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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Arthur Machen - Terror: A Mystery

In rural England during the time of war, a rash of unsolved murders spawns conspiracy theories, paranoia, and fear as they search for a culprit, an explanation, and an end to the terror. — Summary by A. Gramour

OCTL7 and 5 more 3 hours 57 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

446

Elsie Spicer Eells - Islands of Magic

LEGENDS, FOLK AND FAIRY TALES FROM THE AZORES. Some three-fourths of the distance between America and Europe there is a group of nine beautiful islands called the Azores which belong to Portugal. Their names are...

MaryAnn and 13 more 3 hours 57 minutes

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Children's Fiction

451

Laura Lee Hope - Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat

The Bobbsey family are are staying on a houseboat for summer vacation! At first all seems to be going well — what with fishing, playing with friends, and exploring the river. But then a mean farmer arrives, who seems...

deongines and 4 more 3 hours 56 minutes

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School

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Laura Lee Hope - Bobbsey Twins at School

The Bobbsey Twins is a series of books attributed to Laura Lee Hope, a house pseudonym of the Stratemeyer Syndicate. The family includes a pair of older twins, Nan and Bert, and a pair of younger twins, Freddie and...

Bethany Baldwin and 8 more 3 hours 42 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Sarath Kumar Ghosh - Wonders of the Jungle

How do elephants drink? What is the Law of the Jungle at the water hole? How does an elephant baby learn to feed and learn to swim? How do they walk under water? In what order do buffaloes drink? How do buffaloes...

bala and 9 more 3 hours 33 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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L. Frank Baum - Dot and Tot of Merryland

Dot and Tot of Merryland is a 1901 novel by L. Frank Baum. After Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, he wrote this story about the adventures of a little girl named Dot and a little boy named Tot in a land reached...

Zaradaqaw and 12 more 3 hours 26 minutes

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Hooded Detective: 6 Action Packed Pulp Detective Stories

Detective Fiction

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Cliff Campbell - Hooded Detective: 6 Action Packed Pulp Detective Stories

Evil lurks in the hearts and minds of men and many nefarious schemes are hatched by these gangsters, mob bosses and super villains. But thankfully, equally brave, talented detectives (some of them hooded) are there to...

Dan Gurzynski and 5 more 3 hours 23 minutes

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Short Stories

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O. Henry - Waifs and Strays

These 12 O. Henry stories all deal with waifs and strays in one way or another; people who have somehow become adrift in the current of life. Will they find their way on their own or be helped by kind hearted folk or...

Bellona Times and 10 more 3 hours 22 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Clara Dillingham Pierson - Among the Pond People

Lovely book for children written by teacher and naturalist Clara Dillingham Pierson. This book in the «Among the People» series explores the animal inhabitants of a pond. The beautiful writing brings the pond...

Jill Engle and 8 more 3 hours 20 minutes Among the People Series

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Wisdom of the Ancients, A Series of Mythological Fables

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Francis Bacon - Wisdom of the Ancients, A Series of Mythological Fables

«Now I suppose most people will think I am but entertaining myself with a toy, and using much the same kind of licence in expounding the poets’ fables which the poets themselves did in inventing them; and it is true...

Allie Mandell and 6 more 3 hours 17 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Edric Vredenberg - My Book Of Favourite Fairy Tales

This is a collection on well-known, favorite fairy stories, most of which we all grew up with. They were edited and retold in this volume. (Summary by Lynne Thompson)

Lynne T and 11 more 3 hours 7 minutes

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Life and marvelous adventures of Wild Bill, the Scout

Biography & Autobiography

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J. W. Buel - Life and marvelous adventures of Wild Bill, the Scout

BEING A TRUE AND EXACT HISTORY OF ALL THE SANGUINARY COMBATS AND HAIR-BREADTH ESCAPES OF THE MOST FAMOUS SCOUT AND SPY AMERICA EVER PRODUCED. «Wild Bill, as a frontier character of the daring, cunning and honorable...

Jairus Amar and 10 more 2 hours 31 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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