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Romance

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Maria Susanna Cummins - Lamplighter

Gertrude began life as an abused child in the care of Nan Grant, a cold and cruel woman. The only human character who was kind to her was the lamplighter, Truman Flint. When Nan, in one of her tantrums, threw Gertrude...

Bridget Gaige 17 hours 27 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Valley of Fear

Doyle's final novel featuring the beloved sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, brings the detective and his friend to a country manor where they are preceded by either a murder or a suicide. A secretive organization lies culprit...

Katie Riley 6 hours 22 minutes

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Historical

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Jacob Abbott - Hannibal

There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind; and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels desirous of informing himself of the leading outlines of their history,...

Hollis Hanover and 9 more 6 hours 11 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 015

A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass history, government,...

Bellona Times and 9 more 3 hours 50 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Science Fiction

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Tom Godwin - Space Prison

AFTER TWO CENTURIES....The sound came swiftly nearer, rising in pitch and swelling in volume. Then it broke through the clouds, tall and black and beautifully deadly — the Gern battle cruiser, come to seek them out...

Mark Nelson 5 hours 58 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Lucy Fitch Perkins - Dutch Twins

This book is the first of a series of stories for supplementary reading the purpose of which is to give children a correct idea of life in different countries, both in the spirit and atmosphere of the story, and in...

Bianca Kramer 2 hours 7 minutes

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Education

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Lilli Lehmann - How to Sing (Meine Gesangskunst)

Lilli Lehmann, born Elisabeth Maria Lehmann, was a German operatic soprano of phenomenal versatility. She was also a voice teacher. She wrote: «Every serious artist has a sincere desire to help others reach...

Ruth Golding 5 hours 23 minutes

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General Fiction

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Thomas Hardy - Pair of Blue Eyes

The book describes the love triangle between a young woman, Elfride Swancourt, and her two suitors from very different backgrounds. Stephen Smith is a socially inferior but ambitious young man who adores her and with...

Tadhg 13 hours 30 minutes

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Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

*Non-fiction

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Mary White Rowlandson - Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

This is the story of Mary Rowlandson’s capture by American Indians in 1675. It is a blunt, frightening, and detailed work with several moments of off-color humor. Mary, the wife of a minister, was captured by Natives...

Matthew Scott Surprenant 1 hour 52 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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James Champlin Fernald - English Synonyms and Antonyms

English Synonyms and Antonyms is basically a vocabulary builder that students might use as they prepare for entrance or exit exams. Each entry gives a list of synonyms, followed by a paragraph that briefly explains...

Denny Sayers and 13 more 19 hours 47 minutes

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General Fiction

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Mary Cowden Clarke - Ophelia, the Rose of Elsinore

This story is from Mary Cowden Clarke's multi-volume work The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines, in which she imagined the early lives of characters from Portia to Beatrice to Lady Macbeth. In her revision of...

Elizabeth Klett 2 hours 50 minutes

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War & Military Fiction

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Honoré de Balzac - Farewell

In his startling and tragic novella Farewell (‘Adieu’), Balzac adds to the 19th century’s literature of the hysterical woman: sequestered, confined in her madness; mute, or eerily chanting in her moated grange. The...

Martin Geeson 2 hours 28 minutes

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