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Science Fiction

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Cyrano de Bergerac - Voyage to the Moon

This is an edition by Professor Curtis Page of the Lovell translation of a seminal work of science fiction by Cyrano de Bergerac. Arguably a whimsical forerunner to the adventure stories of Jules Verne, and the French...

Peter Tucker 3 hours 48 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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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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Action & Adventure Fiction

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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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Essays & Short Works

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Henry Salt - Logic of Vegetarianism

With clear logic and entertaining dialogues, the author presents many reasons for a vegetarian rather than a “flesh-eating” diet, and his arguments for not eating meat are as compelling today as when they were...

Lee Smalley 4 hours 3 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Anna Matlack Richards - New Alice in the Old Wonderland

In this unofficial sequel to Alice in Wonderland, a different Alice, a young American girl named Alice Lee (a huge fan of the original book), stumbles upon a magical door that leads to Wonderland. There, she meets...

CJ Plogue 4 hours 10 minutes

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Grimm's Fairy Tales - Retold in One-Syllable Words

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm - Grimm's Fairy Tales - Retold in One-Syllable Words

The stories we have read and loved but retold in words of one syllable to make it easier for young readers or those where English is a second language. Some you will know and love, others you may never have heard of...

Doug Fajardo and 9 more 2 hours 58 minutes

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Memoirs

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John Hay - Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 2)

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 2...

Denise Nordell and 12 more 13 hours 6 minutes Abraham Lincoln: A History in 10 Volumes

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Single author

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Isaac Watts - Psalms of David

Isaac Watts was a poet, hymn-writer and musician. He wrote many of what we regard as «classical hymns» such as «Joy to the World» and «When I survey the wondrous cross». His translations of the Psalms are therefore...

Jael Baldwin and 20 more 8 hours 22 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Richard Marsh - Joss: a Reversion

Mary Blyth, a sales clerk who is robbed, nearly murdered and then fired from her job, thinks her luck has changed when she inherits an old house from a distant relation, Benjamin Batters. This house holds dark...

Patti Cunningham and 4 more 8 hours 59 minutes

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History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 4

War & Military

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Friedrich Schiller - History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 4

Volume Four covers the battle of Lutzen (November, 1633) to the death of Wallenstein (February, 1634) focusing on the reaction of the Protestant forces following the death of Gustavus Adolphus at Lutzen, and...

Alan Winterrowd and 2 more 2 hours History of the Thirty Years War

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Biography & Autobiography

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Millicent Garrett Fawcett - Some Eminent Women of our Times

Written by Millicent Garrett, a noted British feminist, suffragist and intellectual writer, this volume is comprised of short biographical sketches of 23 influential women from Jane Austen and Elizabeth Barrett...

Pamela Nagami and 13 more 8 hours 47 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Sylvanus Cobb, Jr - Smuggler of King's Cove

Young Percy Maitland is a naval pilot and guides his late father's brig to safety, thereby saving the ship, her crew and cargo despite being pursued by the King's excise collectors. But has his father's successor...

Phil Splendid and 8 more 6 hours 24 minutes

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