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Children's Non-fiction

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Anonymous - Young Girl's Diary

The diary of an upper middle class Austrian girl, this book describes her life between the ages of eleven and fourteen. It's a coming of age story full of angst, boys, and questions. (Summary by KHand)

KHand 7 hours 13 minutes

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Romance

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E.D.E.N. Southworth - Her Mother's Secret

What kind of secret could a mother be keeping that would keep long time lovers apart, and force her eldest daughter into a hasty marriage? Young Odalite and her cousin Leonidas have lived the past three years apart,...

Bridget Gaige 8 hours 47 minutes

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Westerns

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R. M. Ballantyne - Charlie to the Rescue

Charlie Brooke is always rescuing others, and sometimes even himself! His latest rescue, though, could turn out to be fatal...- Summary by Adele de Pignerolles

Rachel and 7 more 8 hours 51 minutes

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Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

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Mary Antin - They Who Knock at Our Gates

In 1914, over one million immigrants arrived in the United States, following in the footsteps of approximately ten million others who had arrived in the preceding decade. Faced with so many newcomers, many of them...

Maria Kasper 2 hours 24 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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Weldon Cobb - Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane

Never was there a more clever young aviator than Dave Dashaway. All up-to-date lads will surely wish to read about him. This second volume of the series shows how Dave continued his career as a birdman and had many...

Scott Danneker 4 hours 36 minutes

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Christmas Carol - Condensed by the Author for his Dramatic Readings

Children's Fiction

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Charles Dickens - Christmas Carol - Condensed by the Author for his Dramatic Readings

This very special abridged version was written and performed by Dickens himself during his American Tour of 1862. Without the more terrifying and dark elements of the full length novel, its hour and a half length, and...

Michael Armenta 1 hour 37 minutes

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Memoirs

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Samuel Pepys - Diary of Samuel Pepys 1661

Samuel Pepys was the first Secretary to the Admiralty during the reign of Charles II, instrumental in developing the Royal Navy and witness to some of the most significant events of the Restoration period, including...

Nicole Lee 5 hours 46 minutes

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Religion

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Annie Fellows Johnston - In League With Israel

When Bethany Hallam travels to Chattanooga for the League Conference, she meets David Herschel, who challenges her thinking and changes her views about her missionary obligations to God's «chosen people.» ( Esther ben...

Adele de Pignerolles and 5 more 5 hours 16 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Anna Katharine Green - Lost Man's Lane

After several people apparently vanish into thin air while walking along the same country road, New York detective Mr Gryce calls on the skills of Miss Amelia Butterworth to help him solve this most puzzling crime....

Mary Bard 10 hours 48 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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William Dean Howells - Indian Summer (version 2)

Set in Florence's Anglo-American colony in the late 19th century, this is a romantic story of a middle-aged man, returning to the scene of his first but disappointed love twenty years earlier. The doings of Americans...

Nicholas Clifford 9 hours 47 minutes

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History

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California History -- Two Pieces

Alfred Louis Kroeber (1876-1960) was an American cultural anthropologist who founded the anthropology department at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as directing that campus’ Museum Of Anthropology from...

David Wales 1 hour 38 minutes

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Ancient

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Marcus Tullius Cicero - On Duties

On Duties (Latin: DE OFFICIIS) discusses virtue, expediency and apparent conflicts between the two. St. Ambrose, St. Jerome and other Doctors of the Roman Catholic Church considered it to be legitimate for study. It...

Geoffrey Edwards 6 hours 21 minutes

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