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The Way to Will-Power

Read by Loren Eaton


Henry Hazlitt


"The Way to Will-Power" is far from a standard self-help book. With ample wit and an occasionally sardonic tone, American journali…

Story Hour Readers: Third Year

Read by Sibella Denton


Ida Coe and Ida Coeandalice Christie Dillon


Short and sweet stories for children from the 19th century. The stories were compiled by two New York City teachers and were thought appropr…

Sidelights on Relativity

Read by Paul Adams


Albert Einstein


Sidelights on Relativity contains ETHER AND THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY, an address delivered on May 5th, 1920, in the University of Leyden; an…

Easy Lessons in Einstein

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Edwin E. Slosson


Published in 1920, Slosson’s Easy Lessons in Einstein is one of the first popularizations of Einstein’s theory of relativity. This book is m…

Opening a Chestnut Burr

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Edward P. Roe


Walter Gregory is a gentleman whose health is broken down by the stress of Wall Street and the consequences of his fast lifestyle. Disillusi…

Somehow Good

Read by Helen Taylor


William Frend De Morgan


A mysterious man arrives in London and, in a freak accident, gets electrocuted on an underground train and loses his memory. A young lady ca…

Bill Nye's Cordwood

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Bill Nye


From Galileo to Grover Cleveland, from wasps to cattle, from dinosaurs to the railroad, Bill Nye's wide ranging wit pokes gentle fun at ever…

Abraham Lincoln: The Practical Mystic

Read by Tim Rowe


Francis Grierson


A knowledge of the influences which ruled the life of Lincoln, the greatest of practical mystics, is essential now that a new form of pagani…

Eyes and No Eyes and Other Stories

Read by Christine Rottger


John Aikin, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Jane Marcet and Jane Taylor


Whatever will stimulate the observing tendencies of the young cannot but be of value to them. "Eyes and No Eyes" does this in a de…

Education

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Ellen G. White


Ellen White said that one of the most delicate tasks in life was working with youthful minds. Teaching should be varied which can make it po…

The Insect Folk

Read by Laura Caldwell


Margaret Warner Morley


Through delightful outings with her students, a teacher introduces her class to the fascinating world of insects. She encourages her student…

President Lincoln's Attitude Towards Slavery and Emancipation

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Henry Watson Wilbur


A review of events prior to, during and following the American Civil War bringing an insightful perspective on Lincoln's true attitude towar…

The Mystery of Mary

Read by Lee Ann Howlett


Grace Livingston Hill


Handsome young Tryon Dunham has just returned home on the train from a business trip one evening when he's accosted by a beautiful young wom…

The Pupil

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


Pemberton, a young American with an Oxford education and out of money, takes a job tutoring Morgan Moreen, the 12-year old son of an America…

Desperate Remedies

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Thomas Hardy


Cytherea Graye is poor, but accepts a post as lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe, the woman whom her father had loved but had not b…

The Candle Star

Read by Michelle Isenhoff


Michelle Isenhoff


Detroit, 1858. After a tantrum, Emily Preston is shipped from her plantation home to her inn-keeping Uncle in Detroit.There Emily meets Mala…

Richard Cory

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Edwin Arlington Robinson


This was the weekly poetry project for 3 June 2006. Many “character” poems cut straight to the inmost psychology of their subjects, but here…

Henrietta Volume 1 (Dramatic Reading)

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Charlotte Lennox


Henrietta is a strong willed young lady who will not give in to her aunt and marry the suitors she proposes. She runs away and adventure ens…

Gevoel en Verstand

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Jane Austen


Nederlandse vertaling (uit 1922) van "Sense and Sensibility" door Gonne Loman-van Uildriks (1863-1921). Dit is Jane Austen's eers…

The Secret Mark

Read by Lee Ann Howlett


Roy J. Snell


Student Lucile Tucker works part-time at the library of the large university she attends in Chicago to help pay her tuition. One night, whil…

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