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The Nobel Prize in 1908
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Various
The Nobel Prizes are international awards bestowed once a year by Scandinavian committees for cultural and scientific advances. They were es…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 071
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Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. "Suffrage for women will not usher in a millennium of peace and leisure" was …
Frauds, Forgeries, and Fake News Collection
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This collection showcases fabricated documents and stories throughout history, and the diversity of purposes and contexts they were deployed…
Departed Days
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Departerd Days by Oliver Wendell Holmes. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 8, 2011.O…
Nobody's Property: Living on the Remains of a Life in California
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Emily Kathleen Cooke
November 4, 1971Jennifer Rose Cooke, a girl from California, just turned 18, goes missing in a frigid forest in West Germany. She has been h…
Fables for the Frivolous
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Guy Wetmore Carryl
One of the earliest works by the American parodist, Guy Wetmore Carryl, these fables are adapted from Jean de La Fontaine’s original writing…
In Time of Pestilence, 1593
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Thomas Nashe
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of In Time of Pestilence, 1593 by Thomas Nashe. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 1s…
Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained
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Moses Quinby
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BEES, DIRECTIONS FOR OBTAINING THE GREATEST AMOUNT OF PURE SURPLUS HONEY WITH THE LEAST POSSIBLE EXPENSE, REMEDIES FO…
The Emotions
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James McCosh and James Mccosh
I am not satisfied with the account which has been given of the feelings and emotions in our books of mental science, and thence transferred…
In The Long Run
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of In The Long Run by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 11th, 201…
Tours in the South Coast District
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Queensland Railways
An early booklet, designed to encourage tourism in the northern parts of New South Wales, and the southern parts of Queensland, particularly…
The Mentor 2
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The Mentor Association was established to increase interest and knowledge among the public in the areas of art, literature, science, nature,…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 058
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Sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. The human condition is variously explored in Chest…
The Treasury of David, Vol. 7 (Abridged)
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Charles H. Spurgeon
Charles Spurgeon was a British Particular Baptist preacher who remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations, among w…
Visions of My Father: Ode to Killer Joe
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MaryJo Romano
His hand gripped my bicycle seat as he ran alongside me that warm summer day. Even though he was young and strong, he was breathing heavily,…
The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell by Algernon Charles Swinburne. This was the Fortnightly Poe…
Byways Around San Francisco Bay
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W. E. Hutchinson
California, the land of sunshine and roses, with its genial climate, its skies as blue as the far-famed skies of Venice, and its pure, life-…
My Heart and Lute
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Thomas Moore
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of My Heart and Lute by Thomas Moore . This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 12th, 201…
The Cottager to Her Infant
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William Wordsworth
Wordsworth was a defining member of the English Romantic Movement. Like other Romantics, Wordsworth’s personality and poetry were deeply inf…
Rambles in New Zealand
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John Carne Bidwill
John Carne Bidwill came out to Sydney in 1838 to represent his family's mercantile business. Finding that he had time on his hands he decide…