Sarah Jennings

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Poetry

529

Robert W. Service - My Madonna

LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 different recordings of My Madonna by Robert W. Service. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of August 12th, 2007.

Alan Clare and 20 more 22 minutes

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506

John Wesley Powell - Canyons of the Colorado

John Wesley Powell was a pioneer American explorer, ethnologist, and geologist in the 19th Century. In 1869 he set out to explore the Colorado and the Grand Canyon. He gathered nine men, four boats and food for ten...

Joan Freeman and 9 more 8 hours 7 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

575

Dorothy Scarborough - Famous Modern Ghost Stories

An entertaining selection of «modern» ghost stories selected «to include specimens of a few of the distinctive types of modern ghosts, as well as to show the art of individual stories.» Sure to please the love...

J. M. Smallheer and 12 more 9 hours 45 minutes

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Science

564

Thornton W. Burgess - Burgess Bird Book for Children

The Burgess Bird Book for Children is a zoology book written in the form of a story featuring Peter Rabbit. Peter learns from his friend Jenny Wren all about the birds of North America, and we meet many of them in...

Laurie Anne Walden and 17 more 7 hours 28 minutes

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Animals

579

Mrs. Isabella Beeton - Book of Household Management

«Mrs. Beeton's» is a guide to all aspects of running a household in Victorian Britain. Published in 1861, it was an immediate bestseller, running to millions of copies within just a few years. In the cookery...

Sarah Jennings and 32 more 58 hours 15 minutes

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Chronicles of Canada Volume 07 - The Fighting Governer: A Chronicle of Frontenac

Early Modern

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Charles W. Colby - Chronicles of Canada Volume 07 - The Fighting Governer: A Chronicle of Frontenac

The Canada to which Frontenac came in 1672 was no longer the infant colony it had been when Richelieu founded the Company of One Hundred Associates. Though its inhabitants numbered less than seven thousand, the...

Sarah Jennings and 5 more 3 hours 24 minutes Chronicles of Canada Series

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General

534

Johnny Gruelle - Raggedy Ann Stories (version 2)

This is the book that started it all. Johnny Gruelle gave his daughter Marcella a rag doll, on which he had drawn an eternally smiling face. Marcella and Raggedy Ann became inseparable, and inspired Gruelle to write...

Zachary Brewster-Geisz and 5 more 1 hour 49 minutes

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Detective Fiction

593

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Return of Sherlock Holmes

Having left Sherlock Holmes apparently deceased at the conclusion of The Final Problem (in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes), we now find that he is alive after all! In this collection, first published in 1905, the...

Sibella Denton and 9 more 11 hours 7 minutes

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Travel & Geography

481

Walt Whitman - Specimen Days

Specimen Days is essentially the great American poet Walt Whitman's scrap book. It documents most of his life's adventures, espeically his experience serving as a nurse during the Civil War and travelling around America.

Sue Anderson and 12 more 11 hours 4 minutes

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Science Fiction

500

William Shuler Harris - Life in a Thousand Worlds

A jolly romp, which could be perhaps be described as Gulliver’s Travels Through Our Solar System and Beyond, as written by a great admirer of C. S. Lewis, on a rainy Sunday afternoon, after one too many mugs of cocoa....

Cori Samuel and 11 more 5 hours 45 minutes

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Children's Fiction

646

Charles Dickens - Child's History of England

A Child's History of England first appeared in serial form, running from January 25, 1851 to December 10, 1853 and was first published in three volume book form in 1852, 1853, and 1854. Dickens dedicated the book to...

Lizzie Driver and 13 more 16 hours 20 minutes

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511

James Frazer - Golden Bough

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a wide-ranging comparative study of mythology and religion, written by Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). It offered a modernist approach,...

hefyd and 10 more 42 hours 44 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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