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Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls

L. Frank Baum
 (1856 - 1919)

The Bluebird Books is a series of novels popular with teenage girls in the 1910s and 1920s. The series was begun by L. Frank Baum using his Edith Van Dyne pseudonym, then continued by at least three others, all using the same pseudonym. Baum wrote the first four books in the series, possibly with help from his son, Harry Neal Baum, on the third.

The books are concerned with adolescent girl detectives— a concept Baum had experimented with earlier, in The Daring Twins (1911) and Phoebe Daring (1912). The Bluebird series began with Mary Louise, originally written as a tribute to Baum's favorite sister, Mary Louise Baum Brewster. Baum's publisher, Reilly & Britton, rejected that manuscript, apparently judging the heroine too independent. Baum wrote a new version of the book; the original manuscript is lost. The title character is Mary Louise Burrows.

In this, the fourth book of the series, Mary Louise and friends form a group dedicated to supporting the soldiers in World War I, and she brings Josie O'Gorman in to spoil a treasonous plot against the government.

Read by Sibella Denton

Run Time 4 Hours 17 Minutes in 4 Audio Cds


Setion --- Chapter --- Run Time

1 01 - The Mass Meeting - 09:26
2 02 - Mary Louise Takes Command - 07:42
3 03 - The Liberty Girls - 16:04
4 04 - The Traitor - 13:23
5 05 - Unconvincing Testimony - 08:48
6 06 - To Help Win The War - 12:45
7 07 - The Liberty Shop - 08:14
8 08 - The Detective's Daughter - 10:17
9 09 - Gathering up the Threads - 10:55
10 10 - The Explosion - 07:14
11 11 - A Font of Type - 15:46
12 12 - Josie Buys a Desk - 15:06
13 13 - Joe Langley, Soldier - 05:54
14 14 - The Professor is Annoyed - 08:40
15 15 - Suspenders for Sale - 10:16
16 16 - Mrs. Charleworth - 11:19
17 17 - The Black Satchel - 10:09
18 18 - A Hint from Annie Boyle - 06:41
19 19 - The Printing Office - 12:31
20 20 - One Girl's Wits - 08:03
21 21 - Surprises - 09:12
22 22 - A Slight Mistake - 09:32
23 23 - The Flashlight - 12:28
24 24 - After the Crisis - 07:06
25 25 - Decorating - 02:54
26 26 - Keeping Busy - 07:13

Public domain books

A public-domain book is a book with no copyright, a book that was created without a license, or a book where its copyrights expired or have been forfeited.

In most countries the of copyright expires on the first day of January, 70 years after the death of the latest living author. The longest copyright term is in Mexico, which has life plus 100 years for all deaths since July 1928.

A notable exception is the United States, where every book and tale published before 1926 is in the public domain; American copyrights last for 95 years for books originally published between 1925 and 1978 if the copyright was properly registered and maintained.