Phil Chenevert

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Family Life

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Ellis Parker Butler - Confessions of a Daddy

The wry humor of Ellis Parker Butler, who gave us the classic Pigs Is Pigs, takes us into his own married life where Marthy and Hiram live quietly in their Colorado town. They don't have trouble with anyone of their...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour

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Science Fiction

Murray Leinster - Med Ship Man (version 2)

Scattered through the galaxy are thousands of worlds colonized by humans. Many have native microbes dangerous to the human immigrants. Others have diseases brought to them accidentally—or on purpose—by visiting ships....

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 47 minutes

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Single author

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Robert Southey - Stanzas Written in His Library

Poem #619 in The Book Of Georgian Verse, page 1110, published 1909. This poem seems so appropriate to what we do at LibriVox, surrounding ourselves with, learning from, and keeping alive the memories of deceased...

Algy Pug and 18 more 28 minutes

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Travel & Geography

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Herodotus - Account of Egypt by Herodotus

HERODOTUS was born at Halicarnassus, on the southwest coast of Asia Minor, in the early part of the fifth century, B. C. Of his life we know almost nothing, except that he spent much of it traveling, to collect the...

Phil Chenevert and 5 more 3 hours 42 minutes

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Science Fiction

Harry Harrison - Planet of the Damned (Version 2)

Dis was a harsh, inhospitable, dangerous place and the Magter made it worse. They might have been human once—but they were something else now. The Magter had only one desire—Kill! Kill everything, themselves, their...

Phil Chenevert 6 hours 30 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Murray Leinster - Thousand Degrees Below Zero

The War to End All Wars has ended and the world has taken a deep breath and is trying to recover normal life in 1919. But a super Villan intent on ruling the entire world has other ideas. In his super fast helicopter...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 39 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Harold Gaze - Coppertop

The story is about a little girl who meets all manner of strange gnomes, fairies and creatures after she goes to sleep at night. She also has two invisible brothers whom she created so as to not be alone while her...

Corrinne LePage and 6 more 2 hours 30 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Jack Snow - Magical Mimics in Oz

The land of OZ is the happiest fairyland anywhere, but there are evil creatures whose only ambition is to destroy that happiness. Lurking inside Mount Illuso, just south of the Deadly Desert, live the Magic Mimics, a...

Phil Chenevert 3 hours 35 minutes

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Venerable Don Bosco the Apostle of Youth

Biography & Autobiography

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M. S. Pine - Venerable Don Bosco the Apostle of Youth

This brief sketch of the holy life and marvelous achievements of a great inheritor of the spirit of Saint Francis of Sales, Saint Don Bosco is intended only to stimulate souls to a wider study of this loving Apostle...

KevinS and 8 more 5 hours 7 minutes

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Satire

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George Bernard Shaw - Candida (version 2)

This play tells the story of Candida, the wife of a famous clergyman, the Reverend James Mavor Morell. Morell is a Christian Socialist, popular in the Church of England, but Candida is responsible for much of his...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 57 minutes

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Bobby in Search of a Birthday (version 2)

Family

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Lebbeus Mitchell - Bobby in Search of a Birthday (version 2)

Bobby is a little orphan boy of about 5 who discovers he has somehow lost his 'birfhday' and decides to go looking for it. This epic quest takes him into strange places and meetings with people who are sometimes...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 9 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Fritz Leiber - Nice Girl With 5 Husbands

Four quirky short stories by the talented Fritz Leiber: Nice Girl with 5 Husbands, A Pail of Air, The Last Letter and A Bad Day for Sales. — Summary by phil chenevert

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 57 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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