Phil Chenevert

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Life and Ventures of the Original John Jacob Astor

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Elizabeth Louisa Gebhard - Life and Ventures of the Original John Jacob Astor

John Jacob Astor was pre-eminently the opener of new paths, a breaker of trails. From his first tramp alone through the Black Forest of Baden, at sixteen, his life never lost this typical touch. In America, both...

Pamela Krantz and 12 more 7 hours 30 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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George W. Bateman - Zanzibar Tales

If you have read any accounts of adventure in Africa, you will know that travelers never mention animals of any kind that are gifted with the faculty of speech, or gazelles that are overseers for native princes, or...

Phil Chenevert and 6 more 2 hours 41 minutes

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Family

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Eleanor H. Porter - Pollyanna (version 2)

In a small town far out West, 11 year old Pollyanna loses her mother then her dad to disease. This book describes how the orphan is sent to be raised by her aunt who lives far away in the East of the country....

Phil Chenevert 6 hours 7 minutes

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Science Fiction

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John J. McGuire - Hunter Patrol

World War IV has dragged on for 12 years and the whole world is drained and tired of the killing and destruction. One man, a high school chemistry teacher from St. Louis in the USA, is serving his latest forced stint...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 14 minutes

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Short Stories

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A. A. Milne - Not That It Matters

More of the witty, wry, and deliciously wicked essays and articles written by Milne. Most people know him as the creator of Winnie The Pooh, but he worked for many years as editor of Punch Magazine and these are some...

Bill Mosley and 13 more 5 hours 39 minutes

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Science Fiction

H. Beam Piper - Slave Is a Slave

The Galactic Empire is slowly 'welcoming' into the family of civilized worlds those systems so far off in the backwater of the galaxy that they have been overlooked and ignored for the past 500 years or so. This is...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 27 minutes

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Fritz Leiber - Night of the Long Knives

«I was one hundred miles from Nowhere—and I mean that literally—when I spotted this girl out of the corner of my eye. I'd been keeping an extra lookout because I still expected the other undead bugger left over from...

Phil Chenevert 3 hours 20 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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Rudyard Kipling - Jungle Book (Version 2)

This is the classic story of Mowgli, the young boy raised by wolves in India: his escapades and adventures with his dear friends Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear, his capture by the Monkey-People, his attempt...

Phil Chenevert 5 hours 24 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Philip K. Dick - Mr. Spaceship

The war with the Yucks from Proxima Centauri was claimed to be a stalemate but they were really winning. The mine belts they laid seemed to propagate themselves and were slowly strangling Terran planets. How did they...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 12 minutes

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Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective

Humorous Fiction

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Ellis Parker Butler - Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective

Philo Gubb, not being content with his job as wallpaper-hanger, has higher aspirations: to become a detective, just like Sherlock Holmes. To that end, he enrolls in a correspondence course, where he gets lessons...

Margaret Espaillat and 7 more 9 hours 3 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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J. M. Barrie - Story of Peter Pan

THE STORY OF PETER PAN RETOLD FROM THE FAIRY PLAY BY SIR J.M. BARRIE BY DANIEL O'CONNOR. Basically, Daniel O'Connor took the story from the original play, with the approval of Barrie, and shortened it into a book with...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 1 minute

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Science Fiction

Harry Harrison - Arm of the Law

A quiet backwater outpost on Mars gets a surprise in the form of a new police recruit — in a box! Yep, it's a prototype robot cop sent to the backwater station for testing. And Harrison tells the strange, funny and...

Phil Chenevert 41 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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