Children's Fiction
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Laura Lee Hope - Bobbsey Twins on the Deep Blue Sea
This is the 11th in the original series of books about the Bobbseys — two sets of twins in one family, solving mysteries and having adventures. Bert and Nan are 12, Flossie and Freddie are six. There is a father who...
4 hours 24 minutes
Travel & Geography
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Robert Luce - Going Abroad? Some Advice
Going abroad for a holiday or business is always exciting, but we can only imagine how exciting it would have been in 1900 to board a steamer from the United States and take a tour through Europe. Luckily Robert Luce...
9 hours 35 minutes
Modern (19th C)
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Simon Dubnow - History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume II, From the Death of Alexander I until the Death of Alexander III (1825 - 1894)
Simon Dubnow was born in 1860 to a poor Jewish family in Belarussian town of Mstsislaw and later became an authority of Jewish history and an activist. Due to his Jewish origin, he had to move to St. Petersburg,...
15 hours 39 minutes
Detective Fiction
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Joel Chandler Harris - Kidnapping of President Lincoln, and Other War Detective Stories
While detective work always makes for exciting stories, the circumstances under which the detective works play a huge role in the thrill. The stories in this collection follow detectives as they unravel mysteries in...
5 hours 55 minutes
Humorous Fiction
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Caroline Ticknor - Hypocritical Romance, and Other Stories
This is a collection of twelve original and entertaining little romances. Literature is an important anchor that helps us understand society in the American Gilded Age in the late ninteenth century, and these stories...
5 hours 10 minutes
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