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General Fiction

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Mabel Hale - Beautiful Girlhood

The transitioning years between girlhood and womanhood are an exciting time for a girl, as well as tumultuous and confusing. Beautiful Girlhood by Mabel Hale is a lovely guide that will help the young girl understand...

Laura Caldwell 4 hours 46 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Mark Twain - Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories

Here's a Mark Twain story that's very unlike those he became famous for, but when I read it back in Catholic high school, it left a deep impression. It concerns the deeply religious residents of a small village in...

Ted Delorme 4 hours 33 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Short Science Fiction Collection 005

Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological and technical speculations based on current or future science or technology....

Hoosemon and 5 more 2 hours 18 minutes Short Science Fiction Collections

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Epistolary Fiction

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Fanny Burney - Evelina

In this epistolary novel, we find a young woman named Evelina, who was raised in rural seclusion until her eighteenth year because of her uncertain parentage. Through a series of harrowing and humorous events that...

Great Plains and 5 more 15 hours 53 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Stanton Henry King - Dog-Watches At Sea

Stanton H. King was from Barbados and followed his brothers to sea at the age of twelve in 1880. He spent only twelve years at sea for reasons given in this book. Thereafter, he became associated with the Sailors'...

Peter Kelleher 7 hours 35 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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John Meade Falkner - Lost Stradivarius

The Lost Stradivarius (1895), by J. Meade Falkner, is a short novel of ghosts and the evil that can be invested in an object, in this case an extremely fine Stradivarius violin. After finding the violin of the title...

Clarica and 6 more 5 hours 19 minutes

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General Fiction

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T. S. Arthur - Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper

Is housekeeping such a trial? Mrs. Smith thinks so and confesses all in this merry account of her escapades and near disasters! (Summary by Kehinde)

Nathalie J. 7 hours 15 minutes

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Young's Literal Translation

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Young's Literal Translation - Bible (YLT) 24: Jeremiah

Young's Literal Translation is a translation of the Bible into English, published in 1862. The translation was made by Robert Young, compiler of Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible and Concise Critical...

Mark Penfold 4 hours 6 minutes Bible (Youngs Literal Translation)

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Detective Fiction

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Fergus Hume - Secret Passage

Excellent murder mystery. On September 9, 1905, the NY Times Saturday Review of Books described this book as follows: «That painstakingly ingenious person, Fergus Hume, has devised another of his hide-and-seek,...

Dawn Larsen and 6 more 9 hours 11 minutes

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General Fiction

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Edna Ferber - Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed

Dawn O’Hara, the Girl Who Laughed was Edna Ferber’s first novel. Dawn, a newspaperwoman working in New York, finds herself back home in Michigan on doctor’s orders. Years of living in boarding-houses and working to...

Lee Ann Howlett 5 hours 45 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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H. G. Wells - Ann Veronica

Ann Veronica was a controversial book detailing the development of a naive school girl into a «New Woman». When it was published, the Spectator described it as a «poisonous book… capable of poisoning the minds of...

Joy Chan 10 hours 25 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Saki - Toys of Peace

This is the fifth collection of short stories by Saki (H.H. Munro), and was published posthumously in 1923. Even so, many of the stories are quite up to the standard of those collected earlier. (Summary by Graham...

Graham Redman and 15 more 6 hours 59 minutes

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