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Action & Adventure

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Alice B. Emerson - Ruth Fielding at Briarwood Hall

In this, the second book of the Ruth Fielding series, Ruth goes to boarding school with her best friend Helen. When they get there, Ruth starts her own sorority called the SweetBriars for the new girls. Her sweet...

Sonali Punja and 5 more 4 hours 26 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Short Science Fiction Collection 048

Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and scientific method, but are not facts of the author’s contemporary world. The...

Lynne T and 11 more 9 hours 57 minutes Short Science Fiction Collections

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Essays & Short Works

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Matthew Arnold - Culture and Anarchy

Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book in 1869. The preface was added in 1875. Arnold's famous piece of writing on...

Nicole Lee 6 hours 1 minute

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Science Fiction

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Frederik Pohl - Tunnel Under The World

This famous Pohl story explores cybernetic robots and implanted personalities in a way that certainly expanded my way of looking at reality. Is that wall really real? or is it just kinda, sorta real? And who am I? The...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 24 minutes

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Ancient

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Plato (Πλάτων) - Lesser Hippias

This work may not be by Plato, or his entirely, but Jowett has offered his sublime translation, and seems to lean towards including it in the canon. Socrates tempted by irony to deflate the pretentious know-it-all...

Kevin Johnson 1 hour 8 minutes

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Douay-Rheims Version

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Douay-Rheims Version (DRV) - 2 Maccabees

The Book of 2 Machabees (more commonly rendered 2 Maccabees) is an abridgement of another work, now lost, which describes the events surrounding the defeat of Antiochus IV Epiphanes and the rededication of the Jewish...

Adam and 1 more 2 hours 10 minutes

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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Le Gallienne) - Version 2

Poetry

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Omar Khayyám - Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Le Gallienne) - Version 2

One of the greatest works of poetry in history, this lyric poem presents the deep feelings and emotions of the poet on subjects such as life, death, love, God and destiny. (Summary by Michael Armenta)

Michael Armenta 1 hour 27 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Edith Wharton - Descent of Man and Other Stories

This collection of ten stories, first published in 1904, shows Edith Wharton dissecting some of the customs, habits and vagaries of courtship and marriage, particularly as practiced in the upper reaches of New York...

Nicholas Clifford 7 hours 8 minutes

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General Fiction

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Owen Wister - Lady Baltimore

Augustus visits King's Port, South Carolina, at the request of his Aunt Carola, and at her expense. She wants him to research geneaologies and records to find proof that he is descended from royalty so that he can...

Lois Hill 9 hours 51 minutes

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Memory: How to Develop, Train and Use It

*Non-fiction

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William Walker Atkinson - Memory: How to Develop, Train and Use It

An in-depth series of chapters devoted to the use of our memory system; as the title suggests, how to develop our memory system, how to train it to improve it, and how to make the best use of it in our everyday lives,...

Roger Melin 4 hours 37 minutes

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Tim Bobbin: A View of the Lancashire Dialect

Humorous Fiction

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Tim Bobbin: A View of the Lancashire Dialect

A comic dialogue written in John Collier's idiosyncratic version of the 18th century South Lancashire dialect together with a collection of 19th century texts on Collier and his work. Egged on by Meary (Mary),...

Phil Benson 10 hours 21 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Children's Short Works, Vol. 018

Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 018: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

Samantha Miles and 12 more 3 hours 22 minutes Children's Short Works Collections

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