Stories & the Vault
The King's shelf — the house's stories, its crime & horror collection, and the crown art.
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Every shelf of the house, and the world's great books, under one roof. Come in and find a book.
One search, two worlds: In the House (our shelves & rooms) and In the World's Catalog (every book we can find for you).
Our shelves — the rooms of this house where stories, songs, lessons, and help live.
The King's shelf — the house's stories, its crime & horror collection, and the crown art.
Walk in →Mr. Realla's own catalog on the house radio — his beats and songs, playing free.
Walk in →The radio dial of the house — Denver's stations and the network's own channels.
Walk in →Color right here in the house — original coloring books for the kids and the grown folks, pen and all.
Walk in →Neighbors helping neighbors — food, rides, know-how, and a hand when you need one.
Walk in →The Theater — the crew's shows and screenings, on the house's own stage.
Walk in →Crew cartoons, skits, and reels — the funny shelf of the house.
Walk in →The papers of every country on Earth — find your people's paper and read it at its own site.
Walk in →The great books of the world, sorted by kind — every one public domain, free to read at Project Gutenberg. No account, no charge, forever.

Scrooge, three ghosts, and one night to change a heart.
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Sara stays kind and brave even when everything is taken from her.
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Tiny animal stories with lessons that never got old.
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Down the rabbit hole — the dream adventure every kid should meet once.
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The Little Mermaid and the Ugly Duckling, from the man who wrote them.
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Anne Shirley — enough imagination for the whole island.
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A horse tells his own life story — gentle and unforgettable.
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The original fairy tales — darker and better than the cartoons.
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Four sisters growing up, dreaming big, and sticking together.
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The boy who wouldn't grow up, and the flight to Neverland.
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Fence-painting, buried treasure, and river mischief in Missouri.
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Mowgli, raised by wolves, learns the Law of the Jungle.
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A locked garden, a hidden key, and two kids who heal each other.
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One naughty rabbit, one garden, one very close call.
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Dorothy, a tornado, and the yellow brick road to Oz.
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Alice steps through the mirror into a living chessboard world.
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Huck and Jim ride the Mississippi River toward freedom.
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One bet, one timetable, all the way around the planet.
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Shipwrecked alone on an island — the first survival story.
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Buck the dog answers the call of the Yukon wild.
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Betrayed and imprisoned, he escapes — and plans the sweetest revenge ever written.
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All for one and one for all — sword fights and brotherhood.
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Maps, pirates, and X marks the spot — the one that started it all.
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Captain Nemo and the Nautilus, under every ocean on Earth.
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The Headless Horseman rides on Halloween night.
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He stays young forever while the portrait pays the price.
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One respectable doctor, one dark other half.
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A governess, two children, and ghosts that may not be there.
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A short, sharp classic: the thoughts you keep build the life you get.
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He taught himself to read, then wrote his way to freedom.
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A printer's son builds himself into a founder — the original hustle book.
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Du Bois names the color line — essential American writing.
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Born enslaved, he built a school and a movement — in his own words.
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America singing — Whitman's big, joyful song of himself and all of us.
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Small poems, enormous thunder.
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Once upon a midnight dreary — and more of Poe's greatest poems.
Read free at Project Gutenberg →The first known cookbook published by a Black woman in America — G Ma’s shelf starts here.
Read free at HathiTrust →Old Southern cooking written down by a woman who cooked it for a living.
Read free at Internet Archive →The recipes and the running of a great house, from 1827.
Read free at Michigan State →The classic that taught America to cook by exact measure.
Read free at Internet Archive →The mighty household bible of 1861 — recipes and the whole running of a home.
Read free at Project Gutenberg →Looking for a book that isn't on these shelves? The search at the top of this room also reaches Open Library — the world's catalog of nearly every book ever published. Results show the cover, the author, and the year, and every result doors to the book's own Open Library page, where the legal read & borrow options live. New books stay on their own shelves — we catalog them and point the way; we never host copies that aren't ours or the world's to share.
Try it: tap a chip under the search box, or type any title — "Dune", "The Great Gatsby", a book from school, anything.