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What can birds teach us about growing, finding food, making homes, and God? In Behold The Fowls of the Air, children meet birds from chickadees and gulls to larks, swallows, robins, sparrows, eagles, and ravens. These stories by Edith M. Patch, Lenore Elizabeth Mulets, and Mary Graham Bonner...

This engaging collection of seven classic children’s stories presented by Voices in the Wind Audio Theatre includes Alice in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Secret Garden, and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Each story is performed by a...

This edition encompasses the best short fiction ever written for children. The beloved, enchanting fairy tales, such as of Cinderella and the Sleeping Beauty, thrilling stories packed with the adventures of Sindbad and Aladdin, excerpts from iconic works such as Oliver Twist and Gulliver’s Travels—all this and many more stories that inform, educate, entertain, and enthral children and fill them with wonder and fire up their imagination, have been included in this covetable collection.

This delightful collection of thirteen children’s classic stories features Alice in Wonderland*, The Bell, A Christmas Carol, Cinderella*, Emily of New Moon, The Little Match Girl, The Little Mermaid, Little Red Riding Hood, Scourge of the Desert**, The Secret Garden, Sleeping Beauty*, Snow...

When all you can think about the day after your wild 30th Birthday party is how you need a good fuck, it’s time to do something about it. She can’t wait any longer. She wants sex, even if that’s all it is. It should be passionate and it should happen now. She sells her most expensive Birthday present and orders a taxi. Her next destination is whoever she matches with first on Tinder...

As Winter melts into Spring and the meadow bursts forth with new life, Little Nutbrown Hare sees a rare sight...a pure white fawn shining in the moonlight. His friends think he’s making it up but venture into the next valley to find her. With every step their doubts grow, but she is right there hiding on the patches of white snow, thinking it’s all a big game of hide and seek. Only when she falls into the stream and the friends save her do they believe Little Nutbrown Hare.

A collection of twelve spine-tingling short stories of cursed curios that bring misfortune, madness and death upon their owners, penned by modern masters of the weird and uncanny. Sometimes your possessions own you. Delve into twelve terrifying stories that reimagine a tradition that stretches...

Gathering ten modern masters of the strange and unsettling, Unquiet Guests sets fire to the blueprints and reimagines the haunted house from the foundations up. From dreamlike visions of an abandoned future mansion to a sentient building grown tired of its owners, these rooms echo with whispers of the disenfranchised and the lost.

A Word Is Not A Sparrow is a diverse anthology of stories set amid Russian repression through the centuries; personal narrator testimony about the impact in America of immigrant grandparents from Ukraine and elsewhere; powerful fables and allegories that deliver universal messages about displacement, migration, and human connection; and classic Cossack folk tales that are a touchstone of Ukrainian culture. Listen as we let these words fly out around the world.

William Burroughs closed his classic novel Junky by saying he had determined to search out a drug he called ‘Yage’, a drug that could be ‘the final fix’. In The Yage Letters, a mix of travel writing, satire, psychedelia, and epistolary novel, he journeys through South America, writing to his friend Allen Ginsberg about his experiments with the strange drug, using it to travel through time and space and derange his senses.

Burroughs’ letters reveal his desire to escape the norms of American society which hemmed him in, and the extraordinary steps he took to break free.

You Never Know About Santa Claus brings together four wonderfully unusual Christmas tales from the early twentieth century. In these classic stories, Santa Claus finds himself in situations that are anything but ordinary. He may be kidnapped, become involved with a very unusual Christmas...

Who is the real Santa Claus? Is he the jolly old man in the red suit? The mysterious visitor who arrives while everyone is asleep? Or can the spirit of Christmas be found in kindness, generosity, sacrifice, friendship, and the joy of giving? Who Is the Real Santa Claus? brings together a...

This superlative collection of futuristic tales explores ground-breaking supernatural themes from the founding heroes of the science-fiction genre. The short story form is perfect for capturing the atmospheric tension of these legendary stories. This collection includes the following stories...

Dare to embrace your wild side as five of the brightest imaginations in black literature today - Michelle Cuttino, Shakir Rashaan, Anna Black, Jada Pearl, and N'Tyse - come together to weave an unforgettable exploration of female liberation and self-gratifying sexual healing. These risque tales of steamy passion bloom from illicit affairs, secret fetishes, romantic flings, and pure, unadulterated happenstance. 

Horror movies hold a complicated space in the queer community: historically misogynist, and often homo- and transphobic, the genre has also been inadvertently feminist and open to subversive readings. It Came from the Closet features twenty-five original essays by writers speaking to this relationship, through connections both empowering and oppressive. From Carmen Maria Machado on Jennifer’s Body, Jude Ellison S. Doyle on In My Skin, Addie Tsai on Dead Ringers, and many more, these conversations convey the rich reciprocity between queerness and horror.

A growing number of people are beginning to see things in a radically different way. In other words, more and more of us are starting to “wake up” spiritually—to discover an entirely new identity beyond the usual sense of who we think we are. But what is spiritual awakening, really? How...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Celebrate the magic of Christmas with this collection of ten classic Christmas stories by some of the best-loved classic authors. Brought to life by multiple narrators, these Christmas stories for kids and adults capture the wonder of Santa Claus, the...

Discover the finest works of world literature in a multilingual podcast designed for curious readers and listeners everywhere. Each episode presents approximately ten minutes of classic literature, making great books easy to enjoy anytime, anywhere.All audiobooks featured in this podcast are selected from the catalog of LibriVox.org and are in the public domain, making them freely available for listening and sharing. From timeless masterpieces to lesser-known literary gems, explore the richness of world literature—one ten-minute episode at a time.

Welcome to a collection of short mystery and crime audiobooks, featuring intriguing investigations, mysterious disappearances, unexpected twists, and unforgettable crimes. Every episode is selected from the catalogue of LibriVox.org and is in the public domain, making it freely available for listening and download. To provide a better listening experience, all episodes have been carefully remastered, with improved sound quality and clarity while preserving the original performances. Discover classic mystery and crime stories, revisit forgotten tales, and enjoy suspenseful literature anytime, ...

Discover a new multilingual podcast celebrating the timeless allure of erotic and romantic literature from around the world. Each episode brings you captivating stories, passionate encounters, tender romances, and unforgettable voices from diverse literary traditions and languages. Our carefully selected audiobooks are sourced entirely from Librivox.org where they are freely available because they are in the public domain. Listen wherever you are, immerse yourself in literature across cultures and centuries, and download every episode for free. A journey through love, desire, imagination, and ...