Amy Gramour

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Algonquin Legends of New England or Myths and Folk Lore of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot Tribes

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Charles Godfrey Leland - Algonquin Legends of New England or Myths and Folk Lore of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot Tribes

This work, then, contains a collection of the myths, legends, and folk-lore of the principal Wabanaki, or Northeastern Algonquin, Indians; that is to say, of the Passamaquoddies and Penobscots of Maine, and of the...

Amy Gramour and 13 more 10 hours 26 minutes

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Science Fiction

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William Henry Hudson - Crystal Age

A Crystal Age is a utopian novel written by W. H. Hudson, first published in 1887. The book has been called a «significant S-F milestone» and has been noted for its anticipation of the «modern ecological mysticism»...

Sandra Luna and 7 more 6 hours 6 minutes

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Sir Isaac Newton - Opticks

The famous physicist Sir Isaac Newton lectured on optics from 1670 — 1672. He worked on refraction of light into colored beams using prisms and discovered chromatic aberration. He also postulated the corpuscular form...

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Poetry

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Emily Dickinson - I Stepped from Plank to Plank

LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of I Stepped from Plank to Plank by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 21, 2011. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Born in...

Amy Gramour and 12 more 9 minutes

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Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur

Gardening

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Gertrude Jekyll - Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur

Wood and Garden reads like a walk through the garden with reknowned garden designer Gertrude Jekyll as she discusses her plant choices and placement, how she integrates nature into her design, and how she maintains...

Ruth Golding and 11 more 7 hours 59 minutes

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Poetry

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Harriet Prescott Spofford - Evanescence

Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford was a notable American writer remembered for her novels, poems and detective stories. This was the weekly poem for July 24-30, 2011.

filmmefatale and 14 more 13 minutes

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Poetry

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Omar Khayyám - Quatrain from the Rubaiyat

LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Quatrain from The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Translated by Henry George Keene. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 26, 2011. The popularity of the celebrated...

Amy Gramour and 11 more 10 minutes

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Poetry

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Sarah Orne Jewett - At Home From Church

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of At Home From Church by Sarah Orne Jewett. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for June 19, 2011. Jewett possessed a keen descriptive gift that William Dean...

Amy Gramour and 13 more 21 minutes

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New England Girlhood: Outlined From Memory

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Lucy Larcom - New England Girlhood: Outlined From Memory

Lucy Larcom was an American poet, teacher, and mil-worker. According to Wikipedia: «Larcom served as a model for the change in women's roles in society.» This is her colorful autobiography. Here, she tells about her...

Linda Velwest and 5 more 6 hours 20 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 097

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for June 2011.

Winston Tharp and 18 more 1 hour 5 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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William Cowper - To The Immortal Memory of the Halibut

LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of To The Immortal Memory of the Halibut, On Which I Dined This Day, Monday, April 26, 1784 by William Cowper. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 29, 2011....

Amy Gramour and 9 more 19 minutes

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John Phin - Seven Follies of Science

The seven follies of science; a popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them to which is added a small budget of interesting paradoxes, illusions,...

tmkenny and 12 more 6 hours 34 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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