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Singularity

Read by Bill DeSmedt


Bill DeSmedt



What if the cataclysmic Tunguska explosion of 1908 was caused, not by a meteor or a comet, but by a microscopic black hole? What if that fa…

CBS Radio Mystery Theater


CBS Radio Mystery Theater



CBS Radio Mystery Theater was a long-running series of radio dramas created by Himan Brown and hosted by E.G. Marshall. These programs were …

The Chemical History of A Candle

Read by Availle


Michael Faraday



The Chemical History of a Candle is a series of 6 lectures on chemistry presented to a juvenile audience in 1848. Taught by Michael Faraday …

Maiwa's Revenge

Read by Derek Trial


H. Rider Haggard



While hunting elephants in the country of Wambe, big game Hunter Allan Quartermain gets word that an old friend, John Every, is a captive of…

The Chronicles of Crime

Read by Kevin Green


Camden Pelham



This catalogue of human weakness and at times downright atrocity has been brought together by Camden Pelham, a barrister-at-law of the Inner…

Moni the Goat-Boy

Read by Abigail Rasmussen


Johanna Spyri



Moni is the goat boy who takes care of all the goats belonging to the people of Fideris, Switzerland. He loves to sing, yodel, and whistle w…

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

Read by John Greenman


Mark Twain



It was published in 1893–1894 by Century Magazine in seven installments, and is a detective story with some racial themes. The plot of this …

Ways of Wood Folk

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


William J. Long



Late nineteenth-century naturalist William J. Long invites us in to the secret worlds of the woodland animals. Containing Long's own animal …

The Water-Babies

Read by Cori Samuel


Charles Kingsley



The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley, first published in its entirety in 1863. Though…

The Worst Journey in the World

Read by Kevin Green


Apsley Cherry-Garrard



The Worst Journey in the World is a gripping memoir that recounts the harrowing experiences of the 1910–1913 British Antarctic Expedition, l…

The Prayers of St Paul

Read by MaryAnn


William H. Griffith Thomas



William Griffith Thomas was a pastor, teacher and co-founder of the Dallas Theological Seminary. This book contains nine devotional comment…

Eugénie Grandet

Read by Bruce Pirie


Honoré de Balzac



Eugénie Grandet, first published in 1833, is one of Honoré de Balzac's finest novels, and one of the first works in what would…

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Read by Peter Yearsley


Lewis Carroll



"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do ..." .. and from that mom…

The Green Rust

Read by Kirsten Wever


Edgar Wallace



Edgar Wallace, perhaps best known for creating King Kong, wrote dozens of novels. The Green Rust, his twelfth crime novel, is one of three b…

Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers

Read by Ted Delorme


Charles Bradlaugh



This book presents a brief bio and a summary of important ideas & events in the lives of 23 great philosophers from ancient times throug…

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

Read by Lee Smalley


Frederick Douglass



Frederick Douglass published his highly acclaimed third autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, in 1881 and revised it in 1892.…

Letters of Pliny

Read by Andrew Coleman


Pliny The Younger



The largest surviving body of Pliny's work is his Epistulae (Letters), a series of personal missives directed to his friends, associates and…

The Outline of Science

Read by Mark F. Smith


J. Arthur Thomson



In The Outline of Science, Thomson gives us a window into scientific thinking as it stood in 1922 on the big, the little, and the biological…

The Boys Life of Mark Twain

Read by John Greenman


Albert Bigelow Paine



Albert Bigelow Paine was Samuel Langhorne Clemens' (Mark Twain's) biographer. He lived with Twain, collecting ideas and material for a biogr…

The Confessions

Read by MaryAnn


Saint Augustine of Hippo



The Confessions outlines Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. It is widely seen as the first Western autobiography e…

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