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Two Surprises

Read by Natalia


Augusta Huiell Seaman


In The Sapphire Signet

Three girls make a new friend, and find a coded notebook in their attic which leads to treasure and a strange tale about the past. - Summary…

Hope

Read by Ellies


Alfred Castner King


In Mountain Idylls, and Other Poems

"The author of this unpretentious volume has long questioned the advisability of adding a book to our already inflated and overloaded l…

The Editor's Room

Read by Sandra Cullum


Henry Seton Merriman


In The Grey Lady

A tale of romance, greed, blackmail, secrets, Spain and ships. Loss and intrigue too as we follow twin brothers along their life paths. Sum…

To-day

Read by Sibella Denton


Thomas Carlyle


In The Ontario Readers: Third Book

The Ontario Readers is a school book first published in 1919, by the Ontario Ministry of Education, containing short excerpts of literary wo…

Chapter 12 - Part 5

Read by CassiopeiaSparks


Bertha Von Suttner


In Lay Down Your Arms: The Autobiography of Martha von Tilling

Die Waffen Nieder, in English: Lay Down Your Arms is a fictional biography, which describes four wars from the perspective of a soldier's wi…

Chapter X: Trouble for Joel

Read by Tony Hackett


Margaret Sidney


In Five Little Peppers and Their Friends

From the Preface: "There were so many interesting friends of the Five Little Peppers, whose lives were only the faintest of outlines in…

Chapter 6 - Part 2

Read by JoelBrenner


G. A. Henty


In Dorothy's Double: The Story of a Great Deception, Volume 1

Trouble comes to the Hawtrey home when mysterious letters and incidents threaten the innocence of Dorothy Hawtrey. Captain Hampton, on old f…

Julia King

Read by MelissaMarie


Various


In Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XII, Ohio Narratives

These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…

New England Rooms

Read by Carrie Mae Streb


Adelaide W. Smith


In Reminiscences of an Army Nurse During the Civil War

Adelaide Smith was a volunteer nurse during the American Civil War and here recounts some of her observations and memories. - Summary by Lyn…

Chapter 12: The Snow Fort

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G. A. Henty


In In the Heart of the Rockies

PREFACEMY DEAR LADS,Until comparatively lately that portion of the United States in which I have laid this story was wholly unexplored. The …

Chapter XXVII - Conversation with Mrs. Van Brandt

Read by Miyune


Wilkie Collins


In The Two Destinies

Mary Dermody is destined to be together with George Germaine one day, or so at least her grandmother prophesies. Destiny at first doesn't se…

The Complacent Comedienne by Anne Paul

Read by Natalie Fortier


Various


In Shadowland: October, 1919

Shadowland was an American monthly magazine about art, dance, and film published from 1919 to 1923 before being absorbed by Motion Picture C…

Chapter VIII, part 2

Read by Gloria Begemann


Kate Sanborn


In The Wit of Women

It is refreshing to find an unworked field all ready for harvesting.While the wit of men, as a subject for admiration and discussion, is now…

Why Pickle Gave the German Teacher a Present

Read by Natalie Fortier


Various


In Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 41, August 10, 1880

Harper's Young People is an illustrated weekly publication for children that includes short stories, tales from history, natural history, po…

Chapter Twenty-one

Read by Mark Leder


Frances Milton Trollope


In Petticoat Government, Volume 3

The adventures--in society, in love--of Judith Maitland conclude.

A Desert Storm

Read by Nancy Gorgen


Margaret Vandercook


In The Ranch Girls at Home Again

The fifth and closing (for now) volume of the well-known Ranch Girls Series will be known as "The Ranch Girls at Home Again." In …

Chapter II: The Novelists. Part 2

Read by Julia Niedermaier


Clement Shorter


In Victorian Literature

Victorian Literature by Clement Shorter is a brief work that gives a good introduction to many of the important writers, historians, and cri…

Camilla

Read by Stefan Von Blon


Victor Daley


In At Dawn And Dusk

Victor Daley, then a happy, wondering Irish lad, drifted out to Australia. His head was full of old tunes and fragments of poetry; his pocke…

Chapter Seventeen

Read by Mark Leder


Frances Milton Trollope


In Petticoat Government, Volume 1

The lives and intrigues of the Jenkyns family and their neighbors, in the cathedral town of Westhampton, 1825. - Summary by Mark Leder

M'sieu Fortier's Violin

Read by Jim Locke


Alice Dunbar Nelson


In The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories

These stories focus on the Creole society of New Orleans and in the process reveals issues facing black Americans at the end of the nineteen…

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