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Hibernation of the Canals

In Mars and Its Canals

Read by Melanie D. Young

Percival Lowell

In the days before telescope photography, astronomers had to draw what they thought they saw through the eyepiece throughout the long dark n…

Chapter Three

In The Princess and the Ploughman

Read by David Granville Young

Florence Morse Kingsley

On the surface, Mary is the typical literary heroine: Beautiful, animated, and accomplished. She will be rich, too, when she inherits her au…

The Big Southwest Strike

In Fifty Years a Detective: 35 Real Detective Stories

Read by Melanie D. Young

Thomas Furlong

Hitherto unpublished facts connected with some of Mr. Furlong's greatest cases—Other interesting incidents of his long and strenuous career …

Chapter XXXVI

In The Deluge Volume 2

Read by David Granville Young

Henryk Sienkiewicz

The Deluge (Polish: Potop) is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1886. It is the second volume of a th…

The Infamous Volstead Act Part 1

In The Rise and Fall of Prohibition

Read by Melanie D. Young

Charles Hanson Towne

Subtitle: "The Human Side of What the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act Have Done to the United States" From Chapter 1: &…

Chapter VI - A new Home

In Rufus and Rose, or The Fortunes of Rough and Ready

Read by David Granville Young

Horatio Alger, Jr.

Here are the adventures of Rufus, an older brother caring for his sister after leaving their drunk stepfather - captured by counterfeiters -…

Zoology - Development and Distribution

In The Science - History of the Universe Vol. 6: Zoology & Botany

Read by Melanie D. Young

Francis Rolt-Wheeler

Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The sixth volume is on Zoology written by Dr. WM. D. Matthew and on Botany writ…

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