Social Science
My Chinese Marriage
Read by Danielle Cartwright
Mae Franking
Mae Watkins, a University of Michigan student, unexpectedly falls in love with a Chinese international law student in the midst of World War…
Invisible Helpers
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C. W. Leadbeater
Even in this incredulous age, and amidst the full whirl of our nineteenth-century civilization, in spite of the dogmatism of our science and…
The Real Latin Quarter
Read by Bill Boerst
Frank Berkeley Smith
"Cocher, drive to the rue Falguière"--this in my best restaurant French.The man with the varnished hat shrugged his shoulde…
Essays on Work and Culture
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Hamilton Wright Mabie
The author investigates the world of work against a backdrop of culture. Each of the 25 essays focuses on one aspect of the topic. For examp…
Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Vol 2
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Arthur L. Hayward
This is the second volume in this collection of reports and newspaper stories regarding notorious criminals and their punishment, assembled …
Current Superstitions
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Fanny Dickerson Bergen
No matter how enlightened, chances are you've been raised around superstitious lore of one kind or another. Fanny Dickerson Bergen was one o…
The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion. Part 1: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, Volume 2
Read by Leon Harvey
James Frazer
The second volume in Frazer's seminal 12 volume set on anthropology and traditional systems of belief. The superstition and magical purpose …
With the Empress Dowager of China
Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Katharine Carl
Through the eyes of an artist, With the Empress Dowager of China provides a glimpse of life in the Chinese Imperial Court, unseen by any oth…
Manners and Rules of Good Society; Or, Solecisms to be Avoided by a Member of the Aristocracy
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William James McGlothlin
The title of this work sufficiently indicates the nature of its contents. The Usages of Good Society relate not only to good manners and to …
Mark Twain: A Biography - Volume III
Read by John Greenman
Albert Bigelow Paine
This work has been considered the "go-to" bio of Mark Twain for over a hundred years. Albert Bigelow Paine (July 10, 1861 – April …
The Domestic Slave Trade Of The Southern States
Read by David Wales
Winfield Hazlitt Collins
This 1904 history of slavery in the southeastern United States reflects the state of knowledge at that time, of course. The text contains s…
Woman and War
Read by Noel Badrian
Olive Schreiner
Olive Schreiner was a South African writer born in 1855 to missionary parents in the Eastern Cape. She is credited with being the first Inte…
The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, Vol. I, No. 4
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W. E. B. Du Bois
The Crisis is the official publication of the NAACP first published in 1910 with W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the founders, as editor. He exerci…
The Delinquent, Vol. IV, Nos. 1-7
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National Prisoners' Aid Association
The Delinquent (formerly The Review) was a monthly periodical published by the National Prisoners' Aid Association.