Biography & Autobiography
- Voices from the Battlefield
- Criminal Lives: True Stories
- Voices of Social Change
- Voices of Political Change
- Voices of Resilience
- Voices from American History
- Pioneers in Health and Healing
- Adventures in Exploration
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Jacobs' autobiography, written under the pseudonym Linda Brent, details her experiences as a slave in North Carolina, her escape to …
Laddie
Based on the author's own life, this book tells the story of "little sister". The youngest of eleven, she is unwanted in the begin…
Roughing It
Roughing It invites listeners to join Mark Twain on a journey through the American West during the 1860s. This semi-autobiographical work ca…
My First Summer in the Sierra
The journal of nature-lover John Muir who spent the summer of 1869 walking California’s Sierra Nevada range. From French Bar to Mono Lake an…
The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby
This is not a work of fiction! These are the actual memoirs of a legendary leader of partisans who bedeviled the Union army for years, almos…
Sailing Alone Around The World
Joshua Slocum was the first man to sail around the world alone in a small boat. He personally rebuilt an 11.2 metre sloop-rigged fishing boa…
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant
In preparing these volumes for the public, I have entered upon the task with the sincere desire to avoid doing injustice to any one, whether…
By Ox Team to California
Imagine a young, twenty-something woman in 1860, reared “in the indolent life of the ordinary Southern girl” (which means she has never lear…
Up From Slavery
Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington sharing his personal experience of having to work to rise up from the posi…
Home Education
This is the first volume in the Home Education Series detailing Charlotte Mason's method of education. This volume is subtitled: The Educati…
The Last of the Plainsmen
Travel along as Mike Vendetti aka miketheauctioneer narrates an outstanding true account of a trip made in 1909 by Zane Grey and a plainsman…
The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War
Leander Stillwell was an 18-year-old Illinois farm boy, living with his family in a log cabin, when the U.S. Civil War broke out. Stillwell …
Revelations of Divine Love
Julian of Norwich (c. November 8, 1342 – c. 1416) is considered to be one of the greatest English mystics. Little is known of her life aside…
Outwitting The Hun
A true war narrative, published in 1918 while WWI was still going on. (Summary by David Wales)
David Crockett
David "Davy" Crockett (August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836) was a celebrated 19th century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier an…
Moral letters to Lucilius
Seneca the Younger’s letters to his friend, Lucilius Junior, appear to have been written with a broad audience in mind. These letters introd…
The Pilgrim's Progress
The Pilgrim's Progress is a profound Christian allegory that follows the journey of Christian, an everyman character, as he embarks on a que…
A Diary from Dixie
Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, a well-educated South Carolina woman who was married to a Confederate general, kept extensive journals during th…
Life on the Mississippi
Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's vivid memoir that transports listeners to the bustling world of the Mississippi River in the years l…
Great Astronomers
Of all the natural sciences there is not one which offers such sublime objects to the attention of the inquirer as does the science of astro…