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In Healer

Read by J. K. Swift

J. K. Swift

Why would anyone try to kill a healer? Deenah's quiet life as an apprentice healer in the remote village of Brae's Creek is shattered when …

Episode eight

In The Chicago Connection

Read by John R. Swift

John R. Swift

A teenager in Prohibition Chicago, haunted by disasters, breaks all his childhood vows of clean living and becomes a minor hoodlum. When he …

Preface to the Second Edition, Prologue

In Calculus Made Easy

Read by Adam

Silvanus P. Thompson

Calculus Made Easy: Being a Very-Simplest Introduction to Those Beautiful Methods of Reckoning which Are Generally Called by the Terrifying …

BALDNESS AND INTELLECTUALITY

In The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac

Read by Adam

Eugene Field

Do you love books? No, I mean REALLY love books? These series of sketches on the delights, adventures, and misadventures connected with bibl…

07 - Chapter 7

In The Young Crusoe, or The Shipwrecked Boy

Read by Adam

Barbara Hofland

The Young Crusoe, or The Shipwrecked Boy (1829) Novel. At the novel's opening, Charles Crusoe, thirteen years of age, asks his mother if he …

Question 80 - OF THE APPETITIVE POWERS IN GENERAL (In Two Articles)

In Summa Theologica - 04 Pars Prima, On Man

Read by Adam

Saint Thomas Aquinas

The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–127…

03 - The Ugly Duckling

In Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 2, 1844 to 1847

Read by Adam

Hans Christian Andersen

A collection of some of Hans Christian Andersen's works. He is a Danish author and poet most famous for his fairy tales. (Summary by Kristin…

Introductory Note and Chapter 01

In Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: 2 Maccabees

Read by Adam

Douay-Rheims Version (DRV) and Douay-Rheims Version

The Book of 2 Machabees (more commonly rendered 2 Maccabees) is an abridgement of another work, now lost, which describes the events surroun…

05 - The Story of Aladdin; or, The Wonderful Lamp Part 1 (Arabian Nights Entert…

In Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know

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Hamilton Wright Mabie

This is a collection of well known fairy tales by various authors, including the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault and many others. (Summary …

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