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The House of Evil

by William Le Queux Read by Jim Locke 3.7
Intrigue and murder stemming from excessive greed in upper-class society of England in the early twentieth century.

Savage Holiday

by Richard Wright Read by Jim Locke 4.6
Savage Holiday is an unforgettable story--a high tension drama that throbs with suspense and shows the reader what it's like to be Erskine F…

The Life of Washington

by John James Marshall Read by Jim Locke 4.6
Volume 2 of The Life begins with some early biography, but moves quickly to Washington's military career as a colonel in the battles against…

The Uncalled

by Paul Laurence Dunbar Read by Jim Locke 3.5
Orphaned Freddie Brent ends up adopted by an old local Christian lady who knows nothing about raising a child. And matters are worsened by h…

The Chronicles of America

by Carl L. Becker Read by Jim Locke
Here is a look at the evolution of thought and events that led Benjamin Franklin to make this statement: "British subjects, by removing…

Jefferson and his Colleagues

by Allen Johnson Read by Jim Locke
In this volume, we have the Virginia Dynasty of presidents: Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe. America at this time was involved in expansion w…

Finding a Way Out

by Robert R. Moton Read by Jim Locke 3
He says about this work: "I have tried to record the events that have given character and colour to my own life, and at the same time t…

The Life of Washington

by John James Marshall Read by Jim Locke 5
Volume 3 of The Life continues the Revolutionary War from the incursion into Jersey in 1778 to its conclusion with the surrender of Lord Cor…

Ireland Under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum

by Richard Bagwell Read by Jim Locke
This first volume of a history of Ireland focuses on the years 1603-1642. It was a period of dramatic, and even of violent, changes in the s…

The Spanish Conquerors

by Irving Berdine Richman Read by Jim Locke 4.6
A discussion of the adventures of the Spanish explorers from Columbus to Pizarro. - Summary by Jim LockeGroup: Chronicles of America Series

The State of Society in France Before the Revolution

by Alexis de Tocqueville and Alexis De Tocqueville Read by Jim Locke 5
A thorough analysis of the social, religious, and political dynamics of French society which led to the French Revolution.

The Red Man's Continent

by Ellsworth Huntington Read by Jim Locke 3.9
Characteristics of the peoples and environment of the earliest stages of America. - Summary by Jim LockeGroup: Chronicles of America Series

The Primitive

by Chester Himes Read by Jim Locke
A nerve-twisting novel of passion and destruction (Summary by a literary critic)

Crusaders of New France

by William Bennett Munro Read by Jim Locke 0.5
The previous volumes in the Chronicles of America series placed Spain and England at the fore in the discovery and development of the New Wo…

The Garies and their Friends

by Frank Webb Read by Jim Locke
The book which now appears before the public may be of interest in relation to a question which the late agitation of the subject of slavery…

The Sikh Religion

by Max Arthur Macauliffe Read by Jim Locke 4.8
This is one of the first (and still one of the few) comprehensive books about the Sikh religion in the English language. MacAuliffe had exte…

The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer

by Alice Dunbar Nelson Read by Jim Locke 5
Ms. Pinckney says in her "Forward" to this book the following: "It is against this background of the world need that Mrs. Ali…

Discoveries

by John Middleton Murry Read by Jim Locke 4.8
Introductory Note: I have called these essays and lectures by a title that some people may think presumptuous: first, because it is the titl…

Scarlet Sister Mary

by Julia Peterkin Read by Jim Locke 3.7
How did 1929 Pulitzer winner and white plantation mistress Julia Peterkin become a favorite of the Harlem Renaissance? According to W.E.B. D…

The Heart of Happy Hollow

by Paul Laurence Dunbar Read by Jim Locke
Happy Hollow; are you wondering where it is? Wherever Negroes colonise in the cities or villages, north or south, wherever the hod carrier, …

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