The stories, first published in 1902, are fantastic accounts of how various natural phenomena came about. The original editions of Just So Stories were illustrated with woodcuts by Kipling himself...
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Author: Kipling, RudyardSummary:
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Author: Howarth, KateSummary:
An extraordinary story of courage and survival in the tradition of Angela's Ashes. Ten Hail Marys follows the first seventeen years of Kate Howarth's life in Sydney and country New South Wales....
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Author: WELLS, OrsonSummary:
This motion picture soundtrack includes audio narration. Charles Foster Kane, a wealthy recluse, dies in his castle-like estate, Xanadu. The dying word on the lips of the newspaper tycoon who...
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Author: Jean GuibertSummary:
In this book, Father Jean Guibert of the Society of St. Sulpice shows how piety permeates the spiritual life in mental and vocal prayer, in the sacraments, in various devotions, in spiritual...
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Author: White, Ellen Gould HarmonSummary:
These collection of Articles, from 1872-1915, have been drawn from various sources. They have been selected from "Christian Education," "Special Testimonies on Education," "Christian Temperance...
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Author: Buckley, MichaelSummary:
As the fairytale detectives race through the Book of Everafter searching for their baby brother, they encounter various characters including the Editor and his army of Revisers, who threaten the...
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Author: Doig, IvanSummary:
Ivan Doig crafts an epic tale of 11 college football teammates confronting World War II. Eager to serve, TSU's champion athletes are stationed across the globe in various theaters. But one of them...
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Author: Jones, Diana WynneSummary:
After his grandfather dies, Andrew Hope inherits a house and surrounding land in an English village, but things become very complicated when young orphan Aidan shows up and suddenly a host of...
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Author: Scibona, SalvatoreSummary:
It is August 15, 1953, the day of a street carnival in the Italian enclave of Elephant Park, Ohio, when Rocco LaGrassa receives an excruciating piece of news: his son has died in a POW camp in...
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Author: Wooding, ChrisSummary:
When Poison leaves her home in the marshes of Gull to retrieve the infant sister who was snatched by the phairies, she and a group of unusual friends survive encounters with the inhabitants of...
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Author: Davies, RobertsonSummary:
Book 2 of the Cornish Trilogy
Francis Cornish was always good at keeping secrets. From the well-hidden family secret of his childhood to his mysterious encounters with a small-town embalmer...
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Author: Bergad, Laird W.Summary:
Laird Bergad presents a comparative history of slavery in Brazil, Cuba and the United States, countries in which the institutions of slavery survived long into the 19th century ; in Brazil as late...
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Author: Davidge, JamesSummary:
Freed from slavery after the end of the American Civil War, John Ware rode various cattle drives from the southern United States to the foothills of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, where he rose to...
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Author: Pavia, Audrey, Posnikoff, JaniceSummary:
If you're crazy about horses, this hands-on guide is all you need to giddy up and go. Featuring updates on breeds, boarding, nutrition, equipment, training and riding, as well as new information...
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Author: George, Jean CraigheadSummary:
As she grows through the first years of her life in the Catskill Mountains of New York, a peregrine falcon called Frightful interacts with various humans, including the boy who raised her, a...