General Fiction
The Song of the Lark
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Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather
Set in the 1890s in Moonstone, a fictional place supposedly located in Colorado, The Song of the Lark is the self-portrait of an artist in t…
The Calico Cat (version 2)
Read by Mark F. Smith
Charles Miner Thompson
The consequences of letting your irritation get the better of you are humorously portrayed in this story of a self-important man who fires a…
The Story of an African Farm
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Olive Schreiner
The novel details the lives of three characters, first as children and then as adults - Waldo, Em and Lyndall - who live on a farm in the Ka…
Black Heart and White Heart
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H. Rider Haggard
Black Heart and White Heart, is a story of the courtship, trials and final union of a pair of Zulu lovers in the time of King Cetywayo. (Int…
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. I
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James Boswell
Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is widely considered to be the greatest English-language biography ever written. It was revolutionary in it…
Roman Collar Detective
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Grace Johnson, Grace Johnsonandharold Johnson and Grace Johnson And Harold Johnson
A shot penetrates the still night air and one of Galton's leading citizens is a victim of a desperate killer's gun. Murder becomes entangled…
Just William (version 2)
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Richmal Crompton
Just William is the first book of hilarious short stories about 11-year-old William Brown -- eternally scruffy and frowning. William's famil…
The Permanent Husband
Read by Lee Smalley
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
THE PERMANENT HUSBAND, also published as The Eternal Husband, is a psychological novella by the acclaimed Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky.…
Mary Louise in the Country
Read by Sibella Denton
L. Frank Baum
The Bluebird Books is a series of novels popular with teenage girls in the 1910s and 1920s. The series was begun by L. Frank Baum using his …
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
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Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, by Vicente Blasco Ibañez and translated into English by Charlotte Brewster Jordan, depicts two b…
Main Street
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Sinclair Lewis
Carol Milford is a liberal, free-spirited young woman, reared in the metropolis of Minneapolis. She marries Will Kennicott, a doctor, who is…
Buttered Side Down
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Edna Ferber
"And so," the story writers used to say, "they lived happily ever after."Um-m-m—maybe. After the glamour had worn off, a…
Barchester Towers (version 2)
Read by Nick Whitley
Anthony Trollope
Barchester Towers, published in 1857, is the 2nd novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire". It f…
Thorstein of the Mere: A Saga of the Northmen in Lakeland
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William Gershom Collingwood
A fine adventure set in 10th-century England at a time when everyday life in north was made hazardous by wars and shifting alliances among S…
Nostromo
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Joseph Conrad
Señor Gould is a native Costaguanan of English descent who owns the silver-mining concession in Sulaco. He is tired of the political …
A Daughter of the Snows
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Jack London
In Jack London's first novel, he tells the story of Frona Welse, a strong and interesting heroine, "a Stanford graduate and physical Va…
The Great K. & A. Train-Robbery
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Paul Leicester Ford
In this short novel the narrator is a superintendent on the K. & A. railroad, sometime in the late nineteenth century. The train is robb…
The Wide, Wide World
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Susan Warner
"How should a seven year old child react when forced to be separated from a mother who meant everything to her? How should she react wh…
Raggedy Andy Stories
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Johnny Gruelle
Raggedy Ann is a fictional character created by writer Johnny Gruelle (1880–1938) in a series of books he wrote and illustrated for young ch…
True Stories from History and Biography
Read by Susan Morin
Nathaniel Hawthorne
In writing this ponderous tome, the author's desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals, in such…