Denny Sayers (d. 2015)

131 books

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History

487

William Clark - Journal of Lewis and Clarke (1840)

«The expedition of Messrs. Lewis and Clarke, for exploring the river Missouri, and the best communication from that to the Pacific Ocean, has had all the success which could be expected. They have traced the Missouri...

Availle and 16 more 8 hours 51 minutes

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Gardening

451

Robert Buist - Family Kitchen Gardener

The Family Kitchen Gardener contains plain and accurate descriptions (ca 1847) of all the different species and varieties of specifically American culinary vegetables, fruit, and herbs in alphabetical order. It...

Bellona Times and 11 more 7 hours 47 minutes

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History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy, Vol. 2

Middle Ages/Middle History

478

Niccolò Machiavelli - History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy, Vol. 2

History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy is an historical account by Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527). Toward the end of 1520, the Cardinal Giulio of Medici, later Pope Clement VII, offered Machiavelli the...

MorganScorpion and 7 more 8 hours 12 minutes History of Florence

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Business & Economics

504

Thorstein Veblen - Theory of the Leisure Class

Originally published by the Norwegian-American economist Thorstein Veblen while he was a professor at the University of Chicago in 1898, the Theory of the Leisure Class is considered one of the great works of...

Anna Simon and 12 more 11 hours 51 minutes

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General Fiction

632

Alexandre Exquemelin - Pirates of Panama

This volume was originally written in Dutch by John Esquemeling, and first published in Amsterdam in 1678 under the title of De Americaeneche Zee Roovers. It immediately became very popular and this first hand...

Sibella Denton and 4 more 6 hours 21 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

545

Guy Wetmore Carryl - Mother Goose for Grownups

Mother Goose for Grownups is a delightfully silly collection of parodies on well-known Mother Goose tales by Guy Wetmore Carryl. (Summary by fink)

Joseph Finkberg and 11 more 1 hour 7 minutes

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Poetry

520

Soup of Alphabets, Volume 003

This third «stove-top» full of Alphabet Soups --again-- runs the fullest gamut! It ranges from country scenes (Alphabets of Fruits, Birds, Animals and «Country Scenes»), to just plain silliness (Absurd ABCs and...

Denny Sayers and 6 more 51 minutes Soup of Alphabets

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Performing Arts

493

Harry Houdini - Miracle Mongers, an Exposé

«A complete exposé of the modus operandi of fire eaters, heat resisters, poison eaters, venomous reptile defiers, sword swallowers, human ostriches, strong men, etc.», [by Harry Houdini, from the subtitle].

Peter Eastman and 7 more 4 hours 27 minutes

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Young Adults Short Works Collection Vol. 001

Children's Fiction

461

Young Adults Short Works Collection Vol. 001

Librivox’s Young Adults Short Story Collection 001: a collection of 9 short works of Young Adult fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Jessica Louise and 7 more 3 hours 12 minutes

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Poetry

565

Soup of Alphabets, Volume 002

A second helping of Alphabet Books! This collection has a wide-ranging variety of short books, and not only for younger readers, but also for young and not so young adults. Opening with a book based on the colorful...

Ruth Golding and 5 more 1 hour 13 minutes Soup of Alphabets

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

575

Children's Short Works, Vol. 001

Librivox’s Children's Short Works Collection 001: a collection of 10 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

Laurie Anne Walden and 4 more 1 hour 37 minutes Children's Short Works Collections

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*Non-fiction

505

United States Army Corps of Engineers - Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

This is the official report, published nearly 11 months after the first and only atomic bombings in history (to date), of a group of military physicians and engineers who accompanied the initial contingent of U.S....

Denny Sayers 3 hours 34 minutes

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New

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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