Roger Melin

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Autobiography Memories and Experiences, Volume 2

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Moncure Daniel Conway - Autobiography Memories and Experiences, Volume 2

Moncure Daniel Conway was an American abolitionist, Unitarian, clergyman and author. This second volume of his autobiography covers the years from the US Civil War to roughly 1904. (Summary by JoeD)

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Ambrose Bierce - Can Such Things Be?

24 short stories in fairly typical Bierce fashion — ghostly, spooky, to be read (or listened to) in the dark, perhaps with a light crackling fire burning dimly in the background. Stories of ghosts, apparitions, and...

Roger Melin 7 hours 37 minutes

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General Fiction

423

Jessie Benton Frémont - Will and the Way Stories

Simply put, this is a book of 9 short vignettes each of which describes a different scenario which demonstrates the age old adage: 'where there's a will, there's a way'. (Summary by Roger Melin)

Roger Melin 3 hours 28 minutes

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Westerns

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Ridgwell Cullum - Trail of the Axe

Dave ran a lumber mill in western Canada. There are some workers within his organization who he trusts implicitly, some who he doesn't trust at all, and some who he is unsure about. But Dave is basically a trusting...

Roger Melin 12 hours 15 minutes

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General Fiction

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Ben Hecht - Gargoyles

The author, Ben Hecht, was a prolific writer as well as a renowned screenwriter, producer, and director of films. His screenwriting skills include some of the most popular films of Hollywood's golden era, including...

Roger Melin 12 hours 2 minutes

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General Fiction

462

Harold Bindloss - Protector

Harold Bindloss, while born in England, based most of his novels in western Canada, and The Protector is based primarily in and around Vancouver and Victoria. There is often danger involved in the mining...

Roger Melin 9 hours 31 minutes

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Charles A. Siringo - Billy the Kid

A cowboy outlaw whose youthful daring has never been equalled in the annals of criminal history. When a bullet pierced his heart he was less than twenty-two years of age, and had killed twenty-one men, Indians not...

Roger Melin 2 hours 19 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

400

James B. Hendryx - Snowdrift

The story revolves around Carter Brent, an alcoholic and gambler who had struck gold many times in the Yukon, but gambled and drank it away in Dawson; and Snowdrift, the half-breed who had spent her life with a...

Roger Melin 11 hours 21 minutes

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General Fiction

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Herman Landon - Gray Phantom

A woman is apparently murdered in a New York auditorium under very suspicious circumstances one evening during a performance. Helen Hardwick happened to be in attendance that evening, as she had written the play that...

Roger Melin 8 hours 12 minutes

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General Fiction

450

Isabel Ostrander - Anything Once

An unlikely pair of wanderers they were; the orphan girl Lou and her travelling partner Jim Botts. Jim appeared in need of following some apparent 'rules' during the journey, while Lou seemed in need of better...

Roger Melin 3 hours 3 minutes

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General Fiction

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Katharine Newlin Burt - Branding Iron

From the cold and mountainous regions of Wyoming to the bright lights of the big city, The Branding Iron is the story of a remarkable woman, Joan Carver. Born of poor means, at a fairly young age Joan decides to leave...

Roger Melin 8 hours 1 minute

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General Fiction

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E. W. Howe - Mystery of the Locks

Davy's Bend was a dying, lonely, uncared for river town. So when a stranger showed up one day and bought the old unoccupied house called 'The Locks' one dreary day, the inhabitants of the town were naturally very...

Roger Melin 10 hours 19 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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