Insomnia downloads of the week

For your sleeping pleasure from Librivox:

The History of Standard Oil: Volume 2

by Ida M. Tarbell (1857 - 1944)

an expose on Standard Oil, JD Rockefeler, and the shady business practices in 1904...

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or if you prefer history:

Chronicles of Canada Volume 19 - Pathfinders of the Great Plains

by Lawrence J. Burpee

The Chronicles of Canada is a huge series, but I actually have read some of them, since the beloved library lady of our small coal town when I lived in PA finagled someone to donate a set for our small library, as a reference book for the kids in those pre internet days.

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if you prefer easier reading, try


Subspace Survivors by Smith, E. E. “Doc”

Five Stories by Alan Nourse by Nourse, Alan

or any of the 40 short science fiction story collections LINK

and yes, Librivox was part of the SOPA blackout protest.

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fyi: Anchee Min interview at the FreeLibrary podcast website