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The White People
A young girl living in remote Scotland discovers she has a unique gift for seeing what others cannot. This ultimately hopeful and positive s…
A Mummer's Wife
Kate is a dress maker in the north of England who always did what was decided for her: serving those who come her way, marrying a man who is…
Bosom Friends
Two girls with the same name and completely different characteristics visit the seaside and become friends. (Summary by Victoria)Note: Pleas…
Our Village
This volume continues Miss Mitford's reflections on the changes to village life and characters when she returns two years after the end of V…
A Wheel Within A Wheel
Frances Willard was an influential campaigner and educator for social reforms, temperance and women's education, suffrage and empowerment, a…
A Brilliant Woman
A woman of decided opinions and ambition, Maria is considered brilliant by her admirers; Cyril is a clever, well-educated but quiet and dull…
The Magic Nuts
A delightful children’s story about Leonore, a little English girl, taken by her governess to Fraulein Elsa’s home town in an (unnamed) coun…
Letters from Mrs Palmerstone to Her Daughter
The extended title of these volumes is 'Inculcating Morality by Entertaining Narratives”, and in the preface the Author indicates she offere…
Story Time Tales
A collection of short stories for children, written by Laura Rountree Smith. - Summary by Anne O'Donoghue
Harold Pinter's The Dreaming Child
Harold Pinter's The Dreaming Child is a captivating adaptation of an unproduced film screenplay based on Karen Blixen's elusive and mysterio…
Bunny Cottontail, Jr.
A sequel to Bunny Cotton Tail - Summary by Laura R. Smith
Mark
The World English Bible (WEB) is an English translation of the Bible freely shared online. The translation work began in 1994 and was deemed…
Hebrews
This is a stand alone reading of the book of Hebrews from the ASV version of the Bible, published by Thomas Nelson and Sons in 1901. - Summa…
The Hound of the Baskervilles
What really killed Sir Charles Baskerville? Is his nephew, Sir Henry, in danger from the legendary family curse, a gigantic black hound? She…
A Study in Scarlet
A Study in Scarlet, a short novel published in 1887, was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story. At the beginning of the book…
Riders of the Purple Sage
The year is 1871, and wealthy ranch owner Jane Withersteen is in trouble. She has incurred the displeasure of her Mormon church leaders by …
The Book of Dragons
A dragon who flies out of a magical book; one whose purr quiets a fussy baby; another who eats an entire pack of tame hunting-hippopotomuses…
The Death of Ivan Ilyitch
The Death of Ivan Ilyitch is the story of a socially ambitious middle-aged judge who contracts an unexplained and untreatable illness. As I…
Selected Short Stories
Ranging in tone from humor to sentimentality, these stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald are set against a backdrop of jazz, flappers, and the cha…
Bowser the Hound
Old Man Coyote craftily leads Bowser the hound away from home, and Bowser gets lost. Will Bowser find his way back to Farmer Brown's? Will R…