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Nautical & Marine Fiction

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R. M. Ballantyne - Fighting the Whales

A fatherless boy joins the crew of a whaling ship in order to earn a living for himself and his mother. Beyond being a fascinating depiction of a now-alien time, occupation, and culture, it's also a rousing adventure...

Lee Elliott 2 hours 9 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

535

Algernon Blackwood - Camp of the Dog

A party of campers on a deserted Baltic island is terrorized by a huge wolf… or is it?

Charlie Blakemore 2 hours 52 minutes

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Romance

527

E. M. Forster - Howards End (version 2)

The Schlegels frequently encounter the Wilcoxes. The youngest, Helen, is rejected by the younger Wilcox brother, Paul. The eldest, Margaret, becomes friends with his mother Ruth Wilcox. Ruth's most prized personal...

Lucy Burgoyne and 12 more 12 hours 18 minutes

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Philosophy

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Liezi - Yang Chu's Garden of Pleasure

At the Court of Liang at the period of Yang Chu, about 300 B.C., the philosophers were treated as guests of the reigning king, who reserved for them lodging and maintenance, and encouraged all who had any pretence to...

Chris Masterson 1 hour 36 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Don Quixote - Vol. 2

Don Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in the character of the Morisco historian, Cide Hamete Benengeli, whom he...

Denny Sayers and 23 more 21 hours 52 minutes

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*Non-fiction

511

Karl Marx - Wage-Labour and Capital

Orignally written as a series of newspaper articles in 1847, Wage-Labour and Capital was intended to give an overview of Marx’s central threories regarding the economic relationships between workers and capitalists....

Carl Manchester 1 hour 42 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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George MacDonald - Princess and Curdie

The Princess and Curdie is the sequel to The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald. It's been a year since the Princess Irene and Curdie first met, and a year since the goblin incident and all appears to be...

Lizzie Driver 6 hours

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

460

Katharine Pyle - Counterpane Fairy

A little boy, recuperating from a lengthy illness, is entertained by visits from the Counterpane Fairy, who treats him to stories associated with each of the squares in the counterpane (quilt) on his sickbed. She has...

Lee Elliott 2 hours 44 minutes

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Action & Adventure

500

Margaret Penrose - Dorothy Dale's Queer Holidays

Relates the details of a mystery that surrounded Tanglewood Park. There is a great snowstorm, and the young folks become snowbound, much to their dismay. Books in this series: Dorothy Dale: A Girl of Today...

Lucy Burgoyne 5 hours 42 minutes Dorothy Dale Series

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Writing & Linguistics

474

Paul Allardyce - Stops, or How to Punctuate

Throughout the ages, languages continue to adapt and change. English, being a relatively new language, is a nice example of that. Though the English vocabulary is continually evolving, the system of punctuation has...

Kristen McQuillin and 1 more 2 hours

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

431

Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer - Strange Pages from Family Papers

“Among other qualities which have been supposed to belong to a dead man’s hand, are its medicinal virtues, in connection with which may be mentioned the famous ‘dead hand,’ which was, in years past, kept at Bryn Hall,...

7 hours 33 minutes

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Action & Adventure

458

Victor Appleton - Tom Swift and the Visitor From Planet X

Tom Swift Jr. and his associates at Swift Enterprises wait breathlessly for what may well be the most important scientific event in history—the arrival of the visitor from Planet X—a visitor in the form of energy....

Mark Nelson 4 hours 17 minutes Tom Swift Adventure Series

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