Memoirs

Wanted

by Pansy Read by TriciaG 4.7
Twenty-seven year old Rebecca Meredith feels out of place and unwanted. She has lost her mother, brother, and idolized little sister to the …

According to Promise

by Charles H. Spurgeon Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Charles Haddon (C.H.) Spurgeon (19 June 1834 – 31 January 1892) was a British Particular Baptist preacher and is still known today as the &q…

My Life and Work

by Henry Ford Read by LivelyHive 4.7
Henry Ford profiles the events that shaped his personal philosophy, and the challenges he overcame on the road to founding the Ford Motor Co…

Twelve Years a Slave

by Solomon Northup Read by Rob Marland 4.7
Twelve Years a Slave is the memoir of a freeborn African American from New York who is kidnapped and sold into slavery. After being held for…

Four Mothers at Chautauqua

by Pansy Read by TriciaG 4.8
Final book in the Chautauqua Girls series. The four original girls return to Chautauqua on the 25 year anniversary of the trip that changed …

Mrs. Solomon Smith Looking On

by Pansy Read by TriciaG 4.7
Old Mrs. Solomon Smith considers herself "nothing but an ignorant old woman" who didn't have the advantages others did when growin…

Iconoclastic Memories of the Civil War

by Ambrose Bierce Read by Winston Tharp 4.7
At the outset of the American Civil War, [the writer Ambrose] Bierce enlisted in the Union Army's 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment....In Februa…

The Wide, Wide World

by Susan Warner Read by Bridget Gaige 4.6
"How should a seven year old child react when forced to be separated from a mother who meant everything to her? How should she react wh…

Two Years Before the Mast

by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
While there are many books upon the subject of sea life, there are few that can compare with Two Years Before the Mast. It is the story of a…

A Confederate Girl's Diary

by Sarah Morgan Dawson Read by Jacquerie 4.6
Sarah Morgan Dawson was a young woman of 20 living in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when she began this diary. The American Civil War was raging. …

Three Times and Out

by Nellie Mcclung Read by DPranitis 4.7
The true story of M. C. Simmons, a Canadian soldier captured by the German Army during the early days of World War I. We read of his sixteen…

The Rough Riders

by Theodore Roosevelt Read by William Peck 4.6
Theodore Roosevelt's personal account of The Rough Riders, the name affectionately bestowed on the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, one …

John Barleycorn

by Jack London Read by Peter Kelleher 4.5
Jack London died at the age of forty. In this autobiographical work, London describes his life as seen through the eyes of John Barleycorn (…

Gallipoli Diary

by John Graham Gillam Read by Sue Anderson 4.6
Major John Graham Gillam, British Supply Officer, wrote in his World War I Gallipoli Diary that when he sailed from England for the Dardanel…

The Atrocities of the Pirates

by Aaron Smith Read by James K. White 4.3
In 1822, Aaron Smith, a young English seaman, was taken captive by Cuban pirates when his ship was boarded en route from Jamaica to England.…

High Adventure

by James Norman Hall Read by John W. Michaels 4.6
High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France by James Norman Hall; you will find this book although an exciting narrative has an unp…

A Woman Who Went to Alaska

by May Kellogg Sullivan Read by Karen Commins 4.5
Alaska has only been a state since 1959, and the breathtaking terrain remains mostly unspoiled and natural. In modern times, many of us have…

California Coast Trails

by Joseph Smeaton Chase Read by Adrian Praetzellis 4.8
In 1911, decades before California's coast Highway 1 was built, an Englishman rode 2000 miles on horseback the length of California, from Me…

The Basket of Flowers

by Christoph Von Schmid Read by Abigail Rasmussen 4.8
James is the king's gardener and he deeply enjoys caring for and cultivating flowers. He teaches his daughter Mary many principles of godlin…

Of the Love of God

by Saint Francis de Sales Read by dave7 4.9
Francis de Sales (1567-1622), Bishop of Geneva from 1602, was a renowned spiritual director who produced two classic guidebooks for earthly …

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