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True Crime

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Edwin H. Porter - Fall River Tragedy

The story of how Lizzie Borden supposedly murdered her parents has passed into American folklore, partly thanks to the albeit inaccurate playground rhyme, «Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother 40 whacks....

Lynne T 13 hours 31 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Gerald Stanley Lee - Lost Art of Reading

Gerald Stanley Lee speaks here-in of books and self in the time of factories, tall buildings and industry and big city making, the effects of modern civilization on the individual. — Summary by Joseph Tabler

Joseph Tabler 10 hours 19 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Richard Barnum - Nero, the Circus Lion

Nero lived in the jungle with his family, his mom and dad, his brother and sister. He liked to play with his friend Switchie, who tends to get Nero into trouble. One day, Nero's dad took him hunting, but instead, Nero...

Kenneth Sergeant Gaghan 2 hours 9 minutes

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Christianity - Other

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Catherine Booth - Godliness

Catherine Booth and William Booth were a ministry team founding the Salvation Army, which has spread from its humble beginnings in England to a global church with a presence in 131 countries and a membership of 1.7...

Larry Wilson and 9 more 4 hours 48 minutes

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General Fiction

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Frank Norris - Pit

The Trilogy of The Epic of the Wheat includes the following novels: THE OCTOPUS, , a Story of California. THE PIT, a Story of Chicago. THE WOLF, a Story of Europe. These novels, while forming a series, will...

Delmar H Dolbier 13 hours 54 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Arthur Scott Bailey - Story of Solomon Owl

Arthur Scott Bailey, a native of the state of Vermont, wrote over forty children's books using a variety of animals, birds and even insects to entertain. The Tale of Solomon Owl is one of 16 stories of his Tuck-Me-In...

Jennifer Dallman and 5 more 1 hour 49 minutes

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Glimpses of Italian society in the eighteenth century

Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

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Hester Lynch Piozzi - Glimpses of Italian society in the eighteenth century

Selections from the «Observations and reflections made in the course of a journey through France, Italy, and Germany» by Hester Lynch Piozzi who, during her first marriage to Henry Thrale, was the hostess and friend...

Barbara Baker 7 hours 48 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Sir Charles G. D. Roberts - Earth's Enigmas

Most of the stories in this collection attempt to present one or another of those problems of life or nature to which, as it appears to many of us, there is no adequate solution within sight. Others are the almost...

Larry Wilson and 9 more 4 hours 28 minutes

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Five Mice in a Mouse-trap by the Man in the Moon

Family

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Laura E. Howe Richards - Five Mice in a Mouse-trap by the Man in the Moon

There are five of these children, and I call them my Five Mice; and the queer house that they live in I call the Mouse-trap. They are such funny children! I watch them sometimes all day long, their pranks are so...

Curt Troutwine and 4 more 4 hours 8 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Rosa Nouchette Carey - Doctor Luttrell's First Patient

Doctor Markus Luttrell and his new wife Olivia, a former governess, are trying to start building their nest. Problems arise when doctor Luttrell cannot find work and Olivia has to take care of the house. The financial...

Jim Locke 6 hours 42 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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E. W. Hornung - Peccavi

How does a man who as committed a heavy sin — not a crime, but a sin with terrible consequences — atone for his behaviour? What if the man is a priest of the Church of England? That is the central question of E. W....

Nicholas Clifford 11 hours 11 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Short Science Fiction Collection 064

Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative...

Nigel Fisher and 9 more 9 hours 19 minutes Short Science Fiction Collections

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