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True Crime

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Camden Pelham - Chronicles of Crime Vol 1

This catalogue of human weakness and at times downright atrocity has been brought together by Camden Pelham, a barrister-at-law of the Inner Temple during the second half of the 19th century. It is given in...

Kevin Green 34 hours 18 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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Victor G. Durham - Submarine Boys and the Middies

The Pollard is about to be taken to Anapolis, where the United States Navy will train their midshipmen how to run the submarine. Jack, Hal and Eph are all to help with training and to see the sights in Anapolis. They...

Mike Pelton and 4 more 4 hours 5 minutes The Submarine Boys series

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Christianity - Other

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Saint John of the Cross - Ascent of Mount Carmel

The Ascent of Mount Carmel is one of the timeless classics of Christian contemplation, radical in its time and deeply influential in the world today. St John of the Cross and St Teresa of Avila worked together to...

Ed Humpal 11 hours 51 minutes

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Single author

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Siegfried Sassoon - War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon was one of the first to write poetry about the brutal reality of war, based on his real-life experiences in the trenches. He served in World War I on the Western Front and was awarded the Military...

KHand and 7 more 1 hour 38 minutes

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General

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Olive Beaupre Miller - Latch Key of My Bookhouse

This is the final book in a six volume set of the «My Bookhouse» books. This final title in the series leaves off the format of the previous volumes and is geared towards the parent or teacher. The major part of the...

mlcui and 8 more 7 hours 49 minutes My Bookhouse Series

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Travel & Geography

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Max Schlesinger - Saunterings In And About London

A witty 1853 travelogue by a cultured German for his countrymen. “…for I did not write for an English public, nor did I ever pretend to popularity in England. The “SAUNTERINGS” were intended for the profit and...

David Wales 11 hours 54 minutes

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Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 2: The Massacres of the South

Biography & Autobiography

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Alexandre Dumas - Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 2: The Massacres of the South

Dumas's 'Celebrated Crimes' was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language--has minced no words--to describe the violent scenes of a violent time. In some instances facts appear distorted out...

John Van Stan 9 hours 2 minutes

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Single author

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Clark Ashton Smith - Star-Treader and Other Poems

Clark Ashton Smith, referred to as one of the big three of Weird Tales, was a romantic-style poet, a Lovecraftian-style writer and a literary friend of H.P Lovecraft. As a poet, he was considered one of the last great...

Rosslyn Carlyle and 8 more 2 hours 9 minutes

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Single author

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Julia Caroline Dorr - Earlier Poems

This is a collection of the earlier poems of Julia Caroline Dorr. — Summary by Carolin

Greg Giordano and 8 more 2 hours 27 minutes

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Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. II (version 2)

Biography & Autobiography

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James Boswell - Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. II (version 2)

This is the second of four volumes of a what was a new, intimate, type of biography when it was first published in 1791 and which has been annotated by numerous editors. This edition with footnotes is by George...

Barbara Baker 29 hours 11 minutes The Life of Samuel Johnson

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Children's Fiction

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Sara Ware Bassett - Story of Wool

Mr. Clark and Donald spend a year out west to the Crescent Ranch in Idaho learning about raising sheep. (summary by David O)

David Olson 3 hours 44 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Fergus Hume - Hagar of the Pawn-Shop

Hagar Stanley, a beautiful young Gypsy, is driven by sexual harassment to leave her tribe and seek refuge with her uncle Jacob, a miserly London pawnbroker. He dies after teaching Hagar the business, and she takes...

Grant Hurlock 8 hours 21 minutes

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