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Christianity - Commentary

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Saint Bernard of Clairvaux - On Loving God

«You want me to tell you why God is to be loved and how much.I answer, the reason for loving God is God Himself; and the measure of love due to Him is immeasurable love... .» Saint Bernard's On Loving God is one...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 43 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Robert Smythe Hichens - Tongues of Conscience

Tongues of Conscience (1898) is a collection of five thought-provoking stories where an innocent, but selfish, action leads to horrific consequences. Robert Hichens writes some wonderfully evocative descriptions of...

Lisa Reichert 8 hours 43 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Cyrus Macmillan - Canadian Fairy Tales

Professor Macmillan has placed all lovers of fairy tales under a deep debt of obligation to him. The fairy tale makes a universal appeal both to old and young; to the young because it is the natural world in which...

R.J. Siva and 17 more 5 hours 3 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 166

This is a collection of 36 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2017.

Hatton43 and 14 more 2 hours 20 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Action & Adventure

782

Roy Rockwood - Dave Dashaway Around the World

Never was there a more clever young aviator than Dave Dashaway, and all up-to-date lads will wish to make his acquaintance. Weldon J. Cobb was a staff writer for the Stratemeyer Syndicate, a book packaging...

Scott Danneker 5 hours 25 minutes

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Memoirs

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Arthur Ransome - Russia in 1919

PUBLISHER'S NOTE: On August 27, 1914, in London, I made this note in a memorandum book: «Met Arthur Ransome at_____'s; discussed a book on the Russian's relation to the war in the light of psychological...

Expatriate 4 hours 15 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

783

Elizabeth Bibesco - Balloons

Elizabeth, Princess Bibesco, was an English writer and socialite. The daughter of a British Prime Minister and the wife of a Romanian aristocrat, she drew on her experience in British high society in her work. Her...

Beth Thomas and 8 more 3 hours 58 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Arthur Stringer - Shadow

A manhunt for a bank robber takes a determined and fixated New York City detective on a gripping, globe-spanning adventure, with many plot twists along the way. Arthur Stringer was a novelist, screenwriter and...

Lee Smalley 5 hours 7 minutes

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Notes on The Broads and Rivers of Norfolk and Suffolk

Modern (19th C)

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Harry Brittain - Notes on The Broads and Rivers of Norfolk and Suffolk

The Broads area of Norfolk and Suffolk is in the East Anglian region of England. It is the location of Britain's third largest inland waterway system — a system that evolved gradually by natural flooding as a...

TND 5 hours 3 minutes

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Westerns

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Zane Grey - Mysterious Rider

This book has all the elements of a classic Western, including rustling and gunfights, but at its heart is the battle between good and evil, between duty and love, between selfishness and self-sacrifice. The...

Mary Bard 11 hours 9 minutes

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Sikh Religion: Its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, Volume 3

Other religions

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Max Arthur Macauliffe - Sikh Religion: Its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, Volume 3

This is one of the first (and still one of the few) comprehensive books about the Sikh religion in the English language. MacAuliffe had extensive access to manuscripts of the Sikh sacred writings (the Granth), as well...

Jim Locke and 2 more 12 hours 29 minutes Sikh Religion: Its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors

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Tragedy

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Aeschylus - Agamemnon (Morshead Translation)

The Oresteia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus concerning the end of the curse on the House of Atreus. The name derives from the character Orestes, who sets out to avenge his father's murder. The...

Expatriate 2 hours 27 minutes Oresteia

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