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Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth, Volumes I & II
Read by Cate Barratt
Lucy Aikin
Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth from a variety of sources within the monarch's court, compiled and interpreted by Lucy Aikin. (Summary by Cathy B…
Recollections of Life in Ohio, from 1813-1840
Read by Sue Anderson
William Cooper Howells
Recollections of Life in Ohio is the autobiography of William Cooper Howells (1807-1894), father of the American novelist William Dean Howel…
The Romance of Modern Chemistry
Read by J. M. Smallheer
James C. Philip
A fascinating look back at the state of the art of chemistry 100 years ago, this book by James C. Philip, PhD, an assistant professor of che…
Crime: Its Cause and Treatment
Read by Peter Yearsley
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow was an American lawyer. He remains notable for his wit and agnosticism, which marked him as one of the most famous American …
The Italian Cook Book
Read by Diana Majlinger
Maria Gentile
One of the beneficial results of the Great War has been the teaching of thrift to the American housewife. For patriotic reasons and for reas…
The Machine
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Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair is best known for his novel The Jungle, an expose of the meatpacking industry. He was also a playwright whose works for the s…
The Call of the Wild (Version 2)
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Jack London
This is the story of Buck, dog napped from sunny California to snowy Arctic during the Alaska gold rush. This deservedly famous book has bee…
Old Times on the Mississippi
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
Old Times on the Mississippi is a non-fiction work by Mark Twain. It was published in 1876. Originally published in serial form in the Atlan…
My Path to Atheism
Read by Kevin Green
Annie Besant
My Path to Atheism is a remarkable document in many ways, not least that it was written by a woman in Victorian England, not the most open f…
Miscellaneous Pieces
Read by David Barnes
John Bunyan
John Bunyan (November 28, 1628 – August 31, 1688), a Christian writer and preacher, was born at Harrowden (one mile south-east of Bedford), …
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
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Der Kleine Katechismus
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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…