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Memoirs

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Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun - Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun

This memoirs chronicles Madame Vigée Lebrun's childhood and the early discovery of her talent, the fortuitous break that introduced her to the world of «portraiture of the stars,» her expeditious flight from France at...

James K. White 7 hours 22 minutes

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Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (version 3 Dramatic Reading)

Dramatic Readings

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Hugh Lofting - Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (version 3 Dramatic Reading)

Doctor John Dolittle is an animal doctor and famous naturalist whose success hinges on his ability to speak the languages of many different kinds of animals. This book, the second Dr. Dolittle adventure, is narrated...

7 hours 20 minutes

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General Fiction

502

Emma Francis Brooke - Transition

Honora Klaper is beautiful, distinguished, smart, and charming. A woman who turns heads. She is on an errand. No, it is not an errand to get a man. No, it is not an errand to make money. It is a revolutionary errand:...

Jim Locke 9 hours 46 minutes

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Family Life

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Walter Alden Dyer - Pierrot, Dog Of Belgium

This 1915 novella was published as the First World War raged. «Belgium lies bleeding. Across her level, lush meadows the harsh-shod hosts of war have marched. Beside her peaceful waters the sons of God have spilled...

David Wales 1 hour 50 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Louis Joseph Vance - Joan Thursday

Minor potboiler is a change of pace from the author of the Lone Wolf detective series. Tenement beauty (and wannabe stage-star) Joan Thursby seeks to raise herself up out of the gutter in 1900's New York City, in a...

VfkaBT 12 hours 53 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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William Dean Howells - Heroines of Fiction

This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bronte, Thackeray, and others. These studies of nineteenth-century literature...

Jim Locke 17 hours 40 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Joseph A. Altsheler - Texan Scouts

This is a sequel to Texan Star and continues the adventures of young Ned Fulton as he finds himself a part of the struggle for Texans to defend against the Mexican army and reach independence. In his travels across...

Edmonds and 4 more 9 hours 7 minutes

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War & Military

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Robert Mearns Yerkes - Army Mental Tests

Prepared in cooperation with the staff of the surgeon general's office as a source of information and printed materials concerning psychological testing used within the United States Army and indications of the...

Leon Harvey 4 hours 53 minutes

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Romance

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Dead Love Has Chains

We see another facet of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's amazing talent in Dead Love Has Chains, written in her seventies. Focusing on character and human psychology rather than detection and crime, this is one of her most...

Celine Major 4 hours 43 minutes

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Night The Mountain Fell; The Story Of The Montana-Yellowstone Earthquake

Nature

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Edmund Christopherson - Night The Mountain Fell; The Story Of The Montana-Yellowstone Earthquake

A severe earthquake, centered in the vacation area of West Yellowstone, Montana, shook the ground and its inhabitants and visitors on August 17, 1959, at 11.37 pm. A mountainside fell, a lake formed, roads and houses...

David Wales 1 hour 55 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Frank L. Packard - Doors of the Night

New York City, 1922—Murder—half-million dollar robbery—false accusation—secret passage—the underworld—a mystery woman—a masked man—a crooked lawyer—stolen jewels—a forged will... “Every hour... held a surer...

Delmar H Dolbier 10 hours 10 minutes

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Tragedy

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Joanna Baillie - Dream

The Dream is Joanna Baillie’s gothic, proto-Lynchian meditation on fear, guilt, and the prophetic power of dreams. In the cloistered confines of a Swiss monastery, a small group of monks share the same prophetic...

1 hour 46 minutes

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