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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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J. S. Fletcher - Herapath Property

Jacob Herapath, a wealthy property developer and member of Parliament, is found dead in his office, a revolver at his side and a bullet wound to the head. An allegedly forged Will deepens the mystery. An intriguing...

Richard Kilmer 8 hours 22 minutes

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Family Life

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Margaret Widdemer - Rose Garden Husband

This novel was written by Margaret Widdemer, who won the Pulitzer prize for her collection of poetry in 1919. Phyllis is a 25-years-old children's librarian. She is good at her job. Yet when she sees a girl from her...

Mary Herndon Bell 4 hours 26 minutes

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Short works

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Nathaniel Hawthorne - Wonder Book for Girls and Boys

A Yankee student stays at a country house called Tanglewood during a golden New England fall. Also at the house are about a dozen children: younger cousins of the student and their friends of varying ages. The...

Clive Catterall 5 hours 8 minutes

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Single author

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Sir Walter Scott - Lay of the Last Minstrel

An aging minstrel seeks who hospitality at Newark Castle and in recompense tells a tale of a sixteenth-century Border feud. In the poem, Lady Margaret Scott of Buccleuch, the «Flower of Teviot» is beloved by Baron...

Peter Tucker 2 hours 53 minutes

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In the Irish Brigade: A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain

Historical Fiction

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G. A. Henty - In the Irish Brigade: A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain

In this adventure story by the novelist and war correspondent, G.A. Henty, Desmond Kennedy, a young Irishman flees political oppression and religious persecution at home to serve in the French armies of Louis XIV. We...

Rachel and 10 more 12 hours 13 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Aristophanes - Clouds

Strepsiades is an Athenian burdened with debt from a bad marriage and a spendthrift son. He resolves to go to the Thinking Shop, where he can purchase lessons from the famous Socrates in ways to manipulate language in...

Expatriate 1 hour 38 minutes

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Drama

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Euripides - Iphigenia in Tauris

Orestes, coming into Tauri in Scythia, in company with Pylades, had been commanded to bear away the image of Diana, after which he was to meet with a respite from the avenging Erinnyes of his mother. His sister...

1 hour 30 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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Curiosities of Street Literature

This is a collection of broadsides from London. Broadsides are short, popular publications, a precursor to today's tabloid journalism. The collection contains sensationalist and sometimes comical stories about...

Ed Humpal and 27 more 21 hours 22 minutes

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Poems of American History, The Revolution

Poetry

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Poems of American History, The Revolution

A history through poetry of the American Revolution, from the early days of unrest, through the Boston Tea Party, The Ride of Paul Revere, the campaign at Valley Forge, to the time of peace and the forming of the...

Greg Giordano and 7 more 9 hours 33 minutes

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Havelok the Dane: A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Charles Watts Whistler - Havelok the Dane: A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln

Troy, Athens, Rome… each has its founding legend. So too does the Lincolnshire town of Grimsby, once the largest fishing port in the world. Havelok the Dane probably derives from a folk-tale, orally passed...

Tony Foster 8 hours 56 minutes

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Country Parson: His Character and Rule of Life

Religion

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George Herbert - Country Parson: His Character and Rule of Life

George Herbert was an English poet, orator, and priest. In The Country Parson he describes the roles of the priest and offers practice advice to English clergymen about how to fulfill their duties. — Summary by...

Karen Clausen-Brown and 4 more 3 hours 30 minutes

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Happy Homes and the Hearts that Make Them: Or Thrifty People and why They Thrive

Self-Help

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Samuel Smiles - Happy Homes and the Hearts that Make Them: Or Thrifty People and why They Thrive

Samuel Smiles was a Scottish author and government reformer, but he concluded that more progress would come from new attitudes than from new laws. He wrote popular articles and books on his theories; ways people could...

John Greenman 19 hours 56 minutes

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