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Science Fiction

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Short Science Fiction Collection 066

Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative...

Brian Dirkx and 12 more 7 hours 28 minutes Short Science Fiction Collections

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Lawrence Perry - Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport

Newport, of course, means aristocratic families and naval adventures. In this tale, we wonder if the heiress will actually marry the Russian prince, who is of questionable character, or the chauffeur, who would...

Jim Locke 5 hours 57 minutes

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Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy volume 2

Early Modern

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John Tulloch - Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy volume 2

In this second volume of his work on English rational theology in the seventeenth century, Tulloch describes the lives and works of the group of theologians known as the Cambridge Platonists. — Summary by Barry Ganong

Barry Ganong 12 hours 53 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Harriet Beecher Stowe - Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp

This is Stowe's second book, another one depicting the horrors of southern slavery, published 4 years after Uncle Tom's Cabin and 5 years before the commencement of the Civil War, when new territories wanting...

Michele Fry and 7 more 25 hours 36 minutes

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Ruffles and Danny, or the Responsibilty of Ruffles

Family Life

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Margery Watson - Ruffles and Danny, or the Responsibilty of Ruffles

A nice little story about a widower, his 18-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son, and their vacation from their home in Colorado to the shores of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. There they meet some friendly locals, and… the...

TriciaG 4 hours 3 minutes

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Tom and Some Other Girls: A Public School Story

Family Life

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Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey - Tom and Some Other Girls: A Public School Story

Impetuous, self-centered Rhoda goes to boarding school and learns hard lessons. This is a story of recklessness and forgiveness. (Summary by JudiMason)

Judi Mason 7 hours 38 minutes

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Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes Of The Civil War

War & Military

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Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes Of The Civil War

Seven narratives published in the late nineteenth century and assembled in this 1913 collection. — Summary by david wales

David Wales 9 hours 31 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Dan McKenzie - City of Din

A treatise on the increasing loudness of modern life, including philosophical and scientific discussion of what noise is, how effects us physically, mentally, and socially in cities, on railways, at home, in...

Amelia Chesley 2 hours 32 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Ernest Baynes - Wild Bird Guests

How to entertain them; with chapters on the destruction of birds, their economic and aesthetic values, suggestions for dealing with their enemies and on the organization and management of bird clubs. — book subtitle....

Jim Locke 6 hours 4 minutes

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Zone Policeman 88; A Close Range Study of the Panama Canal and Its Workers

History

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Harry A. Franck - Zone Policeman 88; A Close Range Study of the Panama Canal and Its Workers

Harry A. Franck was an American travel writer. After publishing Vagabond Journey Around the World , he spent 3 months in the Canal Zone of Panama as a census-taker and police officer. This work is a series of...

ToddHW and 3 more 6 hours 15 minutes

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Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It?: Comprising Dreams

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Annie Denton Cridge - Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It?: Comprising Dreams

«Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It?: Comprising Dreams» is the first known feminist utopian novel written by a woman. The text features nine dreams experienced by a first-person female narrator. In the first...

Elsie Selwyn and 6 more 2 hours 57 minutes

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Family Life

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Anthony Trollope - Harry Heathcote of Gangoil

Harry Heathcote is an English ‘squatter’ who runs a huge sheep station at Gangoil in Queensland, Australia. His wife Mary and her older sister Kate live with him. Giles Medlicott owns a sugar plantation and mill...

Simon Evers 3 hours 46 minutes

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