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Harry Harrison - Arm of the Law
A quiet backwater outpost on Mars gets a surprise in the form of a new police recruit — in a box! Yep, it's a prototype robot cop sent to the backwater station for testing. And Harrison tells the strange, funny and...
Phil Chenevert
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Thomas Hardy - Hand of Ethelberta
Ethelberta was raised in humble circumstances but became a governess and consequently, at the age of 18, married well. However, her husband died two weeks after the wedding. Her father-in-law, Lord Petherwin, died...
Simon Evers
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Olive Beaupre Miller - In the Nursery of My Bookhouse
Full of delightful nursery rhymes, charming poems and engaging stories, folk and fairy tales, this is the first volume of the «My Bookhouse» series for little ones. Originally published in the 1920's as a six volume...
Snapdragon
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Owen Wister - Lin McLean
Lin McLean is an unaffected, attractive young cowboy in the Wyoming territory before statehood. This book is various stories in his life. (Summary by David Wales)
David Wales
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Pádraic Colum - Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles
This is Irish folklorist Padraic Colum's masterful retelling of many Greek myths, focusing on Jason and the Argonauts' quest to find the Golden Fleece. He also includes the stories of Atalanta, Heracles, Perseus,...
Elizabeth Klett
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Ralph Waldo Emerson - Conduct of Life
This is the best of Emerson's later works, qualifying his earlier popular essays, series one and two, with the heavier hand of experience. The Conduct of Life ostensibly is a set of essays about how to live life, but...
Daniel Christopher June
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Mary Louisa Molesworth - Carved Lions
When two life sized carved lions from the east are given as a gift to an English household, the children of the house are enchanted, especially when the lions come to life and help take care of them. This is a...
ilianthe
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Annie Roe Carr - Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall
The story of a young girl heading off to boarding school and the adventures that she has there. (Summary by Linda Ciano)
Linda Ciano
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Owen Wister - New Swiss Family Robinson
A parody of its famous predecessor, this short piece was written by Owen Wister for the Harvard Lampoon (Summary by David Wales)
David Wales
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George Manville Fenn - Cutlass and Cudgel
Based around the crew of cutter HMS White Hawk, this is a tale of smuggling in the early 19th century off the coast of Wessex. The midshipman of the cutter is taken hostage by the smugglers and is befriended by a...
Rebecca Dittman
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Eugene Field - Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
Do you love books? No, I mean REALLY love books? These series of sketches on the delights, adventures, and misadventures connected with bibliomania (bibliomania is characterized by the collecting of books which have...
David Wales
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Homer Eon Flint - Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix
In the Devolutionist, space travelers experiment with Venusian methods of telepathic space travel. They leave our solar system to discover and explore the earthlike planet Capellette of the star Capella. In the...
Chuck Williamson
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