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Unconventional

Read by J.J. Hebert


J.J. Hebert


YOUNG JAMES FROST just knows, deep in his bones, that he's a writer. He writes far into early mornings, after his wearying hours of scrubbin…

Violets And Other Tales

Read by James K. White


Alice Dunbar Nelson


This is a collection of the author's short stories and poems where she writes about the collective experience of African American women, and…

The Orange-Yellow Diamond

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J. S. Fletcher


A novelist finds himself struggling to make ends meet. In his effort to raise a bit of money to get him by, he finds himself in the middle o…

Thirty Years A Slave

Read by James K. White


Louis Hughes


Louis Hughes was born a slave near Charlottesville, Virginia to a white father and a black slave woman. Throughout his life he worked mostly…

Stanton White: A Romance of the New South

Read by James K. White


Asa Zadel Hall


In this tome the Northern narrator, Harold Edson, visits the American South with his college friend, Stanton White, in order to study first …

Stories in Black and White

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Various


This is a collection of short mystery stories, written in very different styles by eight different authors. - Summary by Carolin

The Upward Path: A Reader For Colored Children

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Various


From the preface of the book: "To the present time, there has been no collection of stories and poems by Negro writers, which colored c…

Short Stories for Colored People Both Old and Young

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Silas X. Floyd


Several short stories relating to young African Americans. Summary by kirk202

Bible (KJV) NT 20: James

Read by Susan Denney


King James Version


The writer of this letter instructs the early Christians on the value of showing patience, controlling an unruly tongue and treating all peo…

How to Write a Novel

Read by Brett W. Downey


William James Mcglothlin


I address myself to the man or woman of talent—those people who have writing ability, but who need instruction in the manipulation of charac…

The Aspern Papers

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


One of James’s favorite short novels, the Aspern Papers tells of the efforts of the nameless narrator to procure the papers of a famous, bu…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 083

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Various


“Oh, mother, I would like to know everything.” “You can never know everything, my child, but you can learn many things from books.” Accordin…

Red Men And White

Read by David Wales


Owen Wister


These eight stories are made from our Western Frontier as it was in a past as near as yesterday and almost as by-gone as the Revolution; so …

The White Peacock

Read by Simon Evers


D. H. Lawrence


The Little White Bird

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J. M. Barrie


"A children's book, sharp social commentary and sad psychological thriller about a man's search for a sense of belonging. All in one am…

The Passing of the Great Race

Read by Jim Locke


Madison Grant


The rapidly growing appreciation of the importance of race during the last few years, the study of the influence of race on nationality as s…

White Fang (Version 2)

Read by Mark F. Smith


Jack London


When White Fang is birthed in a cave to a wolf sire and a wolf/dog halfbreed dam, he is heir to two traditions. At first he is content to ex…

The Woman in White - version 2

Read by Tony Addison


Wilkie Collins


Possibly Wilkie Collins' most famous novel, The Woman In White remade the Gothic Horror novel by taking its characters and tropes and settin…

K.

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Mary Roberts Rinehart


"K" is the initial of the mysterious lodger without a first name who rents a room from Sidney to escape his past. Sidney herself r…

The Colonel's Dream

Read by James K. White


Charles Waddell Chesnutt


In this novel, Chesnutt described the hopelessness of Reconstruction in a post-Civil War South that was bent on reestablishing the former st…

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