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Liber Amoris

Read by Nick Duncan


William Hazlitt


Liber Amoris is unlike anything Hazlitt wrote and probably like nothing you've come across before. On the face of it it tells the story of H…

The True Life Story of Swiftwater Bill Gates

Read by Nick Bulka


Iola Beebe


The life of American frontiersman, adventurer, and prospector "Swiftwater" Bill Gates as told by his mother in law. During the K…

Bizarre

Read by Nick Bulka


Lawton Mackall


A series of essays offering a humorous look at commonplace items and occurrences. (Summary by Nick Bulka)

Longhead: The Story of the First Fire

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C. H. Robinson


A fictionalized version of the self-discovery of primitive man, including: fire, cooking, defense and protection, architecture, community,…

The Small House at Allington (version 2)

Read by Nick Whitley


Anthony Trollope


The Small House at Allington concerns the widowed Mrs.Dale, her daughters Isabella ("Bell") and Lilian ("Lily"), who liv…

The Satyrs of Decimus Junius Juvenalis

Read by Nick Hillier


Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis


16 satires in verse of the celebrated classical poet of the 1st and 2nd Century translated into verse by John Dryden an English satirist of …

Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl

Read by Paul Henry Tremblay


John Greenleaf Whittier


A 750-line idyllic poem about a snow-storm from the narrator's childhood. (Summary by Paul Tremblay)

Europe In The Middle Ages

Read by Steven Seitel


Ierne Lifford Plunket


Though sometimes called the "Dark Ages", the period of Middle Ages is far from dull or uninteresting. In this book I. L. Plunket m…

The Lost Mr. Linthwaite

Read by Steven Seitel


J. S. Fletcher


A quest to track down his missing uncle (Mr. Linthwaite) leads investigative journalist Richard Brixey to the mysterious medieval town of Si…

The Tickencote Treasure

Read by Steven Seitel


William Le Queux


Paul Pickering is a doctor without a fixed practice, and when an old sea captain asks him to join a voyage around the Mediterranean, that's …

The Count's Chauffeur

Read by Steven Seitel


William Le Queux


When car-crazy George Ewart accepts employment as chauffeur to Count Bindo di Ferraris, an Italian aristocrat, he has no idea what he has ju…

The Clevedon Case

Read by Steven Seitel


Nancy Oakley, John Oakley and Nancy Oakleyandjohn Oakley


Quoting from a "teaser" on the flyleaf:The well-known authority on criminology, Dennis Holt, inherited a house in a remote village…

A History of California: The Spanish Period

Read by Steven Seitel


Charles Edward Chapman


If you have ever wondered why Spain (and not Japan, which was so so much better positioned to do it) was first to “settle” the Golden State,…

Despoilers of the Golden Empire

Read by Steven Seitel


Randall Garrett


A handful of men, and an incredible adventure—a few super-men, led by a fanatic, seeking to conquer a new world! The story appears to be ab…

An Introduction to the History of Science

Read by Steven Seitel


Walter Libby


A highly accessible introductory history of the development of scientific thought, method, and application from the first practical concepts…

A History of California: The American Period

Read by Steven Seitel


Robert Glass Cleland


The Author's own summary surveys “first the faint awakenings of American interest in the Spanish province of Alta California. The New Englan…

Tutankhamen: and the Discovery of His Tomb by the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Mr…

Read by Steven Seitel


Sir Grafton Elliot Smith


(From the Introduction) “Never before in the history of archaeological inquiry has any event excited such immediate and world-wide interest …

Money to Burn, An Adventure Story

Read by Steven Seitel


Reginald Wright Kauffman


From the dedication: "On a train by day, or abed by night, you will read "Money to Burn" and immediately forget it--which is …

The Cruise of the Falcon - A Voyage to South America in a 30-Ton Yacht

Read by Steven Seitel


Edward Frederick Knight


In this fine sailing and exploring yarn, Edward Frederick Knight (1852-1925), sometime English barrister, journalist, sportsman, and amateur…

The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara

Read by Steven Seitel


Rosita Forbes


In an age when women were expected to remain at home, entertain, and rear children, Rosita Forbes elected "to boldly go where no one ha…

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