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The Wild Oats Of A Spinster

In Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories

Read by Becca Young


Alice Hegan Rice


This is a volume of very cute short stories. Miss Mink for instance invites a lonely soldier to her place for dinner and realises that with …

Pan Michael: An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey

Read by David Granville Young


Henryk Sienkiewicz


This is the third part of the Sienkiewicz trilogy. It is loosely based on the politics of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.It is better kn…

The Lost Brother

In Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio, volume 1

Read by Becca


Songling Pu


"Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" (or "Strange Tales of Liaozhai") is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly sup…

After Parting

In Rivers to the Sea

Read by Becca


Sara Teasdale


This is Sara Teasdale's third published collection of poetry. The collection was published in 1915, and contains the famous poem "I Sha…

Chapter 9

In The Hampstead Mystery

Read by Becca B


John Watson and Arthur Rees and Arthur J. Rees


A murder whodunit... Location: Hampstead, England. Victim: Sir Horace Fewbanks, a distinguished High Court judge. Cause of death: gun shot w…

The Boys

In The Outdoor Girls at Ocean View

Read by Becca Wildey


Laura Lee Hope


In "The Outdoor Girls at Ocean View, Or The Box that Was Found in the Sand", the girls have great fun and solve a mystery while on…

A Block on Ashbury Heights

In Vignettes of San Francisco

Read by Becca L.


Almira Bailey


A collection of observations and stories about San Franciscan life - the people, the buildings, the parks, the food, the street-cars, the ba…

Juliet's Story Continued

In The Secret Passage

Read by Becca B


Fergus Hume


Excellent murder mystery. On September 9, 1905, the NY Times Saturday Review of Books described this book as follows: "That painstaking…

Book IX Chapter 11: An Enterprise

In Cecilia: Memoirs of an Heiress

Read by Becca B


Frances Burney


The plot of Cecilia revolves around the heroine, Cecilia Beverley, whose inheritance from her uncle comes with the stipulation that she find…

In the Synagogue of the Nazarenes

In Stephen: A Soldier of the Cross

Read by Becca Maggie


Florence Morse Kingsley


This is a unique sequel to the book Titus: A Comrade of the Cross written in a very different style, though none the less memorable, full of…

14 - Kenneth is Frightened

In Aunt Jane's Nieces

Read by Becca B


L. Frank Baum


Jane Merrick is a wealthy, elderly, difficult invalid woman who is preparing for her approaching death. In her youth, she inherited her mone…