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The Tailor of Gloucester
Beatrix Potter
eBook (Mariana de Lacerda Oliveira, May 29, 2012)A children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
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An Island Story - A History of England
H. E. Marshall
language (Mariana de Lacerda Oliveira, Aug. 25, 2012)In this book you will find the story of the people of Britain. The story tells how they grew to be a great people, till the little green island set in the lonely sea was no longer large enough to contain them all. Then they sailed away over the blue waves to far-distant countries. Now the people of the little island possess lands all over the world. These lands form the empire of Greater Britain.Many of these lands are far, far larger than the little island itself. Yet the people who live in them still look back lovingly to the little island, from which they or their fathers came, and call it "Home."
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A Buddhist Bible
Dwight Goddard
eBook (Mariana de Lacerda Oliveira, July 16, 2013)One of the favorite books of the Beat writers, particularly the ultimate 'Dharma Bum' Jack Kerouac, A Buddhist Bible has had a huge influence on the growth of Buddhism in the English-speaking world in the 20th century and beyond.
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General Book of the Tarot
A. E. Thierens
eBook (Mariana de Lacerda Oliveira, April 3, 2012)A system of correspondences between the Tarot and Astrology. Introduced by Arthur Edward Waite.
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The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
M.M. Pattison Muir
eBook (Mariana de Lacerda Oliveira, June 11, 2012)The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry is very interesting in itself. It is also a pregnant example of the contrast between the scientific and the emotional methods of regarding nature; and it admirably illustrates the differences between well-grounded, suggestive, hypotheses, and baseless speculations.
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Hero-Myths and Legends of the British Race
Maud Isabel Ebbutt
language (Mariana de Lacerda Oliveira, April 1, 2012)A wondrous book, fully illustrated, containing the main tales of old England.Contents:Title PagePrefaceContentsList of IllustrationsIntroductionChapter I. BeowulfChapter II. The Dream of Maxen WledigChapter III. The Story of Constantine and EleneChapter IV: The Compassion of ConstantineChapter V: Havelok the DaneChapter VI. Howard the HaltChapter VII. Roland, the Hero of Early FranceChapter VIII: The Countess CathleenChapter IX: Cuchulain, the Champion of IrelandChapter X: The Tale of GamelynChapter XI. William of CloudesleeChapter XII: Black Colin of Loch AweChapter XIII. The Marriage of Sir GawayneChapter XIV: King HornChapter XV. Robin HoodChapter XVI. Hereward the WakeGlossary and Index
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Eve's Diary
Mark Twain, Lester Ralph
eBook (Mariana de Lacerda Oliveira, June 3, 2012)A comic short story written in the style of a diary kept by the first woman, Eve.
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The Secret Places of the Heart
H. G. Wells
(Mariana de Lacerda Oliveira, Dec. 16, 2012)"H.G. Wells was so charmed by Maragaret Sanger that he based SECRET PLACES OF THE HEART on his time with her. The novel -- a thinly-veiled autobiography -- depicts an English gentleman, Sir Richard Hardy, who is attempting to sort out his marital problems while he travels the English countryside in the company of a psychiatrist. SECRET PLACES OF THE HEART was, in many ways, a love letter from Wells to Sanger..." (fantasticfiction.co.uk).