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How Christmas Came to Pebbly Creek

In Christmas Short Works Collection 2022

Read by Andrea Kotzer


Edith Stow


The 2022 Christmas collection brings some old favourites along with some new selections, from the traditional to the bizarre. Among the sele…

Christmas When the West Was Young: Stories of Far Western Christmas Days of Pio…

In Christmas Short Works Collection 2023

Read by Andrea Kotzer


William R. Lighton


Enjoy the 2023 Christmas collection, with selections chosen by many volunteers. This year's readings include a combination of sacred and sec…

The Cradle of the Movies

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 096

Read by Andrea Kotzer


Charles Gatchell


"Can we solve the problems confronting us? Well, the answer is an unequivocal and emphatic yes." This quote, from U.S. President R…

Mack Sennett-Laugh Tester: The Man Who Makes the Keystone Comedies

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 097

Read by Andrea Kotzer


Harry C. Carr


"One does not care to walk over a rug or carpet that displays a scene in perspective, neither does one wish to gaze into a landscape wr…

Buster Keaton--Hard Knocks Make a Man

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 054

Read by Andrea Kotzer


Russell Spencer


Sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include Science and Exploration--a tribute …

The Lives of RICHARD HUGHS and BRYAN MACGUIRE, Highwaymen and Footpads

In Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for…

Read by Andrea Kotzer


Arthur L. Hayward


This is the third volume in this collection of reports and newspaper stories regarding notorious criminals and their punishment, assembled b…

The Surveyor

In George Washington

Read by Andrea Kotzer


Ferdinand Schmidt


Among all the numerous life stories written by Ferdinand Schmidt for the delectation and education of German youth, none surpasses that of W…

A Haunted House in Georgia, from True Ghost Stories, by Hereward Carrington

In Coffee Break Collection 024 - Ghosts, Ghouls and Spooky Things

Read by Andrea Kotzer


Hereward Carrington


This is the twenty-fourth Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select English language public domain works of about 15 minutes…

The Dusky Grouse

In Birds, Vol. III, No 4, April 1898

Read by Andrea Kotzer


Phyllis Brown


Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems…

The Sun's Family of Worlds

In The Romance of Modern Astronomy

Read by Andrea Kotzer


Hector Macpherson


From the series, The Library of Romance, the reader is introduced in this book to the modern astronomy of 1911. The author discusses our sol…

Cleopatra—How did She Die? By John Elfreth Watkins

In Coffee Break Collection 023 - Mysteries, Riddles and Conundrums

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John Elfreth Watkins and John Elfreth Watkins, Jr.


This is the twenty-third Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select English language public domain works of about 15 minutes …

The True Story of Mary Pickford's Beginning

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 071

Read by Andrea Kotzer


Terry Ramsaye


Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. "Suffrage for women will not usher in a millennium of peace and leisure" was …

The Life of WILLIAM SWIFT, a Thief, etc.

In Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for…

Read by Andrea Kotzer


Arthur L. Hayward


This is the second volume in this collection of reports and newspaper stories regarding notorious criminals and their punishment, assembled …