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China and the Chinese
Read by Holly
Edmund Plauchut
Edmund Plauchut spent many years in China and gives an account of his observations of the places, people, and culture as he experienced them…
Pimpernel and Rosemary
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Baroness Emma Orczy
A novel in the Scarlet Pimpernel series that features Peter Blakeney, a descendant of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Peter's adventures take him to…
Miss Maitland, Private Secretary
Read by Holly Jenson
Geraldine Bonner
Semi-retired sleuth Molly Morgenthau Babbitts goes undercover as a governess to investigate a robbery at the aristocratic Janney mansion on …
In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World by Elizabeth Bisland
Read by Holly Jenson
Elizabeth Bisland
In November 1889, the New York World announced that it was sending its reporter Nellie Bly around the world, in a bid to beat Phileas Fogg's…
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (version 2)
Read by Holly Jenson
Olive Gilbert
Sojourner Truth (born Isabella Baumfree) was born into slavery in 1797 (or thereabouts) in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York. This narrati…
Mob Rule In New Orleans
Read by Holly Jenson
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Born into slavery in Mississippi in 1862, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist…
Betty Baird
Read by Holly Jenson
Anna Hamlin Weikel
This is the first book in the Betty Baird Series of boarding school books, a genre which was popular among young girls in the early 1900s. O…
Betty Baird's Ventures
Read by Holly Jenson
Anna Hamlin Weikel
Betty has graduated from the Pines and is now with her parents at their new home on Long Island. When Betty finds out that her father is hav…
Betty Baird's Golden Year
Read by Holly Jenson
Anna Hamlin Weikel
It seems that all the people close to Betty are going through major life changes. Lois is certainly spending a lot of time with Dunmore Lane…
The Worshipper of the Image
Read by Holly McGuire
Richard Le Gallienne
"The Worshipper of the Image," by Richard Le Galliene first published in 1900. The protagonist Antony, a poet buys a death mask i…