Jon Smith

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Saints and Heroes Since the Middle Ages Volume 2

Religion

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George Hodges - Saints and Heroes Since the Middle Ages Volume 2

In this second volume, Hodges uses stories of the lives of fourteen well-known saints and heroes of the faith to continue the history of the church from the end of the Reformation through the 1700s. These stories...

JoeBlu and 9 more 5 hours 28 minutes

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Lives of the Presidents Told in Words of One Syllable

Biography & Autobiography

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Jean S. Remy - Lives of the Presidents Told in Words of One Syllable

Lives of the Presidents Told in Words of One Syllable is a halting account in presidential history — quite literally! From Washington to Jackson to Cleveland to McKinley, Jean S. Remy details the lives of the...

Mark Peterson and 5 more 2 hours 25 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jules Verne - Abandoned

Explorers in a hot-air balloon land on an island, figuring that they must be the only inhabitants. However, they discover a bullet inside a wounded animal--one which must have been fired within the previous three...

Masch1 and 13 more 7 hours 1 minute

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*Non-fiction

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Channing Arnold - American Egypt

Arnold and Frost were English archaeologists who traveled to the Yucatan Peninsula and wrote «the first book ever written by Englishmen on Yucatan—that Egypt of the New World, where, it is now generally admitted,...

Lynne T and 5 more 19 hours 46 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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James Baldwin - Thirty More Famous Stories Retold

Thirty More Famous Stories Retold, the sequel to the popular Fifty Famous Stories Retold, retells the stories of legendary people and mythological figures in simple, easy-to-understand language appropriate for...

Jill Engle and 13 more 5 hours 3 minutes

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Action & Adventure

479

Victor Appleton - Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat

Otherwise known as 'Under the Ocean for Sunken Treasure', is Volume 4 in the original Tom Swift novel series. Tom persuades his father to use his own submarine to hunt for treasure on a sunken ship. The book follows...

Ralph Crown and 12 more 4 hours 30 minutes Tom Swift Adventure Series

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Children's Fiction

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R. M. Ballantyne - Iron Horse

“Is that your bundle, sir?” repeated Mr Blunt a little louder. “Eh? yes, yes—all right,” replied Edwin, annoyed at the interruption, and thinking only of Emma Lee, to whom he turned, and went on—“Well, when Colonel...

Susan Morin and 10 more 9 hours 51 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Humorous Ghost Stories

Includes: An introduction by Dorothy Scarborough — The Canterville ghost / by Oscar Wilde — The ghost-extinguisher / by Gelett Burgess — «Dey ain't no ghosts» / by Ellis Parker Butler — The transferred ghost / by...

Madam Fickle and 15 more 10 hours 50 minutes

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Your Psychic Powers and How to Develop Them

*Non-fiction

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Hereward Carrington - Your Psychic Powers and How to Develop Them

Instructions in how to develop your psychic powers including telepathy, clairvoyance, self-projection, reincarnation, and other topics. Seriously. «It must be distinctly understood … that I believe the vast bulk of...

Chuck Williamson and 18 more 10 hours 40 minutes

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John T. Morse - John Quincy Adams

This biography contains three main sections. the first covers Adams's early years and his time as a diplomat--both in America and overseas. The second tells of his two careers as Secretary of State and President. The...

shalclark and 8 more 7 hours 31 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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American Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

To follow up on the heels of volumes 1 and 2 of «The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes» released on Librivox, here is a collection of stories starring his contemporary American rivals. Brought together and re-published in a...

K.G.Cross and 11 more 12 hours 24 minutes

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Travel & Geography

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Reuben Gold Thwaites - Afloat on the Ohio

Afloat on the Ohio, An Historical Pilgrimage, of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, From Redstone to Cairo. There were four of us pilgrims—my Wife, our Boy of ten and a half years, the Doctor, and I. My object in...

David Lawrence and 9 more 7 hours 21 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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