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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

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Lew Wallace


Ben-Hur is a story of two very different heroes. Judah Ben-Hur, a prince of Jerusalem, is involved in an accident to the Roman procurator wh…

Triplanetary

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E. E. “Doc” Smith


“Doc” E.E. Smith pretty much invented the space opera genre, and Triplanetary is a good and well-known example. Physics, time, and politics …

The Magnificent Ambersons (Growth Trilogy Vol 2)

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Booth Tarkington


In a world where a gentleman’s life is defined more “by being, rather than by doing,” a family’s reputation can be compromised if it is not …

Nightmare Abbey

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Thomas Love Peacock


Deep in the fens of the British coast sits the gloomy mansion that goes by the name Nightmare Abbey. It is inhabited by persons of very low …

Sons and Lovers

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D. H. Lawrence


This intimate portrait of a coal-miner's family fastens on each member in turn: Walter Morel, the collier; Gertrude, his wife; and the child…

The Young Railroaders

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Francis Lovell Coombs


While aimed at youths, this series of tales of the just-opening West makes a rollicking good story for adults, too. Three teen-age boys, tra…

Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship 'Pirate'

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Thornton Jenkins Hains


This is the tale of a perilous voyage aboard a clipper ship told by the second mate. He looks up to Trunnell, the first mate, who somehow ma…

The Blockade Runners

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Jules Verne


Writing at the end of the American Civil War, Verne weaves this story of a Scottish merchant who, in desperation at the interruption of the …

Beasts, Men and Gods

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Ferdinand Ossendowski


“Beasts, Men and Gods” is an account of an epic journey, filled with perils and narrow escapes, in the mold of “The Lord of the Rings.”The d…

The Communist Manifesto (version 2)

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Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx


The Communist Manifesto was conceived as an outline of the basic beliefs of the Communist movement. The authors believed that the European P…

The River War - An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan

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Winston S. Churchill


When the self-proclaimed Mahdi (“Guided One”) gathered Islamic forces and kicked the Anglo-Egyptians out of the Sudan, he unleashed a backla…

William Tell Told Again

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P. G. Wodehouse


This is the classic story of William Tell - Swiss patriot and great apple-shooter - as seen through the eyes of English humorist P.G. Wodeho…

The Battle of Life

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Charles Dickens


While "The Battle of Life" is one of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books - his annual release of a story just before Christmas - this…

The Royal Book of Oz

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Ruth Plumly Thompson


The Royal Book of Oz (1921) is the fifteenth in the series of Oz books, and the first to be written by Ruth Plumly Thompson after L. Frank B…

Conquest Over Time

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Michael Shaara


Pat Travis, a spacer renowned for his luck, is suddenly quite out of it. His job is to beat his competitors to sign newly-Contacted human ra…

Robinson Crusoe (version 2)

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Daniel Defoe


Shipwrecked and castaway, Daniel DeFoe’s hard-luck character is still the standard for “growing where you’re planted.” Captured by pirates, …

This World Is Taboo

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Murray Leinster


Calhoun is an Interstellar Medical Serviceman, and he's needed on Dara. Trouble is: Dara is forbidden. Taboo. And breaking quarantine will m…

Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung

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Victor Appleton


The US Government is very smartly letting Tom Swift Jr. handle the recovery of its probe to Jupiter. But a mystery missile suddenly intercep…

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 3)

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Dr. Watson chronicles here some of the more interesting detective cases that he and his good friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, have encountered d…

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