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Tours in the South Coast District

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Queensland Railways


An early booklet, designed to encourage tourism in the northern parts of New South Wales, and the southern parts of Queensland, particularly…

Plant Conservation

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Timothy Walker


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol 2

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Henry Richard Fox Bourne


Lord Cochrane was a Napoleonic-era sea captain, whose adventures were the source material for many popular series of naval fiction. He start…

The dogaressas of Venice: The wives of the doges

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Edgcumbe Staley


A series of biographies of the wives of the doges (leaders) of the Venetian Republic. - Summary by Timothy

Venetian Life

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William Dean Howells


William Dean Howells was American Consul to Venice for four years. His term ended in 1865. He wrote about the city, and the culture of the V…

Jesus of Nazareth, A Biography

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John Mark and King James Version


"Jesus of Nazareth, a Biography, by John Mark," recognizes the author of the second Gospel as that "John, whose surname was M…

The Offshore Pirate

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F. Scott Fitzgerald


This is a long short story in 6 parts from Fitzgerald's 1920 short story collection, Flappers and Philosophers. It predates the screwball mo…

Swamp Island

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Mildred A. Wirt Benson


Late entry in the Penny Parker teen girl mystery series (1939-47) by one of the early ghostwriters (as Carolyn Keene) of Nancy Drew concerns…

A Traveller in War-Time

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Winston Churchill


This is a collection of a series of journalistic articles written during his travels throughout WWI era Europe that Churchill -- the America…

Rain

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W. Somerset Maugham


One of Maugham's most famous short stories, Rain unfolds in a soggy tropical paradise marred by self-righteous hypocrites trying to force th…

Bernice Bobs Her Hair

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F. Scott Fitzgerald


Pretty but socially clueless Bernice lets her know-it-all cousin push her around, but eventually, something's gotta give! (Introduction by B…

O Pioneers! (version 2)

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Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather


O Pioneers! tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish immigrants in the farm country near the fictional town of Hanover, Nebraska…

The Ice Palace (version 3)

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F. Scott Fitzgerald


The story is about Sally Carrol Happer, a young southern woman from the fictional city of Tarleton, Georgia, who becomes engaged one summer …

The Gray Plague

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Lloyd Eshbach


End of the world sci-fi tale borrows heavily from H.G. Wells' WOTW and In The Days of the Comet -- looks like fun ! ( Summary by BellonaTime…

The Rover Boys at School

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Arthur M. Winfield


First of the famous Rover Boys books by future Hardy Boys creator Edward Stratemeyer (under the pseudonym Arthur M Winfield), this is an int…

Gentle Julia

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Booth Tarkington


Penrod for girls in the form of Florence, the bratty younger cousin of luminous Julia Atwater, enlivens this romantic comedy set in Tarkingt…

The Caves of Fear

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Harold L. Goodwin


Entry in the Rick Brant series by Goodwin under the name John Blaine, which began in 1947. 'Rick and Scotty travel to the Himalayas again, …

30 American Poems

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Various


This is a sequel of sorts to 37 American Poems, one of my first solos. Concentration here is on late 19th to early 20th Century works by US …

A Little Bush Maid

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Mary Grant Bruce


An Australian children's classic about life on a ranch around the same time of A Little Florida Lady, with a similarly plucky tomboy heroine…

The Mason-Bees

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Jean-Henri Fabre


This is more than a book about bees and their lives; the author talks about his cats, red ants, and insect psychology in general. Jean Hen…

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