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Carey Rockwell - Sabotage in Space

This book is part of the on-going adventures of Tom Corbett in the Space Cadet Stories. Tom, Astro and Roger are determined to find the saboteurs but get framed in the process, risking court martial and expulsion from...

KirksVoice 4 hours 57 minutes

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Albert Bigelow Paine - Lucky Piece: A Story of the North Woods

While riding a stage back to the city late in the summer, a youngster had no money to spend, and so gives his lucky piece as payment to a young girl selling berries by the roadside. As time passes, in the Adirondack...

Roger Melin 6 hours 3 minutes

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H. Rider Haggard - Fair Margaret

This story is set during the reign of King Henry VII. Peter Brome is a poor man and without a father, and is in love with Margaret the dark-eyed daughter of John Castell, the kindly and wealthy merchant who has taken...

Pardeep Ahluwalia and 7 more 10 hours 56 minutes

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Jack London - Dutch Courage and Other Stories

Jack London was quoted as saying, «I've never written a line that I'd be ashamed for my young daughters to read, and I never shall write such a line!» After his death in 1916, his wife Charmian assembled a collection...

Don W. Jenkins 3 hours 18 minutes

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Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev - Dark

The Dark is a novella about a desperate young man, a “terrorist and nihilist”, trying to avoid arrest by taking refuge in a brothel. The story focuses on his unfolding relationship with a prostitute in the brothel...

Lee Smalley 1 hour 56 minutes

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Charles Robert Maturin - Melmoth The Wanderer

One of the first horror novels, it tells the story of Melmoth, who sells his soul so he could have an extended life. Throughout the novel, he wanders around the world in search of someone who would replace him and...

Beth Thomas and 11 more 28 hours 39 minutes

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William MacLeod Raine - Tangled Trails

The aptly titled «Tangled Trails, A Western Detective Story» takes the listener through a web of curious incidents revolving around the murder of a prominent man in Denver. Kirby Lane was quite obviously the guilty...

Roger Melin 8 hours 43 minutes

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George Gibbs - Golden Bough

The eyes of the Légionnaire, now grown accustomed to the glow of the light, made sure that the figure had not moved, nor was aware of his silent and furtive approach. Two plans of action suggested themselves, one to...

Tony Oliva 12 hours 20 minutes

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Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island (version 5)

Treasure Island is an adventure novel narrating a tale of «buccaneers and buried gold». Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, Treasure Island is a tale noted for its atmosphere, characters and action, and...

Kara Shallenberg 6 hours 34 minutes

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S. R. Crockett - Grey Man

This novel is set in Scotland in turbulent times, and we are immediately introduced to intrigue and family strife. At Launcelot Kennedy's aunt's husband's funeral, he and his father are first hidden, then hustled away...

Lynne T and 5 more 11 hours 51 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Covington Clarke - Aces Up

A crack American flying troop has been sent to France, where they await further instructions. They are concerned that their extensive talents will not be put to good use in the war. Major Cowan introduces Lt. McGee as...

Bill Boerst 5 hours 57 minutes

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Laughing Cavalier; Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel

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Baroness Emma Orczy - Laughing Cavalier; Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel

The enigmatic smile of The Laughing Cavalier of Franz Hals' famous painting invites you to wonder just what mischievousness hides behind that face. In this novel, inspired by the painting, Baroness Orczy recounts...

Beth Thomas and 4 more 13 hours 39 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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