A Prairie-Schooner Princess - audiobook
Mary Katherine MAULE (1861 - )
The story of a Quaker family's journey from Ohio to Nebraska beginning in 1856. They encounter a mystery which leaves them an orphan girl who will forever change their lives. Blizzard, the Civil War, and Indians and more Indians fill this great adventure which tests their faith and ingenuity while shaping their loves and futures. Summary by Sharon Kilmer.
Genre(s): Action & Adventure, Christian Fiction
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Category: Religion
Pens?es - audiobook
Blaise PASCAL (1623 - 1662), translated by W. F. TROTTER (1871 - ?)
Pascal's Pens?es is widely considered to be a masterpiece, and a landmark in French prose. When commenting on one particular section (Thought #72), Sainte-Beuve praised it as the finest pages in the French language. Will Durant, in his 11-volume, comprehensive The Story of Civilization series, hailed it as "the most eloquent book in French prose." In Pens?es, Pascal surveys several philosophical paradoxes: infinity Read more [...]
The Story of a Soul
Saint THERESE OF LISIEUX (1873 - 1897), translated by Thomas TAYLOR (1758 - 1835)
Marie Francoise Therese Martin, affectionately known as 'The Little Flower', was born on January 2, 1873, in Alencon, France to Louis Martin and Zelie Guerin. She was the youngest and one of five surviving sisters of the nine Martin children. When Therese was 3, her mother died. Louis Martin moved his family to Lisieux to be closer to his late wife's brother and his family. It was there that Therese's Read more [...]
The Interior Castle audiobook
St. Teresa of AVILA (1515 - 1582), translated by Rev. John DALTON (1814 - 1874)
El Castillo Interior or Las Moradas (trans.:The Interior Castle or The Mansions) was written by Saint Teresa of ?vila in 1577. After being ordered to write her autobiographical La Vida de la Santa Madre Teresa de Jes?s (The Life of S. Teresa of Jesus), Teresa was hesitant to begin writing again on her views of the perfection found in internal prayer. In the hands of the Inquisition at that Read more [...]
Bible (Biblia Sacra Vulgata) 19: Psalmi XXII
BIBLIA SACRA VULGATA ( – )
Psalm 22 appears as Psalm 23 in modern English translations of the Bible. – Psalmi XXII Bibliae Sacrae Vulgatae, recitatus in lingua Latina. (Summary by Jim Cadwell)
Genre(s): *Non-fiction, Religion
Language: Latin (FULL Audiobook)
Spurgeon's Sermons May 1858 audiobook
Charles H. SPURGEON (1834 - 1892)
Charles Spurgeon was a popular Baptist minister in London in mid-Victorian times; his ministry was highly influential and had a significant effect on many families in London and further afield. It was difficult to find a hall large enough to accommodate the crowd who wished to hear him. At times the Royal Surrey Gardens' Music Hall was hired to accomodate the Sunday congregation; this could seat 10,000 but large numbers were Read more [...]
Bible (ASV) 39: Malachi
AMERICAN STANDARD VERSION ( - )
Malachi (or Malachias, ?????????, Mal?a?i, M?l'akh?) is a book of the Bible Old Testament and Jewish Tanakh, written by the prophet Malachi. Possibly this is not the name of the author, since Malachi means 'my messenger' or 'my angel' in Hebrew. (Summary by Wikipedia)
Genre(s): Bibles
Language: English
Group: Bible (American Standard Version) The Holy Bible
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Bible (ASV) 32: Jonah
AMERICAN STANDARD VERSION ( - )
In the Hebrew Bible, the Book of Jonah is the fifth book in a series of books called the Minor Prophets. Unlike other prophetic books however, this book is not a record of a prophet's words toward Israel. Instead of the poetry and prophetic prose of Isaiah or Lamentations, this book tells the story of a reluctant prophet who arguably becomes one of the most effective prophets in the entire Bible.
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Bible (ASV) 31: Obadiah
AMERICAN STANDARD VERSION ( - )
"The Book of Obadiah is found in both the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, where it is the shortest book, only one chapter long. Its authorship is generally attributed to a person named Obadiah, which means "servant (or worshipper) of the Lord". Obadiah is classified as a "minor prophet" in the Christian Bible due to the brevity of the writing (only 21 verses) and the content (prophetic material). An Old Testament Read more [...]
Bible (ASV) 30: Amos
AMERICAN STANDARD VERSION ( - )
"The Book of Amos is one of the books of the Nevi'im (Hebrew: "prophets") and of the Christian Old Testament. Amos is one of the minor prophets. Amos was the first biblical prophet whose words were recorded in a book, an older contemporary of Hoseah and Isaiah. He was active c 750 BC during the reign of Jeroboam II. He lived and prophesied in the southern kingdom of Judah. His major themes of social justice, God's omnipotence, and divine judgment Read more [...]
