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Action & Adventure

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Francis Lovell Coombs - Young Railroaders

While aimed at youths, this series of tales of the just-opening West makes a rollicking good story for adults, too. Three teen-age boys, trained as telegraphers, manage to get themselves in and out of a wide variety...

Mark F. Smith 8 hours 20 minutes

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Tragedy

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William Shakespeare - Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, based on true events, concerns the conspiracy against Julius Caesar, his assassination in 44 BC, and its immediate aftermath. Probably written in 1599 and among...

2 hours 29 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Payne Erskine - Eye of Dread

The Civil War is upon the United States, and the town of Leauvite has sent away its young men, among them Peter Junior and Richard Kildene. When they leave, Betty Ballard is but a child, but by the time the war has...

Chelsea Baker and 10 more 14 hours 58 minutes

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Canada's Hundred Days: With the Canadian Corps from Amiens to Mons, Aug. 8 - Nov. 11, 1918. Part 2, Arras

War & Military

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John Frederick Bligh Livesay - Canada's Hundred Days: With the Canadian Corps from Amiens to Mons, Aug. 8 - Nov. 11, 1918. Part 2, Arras

This is Part Two of Four of the incredible story of the actions of the men and women of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Canada's contribution to the Great War 1914-1919, during the last 100 days of the First World...

John W. Michaels and 5 more 2 hours 35 minutes Canada's Hundred Days, 4 volumes

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General Fiction

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Ralph Connor - Glengarry School Days

With international book sales in the millions, Ralph Connor was the best-known Canadian novelist of the first two decades of the Twentieth Century. Glengarry School Days (1902), hugely popular in its time, is based on...

Bruce Pirie 6 hours 16 minutes

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Extracts from 'The New and Complete Newgate Calendar', Vol. 1

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William Jackson - Extracts from 'The New and Complete Newgate Calendar', Vol. 1

Volume One of the New and Complete Newgate Calendar, covering the years 1700 through 1723, relates stories of British trials, the persons accused and the crimes committed. It is primarily based upon contemporary...

Roy Schreiber 6 hours 38 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Short Science Fiction Collection 029

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 5 more 2 hours 39 minutes Short Science Fiction Collections

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Christianity - Commentary

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Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon - Short and Easy Method of Prayer

Originally published in 1685, Madame Guyon’s A Short and Easy Method of Prayer is considered a classic of Christian mysticism, influencing great writers and speakers such as John Wesley and Charles Spurgeon. In it,...

Jordan 1 hour 58 minutes

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Christian Fiction

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Pansy - Workers Together, or, An Endless Chain

Sixth in the Chautauqua Girls series. It picks up the characters of Dr. Stuart Everett and Joy Saunders introduced in «Ester Ried Yet Speaking» and follows them and other Christians in their work for the Master....

TriciaG 8 hours 46 minutes The Chautauqua Girls Series by Pansy

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Biography & Autobiography

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Thomas de Quincey - Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

“Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty Opium!” Though apparently presenting the reader with a collage of poignant memories, temporal digressions and random anecdotes, the Confessions is a...

Martin Geeson 5 hours 21 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Victor Hugo - Misérables Vol. 4

This is book 4 of 5. — An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the way, the ex-convict joins a revolution, adopts a daughter, and beats people...

Emma Joyce and 17 more 15 hours 36 minutes Les Misérables (English Version)

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*Non-fiction

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Elinore Pruitt Stewart - Letters of a Woman Homesteader

The writer of the following letters is a young woman who lost her husband in a railroad accident and went to Denver to seek support for herself and her two-year-old daughter, Jerrine. Turning her hand to the nearest...

Lynne Carroll 5 hours 19 minutes

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