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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…

Home Life in Colonial Days

Read by Susan Morin


Alice Morse Earle



CHAPTER IHOMES OF THE COLONISTSWhen the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have se…

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…

The Quest of the Historical Jesus

Read by Joseph R. Daniels


Albert Schweitzer



In this book, Schweitzer traces the historical progress of 'Historical Jesus' research, from Hermann Reimarus in the mid 18th century, to Wi…

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

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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…

Das Warme Polarland

Read by Dirk Weber


Ernst Constantin



Ähnlich Jules Verne in seinem Roman "Reise zum Mittelpunkt der Erde", so führt uns auch Ernst Constantin in die Urtü…

Der Kleine Katechismus

Read by Karlsson


Martin Luther



Der Kleine Katechismus ist eine kurze Schrift, die Martin Luther 1529 verfasst hat. Er hat in den lutherischen Kirchen Bekenntnis- und Lehrc…

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…

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 Lives of the Queens of England

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…

The Outline of Science

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…

Memoirs of a Revolutionist

Read by Elin


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…

Amendments to the United States Constitution

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…

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 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…

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