Amelia Chesley - Listen Audiobooks Online

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George F. Chambers - Story of Eclipses

Solar eclipses have both frightened and fascinated humankind for thousands of years. At first believed to be caused by angry gods punishing the people on Earth, we now know that a solar eclipse occurs when the Moon...

Availle and 9 more 7 hours 2 minutes

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Plum Pudding: Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned

Essays & Short Works

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Christopher Morley - Plum Pudding: Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned

Chrisopher Morley was an American literary luminary whose prolific writings included novels, essays, poetry, plays and great journalistic output. This collection of essays is wide ranging in topics, many with his...

Larry Wilson and 13 more 6 hours 49 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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L. Frank Baum - Phoebe Daring

A headstrong female detective strives to clear a good man's name in this children's mystery by Oz author L. Frank Baum. Summary by Miriam Esther Goldman

Miriam Esther Goldman and 9 more 6 hours 14 minutes

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Art, Design & Architecture

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Joseph W. Zaehnsdorf - Art of Bookbinding

This handbook explains the art of bookbinding and simultaneously reminds us what a complex technology is to make books! Zaehnsdorf, bookbinder and son of a bookbinder, made this second edition of his book to enlighten...

Amelia Chesley and 3 more 6 hours 4 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman - With Her in Ourland

Third in the trilogy of the feminist classics, after Moving the Mountain and Herland . It was published serially in Perkins Gilman's periodical The Forerunner . In Herland , three American young men discover a...

Amelia Chesley and 4 more 5 hours 53 minutes

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Well at the World's End: Book 4: The Road Home

Action & Adventure Fiction

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William Morris - Well at the World's End: Book 4: The Road Home

In The Well at the World's End, Ralph of Upmeads, youngest son of the King of Upmeads, leaves home (where nothing exciting ever happens) without permission and sets out looking for adventure. When he hears rumors of a...

David Lawrence and 11 more 5 hours 27 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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L. Frank Baum - Queen Zixi of Ix

Fairy Queen Lulea and her merry band, in a quest to relieve themselves of boredom, decide to create a new magical amusement. They weave a beautiful magic cloak that grants its wearer a single wish. The Queen tells a...

Beth Thomas and 6 more 3 hours 53 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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James Francis Thierry - Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons

The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons: Being one of the Exciting Episodes in the Career of the Famous Detective Hemlock Holmes as Recorded by his Friend Dr. Watson is a parody of the Sherlock Holmes stories....

SirQueezle and 6 more 3 hours 52 minutes

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Tolstoi for the Young: Selected tales from Tolstoi

Single Author Collections

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Leo Tolstoy - Tolstoi for the Young: Selected tales from Tolstoi

Seven stories by Leo Tolstoy selected for inclusion into a school curriculum. Some of the stories are well known and others more obscure; some are long and others quite short but all are of course from the pen of the...

A LibriVox Volunteer and 6 more 3 hours 29 minutes

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Well at the World's End: Book 3: The Road to The Well at the World's End

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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William Morris - Well at the World's End: Book 3: The Road to The Well at the World's End

In The Well at the World's End, Ralph of Upmeads, youngest son of the King of Upmeads, leaves home (where nothing exciting ever happens) without permission and sets out looking for adventure. When he hears rumors of a...

Paezra and 4 more 3 hours 18 minutes

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Poetry

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Joseph Horatio Chant - Gleams of Sunshine

This is a volume of religious, and as the subtitle of the book says, 'optimistic' poems by J.H. Chant, a Canadian minister of the United Church. — Summary by Carolin

Jeff Moon and 15 more 3 hours 5 minutes

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Education

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Leonard Cox - Arte or Crafte of Rhethoryke

This text is a reprint of the first English-language book on rhetoric, including an introduction and notes from Frederic Ives Carpenter of the University of Chicago. Cox's original brief treatise covers various themes...

Amelia Chesley 3 hours 2 minutes

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