Linda Velwest

25 books

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Children's Fiction

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Julia Lestarjette Glover - Briarwood Girls

Kindred Spirits return for their Sophomore year at Briarwood College. There's a new girl who upsets the status quo. (Introduction by Linda Velwest)

Linda Velwest 1 hour 36 minutes

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Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman

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Martha Summerhayes - Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman

«This is the lively autobiography of Martha Summerhayes, the wife of an officer in the American Army. Here, she tells many stories about life and conditions in different camps and forts in which she lived with her...

dobsonfly and 7 more 7 hours 4 minutes

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Elizabeth Keckley - Behind the Scenes

This is the autobiography of Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave who bought her freedom with the money she earned as a seamstress. She eventually worked for Mary Lincoln. It is a fascinating book, filled with many...

Laura Victoria and 10 more 6 hours 7 minutes

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475

Olive Gilbert - Narrative of Sojourner Truth

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth is the gripping autobiographical account of Sojourner Truths life as a slave in pre-Civil War New York State, and her eventual escape to Freedom. Since Sojourner could neither read or...

Marc Kockinos and 8 more 4 hours 23 minutes

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Poetry

509

Eugene Field - Christmas Morning

LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Christmas Morning by Eugene Field. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 12, 2010. Eugene Field, Sr. (September 2, 1850 – November 4, 1895) was an...

Amy Gramour and 12 more 23 minutes

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Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers

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Ella Middleton Tybout - Wife of the Secretary of State

In this political thriller set at the turn of the 20th century, several lives, both of Washington insiders and those on the periphery, intersect over the issue of some stolen diplomatic papers. And what hidden secrets...

DrBeccaAnne and 11 more 9 hours 54 minutes

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General Fiction

544

Maria Edgeworth - Belinda

When Belinda was published in 1801, it became both controversial and popular. Controversial because of the inter-racial marriage presented in the novel, and popular because it's a very good comedy of manners, like...

Mimi Wang and 10 more 19 hours 35 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Baroness Emma Orczy - League of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Written by Baroness Orczy and first published in 1919, The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. The book consists of eleven short stories about Sir...

Edward W. LaBonte and 7 more 8 hours 34 minutes

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General Fiction

597

Fanny Burney - Camilla

Camilla is Frances Burney's third novel. It became very popular upon its publication in 1796. Jane Austen referred to it, among other novels, in her novel Northanger Abbey: “'And what are you reading, Miss — ?' 'Oh!...

Adrian Wheal and 15 more 40 hours 5 minutes

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General Fiction

590

Mary Augusta Ward - Marcella

Mary Augusta Ward (Mrs. Humphry Ward) was a very popular author at the end of the 19th century. The arrival of Marcella was discussed a lot in the London news papers. This popular novel tells about Marcella Boyce, a...

xibu and 11 more 25 hours 20 minutes

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Children's Fiction

547

Margaret Sidney - Five Little Peppers Abroad

This book is the next in the series of the Five Little Peppers, by Margaret Sidney, after Five Little Peppers and How They Grew and Five Little Peppers Midway. It continues the series where Ben, Polly, Joel, Davie,...

Elli and 15 more 8 hours 38 minutes

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General Fiction

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Sylvia's Lovers

The novel begins in the 1790s in the coastal town of Monkshaven. Sylvia Robson lives with her parents on a farm, and is loved by her rather dull Quaker cousin Philip. She, however, meets and falls in love with...

Sonja and 10 more 17 hours 18 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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