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The Wisdom of Father Brown [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by G. K. Chesterton
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The consulting-rooms of Dr Orion Hood, the eminent criminologist and specialist in certain moral disorders, lay along the sea-front at Scarborough, in a series of very large and well-lighted french windows, which showed the North Sea like one endless outer wall of blue-green marble. In such a place the sea had something of the monotony of a blue-green dado: for the chambers themselves were ruled throughout by a terrible tidiness not unlike the terrible tidiness of the sea. It must ... more info>>
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Tom Swift and His Air Glider: Or Seeking the Platinum Treasure [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Victor Appleton
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"Well, Ned, are you ready?" "Oh, I suppose so, Tom. As ready as I ever shall be." "Why, Ned Newton, you're not getting afraid; are you? And after you've been on so many trips with me?" "No, it isn't exactly that, Tom. I'd go in a minute if you didn't have this new fangled thing on your airship. But how do you know how it's going to work -- or whether it will work at all? We may come a cropper." "Bless my insurance policy!" exclaimed a man who was standing near the two lads wh... more info>>
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Little Women: And Good Wives [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Louisa May Alcott
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"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. "It's so dreadful to be poor!" sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress. "I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all," added little Amy, with an injured sniff. "We've got Father and Mother, and each other," said Beth contentedly from her corner. The four young faces on which the firelight shone brightened at the cheerful words, but d... more info>>
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The Secret Garden [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little thin body, thin light hair and a sour expression. Her hair was yellow, and her face was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another. Her father had held a position under the English Government and had always been busy and ill himself, and her m... more info>>
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The Scarlet Pimpernel [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Baroness Orczy
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A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. The hour, some little time before sunset, and the place, the West Barricade, at the very spot where, a decade later, a proud tyrant raised an undying monument to the nation's glory and his own vanity. During the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its g... more info>>
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The Lost Continent [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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It's 2137 and two centuries of peace have passed since the end of the Great War with Europe -- a peace maintained by complete isolation. But now, Jefferson Turck, a lieutenant in the great Pan-American navy, is about to commit high treason -- punishable by death. He's taking his ship across 30dW toward forbidden Europe.
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Emma McChesney & Co. [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Edna Ferber
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The door marked "MRS. MCCHESNEY" was closed. T. A. Buck, president of the Buck Featherloom Petticoat Company, coming gaily down the hall, stopped before it, dismayed, as one who, with a spicy bit of news at his tongue's end, is met with rebuff before the first syllable is voiced. That closed door meant: "Busy. Keep out." "She'll be reading a letter," T. A. Buck told himself grimly. Then he turned the knob and entered his partner's office. Mrs. Emma McChesney was reading a letter.... more info>>
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The Last of the Mohicans [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by James Fenimore Cooper
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James Fenimore Cooper's classic tale of frontier life in 1757 follows the adventures of the wilderness scout, Hawkeye, and his legendary rifle, Killdeer, during times of unrest toward the close of the French and Indian War. Hawkeye, along with his two Mohican friends, Chingachgook and Uncas, find themselves sided with the British against the ruthless Huron warrior, Magua, and his allies, the French. Set in the wilds of upper New York State, this tale is the second in the famous Le... more info>>
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Evergreens [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Jerome K. Jerome
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They look so dull and dowdy in the spring weather, when the snow drops and the crocuses are putting on their dainty frocks of white and mauve and yellow, and the baby-buds from every branch are peeping with bright eyes out on the world, and stretching forth soft little leaves toward the coming gladness of their lives. They stand apart, so cold and hard amid the stirring hope and joy that are throbbing all around them. And in the deep full summer-time, when all the rest of nature do... more info>>
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The Happy Prince and Other Tales [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Oscar Wilde
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High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he had two bright sapphires, and a large red ruby glowed on his sword-hilt. He was very much admired indeed. "He is as beautiful as a weathercock," remarked one of the Town Councillors who wished to gain a reputation for having artistic tastes; "only not quite so useful," he added, fearing lest people should think him unpractical, which he reall... more info>>
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The Gods of Mars [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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The second book of the Barsoom series, The Gods of Mars continues the story of John Carter as begun in A Princess of Mars. It's been 10 years since John Carter involuntarily returned from Barsoom to Earth. Has his beloved wife, Dejah Thoris survived the crisis which precipitated John Carter's return? He yearns to journey again to Barsoom and finally succeeds in doing so, only to be plunged into the midst of the dreaded Valley Dor by the Lost Sea of Korus, where blood-sucking pla... more info>>
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Charlotte Brontė's Notes on the Pseudonyms Used by Herself: and Her Sisters, Emily and Anne Brontė [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Charlotte Brontė
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It has been thought that all the works published under the names of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell were, in reality, the production of one person. This mistake I endeavoured to rectify by a few words of disclaimer prefixed to the third edition of Jane Eyre. These, too, it appears, failed to gain general credence, and now, on the occasion of a reprint of Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, I am advised distinctly to state how the case really stands. Indeed, I feel myself that it is ... more info>>
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The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
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In November 2002, the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the 9/11 Commission, was created to examine the facts and circumstances surrounding the September 11 attacks and from this information identify lessons learned to safeguard against future acts of terrorism. After 18 months of investigation and testimony, this independent bipartisan panel issued 37 recommendations to help prevent future attacks, divided into sections detailing a global strategy an... more info>>
