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General Fiction

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Bertrand W. Sinclair - Hidden Places

Hollister, returning home from the war physically scarred but otherwise healthy and intact, finds life difficult among society, and so chooses to roam about a bit seeking a future for himself. He eventually leads...

Roger Melin 9 hours 49 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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George Chapman - Hero and Leander

“Who ever lov’d, that lov’d not at first sight?” The wonder-decade of the English drama was suddenly interrupted in 1592, when serious plague broke out in London, forcing the closure of the theatres. Leading...

Martin Geeson 3 hours 37 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Ellen G. White - Steps to Christ

Ellen Gould White (1827 — 1915) was a prolific Christian writer, authoring 40 books in her lifetime. She was active in the Millerite movement, and was one of the principle founders of the Seventh Day Adventist...

Donald Hines 3 hours 5 minutes

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General Fiction

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Fanny Burney - Camilla

Camilla is Frances Burney's third novel. It became very popular upon its publication in 1796. Jane Austen referred to it, among other novels, in her novel Northanger Abbey: “'And what are you reading, Miss — ?' 'Oh!...

Adrian Wheal and 15 more 40 hours 5 minutes

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Travel & Geography

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Ferdinand Ossendowski - Beasts, Men and Gods

“Beasts, Men and Gods” is an account of an epic journey, filled with perils and narrow escapes, in the mold of “The Lord of the Rings.” The difference is: it’s all true. Ferdinand Ossendowski was a Pole who...

Mark F. Smith 8 hours 59 minutes

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Life Sciences

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Gregor Mendel - Experiments in Plant Hybridisation

Gregor Mendel was an Augustinian monk in the St. Thomas monastery in Brno. His seminal paper «Experiments in Plant Hybridization» presents his results of studying genetic traits in pea plants. It is the ground...

Availle 2 hours 13 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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William Le Queux - Czar's Spy

William Le Queux was a British novelist and prolific writer of mysteries. Indeed, mystery surrounds the author himself as to whether he was a spy or rather just a self-promoter. Regardless of which is true, Le Queux...

Tom Weiss 9 hours 35 minutes

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Camp-Fire Girls In The Allegheny Mountains or, A Christmas Success Against Odds

Action & Adventure

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Stella M. Francis - Camp-Fire Girls In The Allegheny Mountains or, A Christmas Success Against Odds

The Camp Fire Girls books is a series of fiction novels written for children by various authors from 1912 into the 1930s. (Wikipedia)

Lucy Burgoyne 4 hours 17 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Arthur Scott Bailey - Tale of Betsy Butterfly

Arthur Scott Bailey (1877 – 1949) was the author of more than forty children's books. «Mr. Bailey centered all his plots in the animal, bird and insect worlds, weaving natural history into the stories in a way that...

Lucy Burgoyne 1 hour 47 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Andrew Lang - Pink Fairy Book

All people in the world tell nursery tales to their children, and the stories are apt to be like each other everywhere. A child who has read the Blue and Red and Yellow Fairy Books will find some old friends with new...

Elliott Miller 9 hours 24 minutes Andrew Lang's Fairy Books

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General Fiction

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Leo Tolstoy - Resurrection, Book 2

Resurrection is the last of Tolstoy's major fiction works published in his lifetime. Tolstoy intended the novel as an exposition of injustice of man-made laws and the hypocrisy of institutionalized church. It was...

David Cole and 2 more 7 hours 36 minutes Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy

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Romance

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Gene Stratton-Porter - Daughter of the Land

Independent Kate Bates resents the fact that, as the youngest of a large family, she is expected to stay at home and help her parents while her brothers and sisters are free to pursue their desires. When she defies...

Arielle Lipshaw and 10 more 11 hours 36 minutes

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