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Report of the Airship ''Hindenburg'' Accident Investigation

Read by Scott Danneker


United States Department Of Commerce


“Oh my!”-Herbert O. Morrison, WLS News, ChicagoThursday, 6 May, 1937: It is early evening at a remote airport in central New Jersey. It’s st…

My Airships: The Story of My Life

Read by Scott Danneker


Alberto Santos-Dumont


The delightful tale of "le petit Santos" as he dances through the sky above the City of Light at the dawn of the aerial age.A note…

Dave Dashaway Around the World

Read by Scott Danneker


Roy Rockwood


Never was there a more clever young aviator than Dave Dashaway, and all up-to-date lads will wish to make his acquaintance.Weldon J. Cobb wa…

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Read by Laurie Anne Walden


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


What really killed Sir Charles Baskerville? Is his nephew, Sir Henry, in danger from the legendary family curse, a gigantic black hound? She…

A Study in Scarlet

Read by Laurie Anne Walden


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


A Study in Scarlet, a short novel published in 1887, was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story. At the beginning of the book…

Riders of the Purple Sage

Read by Laurie Anne Walden


Zane Grey


The year is 1871, and wealthy ranch owner Jane Withersteen is in trouble. She has incurred the displeasure of her Mormon church leaders by …

The Book of Dragons

Read by Laurie Anne Walden


E. Nesbit


A dragon who flies out of a magical book; one whose purr quiets a fussy baby; another who eats an entire pack of tame hunting-hippopotomuses…

The Death of Ivan Ilyitch

Read by Laurie Anne Walden


Leo Tolstoy


The Death of Ivan Ilyitch is the story of a socially ambitious middle-aged judge who contracts an unexplained and untreatable illness. As I…

Selected Short Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Read by Laurie Anne Walden


F. Scott Fitzgerald


Ranging in tone from humor to sentimentality, these stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald are set against a backdrop of jazz, flappers, and the cha…

Bowser the Hound

Read by Laurie Anne Walden


Thornton W. Burgess


Old Man Coyote craftily leads Bowser the hound away from home, and Bowser gets lost. Will Bowser find his way back to Farmer Brown's? Will R…

The Day Boy and the Night Girl

Read by Laurie Anne Walden


George MacDonald


A boy named Photogen, who has never seen the moon, meets a girl named Nycteris, who has never seen the sun. The two of them must escape from…

A Diary from Dixie

Read by Laurie Anne Walden


Mary Chesnut


Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, a well-educated South Carolina woman who was married to a Confederate general, kept extensive journals during th…

Old Mother West Wind

Read by Laurie Anne Walden


Thornton W. Burgess


Thornton Waldo Burgess (January 14, 1874 – June 5, 1965) was a conservationist and author of children's stories. He loved the beauty of natu…

Mother West Wind's Children

Read by Laurie Anne Walden


Thornton W. Burgess


"You can't fool old Mother Nature. No, Sir, you can't fool old Mother Nature, and it's of no use to try." The animals of the Gree…

United States Constitution and Amendments

Read by Laurie Anne Walden


United States Government and Unit


The Constitution is the charter of government and the supreme law of the United States of America. It was signed by delegates to the Constit…

The Frog Prince and Other Stories

Read by Laurie Anne Walden


Walter Crane


Here are three charming fairy tales with happy endings. They feature an enchanted frog; a princess, her brothers, and a dastardly plot agai…

Religion and Science from Galileo to Bergson

Read by Laurie Anne Walden


John Charlton Hardwick


This history of Western philosophy, published in 1920, explores how people have explained the natural world during the last few centuries, w…

Radioisotopes in Medicine

Read by Laurie Anne Walden


Earl W. Phelan


Radioisotopes in Medicine is an educational booklet published in 1966 as part of the Understanding the Atom series by the United States Atom…

The One-Hoss Shay

Read by Laurie Anne Walden


Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


This is a small collection of whimsical poems by the American physician and author Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. "The Deacon's Masterpiec…

Carolina Chansons: Legends of the Low Country

Read by Laurie Anne Walden


Dubose Heyward


This is a collection of poems about Charleston and the South Carolina Lowcountry. DuBose Heyward was a Charleston native best known for his…

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