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Family Life

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Alice Calhoun Haines - Luck of the Dudley Grahams

The Luck of the Dudley Grahams is the story of the four Graham children and their recently widowed mother, trying to make ends meet by taking boarders into their somewhat eccentric home, as told by 17-year-old...

Colleen McMahon 4 hours 27 minutes

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Nature & Animal Fiction

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Walter Alden Dyer - Dogs Of Boytown

This collection of stories about dogs and the people they own was published in 1918. The story proceeds leisurely with much information about different breeds of dogs. The author obviously likes both boys and dogs. (...

David Wales 6 hours 15 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Anna Katharine Green - Doctor Izard

The opening scene takes place in a hospital ward where two patients lie, apparently dying, when a man enters and offers a proposition to one of them. The story then shifts to another town where, years earlier, Polly...

Lee Smalley 5 hours 1 minute

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Published 1900 onward

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Robert Barr - Sword Maker

Times are hard in Frankfort. Defeat in war, weak leadership, trade blockades and a starving population lead to a restive and unhappy citizenry. The one thing Frankfort does have is the best three sword-makers in the...

Roman Noble and 10 more 11 hours 44 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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G. K. Chesterton - Ballad of the White Horse (Version 3)

This epic poem is about Alfred the Great's defense of Christian England against the pagan Viking invaders. The decisive battle is fought in sight of a white horse mark made on a hill, after which the poem is named. As...

Robin Lamb 1 hour 42 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Elizabeth Rhodes Jackson - It's Your Fairy Tale, You Know

The book is about a typical boy named Wendell, who lives in Boston and likes fairy stories and baseball MUCH more than fractions. Any more than this would be a spoiler! — Summary by Nan Dodge

Nan Dodge 2 hours 52 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Fred M. White - Corner House

A deserted house with a troubled past. A mysterious countess who captivates everyone with her wealth and beauty — well, almost everyone. An equally mysterious derelict who holds a secret to the countess's past. A...

Jacquerie 7 hours 22 minutes

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Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book II

Education

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John Locke - Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book II

John Locke wrote four essays on human (or humane) understanding. Here are a few quotes from the book: «I see no reason to believe, that the soul thinks before the senses have furnished it with ideas to think on....

Pamela Nagami and 14 more 14 hours 39 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Geraldine Bonner - Black Eagle Mystery

A New York corporate lawyer falls eighteen stories from the Black Eagle Building. Suicide, cops say. That Hollings Harland was part of a black organization, cornering the market on copper, and about to be exposed to...

Mike Overby 6 hours 1 minute

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Science Fiction

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Frank Belknap Long - Mars is My Destination

MARS … Earth's first colony in Space. Men killed for the coveted ticket that allowed them to go there. And, once there, the killing went on… MARS … Ralph Graham's goal since boyhood—and he was...

Tom Penn 6 hours 35 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Andrew Barton Paterson - An Outback Marriage

A ROLLICKING YARN FROM AN AUSTRALIAN LEGEND Banjo Paterson is our best known and most loved bush poet. Less well known, but no less captivating, are his warm and funny novels about Australian life. An Outback...

Arrowhead Aussie 6 hours 4 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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George Ethelbert Walsh - Bumper the White Rabbit

All little boys and girls who love animals should become acquainted with Bumper the white rabbit. Bumper had many friends, such as Mr. Blind Rabbit, Fuzzy Wuzz and Goggle Eyes, his country cousins; and Bobby Gray...

Foon and 4 more 2 hours 22 minutes

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