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Books & documents
- The Olive Fairy Book — Unknown Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- Literary Lapses — Stephen Leacock Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- A battle piece — Ernest Haycox Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- The room in the tower, and other stories — E. F. Benson Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- The best short stories of 1919, and the yearbook of the American short story — Unknown Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- The Black Monk, and Other Stories — Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago — Arthur Conan Doyle Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- Reprinted Pieces — Charles Dickens Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- Old Indian Days — Charles A. Eastman Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- Complete Project Gutenberg William Dean Howells Works — William Dean Howells Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- Nine Unlikely Tales — E. Nesbit Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- The Grey Fairy Book — Unknown Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- Stories by English Authors: Africa (Selected by Scribners) — Unknown Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- Original Short Stories — Volume 09 — Guy de Maupassant Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- American short stories : Selected and edited with an introductory essay on the short story by Charles Sears Baldwin — Unknown Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- The hounds of Tindalos — Frank Belknap Long Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- Mother West Wind's Children — Thornton W. Burgess Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- The Clicking of Cuthbert — P. G. Wodehouse Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- The Big Fix — George O. Smith Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 04 — Robert Louis Stevenson Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- Wonder Tales from Many Lands — Katharine Pyle Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- Among the Farmyard People — Clara Dillingham Pierson Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- Ten minute stories — Algernon Blackwood Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- International Short Stories: American — Unknown Read / download (public domain) Project Gutenberg [Public Domain] [epub · text]
- Denny Holmes Interview 12 06 2024 Upload To IA (2024) — Tom Smith Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Weaving the short story, (1932) — Douglas Bement Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Bodacious : an AOL insider cracks the code to outrageous success for women (2002) — Foley, Mary E., 1965- Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- The Deep Roots of Fascist Thought (2025) — Blair Fix Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/]
- The American skyscraper, 1850-1940 : a celebration of height (2008) — Korom, Joseph J Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Murder at the racetrack (2006) — Penzler, Otto Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Jun Makihara (Monex Group); Deepak Moorjani (venture capitalist); John Stevens Sheldon (JP Stevens); Alex Wynaendts (Deutsche Bank); Michael Cohrs (Deutsche Bank); David Hatt (Deutsche Bank); Richard Walker (Deutsche Bank); Frank Forelle (Deutsche Bank) (2008) — Deepak Moorjani Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/]
- CIA Reading Room cia-rdp80-00810a005300490007-6: FACTORY FOR MANUFACTURE AND ASSEMBLY OF AUTOMOBILE PARTS, TIENTAIN (1954) — CIA Reading Room Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- CIA Reading Room cia-rdp80-00810a005600350005-0: 3RD WARSAW PONTOON BRIDGE REGIMENT (2016) — CIA Reading Room Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- CIA Reading Room cia-rdp82-00046r000200080008-3: DZIERZONIOW: GENERAL INFORMATION AND INSTALLATIONS (1953) — CIA Reading Room Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- CIA Reading Room cia-rdp82-00850r000100050007-8: JPRS ID: 8436 TRANSLATIONS ON JAPAN (2016) — CIA Reading Room Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- CIA Reading Room cia-rdp82-00457r014300290008-8: 1. PRAGUE-KBELY AIRFIELD 2. AIR ACTIVITIES AND AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION IN THE PRAGUE AREA (1952) — CIA Reading Room Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- CIA Reading Room cia-rdp82-00457r015100290006-4: TRUDOVAK CAMP AT ZVEZDETS (1953) — CIA Reading Room Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- CIA Reading Room cia-rdp83-00415r010600040005-4: ECONOMIC INFORMATION (1952) — CIA Reading Room Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- CIA Reading Room cia-rdp80m01009a000100050079-8: THE CIA WILL PAY FOR ITS CRIMES (1959) — CIA Reading Room Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- CIA Reading Room cia-rdp90-00552r000605480011-8: STRICTLY PERSONAL: EXCERPTS FROM MY DIARY (1985) — CIA