Coffee Break Collections - Sports - Book 27 Title: Coffee Break Collections - Sports Overview: This is the 27th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read poems, fiction, and non-fiction pieces of fifteen minutes' duration or less. In honor of the Super Bowl, the subject for this collection is "Sports". Published: Various Series: Coffee Break Collections List: Coffee Break Collections, Coffee #27 Author: Various Genre: Short Stories, Essays & Short Works Episode: Coff...
Nov 24, 2024•3 hr 42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Coffee Break Collections - It's a Small World - Book 26 Title: Coffee Break Collections - It's a Small World Overview: This is the 26th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read poems, fiction, and non-fiction pieces of fifteen minutes' duration or less. The subject of this collection is "It's a Small World". Readers have interpreted this in their own way, so we have selections such as Asteroids, Small Country Houses of Today, and stories for "small people", such as Jack...
Nov 20, 2024•2 hr 51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Coffee Break Collections - Water - Book 25 Title: Coffee Break Collections - Water Overview: This is the twenty-fifth Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select English language public domain works of about 15 minutes or less in duration -- perfect to listen to during commutes, workouts, or coffee breaks. The topic for this collection is water, a subject that has attracted Archimedes, Shelley, and Masefield, to name but a few. Published: Various Series: Coffee Break Collections Li...
Nov 17, 2024•2 hr 39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Coffee Break Collections - Ghosts, Ghouls & Spooky Things - Book 24 Title: Coffee Break Collections - Ghosts, Ghouls & Spooky Things Overview: This is the twenty-fourth Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select English language public domain works of about 15 minutes or less in duration -- perfect to listen to during commutes, workouts, or coffee breaks. The topic for this collection is Ghosts, Ghouls, and Spooky Things in honor of Halloween. Fiction, non-fiction, poetry,...
Nov 13, 2024•1 hr 25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Coffee Break Collections - Mysteries, Riddles & Conundrums - Book 23 Title: Coffee Break Collections - Mysteries, Riddles & Conundrums Overview: This is the twenty-third Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select English language public domain works of about 15 minutes or less in duration -- perfect to listen to during commutes, workouts, or coffee breaks. The topic for this collection is Mysteries, Riddles, and Conundrums. Short mystery fiction, puzzles that have baffled ...
Nov 10, 2024•2 hr 57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Coffee Break Collections - Days Gone By - Book 22 Title: Coffee Break Collections - Days Gone By Overview: This is the twenty-second Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select English language public domain works of about 15 minutes or less in duration -- perfect to listen to during commutes, workouts, or coffee breaks. The topic for this collection is Days Gone By. All pieces were of a historical nature at the time written (i.e. not enough that they are historical now!). Ancient ...
Nov 06, 2024•2 hr 43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Coffee Break Collections - Fairy Tales, Tall Stories & Scams - Book 21 Title: Coffee Break Collections - Fairy Tales, Tall Stories & Scams Overview: This is the twenty-first Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select English language public domain works of about 15 minutes or less in duration -- perfect to listen to during commutes, workouts, or coffee breaks. The topic for this collection is fairy tales... traditional children's tales, tall stories, and notorious scams, a...
Nov 03, 2024•1 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast Coffee Break Collections - Old Age - Book 20 Title: Coffee Break Collections - Old Age Overview: The Librivox Coffee Break Collections are themed anthologies, selected and read by Librivox readers. Each short piece is fifteen minutes long, or less -- perfect for coffee breaks, commutes, and workouts. Essays, prose, fiction, non-fiction, poetry -- who knows what gems will be uncovered? Spring is the time we see plants and flowers, dormant over the cold winter months, burst into life; and they mak...
Oct 30, 2024•2 hr 47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Coffee Break Collections - Plants & Flowers - Book 19 Title: Coffee Break Collections - Plants & Flowers Overview: The Librivox Coffee Break Collections are themed anthologies, selected and read by Librivox readers. Each short piece is fifteen minutes long, or less -- perfect for coffee breaks, commutes, and workouts. Essays, prose, fiction, non-fiction, poetry -- who knows what gems will be uncovered? Spring is the time we see plants and flowers, dormant over the cold winter months, bur...
