Cate Barratt

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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E. Phillips Oppenheim - Amiable Charlatan (version 2)

A lively adventure of a father-daughter con team enjoying themselves in Edwardian London. — Summary by Cate Barratt

Cate Barratt 6 hours 19 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

447

Maurice Leblanc - Confessions of Arsene Lupin

A collection of nine stories — or confessions — of the celebrated gentleman thief Arsene Lupin. (Summary by Cathy Barratt)

Cate Barratt 6 hours 19 minutes

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Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar (version 3)

Action & Adventure Fiction

458

Maurice Leblanc - Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar (version 3)

A series of loosely related short stories of the early adventures of France's famous gentleman burglar, Arsène Lupin, as told by an admirer and trusted friend. (Cate Barrat)

Cate Barratt 6 hours

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Children's Fiction

431

Thomas Bailey Aldrich - Story of a Bad Boy

Thomas Bailey Aldrich was a child when his father moved to New Orleans from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. After 10 years, Aldrich was sent back to Portsmouth to prepare for college. This period of his life is partly...

Don Halpert and 7 more 5 hours 50 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

468

Narcisse-Eutropee Dionne - Makers of Canada: Champlain

A biography of Samuel de Champlain, French explorer, founder of Quebec, and father of New France. ( Summary by Cathy Barratt )

Cate Barratt 5 hours 38 minutes

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Historical Fiction

519

William Wells Brown - Clotel, or, The President's Daughter

Clotel; or, The President's Daughter is a novel by William Wells Brown (1814-84), a fugitive from slavery and abolitionist and was published in London, England in December 1853. It is often considered the first...

Andrew Symons and 5 more 5 hours 31 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

475

E. W. Hornung - Mr. Justice Raffles

A. J. Raffles is a British gentleman thief of some renown who, in this, the hero's final adventure, ironically demonstrates a sense of morality by teaching a London East End loan shark a lesson. The book was later...

Cate Barratt 5 hours 28 minutes Arthur J. Raffles

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*Non-fiction

482

Jacob Abbott - Richard II, Makers of History

Chronicles the life of Richard II, born in 1367 in Bordeaux, France, who later wore the crown of King of England. (Summary by Cathy Barratt)

Cate Barratt 5 hours 22 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

471

E. W. Hornung - Thief in the Night

Gentleman thief A.J. Raffles burgles his way through a series of homes in late Victorian England. A Thief in the Night is a short story collection and Hornung's third book in the Raffles series. (Summary by Cathy...

Cate Barratt 5 hours 21 minutes Arthur J. Raffles

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Action & Adventure Fiction

454

John Kendrick Bangs - Toppleton's Client

A pre-eminent legal firm gets far more than it bargained for when it hires the son of its late senior partner, Hopkins Toppleton, Sr., simply to retain the illustrious family name on the company masthead. Knowing Jr....

Cate Barratt 5 hours 4 minutes

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General Fiction

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Burton Egbert Stevenson - That Affair at Elizabeth

A detective novel set in turn-of-the-century New York City, in which a young lawyer plays the sleuth. Packed with plot twists (and the ubiquitous romantic complication, of course). (Summary by Cathy Barratt)

Cate Barratt 5 hours 1 minute

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*Non-fiction

466

Jacob Abbott - Richard III (Makers of History series)

Jacob Abbott chronicles the unspeakably treacherous rise of Richard III to the throne of England in the midst of the war between the Yorks and the Lancasters and his ultimate fall on the Field of Bosworth....

Cate Barratt 4 hours 59 minutes

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New

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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