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When Lighthouses are Dark: a Story of a Lake Superior Island

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Ethel C. Brill


The story of four children stranded on a Lake Superior island. They take refuge in a deserted lighthouse hoping to survive the winter. (Summ…

The Merry Anne

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Samuel Merwin and Samuel Merwin, Sr.


This 1904 maritime adventure is set in the Great Lakes region, upon water and in wood. Our hero is caught in a smuggling scheme and may lose…

Calumet “K”

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Samuel Merwin and Samuel Merwin, Sr.


"A novel, with several elements of rather unusual interest. As a tale, it is swift, simple, and absorbing, and one does not willingly p…

The Jingle Book

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Carolyn Wells


A collection of silly poetry and limericks for children.

Cornhuskers

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Carl Sandburg


Carl Sandburg's collection of 103 poems that earned a Pulitzer Prize Special Letters Award in 1919.

Girl Scout Collection

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Various


These articles, pamphlets, and stories relating to the Girls Scouts of America touch on the history, activities, ideals, and traditions of t…

The Short Line War

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Samuel Merwin and Samuel Merwin, Sr.


"The Short Line War is a story that will appeal more particularly to the sterner sex, and we take it that the hyphenated name, Merwin-W…

The Marriage-Feast

In The Count of Monte Cristo

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Alexandre Dumas


The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, …

Lard, Tallow, Soap and Candles

In Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers

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Elizabeth E. Lea


The compiler of [this book] having entered early in life upon a train of duties, was frequently embarrassed by her ignorance of domestic aff…

Chapter 38 - False Dawn

In Anne of the Island

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L.M. Montgomery and Lucy Maud Montgomery


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…

Version 2

In A Noiseless Patient Spider

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whitman_w and Walt Whitman


LibriVox volunteers bring you eight different readings of Walt Whitman’s A Noiseless Patient Spider, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by An…

Chapter 06 – Liberty

In Black Beauty (The Autobiography of a Horse)

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Anna Sewell


Black Beauty is Anna Sewell’s first and only novel. The story is told in the “first person” (or first horse) as an autobiographical memoir o…

Version 2

In A Vagabond Song

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Bliss Carman


LibriVox volunteers bring you fifteen different recordings of A Vagabond Song, by Bliss Carman, to celebrate the Autumnal Equinox. This was …

The Return / Mrs. Todd

In The Country of the Pointed Firs

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Sarah Orne Jewett


The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) is considered Jewett’s finest work, described by Henry James as her “beautiful little quantum of achi…

Jazz Fantasia - Read by BB

In Jazz Fantasia

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Carl Sandburg


As our weekly poem of 30-July-2006, “Jazz Fantasia” was a special challenge because it isn’t just about jazz, it IS jazz. The rhythm is cent…

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