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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Mildred A. Wirt Benson - Swamp Island

Late entry in the Penny Parker teen girl mystery series (1939-47) by one of the early ghostwriters (as Carolyn Keene) of Nancy Drew concerns an escaped embezzler, his revenge on the reporter whose articles helped...

Bellona Times 4 hours 46 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

824

James Oliver Curwood - Courage of Marge O'Doone

David Raine is travelling, trying to escape his own memories. On the train he meets Father Rolland, who invites him North, to a world of «mystery and savage glory», to help him find himself again. On the same train,...

Natalie Paula and 5 more 9 hours 57 minutes

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Sports & Recreation

720

John Cameron - Association Football and How to Play It

An overview of the positions, tactics, and history of association football written by one of the game's early stars. John Cameron was a most interesting figure who played for both Everton and Tottenham, was a P.O.W....

Ben Adams 1 hour 58 minutes

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Historical Fiction

792

Thomas Dixon, Jr. - Traitor

Dixon lived through Reconstruction, and believed it ranked with the French Revolution in brutality and criminal acts. The Traitor (1907), the final book in his trilogy which also includes The Leopard’s Spots (1902),...

Michele Fry 6 hours 45 minutes

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Religion

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Anonymous - Bible For Young People Vol. 2

«The Bible for Young People tells the sweet and simple stories of the Bible in the Bible language, omitting only genealogies and doctrines, and whatever is generally regarded as unprofitable to young readers....

Greg Giordano and 17 more 8 hours 51 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

773

Pliny the Younger - Letters of Pliny

The largest surviving body of Pliny's work is his Epistulae (Letters), a series of personal missives directed to his friends, associates and the Emperor Trajan. These letters are a unique testimony of Roman...

Andrew Coleman 10 hours 36 minutes

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Literary Fiction

791

Thomas Mann - Royal Highness

Royal Highness is the story of Prince Klaus Heinrich, a member of a struggling German duchy and an exotic American heiress who comes to live as his neighbor. The novel is a microcosm of Europe before World War I, with...

Margaret Espaillat 13 hours

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Romance

809

Mrs. E. Burke Collins - Her Dark Inheritance

A story of obsessive love and desperation that hid many secrets. This cliffhanger will keep you guessing until the very end. Summary by Sharon Kilmer

Sharon Kilmer 6 hours 54 minutes

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Law

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Emmerson W. Manning - Practical Instruction for Detectives

Having been connected for many years with two of the largest and most successful private detective agencies in this country, both as an operator and as an official, and having been requested to outline briefly and...

fiddlesticks and 4 more 2 hours 38 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Burton Egbert Stevenson - Mystery of the Boule Cabinet

Three men are dead. Killed by a very powerful poison. Their deaths seem to be connected to a very old cabinet purchased in France and a notorious French criminal. What is the link? It is up to the lawyer Lester and...

Richard Kilmer 7 hours

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Education

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Maria Montessori - Spontaneous Activity in Education

Maria Montessori saw that children gained a sense of satisfaction through doing work of their own choosing, and that the role of the adult was to allow this natural ability of the child to flourish through careful...

Grace Byrne and 7 more 11 hours 47 minutes

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Historical Fiction

880

Nikolai Chernyshevsky - Vital Question, or, What is to be Done?

Despised by Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, What Is To Be Done? is a fascinating, sympathetic story of idealistic revolutionaries in mid-nineteenth century tsarist Russia; translator Nathan Haskell Dole affirms in his...

Expatriate 18 hours 45 minutes

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