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South African Memories
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Lady Sarah Wilson
Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Wilson was the aunt of Winston Spencer Churchill. In 1899 she became the first woman war correspondent when she …
The Hunted Woman
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James Oliver Curwood
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 …
Plague of Pythons
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Frederik Pohl
In a post-apocalyptic world where every government in the world has been overrun by its own military machinery, only to see that military ma…
The Adventures of Ulysses
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Charles Lamb
Lamb used Homer's Odyssey as the basis for the re-telling of the story of Ulysses's journey back from Troy to his own kingdom of Ithaca. Not…
The Tale of Miss Kitty Cat
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Arthur Scott Bailey
The rats and the mice thought that Miss Kitty Cat was a terrible person. She was altogether too fond of hunting them. They agreed, however, …
Round The Fire Stories
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In the present [1908] collection those [stories] have been brought together which are concerned with the grotesque and with the terrible—suc…
Tales of the Fish Patrol
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Jack London
Wildest among the fisher-folk may be accounted the Chinese shrimp-catchers. It is the habit of the shrimp to crawl along the bottom in vast …
From the Earth to the Moon, Version 2
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Jules Verne
Jules Verne takes aim at some amusing stereotypes of Americans in this story of a pre-rocketry attempt to shoot a cannonball to the Moon. Th…
The Jesuits in North America in the 17th Century
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Francis Parkman, Jr.
Parkman has been hailed as one of America's first great historians and as a master of narrative history. Numerous translations have spread t…
Astounding Stories 04, April 1930
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Ray Cummings
The fourth issue of Astounding Stories continues Ray Cummings serial "Brigands of the Moon", along with pulp sci-fi stories by Cap…
The Rover Boys at School
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Arthur M. Winfield
First of the famous Rover Boys books by future Hardy Boys creator Edward Stratemeyer (under the pseudonym Arthur M Winfield), this is an int…
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
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Hugh Lofting
Doctor John Dolittle is the central character of a series of children's books by Hugh Lofting. He is a doctor who shuns human patients in fa…
Robin Hood
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Paul Creswick
"Well, Robin, on what folly do you employ yourself? Do you cut sticks for our fire o' mornings?" Thus spoke Master Hugh Fitzooth, …
For Treasure Bound
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Harry Collingwood
For Treasure Bound is one of the earlier novels by Harry Collingwood (William Joseph Cosens Lancaster), published in 1897. We follow the her…
The House of the White Shadows
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B. J. Farjeon and B. L. Farjeon
Is a defense attorney bound to defend his client, or with his conscience, when he knows that the man he is defending is guilty of the charge…
The Pony Rider Boys in Texas
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Frank Gee Patchin
Yee-hawww! The Pony Rider Boys are on the trail again! In the second book of this series, Professor Zepplin has taken the young men to San D…
The Cruise of the Dazzler
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Jack London
Young Joe Bronson, caught between poor grades and his father's threats of military school, runs away from home. He joins the crew of a sloop…
The Wrecker
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Robert Louis Stevenson
The Wrecker (1892) is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. The story is a 'sprawling,…
Rescue Dog of the High Pass
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Jim Kjelgaard
Jim Kjelgaard has long wanted to tell the story of the gallant dogs who have gone out with the monks of St. Bernard Hospice to rescue travel…
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (version 4)
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L. Frank Baum
When Dorothy is swept away from her home in Kansas by a cyclone, she finds herself in a mysterious land inhabited by equally mysterious peop…