Roger Melin

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Robert Leighton - Dogs and All About Them

This comprehensive guide on dog-rearing looks at dogs as more than just pets — as people's best friends. The author describes each breed of dog in a detailed and systematic way, with complete notes on show-dogs....

Availle and 22 more 13 hours 37 minutes

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General Fiction

543

Johnston McCulley - Brand of Silence

Harrington Strong was a pseudonym used by author Johnston McCulley, creator of the character Zorro and many others. The Brand of Silence — A Detective Story finds Sidney Prale returning to New York after ten years...

Roger Melin 6 hours 53 minutes

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Performing Arts

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P. T. Barnum - Humbugs of the World

P. T. Barnum exposes some of the chief humbugs of the world with his usual entertaining style. He looks at medicine and quacks, ghosts, witchcraft, religious humbugs, money manias, adventurers, personal...

Barry Eads and 20 more 12 hours 48 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

506

Peter B. Kyne - Valley of the Giants

The man was John Cardigan; in that lonely, hostile land he was the first pioneer. This is the tale of Cardigan and Cardigan's son, for in his chosen land the pioneer leader in the gigantic task of hewing a path for...

Roger Melin 12 hours 6 minutes

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Nature

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Bradford Torrey - Florida Sketch-Book

This is a series of late-19th Century essays about Florida's flora & fauna written by a Massachusetts-based naturalist. (Summary by BellonaTimes) Note: page 142 was read from Google Books as it was missing from...

Bellona Times and 5 more 5 hours 25 minutes

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Final Report of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing

Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

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President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing - Final Report of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing

In light of recent events that have exposed rifts in the relationships between local police and the communities they protect and serve, on December 18, 2014, President Barack Obama signed an executive order...

Anita Roy Dobbs and 7 more 3 hours 25 minutes United States Government Reports

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Science Fiction

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Short Science Fiction Collection 022

Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and scientific method, but are not facts of the author’s contemporary world. The...

Derek Bever and 5 more 3 hours 59 minutes Short Science Fiction Collections

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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James Oliver Curwood - Flower of the North

Flower of the North finds Philip Whittemore on an adventure which takes him up the Churchill River of northern Canada to a land which he thought he knew. However, tucked in among the rocks and hills lies an...

Roger Melin 8 hours 25 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

507

Octavus Roy Cohen - Midnight

The crime seemed to have lost itself in the sleety cold of the December midnight upon which it was committed. The trails were not blind--there were simply no trails. The circumstances baffled explanation--a lone...

Roger Melin 6 hours 19 minutes

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General Fiction

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H. De Vere Stacpoole - Man Who Lost Himself

Best known for his literary work The Blue Lagoon , which has been made into film several times over, H. De Vere Stacpoole’s first publication was a book titled The Intended in 1894. Stacpoole was disappointed at...

Roger Melin 8 hours 16 minutes

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General Fiction

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Francis Brett Young - Tragic Bride

The story centers on Gabrielle Hewish, only and lonely child of Sir Jocelyn Hewish, a loveable lush and owner of the peaceful Roscarna estate nestled in the Irish countryside. In due course, young Gabrielle falls in...

Roger Melin 6 hours 14 minutes

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General Fiction

558

Ivan Turgenev - Fathers and Sons

The fathers and children of the novel refers to the growing divide between the two generations of Russians, and the character Yevgeny Bazarov has been referred to as the «first Bolshevik», for his nihilism and...

Roger Melin 9 hours 15 minutes

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New

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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