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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Mary Roberts Rinehart - K.

«K» is the initial of the mysterious lodger without a first name who rents a room from Sidney to escape his past. Sidney herself refuses the proposals of Joe in order to become a nurse and do useful work in the...

Beth Thomas and 16 more 9 hours 51 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Wyvern Mystery

A classic with a pinch of romance, a pinch of gothic, and a dash of mystery, are you interested yet? When young Alice Maybell’ father dies she is taken in by Squire Fairfield, a widower with two handsome young sons,...

Amy and 11 more 15 hours 12 minutes

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General Fiction

Grace Livingston Hill - Dawn of the Morning

Fresh from school, mistreated and neglected by her father and stepmother, sixteen-year-old Dawn consents to marry a friend of her father's whom she has only met, but the wedding does not go as planned. Scared and...

Barbara Hale and 10 more 9 hours 8 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Florence Morse Kingsley - Paul: A Herald of the Cross

This is an exciting sequel to the earlier books Titus: A Comrade of the Cross and Stephen: A Soldier of the Cross . It tells the story of the apostle Paul, from his conversion through his imprisonment. ( Rachel)

Rachel and 12 more 11 hours 6 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jules Verne - Abandoned

Explorers in a hot-air balloon land on an island, figuring that they must be the only inhabitants. However, they discover a bullet inside a wounded animal--one which must have been fired within the previous three...

Masch1 and 13 more 7 hours 1 minute

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Action & Adventure

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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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Religion

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Thomas De Witt Talmage - T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him

The Autobiography of Thomas De Witt Talmage, he was one of the most prominent religious leaders in the United States during the mid 19th century. His sermons which have been put into writing are convicting,...

David Olson and 8 more 12 hours 21 minutes

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Memoirs

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Frances Ridley Havergal - Kept for the Master's Use

The memoirs of Frances Ridley Havergal, a great missionary and hymn writer. — Summary by PamC

Esther ben Simonides and 4 more 4 hours

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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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Poetry

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William Allingham - Rhymes For The Young Folk

Rosslyn Carlyle and 7 more 47 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Lawrence L. Lynch - Last Stroke

Written by Chicago socialite, Emma Murdock Van Deventer, under the nom de plume of Lawrence L. Lynch, this detective story opens with the mysterious disappearance of schoolmaster, Mr. Brierly. The under-teacher and...

Philippe and 8 more 7 hours 20 minutes

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Family

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Hesba Stretton - Little Meg's Children

This is the touching and endearing story of Little Meg and her trials and difficulties as she does her best to look after 'her children' after their mother dies. Father is away at sea and is expected every day,...

fiddlesticks 2 hours 8 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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