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Mildred A. Wirt Benson - Secret Pact

PENNY PARKER is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysteries. The only daughter of widower Anthony Parker, publisher of the «Riverview...

Cheryl Adam 4 hours 27 minutes

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William Turner - High Hander

Tesno was a troubleshooter. That's why the railroad construction company had hired him. His job was to make sure that nobody interfered with the tunnel that they were digging through that frontier region mountain....

Richard Kilmer 4 hours 40 minutes

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Edmond Hamilton - Legion of Lazarus

Those convicted of the most heinous crimes are sentenced to the Humane Penalty: they are ejected from the airlock of a ship, to freeze in the icy chill of outer space. Death is instantaneous. But in some cases, not...

Peter Eastman 2 hours 38 minutes

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Anthony Hope - Lucinda

It's 1914 London, and it's Waldo and Lucinda's wedding day. Unfortunately, Lucinda is nowhere to be found. A messenger boy brings Lucinda's note to her mother — ‘I can’t do it, Mother. So I’ve gone.’ There seems to be...

Nick Bulka 8 hours 59 minutes

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Rolf Boldrewood - Plain Living

Seemingly down-on-his-luck Australian sheep rancher and orchard grower kindly teaches his loving family the value of money through 'plain living'. Fellow fans of Jon Cleary's «The Sundowners», set a generation later,...

VfkaBT 8 hours 13 minutes

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Bram Stoker - Dracula (version 3)

Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and the...

Kara Shallenberg 15 hours 58 minutes

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George Gibbs - Madcap

Quote: «To the quiet Titine her mistress created an impression of bringing not only herself into the room, but also the violent horse and the whole of the out-of-doors besides.» --Chapter 1 of Madcap. --In the same...

Tony Oliva 11 hours 49 minutes

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Absalom Martin - Kastle Krags: A Story of Mystery

A series of murders occur at the remote seaside mansion of a millionaire in Florida. The mystery is heightened via local lore of pirates and hidden treasure, not to mention a fabled ancient octopus said to have a...

VfkaBT 5 hours 50 minutes

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

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

Lynne T and 26 more 47 hours 27 minutes

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Short Science Fiction Collection 055

Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative...

Alex Deva and 9 more 12 hours 42 minutes Short Science Fiction Collections

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George Gibbs - In Search of Mademoiselle

Preface note by George Gibbs: There were no more vivid episodes in the colonization of the New World than those resulting from the attempts of the French people to gain a permanent foothold on our shores… The most...

Tony Oliva 11 hours 26 minutes

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Harold L. Goodwin - Smugglers' Reef

Seventh entry in the Rick Brant Science Mystery Adventure series has Rick and buddy Scott using infrared technology on the trail of smuggling no-goodniks in the vicinity of Spindrift Island, Rick's home and location...

VfkaBT 5 hours 42 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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