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The Chronicles of America Volume 05 - Pioneers of the Old South

Read by Jim Locke


Mary Johnston


In this remarkably detailed and sweeping fifth installment, Mary Johnston takes us from discoveries and settlements to the evolution into th…

Nobody's Property: Living on the Remains of a Life in California

Read by Emily Kathleen Cooke


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…

All That Can Be Shaken

Read by Essie Collins


Essie Collins


All That Can Be Shaken by Essie Collins (a pseudonym) is a moving true story of a family's struggle with a tragedy that shakes their lives a…

Extracts from 'The New and Complete Newgate Calendar', Vol. 1

Read by Roy Schreiber


William Jackson


Volume One of the New and Complete Newgate Calendar, covering the years 1700 through 1723, relates stories of British trials, the persons ac…

The Christmas Tree

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Anonymousandalice Maude Kellogg and William James Mcglothlin


LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of The Christmas Tree by Anonymous. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 19, 2010This…

Autobiography Memories and Experiences, Volume 2

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Moncure Daniel Conway


Moncure Daniel Conway was an American abolitionist, Unitarian, clergyman and author. This second volume of his autobiography covers the year…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 061

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Various


Seventeen short nonfiction works in the public domain independently chosen by the readers. Volume 61 features articles and essays on both cu…

London Labour and the London Poor Volume III

Read by Gillian Hendrie


Henry Mayhew


Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.&…

Dr. John Dee: Elizabethan Mystic and Astrologer

Read by Anonymous


G. M. Hort


A short biographical sketch of Dr. John Dee (born 1527), the English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, occultist, and alchemist. “In an…

Soup of Alphabets, Volume 002

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Various


A second helping of Alphabet Books! This collection has a wide-ranging variety of short books, and not only for younger readers, but also fo…

The Flowers of Shakespeare

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Esther Singleton


A lovely collection of information about those flowers that appear in William Shakespeare's work. The brief chapters are categorized by the …

At Home From Church

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Sarah Orne Jewett


LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of At Home From Church by Sarah Orne Jewett. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for June 19…

Royal Romances of Today

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Kellogg Durland


"In the year 1907, the Woman’s Home Companion commissioned me to go to Russia to write the story of the early days, courtship and marri…

Очерки о национализме. Essays on Nationalism

Read by Mark Chulsky


Ze'ev Jabotinsky and Ze'Ev Jabotinsky


Collection of essays on the subject of interactions between nations. This is a supplement to the "Jews and Russia" LibriVox projec…

The Indians in Wisconsin's History

Read by Verla Viera


John M. Douglass


Pre-European arrival history of Wisconsin's Native American tribes, with discussions of their way of life, crafts, clothing, shelter, huntin…

The Freedom of Life

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Annie Payson Call


'The Freedom of Life' is a mind-illuminating book, in which author Annie Payson Call (1853-1940) wrote about many of the troubles that we us…

After Music

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Josephine Preston Peabody


LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of After Music by Josephine Preston Peabody. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 10, 20…

The Meeting of the Waters

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Thomas Moore


LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of The Meeting of the Waters by Thomas Moore. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Novemb…

Notes On Democracy

Read by Lisa Reichert


H. L. Mencken


American journalist H.L. Mencken’s Notes On Democracy was originally published in 1926, yet is still relevant almost 100 years later.Mencken…

Umbrellas and Their History

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William Sangster


A whimsically serious look at the umbrella and society. (summary by Clarica)

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