Joy Easton

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jane Porter - Scottish Chiefs

An adventure novel about William Wallace, one of the most popular books ever written by Jane Porter. The French version was even banned by Napoleon, and the book has remained very popular with Scottish children,...

Shirley Ellen and 14 more 29 hours 51 minutes

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Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate

Modern (19th C)

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Eliza P. Donner Houghton - Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate

The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers caught up in the «westering fever» of the 1840s. After becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevada in the winter of 1846–1847, some of the emigrants...

Alana Jordan and 7 more 10 hours 11 minutes

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Christian Fiction

558

Grace Livingston Hill - Cloudy Jewel

Julia Cloud, the oldest--and most responsible--child of her family, helped raise her four siblings due to their mother's long-time illness and father's death. After faithfully nursing two ill brothers (who died), she...

Joy Easton and 8 more 9 hours 34 minutes

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Romance

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Edith Wharton - Reef

George Darrow, Anna Leath’s first love, is finally coming from London to propose to her. However, he drifts to an affair with Sophy Viner, Anna’s daughter’s naïve and young governess. Sophy’s relationship with Darrow...

Elli and 8 more 9 hours 33 minutes

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Children's Fiction

526

Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables (version 5)

Anne of Green Gables is about an orphan girl who is starving for a family to love her. Her big words and bright spirits take her through many toils, trials, and temptations. Her romantic schemes make it nearly to...

Robin and 10 more 9 hours 31 minutes Anne of Green Gables and related works

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Memoirs

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Howard R. Driggs - Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail

This is a memoir by an early 19th Century American settler in the Pacific Northwest. (Description by BellonaTimes)

Bellona Times and 13 more 5 hours 34 minutes

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Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison

*Non-fiction

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James E. Seaver - Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison

Mrs. Mary Jemison was taken by the Indians, in the year 1755, when only about twelve years of age, and has continued to reside amongst them to the present time. Containing an account of the murder of her father and...

Barry Eads and 7 more 5 hours 2 minutes

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War & Military

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Ward Muir - Observations of an Orderly

Ward Muir brings us into the heart of an English war hospital, describing scenes of cleanliness, triumph, order and sadness. Through the eyes of the orderly we get to see the processes that kept the wards running,...

skoval and 6 more 3 hours 51 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Lew Wallace - Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Book 1

Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ «Book 1» gives a sideline view of events taking pace around the days of Christ. Book 1 gives the account of Christ's birth. (Summary by MHAIJH85)

David Lawrence and 8 more 3 hours 9 minutes

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Poetry

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Hymn Collection 001

Librivox volunteers sing twenty of their favourite hymns. All Glory Laud and Honor — Words translated from the Latin of Theodolph of Orleans; Tune: St. Theodulph by Melchior Teschner; harmony by William H....

Jennifer Stearns and 12 more 1 hour 11 minutes

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Celebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 1.

*Non-fiction

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Aesop - Celebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 1.

A celebration of all the wonderful dialects and accents found within the Librivox community! The goal being to record a 'phonetically relevant' text by as many volunteers as possible, and make this dialect/accent...

Julie VW and 34 more 36 minutes

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Poetry

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Thomas Moore - Drink To Her

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Drink To Her by Thomas Moore. This was the weekly poetry project for July 5th, 2009.

Alex Eding and 17 more 29 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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