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This is about a three-hundred mile trip across the Rocky Mountains on horseback with Howard Eaton. It is about fishing, and cool nights around a camp-fire, and long days on the trail. It is about a party of all sorts, from everywhere, of men and women, old and young, experienced folk and novices, who had yielded to a desire to belong to the sportsmen of the road. And it is by way of being advice also. Your true convert must always preach. (Introduction by Mary Roberts Rinehart quoted from the text.)...

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Adventure, Advice, Memoirs, Nature, Travel

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Another camper tale, this time set in the Canadian wilderness. A hunting party separates to track moose, and one member is abducted by the Wendigo of legend. Robert Aickman regarded this as one of the (possibly) six great masterpieces in the field....

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Fiction, Horror/Ghost stories

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Adele Garrison was the nom de plume of Nana Springer White, an American writer. Her career included time as a schoolteacher in Milwaukee. She later worked as an editor for the Milwaukee Sentinel and then a reporter and writer for the Chicago Examiner and Chicago American. Revelations of a Wife ran as a serial story in her daily newspaper column in multiple American newspapers from 1915 until the Depression. It told the story of the marital ups and downs of Margaret Madge Graham, an independent-minded former schoolteacher, and her husband Dicky, an artist. At the height of the story's popularity, it had one million regular readers....

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Adventure, Romance

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Burning Daylight, Jack London's fictional novel published in 1910, was one of the best selling books of that year and it was his best selling book in his lifetime. The novel takes place in the Yukon Territory in 1893. The main character, nicknamed Burning Daylight was the most successful entrepreneur of the Alaskan Gold Rush. The story of the main character was partially based upon the life of Oakland entrepreneur Borax Smith. (Wikipedia)...

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Adventure, Fiction

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Bored with his life as a wealthy businessman's only son, Travers Gladwin learns of a plot by a renowned art burglar to rob his house, so rather than thwart the planned burglary, he borrows a police uniform from a friend and decides to confront the robber by posing as an officer. When the burglar arrives at the house, he tries to pass himself off as Travers Gladwin. From there, things only get more complicated, including the arrival of the burglar's girlfriend who believes that her beau is the wealthy man's son. Comical and timely, the book was made into a movie multiple times, each hugely successful. (Summary by Roger Melin)...

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Fiction, Humor, Mystery

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Saudades é o primeiro romance pastoril escrito em língua portuguesa. É também conhecido como História de Menina e Moça' ou somente Menina e Moça, em razão da primeira frase do livro: Menina e moça me levaram de casa de minha mãe para muito longe. Publicado pela primeira vez em 1554, o romance é considerado o precursor do gênero bucólico em Portugal, e por isso tornou-se importante, mesmo que inacabado. A linguagem do romance, semelhante à dos árcades de um século depois e repleta de misticismo, é comparada à da Bíblia, nos cânticos e salmos. O texto agrega elementos das novelas de cavalaria, do romance pastoril e da novela sentimental. O enredo, contado sempre do ponto de vista feminino, desenvolve-se a partir de histórias intercaladas, ligadas todas pelo desencontro amoroso e pelo fatalismo do sofrimento. Quase nada se sabe da vida de seu autor, cujas obras se resumem a dois romances e um punhado de poemas, alguns dos quais constam do Cancioneiro Geral de Garcia e Resende. (Sumário por Leni)...

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Fiction, Literature, Romance

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This is the continuing story of Anne Shirley and the third book in the Anne of Green Gables series. In it Anne attends Redmond College where she is studying for her BA. She has many trials and tribulations along the way, including some romance. In Anne of the Island the reader is also introduced to many new characters, that in the true sense of Anne are also kindred spirits. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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Teen/Young adult, Romance

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Sir Henry Morton Stanley is famously quoted for saying Dr Livingstone, i Presume?. Born in Wales, he migrated over to the United States at the age of 18, he eventually became an overseas correspondent for the New York Herald. In 1869 Stanley was told by James Gordon Bennett Jr to find Livingstone, a scottish missionary and explorer. When Stanley commented on the cost Bennett's reply was: Well, I will tell you what you will do. Draw a thousand pounds now; and when you have gone through that, draw another thousand, and when that is spent, draw another thousand, and when you have finished that, draw another thousand, and so on; but, FIND LIVINGSTONE. How I Found Livingstone is Stanley's personnel account of his trip from Zanzibar to Lake Tanganyika on this quest, including time spent exploring the area with Livingstone. - Written by Lizzie Driver...

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Adventure, Biography, History, Travel

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Sammlung von 19 kurzen Werken von Karl May: Die beiden Kulledschi. Eine Orienterzählung aus Ägypten. Veröffentlicht in: Der Gute Kamerad. 5. Jg. Nr. 50. Berlin, Stuttgart (1891). Der Oelprinz. Ein Abenteuer aus den Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika. Veröffentlicht in: Frohe Stunden. 2. Jg. Nr. 11. Dresden, Leipzig (1878). Jagd auf wilde Truthühner in Texas. Ein kurzer Aufsatz. Veröffentlicht in: Illustrirte Welt. 38. Jg. Heft 15. Stuttgart, Leipzig, Berlin, Wien (1890). Das Straussenreiten der Somal. Skizze einer Völkerwiese. Veröffentlicht in: Der Gute Kamerad. 4. Jg. Nr. 13. Berlin, Stuttgart (1889). Herbstgedanken. Ein kurzer, bildhafter Aufsatz. Veröffentlicht in: Schacht und Hütte. 1. Jg. Nr. 6. Dresden (1875). Der blinde Bergmann. Ein Gedicht. Veröffentlicht in: Schacht und Hütte. 1. Jg. Nr. 3. Dresden (1875). Eine Seehundsjagd. Ein Abenteuer im Eismeer. Veröffentlich in: Der Gute Kamerad. 5. Jg. Nr. 22. Berlin, Stuttgart (1891). Die Both Shatters. Ein Abenteuer aus dem »wilden Westen von Karl Hohenthal (Pseudonym). Veröffentlicht in: Für alle Welt! 5. Jg. Heft 27. Stuttgart (1882). Inn – nu – woh, der Indianerhäuptling. Ein...

