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In Urania

Read by Chad Sawyer


Camille Flammarion


Urania is a work of science fiction from the fine mind of French astronomer Camille Flammarion. Named for Urania, the muse of astronomy, thi…

The Masque of The Red Death

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 051

Read by Chad Sawyer


Edgar Allan Poe


A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…

Silence A Fable

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 053

Read by Chad Sawyer


Edgar Allan Poe


A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…

The Danger of the Ballot

In Is the Bible Worth Reading and Other Essays

Read by Chad Sawyer


Lemuel Kelley Washburn


These are more than 100 short essays on all things atheism and freethought penned by Lemuel K. Washburn, an American freethought writer and …

The Original Hudson Tunnel

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 075

Read by Chad Sawyer


Gilbert Haskell Gilbert


Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. Is the sound of a dripping faucet music? According to Aldous Huxley, "The music of…

The Palace of Wonders

In Dot and Tot of Merryland

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L. Frank Baum


Dot and Tot of Merryland is a 1901 novel by L. Frank Baum. After Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, he wrote this story about the advent…

Putting Wires into Comb Foundation by J. G. Whitten

In The American Bee Journal. Vol. XVII, No. 12, Mar. 23, 1881

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Various


The American Bee Journal is the “oldest bee paper in America established in 1861 devoted to scientific bee-culture and the production and s…

LXXXVI, LXXXVII

In A Minor War History

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Martin Alonzo Haynes


A personal history of the American Civil War taken from the author's own letters to 'the girl he left behind', who later became his wife. Th…

The Spirit of freedom is Born of the Mountains

In Mountain Idylls, and Other Poems

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Alfred Castner King


"The author of this unpretentious volume has long questioned the advisability of adding a book to our already inflated and overloaded l…

The Fox-Colored Sparrow

In Birds, Vol. III, No 1, January 1898

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Various


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

Pt 1 Ch 5: Camouflage

In The Uttermost Star, and Other Gleams of Fancy

Read by Sawyer Rewis


Frank W. Boreham


Frank Boreham was a well known preacher who served in England, Australia, and New Zealand. He published dozens of books and thousands of edi…

The bombardment of Fort Sumter (1861), by Orville J. Victor

In The World’s Story Volume XIII: The United States

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Eva March Tappan


This is the thirteenth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva Mar…

Don in the City

In Don, a Runaway Dog: His Many Adventures (Version 2)

Read by Chad Jackson


Richard Barnum


Don is a dog with a yearning for adventure. After he escapes from home, he makes new friends and has a run-in with the dog-catcher, but he p…

Deepfreeze

In Short Science Fiction Collection 066

Read by Chad Jackson


Robert Donald Locke


Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…

Dr. John Blow

In Twelve Good Musicians: From John Bull to Henry Purcell

Read by Chad Jackson


Frederick Bridge


Brief sketches of the lives and music of 12 well-known musicians. - Summary by KevinS

The Heart of Hull House -- Jane Addams

In Heroines of Service

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Mary Rosetta Parkman


From time immemorial, women have served as wives, mothers and domestic organizers. But in the nineteenth century, the lives of women were ch…

James Lawrence

In Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 2

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Charles F. Horne


A collection of writings about a variety of men and women from history who were some of the most prominent people around at the time. Marsha…