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Action & Adventure Fiction

805

E. Phillips Oppenheim - Vanished Messenger

A conference of European nations is being held in the Hague. England has not been invited to attend. Some think war is about to break out. Mr. John P. Dunster, an American, is traveling to the Hague with an important...

Richard Kilmer 8 hours 22 minutes

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Memoirs

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Mary Stuart Boyd - Versailles Christmas-Tide

The Boy has fallen ill with scarlet fever while at school in France. His parents rush to his side. A touching memoir. — Summary by david wales

David Wales 2 hours 7 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

688

Willis Boyd Allen - Around The Yule Log

Eleven yule-tide stories by a popular writer of the late 19th – early 20th centuries. — (Summary by david wales)

David Wales 4 hours 34 minutes

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Criminal Investigation: a Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers and Lawyers, Volume 1

Psychology

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Hans Gross - Criminal Investigation: a Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers and Lawyers, Volume 1

Reputedly inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories, Austrian criminal jurist and examining magistrate Hans Gross wrote the first handbook on criminal investigation. This treatise covers everything from the qualities of...

Availle and 13 more 15 hours 44 minutes

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Family & Relationships

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Will Rossiter - Art of Kissing

The Art of Kissing is both a history of and a manual for the probably most widely practised enjoyment on the planet. (Summary by Availle )

MaryAnn and 8 more 2 hours 20 minutes

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Animals & Nature

862

Thornton W. Burgess - Adventures of Old Mr. Toad

The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad is another in the long line of children's books by conservationist Thornton W. Burgess. In this book, we follow the adventures of Old Mr. Toad as he joins the Spring Chorus at the...

John Lieder 1 hour 42 minutes

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Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

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Thomas Paine - Rights Of Man

A book in 2 Parts, published in 1791 and 1792. Part First denounces Edmund Burke’s defense of monarchy and his attacks against the French Revolution, and in plain layman’s language traces the birth and fallacy of...

Michele Fry and 1 more 9 hours 36 minutes

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Poetry

957

Dora Sigerson Shorter - Sad Years

This is a collection of poems by Dora Sigerson Shorter, whose subject are the Sad Years 1914-1918. — Summary by Carolin

Jeremiah Sutherland and 7 more 1 hour 34 minutes

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St. Rose of Lima: The Flower of the New World

Biography & Autobiography

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Florence Mary Capes - St. Rose of Lima: The Flower of the New World

Saint Rose of Lima, T.O.S.D. (April 20, 1586 – August 24, 1617), was a Spanish colonist in Lima, Peru, who became known for both her life of severe asceticism and her care of the needy of the city through her own...

Eduardo and 3 more 4 hours 21 minutes

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General Fiction

786

Ada Leverson - Love's Shadow

The first in a trilogy of books known together as 'The Little Ottleys', this is a sparkling social comedy set in Edwardian London. Ada Leverson was a great friend and staunch supporter of Oscar Wilde and shared his...

Helen Taylor 5 hours 45 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Richard Doddridge Blackmore - Clara Vaughan, Vol. III

CLARA VAUGHAN, the young heroine, narrator, and namesake for R. D. Blackmore’s early detective novel, is determined to solve the mystery of her father’s murder—a crime that occurred when she was only 10 years of age....

Lynne T and 7 more 7 hours 52 minutes

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Medical

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Sir William Osler - Aequanimitas and Other Addresses

This book is a compilation of twenty-two addresses given by Sir William Osler in various settings. He spoke on the philosophical and moral foundations of medical science, giving instruction to the student the teacher,...

Luke Sartor 16 hours 40 minutes

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