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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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Jules Verne - Survivors of the Chancellor

The Survivors of the Chancellor is a poignant and tragic tale of terror and intrigue on the high seas. Through raging storms, emaciating hunger and thirst, shipwreck and mutiny…follow the passengers of The Chancellor...

Joseph DeNoia 5 hours 2 minutes

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Guy Boothby - Dr. Nikola’s Experiment

Guy Boothby's fourth novel of five about the svelte mysterious anti-hero Dr Nikola sees him progress further on his search for immortality. Here we find him deep in the wilds of Northumbria conducting an experiment of...

Peter John Keeble 5 hours 15 minutes

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H. Rider Haggard - Montezuma's Daughter

A moving adventure story narrated by Thomas Wingfield, an Englishman, for Queen Elizabeth 1 of England about the murder of his mother, his trail of vengeance against the murderer which leads him to the Spanish...

Patrick79 18 hours 33 minutes

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Arthur M. Winfield - Rover Boys on Land and Sea

The Boys are off on another series of adventures, beginning in San Francisco, where a run in with arch-enemy Dan Baxter leads them into the South Seas with their girlfriends in tow. Several ship mishaps later, they...

VfkaBT 5 hours 7 minutes

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George W. M. Reynolds - Mysteries of London Vol. III

The Mysteries of London was a best-selling novel in mid-Victorian England, published in four volumes. This is the third volume. Initially serialized in weekly installments, they were the forerunners of today's soap...

Lynne T and 24 more 46 hours 11 minutes

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Romance of California Life; Illustrated By Pacific Slope Stories, Thrilling, Pathetic And Humorous

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John Habberton - Romance of California Life; Illustrated By Pacific Slope Stories, Thrilling, Pathetic And Humorous

These 37 short stories were authored by John Habberton (1842–1921), an American writer. He spent nearly twenty years as the literary and drama critic for the New York Herald, but he is best known for his stories about...

David Wales 14 hours 55 minutes

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Jim Kjelgaard - Rescue Dog of the High Pass

Jim Kjelgaard has long wanted to tell the story of the gallant dogs who have gone out with the monks of St. Bernard Hospice to rescue travelers lost in the deep snows of the Swiss mountain passes. Unable to find the...

Mike Pelton and 1 more 2 hours 41 minutes

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Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales

This lively collection of stories by Q, aka the imaginative and prolific man of letters Arthur Quiller-Couch, includes tales of mystery, horror, and adventure. Beware. There will be ghosts, pirates, scholars, death,...

Kate Follis and 3 more 11 hours 5 minutes

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Frank L. Packard - Night Operator

A collection of ten railroad short stories: «And so these are the stories of the Hill Division and of the men who wrought upon it; the stories of those days when it was young and in the making; the stories of the days...

Delmar H Dolbier 9 hours 30 minutes

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Robert Louis Stevenson - Black Arrow

In the unsettled years of England's War of the Roses, where a man stood on the issue of kingship could make his fortune… or end his life. Dick Shelton, a nobly-born lad, is on the cusp of manhood, and he is thrust...

Mark F. Smith 8 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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