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Aurora Floyd
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Aurora Floyd, the daughter of a rich banker and an actress, could not have had a better start: back from a finishing school in Paris, she is…
The Crystal Cup
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Gertrude Atherton
The story begins with ... “Old age will be served,” said Mrs. Carteret grimly. “But I suppose you think I am a long time dying.” This author…
Emily Climbs
Lucy Maud Montgomery and Rudyard Kipling
Teenage orphan Emily Starr of New Moon has always wanted to be a great writer. But her old-fashioned aunt, who has never liked Emily’s writi…
Stories of Birds
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Lenore Elizabeth Mulets
This volume contains stories, poems, myths, and facts about lots of different birds, intended for teaching children. It is divided into nine…
In the Bishop's Carriage
Read by Lee Ann Howlett
Miriam Michelson
Nancy 'Nance' Olden, a young and very pretty woman, is an accomplished liar and thief. Raised in a horrific orphanage, called the Cruelty by…
Among the Pond People
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Clara Dillingham Pierson
Lovely book for children written by teacher and naturalist Clara Dillingham Pierson. This book in the "Among the People" series ex…
The Awkward Age
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Henry James
Nanda Brookenham is coming of age, and thus 'coming out' in London society - which leads to complications in her family's social set in Lond…
The Legacy of Margaret Thatcher
Read by Gillian Peele and Tom Lubbock
Gillian Peele and Tom Lubbock
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The Girl at Central
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Geraldine Bonner
Molly Morganthau, day operator in the telephone exchange, helps to solve a murder. (Summary by D. A. Frank)
Effi Briest (abridged)
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Theodor Fontane
Effi Briest is a classic of Prussian Realism, relatively unknown in the English speaking world, but widely taught in German schools. This tr…
Dark Hollow, Version 2
Read by Doreen Marcotte
Anna Katharine Green
Twelve years ago, the town of Shelby was in shock at the discovery of the murder of Algernon Etheridge, one of the town's most prominent cit…
The Third Miss Symons
Read by Rachel Lintern
F. M. Mayor
Miss Mayor tells this story with singular skill, more by contrast than by drama, bringing her chief character into relief against her world,…
Sleeping Fires
Read by Sharon Kilmer
Gertrude Atherton
The story of a love so strong that neither the rigid rules of Society in California in the 1800s nor the very bowels of hell could keep a yo…
Molly Brown's Sophomore Days
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Nell Speed
Molly Brown returns to her second year of college at Wellington. Along with her friends at Queen's Cottage, she struggles and triumphs over…
Miss Lochinvar
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Marion Ames Taggart
At breakfast, Mr. Graham drops the bombshell that his niece -- Joan, Jane or Janet, he's not sure which, will be arriving from the west to l…
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
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Mary Seacole
I should have thought that no preface would have been required to introduce Mrs. Seacole to the British public, or to recommend a book which…
Appaloosa Summer
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Tudor Robins
Sixteen-year-old Meg Traherne has never known loss. Until the beautiful, talented horse she trained herself, drops dead underneath her in th…