Beth Thomas (1974-2020)

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Jane Austen and her Country-House Comedy

Biography & Autobiography

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William Henry Helm - Jane Austen and her Country-House Comedy

Written for the centenary of Jane Austen's death, W. H. Helm reflects poetically on the timelessness of her work: the must of age has not settled on her books. The lavender may lie between their pages, but it is...

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Christianity - Other

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Catherine Booth - Godliness

Catherine Booth and William Booth were a ministry team founding the Salvation Army, which has spread from its humble beginnings in England to a global church with a presence in 131 countries and a membership of 1.7...

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Christianity - Other

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Samuel Logan Brengle - Heart Talks on Holiness

Samuel Logan Brengle was a commissioner in the Salvation Army. His books are known for the practicality, joyfulness and authenticity. His life was spent working with people on the streets, so his insights into the...

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Science Fiction

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Jonathan Dunn - Revolutions of Time

The Canitaurs, who believe that the past is the key to the future, and the Zards, who believe that the past is just the past, are at war and each believes that a redeemer will arrive and propel them to victory. What...

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Family

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Ruth Plumly Thompson - Wishing Horse of Oz

Magic wishing emeralds mysteriously arrive in the little kingdom of Skampavia. King Skamperoo immediately confiscates them and wishes to become the Emperor of Oz, with his magic horse Chalk as his advisor. All the...

Beth Thomas 4 hours 31 minutes Oz books

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Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table (version 2)

Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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Andrew Lang - Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table (version 2)

The tales of King Arthur and his Knights are of Celtic origin. The Celts were the people who occupied Britain at the time when the history of the country opens, and a few words are necessary to explain why the...

Phil Chenevert and 13 more 4 hours 28 minutes

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Bibles

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King James Version (KJV) - Bible (KJV) 23: Isaiah

The Book of Isaiah is one of the Major Prophets in the Old Testament. Jews and Christians consider the Book of Isaiah a part of their Biblical canon. Christians believe that Isaiah prophesied the virgin birth of...

Michael Packard and 6 more 4 hours 28 minutes Bible (King James Version)

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

L. Frank Baum - John Dough and the Cherub

An evil Arabian sorcerer loans a golden flask full of the Great Elixir — a magic liquid that endows a person with pronounced health, strength, and longevity — to a colorblind baker's wife to stop it falling into the...

Beth Thomas and 7 more 4 hours 27 minutes

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Fantasy Fiction

George MacDonald - Portent

Overshadowed by the dark legend of the murderous rider of the horse with the loose shoe, Duncan Campbell sets out from his home in the Highlands to make his fortune in the world. When he finds the woman whose destiny...

Beth Thomas and 4 more 4 hours 23 minutes

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Animals & Nature

Judith Gautier - Memoirs of a White Elephant

«We are told by writers of antiquity that elephants have written sentences in Greek, and that one of them was even known to speak. There is, therefore, nothing unreasonable in the supposition that the White Elephant...

Ed Humpal and 7 more 4 hours 19 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Study in Scarlet (version 2)

A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, which was first published in 1887. It is the first story to feature the character of Sherlock Holmes, who would later become one of...

Mark Norman and 6 more 4 hours 17 minutes

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Saints and Heroes to the End of the Middle Ages

Religion

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George Hodges - Saints and Heroes to the End of the Middle Ages

Though these stories of the lives of twenty saints and heroes of the faith, we have an introduction to the history of the church from 3rd century A.D. to the Reformation. These stories chronicle their lives and...

Maggie Travers and 9 more 4 hours 16 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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