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Chapter 5 - Inflation and Contraction

In U.S. Money vs. Corporation Currency, "Aldrich plan."

Read by Kevin Leung


Alfred Owen Crozier


In 1908, the National Monetary Commission was established by Congress to study financial boom-and-bust cycles. Senator Nelson Aldrich (Repub…

Pt 2 Ch 5: Chrysanthemums

In Mountains in the Mist

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Frank W. Boreham


Frank Boreham was a well known preacher who served in England, Australia, and New Zealand. He published dozens of books and thousands of edi…

The Cry at Midnight

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Mildred A. Wirt Benson


Late one night, amateur sleuth Peggy Parker and her friend see an unexplained light and hear a terrifying scream from an abandoned old monas…

Danger at the Drawbridge

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Mildred A. Wirt Benson


The groom fails to show up for his wedding at a mysterious old estate, and Penny Parker is there to solve the mystery! (Summary by Amanda Le…

Voice From the Cave

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Mildred A. Wirt Benson


Penny Parker and her father go on vacation accompanied by a mysterious woman and end up engrossed in a hunt for foreign spies! (Summary by A…

Signal in the Dark

Read by Amanda Leung


Mildred A. Wirt Benson


During a school break, Penny convinces her father to give her a job as a reporter at the Riverview Star. She deals with a jealous co-worker …

Saboteurs on the River

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Mildred A. Wirt Benson


A bridge is blown up and Burt Ottman is accused, but Penny Parker is not convinced he is guilty. Penny works with her friends and an old man…

Guilt of the Brass Thieves

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Mildred A. Wirt Benson


Brass is being rationed for the war effort when someone begins stealing it from a factory. Through a series of her typical adventures Penny …

A Wodehouse Miscellany

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P. G. Wodehouse


Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was an English comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. Best known toda…

Empire

Read by Kevin Green


Clifford D. Simak


In a future time, the solar system is powered by one energy source, controlled by one huge organisation, which has plans to use this control…

Gorgias

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


This dialogue brings Socrates face to face with the famous sophist Gorgias and his followers. It is a work likely completed around the time …

The Talleyrand Maxim

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J. S. Fletcher


John Mallathorpe, a wealthy Yorkshire industrialist and land owner dies in an accident, apparently without making a will. His estate goes t…

Critias

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Plato


This is an incomplete dialogue from the late period of Plato's life. Plato most likely created it after Republic and it contains the famous …

The Emperor's Candlesticks

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Baroness Emma Orczy


When a group of Russian anarchists kidnap a Russian prince in Vienna there are repercussions. On learning that the Cardinal d'Orsay has agre…

Stories of Old Greece and Rome

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Emilie Kip Baker


The Stories of Old Greece and Rome is an easy to read summary of all of the famous and not so famous Greek and Roman mythological stories. A…

The Shrieking Pit

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Arthur J. Rees


The Shrieking Pit is one of Arthur Rees's earlier works, and is a good old fashioned murder mystery story. Grant Colwyn, a private detective…

The Worst Journey in the World, Vol 1

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Apsley Cherry-Garrard


The Worst Journey in the World is a memoir of the 1910–1913 British Antarctic Expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott. It was written and publ…

Protagoras

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Plato


Jowett, in his always informative introduction, sees this dialogue as transitional between the early and middle dialogues. Socrates meets wi…

The Leavenworth Case (Version 2)

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Anna Katharine Green


The Leavenworth Case is a gripping detective novel set in New York, and is one of the first detective fiction novels to be written by a fema…