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Kari the Elephant
Read by Adrian Praetzellis
Dhan Gopal Mukerji
The adventures of an Indian boy and his beloved elephant. Born near Calcutta, Mukerji won the Newbury Medal for children's fiction. (Summary…
California Coast Trails
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Joseph Smeaton Chase
In 1911, decades before California's coast Highway 1 was built, an Englishman rode 2000 miles on horseback the length of California, from Me…
The Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque
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William Combe
“To bury these, to christen those,And marry such fond folks who choseTo change the tenor of their lifeAnd risk the matrimonial strife.” This…
Sons of the Covenant: A Tale of London Jewry
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Samuel Gordon
Born in London's poverty-stricken and heavily Jewish East End, the Lipcott boys create their own successes in life and love. The brothers' c…
The Curious Quest
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E. Phillips Oppenheim
A sweet, simple tale of how friendship and honesty triumph over money. The protagonist’s pun of a name—Ernest Bliss—foreshadows the plot in …
The Golem: A legend of old Prague
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Rudolf Lothar
Rabbi Loeb creates a clay man to house a perfect soul that he hopes will not be blighted by human prejudices. The plan does not go as he hop…
An Angler's Hours
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Hugh Tempest Sheringham
One of the classic British books about angling. The author’s love was fly fishing—“…while there are trout, life is worth living…” but he was…
The Wind Boy
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Ethel Cook Eliot
A gentle, otherworldly novel featuring the mysterious “girl from the mountains” who aides a refugee family in a most unexpected way. Mystica…