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Detective Fiction

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Mark Twain - Double Barreled Detective Story

A Double Barrelled Detective Story is a novel by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), in which Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the American west. At a mining camp in California, Fetlock Jones, a nephew of Sherlock Holmes,...

John Greenman 2 hours

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*Non-fiction

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W. Somerset Maugham - On a Chinese Screen

This is a non-fiction collection of Maugham's observations of life in Asia in the early 20th Century. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

Bellona Times and 7 more 5 hours 8 minutes

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History

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Mildred Duff - Bible in Its Making

One great universal law runs through the realm of nature. Our Saviour gave it in a sentence: 'First the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.' It is with the desire to show that the same law rules...

David Barnes and 9 more 2 hours 57 minutes

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Exploration

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Fridtjof Nansen - Farthest North, Volume II

Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship «Fram», 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen / by Fridtjof Nansen; with an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup (Summary by...

Sharon Riskedahl 16 hours 31 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jules Verne - Topsy-Turvy

Topsy Turvy is a translation of Sans dessus dessous (1889). This anonymous translation was first published by J. G. Ogilvie (New York, 1890). We meet our old friends Barbicane and J.T. Maston from “Earth to the Moon”...

Anna Simon and 12 more 4 hours 27 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Georg Ebers - Arachne

Ledscha, living in ancient Egypt, has lost her betrothed and all hope of love. But the gods see otherwise. She now loves a Greek sculptor, who only wanted her for a model, but even that will not happen. She has...

Nathalie J. and 10 more 13 hours 18 minutes

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General Fiction

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Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - Olive

Inspired by Jane Eyre, Dinah Maria Craik's 1850 novel, Olive, was one of the first to feature a disabled central character. 'Slightly deformed' from birth, Olive believes that she will never be able to marry like...

Arielle Lipshaw 14 hours 3 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Short Ghost and Horror Collection 008

A collection of fifteen 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.

Roger Clifton and 8 more 6 hours 18 minutes Short Ghost and Horror Story Collections

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Science Fiction

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Short Science Fiction Collection 033

Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and scientific method, but are not facts of the author’s contemporary world. The...

Gregg Margarite and 9 more 6 hours 18 minutes Short Science Fiction Collections

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General Fiction

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Thomas W. Hanshew - Riddle of the Purple Emperor

Orphan Lady Margaret Cheyne returns home on her eighteenth birthday to live with her embittered maiden aunt and to take up her inheritance of the family jewels. The Cheyne jewels include a pendant featuring the...

Ruth Golding 8 hours 19 minutes

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Memoirs

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Ulysses S. Grant - Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

In preparing these volumes for the public, I have entered upon the task with the sincere desire to avoid doing injustice to any one, whether on the National or Confederate side, other than the unavoidable injustice of...

Jim Clevenger 35 hours 27 minutes

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Tragedy

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William Shakespeare - Richard III

Richard III is an early history play probably written and performed around 1592-93. It is the culmination of Shakespeare's earlier three plays about Henry VI, and chronicles the bloody career of Richard, Duke of...

Diana Majlinger 3 hours 29 minutes

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