Roger Melin

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Zoe Anderson Norris - Way of the Wind

From the comfort of the hills of Kentucky traveled Celia and her husband Seth to the desolate prairies of Kansas, where cyclones, tornadoes, and endless wind were to greet them. Always, there was the wind cutting...

Roger Melin 4 hours 5 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Short Science Fiction Collection 044

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...

Patrick Reinhart and 15 more 7 hours 59 minutes Short Science Fiction Collections

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Glenn D. Bradley - Story of the Pony Express

The Story of the Pony Express offers an in depth account behind the need for a mail route to connect the eastern U.S. with the rapidly populating west coast following the gold rush of California, the springing up of...

Roger Melin 3 hours 6 minutes

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General Fiction

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Sara Ware Bassett - Flood Tide

Willie Spence may have been a bit eccentric by most standards, but he had a knack for creating gadgets in his small workshop at his home on Cape Cod. Whenever he was 'ketched' by an 'idee' he had to see it to...

Roger Melin 8 hours 17 minutes

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General Fiction

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Rex Stout - Under the Andes

Under the Andes was written by Rex Stout years before his creation of the immensely popular Nero Wolfe series of novels, and while perhaps his future writing style is still blossoming, certainly his knack for...

Roger Melin 10 hours 50 minutes

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Paul Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach - Good Sense

In 1770, Baron D'Holbach published his masterpiece, «Systeme de la Nature», which for a long time passed as the posthumous work of M. de Mirabaud. That text-book of «Atheistical Philosophy» caused a great sensation,...

Roger Melin 7 hours 29 minutes

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Eben Holden - A Tale of the North Country

Historical Fiction

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Irving Bacheller - Eben Holden - A Tale of the North Country

Eben Holden — A Tale of the North Country. Having lost both parents and his home in northern Vermont, orphan Willie Brower is taken in by Eben Holden, «Uncle Eb» who transports him westward to save him from being sent...

Roger Melin 10 hours 19 minutes

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

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Harriet Theresa Comstock - Janet of the Dunes

Known primarily for her children's books, Harriet T. Comstock would occasionally depart from that genre and showcase her writing talent in adult prose as well. Janet of the Dunes is one such departure wherein she...

Roger Melin 7 hours 37 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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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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General Fiction

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Barton Wood Currie - Officer 666

Bored with his life as a wealthy businessman's only son, Travers Gladwin learns of a plot by a renowned art burglar to rob his house, so rather than thwart the planned burglary, he borrows a police uniform from a...

Roger Melin 7 hours 51 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Robert F. Young - Knyght Ther Was

«But the Knyght was a little less than perfect, and his horse did not have a metabolism, and his 'castle' was much more mobile — timewise! — than it had any business being!» In 2178, once time travel had become a...

Roger Melin 2 hours 18 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Earle Ashley Walcott - Blindfolded

Giles Dudley is called upon by his cousin Henry Wilton to assist him in San Francisco, but the reason for the summons is not at all clear. Dudley answers the summons, only to find himself immediately wrapped in the...

Roger Melin 10 hours 57 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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