Bev J Stevens

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Criminal Investigation: a Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers and Lawyers, Volume 3

Psychology

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Hans Gross - Criminal Investigation: a Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers and Lawyers, Volume 3

Reputedly inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories, Austrian criminal jurist and examining magistrate Hans Gross wrote the first handbook on criminal investigation. This treatise covers everything from the qualities of...

Availle and 12 more 12 hours 33 minutes

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Memoirs

509

Theodore Roosevelt - Through the Brazilian Wilderness

CM Slosson and 14 more 12 hours 33 minutes

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 4

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 4

In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious short stories from all corners of the world. Some of the stories appeared in...

Patti Cunningham and 14 more 11 hours 21 minutes Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

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Law

454

Walter Bagehot - English Constitution

The English Constitution is an extremely accessible work of political and legal science by Walter Bagehot, first published in serialized form in 1865-7. While some of his observations on the English system no longer...

sawasawaya and 3 more 10 hours 51 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

560

Grant Allen - Miss Cayley's Adventures

Fun stories of Miss Lois Cayley, independent young woman, as she, beginning with only twopence in her pocket, travels the world. (Summary by kristin) Miss Lois Cayley, a smart, strong and independent woman, is...

Kristin Hughes and 7 more 8 hours 56 minutes

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Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur

Gardening

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Gertrude Jekyll - Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur

Wood and Garden reads like a walk through the garden with reknowned garden designer Gertrude Jekyll as she discusses her plant choices and placement, how she integrates nature into her design, and how she maintains...

Ruth Golding and 11 more 7 hours 59 minutes

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Poetry

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William Wordsworth - Prelude

Among monuments of narrative poetry, The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet's Mind, by William Wordsworth, occupies a unique place. Wordsworth published the first version of the poem in 1798, but continued to work on it...

Bob Gonzalez and 9 more 7 hours 55 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Short Mystery Story Collection 004

Librivox’s Short Mystery Story Collection 004: a collection of ten short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Alan Winterrowd and 4 more 7 hours 38 minutes Short Mystery Collections

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Humorous Fiction

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William Makepeace Thackeray - Book of Snobs

The necessity of a work on Snobs, demonstrated from History, and proved by felicitous illustrations:—I am the individual destined to write that work—My vocation is announced in terms of great eloquence—I show that the...

Julie VW and 19 more 7 hours 21 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

536

Barry Pain - Here and Hereafter

This is a collection of stories by Barry Pain. While not all of these fall squarely into the genre of ghost and horror story, for which the author is so well-known until today, many of them will send chills down the...

Bev J Stevens and 9 more 7 hours 15 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

420

Wit and Humor of America, Vol 08

The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the eighth volume, 40 short stories and poems have been gathered from 35 authors. This volume is sure to delight listeners. (Summary by Linette Geisel)

Snapdragon and 9 more 6 hours 50 minutes Wit and Humor of America

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*Non-fiction

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John Phin - Seven Follies of Science

The seven follies of science; a popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them to which is added a small budget of interesting paradoxes, illusions,...

tmkenny and 12 more 6 hours 34 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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