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The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

Read by Kirsten Wever


Dorothy L. Sayers


The author’s fourth Lord Peter Wimsey mystery, set shortly after the Great War, begins with the discovery of old general Fentiman’s body sea…

The Jumble Book

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David Cory


This is a lovely collection of short stories and poems some well known others not so well known. Something to appeal to everyone. (Summary b…

Putting the Most Into Life

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Booker T. Washington


The chapters in this little book were originally part of a series of Sunday Evening Talks given by the Principal to the students of the Tusk…

The Gray Mills of Farley

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Sarah Orne Jewett


As contemporary today as it was over a century ago, this relatively unsentimental tale of labor relations still packs a punch. (Summary by B…

On

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Hilaire Belloc


Hilaire Belloc, French by birth, British by naturalization, was a diverse and prolific writer of the early 20th century. His writing runs th…

The Orange-Yellow Diamond

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J. S. Fletcher


A novelist finds himself struggling to make ends meet. In his effort to raise a bit of money to get him by, he finds himself in the middle o…

Flowers and Ferns in their Haunts

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Mabel Osgood Wright


Pleasant non-fiction journey into the backwoods of the New England coastal countryside by the first president of the Connecticut Audubon Soc…

Morning Bells; Or, Waking Thoughts for Little Ones

Read by Jael Baldwin


Frances Ridley Havergal


Thirty-one brief morning devotionals, simple enough for the child audience for which they were written, but also inspiring for adults needin…

First From the Front

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Harold Ashton


In this brief book I have lifted a very small corner of the curtain of war, to tell of my adventures — a week in the North Sea, and a breath…

The Blue Envelope

Read by Dawn Larsen


Roy J. Snell


A mystery and adventure story for girls set in Alaska.

Biltmore Oswald

Read by Nigel Boydell


J. Thorne Smith, Jr.


The hilarious diary of a young man's recruitment into, and service in a navy, which, though well equipped and disciplined, remains woefully …

Has a Frog a Soul?

Read by Carl Manchester


Thomas Henry Huxley


Thomas Huxley, known as “Darwin’s Bulldog” for his championing and development of Darwinism, was perhaps the most important Victorian biolog…

Ravensdene Court

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


J. S. Fletcher


Leonard Middlebrook, a young attorney with, among other things, a bibliographical interest, accepts an invitation to lonely Ravensdene Court…

Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers

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John Burroughs


Probably no other American writer has a greater sympathy with, and a keener enjoyment of, country life in all its phases—farming, camping, f…

The Gray Plague

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Lloyd Eshbach


End of the world sci-fi tale borrows heavily from H.G. Wells' WOTW and In The Days of the Comet -- looks like fun ! ( Summary by BellonaTime…

First and Last

Read by Ray Clare


Hilaire Belloc


“When a man weighs anchor in a little ship or a large one he does a jolly thing! He cuts himself off and he starts for freedom and for the c…

Finding a Way Out: An Autobiography

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Robert R. Moton


He says about this work: "I have tried to record the events that have given character and colour to my own life, and at the same time t…

Collection: Tales of the Cities

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Various


This is a collection of city stories, fiction or non-fiction, in English and published before 1923. Contributions have been chosen by the re…

The Man Who Knew Too Much (Version 2)

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G. K. Chesterton


A collection of short adventure stories following Horne and his friend. - Summary by Victoria Bell

Washington Square

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Henry James


Washington Square is a short novel by Henry James. Originally published in 1880 as a serial in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Ma…

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