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Mildred A. Wirt Benson - Swamp Island

Late entry in the Penny Parker teen girl mystery series (1939-47) by one of the early ghostwriters (as Carolyn Keene) of Nancy Drew concerns an escaped embezzler, his revenge on the reporter whose articles helped...

Bellona Times 4 hours 46 minutes

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James Oliver Curwood - Courage of Marge O'Doone

David Raine is travelling, trying to escape his own memories. On the train he meets Father Rolland, who invites him North, to a world of «mystery and savage glory», to help him find himself again. On the same train,...

Natalie Paula and 5 more 9 hours 57 minutes

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Florence Finch Kelly - Delafield Affair

New Mexico's hot, dry winds are taking their toll: cattle suffer long treks to get food and water. But it is not just a hard time for them. Lucy Bancroft has sought a milder climate so she can recover from typhoid...

Bill Boerst 7 hours 40 minutes

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Gertrude Atherton - Rezanov

This novel by the prolific Californian author Gertrude Horn Atherton is based on the real life story of Nikolai Rezanov, a man who, in 1806, pushed for the Russian colonization of Alaska and California. «Not twenty...

Lynne T and 6 more 7 hours 12 minutes

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Charles Warren Adams - Notting Hill Mystery

Charles Felix was the pseudonym of Charles Warren Adams, an English Lawyer and publisher and is now known to have been the author of «The Notting Hill Mystery», thought to be the first full length detective novel in...

Kevin Green 4 hours 59 minutes

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Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, King of the Beggars

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Bampfylde Moore Carew - Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, King of the Beggars

The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew recounts the wide-ranging exploits of a real-life rogue – a wily professional mendicant who roams 18th-century England extracting charity from merchants, clergyman,...

Grant Hurlock 7 hours 31 minutes

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Caroline Lockhart - Dude Wrangler

Spoiled, handsome, 24 year old Easterner meets pretty, no-nonsense gal from Wyoming, is instantly smitten and does a sea-change to try and impress her in this genial romantic comedy. — Summary by BellonaTimes

Bellona Times 8 hours 52 minutes

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Guy Boothby - Cabinet Secret

Witty spy adventure set during the Boer Wars of the late 19th Century. — Summary by BellonaTimes

Bellona Times 6 hours 44 minutes

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Alessandro Manzoni - Betrothed (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

One of the most famous Italian books in history, The Betrothed was written by Alessandro Manzoni in 1827. The two main characters, Renzo and Lucy, are engaged to be married when Lucy tragically disappears. Little does...

15 hours 48 minutes

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E. Phillips Oppenheim - Stolen Idols

Two temple statues, one with the most beautiful of features, the other a hideous sight, are at the core of this tale of adventure and the supernatural. Carved by Chinese craftsmen, they have stood to either side of...

Jacquerie 8 hours 41 minutes

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Maurice Henry Hewlett - Frey and his Wife

Frey and his Wife is a Nordic Saga, but written in a saga style by a 20th Century Englishman. It tells the tale of Gunnar, a Norwegian wrongly accused of murder who flees across the mountains to the pagan forests of...

Kevin Green 2 hours 53 minutes

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H. G. Wells - Island Of Doctor Moreau (Version 2)

In this classsic of H. G. Wells, Edward Prendick is shipwrecked on a beautiful island in the South Seas and is drawn into the wild and cruel world of Doctor Moreau, who aspires to play God with animals. Summary by Bob...

Bob Neufeld 4 hours 54 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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