Fiction
Queechy
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Susan Warner
Fleda Ringan is an 11 year old orphan who lives with her grandfather in Queechy, Vermont. After a tragic incident, Fleda has to live with he…
The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories
Read by David Wales
Owen Wister
This is the fifth published book of Owen Wister, author of the archetypical Western novel, The Virginian. Published in 1900, it comprises ei…
Kept in the Dark
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Anthony Trollope
Kept in the Dark is a novel by the 19th century English novelist Anthony Trollope. It was published in eight monthly installments in 1882, a…
The Pupil
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
Pemberton, a young American with an Oxford education and out of money, takes a job tutoring Morgan Moreen, the 12-year old son of an America…
The Perils of Pauline (dramatic reading)
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Charles Goddard
The Perils of Pauline is one of the first damsel in distress serials. The story is complete with undaunted hero, courageous damsel, unscrupu…
Grace Harlowe's Problem
Read by Ashleigh Jane
Jessie Graham Flower and Josephine Chase
The four series follow Grace Harlowe and her friends through high school, college, abroad during World War I, and on adventures around Ameri…
The Wreck of the Golden Mary
Read by James E. Carson
Charles Dickens
A short story of a ship wreck in 1851 trying to round Cape Horn on its way to the California gold fields. Poignant and well written. ( Summa…
The Exploits Of Elaine
Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)
Arthur B. Reeve
The Exploits of Elaine It tells the story of a young woman named Elaine who, with the help of a detective, tries to find the man, known only…
Democracy - An American Novel
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry Brooks Adams
Not until after his death in 1918 was it revealed that Henry Adams was the anonymous author of Democracy, which had been published to great …
The Dog Crusoe and His Master
Read by Allyson Hester
R. M. Ballantyne
This is a story of an adventure involving a young man, his dog, and two friends. Together they wander through the Western prairies on a miss…
Mary Cary, Frequently Martha
Read by Jan MacGillivray
Kate Langley Bosher
"My name is Mary Cary. I live in the Yorkburg Female Orphan Asylum. You may think nothing happens in an Orphan Asylum. It does. The orp…
The Windy Hill
Read by Peter Eastman
Cornelia Meigs
When two children come to stay with their cousin, they immediately realize something is wrong, but no one will tell them what. Their cousin …
Fables in Slang
Read by Gregg Margarite (1957-2012)
George Ade
While a columnist for The Chicago Record humorist George Ade penned numerous “fables” which were subsequently collected into books. Fables i…
Lost and Not Found
Read by Teel McClanahan III
Teel McClanahan III
Lost and Not Found details one man’s journey all the way from being laid off from his mundane corporate job to becoming the author he truly …
The Magnificent Ambersons (Growth Trilogy Vol 2) Version 2
Read by Jeannie
Booth Tarkington
The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington which won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize. It was the second novel in the Growth trilo…
The Headless Horseman - A Strange Tale of Texas
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Thomas Mayne Reid
The horse is perfect in all its parts—a splendid steed, saddled, bridled, and otherwise completely caparisoned. In it there appears nothing …
The Dark House
Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)
George Manville Fenn
An extremely wealthy but reclusive man has died, leaving an eccentric will which hints at great riches hidden somewhere in the house. Most …
Red Arrows in the Night
Read by Maria Therese
Daniel A. Lord
The Scarlet Archer of Agincourt is claimed by the Erkenwold’s as their family ghost. Tradition held that the death of an important Erkenwold…
The Amateur
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Richard Harding Davis
On the steamer on his way to London, Austin Ford meets a young woman, who is going to London to find her missing husband. Being a specialist…
Probable Sons
Read by Laura Caldwell
Amy Le Feuvre
Little Milly is left an orphan after the death of her mother and sent to live with her bachelor uncle, who has no use for children, especial…