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Winston Churchill - Crossing

This is an historical fiction novel. Many real characters of history are included, as well as fictitious ones. The saga takes place in the period slightly before the American Revolution, and extends for some years...

Bob R 22 hours 41 minutes

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Mildred A. Wirt Benson - Flash Evans, Camera News Hawk

Jimmy 'Flash' Evans, 17, ace photographer for The Brandale Ledger, tries his hand at the newsreel game in this upbeat, pre-war adventure. The listed author, Frank Bell, was actually the prolific Mildred Wirt Benson,...

VfkaBT 4 hours 24 minutes

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Harry Hazelton - Prisoner of the Mill

Subtitled «Captain Hayward's Body Guard”. An adventure story for boys.

Lynne T and 10 more 3 hours 43 minutes

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James Macdonald Oxley - My Strange Rescue

An anthology of short stories, anecdotes and observations of sport and adventure in Canada. Tobogganing, snowshoeing, ice skating and hockey all feature, along with other cold-weather pursuits.

brianna and 14 more 9 hours 50 minutes

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Andy Adams - Texas Matchmaker

As a boy Andy Adams helped with the cattle and horses on the family farm. During the early 1880s he went to Texas, where he stayed for 10 years, spending much of that time driving cattle on the western trails. A...

Richard Kilmer 9 hours 50 minutes

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Egerton Castle - Pride of Jennico

«The death of a patriarch, unexpected inheritance of a second son, dark and stormy castle, faithful retainers, scary governess who never speaks, star-crossed lovers — I could go on, but that would involve spoilers!...

Sylviamb 6 hours 57 minutes

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Ottwell Binns - Lady of the North Star

A mysterious death. A wealthy beautiful young lady. Three men after her heart. Place this mixture in the snow bound northwest and you have the ingredients of a first rate mystery. (summary by Richard Kilmer)

Richard Kilmer 7 hours 48 minutes

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Edgar Rice Burroughs - Return of the Mucker

After being framed for a murder he didn’t commit, law enforcement arrests Billy Byrne…The Mucker… as he returns to the streets of Grand Avenue. Sentenced for the crime, he escapes custody en route to jail, and begins...

Joseph DeNoia 4 hours 54 minutes

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Well at the World's End: Book 4: The Road Home

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William Morris - Well at the World's End: Book 4: The Road Home

In The Well at the World's End, Ralph of Upmeads, youngest son of the King of Upmeads, leaves home (where nothing exciting ever happens) without permission and sets out looking for adventure. When he hears rumors of a...

David Lawrence and 11 more 5 hours 27 minutes

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Frank L. Packard - On the Iron at Big Cloud

Frank L. Packard worked as a civil engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway. He brings this experience to the fictional Hill Division — those those twisting, climbing, dangerous and glorious miles of track that lead...

Delmar H Dolbier 8 hours 48 minutes

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Edgar Rice Burroughs - Mucker

Grown and raised on the streets of Chicago; a ruthless, brawling beast of a man who detests all that “class” and “highbrow society” has to offer. Shanghaied and put into service upon a pirate’s vessel to kidnap an...

Joseph DeNoia 4 hours 57 minutes

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Harold L. Goodwin - Flying Stingaree

First published in 1963, this is another adventure in the Rick Brant Science series, set on Chesapeake Bay and involving mysterious, sting ray-shaped drones and missing persons. (synopsis by Matt Pierard)

VfkaBT 4 hours 43 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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