Tom Crawford

27 books

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Biography & Autobiography

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Jacob Stroyer - My Life in the South

My Life in the South is the vivid and touching autobiography of African-American former slave, Jacob Stroyer. It recounts experiences from his early childhood on the planation up to his involvement in Confederacy's...

Jeffrey Carr and 5 more 2 hours 45 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

523

Jack London - Mutiny of the Elsinore

This is the story of a voyage of a sailing ship from Baltimore to Seattle, east-to-west around Cape Horn in the winter. It is set in 1913 and the glory days of “wooden ships and iron men” are long over. The Elsinore...

Tom Crawford 12 hours 29 minutes

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Short Stories

707

Short Story Collection Vol. 047

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 047: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members, including stories by Poul Anderson, Aphra Behn, Kate Chopin, Joseph Conrad,...

Tom Crawford and 15 more 7 hours 11 minutes Short Story Collections

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*Non-fiction

484

Edwin E. Slosson - Easy Lessons in Einstein

Published in 1920, Slosson’s Easy Lessons in Einstein is one of the first popularizations of Einstein’s theory of relativity. This book is meant to convey to the general reader the ideas of relativity in...

Availle and 6 more 2 hours 52 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

503

Jack London - Call of the Wild (Version 2)

This is the story of Buck, dog napped from sunny California to snowy Arctic during the Alaska gold rush. This deservedly famous book has been already recorded by LibriVox and downloaded more than 100,000 times. Why,...

Tom Crawford 3 hours 34 minutes

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Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur

Gardening

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Gertrude Jekyll - Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur

Wood and Garden reads like a walk through the garden with reknowned garden designer Gertrude Jekyll as she discusses her plant choices and placement, how she integrates nature into her design, and how she maintains...

Ruth Golding and 11 more 7 hours 59 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jack London - Game

Jack London wrote at least four stories about boxing; A Piece of Steak (1909), The Mexican (1911), The Abysmal Brute (1911), and The Game (1905). The Game is told, in part, from the point of view of a woman, the...

Tom Crawford 1 hour 41 minutes

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*Non-fiction

434

John Phin - Seven Follies of Science

The seven follies of science; a popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them to which is added a small budget of interesting paradoxes, illusions,...

tmkenny and 12 more 6 hours 34 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

556

Jules Verne - Mysterious Island (version 2)

The book tells the adventures of five Americans on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. The story begins in the American Civil War, during the siege of Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of...

Alisson Veldhuis and 13 more 23 hours 23 minutes

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Charles Dickens - American Notes for General Circulation

American Notes for General Circulation is a travelogue by Charles Dickens detailing his trip to North America from January to June, 1842. While there he acted as a critical observer of these societies almost as if...

Alisson Veldhuis and 6 more 11 hours 11 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

493

Sapper - Bulldog Drummond

‘Sapper’, the pseudonym of Colonel. H.C. McNeile M.C. was one of the most popular English writers of thrillers between the two world wars. And Hugh (Bulldog) Drummond was his most popular leading character. This book,...

Andy Minter and 6 more 8 hours 56 minutes

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Nature's Miracles Volume 3: Electricity and Magnetism

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Elisha Gray - Nature's Miracles Volume 3: Electricity and Magnetism

Elisha Gray (August 2, 1835 – January 21, 1901) was an American electrical engineer who co-founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Company. Gray is best known for his development of a telephone prototype in 1876...

Laura Victoria and 9 more 5 hours 56 minutes

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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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