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Action & Adventure

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Victor G. Durham - Submarine Boys and the Smugglers

Three American naval officers are assigned to a newly commissioned submarine, the Grant. The US navy wants commander Jack, ensigns Hal and Eph to break up a big smuggling operation along the New Jersey coast that is...

John 5 hours 40 minutes The Submarine Boys series

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Historical Fiction

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Honoré de Balzac - Colonel Chabert

Colonel Chabert is a soldier, who goes missing during the Napoleonic wars, and then returns from the dead, most inconveniently for his wife, who has remarried and has gone up in the world. This novella by Balzac lays...

Nicole Lee 2 hours 2 minutes

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Jerusalem to Revelations - A Quartet of Spiritual Explorations

Religious Fiction

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Dante Alighieri - Jerusalem to Revelations - A Quartet of Spiritual Explorations

A Four Quartets for the End of Time, these works stretch from the death and rebirth of a living land, England/Albion, to the death of the world as we know it in the Book of Revelations, going by way of a journey of...

Tony Addison 43 hours 1 minute

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Robert F. Murray - Where's The Use

Robert Fuller Murray was a Victorian poet. Although born in the United States, Murray lived most of his life in the United Kingdom, most notably in St Andrews, Scotland. He wrote two books of poetry and was published...

Bruce Kachuk and 12 more 8 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Basil Hall Chamberlain - Aino Folk-Tales

Not for the squeamish or for children, these folk-tales are from the Ainu, the somewhat mysterious indigenous people of Japan, thousands of whom still live in the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. Ranging over all...

Expatriate 2 hours 21 minutes

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Writing & Linguistics

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Frances Jermain - In the Path of the Alphabet

Language: we all use it and few of us think about the form it takes on the page. But how did the transmittal of ideas in written form evolve from Egyptian hieroglyphics to the ABCs in use in most countries around the...

Lynne T and 5 more 3 hours 37 minutes

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Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 3: Martin Guerre

Historical Fiction

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Alexandre Dumas - Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 3: Martin Guerre

Martin Guerre was a French peasant that, during a long absence, was famously impersonated in the 16th century. Although the real Martin Guerre is suspected of no serious crimes, his imposter, Arnaud du Tilh, engaged...

John Van Stan 1 hour 46 minutes

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Lectures On Painting Delivered To The Students Of The Royal Academy

Art, Design & Architecture

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Edward Armitage - Lectures On Painting Delivered To The Students Of The Royal Academy

This 1883 book contains chapters on ancient costumes, Byzantine and Romanesque art, David and his school, modern schools of Europe, drawing, color, decorative painting, finish, choice of subject, composition of...

David Wales 8 hours 29 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Carolyn Wells - Clue

Once Carolyn Wells began, or re-invented her writing career, 'The Clue' was her initial book which strayed from children's writings into mysteries and detective stories. It is also when we are introduced to her...

Roger Melin 8 hours 1 minute

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Biography & Autobiography

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John Hay - Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 8)

Abraham Lincoln: A History is an 1890 ten-volume account of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, written by John Nicolay and John Hay, who were his personal secretaries during the American Civil War. Volume 8...

Jim Locke and 6 more 13 hours 42 minutes Abraham Lincoln: A History in 10 Volumes

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Singing Man: A Book of Songs and Shadows

Poetry

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Josephine Preston Peabody - Singing Man: A Book of Songs and Shadows

This is a collection of a number of long narrative poems. Ms. Peabody's poetry is marked by vivacity and living images. The poems contained in this collection are a great example of Ms. Peabody's style. — Summary by...

Linda Olsen Fitak and 4 more 1 hour 19 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Richard Doddridge Blackmore - Maid Of Sker

Who is Bardie? Her refined clothes show that she is not an ordinary girl. But why did she have to be saved from the sea by a fisherman? This story is through the eyes of the fisherman, who followed Bardie throughout...

Jim Locke and 1 more 22 hours 10 minutes

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