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Chapter Fifteen

In North by Night

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Peter Burchard


This story opens on St. Helena Island in July 1863. It is fiction but the battle and prison experiences of Lieutenant Timothy Bradford are b…

A Plan of Action

In The Secret of the Old Mill (Version 2)

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Franklin W. Dixon


Frank and Joe solve the case of a counterfeiting ring, after Mrs. Hardy took some from a stranger. A tale full of thrills! This is third boo…

Chapter 2

In Gold Hunting in Alaska

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Joseph Grinnell


In 1898, naturalist, Joseph Grinnell joins a company of twenty men bound for Kotzebue Sound, Alaska, from California aboard the schooner Pen…

Chapter 19

In Ran Away to Sea

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Thomas Mayne Reid


"I was just sixteen when I ran away to sea." So begins the story of Will, a young man attracted to the romance of the sea. But t…

Red Hair

In The Tower Treasure

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Franklin W. Dixon


A dying criminal confesses that his loot had been secreted in an old tower. It remains for the Hardy Boys to make an astonishing discovery t…

Down Stream

In Wild Pastures

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Winthrop Packard


American naturalist, Winthrop Packard, takes on a journey along pastures, ponds, bogs, brooks and woods alerting us to their many inhabitant…

VENICE—11 P.M. TO MIDNIGHT

In Around the clock in Europe: A travel sequence

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Charles Fish Howell


In this travelog, the author takes us on a tour of European cities, giving snapshots at given times of the day from midday til midnight.

The Devil’s Sooty Brother

In Household Tales (Version 2)

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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


Do you like fairy tales and stories about all sorts of animals and people? Here are a wide variety of stories that go from warm and fuzzy t…

At the Isles of Shoals

In Literary Pilgrimages of a Naturalist

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Winthrop Packard


Noted American Naturalist, Winthrop Packard, who gave us such titles as “Woodland Pastures,” “Wood Wanderings,” and “Wildwood Ways,” now tak…

The Wichita Falls Bank Robbery and Murder

In Captain Bill McDonald, Texas Ranger: A Story of Frontier Reform

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Albert Bigelow Paine


"William Jesse "Bill" McDonald (1852 - 1918) in the 1880s served as a deputy sheriff in Wood County. After moving to Hardeman…

Into the Dark: The Long Term Future of our Dying Universe

In Global Catastrophic Risks Conference 2008

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