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Children's Fiction

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Mildred A. Wirt Benson - Clock Strikes Thirteen

Penny Parker is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter who has an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysteries. The only daughter of widower Anthony Parker, publisher of the...

Cheryl Adam 4 hours 33 minutes

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424

Maurice Leblanc - Woman of Mystery

In 1898, a young boy watches in horror as his father is stabbed to death by a mysterious woman wearing a black lace scarf and an ornate brooch, Years later, when he arrives with his new bride at the chateau that was...

Jacquerie 8 hours 2 minutes

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Wyllard's Weird

A novel written in three volumes. In the golden age of steam, the London train wends its way across the Tamar into the strange and mystic land that is Cornwall, having left most of its length at Plymouth. A weary...

Lynne T 17 hours 19 minutes

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400

John D MacDonald - Bullet for Cinderella

HER VENEER WAS BIG CITY… But one look and you knew that Toni Raselle's instincts were straight out of the river shack she came from. I watched her as she toyed with the man, laughing, her tumbled hair like...

Winston Tharp 5 hours 40 minutes

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Fergus Hume - Red Money

Greed and lost love collide to create dark secrets. Through twists and turns, corrupt aristocrats let family and honor overshadow love and true happiness. In the end, evil passes and good endures. (Summary by Sharon...

Sharon Kilmer 9 hours 49 minutes

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Dead Men's Shoes

Sybil, a gentlewoman who has to work for a living, finally finds employment as her rich uncle's house keeper. Nothing could be better: she would finally have an easy job in which she is treated well, and inherit her...

Michele Eaton and 8 more 19 hours 11 minutes

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Unknown - String of Pearls (dramatic reading)

Todd is a barber who murders his customers and turns their remains into meat pies, sold at the pie shop of his partner in crime: Mrs. Lovett; Todd's barber shop is situated in Fleet Street, London, next to St....

11 hours 11 minutes

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Friedrich Schiller - Criminal from Lost Honour

«In the whole history of man there is no chapter more instructive for the heart and mind than the annals of his errors. On the occasion of every great crime a proportionally great force was in motion. If by the pale...

Crln Yldz Ksr 1 hour 6 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

530

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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Richard Harding Davis - Outside the Prison

On Christmas Eve, journalist Bronson is sent to wait outside of Moyamensing Prison to report on the release of a certain infamous prisoner. His case had gotten a lot of attention, so the paper wants a man on the spot....

Crln Yldz Ksr 49 minutes

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Charlotte Brontë - Emma: A Fragment of a Story

Miss Mabel Wilcox, the owner of a newly opened girl's boarding school, meets the wealthy Mr. Conway Fitzgibbon, who drops off his frail daughter to be educated there. When background checks are made, it is discovered...

Oxenhandler and 1 more 43 minutes

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Gertrude Atherton - Avalanche

Price Ruyler has been sent to San Francisco from New York to salvage the family business after the 1906 earthquake. His success makes him one of the city's most eligible bachelors but he resists the machinations of...

Lynne T 4 hours 14 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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