Roger Melin

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Detective Fiction

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Robert Barr - Revenge!

A collection of 20 short stories of the crime, detective, and thriller variety, sharing a common theme of… you guessed it, revenge, and often with surprise conclusions. Elements of the style of Alfred Hitchcock may be...

Roger Melin 10 hours 2 minutes

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*Non-fiction

470

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 049

Sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include science and natural history--carnivorous plants, tadpoles, tent caterpillars, flights of birds, horse training,...

Roger Melin and 7 more 3 hours 29 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Action & Adventure Fiction

416

Fred M. White - Mystery of the Ravenspurs

The Ravenspurs have for generations resided quietly in prosperity and comfort at their seaside castle. But the clan is suddenly besieged with strange happenings which are dwindling the population of the family to only...

Roger Melin 11 hours 59 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

399

George Eggleston - Man of Honor

New Yorker Robert Pagebrook travels to Virginia to visit relatives. The Civil War has ended and family ties are in order to be re-established. All goes well; the family relationships are as they should be, perhaps...

Roger Melin 5 hours 54 minutes

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Animals

490

American Book of the Dog

Here is a period piece, covering 47 breeds, about the early days of dog breeding, the birth of the American Kennel Club (1884) which firmly established breed standards, and the development of bench shows and field...

Michele Fry and 16 more 24 hours 10 minutes

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Short Stories

602

Short Story Collection Vol. 066

Another great collection of short stories in English, selected and read by Librivox readers.

Peter Thomlinson and 7 more 10 hours 26 minutes Short Story Collections

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What the White Race May Learn from the Indian

Essays & Short Works

435

George Wharton James - What the White Race May Learn from the Indian

People learn from other people, and races have forever learned from other races. Herein we are treated to an in-depth understanding of categorized social characteristics of the Native American peoples, primarily those...

Roger Melin 7 hours 17 minutes

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*Non-fiction

405

Ray Stannard Baker - Following the Color Line

Subtitled «An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy», we are presented an in-depth and essentially non-opinionated open view of race relations as they existed in the U.S. in 1908, more than 40 years...

Roger Melin 14 hours 40 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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James H. Collins - Great Taxicab Robbery

In 1912, $25,000 was stolen during a bank transfer in New York City in broad daylight. In what may appear astonishing in today's world, the transfer occurred in a New York City taxicab. This factual account...

Roger Melin 2 hours 41 minutes

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General Fiction

407

Jackson Gregory - Six Feet Four

A hotel is robbed one night, and a cowboy makes his getaway with but few witnesses. When a young woman is also robbed, suspicion falls on one particular man who matches the description of the former thief. The...

Roger Melin 8 hours 53 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

470

Richard le Gallienne - October Vagabonds

Richard and his friend Colin must sadly return from their distant hermitage to New York City at summer's end. However, rather than take the train on the 430 mile trip to the city, the two decide to walk the route,...

Roger Melin 3 hours 13 minutes

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Short Stories

498

Myrtle Reed - Threads of Grey and Gold

This is a collection of short stories and poems by Myrtle Reed. Many of the stories are short romances, and they share the unique, nostalgic, sometimes melancholy atmosphere so characteristic of Myrtle Reed's stories....

MaryAnn and 10 more 6 hours 40 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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