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Law

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Robert Vashon Rogers - Law and Medical Men

The idea that in the library of nearly every practitioner in the professions of both Physic and Law there has been for some time a small gap among the books, which could be filled by a little work like this now...

Lynne T and 6 more 6 hours 15 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Phineas Pett - Autobiography of Phineas Pett

Phineas Pett was a Master Shipbuilder from one of England's greatest shipbuilding families of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and kept a journal of his experiences and thoughts at this important and turbulent...

Lynne T 9 hours 16 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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George Payne Rainsford James - Convict

As young Lord Hadley and his companion Edward Dudley travel along a dark, coastal road, they encounter a young girl pinioned by a fallen wall. They rescue her and alert her father, stationed on the cliff-top,...

Lynne T 15 hours 31 minutes

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War & Military

Anonymous - Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy

A collection of true stories of the high seas, from the nineteenth century. Shipwrecks, mutiny, life and death decision-making — all far from home, while pitting themselves against the elements. The romance of the...

Larry Wilson and 15 more 14 hours 11 minutes

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Romance

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Frank R. Stockton - Kate Bonnet

«She carried a fishing rod and line, and her name was Kate Bonnet. She was a bright-faced, quick-moving young person, and apparently did not expect to catch many fish, for she had no basket in which to carry away her...

jenno and 6 more 10 hours 43 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Ida Ashworth Taylor - Lady Jane Grey and Her Times

Lady Jane Grey was an English noblewoman, great-granddaughter of Henry VII. As her cousin, Edward VI, lay on his death-bed, he nominated her as his successor to the English crown ahead of his half-sisters Mary and...

Beth Thomas and 5 more 8 hours 14 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Warwick Deeping - Mad Barbara

It is the last quarter of the eighteenth century and a young woman discovers the body of her murdered father. In her grief, she tries to make sense of why this sweet man, beloved by all, was struck down and, unlike...

Lynne T 11 hours 28 minutes

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Art, Design & Architecture

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Theory of Colours

Newton's observations on the optical spectrum were widely accepted but Goethe noticed the difference between the scientific explanation and the phenomena as experienced by the human eye. He did not try to explain...

Lynne T and 17 more 8 hours 58 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Eleven Possible Cases

This book brings together eleven stories, each a case of intrigue where more is going on than seems at first. — Summary by A. Gramour

Lynne T and 5 more 6 hours 58 minutes

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Short Stories

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Joseph Dunn - Glories of Ireland

A collection of essays on Ireland compiled by Joseph Dunn and PJ Lennox. As stated in the Preface to the books "...we have been forced to the conclusion that the performances of the Irish race in many fields of...

April6090 and 13 more 16 hours 1 minute

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 030

A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder.

Tony Addison and 13 more 8 hours 53 minutes Short Ghost and Horror Story Collections

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Short Stories

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Hubert Crackanthorpe - Victorian Short Stories: Tales of Courtship

A selection of five short stories with the theme of courtship, written during the Victorian era and previously published elsewhere. — Summary by Lynne Thompson

Lynne T 3 hours 50 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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