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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
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Memoirs of a Revolutionist, Vol. 2
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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…
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 …
Steps to Christ
Read by Donald Hines
Ellen G. White
Ellen Gould White (1827 - 1915) was a prolific Christian writer, authoring 40 books in her lifetime. She was active in the Millerite movemen…
The Algonquin Legends of New England or Myths and Folk Lore of the Micmac, Pass…
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Charles Godfrey Leland
This work, then, contains a collection of the myths, legends, and folk-lore of the principal Wabanaki, or Northeastern Algonquin, Indians; t…
The Life of Jesus Critically Examined
Read by Leni
David Friedrich Strauss
Strauss was an early pioneer in the ongoing 'Quest of the Historical Jesus' movement, and his Life of Jesus is one of the few landmarks in t…
ABC of Vegetable Gardening
Read by Bill Boerst
Eben Eugene Rexford
This how-to book includes chapters on getting ready, mapping the garden, planting, seeds, early work, house plants, fruits, hot beds and col…
The Life and Doctrine of St. Catherine of Genoa
Read by Ann Boulais
Unknown
Saint Catherine of Genoa (Caterina Fieschi Adorno, born Genoa 1447 – 15 September 1510) is an Italian Roman Catholic saint and mystic, admir…