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Clarence Darrow - Crime: Its Cause and Treatment

Clarence Darrow was an American lawyer. He remains notable for his wit and agnosticism, which marked him as one of the most famous American lawyers and civil libertarians. In this book, Darrow expands on his...

Peter Yearsley 7 hours 44 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Grace Johnson - Roman Collar Detective

A shot penetrates the still night air and one of Galton's leading citizens is a victim of a desperate killer's gun. Murder becomes entangled with politics and it takes a parish priest to discover «whodunit» in this...

Maria Therese 4 hours 14 minutes

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Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Ulysses S. Grant

Literary Collections

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Ulysses S. Grant - Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Ulysses S. Grant

The Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents is an eleven-volume series of tomes comprising of proclamations, special messages, and inaugurations from several presidents throughout United States...

Jim Clevenger and 14 more 26 hours 29 minutes

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General Fiction

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Samuel Hopkins Adams - Secret of Lonesome Cove

A body is found on the beach not far from a New England town one morning. Curiously, nobody recognizes the dead woman, and nobody in or near the town seems to be a suspect in a possible murder, therefore most of them...

Roger Melin 7 hours 33 minutes

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Christianity - Other

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Saint Benedict of Nursia - Rule of St. Benedict

Quote: The Rule of Saint Benedict (Regula Benedicti) is a book of precepts written by St. Benedict of Nursia for monks living communally under the authority of an abbot. Since about the 7th century it has also been...

Phil Chenevert and 5 more 2 hours 39 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Marcel Allain - Exploits of Juve

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 5 hours 47 minutes

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General Fiction

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A. E. W. Mason - Running Water

Although A.E.W. Mason is best known for The Four Feathers, an adventure novel of 1902 set in Egypt and the Sudan (and filmed several times), he was a prolific and popular writer of the period. Running Water, published...

Nicholas Clifford 8 hours 37 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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P. G. Wodehouse - Girl on the Boat

Also published as «Three Men and a Maid». The maid of the title is red-haired, dog-loving Wilhelmina «Billie» Bennet, and the three men are Bream Mortimer, a long-time friend and admirer of Billie, Eustace Hignett, a...

Kara Shallenberg 7 hours 12 minutes

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Ancient

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Plato (Πλάτων) - Meno

Meno (Ancient Greek: Μένων) is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato. Written in the Socratic dialectic style, it attempts to determine the definition of virtue, or arete, meaning in this case virtue in general, rather...

Chiquito Crasto 2 hours 24 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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James T. Nichols - Birdseye Views of Far Lands

Birdseye Views of Far Lands is an interesting, wholesome presentation of something that a keen-eyed, alert traveler with the faculty of making contrasts with all classes of people in all sorts of places, in such...

RudeJohn and 12 more 6 hours 23 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Cornelius Beringer - Text-book of Assaying

This is a formal but relaxed text covering assaying techniques for most of the substances which are mined. As the authors say: «At first our intention was to supply a description of those substances only which have a...

Peter Yearsley 23 hours 30 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Laura Lee Hope - Outdoor Girls of Deepdale

The Outdoor Girls of Deepdale was the first book in a long-running series centering around four girls: Betty Nelson, Mollie Billette, Amy Stonington, and Grace Ford. The girls go on many exciting adventures and solve...

Elizabeth Wilcox and 7 more 4 hours 3 minutes

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