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Hand that Rocks the Cradle is the Hand that Rules the World

Poetry

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William Ross Wallace - Hand that Rocks the Cradle is the Hand that Rules the World

For Mother’s Day 2006, we’ve recorded five versions of this tribute to Mothers and their role in shaping the future. The title is very famous out of its context, but now you can hear how it was originally intended.

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 4 more 10 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Laozi 老子 - Tao Teh King

Lao-Tze's Tao Teh King illuminates The Tao: a guiding principle of the universe and all within it. By exploring the nature of dualities and complements, Lao-Tze dissects strength and weakness; presence and absence;...

Eric S. Piotrowski 1 hour 34 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Johann David Wyss - Swiss Family Robinson

The Swiss Family Robinson has delighted generations of readers with its exciting tale of a family which, though shipwrecked, displays “the right stuff” and builds a charming colony that later, they do not want to...

Mark F. Smith 12 hours 48 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Robert Louis Stevenson - Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a novella by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886. London lawyer Utterson is driven to investigate Edward Hyde, the unlikely protégé of his...

David Barnes 3 hours 8 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Hugh Lofting - Story of Doctor Dolittle

In The Story of Doctor Dolittle (1920), the first of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books, we are introduced to the good doctor who gives up treating people after Polynesia, his parrot, teaches him animal...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 12 more 3 hours 8 minutes

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Family

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Lucy Maud Montgomery - Story Girl

The Story Girl, by Anne of Green Gables author L.M. Montgomery, tells about the summer Felix and Beverly King visit their cousins in Carlise, Canada. Along with various cousins and other soon-to-be-friends, they meet...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 12 more 8 hours 31 minutes

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Single Author Collections

499

Mark Twain - Stolen White Elephant

In this Mark Twain short story an Indian elephant, en route from India to Britain as a gift to Queen, disappears in New Jersey. The local police department goes into high gear to solve the mystery but it all comes to...

38 minutes

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Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers

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James Fenimore Cooper - Spy

James Fenimore Cooper's second novel, The Spy (1821), is based on Sir Walter Scott's Waverly series, and tells an adventure tale about the American Revolution. The protagonist is Harvey Birch, a supposed loyalist...

Gord Mackenzie and 13 more 16 hours 44 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

603

William Butler Yeats - Song of Wandering Aengus

LibriVox volunteers bring you eighteen different readings of The Song of Wandering Aengus , by Irish poet William Butler Yeats, to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. This is Yeats in his faerie folklore vein, and he...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 17 more 26 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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American Standard Version - Bible (ASV) 22: Song of Solomon

The Song of Songs is the twenty-second book of The Bible and was authored by Solomon. In some translations, this book is entitled The Song of Solomon . It is also known as The Best Song . Replete with...

23 minutes

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Poetry

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E. Pauline Johnson - Song My Paddle Sings

Librivox’s weekly poetry project for the week of February 5, 2006 offers fourteen versions of «The Song My Paddle Sings» from the collection Flint and Feather by E. Pauline Johnson. E. Pauline Johnson, also...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 13 more 37 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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Peter Newell - Slant Book

This recording of Peter Newell’s The Slant Book (1910) kicks off voiced renderings by LibriVox of public domain books in the International Children's Digital Library (ICDL). The ICDL book can be found at:...

9 minutes

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