*Non-fiction
Lullaby
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Louisa May Alcott
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Lullaby by Louisa May Alcott. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 4th, 2009.
The Mystery
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of The Mystery by Paul Laurence Dunbar. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 12, 2012,P…
A Magician Among the Spirits
Read by PhyllisV
Harry Houdini
Houdini, an escape artist and illusionist, became interested later in his life in debunking spiritualists, disbelieving anyone who claimed t…
The Elements of Ornithology
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William Ruschenberger
The Elements of Ornithology is one of seven in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. This…
La Royale Maison de Savoie
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Grégoire Hudry-Menos
Grégoire Hudry-Menos, modeste journaliste savoyard, apporte un nouveau point de vue sur l'histoire de la maison de Savoie, mont&eacut…
The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks
Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Joseph Banks
In this Journal, Joseph Banks records almost daily observations of the journey of the ship the Endeavour on the first of James Cook’s voyage…
American Notes
Read by Hamlet
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens records his impressions of America during his 1842 journey. - Summary by Brad "Hamlet" Filippone
American Philosophy Collection
Read by P. J. Taylor
Various
This recording is the second in an ongoing series of collections highlighting foundational articles in early 20th Century American philosoph…
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
Read by Holly Jenson
Olive Gilbert
Sojourner Truth (born Isabella Baumfree) was born into slavery in 1797 (or thereabouts) in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York. This narrati…
Anecdotes of Dogs
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Edward Jesse
"Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends." The character, sensibilities, and intellectual facu…
The Chicago Race Riots
Read by KevinS
Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg's succinct reporting on and reflections upon the race riots that broke out In Chicago in July 1919. - Summary by KevinS
Art and Science of Time Crystal
Read by Wyken Seagrave
Wyken Seagrave
Wyken Seagrave talks about the pleasures and pains of inventing, developing, writing and podcasting of Time Crystal, the greatest adventure …
On the Elementary Electrical Charge
Read by Eric Ray
Robert Andrews Millikan
The experiments herewith reported were undertaken with the view of introducing certain improvements into the oil-drop method of determining …
Adventskalender
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Various
Diese Sammlung ist ein Adventskalender und enthält ein Türchen für jeden Tag vom 1. bis zum 24. Dezember.
The Book of Tea
Read by Clive Catterall
Kakuzō Okakura
The Book of Tea is as much about philosophy, religion and art as it is about a drink made with dried leaves in boiling water. It traces the …
Nikolaas Nickleby
Read by Marcel Coenders
Charles Dickens
Dit is het verhaal van Nikolaas Nickleby en zijn zuster Kate die na het sterven van hun vader steun zoeken bij de broer van hun vader. In di…
Rough Notes Taken During Some Rapid Journeys Across the Pampas and Among the An…
Read by Sue Anderson
Francis Bond Head
“Galloped on with no stopping, but merely to change horses until five o’clock in the evening—very tired indeed, but . . . saw fresh horses i…
The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt
Read by Delmar H Dolbier
David Miller DeWitt
April, 1865 -- The war ended and throughout the Northern States joy and relief reigned. Then, less than a week later, a thunderbolt: the p…
A Book of American Explorers
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson
This book tells the story of exploration in America in the words of the explorers themselves. It consists of extracts from narratives of the…
Pit-tah, de Grijze Wolf
Read by Bart de Leeuw
Jack London
'Pit-tah, de Grijze Wolf' (White Fang), de opvolger van 'Als de Natuur Roept' (The Call of the Wild), onderzoekt de gewelddadige wereld van …