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Action & Adventure Fiction

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James Oliver Curwood - Hunted Woman

This adventurous story of a woman in peril begins «It was all new — most of it singularly dramatic and even appalling to the woman who sat with the pearl-gray veil drawn closely about her face. For eighteen hours she...

Gabriela Cowan and 8 more 9 hours 26 minutes

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Animals & Nature

921

Marshall Saunders - "Boy" The Wandering Dog

Another 'dog's-eye view' book for children by this early activist for the American Humane Society. In this tale, we follow the travels and adventures of Boy, a loveable and loyal wire-haired fox-terrier in city and...

Lynne T and 10 more 9 hours 13 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - Poison Island

Mysterious old Captain Coffin not only has a wild story about a Honduran island where treasure lies, he has a map. But they must be wary because it also holds “a poison that kills a man and keeps him fresh as paint”....

Daniel Goodson and 10 more 9 hours 10 minutes

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Wonders of the Invisible World, and A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New England Witches

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Cotton Mather - Wonders of the Invisible World, and A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New England Witches

Here are first hand accounts, published in 1692, of the infamous «Salem Witch Trials». In addition to Mather's interpretation of the Book of Revelations (which he calls «God's last letter to the people of earth»),...

Michele Fry and 9 more 9 hours 1 minute

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

863

Fergus Hume - Red Window

Two former school friends, now both military men, meet again and discover both are trying to lose themselves to public gaze. Dick West has inherited the family estate, but is out of favor. «The Red Window» was used...

Lynne T and 8 more 8 hours 24 minutes

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Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 2

Art, Design & Architecture

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Giorgio Vasari - Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 2

The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri, as it was...

MorganScorpion and 7 more 8 hours 24 minutes Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari, Volumes 1-7

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Action & Adventure

Thomas Mayne Reid - Cliff Climbers

A plant hunter, Karl Linden, and his brother Caspar are on their way to the Himalayas to collect the plants of that region. Many adventures befell the brothers and their guides, all of which led to their being trapped...

fiddlesticks and 9 more 8 hours 23 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

773

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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Detective Fiction

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Richard Doddridge Blackmore - Clara Vaughan, Vol. III

CLARA VAUGHAN, the young heroine, narrator, and namesake for R. D. Blackmore’s early detective novel, is determined to solve the mystery of her father’s murder—a crime that occurred when she was only 10 years of age....

Lynne T and 7 more 7 hours 52 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

917

Gertrude Stein - Three Lives

Three Lives tells the stories of three women from the same fictitious town of Bridgeport. The first story is of Anna, a servant to the wealthy, or those who seem to be wealthy. She finds herself taking on...

KHand and 3 more 7 hours 50 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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Mark Twain - Prince and the Pauper (version 2)

One day a poor boy, Tom, gets a little too near the gates of the palace. and the guards start to beat him. However the prince himself intervenes and invites Tom into the palace. They talk about their differences in...

Elijah Fisher and 10 more 7 hours 41 minutes

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

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Harry Collingwood - Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn

Eric Blackburn's strange adventures begin when the ship on which he is engaged as fourth officer is struck by an enormous meteorite and sinks within minutes, and Blackburn is the sole survivor out of the 535 people on...

Tom Penn and 6 more 7 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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