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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 083
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Various
“Oh, mother, I would like to know everything.” “You can never know everything, my child, but you can learn many things from books.” Accordin…
Lo, Michael!
Read by Brian Keenan
Grace Livingston Hill
Grace Livingston Hill's 1913 inspirational tale of Michael, who grows up a poor orphan selling newspapers in the slums of New York. After sa…
The Pupil
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
Pemberton, a young American with an Oxford education and out of money, takes a job tutoring Morgan Moreen, the 12-year old son of an America…
Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
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Elizabeth E. Lea
The compiler of [this book] having entered early in life upon a train of duties, was frequently embarrassed by her ignorance of domestic aff…
Short Science Fiction Collection 046
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H. G. Wells
Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and sci…
Writing Wrongly
Read by Thomas Corfield
Thomas Corfield
When the worst writer in history self-publishes his books, the world of literature is decimated overnight. Illiteracy becomes something to a…
Just Stories: The Kind That Never Grow Old
Read by Maria Therese
Winfrid Herbst
Good Books are wise counselors. They point out the right way in the devious paths of life. Have we not often stood at the juncture of two ro…
Love Among the Chickens
Read by Mark Nelson
P. G. Wodehouse
Jeremy Garnet, a second-rate novelist, gets talked into joining his old pal Stanley Featheringstonehaugh Ukridge in an insane plan to start …
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 041
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Various
Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include a woman in Alaska, Cuban folklore,…
John Knox
Read by Jael Baldwin
A. Taylor Innes
A scholarly and thoughtful biography of the Scottish Reformer. (Jael Baldwin)
Remarks
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Bill Nye
"The range of subjects treated in this book is wonderful, even to me. It is a library of universal knowledge, and the facts contained i…
Pawn
Read by Mark Eller
Mark Eller
In Betrayed, Aaron Turner defied politicians, defeated child slavers, and saved an entire people from exploitation by Isabella, his adopted …
The Journal of a Disappointed Man
Read by Adam Whybray
W. N. P. Barbellion
The journal of British naturalist Bruce Frederick Cummings, spanning from his early childhood through to his early death from complications …
The Witness
Read by Scarlett Martin
Grace Livingston Hill
Paul Cortland seems to have it all as a popular, successful athlete and college student. Tragedy leads him to find peace through the faith …
Shakspere: Personal Recollections
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John A. Joyce
A fictitious account of a "friend" of William Shakespeare, who accompanies him from his birth to his death and beyond, chronicling…
Lifted Masks
Read by Arielle Lipshaw
Susan Glaspell
In this collection of short stories, Susan Glaspell examines the unique character of America and its people. (Summary by wildemoose)
Bacon
Read by Bill Boerst
Richard William Church
This investigation of Bacon the scholar and man of letters begins with a look at the early days and progresses to his relationships with Que…
A Guide to Modern Cookery (Le Guide Culinaire) Part I: Fundamental Elements
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Auguste Escoffier
Le Guide Culinaire can be regarded as the ‘Bible’ of modern cooking. It was Escoffier's attempt to codify and streamline the French restaura…