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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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467

William Henry Bishop - Tom of the Raiders

Young Adult historical fiction of a young man joining the Union Army and taking part in the Great Locomotive Chase. (Summary by Brett Downey)

Brett W. Downey 4 hours 14 minutes

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465

G. A. Henty - Colonel Thorndyke's Secret

Intrigue, murder, highwaymen… A British soldier serving in India has stolen a diamond bracelet from a Hindu idol. The bracelet comes into the possession of Colonel Thorndyke, who is subsequently sent home to England,...

Lynne T and 3 more 13 hours 42 minutes

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Robert Pitcher Woodward - On A Donkey's Hurricane Deck

" A Tempestous Voyage of Four Thousand and Ninety-Six Miles Across the American Continent on a Burro, in 340 Days and 2 Hours — starting without a dollar and earning my way." The journey could be...

Arnold and 9 more 13 hours 47 minutes

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Rex Beach - Silver Horde

The Silver Horde, is set in Kalvik, a fictionalized community in Bristol Bay, Alaska, and tells the story of a down on his luck gold miner who discovers a greater wealth in Alaska's run of salmon (silver horde) and...

Lynne T and 5 more 10 hours 59 minutes

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458

Philip Francis Nowlan - Armageddon- 2419 A.D. (Version 2)

Armageddon—2419 A.D. is the first appearance of the character that would become Buck Rogers. First published in the August 1928 issue of Amazing Stories, followed by a sequel in March 1929. These two novellas would...

Alan Winterrowd 2 hours 42 minutes

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Philip Francis Nowlan - Armageddon- 2419 A.D.

Elsewhere I have set down, for whatever interest they have in this, the 25th Century, my personal recollections of the 20th Century. Now it occurs to me that my memoirs of the 25th Century may have an equal interest...

Megan Argo and 6 more 2 hours 55 minutes

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Children's Fiction

466

Victor Appleton - Tom Swift and His Wireless Message

Tom Swift & friends decide to trial an experimental airship near the New Jersey coast, and are unexpectedly swept out to sea by hurricane winds. Unable to steer or navigate without tearing the airship apart, the...

Richard Kilmer and 8 more 4 hours 18 minutes Tom Swift Adventure Series

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Alexandre Dumas - Louise de la Valliere

After The Three Muskateers and Twenty Years After the adventurous story of Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan continues! The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (French: Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou...

Robert Snoza and 9 more 18 hours 23 minutes d'Artagnan Romances (in English translation)

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J. S. Fletcher - Scarhaven Keep

The northern English sea coast provides a compelling backdrop for this genre of writing; a mysterious disappearance, a love interest, and plot twists 'se mijotent' to produce an intriguing read. (Summary by Cate Barratt)

Cate Barratt 7 hours 34 minutes

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Marcel Allain - Exploits of Juve (version 2)

The second book in the Fantômas series by the prolific authors Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre (they published 32 Fantômas novels between 1911 and 1913.) Fantômas broke the mold of the Gentlemen burglars like...

Alan Winterrowd 5 hours 35 minutes

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Starlight Ranch And Other Stories Of Army Life On The Frontier

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Charles King - Starlight Ranch And Other Stories Of Army Life On The Frontier

Five stories of Army life in the mid to late 19th century. Charles King (1844 – 1933) was a United States soldier and a distinguished writer. He wrote and edited over 60 books and novels. Among his list of titles are...

David Wales 7 hours 56 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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