Religion
Joel, a Boy of Galilee
Read by Esther ben Simonides
Annie Fellows Johnston
Joel, a crippled boy, cannot play with the children and has nothing to care about. Rabbi Phineas helps him to find something he can do and t…
Just Stories
Read by Maria Therese
Winfrid Herbst
Good Books are wise counselors. They point out the right way in the devious paths of life. Have we not often stood at the juncture of two ro…
Little Meg's Children
Read by fiddlesticks
Hesba Stretton
This is the touching and endearing story of Little Meg and her trials and difficulties as she does her best to look after 'her children' aft…
Deuteronomy
Read by Scarlett Martin
Jewish Publication Society Of America
According to Jewish tradition the 5 books of Moses (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy) are read and studied each year. In …
1 Timothy
Read by Sam Stinson
American Standard Version
The First Epistle to Timothy is one of the three Pastoral Epistles, written by Saint Paul and part of the New Testament of the Bible. It con…
Saints and Heroes Since the Middle Ages
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
George Hodges
In this second volume, Hodges uses stories of the lives of fourteen well-known saints and heroes of the faith to continue the history of the…
Buddhist Psychology
Emily Hsu
Buddhist Psychology; Mind and Mental Process (Lorig) Complete Series Basic Buddhist Studies Program Emily Hsu "All human accomplishment…
Poems and Prose for the Departed
Read by Ruth Golding
Various
This is a collection of short poems and readings, both religious and secular, on death and bereavement. (Summary by Ruth Golding)
Job
Read by Sam Stinson
American Standard Version
God permits "Satan," or in some translations "the adversary" or "the accuser," to put the virtue of Job to the…
The Quiet Flame
Read by Maria Therese
Eva K. Betz
“You will never be a leper nor will any Sister of our Order.”The amazing promise was made by Mother Marianne of Molokai, the “Quiet Flame” o…
The Curious Lore of Precious Stones
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
George Frederick Kunz
Full title is "The Curious Lore of Precious Stones, being a description of their sentiments and folklore, superstitions, symbolism, mys…
The Dancing Mania
Read by Martin Geeson
Justus Hecker
Numerous theories have been proposed for the causes of dancing mania, and it remains unclear whether it was a real illness or a social pheno…
Modern Magic
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Maximilian Schele De Vere
M. (Maxamilian) Schele de Vere was born in Sweden in 1820 and studied language in Germany before eventually becoming a professor of modern l…
Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago
Read by Arielle Lipshaw
Hannah Trager
Hannah Trager published Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago in 1926, so the book is a portrait of day to day life for a Jewish fami…
A Traveller’s Narrative
Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater
Abdu’L-Bahá ‘Abbás
“This book is the history of a proscribed and persecuted sect written by one of themselves,” writes Professor Edward Granville Browne, the C…
Pearl
Read by Jordan
The Gawain Poet, The Gawain Poettranslated Bysophie Jewett and The Gawain Poettranslated By Sophie Jewett
Written in the 14th century by the Gawain poet, 'Pearl' is an elegiac poem reflecting on the death of a young daughter, pictured as a pearl …
Funeral Orations
Read by A LibriVox Volunteer
Gregory Of Nazianzus
Gregory the Theologian, also known as Gregory Nazianzen (which name also refers to his father,) was a 4th-century Archbishop of Constantinop…
The New Testament
Read by Mark Penfold
American Bible Union
This Revised Testament has been prepared under the auspices of the American Bible Union, by the most competent scholars of the day. No expen…
Epitome of the Formula of Concord
Read by Jonathan Lange
Jakob Andreae
Formula of Concord (1577) is an authoritative Lutheran statement of faith (called a confession, creed, or "symbol") that, in its t…