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Horatio Alger, Jr. - Timothy Crump's Ward

A poor family is surprised with an infant on their doorstep on New Year’s Eve with a note and monetary support requesting them to raise the child. Eight years later, the child is stolen and the family is put into more...

Sharon Kilmer 4 hours 32 minutes

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Rough and Ready OR Life Among the New York Newsboys

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Horatio Alger, Jr. - Rough and Ready OR Life Among the New York Newsboys

Join Rough and Ready for his adventure on the streets of New York City. Working as a newsboy, Rough and Ready tries to support himself and his sister on his meager earnings. Unfortunately, their stepfather is seeking...

Tori Faulder 4 hours 12 minutes Ragged Dick Series

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Mark the Match Boy or Richard Hunter's Ward

Children's Fiction

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Horatio Alger, Jr. - Mark the Match Boy or Richard Hunter's Ward

In this third installment from the “Ragged Dick” series by Horatio Algers, Jr., the reader is reacquainted with some old friends and meets young Mark Manton. Mark is a match boy plagued by bad luck and an even worse...

Tori Faulder 3 hours 53 minutes Ragged Dick Series

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Noel E. Sainsbury, Jr. - Bill Bolton and Hidden Danger

Third entry in series of mystery-adventures about Midshipman Bill Bolton, a 17-year-old US Navy pilot. — Summary by Matt Pierard

VfkaBT 3 hours 46 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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J. Thorne Smith, Jr. - Biltmore Oswald

The hilarious diary of a young man's recruitment into, and service in a navy, which, though well equipped and disciplined, remains woefully ill prepared for his arrival and dubious contribution. (Introduction by Nigel...

Nigel Boydell 3 hours 31 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Joseph Smith, Jr. - Pearl of Great Price

The Pearl of Great Price is a selection of choice materials touching many significant aspects of the faith and doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. These items were translated and produced by...

Glenn O'Brien 2 hours 35 minutes

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William Strunk, Jr. - Elements of Style

“The Elements of Style (1918) by William Strunk, Jr. is an American English writing style guide. It is one of the best-known and most influential prescriptive treatment of English grammar and usage, and often is...

Nicholas James Bridgewater 1 hour 51 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Irving E. Cox, Jr. - Cartels Jungle

In most ideally conceived Utopias the world as it exists is depicted as a mushrooming horror of maladjustment, cruelty and crime. In this startlingly original short novel that basic premise is granted, but only to...

Scotty Smith 1 hour 40 minutes

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Ballads

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Horatio Alger, Jr. - Grand'ther Baldwin's Thanksgiving, with Other Ballads and Poems

Horatio Alger, better known for his juvenile fiction, also penned some great poetry. His Ballads, including the 8 war poems and his odes, are collected in this volume. — Summary by Carolin

Diana Schmidt and 11 more 1 hour 19 minutes

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Science Fiction

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - 2 B R 0 2 B (version 2) & The Big Trip Up Yonder (version 5)

These two stories by Kurt Vonnegut were written over a decade apart but they are definitely connected. The Big Trip Up Yonder, published in Galaxy Science Fiction January 1954 is a comical yet scary description of...

Phil Chenevert 46 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - 2 B R 0 2 B (Dramatic Reading)

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was a prolific and genre-bending American novelist known for works blending satire, black comedy, and science fiction, such as Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle, and Breakfast of Champions. 2 B R 0...

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New

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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