motion that lead Caroline Bryant to Philadelphia...and to people...

TriciaG 7 hours 40 minutes

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Catharine de Bora; or, Social and Domestic Scenes in the Life of Luther

Biography & Autobiography

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John G. Morris - Catharine de Bora; or, Social and Domestic Scenes in the Life of Luther

«There are many interesting and characteristic incidents in the domestic life of Luther which are not found in biographies of the great Reformer. The character of his wife has not been portrayed in full, and who does...

Bill Mosley and 3 more 2 hours 53 minutes

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Law

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John Salmond - Jurisprudence

"[This book] is written primarily for the use of those students of the law who are desirous of laying a scientific foundation for their legal education; yet I hope that it will not be found destitute of interest...

Ian Stewart and 10 more 18 hours 30 minutes

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Nature

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Robert Hooke - Micrographia

Published in 1665, this is the first publication of the Royal Society and considered to be the first scientific best-seller. As opposed to the Latin of other publications of the time like Newton's 'Principia...

DrPGould and 22 more 17 hours 11 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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