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Old Times on the Mississippi
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
Old Times on the Mississippi is a non-fiction work by Mark Twain. It was published in 1876. Originally published in serial form in the Atlan…
Miscellaneous Pieces
Read by David Barnes
John Bunyan
John Bunyan (November 28, 1628 – August 31, 1688), a Christian writer and preacher, was born at Harrowden (one mile south-east of Bedford), …
My Path to Atheism
Read by Kevin Green
Annie Besant
My Path to Atheism is a remarkable document in many ways, not least that it was written by a woman in Victorian England, not the most open f…
Home Life in Colonial Days
Read by Susan Morin
Alice Morse Earle
CHAPTER IHOMES OF THE COLONISTSWhen the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have se…
Woman on the American Frontier
Read by Bridget Gaige
William Worthington Fowler
Many books describe the role of men during American history. However, at the same time, women did much: comforted, fought, helped, raised ch…
The Quest of the Historical Jesus
Read by JoeD
Albert Schweitzer
In this book, Schweitzer traces the historical progress of 'Historical Jesus' research, from Hermann Reimarus in the mid 18th century, to Wi…
Canyons of the Colorado
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John Wesley Powell
John Wesley Powell was a pioneer American explorer, ethnologist, and geologist in the 19th Century. In 1869 he set out to explore the Colora…
1000 Things Worth Knowing
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Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr.
Part almanac, part encyclopedia, part dictionary, Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr. gives us his idea of important, but sometimes obscure, facts that…
By Pond and River
Read by Laura Caldwell
Arabella B. Buckley
In By Pond and River, another of Arabella Buckley's wonderful science books for children, she explains the habitats of ponds and rivers, exp…
The Life Of Charlotte Brontë Volume 1
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Charlotte Brontë was a British author, the eldest of the three famous Brontë sisters who have become standards of English literatu…
The Black Fawn
Read by Roger Melin
Jim Kjelgaard
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…
The Lives of the Queens of England Volume 1
Read by Ann Boulais
Agnes Strickland
>The Lives of the Queens of England is a multi-volumed work attributed to Agnes Strickland, though it was mostly researched and written b…
Christmas Holidays at Merryvale
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Alice Hale Burnett
“Toad” Brown, his brother, and their friends have a jolly time at the Christmas holidays. They daydream at a toy shop window, chop down a Ch…
The Outline of Science, Vol 1 (Solo)
Read by Mark F. Smith
J. Arthur Thomson
In The Outline of Science, Thomson gives us a window into scientific thinking as it stood in 1922 on the big, the little, and the biological…
The Problem of China
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Bertrand Russell
In 1920-21 Bertrand Russell lived and taught in Peking (Beijing), publishing this book on his return to England. In 1920 he had visited Bols…
Memoirs of a Revolutionist, Vol. 2
Read by Elin
Peter Kropotkin
Peter Kropotkin was a Russian anarcho-communist and scientist. This is his autobiography, and he writes not only about his own life, but als…
Amendments to the United States Constitution (version 2)
Read by Jim Cadwell
United States Government and Unit
The Constitution has a total of 27 amendments. The first ten, collectively known as the Bill of Rights, were ratified simultaneously. The fo…
The Story of the Three Little Pigs
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
L. Leslie Brooke
This version of the classic tale of the three pigs, their houses and a wolf, published in 1904, has a new twist in its second half. This rec…
Greek and Roman Ghost Stories
Read by Timothy Ferguson
Lacy Collison-Morley
A non-fiction work, comparing and collecting ghost stories by Classical Greek and Republican or Imperial Roman authors. (Summary by Timothy …
Present Day Gardening: Orchids
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James O'Brien
A meticulously written treatise on the structure, care and cultivation of orchids. This book benefits both the orchid obsessed and the amate…