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Inspired by nature and imbued with moral lessons, Parables from Nature, Volume 1 is a collection of classic tales, both fun and thought-provoking. Children will be enthralled with this intimate look into the lives of the woodland creatures and their way of life.
Volume 1 includes:
• "A Lesson of Faith"
• "The Law of Authority and Obedience"
• "The Unknown Land"
• "Training and Restraining"
• "Waiting"
• "The Law of the Wood"
• "Daily...
42) Tales of terror
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A collection of ten tales by the celebrated author of horror and mystery stories.
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In Part 3, you'll hear stories of the settlement of the New England Colonies. Stories include: The Story of the Pilgrim Fathers; The Founding of Massachusetts; The Story of Harry Vane; The Story of Anne Hutchinson and the Founding of Rhode Island; The Founding of Harvard; How Quakers First Came to New England; How Maine and New Hampshire Were Founded; The Founding of Connecticut and War with the Indians; The Founding of New Haven; The Hunt...
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This series, in seven parts, tells the story of America from the earliest founding through the days of Woodrow Wilson World War I. Part 6 continues the series with the stories of the struggle for liberty. Stories include: The Boston Tea Party, Paul Revere's Ride – The Unsheathing of the Sword, The First Thrust – The Battle of Bunker Hill, The War in Canada, The Birth of a Great Nation, The Darkest Hour – Trenton and Princeton Burgoyne's...
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A contemporary account taken from the memoirs of Sir Thomas Herbers and Hohn Rushworth. Taken from two main sources, John Rushworth's Historical Collection (circa 1659) and Sir Thomas Herbert's memoirs (circa 1678), this book will primarily be of interest to those who have a deep curiosity about this historic event, unprecedented in the history of European nations at that time. It chronicles-sometimes dramatically, sometimes poignantly-the king's...
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This series, in seven parts, tells the story of America from the earliest founding through the days of Woodrow Wilson and World War I. In Part 4, you'll hear stories of the Middle and Southern Colonies. Stories include: The Founding of Maryland, How New Amsterdam Became New York, How a German Ruled New York, Pirates! The Founding of New Jersey, The Founding of Pennsylvania, How Benjamin Franklin Came to Philadelphia, The Founding of North...
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This series, in seven parts, tells the story of America from the earliest founding through the days of Woodrow Wilson World War I. Part 7 continues the series with the development of the United States under the presidents from Washington to Wilson. Stories include: Washington: First in War, First in Peace, Adams: How He Kept Peace with France, Jefferson: How the Territory of the United States Was Doubled, Jefferson: How the Door into the...
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In Part 1, you'll hear stories of the exciting adventures of the explorers and pioneers, like Columbus and Cabot, who faced daunting trials to find the "New World." Stories include:How the Vikings of Old Sought and Found New Lands; The Sea of Darkness and the Great Faith of Columbus; How Columbus Fared Forth upon the Sea of Darkness and Came to Pleasant Lands Beyond; How Columbus Returned in Triumph; How America Was Named; How the Flag of England...
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This series, in seven parts, tells the story of America from the earliest founding through the days of Woodrow Wilson and World War I. The seven main topics include: Stories of Explorers and Pioneers; Stories of Virginia; Stories of New England; Stories of the Middle and Southern Colonies; Stories of the French in America; Stories of the Struggle for Liberty; Stories of the United States under the Constitution.
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In Part 2, you'll hear stories of the settlement of the Virginia Colony. Stories include: The Adventures of Captain John Smith; More Adventures of Captain John Smith; How the Colony Was Saved; How Pocahontas Took a Journey over the Seas; How the Redmen Fought against Their White Brothers; How Englishmen Fought a Duel with Tyranny; The Coming of the Cavaliers; Bacon's Rebellion; The Story of the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe.
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This series, in seven parts, tells the story of America from the earliest founding through the days of Woodrow Wilson and World War I. In Part 5, you'll hear stories of the French in America. Stories include: Stories of the French in America, How the Mississippi Was Discovered, King Williams' War and Queen Anne's War, The Mississippi Bubble, How a Terrible Disaster Befell the British Army, The End of French Rule in America, The Rebellion of...
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In this classic piece of American poetry, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow commemorates the actions of American patriot Paul Revere on April 18, 1775. The tale depicts Paul Revere's exciting midnight ride to warn all the neighbors in the countryside that the British were coming-one light if by land and two if by sea. InThe Pied Piper of Hamelin got rid of the pesky, hated rats, but when the villagers refused to pay for his services, the Pied Piper took...
53) The moonstone
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The Moonstone was published in 1868 and concerns the huge yellow diamond of the title that was once stolen from an Indian shrine. Rachel Verrinder receives the stone as a gift and does not realize that it has been passed to her in a sinister form of revenge by John Herncastle who, it transpires, acquired the moonstone by means of murder and theft. The jewel also brings bad luck. The stone disappears on the very night it is given to Rachel, though,...
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In Baroness Emma Orczy's 1905 novel "The Scarlet Pimpernel", the year is 1792 and the French Revolution is complete. People die by the guillotine every day, often unjustly. Stepping in to right these wrongs and rescue the innocent is the elusive "Scarlet Pimpernel", a mysterious agent named for the red flower that is his signature. Meanwhile, foppish Sir Percy Blakeney and his French actress wife Marguerite are having marital difficulties when Marguerite...
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What is a Golden Deed? We all of us enjoy a story of battle and adventure. Some of us delight in the anxiety and excitement with which we watch the various strange predicaments, hairbreadth escapes, and ingenious contrivances that are presented to us; and the mere imaginary dread of the dangers thus depicted, stirs our feelings and makes us feel eager and full of suspense. A Golden Deed must be something more than mere display of fearlessness. Grave...
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Fearing for the safety of her young child's life, a young slave called Roxy swaps her light-skinned baby with that of her master. Her master's child grows up as a slave, while Roxy's child grows up as a white man called "Tom" who becomes cruel and ends up leading a life crime. The book is a cutting indictment of a society based on racial prejudice and slavery brimming with Twain's characteristic wit and irony. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835—1910),...
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When fifteen-year-old Max Gordon's environmentalist-adventurer father goes missing while working in Namibia and Max becomes the target of a would-be assassin at his school in England, he decides he must follow his father to Africa and find him before they both are killed.
59) Lady Susan
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Lady Susan is the only full novel written by Jane Austen that was not published in her lifetime. Composed in the epistolary form that was popular at the time, the novel is a series of letters primarily between Lady Susan, Mrs Vernon, Mrs Vernon's mother (Lady de Courcy), Lady Susan and Mrs Johnson. The central character is remarkable in Austenian terms as she has nearly no redeeming features. A gorgeous, clever and witty woman, Lady Susan
...60) Just so stories
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How did the whale get his throat? Why was the lazy camel lumbered with a hump? And how did the elephant's insatiable curiosity earn him a trunk? Kipling first invented these delightful stories about the beginning of the world and the first animals in it for his own daughter, Josephine, who tragically died when she was six. Devastated by her loss, Kipling compiled the stories they had shared together into a treasury, which was first published in 1902....