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Poverty Manages to Board out her Infant for Nothing

In Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished

Read by Lynne T

R. M. Ballantyne

A runaway carriage, a spunky little girl, and a street urchin combine on the first page of Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished: a Tale of City A…

The Shark-Charmer Walks the Plank

In The Quest of the Golden Pearl

Read by Lynne T

John Robert Hutchinson

A classic boys' adventure story, with two intrepid boys pursuing a jewel thief despite deadly perils and a haunted temple on a desolate isla…

Introduction

In Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol 1

Read by Lynne T

Edmond Halley

"The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous ex…

An Old Friend, and an Adventure

In "Boy" The Wandering Dog

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Marshall Saunders

Another 'dog's-eye view' book for children by this early activist for the American Humane Society. In this tale, we follow the travels and …

Chapter 1

In Potash and Perlmutter: Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures

Read by Lynne T

Montague Glass

Montague Glass was a lawyer who eventually abandoned the practice of law to write full time. He wrote a series of stories in the New York P…

The Adventure of the Abbey Grange by Arthur Conan Doyle Part 1

In Victorian Stories of Troubled Marriages

Read by Lynne T

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Anyone who is, or has been, married knows that marriage takes work. While some marriages may be 'made in heaven', others, quite simply, are …

Anderson's Truce

In Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 3)

Read by Lynne T

John Hay

Abraham Lincoln: A History is an 1890 ten-volume account of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, written by John Nicolay and John Hay, who…

The Freaks of Phreex

In John Dough and the Cherub

Read by Lynne T

L. Frank Baum

An evil Arabian sorcerer loans a golden flask full of the Great Elixir - a magic liquid that endows a person with pronounced health, strengt…

The Coming of Patience Worth

In Patience Worth

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Casper S. Yost

Patience Worth is an examination of the communications between a seventeenth century woman and a certain Mrs. Curran of St. Louis, in 1913. …

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