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The Doctor's Christmas Eve
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James Lane Allen
A gentle reminiscence of a fictional country doctor as the year is drawing to a close. Unlike city doctors, the personal and professional li…
Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation, Harvesting, Curing and Uses
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Maurice Grenville Kains
This book describes use and care, and growing of herbs for cooking, healing and other interesting miscellaneous information related to herbs…
Callista
Read by Carol Pelster
John Henry Newman
Callista, A Tale of the Third Century, was written by John Henry Newman, who was a scholarly and personable Anglican theologian who became a…
Myths And Legends Of The Great Plains (version 2)
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Katharine Berry Judson
Here, amidst the vast sweep of the plains which stretch away to the horizon on every side, boundless, limitless, endless, lived the plains I…
Compilation de Pensées, Textes et Poésies
Read by Christiane Jehanne
François-René de Chateaubriand
Comme l'indique le titre, ce sont différents pensées de l'auteur, sur la vie, l'être humain, aussi la vie politique, ave…
Stories From Wagner
Read by David Wales
J. Walker McSpadden
Eleven stories of eleven operas by Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold. Die Walküre. Siegfried. Götterdämmerung. Parsifal. Lohengrin. Ta…
Felix Holt, The Radical
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George Eliot
"Harold Transome is a landowner who goes against his family's political tradition (much to his mother's distress), while Felix Holt is …
Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion
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George Santayana
Even before the Great War turned the world upside down, Western civilization was being revolutionized at all levels: intellectually, philos…
Les caractères
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Jean de La Bruyère and Jean De La Bruyère
En 1688, La Bruyère traduit les caractères de Théophraste, un auteur de l’antiquité grecque, en y ajoutant ses p…
War Letters From A Young Queenslander
Read by Beth Thomas (1974-2020)
Robert Marshall Allen
Letters from a Brisbane doctor posted to the Western Front from 1914 to December 1915. He tells anecdotes of World War I including stories o…
The Christmas Hirelings
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
It is the Christmas season once again and things are, well, boring for the adults at Penlyon Castle. "...if somehow or other I had a pa…
The Reverberator
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
Another Jamesian look at Americans in Paris. What happens when a reporter for an American scandal sheet (The Reverberator) is looking for a …
Zanzibar Tales
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George W. Bateman
If you have read any accounts of adventure in Africa, you will know that travelers never mention animals of any kind that are gifted with th…
Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great
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Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard visits the homes of authors, politicians, poets, philosophers and other prestigious people. If they are still living he speak…
Die Volkssagen von Pommern und Rügen
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Jodocus Deodatus Hubertus Temme
Sagen aus Pommern und Rügen, zusammengetragen von Jodocus Deodatus Hubertus Temme. Dabei handelt es sich meist um kurze Abschnitte &uum…
A Christmas Carol (Version 09)
Read by Greg Giordano
Charles Dickens
"A Christmas Carol" has been credited with relaunching the celebration of Christmas as we know it. It relaunched Charles Dickens' …
Human Nature and Conduct - Part 3, The Place of Intelligence In Conduct
Read by William Allan Jones
John Dewey
John Dewey, an early 20th Century American philosopher, psychologist, educational theorist, saw Social Psychology as much a physical science…
The Crossing
Read by Bob R
Winston Churchill
This is an historical fiction novel. Many real characters of history are included, as well as fictitious ones. The saga takes place in the p…
Myths and Legends of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes
Read by David Wales
Katharine Berry Judson
It is a loss to American literature that so much of the legendary history of these Indian tribes has gone, beyond hope of recovery. Exquisit…
A Son of the Middle Border
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Hamlin Garland
In all the region of autobiography, so far as I know it, I do not know quite the like of Mr. Garland's story of his life, and I should rank …