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History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume II

War & Military

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Justin McCarthy - History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume II

Volume II of this popular history opens in the revolutionary year, 1848, with the Chartist movement for manhood suffrage and with the rise of Young Ireland. Next we join the crowds in 1851 at the opening of the Great...

Pamela Nagami 11 hours 29 minutes A History of Our Own Times - Vol I-IV

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Published 1900 onward

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Gene Stratton-Porter - Freckles (Version 2)

Freckles is a young man who has been raised since infancy in a Chicago orphanage. His one dream is to find a job, a place to belong and people who accept him despite his youth and the disability of having only one...

Murray Rupp and 7 more 8 hours 3 minutes

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Single author

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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass (version 2)

In honour of Walt Whitman's 200th birthday (31 May 2019) we bring you a solo recording of his seminal work Leaves of Grass. Originally published in 1855, the work started as a collection of 12 unnamed poems....

Foon 18 hours 43 minutes

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Westerns

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Frank H. Spearman - Whispering Smith

Whispering Smith, like most of Frank Spearman's western novels (and some non-fiction as well) are set in the world of railroads, in the late 1800's. The main character, Gordon Smith, is a railroad detective; he first...

Bob R 9 hours 47 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Basil King - Side of the Angels

The book is set in New England in the early 20th century in an old established community where times are rapidly changing but nonetheless the rules of a hierarchical society still hold good. Thor, a rich doctor from...

Simon Evers 12 hours 7 minutes

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Half-Breed: A Tale of the Western Frontier

Published 1800 -1900

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Walt Whitman - Half-Breed: A Tale of the Western Frontier

Published anonymously in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (with an earlier draft also appearing as “Arrow-Tip” in The Aristidean), The Half-Breed: A Tale of the Western Frontier is one of the few known works of long-form...

Chuck Williamson 2 hours 11 minutes

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Romance

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Grace Livingston Hill - Big Blue Soldier

Back from the Great War, a penniless and disillusioned young soldier finds himself in the home of Miss Marilla Chadwick, a sweet old lady who is expecting her nephew for dinner. Mary Amber, Miss Marilla's neighbor, is...

LikeManyWaters 2 hours 28 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Lester del Rey - Pursuit

Wilbur Hawkes wakes with no memory of the last seven months. He knows he's in danger, but he doesn’t know why. No sooner does he leave his apartment than it explodes in flames, and, to escape, he must run through New...

Dale Grothmann 2 hours

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*Non-fiction

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 064

Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. Eucken's «The Failure of Speculative Philosophy,» is one of several essays devoted to timeless questions. Others are by James Howell on man, nature and the...

Peter Thomlinson and 12 more 5 hours 21 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Writing & Linguistics

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Mary Elizabeth Brown - Dedications

Dedications is an anthology of the forms used from the earliest days of book-making to the present time. My purpose in the following anthology of dedications has been to make a representative, rather than an...

Larry Wilson and 11 more 13 hours 17 minutes

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Early Rome, from the Foundation of the City to its Destruction by the Gauls

War & Military

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Wilhelm Ihne - Early Rome, from the Foundation of the City to its Destruction by the Gauls

In this short scholarly work the German historian, Wilhelm Ihne, elucidates what is known or can be deduced about Rome's early history, from the time of its legendary founders and kings, through the establishment of...

Pamela Nagami 6 hours 49 minutes

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Other religions

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Quran - Holy Koran

The Koran is divided into 114 Surahs. It re-tells the stories of most of the previous prophets. It also covers Marriages, Inheritance, Banning, Pilgrimage, etc. Special thanks to catharmaiden (Sandra Schmit) for...

SaraHale and 1 more 23 hours 21 minutes

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