Roger Melin

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Action & Adventure Fiction

490

James Oliver Curwood - Golden Snare

With but two years of service in the RNMP Philip Raine finds himself somewhat unwillingly on the trail of Bram Johnson, wanted for murder and a wild, untamed and savage man who commands a pack of wolves as his...

Roger Melin 6 hours 22 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

459

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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Action & Adventure Fiction

453

Alice Muriel Williamson - House by the Lock

What secrets lay within the walls of the house by the lock? What secrets, if any, are held by the man who owns that mysterious house? A body is found in a backwater creek not far from the house by the lock, but...

Roger Melin 6 hours 13 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

558

James Oliver Curwood - Danger Trail

Chicago engineer Jack Howland is sent to the edge of the Canadian barren lands north of Prince Albert to establish a train route through some of the most trecherous terrain in North America. He would soon learn that...

Roger Melin 6 hours 8 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

458

Albert Bigelow Paine - Lucky Piece: A Story of the North Woods

While riding a stage back to the city late in the summer, a youngster had no money to spend, and so gives his lucky piece as payment to a young girl selling berries by the roadside. As time passes, in the Adirondack...

Roger Melin 6 hours 3 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

520

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 036

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the discovery of X-rays, earthquakes, Hegel, Sir William Osler, Charles William Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Charles...

Glenn O'Brien and 11 more 5 hours 58 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Historical Fiction

443

A. P. Herbert - Secret Battle

Like many soldiers at the beginning of their military careers, Harry Penrose has romantic ideas of climbing the ranks and attaining hero status. However, while stationed at Gallipoli, the realities of war begin to...

Roger Melin 5 hours 58 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

411

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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Romance

435

Captain Charles de Créspigny - Where the Path Breaks

The soldier awakened from the brink of death eight months after his injury on the battlefield. As he slowly regained his senses and his memory, the face of a girl creeps into his mind, and he soon recalls that this...

Roger Melin 5 hours 53 minutes

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Short non-fiction

515

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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Published 1900 onward

460

Ellis Parker Butler - Jack-Knife Man

A lighthearted tale which revolves around old Peter Lane, who lives in a houseboat on the Mississippi River and mostly whiles away his time whittling with his jack-knife and not really doing much else. That is,...

Roger Melin 5 hours 46 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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