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Golden Slipper, and Other Problems for Violet Strange

Detective Fiction

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Anna Katharine Green - Golden Slipper, and Other Problems for Violet Strange

Miss Violet Strange is young, petite and attractive and has a wealthy father. She also has the knack for solving problems. This collection contains nine mysteries or problems for her to solve in an early example of...

gothicaf and 7 more 9 hours 30 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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David Kalakaua - Legends and Myths of Hawaii

A collection of legends and myths of the Hawaiian islands and their 'strange people' as told by His Majesty King Kalakaua, the last king of Hawaii. Introduction, including a history, geography and social and religious...

Lynne T and 6 more 22 hours 34 minutes

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Poetry

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Lizzie Doten - Poems from the Inner Life

Collection of reflective poetry by celebrated medium and clairvoyant, Lizzie Doten. She claims these poems were sent by her 'inner heaven', often while she was in a trance. She credits some of the poems to the spirits...

Lynne T and 10 more 3 hours 1 minute

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Anthologies

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Stories by Foreign Authors - Russian

A collection of short stories written by Russian authors and translated into English. Includes stories by Turgevev, Tolstoi, Poushkin and Gogol. — Summary by Lynne Thompson

Sarocha T and 3 more 3 hours 32 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Charles Norris Williamson - Great Pearl Secret

It is the afternoon before a grand society wedding between Juliet Phayre and the Duke of Claremanagh, when Emmy West drops by to visit the bride and to see the famed Tsarina pearls, only ever to be worn by the...

ToddHW and 10 more 6 hours 31 minutes

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Alice Meynell - Moon To The Sun

Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet. Preludes (1875) was her first poetry collection, illustrated by her elder sister Elizabeth...

Algy Pug and 15 more 18 minutes

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Beacon Lights of History, Vol 9: European Statesmen

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John Lord - Beacon Lights of History, Vol 9: European Statesmen

Continuing the Beacon Lights of History Series, Mr. Lord discusses important European Statesmen Mirabeau, Edmund Burke, Napoleon, Prince Metternich, Chateaubriand, George V, and Louis Philippe. Also discussed is the...

KHand 7 hours 28 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Sara Teasdale - Winter Stars

This Weekly Poem is taken from Flame and Shadow, Copyright, 1920 by THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. — Summary by David Lawrence

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Essays & Short Works

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Brander Matthews - Tocsin of Revolt, and other Essays

This is a volume of essays by American author Brander Matthews. Matthews is today mostly remembered for his short pieces of speculative fiction, but his essays are also of enduring interest. This volume contains 15...

Scotty Smith and 7 more 6 hours 4 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Freeman Wills Crofts - Pit Prop Syndicate

Seymour Merriman stops at the side of the road 26 miles outside Bordeaux, an action that will change his life forever. The events that follow lead him into mystery, smuggling, murder and love. Two amateur detectives...

KHand 8 hours 47 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Harry Hazelton - Prisoner of the Mill

Subtitled «Captain Hayward's Body Guard”. An adventure story for boys.

Lynne T and 10 more 3 hours 43 minutes

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Wayside and Woodland Trees: Pocket guide to the British Sylva

Nature

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Edward Step - Wayside and Woodland Trees: Pocket guide to the British Sylva

«The purpose of this volume is not the addition of one more to the numerous treatises upon sylviculture or forestry, but to afford a straightforward means for the identification of our native trees and larger shrubs...

KHand 4 hours 30 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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