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The Chessmen of Mars [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Perhaps the most imaginative of the volumes in the Barsoom series, The Chessman of Mars was first published in 1922. When Tara, daughter of John Carter and Dejah Thoris, is introduced to Gahan, Jed of Gathol, she is not overly impressed by the dandy. However, Gahan falls instantly in love and is the first to leap to the rescue when Tara turns up missing after being swept away in her flier during a ferocious storm. Tara is captured by the kaldane, a species which has evolved into ... more info>>
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In the Cage [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Henry James
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It had occurred to her early that in her position -- that of a young person spending, in framed and wired confinement, the life of a guinea-pig or a magpie -- she should know a great many persons without their recognising the acquaintance. That made it an emotion the more lively -- though singularly rare and always, even then, with opportunity still very much smothered -- to see any one come in whom she knew outside, as she called it, any one who could add anything to the meanness of h... more info>>
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The Scarecrow of Oz [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by L. Frank Baum
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"Seems to me," said Cap'n Bill, as he sat beside Trot under the big acacia tree, looking out over the blue ocean, "seems to me, Trot, as how the more we know, the more we find we don't know." "I can't quite make that out, Cap'n Bill," answered the little girl in a serious voice, after a moment's thought, during which her eyes followed those of the old sailor-man across the glassy surface of the sea. "Seems to me that all we learn is jus' so much gained." "I know; it looks that wa... more info>>
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Tarzan of the Apes [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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The first book of the enormously popular series, Tarzan of the Apes describes how Lord Greystoke and Lady Alice are stranded on the coast of Africa by mutineers. After their untimely death, their child is raised by a tribe of great apes and named Tarzan. Fate brings a treasure-hunting party, including the supposed inheritor of the house of Greystoke and Jane Porter, to the same region of Africa, forcing Tarzan to choose between love and duty. The Tarzan of the Burroughs books is much ... more info>>
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by William Shakespeare
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If my heart e'r loved till now, forswear it sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night. -- Romeo, on his first sight of Juliet (Act 1, Sc. 5) Thus is young Romeo smitten in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595). When the teenage lovers wed in secret, their hope for happiness is shattered by the death of Juliet's cousin at the hands of an enraged Romeo, whose best friend the cousin has just slain. Romeo is banished, and Juliet nearly forced to marry another suitor. Inste... more info>>
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Orations [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by John Quincy Adams
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"The Jubilee of the Constitution, delivered at New York, -- April 30, 1839, -- Before the New York Historical Society." Fellow-Citizens and Brethren, Associates of the New York Historical Society: Would it be an unlicensed trespass of the imagination to conceive that on the night preceding the day of which you now commemorate the fiftieth anniversary -- on the night preceding that thirtieth of April, 1789, when from the balcony of your city hall the chancellor of the State of New... more info>>
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Somebody's Little Girl [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Martha Young
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If I were just to tell the things that Bessie Bell remembered I should tell you some very strange things. Bessie Bell did not know whether she remembered them, or just knew them, or whether they just grew, those strange things in some strange country that never was anywhere in the world; for when Bessie Bell tried to tell about those strange things great grown wise people said: "No, no, Bessie Bell, there is nothing in the world like that." So Bessie Bell just remembered and wond... more info>>
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Henry Clay's Remarks Before the House and Senate: of the United States of America [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Anthony J. Adam
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Part 1--Henry Clay, "On the Expunging Resolutions," U.S. Senate,--16 January 1837 WHAT patriotic purpose is to be accomplished by this Expunging resolution? What new honor or fresh laurels will it win for our common country? Is the power of the Senate so vast that it ought to be circumscribed, and that of the President so restricted that it ought to be extended? What power has the Senate? None, separately. It can only act jointly with the other House, or jointly with the Executiv... more info>>
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Glinda of Oz [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by L. Frank Baum
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Glinda, the good Sorceress of Oz, sat in the grand court of her palace, surrounded by her maids of honor -- a hundred of the most beautiful girls of the Fairyland of Oz. The palace court was built of rare marbles, exquisitely polished. Fountains tinkled musically here and there; the vast colonnade, open to the south, allowed the maidens, as they raised their heads from their embroideries, to gaze upon a vista of rose-hued fields and groves of trees bearing fruits or laden with sweet-... more info>>
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The Time Machine [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by H G. Wells
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"But it was the lawn. For the white leprous face of the sphinx was towards it. Can you imagine what I felt as this conviction came home to me? But you cannot. The Time Machine was gone! "At once, like a lash across the face, came the possibility of losing my own age, of being left helpless in this strange new world. The bare thought of it was an actual physical sensation. I could feel it grip me at the throat and stop my breathing. In another moment I was in a passion of fear and... more info>>
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Dark Lady of the Sonnets [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by George Bernard Shaw
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I had better explain why, in this little piece d'occasion, written for a performance in aid of the funds of the project for establishing a National Theatre as a memorial to Shakespeare, I have identified the Dark Lady with Mistress Mary Fitton. First, let me say that I do not contend that the Dark Lady was Mary Fitton, because when the case in Mary's favor (or against her, if you please to consider that the Dark Lady was no better than she ought to have been) was complete, a port... more info>>
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The People That Time Forgot [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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The People That Time Forgot, is the second book of three in a series that many Edgar Rice Burroughs fans consider his best work. An operation to rescue Bowen J. Tyler from the hidden island of Caprona is launched, led by Tom Billings, a friend of the Tyler family. Billings crashes an aeroplane in the interior of the island and is forced to attempt to trek back to the rescue crew. Luckily, he rescues a beautiful native maiden from certain death and is able to learn much about the odd ... more info>>
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