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Christmas Short Works Collection 2007
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Various
LibriVox’s 2007 Christmas Short Works Collection containing public domain short stories, essays, poems, and scripture passages recorded by a…
The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate
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Eliza P. Donner Houghton
The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers caught up in the "westering fever" of the 1840s. After becoming…
The Gamekeeper at Home
Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)
Richard Jefferies
Richard Jefferies (1848 – 1887) was born and spent his childhood on a farm at Coate,Wiltshire. He joined the ‘Wiltshire and Gloucestershire …
The Early History of the Airplane
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Orville Wright
The Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air flight, on 17th December 1903. They…
Little Bear
Read by Carolyn Frances
Laura Rountree Smith
A story for children about a little bear with no name, “there were not enough names to go round,” and his adventures in finding one. (Summar…
On a Chinese Screen
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W. Somerset Maugham
This is a non-fiction collection of Maugham's observations of life in Asia in the early 20th Century. (Summary by BellonaTimes)
The Jesuits in North America in the 17th Century
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Francis Parkman, Jr.
Parkman has been hailed as one of America's first great historians and as a master of narrative history. Numerous translations have spread t…
The Story of the Other Wise Man
Read by David Leeson
Henry van Dyke
You know the story of the Three Wise Men of the East, and how they travelled from far away to offer their gifts at the manger-cradle in Beth…
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
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Hugh Lofting
Doctor John Dolittle is the central character of a series of children's books by Hugh Lofting. He is a doctor who shuns human patients in fa…
Pep: Poise, Efficiency, Peace
Read by J A Carter
William C. Hunter
Colonel William Crosbie Hunter was a businessman and self-help writer who was moderately popular in the early 20th century. His books set fo…
Piano and Song
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Friedrich Wieck
This book talks about teaching, learning and performing on the piano in a delightful style, alternating between conversation and instruction…
Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality
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Stuart Mason
“Who can help laughing when an ordinary journalist seriously proposes to limit the subject-matter at the disposal of the artist?”“We are dom…
The Prime Minister
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Anthony Trollope
The Prime Minister is the fifth in Trollope's series of six Palliser novels. With Phineas' difficulties resolved, Trollope introduces new c…
The Theory of Social Revolutions
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Brooks Adams
Brooks Adams (1848-1927), was an American historian and a critic of capitalism. He believed that commercial civilizations rise and fall in p…
Kepler
Read by Bill Boerst
Walter W. Bryant
This biography of Johannes Kepler begins with an account of what the world of astronomy was like before his time, then proceeds to a look at…
The Flower Garden: A Handbook of Practical Garden Lore
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Ida Dandridge Bennett
This book is a good reference on the perennial flower gardening and landscaping. It contains information on growing the plants from seed and…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 104
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Various
"Grandmother and Stockhausen are of the opinion that Wagner will one day totally disappear. His music, they argue, is too unhealthy.&qu…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 105
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Various
In May 1919, three U.S. Navy sea-planes made the first successful trans-Atlantic crossing to Europe. Lieutenant Walter Hinton was a pilot. H…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 106
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Ricardo Fernández Montalvo
"It is a foolish thing to speak on every kind of work, for he that disputeth thy words shall put them unto proof." Proverbs of Fai…
The Return of the Exiles and the West African Church
Read by Faith Abiola-Ellison
Edward Wilmot Blyden
A lecture delivered at the Breadfruit school house, Lagos, West Africa, January 2, 1891E.W. Blyden (1832 to 1912) was born in the Caribbean …