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Action & Adventure Fiction

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James Oliver Curwood - Valley of Silent Men

Subtitled: A Story of the Three River Country . James Kent has learned that he is terminally ill with perhaps only days to live, and so decides to confess to a murder and thus save an innocent man. Nobody believes...

Roger Melin 8 hours 39 minutes

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Travel & Geography

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Francis Parkman, Jr. - Oregon Trail

The book is a breezy, first-person account of a 2 month summer tour of the U.S. states of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas when Parkman was 23. (Summary by Wikipedia)

R. S. Steinberg 12 hours 58 minutes

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General Fiction

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Voltairine de Cleyre - Selected Essays

Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) was, according to Emma Goldman, «the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced.» Today she is not widely known as a consequence of her short life. De Cleyre was...

Rhonda Federman and 8 more 12 hours 27 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Joseph Lewis French - Great Pirate Stories

Piracy embodies the romance of the sea at its highest expression. It is a sad but inevitable commentary on our civilization, that, so far as the sea is concerned, it has developed from its infancy down to a...

James Christopher and 11 more 8 hours 47 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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H. Beam Piper - Murder in the Gunroom

The Lane Fleming collection of early pistols and revolvers was one of the best in the country. When Fleming was found dead on the floor of his locked gunroom, a Confederate-made Colt-type percussion .36 revolver in...

Anthony Wilson 6 hours 52 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jane Porter - Scottish Chiefs

An adventure novel about William Wallace, one of the most popular books ever written by Jane Porter. The French version was even banned by Napoleon, and the book has remained very popular with Scottish children,...

Shirley Ellen and 14 more 29 hours 51 minutes

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General Fiction

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Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility (version 3)

Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's first published novel, focuses on the lives and loves of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. The sensible Elinor and the sensitive Marianne both fall for men whose...

Elizabeth Klett 10 hours 52 minutes

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Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 1

General Fiction

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Laurence Sterne - Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 1

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or, more briefly, Tristram Shandy ) is a novel by Laurence Sterne. It was published in nine volumes, the first two appearing in 1759, and seven others following...

Gesine and 8 more 5 hours 55 minutes

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Business & Economics

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Thorstein Veblen - Theory of the Leisure Class

Originally published by the Norwegian-American economist Thorstein Veblen while he was a professor at the University of Chicago in 1898, the Theory of the Leisure Class is considered one of the great works of...

Anna Simon and 12 more 11 hours 51 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Meredith Nicholson - House of a Thousand Candles

A top ten bestseller of 1906, The House of a Thousand Candles is part adventure/mystery and part romance. The book begins with young Jack Glenarm returning from various exploits in Europe and Africa for the reading...

J. M. Smallheer 7 hours 28 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Booker T. Washington - Up from Slavery: An Autobiography

Up From Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his slow and steady rise from a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the...

Andy Yu and 12 more 7 hours 58 minutes

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Medieval

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Desiderius Erasmus - Praise of Folly

The Praise of Folly (Greek title: Morias Enkomion (Μωρίας Εγκώμιον), Latin: Stultitiae Laus, sometimes translated as In Praise of Folly, Dutch title: Lof der Zotheid) is a satirical essay written in 1509 by Desiderius...

Anna Simon 3 hours 42 minutes

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