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Chronicles of Canada Volume 23 - The Cariboo Trail: A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia

Modern (19th C)

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Agnes C. Laut - Chronicles of Canada Volume 23 - The Cariboo Trail: A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia

Between the California and Yukon/Klondike gold rushes was the Cariboo Gold Rush in what would become northern British Columbia. The first discovery was made in 1859, but the rush didn't get underway in earnest until...

Claire M and 3 more 2 hours 24 minutes Chronicles of Canada Series

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Single Author Collections

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Edith Wharton - Tales of Men and Ghosts

Tales of Men and Ghosts was published as a collection in 1910, though the first eight of the stories had earlier appeared in Scribner's and the last two in the Century Magazine. Despite the title, the men outnumber...

Nicholas Clifford 9 hours 34 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

863

John Kendrick Bangs - Water Ghost and Others

Eight ghost stories by a master story teller and humorist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. (Summary by David Wales)

David Wales 4 hours 24 minutes

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Art, Design & Architecture

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John Ruskin - Stones of Venice, Volume 3

The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English art historian John Ruskin, first published from 1851 to 1853. Intending to prove how the architecture in Venice exemplified...

Alan Weyman and 3 more 8 hours 4 minutes The Stones of Venice

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General

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Mary F. Nixon-Roulet - Our Little Spanish Cousin

Another book written for American children in the early 1900's to help educate them about the customs and lives of their 'cousins' in many parts of the world. Naturally the cultures described are as they might have...

Kathrine Engan and 6 more 2 hours 7 minutes Our Little Cousin Series

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Science Fiction

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Philip Francis Nowlan - Airlords of Han

Airlords of Han is the 2nd Buck Rogers story, the sequel to Armageddon 2419 A.D… Anthony Rogers takes the fight to free 25th Century America to the Han overlords. From the March, 1929 issue of Amazing Stories....

Alan Winterrowd 3 hours 4 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Autobiography of Goethe Volume 1

This Autobiography of Goethe has a lengthy introduction and short biography of Goethe's life by Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) and was translated by John Oxenford (1812-1877) in 1848, which was a year of revolutions in...

Barbara Baker and 4 more 19 hours 12 minutes

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War & Military

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Boyd Cable - Between the Lines

This book, all of which has been written at the Front within sound of the German guns and for the most part within shell and rifle range, is an attempt to tell something of the manner of struggle that has gone on for...

Delmar H Dolbier 5 hours 51 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Gertrude Atherton - Senator North

«When, Mr. President, a man, however eminent in other pursuits and whatever claims he may have to public confidence, becomes a member of this body, he has much to learn and much to endure. Little does he know of what...

Lynne T and 2 more 11 hours 11 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Short Ghost and Horror Collection 021

A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder.

Brendan MacKenzie and 9 more 8 hours 7 minutes Short Ghost and Horror Story Collections

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Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World

Fantastic Fiction

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Castello Newton Holford - Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World

Aristopia (published 1895) is truly an alternative history. It is an imagination of how the continent of North America might have developed if one man with the vision, altruism and determination to build a state...

Ruth Golding 5 hours 13 minutes

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Westerns

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Max Brand - Rangeland Avenger

If you enjoy a fast moving western dealing with vengeance and well-deserved payback, you'll like The Rangeland Avenger by Max Brand. A soft spoken but ruthless gunman cuts a path of deadly payback across the Wild West...

Richard Kilmer 8 hours 50 minutes

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