Memoirs

Recollections of a Busy Life

by William Forwood Read by DPranitis
Liverpool in the second half of the 19th century was burgeoning with rich merchants and swollen with poor immigrants. It was known variously…

A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium

by Hugh Gibson Read by Ted Lienhart 4.8
The author was an American diplomat, the Secretary of the American Legation in Brussels, at the beginning of World War I in 1914. This book …

The Early Diary of Frances Burney

by Frances Burney and Annie Raine Ellis Read by Barbara Baker 5
Frances Burney’s early diary records her experiences in the literary and courtly worlds of Georgian England, offering a first-person view of…

Life of Frances Power Cobbe

by Frances Power Cobbe Read by Ciufi Galeazzi 3.8
Frances Power Cobbe was an important Irish-Anglo writer, suffragist, anti-vivisectionist, philosopher, and reformer of the mid to late 1800s…

The Opening Window

by Vic Zarley Read by Vic Zarley 4
A few months ago people began encouraging me to write the story of my spiritual journey from New Age back to Christianity. This is it. It ha…

Trips in the Life of a Locomotive Engineer

by Henry Dawson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Henry Dawson has written several vignettes of railroad men from the days of steam locomotives. His goal is to show the reader that they are …

From Baca to Beulah

by Jennie Smith Read by TriciaG 4.5
Sequel to The Valley of Baca. This continues the personal account of Jennie Smith, who spent more than 20 years in pain, unable to walk, and…

My War Experiences

by Sarah Broom Macnaughtan Read by Ted Lienhart 4.5
Sarah Macnaughtan was a Scottish novelist who took part in the women's suffrage movement, worked for the Red Cross in the Second Boer War (1…

Serpentine Street

by Jeffrey Lynn Stoddard Read by Jeffrey Lynn Stoddard 4.2
Boo Boisie is a patient in the Barmy Mental Asylum. Sure, the place is air conditioned and clean and the food is occasionally actually palat…

Nobody Knows How I Suffer

by Tim Hall Read by Tim Hall
What do a barstool revolutionary, gangsta poet, self-promoting author, online dating scammer, and sleazy record producer all have in common?…

Michigan Historical Collections

by Historical Society Of Michigan Read by Ted Lienhart 4.5
The Michigan Historical Society solicited accounts by Michigan pioneers about the early settlement of various locations, or early developmen…

Winifred

by Charles Souby Read by Charles Souby 4.4
Following the death of his wife Rachel, Rayleigh Stern spent the next six months in therapy group, trying to find ways to cope. Having lost …

Why Crime Does Not Pay

by Sophie Lyons Read by Ann Boulais 4.7
The publishers believe that a picture of a life sketched by a master hand-somebody who stands in the world of crime as Edison does in his fi…

A Warrior Who Fought Custer

by Wooden Leg Read by Barry Eads 4.5
This is the story of Wooden Leg, one of sixteen hundred warriors of the Northern Cheyennes who fought against Custer at the Battle of the Li…

Dogs and Men

by Mary Ansell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
A memoir from Mary Ansell (the actress, not the one who killed her sister) sharing the stories of her beloved dogs, Porthos, Luath, Billy, a…

This Path We Share

by Lois T. Hjelmstad Read by Lois T. Hjelmstad 5
Why did a shy farm boy from North Dakota and an obstreperous 17 year old from South Dakota meet in Colorado? How did they forge a relations…

Smokey the Talking Dog

by Jim Nolan Read by Jim Nolan 4.6
Shag carpeting, talking dogs, grizzly bears and Emilio Pucci commercials. Jim Nolan has encountered them all and survived. These stories, m…

A User's Manual for the Human Experience

by Michael W. Dean Read by Michael W. Dean 3.2
Learn to block and delete idiots from your life. Remove addiction to bad people, drugs, alcohol, government and more (WITHOUT MEETINGS!) The…

Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin

by Lyman Copeland Draper Read by Ted Lienhart 5
The Wisconsin Historical Society was founded in 1846, even before Wisconsin achieved U.S. statehood. The Secretary, Lyman Draper, began in …

With the Turks in Palestine

by Alexander Aaronsohn Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.7
While Belgium is bleeding and hoping, while Poland suffers and dreams of liberation, while Serbia is waiting for redemption, there is a litt…

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