Memoirs

The Exiles of Florida

by Joshua Giddings Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
“The Author of the following work has endeavored to give a faithful record of … the Exiles of Florida. Torn from their native land, their fr…

The Secret Service

by Albert Richardson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Albert Richardson was a reporter for Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune when he volunteered to hazard an undercover journey through the Ameri…

The Passionate Friends

by H. G. Wells Read by Peter Eastman 3.7
H. G. Wells is best known for his science fiction, but some of his greatest works were in other genres. The Passionate Friends is a love sto…

The Sword of Deborah

by F. Tennyson Jesse Read by MaryAnn 4.7
"The Sword of Deborah" contains the reflections of a woman journalist visiting women working behind the lines in France during Wor…

With Fire and Sword

by Samuel H. M. Byers Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Samuel H. M. Byers was an American poet, diplomat, and soldier in the Civil War. "In war some persons seek adventures; others have them…

Careers of Danger and Daring

by Cleveland Moffett Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
In this volume of adventure the author depicts the lives of certain humble modern heroes whose unconscious courage ordinarily goes unnoticed…

The Lore of the Honey-Bee

by Tickner Edwardes Read by Steve C 3.8
The sun shines — you know it has always shone, changeless as Time itself. With such a faith — unfounded and therefore incontestable — I cam…

Kings, Queens and Pawns

by Mary Roberts Rinehart Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
A personal account of the American author's visit to Europe in January 1915 while a war correspondent in Belgium for The Saturday Evening Po…

Mounted police life in Canada

by Richard Burton Deane Read by Esther 4.3
Learn more about the famous and respected Royal Canadian Mounted Police. This book is the personal recollections of one ‘Mountie'; his life,…

Prelude

by Katherine Mansfield Read by iremonger 4.2
Prelude invites listeners into the evocative world of Katherine Mansfield's childhood in New Zealand, capturing the essence of youth and the…

Extreme Christianity

by Vic Zarley Read by Vic Zarley 3.5
G. K. Chesterton said, "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried." …

Five Months at Anzac

by Joseph Lievesley Beeston Read by Annise 4.2
A Narrative of Personal Experiences of the Officer Commanding the 4th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force . From his leaving Australi…

Child Life in Colonial Days

by Alice Morse Earle Read by Susan Morin 3.9
The accounts of old-time child life gathered for this book are wholly unconscious and full of honesty and simplicity, not only from the atti…

My Brilliant Career

by Miles Franklin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Sybella: "There is no plot in this story, because there has been none in my life or in any other life which has come under my notice. I…

I, Mary MacLane

by Mary Maclane Read by Lynne T 5
Described as "the first blogger", Mary MacLane lived a tortured life, ahead of her time. Her beloved father died when she was a yo…

Autobiography of a Seaman

by Lord Thomas Cochrane Read by Timothy Ferguson 4.1
This second volume of the biography of Lord Cochrane deals with his fall from grace, imprisonment for debt, loss of honours, and attempts to…

Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper

by T. S. Arthur Read by Nathalie J. 3.9
Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper offers a humorous glimpse into the life of Mrs. Smith, a housekeeper who navigates the challenges an…

A Young Girl's Diary

by William James McGlothlin Read by KHand 4.2
The diary of an upper middle class Austrian girl, this book describes her life between the ages of eleven and fourteen. It's a coming of age…

History of the Inquisition of Spain

by Henry Charles Lea Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Volume 2 of Lea’s monumental work on the Spanish Inquisition. Volume 2 discusses the organizational structure of the Inquisition, methods us…

The San Francisco Calamity

by Charles Morris and Charles Mclean Andrews Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
The first half of this book describes the devastating earthquake that hit San Francisco in 1906, and the subsequent destruction caused by fi…

< 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 >