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Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories

Read by Nick Bulka


Bret Harte


A collection of short stories set in the American West at the end of the 19th century. (Summary by Nick Bulka)

Framley Parsonage (version 2)

Read by Nick Whitley


Anthony Trollope


Framley Parsonage is the fourth novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire. It was first published in serial …

Lucinda

Read by Nick Bulka


Anthony Hope


It's 1914 London, and it's Waldo and Lucinda's wedding day. Unfortunately, Lucinda is nowhere to be found. A messenger boy brings Lucinda's …

Liber Amoris

Read by Nick Duncan


William Hazlitt


Liber Amoris is unlike anything Hazlitt wrote and probably like nothing you've come across before. On the face of it it tells the story of H…

The True Life Story of Swiftwater Bill Gates

Read by Nick Bulka


Iola Beebe


The life of American frontiersman, adventurer, and prospector "Swiftwater" Bill Gates as told by his mother in law. During the K…

Bizarre

Read by Nick Bulka


Lawton Mackall


A series of essays offering a humorous look at commonplace items and occurrences. (Summary by Nick Bulka)

Longhead: The Story of the First Fire

Read by Nick Bulka


C. H. Robinson


A fictionalized version of the self-discovery of primitive man, including: fire, cooking, defense and protection, architecture, community,…

The Small House at Allington (version 2)

Read by Nick Whitley


Anthony Trollope


The Small House at Allington concerns the widowed Mrs.Dale, her daughters Isabella ("Bell") and Lilian ("Lily"), who liv…

The Satyrs of Decimus Junius Juvenalis

Read by Nick Hillier


Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis


16 satires in verse of the celebrated classical poet of the 1st and 2nd Century translated into verse by John Dryden an English satirist of …

George Washington

Read by Bill Boerst


Calista McCabe Courtenay


In this biography for young people, Calista McCabe Courtenay takes the reader from George Washington the surveyor to his early military care…

A Guide to Stoicism

Read by Bill Boerst


St. George William Joseph Stock


This book is a primer on the philosophy of stoicism, resurrected from its origins in Greek and Roman philosophy. The original philosophy was…

The New Atlantis

Read by Bill Boerst


Francis Bacon and Sir Francis Bacon


In 1623, Francis Bacon expressed his aspirations and ideas in New Atlantis. Released in 1627, this was his creation of an ideal land where p…

Singularity

Read by Bill DeSmedt


Bill DeSmedt


What if the cataclysmic Tunguska explosion of 1908 was caused, not by a meteor or a comet, but by a microscopic black hole? What if that fa…

ABC of Vegetable Gardening

Read by Bill Boerst


Eben Eugene Rexford


This how-to book includes chapters on getting ready, mapping the garden, planting, seeds, early work, house plants, fruits, hot beds and col…

The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln

Read by Bill Boerst


Francis Fisher Browne


This detailed biography covers the places in Lincoln's life: Indiana, Illinois, Washington. It also traces his various roles as storekeeper,…

The Phantom Town Mystery

Read by Bill Boerst


Grace May North


Two girls from the East, out on a horseback ride in the mountains of Arizona, find a house in the mountains. The house's history reveals tha…

Astounding Stories 13, January 1931

Read by Bill Boerst


Sewell Peaslee Wright


This issue contains "The Dark Side of Antri" by Sewell Peaslea Wright, "The Sunken Empire" by H. Thompson Rich, "Th…

Youth

Read by Bill Boerst


Leo Tolstoy


Youth is the third in Tolstoy's trilogy of three autobiographical novels, including Childhood and Boyhood, published in a literary journal d…

Stories from the Faerie Queen

Read by Bill Boerst


Edmund Spenser


A major work by Spenser, The Faerie Queen, was published between 1590 and 1596. As an allegorical work, it can be read on many levels. Accor…

Boyhood

Read by Bill Boerst


Leo Tolstoy


Boyhood is the second in Tolstoy's trilogy of three autobiographical novels, including Childhood and Youth, published in a literary journal …

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