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Detective Fiction

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Marcel Allain - Messengers of Evil

Fantômas was introduced a few years after Arsène Lupin, another well-known thief. But whereas Lupin draws the line at murder, Fantômas has no such qualms and is shown as a sociopath who enjoys killing in a sadistic...

Don W. Jenkins 9 hours 26 minutes

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Going His Way: Little Talks to Little Folks

Religion

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Rev. Gerald T. Brennan - Going His Way: Little Talks to Little Folks

“Sermons for children‚why not? After all, children form a very important part of every congregation. They have souls, and their souls must be saved. Children must be taught; they must be instructed. They must learn to...

Maria Therese 2 hours 46 minutes Angel Food

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Religion

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Martha Finley - Elsie's Womanhood

The fourth book in the Elsie Dinsmore series, Elsie grows into a young woman. She marries her father's old friend, Edward Travilla, and together start a family. The latter half of the book occurs during the Civil War....

GabrielleC and 8 more 8 hours 45 minutes Elsie Dinsmore Series

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Romance

858

Eleanor H. Porter - Mary Marie

A charming 'coming of age' story about a young girl, Mary Marie, whose young life is thrown into turmoil as her parents divorce. As she leads two lives, she comes to realize that her parents still love one another,...

Sunni West and 1 more 6 hours 26 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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George Eliot - Lifted Veil (Version 2)

George Eliot’s 1859 novella, The Lifted Veil, departs radically from the grounded realism of her longer and better known works, such as Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda. Its tone calls to mind the works of middlebrow...

Kirsten Wever 2 hours 9 minutes

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Poetry

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Vintage Verse Rhapsody: A Poetry Collection

A collection of poetry selected and performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode. Rhapsodes of Ancient Greece were “song-stitchers,” performing selections from the epics of Homer and Hesiod. The contemporary rhapsode performs...

Bob Gonzalez 1 hour 44 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Aristotle - De Anima

On the Soul (Greek Περὶ Ψυχῆς (Perì Psūchês), Latin De Anima) is a major treatise by Aristotle on the nature of living things. His discussion centres on the kinds of souls possessed by different kinds of living...

Geoffrey Edwards 3 hours 33 minutes

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Plays

869

Friedrich Schiller - Love and Intrigue

Ferdinand is an army major and son of President von Walter, a high-ranking noble in a German duke's court, while Luise Miller is the daughter of a middle-class musician. The couple fall in love with each other, but...

3 hours 46 minutes

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Consoling Thoughts of Saint Francis de Sales

Christianity - Other

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Saint Francis de Sales - Consoling Thoughts of Saint Francis de Sales

Francis de Sales (1567-1622) was a French priest and later bishop of Geneva who was revered as a master of spiritual direction and fondly remembered for his keen insights into the personal spiritual struggles of men...

dave7 10 hours 31 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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J. M. Barrie - Peter and Wendy

Peter and Wendy tells the classic story of Peter Pan, a mischievous little boy who can fly, and his adventures on the island of Neverland with Wendy and her brothers, the fairy Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, the Indian...

Susan de Raadt and 4 more 4 hours 59 minutes

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General Fiction

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Cousin Phillis

Cousin Phillis (1864) is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell about Paul Manning, a youth of seventeen who moves to the country and befriends his mother's family and his second cousin Phillis Holman, who is confused by her...

Elizabeth Klett 3 hours 46 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Margaret Ann Hubbard - Murder Takes the Veil

Set in the Louisiana bayou country, here is a drama rich with suspense...the story of lovely Trillium Pierce powerless at the mercy of a murderer who believes that he has no power over himself — that his determination...

Maria Therese 8 hours 28 minutes

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