Roger Melin

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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...

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General Fiction

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Eleanor M. Ingram - Thing from the Lake

To get away from city life periodically, New Yorker Roger Locke purchases an abandoned farm house in rural Connecticut, and with the assistance of his cousin Phillida and her beau Ethan Vere, he sets about fixing up...

Roger Melin 7 hours 35 minutes

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Romance

502

Thomas Hardy - Woodlanders

The story takes place in a small woodland village called Little Hintock, and concerns the efforts of an honest woodsman, Giles Winterborne, to marry his childhood sweetheart, Grace Melbury. Although they have been...

JimOCR and 19 more 14 hours 53 minutes

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Lewis and Clark: Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

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William R. Lighton - Lewis and Clark: Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

In the years 1804, 1805, and 1806, two men commanded an expedition which explored the wilderness that stretched from the mouth of the Missouri River to where the Columbia enters the Pacific, and dedicated to...

Roger Melin 3 hours 14 minutes

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General Fiction

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James Oliver Curwood - Honor of the Big Snows

What unseen force may have brought young Jan Thoreau and his music from out of the barren lands into the remote camp of Lac Bain, forever changing the lives of those few who lived there? What brought him to the home...

Roger Melin 7 hours 10 minutes

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General Fiction

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Albert Payson Terhune - His Dog

Albert Payson Terhune, perhaps best known for his book Lad, a Dog (later turned into a popular movie), was also a breeder of collies and a journalist. Some of his collie lines survive to this day. His Dog is...

Roger Melin 3 hours 11 minutes

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Short non-fiction

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 011

A collection of sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, articles, speeches and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass a...

Bellona Times and 11 more 5 hours 48 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Detective Fiction

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James Hay - No Clue! A Mystery Story

“No Clue! A Mystery Story” finds detective Jefferson Hastings at the home of wealthy but eccentric Arthur Sloane one hot summer night, when two other guests at Sloanehurst stumble across the body of young Mildred...

Roger Melin 7 hours 15 minutes

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General Fiction

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John W. Grey - Master Mystery

While Harry Houdini didn't rise to fame as a screen actor, silent film makers of the day sought to capitalize on his fame. The Master Mystery was Houdini's first such attempt, and it was embraced by the viewing...

Roger Melin 7 hours 52 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Bram Stoker - Jewel of Seven Stars

The Jewel of Seven Stars (also published under the name: The Jewel of the Seven Stars) is a horror novel by Bram Stoker first published in 1903. The story is about an archaeologist's plot to revive Queen Tera, an...

Roger Melin 10 hours 21 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Bret Harte - Aged Stranger

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Aged Stranger by Francis Bret Harte. This was the fortnightly poetry project for December 28th, 2008.

Alan Davis Drake and 14 more 27 minutes

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Anthologies

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Short Story Collection Vol. 036

A collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain chosen and read by a group of LibriVox members. The story of The Lamplighter (by Charles Dickens) is a special group reading, done by the following...

Shona and 13 more 7 hours 35 minutes Short Story Collections

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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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