Bible (ASV) 28: Hosea
AMERICAN STANDARD VERSION ( - )
Hosea was the son of Beeri and a prophet in Israel in the 8th century BCE. He is one of the Twelve Prophets of the Jewish Hebrew Bible, also known as the Minor Prophets of the Christian Old Testament. We know practically nothing about the life or social status of Hosea. According to the Book of Hosea, he married the prostitute Gomer, the daughter of Diblatayim, at God's command. He lived in the Northern Kingdom in the period 740--725 BCE. In Read more [...]
Bible (ASV) 27: Daniel
AMERICAN STANDARD VERSION ( - )
The Book of Daniel (?????), originally written in Hebrew and Aramaic, is a book in both the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) and the Christian Old Testament. The book is set during the Babylonian Captivity, a period when Jews were deported and exiled to Babylon following the Siege of Jerusalem of 597 BC. The book revolves around the figure of Daniel, an Israelite who becomes an adviser to Nebuchadnezzar, the ruler of Babylon from 605 BC - 562 BC. The Read more [...]
Bible (ASV) 22: Song of Solomon
AMERICAN STANDARD VERSION ( - )
The Song of Songs (Hebrew title ??? ??????, Shir ha-Shirim), is a book of the Hebrew Bible—Tanakh or Old Testament—one of the five megillot (scrolls). It is also known as the Song of Solomon or as Canticles, the latter from the shortened and anglicized Vulgate title Canticum Canticorum, "Song of Songs" in Latin. It is known as Aisma in the Septuagint, which is short for ????? ??????, Aisma aismat?n, "Song of Songs" in Greek.
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Bible (ASV) 21: Ecclesiastes
AMERICAN STANDARD VERSION ( - )
"Ecclesiastes is a wisdom book of the Old Testament. The author represents himself as the son of David, and king over Israel in Jerusalem. The work consists of personal or autobiographic matter, at times expressed in aphorisms and maxims illuminated in terse paragraphs with reflections on the meaning of life and the best way of life. The work emphatically proclaims all the actions of man to be inherently "vain", "futile", "empty", or Read more [...]
The Truth About Jesus. Is He a Myth audiobook
M. M. MANGASARIAN (1859 - 1943)
The following work offers in book form the series of studies on the question of the historicity of Jesus, presented from time to time before the Independent Religious Society in Orchestra Hall, Chicago, 1909. No effort has been made to change the manner of the spoken, into the more regular form of the written, word. (Summary by M.M. Mangasarian (1859-1943) and Joanne Pauwels)
Genre(s): *Non-fiction, Philosophy, Religion
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The Practice of the Presence of God audiobook
Brother LAWRENCE (1614 - 1691)
The Practice of the Presence of God is a collection of letters and transcriptions of conversations, compiled by a disciple of Brother Lawrence. Brother Lawrence was a Carmelite monk and head cook in his monastery's kitchens. He quickly gained an international reputation as a mystic and spiritual counselor. The Practice of the Presence records his last words of advice to his friends and disciples, as he suffered from Read more [...]
Absolute Surrender and Other Addresses audiobook
Andrew MURRAY (1828 – 1917)
This is a series of short messages written by the South African minister, Andrew Murray. They deal with the necessity and joy of surrendering our lives completely to God. (Summary written by Joy Chan)
Genre(s): *Non-fiction, Religion
Language: English (FULL Audiobook)
The Hallel (Psalms 113-118)
by Jewish Publication Society of America
Hallel (Hebrew: ???? "Praise [God]") is part of Judaism's prayers, a verbatim recitation from Psalms 113-118, which is used for praise and thanksgiving that is recited by observant Jews on Jewish holidays. Summary from Wikipedia
Read by D?lib?b, D.E. Wittkower, Jc Guan, Katie Gibboney, Leon Mire, and Scott Sherris (FULL Audiobook)
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Legends of the Jews audiobook
by Louis Ginzberg (1873-1953)
Rabbi Louis Ginzberg was one of the outstanding Talmudists of the twentieth century. He was born on November 28, 1873, in Kovno, Lithuania; he died on November 11, 1953, in New York City. Ginzberg taught at the Jewish Theological seminary from 1903 to 1953. For 50 years, he trained two generations of Conservative Rabbis.
The Legends of the Jews is an epic 7-volume compilation of traditional Jewish stories loosely related to the Bible. Read more [...]
Select Sermons of Jonathan Edwards. Audiobook
by Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
Jonathan Edwards was a colonial American Congregational preacher, theologian, and missionary to Native Americans. Edwards "is widely acknowledged to be America's most important and original philosophical theologian." His work is very broad in scope, but he is often associated with his defense of Calvinist theology, the metaphysics of theological determinism, and the Puritan heritage. His famous sermon "Sinners in the Read more [...]