Reading Room Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- CIA Reading Room cia-rdp90-00610r000200030001-2: ADDENDUM TO LEGISLATIVE HISTORY STENOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPT OF HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON EXPENDITURES IN THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS - (2016) — CIA Reading Room Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- CIA Reading Room cia-rdp88g01117r000300830005-2: ATTACHED ARE THE REQUESTED TALKING POINTS AND BACKGROUND MATERIAL FOR USE AT THE SIG MTG THIS AFTERNOON (1986) — CIA Reading Room Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- CIA Reading Room cia-rdp89b00708r000500140013-6: RECONNAISSANCE SATELLITE (1957) — CIA Reading Room Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- CIA Reading Room cia-rdp90-00965r000807500008-7: THE SPY WHO GOT AWAY (1986) — CIA Reading Room Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- CIA Reading Room cia-rdp84-00161r000400210106-0: H-L-S OF THE C.I.A. (1971) — CIA Reading Room Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- CIA Reading Room cia-rdp85m00364r001903760011-7: SOVIET PROPAGANDA ALERT (1983) — CIA Reading Room Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- CIA Reading Room cia-rdp88g01116r000700790019-9: ANALYSIS OF SOVIET CASH FLOW (1986) — CIA Reading Room Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- CIA Reading Room cia-rdp89g00720r000500080003-5: CIA AND THE MAKING OF AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY (1988) — CIA Reading Room Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- To Cut a Long Story Short (2000) — Jeffrey Archer Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Long Story Short (2022) — Serena Kaylor Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Long story short (2015) — Margot Leitman Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- NieR : Automata (2018) — Jun Eishima, Yoko Taro Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- AmGov (2019) — Christine Barbour Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- To Cut a Long Story Short (2004) — Tony Hadley Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Long Story Short, a Magazine for Writers (2016) — A. Long Story Short Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Long Story Short (2007) — Dennis Upper Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Long story short (1939) — G. B. Stern Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Long Story Short (2020) — Fish Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- The Long Valley (1938) — John Steinbeck Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Long story short (2011) — Siobhán Parkinson Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- A short history of nearly everything (2003) — Bill Bryson Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- A Long Way from Chicago (1998) — Richard Peck, R. Peck Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Long story short (2007) — Elyse Friedman Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- I, Robot (1950) — Isaac Asimov Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Long Story Short Lib/E (2015) — Margot Leitman Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Long Story Short (2020) — Lisa Brown Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Long Story Short (2017) — Rebecca Burton Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Short stories (1946) — Franz Kafka Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- 100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories (1978) — Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Larry Niven, Charles E. Fritch, Bill Pronzini, George R. R. Martin, Jerome Bixby, Ambrose Bierce, Edward D. Hoch, Alexei Panshin, Martin Gardner, Steven Utley, Gregory Benford, Richard Wilson, Robert Sheckley, Roger Zelazny, Damon Knight, Reginald Bretnor, Frederik Pohl, Laurence M. Janifer, James Blish, Joanna Russ, Ray Russell, Edward Wellen, Donald E. Westlake, Ben Bova, Barry N. Malzberg, Fred Saberhagen, Fritz Leiber, Karen Anderson, Bob Shaw, William F. Nolan, Henry Slesar, Dannie Plachta, Edward Rager, Hayford Peirce, Jeffrey S. Hudson, Walter S. Tevis, James Edward Sutherland, Joe L. Hensley, Duane Ackerson, Stephen Goldin, Robert Emmett Toomey Jr., Alfred Bester, Anthony Boucher, Nelson Slade Bond, F. M. Busby, Maggie Nadler, Grant Carrington, Keith Laumer, E. Michael Blake, James E. Gunn, Paul Dellinger, Lee Killough, Thomas F. Monteleone, Robert T. Kurosaka, James E. Thompson, Robert L. Fish, Bruce McAllister, Paul Bond, Mildred Downey Broxon, Alan Edward Nourse, David Bischoff, Ralph Milne Farley, Daniel A. Darlington, Walt Liebscher, K. W. MacAnn Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- How Long 'Til Black Future Month (2018) — N. K. Jemisin, Michelle Charrier Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- The Bachman Books (Long Walk / Rage / Roadwork / Running Man) (1985) — Stephen King Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
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