Roger Melin

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Garrett P. Serviss - Curiosities of the Sky

Astronomy is known as the oldest of the sciences, and it will be the longest-lived because it will always have arcana that have not been penetrated."-Excerpt from the Preface of Curiosities of the Sky by Garrett...

Laura Caldwell and 5 more 5 hours 43 minutes

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Romance

478

Porter Emerson Browne - Fool There Was

Two friends were asked by their respective fathers on their death beds to promise to marry a special girl, who lived across the street and who they had been very fond of since childhood. Once they reached young...

Roger Melin 5 hours 39 minutes

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Anthologies

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Short Story Collection Vol. 035

A collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain chosen and read by a group of LibriVox members.

enkhsaruul and 18 more 5 hours 25 minutes Short Story Collections

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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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Children's Fiction

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Jim Kjelgaard - Black Fawn

Bud Sloan was an orphan who had been 'sold out' of the orphanage to work on a farm once he'd been old enough to labor. The farm where he was to work was owned by an aging farmer and his wife who had raised a large...

Roger Melin 5 hours 22 minutes

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General Fiction

462

Charles Clark Munn - Pocket Island

Along the coast of Maine are littered thousands of small islands. One such, named 'Pocket Island' by the locals was so called because of a pocket formed twice daily by the waning of the tides. The coast of Maine holds...

Roger Melin 5 hours 20 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 058

Sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. The human condition is variously explored in Chesterton's essay «The Contented Man,» Shōtoku Taishi's «Laws» outlining the...

Larry Wilson and 10 more 5 hours 3 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers

521

Jacques Futrelle - Elusive Isabel

Elusive Isabel is a novel by Jacques Futrelle (April 9, 1875 — April 15, 1912) first published in 1909. Set in Washington, D.C., it is a spy novel about an international conspiracy of the «Latin» countries against the...

J. M. Smallheer and 7 more 4 hours 45 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Barry Pain - Exchange of Souls

Although only lightly known as an author of horror stories, Barry Pain departs from his typical themes with 'An Exchange of Souls'. In this novel, respected doctor Daniel Myas is a scientist who has developed a...

Roger Melin 4 hours 41 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

495

John Henry Haaren - Famous Men of the Middle Ages

“THE study of history, like the study of a landscape, should begin with the most conspicuous features. Not until these have been fixed in memory will the lesser features fall into their appropriate places and assume...

David Kleparek and 10 more 4 hours 40 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace, Book 02: 1805

War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story...

Gesine and 11 more 4 hours 38 minutes War and Peace (Maude Translation Books 1-17)

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Charles Willing Beale - Ghost of Guir House

Do you think you understand ghosts? Now you will. Paul Henley, seemingly summoned to a mysterious rural Virginia mansion from his home in New York, finds himself as a guest at a remote, dilapidated colonial house...

Roger Melin 4 hours 38 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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