Memoirs

Up from Slavery

by Booker T. Washington Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Up From Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his slow and steady rise from a slave child during the Civil War…

Of the Love of God

by Saint Francis de Sales Read by dave7 4.9
Francis de Sales (1567-1622), Bishop of Geneva from 1602, was a renowned spiritual director who produced two classic guidebooks for earthly …

Out from the Heart

by James Allen Read by Audio Andrea 4.8
Out from the Heart by James Allen offers a profound exploration of personal transformation through the cultivation of virtue. In this insigh…

The Atrocities of the Pirates

by Aaron Smith Read by James K. White 4.3
In 1822, Aaron Smith, a young English seaman, was taken captive by Cuban pirates when his ship was boarded en route from Jamaica to England.…

John Barleycorn

by Jack London Read by Peter Kelleher 4.5
Jack London died at the age of forty. In this autobiographical work, London describes his life as seen through the eyes of John Barleycorn (…

A Confederate Girl's Diary

by Sarah Morgan Dawson Read by Jacquerie 4.6
Sarah Morgan Dawson was a young woman of 20 living in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when she began this diary. The American Civil War was raging. …

Gallipoli Diary

by John Graham Gillam Read by Sue Anderson 4.6
Major John Graham Gillam, British Supply Officer, wrote in his World War I Gallipoli Diary that when he sailed from England for the Dardanel…

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole

by Mary Seacole Read by Cori Samuel 4.4
I should have thought that no preface would have been required to introduce Mrs. Seacole to the British public, or to recommend a book which…

The Story of My Life

by Helen Keller Read by Maria 4.5
The Story of My Life is a personal account of Helen Keller's life, from her early days to those as an adult. It includes how she came to mee…

According to Promise

by Charles H. Spurgeon Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Charles Haddon (C.H.) Spurgeon (19 June 1834 – 31 January 1892) was a British Particular Baptist preacher and is still known today as the &q…

A Woman Who Went to Alaska

by May Kellogg Sullivan Read by Karen Commins 4.5
Alaska has only been a state since 1959, and the breathtaking terrain remains mostly unspoiled and natural. In modern times, many of us have…

Boots and Saddles

by Elizabeth Bacon Custer Read by Sue Anderson 4.5
Elizabeth Custer has penned an engaging portrait of 1870’s life on a U.S. cavalry post in the Dakotas, just before her husband and his troop…

Journal of A Residence On A Georgian Plantation

by Frances Anne Kemble and Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble Read by James K. White 4.8
Fanny Kemble was a British actress who married mega-plantation owner, Pierce Butler of Georgia. During her marriage she kept journals of eve…

Stephen Mitchell's Journey

by Pansy Read by TriciaG 4.8
Stephen Mitchell is a young man without a place in the world. He hates farming, although he works endless hours on the poor family farm. He …

Through the Brazilian Wilderness

by Theodore Roosevelt Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Roosevelt's popular book Through the Brazilian Wilderness describes his expedition into the Brazilian jungle in 1913 as a member of the Roos…

Life of Isaac Mason as a Slave

by Isaac Mason Read by Lynne T 4.6
Isaac Mason was born into slavery. As a young man, he escaped to freedom and made a life for himself. An intelligent man, he gave lectures o…

Four-Fifty Miles to Freedom

by Maurice Andrew Brackenreed Johnston, Maurice Andrew Brackenreed Johnstonandkenneth Darlaston Yearsley and Kenneth Darlaston Yearsley Read by Kevin Green 4.8
Four-Fifty Miles to Freedom is the true but little known story of the escape of eight British Prisoners-of-War from a Turkish POW camp durin…

High Adventure

by James Norman Hall Read by John W. Michaels 4.6
High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France by James Norman Hall; you will find this book although an exciting narrative has an unp…

Army Letters from an Officer's Wife

by Frances M. A. Roe Read by Sue Anderson 4.7
"There appeared from the bushes in front of me, and right in the path, two immense gray wolves . . . Rollo saw them and stopped instan…

How I Know God Answers Prayer

by Rosalind Goforth Read by fiddlesticks 4.7
This book is a testimony of how powerful prayer is, how God answers every prayer, even if it is not just how we want it answered. Rosalind G…

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