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Creative Chemistry
Read by Adam Marcetich
Edwin E. Slosson
Slosson reviews the transformation of alchemistry from an obscure and imprecise practice to the science of chemistry. Along the way, he expl…
Stories of Inventors
Read by Adam Marcetich
Russell Doubleday
Doubleday chronicles the history of everyday inventions that form the foundation of technology now common through the world. While some of t…
Old-Time Makers of Medicine
Read by Adam Marcetich
James Joseph Walsh
Dr. Walsh's Old-Time Makers of Medicine chronicles the history and development of modern medicine from ancient times up to the discovery of …
Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee
Read by Adam Marcetich
L. L. Langstroth
Langstroth revolutionized the beekeeping industry by using bee space in his top opened hive. In the summer of 1851 he found that, by leaving…
The Story of Books
Read by Adam Marcetich
Gertrude Burford Rawlings
Rawlings follows the development of printing from the origins of writing to modern printing. Some of the earliest records are ancient Egypti…
Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air
Read by Adam Marcetich
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley, FRS was an 18th-century English theologian, Dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher, chemist, educator, and political th…
California
Read by Adam Marcetich
J. Tyrwhitt Brooks and Henry Vizetelly
Henry Vizetelly, writing under the pseudonym J. Tyrwhitt Brooks, recalls an expedition to California he took between 1847-1848 . Originally,…
The Edge of the Knife
Read by Julio F. Marchini
H. Beam Piper
The Terro-Human Future History is Piper's detailed account of the next 6000 years of human history. 1942, the year the first fission reactor…
Dark Hollow
Read by Doreen Marcotte
Anna Katharine Green
Twelve years ago, the town of Shelby was in shock at the discovery of the murder of Algernon Etheridge, one of the town's most prominent cit…
Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn
Read by Marcy Kahan
Mark Twain
By Mark Twain, dramatised by Marcy Kahan, one of the great American novels comes into rich and multilayered life in the most complete dramat…
Maoriland Fairy Tales
Read by Marea Brook
Edith Howes
Most of the tales have some basis in history. It is an oral language so all histories have to be remembered and retold. To help with this me…
The Island of Doctor Moreau
Read by Veronica Maresh Mead
H. G. Wells
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells follows shipwreck victim, Edward Prendick, as he explores a strange island his rescuer, Montgomer…
Middlemarch
Read by Margaret Espaillat
George Eliot
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. It is her seventh n…
The Moneychangers
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Upton Sinclair
A story of white collar crime and intrigue told from the point of view of Montague, a member of the privileged class of New York. Montague w…
The Fruit of the Tree
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Edith Wharton
When published in 1907, this novel about the lives of a wealthy mill owner, her socially progressive husband and friends caused a stir due t…
Mistakes of Moses
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Robert G. Ingersoll
Robert G. Ingersoll was an extremely popular humanist orator in the late nineteenth century, and he wrote Mistakes of Moses after many bootl…
Bunner Sisters
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Edith Wharton
“Bunner Sisters,” like “The Age of Innocence” is set in 1870s New York, however the lives of Ann Eliza and Evelina Bunner reflect impoverish…
Royal Highness
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Thomas Mann
Royal Highness is the story of Prince Klaus Heinrich, a member of a struggling German duchy and an exotic American heiress who comes to live…
Eminent Victorians
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Giles Lytton Strachey
On Modern Library's list of 100 Best Non-Fiction books, "Eminent Victorians" marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also help…
Ambassador Morgenthau's Story
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Henry Morgenthau
Ambassador Morgenthau’s memoirs of his years in the service of the United States in Constantinople, (today Istanbul), are an important prima…