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Science Fiction

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Andre Norton - Star Hunter

«Somewheres on the jungle world of Jumala, there was a man in hiding—a man whose mind had been reconditioned with another's brain pattern and for whom there was a fabulous reward. Star Hunter is a thrill-packed...

Leonie Rose 3 hours 43 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace, Book 03: 1805

War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story...

Accent and 5 more 5 hours 2 minutes War and Peace (Maude Translation Books 1-17)

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General Fiction

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Voltaire - Zadig or the Book of Fate

Zadig, ou La Destinée, («Zadig, or The Book of Fate») (1747) is a famous novel written by the French Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire. It tells the story of Zadig, a philosopher in ancient Babylonia. The author does...

Carl Manchester and 9 more 3 hours 47 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Israel Zangwill - Big Bow Mystery

It's a cold and foggy night in London. A man is horribly murdered in his bedroom, the door locked and bolted on the inside. Scotland Yard is stumped. Yet the seemingly unsolvable case has, as Inspector Grodman says,...

Adrian Praetzellis 5 hours 5 minutes

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Revelation of Baha-ullah in a Sequence of Four Lessons

Other religions

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Isabella Matilda Davis Brittingham - Revelation of Baha-ullah in a Sequence of Four Lessons

Isabella Matilda Davis Brittingham was a significant early American Bahá'í and was posthumously designated by Shoghi Effendi as one of the 19 Disciples of 'Abdu'l-Bahá and Heralds of the Covenant. She was born in...

Nicholas James Bridgewater 1 hour 38 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Zitkala-Sa - Old Indian Legends

Fourteen Old Indian Legends by Native American ( Dakota ) Author Zitkala-sa. These Legends feature the exploits of Iktomi the Native American Trickster god. (summary by Robert Scott)

Robert Scott 2 hours 50 minutes Conan the Cimmerian

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Children's Fiction

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Eleanor H. Porter - Pollyanna Grows Up

Pollyanna, now cured of her crippling spinal injury, and able to walk again, goes to live in Boston with Mrs. Carew, a heart-broken woman searching for her lost nephew. Her Aunt Polly goes abroad with her new Uncle,...

Mary Anderson 8 hours 58 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Alfred Russel Wallace - Is Mars Habitable?

In 1907 Wallace wrote the short book Is Mars Habitable? to criticize the claims made by Percival Lowell that there were Martian canals built by intelligent beings. Wallace did months of research, consulted various...

Caliban 3 hours 1 minute

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General

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Johnny Gruelle - Raggedy Ann Stories (version 2)

This is the book that started it all. Johnny Gruelle gave his daughter Marcella a rag doll, on which he had drawn an eternally smiling face. Marcella and Raggedy Ann became inseparable, and inspired Gruelle to write...

Zachary Brewster-Geisz and 5 more 1 hour 49 minutes

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Religion

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Lewis Hodous - Buddhism and Buddhists in China

Buddhism and Buddhists in China is an anthropological text describing Buddhism as practiced in China at the beginning of the 20th Century. Interestingly, it also compares and contrasts Buddhism with Christianity with...

Scott Robbins and 5 more 3 hours 6 minutes

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Poetry

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Henry Thayer Niles - Dawn and the Day

The Dawn and the Day, or, The Buddha and the Christ, Part 1 is a text similar to the epic poetry of Homer or, more accurately, classic Hindu texts, such as the Baghavad-Gita. — Summary written by not.a.moose

Scott Robbins and 2 more 3 hours 52 minutes

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Religion

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Louis Ginzberg - Legends of the Jews, Volume 1

Rabbi Louis Ginzberg was one of the outstanding Talmudists of the twentieth century. He was born on November 28, 1873, in Kovno, Lithuania; he died on November 11, 1953, in New York City. Ginzberg taught at the Jewish...

Scott Sherris and 10 more 13 hours 50 minutes Legends of the Jews vol 1-4

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