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Orthodoxy

Read by J A Carter


G. K. Chesterton



With his typical wit and erudition Chesterton presents Christianity as the best answer to a series of interlocking riddles that live in ever…

You're Hired! Interview Skills to Get the Job

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Lorne Epstein



You're Hired! - Interview Skills to Get the Job demystifies the interviewing process with wisdom and wit from an authoritative source. For f…

The Burgess Animal Book for Children

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Thornton W. Burgess



Peter Rabbit goes to school, with Mother Nature as his teacher. In this zoology book for children, Thornton W. Burgess describes the mammals…

The Call of the Wild (Version 3)

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Jack London



Buck is living a happy life in California until he is sold to pay a gambling debt. Taken to the Klondike to become a sled dog, Buck must tou…

Edison, His Life and Inventions

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Frank Lewis Dyer



A detailed biography of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of such things as the telephone, the microphone, the electric motor, the storage batter…

Phaedo

Read by Bob Neufeld


Plato



Plato's Phaedo is one of the great dialogues of his middle period, along with the Republic and the Symposium. The Phaedo, which depicts the …

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. I

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Edward Gibbon



The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was writ…

The Awful German Language

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Mark Twain



If you’ve ever studied German (and maybe even if you haven’t), you’re likely to find this short essay to be hilarious. Published as Appendix…

Totem and Taboo

Read by Mary Schneider


Sigmund Freud



Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics is a book by Sigmund Freud published in German in 1913 under…

Sidelights on Relativity

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Albert Einstein



Sidelights on Relativity contains ETHER AND THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY, an address delivered on May 5th, 1920, in the University of Leyden; an…

The Social Contract

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau



The Social Contract outlines Rousseau's views on political justice, explaining how a just and legitimate state is to be founded, organized a…

History of the United States, Vol. I

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Charles Austin Beard



Charles Austin Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks a…

Our Island Story, Part 1

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall



Our Island Story was first published in 1905 and became an instant classic. Beginning with the Romans and following the triumphs and foibles…

The 9/11 Commission Report

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9/11 Commission



9/11 Commission Report, formally titled Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, is the official…

The Kybalion

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The Three Initiates



The Kybalion: Hermetic Philosophy is a 1908 book claiming to be the essence of the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus, published anonymously b…

Selected Poems of Robert Frost

Read by Becky Miller


Robert Frost



Robert Frost, who lived from March 26, 1874 to January 29, 1963, was a winner of 4 Pulitzer prizes and one of America’s best loved poets. Th…

A Christmas Carol (version 02)

Read by Glen Hallstrom


Charles Dickens



A Christmas Carol (full title: A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas) is A Christmas Carol is a Victorian morality ta…

English Synonyms and Antonyms

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James Champlin Fernald



English Synonyms and Antonyms is basically a vocabulary builder that students might use as they prepare for entrance or exit exams. Each ent…

The Twilight of the Idols

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Friedrich Nietzsche



Of The Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche says in Ecce Homo: “If anyone should desire to obtain a rapid sketch of how everything before my tim…

The Interpretation of Dreams

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Sigmund Freud



A neat book on dream analysis by the founding father of psychoanalysis. This book is about the inner theater and the workings of the mind in…

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