Richard Kilmer

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Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences

True Crime

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Sir John Barrow - Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences

The mutiny on the Bounty occurred aboard a British Royal Navy ship on 28 April 1789. The mutiny was led by Fletcher Christian against the commanding officer, William Bligh. On 4 April 1789, after five months in...

Linda Dodge and 8 more 10 hours 29 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

436

Andy Adams - Reed Anthony, Cowman: An Autobiography

Adams breathes life into the story of a Texas cowboy who becomes a wealthy and influential cattleman… (Introduction by Wikipedia)

Richard Kilmer 10 hours 18 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

478

Andy Adams - Outlet

Andy Adams worked as a cowboy on trail drives from Texas for eight years. This is an account of a drive when he was the foreman of a herd of Texas cattle being driven to Montana. Expect the same quality writing as...

Richard Kilmer 10 hours 14 minutes

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War & Military

478

Johanna Brandt - Petticoat Commando

In introducing the English version of this book I venture to bespeak a welcome for it, not only for the light which it throws on some little-known incidents of the South African war, but also because of the keen...

Richard Kilmer 10 hours 7 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Andrew Lang - Brown Fairy Book

Andrew Lang’s Brown Fairy Book (1904) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was one of many other collections of fairy tales, collectively known as Andrew...

Richard Kilmer and 13 more 10 hours 2 minutes Andrew Lang's Fairy Books

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Science Fiction

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E. E. Smith - Skylark Three

This is a sequel to The Skylark of Space. The novel concerns Richard Seaton and his allies who have encounters with aliens while fighting DuQuesne and the Fenachrone..(Introduction by wikipedia)

Richard Kilmer 9 hours 59 minutes

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Westerns

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Andy Adams - Log of a Cowboy

The Log of a Cowboy is an account of a five-month drive of 3,000 cattle from Brownsville, Texas, to Montana in 1882 along the Great Western Cattle Trail. Although the book is fiction, it is firmly based on Adams's...

Richard Kilmer 9 hours 54 minutes

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Science Fiction

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H. G. Wells - In the Days of the Comet

William («Willie») is a student living in the British town of Clayton. As a Socialist, he tries to move power from the upper class to the working class. Interestingly, in a fictitious confrontation Britain declares...

Bigmouth and 5 more 9 hours 50 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Andy Adams - Texas Matchmaker

As a boy Andy Adams helped with the cattle and horses on the family farm. During the early 1880s he went to Texas, where he stayed for 10 years, spending much of that time driving cattle on the western trails. A...

Richard Kilmer 9 hours 50 minutes

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Westerns

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Max Brand - Night Horseman

A man, a dog, and a horse. The call of the wild geese. A very smart doctor from the east who finds there is a lot to learn from these desert people. A woman loved by three men. A gunslinger who has a debt to settle....

Richard Kilmer 9 hours 48 minutes

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General Fiction

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Fergus Hume - Opal Serpent

An old pawnbroker is found strangled with his lips pinned together with an opal serpent broach. He has a beautiful daughter who is apparently the heir of his large estate. But another claimant has made herself known...

Richard Kilmer 9 hours 44 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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G. A. Henty - Saint George for England

A tale written for children in 1885. It tells of a child of noble birth whose parents have fallen foul of the current royalty. He is placed in hiding and grows up with a bowyer and then apprenticed to an armourer...

Jim Mowatt and 6 more 9 hours 36 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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