LibriVox is eight, it is! And we are happy to celebrate the great diversity of our readers with the following 10 non-English gems from our catalog.

Si Amboy ang Palahubog, by Vicente Rama, tells the story of drunkard Amboy and how he is willing to sacrifice his family for his great love alcohol. The book is written in Bisaya, one of the languages of the Philippines.

An important work of Tamil literature is the Tiruppavai by Andal. In its 30 stanzas, the lord Vishnu is praised, and the poetry is traditionally recited by unmarried girls in order to pray for a happy marriage.

The Ukrainian Leonid Glibov has written a great number of original Fables relating to his fatherland. Here, we present a selection – more than 100 of them – in their original language.

Vladimir Jabotinski was a Russian author whose writings greatly influenced the Zionist movement in his country. Jews and Russia is a collection of his articles written from 1903 – 1912.

The Jewish writer Uri Nissan Gnessin relates in Etsel the tragic story of a young man befallen by a strange heart disease so that he is unable to give or even receive love. This book is written and read in Hebrew.

Love, truth, goodness, and morality are themes of the Legends from the Old Mountain. The Bulgarian writer Yordan Yovkov tells in ten short stories the old legends from the Balkans.

A more spiritual direction takes Al Mawardi in his book Kitab Adab al Dunya w’al Din. He explains – in Arabic – his views on Islamic philosophy, and explores topics like “Ethics of Life, Religion, and Spirit.”

Somewhat more exotic questions like “What is the strange smell in a place full of roses?” are answered in Na wzgórzu róż, containing six stories by Polish writer Stefan Grabiński.

The Swedish author Anders Ramsay tells about his experiences with aristocratic life in the 19th century and the Finnish industrialization in his autobiography Från barnaår till silfverhår (From Childyears to Silverhair).

La Locandiera is considered Carlo Goldoni’s masterpiece. The three act comedy tells about a female innkeeper who tries to keep the advances of her male customers at bay… This is a dramatic reading with a full Italian cast.

Enjoy – and Happy 8th birthday, LibriVox!

Summertime – the perfect excuse for travelling and going somewhere new. Go to infinity or eternity – and beyond – with 10 gems from our catalog.

Aristotle wrote one of the first “scientific” works On the Heavens, where he proves that the earth is a sphere. He also introduces his theory of gravity – all things fall towards the center of the universe – and talks about a new idea of one of his colleagues: atoms.

More than two millennia later, Alfred North Whitehead refers to him as well as to Einstein to show that The Concept of Nature is all encompassing time, space, and human perception.

A poet’s approach to time and eternity must certainly differ from a scientific one and can be found in the forth part of Emily Dickinson’s Poems: Series One.

Time passes like an eternity on the ship from Australia to England, so Tourmalin accepts the offer to put all this unused time into an account for later. When he is cashing Tourmalin’s Time Cheques, things get complicated in F. Anstey’sbook.

In a story by Andre Norton, the Russians can go back in time to unearth lost secrets. Hence, the Americans have to catch up and send Ross Murdock to Bronze Age, where he, as one of the Time Traders, has to face Russians, prehistoric men as well as aliens.

Sooner or later, we may be able to travel freely in time and settle anywhere we like – as long as we don’t interfere with history and thus become the target of a Police Operation. H. Beam Piper depicts one day in the life of a time cop.

Jason dinAlt doesn’t want to settle on Pyrrus, charmingly dubbed Deathworld. All he wants is to find out where the money went he just won in gambling, but even with his psionic skills, this does not prove to be easy in Harry Harrison’s novel.

Dorothy also finds herself stranded in a new world. Together with Ozma of Oz, she sets out to rescue the royal family of Ev from captivity. Find out about her new adventures in our dramatic reading of L. Frank Baum’s children classic.

In Henry Kuttner’s novel The Creature from Beyond Infinity arrives on Earth to colonise it and to make it a new home. But right now, a deadly plague threatens to wipe out humanity. Has he just arrived to witness the destruction of another planet?

Is Mars Habitable is not a new question. About 100 years ago, Alfred Russell Wallace published a book on this question where he sums up his research on the matter and comes to a negative conclusion.

Enjoy – and stretch your boundaries!