Search Results
The Promised Land
Read by Bridget Gaige
Mary Antin
Being a Jew in Russia at the end of the 19th century was not easy at all. Jews were persecuted because of their religion. So the Jews found …
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 041
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include a woman in Alaska, Cuban folklore,…
The Girl Scouts at Home
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Katherine Keene Galt
Little Rosanna Horton was a very poor little girl. When I tell you more about her, you will think that was a very odd thing to say.She lived…
The Englishwoman in America
Read by Sibella Denton
Isabella L. Bird
Isabella Bird travels abroad in Canada and the United States in the 1850s. As an Englishwoman and a lone female, she travels as far as Chica…
The Child's Book of American Biography
Read by Laura Victoria
Mary Stoyell Stimpson
In every country there have been certain men and women whose busy lives have made the world better or wiser. The names of such are heard so …
Opening a Chestnut Burr
Read by LikeManyWaters
Edward P. Roe
Walter Gregory is a gentleman whose health is broken down by the stress of Wall Street and the consequences of his fast lifestyle. Disillusi…
English Literature
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Geraldine Hodgson
This book is not meant to be a History of English Literature, but an introduction for those who do not know much about it, or who may be thi…
Sophia
Read by Teel McClanahan III
Teel McClanahan III
At age 7, Sophia was struck down with a life-threatening disease. Faced with a choice between an unending life in the body of a child and he…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 094
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
"Fine experience lies at one's own doorstep" writes Raymond S. Spears, suggesting that boating on the Mississippi River offers &qu…
Clotel, or, The President's Daughter
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
William Wells Brown
Clotel; or, The President's Daughter is a novel by William Wells Brown (1814-84), a fugitive from slavery and abolitionist and was published…
Outlaws of Ravenhurst
Read by Maria Therese
Sister M. Imelda Wallace
This exciting historical adventure depicts the last stand of the Gordons - God's "outlaws" - fighting for their Catholic Faith in …
Three Years In Europe
Read by James K. White
William Wells Brown
William Wells Brown was born a slave, near Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Elizabeth, was a slave--his father a white man who never acknowl…
Something About Eve: A Comedy of Fig-leaves
Read by Ben Tucker
James Branch Cabell
Would-be author of romance Gerald Musgrave, southern gentleman and member of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America…
The Dormition of Mary
Father Patrick Jackson
Sermon given on August 14, 2016 at St. Stephen Antiochian Orthodox Church, Campbell, CA
Forever Fifteen
Read by Kimberly Steele
Kimberly Steele
Lucy Albert is not your ordinary maladjusted suburban adolescent. Born into the era of the Black Plague in medieval Italy, Lucy is chosen a…
John Brown
Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
W. E. B. Du Bois
This is a moving and deeply felt biography of abolitionist John Brown, which defends its subject against the popular notion of him as a delu…
Theo
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Frances Hodgson Burnett
It's described as "A SPRIGHTLY LOVE STORY" and it is written by F. H. Burnett, "one of the most charming among American write…
Miss Mackenzie
Read by Kirsten Wever
Anthony Trollope
The thirty-five year-old (hence utterly over-the-hill) Miss Margaret Mackenzie, having devoted her life to others, suddenly finds herself wi…
A Chautauqua Idyl
Read by Scarlett Martin
Grace Livingston Hill
The trees, flowers, and animals of a peaceful pasture meet together to discuss and learn of theology. Summary by Scarlett Martin.