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Christy Mathewson - Pitching in a Pinch

In this book Mathewson is telling the reader of the game as it is played in the Big Leagues… It’s as good as his pitching and some exciting things have happened in the Big Leagues, stories that never found their way...

Lee Smalley 5 hours 30 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Philip Wylie - Gladiator

Gladiator by Philip Wylie is the story of a man who although normal in all other ways, through the genius of his Father a biologist attains the strength and impregnability of a superman. The problems he encounters in...

Mike Pelton 7 hours 52 minutes

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Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers

Biography & Autobiography

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Charles Bradlaugh - Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers

This book presents a brief bio and a summary of important ideas & events in the lives of 23 great philosophers from ancient times through the 19th century. The book focuses on freethinkers, who are known to say things...

Ted Delorme 13 hours 34 minutes

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Political Science

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Bruce Jenkins - Anti-Coup

Supporters of political democracy, human rights, and social justice have good reasons to be alarmed about coups d'état. These abrupt seizures of the state apparatus have occurred with great frequency in recent...

Benjamin Gittins and 3 more 2 hours 46 minutes

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Christian Fiction

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Florence Morse Kingsley - Titus: a comrade of the cross

Titus: A Comrade of the cross is a book full of suspense and drama, but more importantly truth. It is about Titus, a young man living in the time of Christ. He is a part of the lowest class of society, his father is a...

Kimberly Krause and 7 more 6 hours 44 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Albert Payson Terhune - Lad: A Dog

Lad: A Dog is a 1919 American novel written by Albert Payson Terhune and published by E. P. Dutton. Composed of twelve short stories first published in magazines, the novel is based on the life of Terhune's real-life...

Greg Giordano 8 hours 36 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Honoré de Balzac - Magic Skin

Something along the lines of Dorian Gray as part of the Comedies Humane Philosophique, this is Balzac's first successful novel. He even wrote «criticisms» of the writing himself in promotion of the book, in addition...

James E. Carson 11 hours 28 minutes

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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

Biography & Autobiography

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Mary Seacole - Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

I should have thought that no preface would have been required to introduce Mrs. Seacole to the British public, or to recommend a book which must, from the circumstances in which the subject of it was placed, be...

Cori Samuel 5 hours 58 minutes

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Dramatic Readings

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Jane Austen - Persuasion (version 6 dramatic reading)

More than eight years before the novel opens, Anne Elliot, then a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted 19 year old, accepted a proposal of marriage from the handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. He was clever,...

8 hours 23 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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G. A. Henty - Young Carthaginian

Typically, Henty's heroes are boys of pluck in troubled times, and this is no different. Detailed research is embellished with a vivid imagination, especially in this novel set in the Punic wars, about which knowledge...

Larry Wilson and 10 more 11 hours 40 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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A. A. Milne - Happy Days

Although best known for his Winnie the Pooh stories, A.A. Milne spent years as an editor at the English humor magazine Punch. These sprightly essays were chosen from the hundreds he wrote during that period. As usual,...

Phil Chenevert and 17 more 8 hours 15 minutes

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Christianity - Commentary

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St. John Chrysostom - Sermon on the Mount - Commentary

Saint John Chrysostom's Homilies 15-25, on the Gospel of Saint Matthew, expound upon Matthew Chapters 5-7, known as The Sermon on the Mount, containing perhaps the most well-known teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ....

A LibriVox Volunteer 8 hours 23 minutes

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