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Musings of a Chinese Mystic: Selections from the Philosophy of Chuang Tzu

Read by Scotty Smith


Lionel Giles


If Lao Tzu then had revolted against the growing artificiality of life in his day, a return to nature must have seemed doubly imperative to …

Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West

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William Macleod Raine


Dave Sanders, a young Arizona cowboy, is a classic western hero: honest, brave, intelligent and caring. This is a story of how he navigates …

The Cartels Jungle

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Irving E. Cox, Jr.


In most ideally conceived Utopias the world as it exists is depicted as a mushrooming horror of maladjustment, cruelty and crime. In this st…

The Whispering Eye, A Black Hood Novel

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G. T. Fleming-Roberts


Hunted by the police ... framed for robbery and murder by the Eye, master fiend and vicious ruler of the underworld ... loathed by Barbara S…

The Nursery ''Alice''

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Lewis Carroll


A shortened version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland . . . adapted by the author himself for children "from nought to five". . …

Eureka: A Prose Poem

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Edgar Allan Poe


Eureka is Poe's attempt at explaining the universe, using his general proposition "Because Nothing was, therefore All Things are".…

The Great Gatsby (Version 3)

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F. Scott Fitzgerald


A novel set in the roaring 20's follows Nick Carroway, a young, single veteran turned bond salesman as he is thrust into the high society of…

Baled Hay: A Drier Book than Walt Whitman's ''Leaves o' Grass''

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Bill Nye


There can really be no excuse for this last book of trite and beautiful sayings. I do not attempt, in any way, to palliate this great wrong.…

Shorty McCabe

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Sewell Ford


Yes, it's been a couple of years since I quit the ring. . . . I slid into a quiet corner for a month or so, and then I dropped into the only…

The Incubator Baby

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Ellis Parker Butler


Marjorie Fielding is born premature and spends her first months of life in an incubator. Her mother is a modern, broad-minded woman eschewin…

Jātaka Tales

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H. T. Francis


Jātaka tales are ancient Indian folktales that form a part of Buddhist teaching, telling stories of the Buddha’s past lives. Akin to Aesop’s…

The Kingdom of Happiness

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Jiddu Krishnamurti


The first publication of talks given by Jiddu Krishnamurti, a uniquely original thinker of the 20th century. Selected as a boy by leaders of…

Anthem (Version 6)

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Ayn Rand


A novelette set in the distant future, perhaps thousands of years. Technology has been lost and advancement suppressed. The people have eith…

XLI Poems

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E. E. Cummings


A book of 41 poems by E. E. Cummings classified as Songs I-XII [poems 1-12], Chansons Innocentes I-II [poems 13-14], Portraits I-IX [poems…

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, Volume 1

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Carl Sandburg


A fascinating look at the early life of Abraham Lincoln through his term as Illinois congressman. Writer and poet Carl Sandburg, with an acc…

Nature - Read by SWS

In Nature

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


LibriVox volunteers bring you 25 recordings of Nature, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 20th, 2021.…

The Debt - Read by SWS

In The Debt

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Paul Laurence Dunbar


LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of The Debt by Paul Laurence Dunbar.This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 30, 2023. ---…

The Dolls - Read by SS

In The Dolls

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William Butler Yeats


William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British li…

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, Ch 11

In Why do we need a public library?

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Internet Archive, which hosts our audio books, is in the midst of their annual fund-raising. They have also begun a drive to provide a mirr…