Oct 27, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Coffee Break Collections - Pirates - Book 18 Title: Coffee Break Collections - Pirates Overview: This is the eighteenth Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select English language public domain works of about 15 minutes or less in duration -- perfect to listen to during commutes, workouts, or coffee breaks. The topic for this collection is pirates... a rich source of the material. Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, prose, essays... the romance of life on the ocean waves and the danger ...
Oct 23, 2024•2 hr 34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Coffee Break Collections - Health & Fitness - Book 17 Title: Coffee Break Collections - Health & Fitness Overview: This is the seventeenth Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select English language public domain works of about 15 minutes or less in duration -- perfect to listen to during commutes, workouts, or coffee breaks. The topic for this collection is health and fitness... views on these, including physical activity, nutrition, and sport, have changed drastically ov...
Oct 20, 2024•2 hr 41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Coffee Break Collections - Crime - Book 16 Title: Coffee Break Collections - Crime Overview: This is the sixteenth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between about 3 and 15 minutes in length. These are great for study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like to hear a whole story and only have a few minutes to devote to listening. The theme for this collection is "Crime", where crime or criminals are significant. Librivox readers have chosen...
Oct 16, 2024•2 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Coffee Break Collections - World of Work - Book 15 Title: Coffee Break Collections - World of Work Overview: This is the fifteenth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in length. These are great for study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like to hear a whole story and only have a few minutes to devote to listening. The theme for this collection is "The World of Work", where work or the workplace is significant. Plea...
Oct 13, 2024•2 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast Coffee Break Collections - New Beginnings - Book 14 Title: Coffee Break Collections - New Beginnings Overview: This is the fourteenth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in length. These are great for study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like to hear a whole story and only have a few minutes to devote to listening. The theme for this collection is "New Beginnings", where some kind of change or new start is signif...
Oct 09, 2024•2 hr 48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Coffee Break Collections - Weather - Book 13 Title: Coffee Break Collections - Weather Overview: This is the thirteenth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in length. These are great for study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like to hear a whole story and only have a few minutes to devote to listening. The theme for this collection is "The Weather", where the weather conditions are significant. Fiction, non-fictio...
Oct 06, 2024•2 hr 30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Coffee Break Collections - The Performing Arts - Book 12 Title: Coffee Break Collections - The Performing Arts Overview: This is the twelfth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in length. These are great for study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like to hear a whole story and only have a few minutes to devote to listening. The theme for this collection is "The Performing Arts", with works about theatre, music, dan...
Oct 02, 2024•3 hr 37 min•Transcript available on Metacast Coffee Break Collections - Science - Book 11 Title: Coffee Break Collections - Science Overview: This is the eleventh collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in length. These are great for study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like to hear a whole story and only have a few minutes to devote to listening. The theme for this collection is Science - The fascination with research, discovery, and experimentation has contri...
Sep 29, 2024•3 hr 45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Coffee Break Collections - War & Conflict - Book 10 Title: Coffee Break Collections - War & Conflict Overview: This is the tenth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in length. These are great for work/study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like to hear a whole story and only have a few minutes to devote to listening. The theme for this collection is "war and conflict" - From battles to pub brawls to divorce...
Sep 25, 2024•2 hr 23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Coffee Break Collections - Autumn - Book 9 Title: Coffee Break Collections - Autumn Overview: This is the ninth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in length. These are great for work/study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like to hear a whole story and only have a few minutes to devote to listening. This collection is "Autumn"! Published: Various Series: Coffee Break Collections List: Coffee Break Collections, Cof...
Sep 22, 2024•2 hr 39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Coffee Break Collections - Animals - Book 8 Title: Coffee Break Collections - Animals Overview: This is the eighth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in length. These are great for work/study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like to hear a whole story and only have a few minutes to devote to listening. This collection about animals includes tales and essays about the many creatures of land, sea, and air! Published...
Sep 18, 2024•3 hr 44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Coffee Break Collections - Travel - Book 7 Title: Coffee Break Collections - Travel Overview: This is the seventh collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in length. These are great for work/study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like to hear a whole story and only have a few minutes to devote to listening. The theme for Collection 7 is "Travel and Transportation"! This may include adventures of land, sea, air, and spac...
