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Carpenter's Geographical Reader: North America

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Frank G. Carpenter - Carpenter's Geographical Reader: North America

The purpose of this book is to give to its readers a living knowledge of some of the wonders of the country and continent in which they live. Upon a personally conducted tour they are taken by the author through the...

MaryAnn and 7 more 8 hours 19 minutes Carpenter's Geographical Readers

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Detective Fiction

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William J. Burns - Crevice

The sudden death of wealthy and prominent financier, Pennington Lawton from an apparent heart attack, followed by the shocking revelation of his impending bankruptcy, leaves his sole heir and only daughter, Anita,...

J. M. Smallheer 8 hours 17 minutes

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Science Fiction

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H. G. Wells - Sleeper Awakes

The Sleeper Awakes is a dystopian novel about a man who sleeps for two hundred years, waking up in a completely transformed London, where, because of compound interest, he has become the richest man in the world. He...

James Christopher and 13 more 8 hours 14 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Thornton W. Burgess - Burgess Animal Book for Children

Peter Rabbit goes to school, with Mother Nature as his teacher. In this zoology book for children, Thornton W. Burgess describes the mammals of North America in the form of an entertaining story, including plenty of...

Laurie Anne Walden and 16 more 8 hours 10 minutes

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John Wesley Powell - Canyons of the Colorado

John Wesley Powell was a pioneer American explorer, ethnologist, and geologist in the 19th Century. In 1869 he set out to explore the Colorado and the Grand Canyon. He gathered nine men, four boats and food for ten...

Joan Freeman and 9 more 8 hours 7 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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E. Phillips Oppenheim - Cinema Murder

Phillip Romilly is a poor art teacher in London. He finds out that his wealthy cousin Douglas has been seeing his girl friend Beatrice behind his back. He strangles Douglas, throws him in the canal, and assumes his...

Julie Levi and 13 more 8 hours 6 minutes

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Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

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Olaudah Equiano - Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789, is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano. It discusses his time spent in slavery, serving primarily on galleys, documents his attempts at...

Carl Manchester and 9 more 8 hours 5 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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John Cargill Brough - Fairy Tales of Science

This book, written in the mid 19th century and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, provides an entertaining introduction to topics in science for children. In each chapter, the author uses a popular myth or fairy tale...

J. M. Smallheer 8 hours

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Detective Fiction

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Baroness Emma Orczy - Lady Molly of Scotland Yard

Lady Molly of Scotland Yard is a collection of short stories about Molly Robertson-Kirk, an early fictional female detective. It was written by Baroness Orczy, who is best known as the creator of The Scarlet...

J. M. Smallheer 7 hours 51 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Robert Eustace - Brotherhood of the Seven Kings

«THAT a secret society, based upon the lines of similar institutions so notorious on the Continent during the last century, could ever have existed in the London of our day may seem impossible. Such a society,...

J. M. Smallheer 7 hours 50 minutes

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Art, Design & Architecture

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Harold Speed - Practice and Science of Drawing

This book is an attempt to teach beginning students how to draw. Starting out with intuition and vision, Harold Speed explains line and mass drawing, and how rhythm is conveyed in art by means of balance and...

ogbog and 13 more 7 hours 48 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Short Mystery Story Collection 005

LibriVox’s Short Mystery Story Collection 005: a collection of 10 short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

SaPaSing and 6 more 7 hours 46 minutes Short Mystery Collections

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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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