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Fiction, Essay/Short nonfiction, Poetry

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volunteers bring you 41 different recordings of Good Hours by Robert Frost. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of September 9th, 2007.

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Poetry

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William Le Queux was a British novelist and prolific writer of mysteries. Indeed, mystery surrounds the author himself as to whether he was a spy or rather just a self-promoter. Regardless of which is true, Le Queux brings us a story of intrigue and espionage that travels across Europe in the true spirit of a good mystery. There are shootings, burglaries, romances, escapes from prisons, and intricate conspiracies that may surprise and leave you scratching your head as you try to solve this “whodunit”. In the best tradition of a good mystery however, you may need to wait for the final chapters to discover the truth. (Summary by Tom Weiss)...

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Fiction, Spy stories, Mystery, Adventure

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In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious short stories from all corners of the world. Some of the stories appeared in this collection for the first time translated into English, and many of them come from unexpected sources, such as the letters of Pliny the Younger, or a Tibetan manuscript. In the second volume, we find stories written by English and Scotch authors. (Summary by Leni)...

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Mystery, Fiction, Spy stories, Short stories

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Don Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in the character of the Morisco historian, Cide Hamete Benengeli, whom he claims to have hired to translate the story from an Arabic manuscript he found in Toledo's bedraggled old Jewish quarter. The protagonist, Alonso Quixano, is a minor landowner who has read so many stories of chivalry that he descends into fantasy and becomes convinced he is a knight errant. Together with his companion Sancho Panza, the self-styled Don Quixote de la Mancha sets out in search of adventures. His lady is Dulcinea del Toboso, an imaginary object of his courtly love crafted from a neighbouring farmgirl by the illusion-struck knight (her real name is Aldonza Lorenzo, and she is totally unaware of his feelings for her. In addition, she never actually appears in the novel). Published in two volumes a decade apart, Don Quixote is the most influential work of literature to emerge from the Spanish Golden Age and perhaps the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature, it regularly appea...

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Adventure, Fiction, Literature

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De Kleine Johannes is een sprookje, waarin de ontwikkeling van kind tot volwassene en de worsteling met de levensraadsels centraal staan. We volgen het opgroeien van de kleine Johannes of in realiteit de schrijver zelf. Short summary in English: This book is a fairytale, which represents the growing up of the author from a small boy to an adult....

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Fiction, Literature

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Schetsen uit Amerika, een Nederlandse vertaling van American Notes (vertaler onbekend), is een reisverslag van Charles Dickens waarin hij zijn eerste bezoek aan de Verenigde Staten beschreef. Deze reis vond plaats in 1842 en zijn verblijf duurde zes maanden, van januari tot en met juni. Hij werd vergezeld door zijn vrouw Catherine. Na een zware overtocht op het overvolle schip Britannia van de Cunard Line kwam hij aan in Boston, waar hij, als reeds internationaal gevierd schrijver, een warm welkom kreeg. Dickens bereisde vervolgens voornamelijk de oostkust en het gebied van de Grote Meren. Ook bezocht hij president John Tyler in het Witte Huis. Dickens steekt zijn bewondering voor de Amerikaanse vorm van democratie niet onder stoelen of banken. Niettemin blijkt er sprake van een haat-liefde verhouding. Hij maakte een groot aantal kritische en zure opmerkingen, niet in de laatste plaats over het onderwerp auteursrechten. Zijn werken werden in Amerika volop gelezen, maar aangezien er geen internationale overeenkomst bestond op het gebied van copyright, verschenen zijn boeken in niet-geautoriseerde vorm en ontving de schrijver hiervoor...

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Memoirs, Travel

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volunteers bring you 7 different recordings of The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert W. Service.

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Poetry

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This sequel to Bangs' A House-Boat on the Styx continues the thought-experiment of bringing various historical and fictional figures together, detailing the adventures of the ladies of Hades after they are kidnapped by pirates and the attempts of the Associated Shades (led by Sherlock Holmes) to retrieve their house-boat. (Introduction by unfamiliar memory)...

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Fantasy, Fiction

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Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving lives contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired, single lives. Plutarch was not concerned with writing histories, as such, but in exploring the influence of character, good or bad, on the lives and destinies of famous men. The first pair of lives the Epaminondas-Scipio Africanus no longer exists, and many of the remaining lives are truncated, contain obvious lacunae and/or have been tampered with by later writers. His Life of Alexander is one of the five surviving secondary or tertiary sources about Alexander the Great and it includes anecdotes and descriptions of incidents that appear in no other source. Likewise, his portrait of Numa Pompilius, an early Roman king, also contains unique information about the early Roman calendar. In this copy-right expired 11-volume translation from the Loeb Classical library, the order of the paired lives is rearranged to present the Greek lives in chr...

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Biography, History

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A great civilization's fate lay in Dick Barrow's hands as he led his courageous fellow engineers into a strange and unknown land. None of them knew what lay ahead--what dangers awaited them--or what rewards. But they did not hesitate because the first question asked them had been: Are you a brave man? (Summary from jacket blurb/intro)...

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Science fiction

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The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the first volume, 53 short stories and poems have been gathered from 44 authors. This volume is sure to delight listeners. (Summary by Linette Geisel)...

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Humor