Sep 15, 2024•3 hr 31 min•Transcript available on Metacast Coffee Break Collections - Food & Drink - Book 6 Title: Coffee Break Collections - Food & Drink Overview: This is the sixth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in length. These are great for work/study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like to hear a whole story and only have a few minutes to devote to listening. The theme for Collection 6 is "Food and Drink"! Published: Various Series: Coffee Break Collecti...
Sep 11, 2024•3 hr 50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Coffee Break Collections - Love & Relationships - Book 5 Title: Coffee Break Collections - Love & Relationships Overview: This is a collection of 20 short works (between 3 and 15 minutes long) that are great for work/study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like to hear a whole story and only have a few minutes to devote to listening. The theme for Collection 5 is "Love and Relationships", and may include romance, marriage, family relationships, friendships, working relationsh...
Sep 08, 2024•3 hr 59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Coffee Break Collections - Hodge-Podge - Book 4 Title: Coffee Break Collections - Hodge-Podge Overview: This is a collection of short (15-minute or fewer readings) fiction or non-fiction works in English suitable for a coffee break at work or a short commuter ride. The theme for this collection is Hodge-Podge: humor, romance, science, long poems, biography, inspiration -- you name it, as long as it's public domain and between 3 and 15 minutes long. Published: Various Series: Coffee Break Collect...
Sep 04, 2024•2 hr 43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Coffee Break Collections - Nature - Book 3 Title: Coffee Break Collections - Nature Overview: This is a collection of short (15-minute or fewer readings) works in English suitable for a coffee break at work or a short commuter ride. The theme for this collection is Nature in various genres -- fiction and non-fiction. Botany, geology, biology, astronomy; flowers, (meteor) showers, bugs, slugs, frogs, dogs, cats, bats -- you name it, as long as it's public domain and between 3 and 15 minutes long....
Sep 01, 2024•2 hr 19 min•Transcript available on Metacast Coffee Break Collections - Faith - Book 2 Title: Coffee Break Collections - Faith Overview: This is a collection of short (15-minute or fewer readings) works in English suitable for a coffee break at work or a short commuter ride. The theme for this collection is Multi-Faith in various genres. Published: Various Series: Coffee Break Collections List: Coffee Break Collections, Coffee #2 Author: Various Genre: Essays & Short Works, Religion Episode: Coffee Break Collections - Faith - Book 2 Bo...
Aug 28, 2024•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Coffee Break Collections - Humor - Book 1 Title: Coffee Break Collections - Humor Overview: This is a collection of short (15-minute or fewer readings) stories suitable for a coffee break at work or a short commuter ride. The emphasis of this collection is Humor in various genres -- fiction and non-fiction. Published: Various Series: Coffee Break Collections List: Coffee Break Collections, Coffee #1 Author: Various Genre: Humorous Fiction, Short Stories Episode: Coffee Break Collections - Humor ...
Aug 25, 2024•3 hr 52 min•Transcript available on Metacast LibriVox Anniversary Collections - Book 12, Part 2 Title: LibriVox 16th Anniversary Collection Overview: "LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to bring books in the public domain to life..." Hugh McGuire, LibriVox's founder, August 9, 2005. In celebration of LibriVox's sixteenth anniversary, here is a collection of short works of various kinds and from varied authors which include in their title the words 'sixteen' or 'sixteenth' or the num...
Aug 21, 2024•1 hr 27 min•Transcript available on Metacast LibriVox Anniversary Collections - Book 12, Part 1 Title: LibriVox 16th Anniversary Collection Overview: "LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to bring books in the public domain to life..." Hugh McGuire, LibriVox's founder, August 9, 2005. In celebration of LibriVox's sixteenth anniversary, here is a collection of short works of various kinds and from varied authors which include in their title the words 'sixteen' or 'sixteenth' or the num...
Aug 18, 2024•3 hr 41 min•Transcript available on Metacast LibriVox Anniversary Collections - Book 11, Part 2 Title: LibriVox 15th Anniversary Collection Overview: This year is the 15th anniversary of our beloved LibriVox. The readings in this collection celebrate that "bunch of volunteers" who make up the worldwide LibriVox community. The readings are held together by their connection to the number "15." The collection is multilingual. Readings can be in any language. The selections, which are chosen by the readers, include fiction, nonfiction, poems, ...
Aug 14, 2024•3 hr 31 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
