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The Reluctant Dragon
Read by Mark F. Smith
Kenneth Grahame
What would you do if you discovered a dragon living in a cave on a hill above your home? Make friends, read poetry together? It turns out th…
Uncle Remus
Read by Mark F. Smith
Joel Chandler Harris
Many readers will already be familiar with Uncle Remus’ favorite animal characters – Br’er Rabbit and Br’er Fox among them – and some of the…
The Lost Princess of Oz
Read by Mark F. Smith
L. Frank Baum
Who is stealing all the magic in Oz? Dorothy and her friends set out to comb all of Oz, not only for magic stolen from Glinda and the Wizard…
Give Me Liberty
Read by Mark F. Smith
Patrick Henry
This speech was given March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia, and is credited with having singlehandedly convinced the V…
The Swiss Family Robinson
Read by Mark F. Smith
Johann David Wyss
The Swiss Family Robinson has delighted generations of readers with its exciting tale of a family which, though shipwrecked, displays “the r…
The Wind in the Willows (version 2)
Read by Mark F. Smith
Kenneth Grahame
This much-loved story follows a group of animal friends in the English countryside as they pursue adventure ... and as adventure pursues the…
More Goops and How Not to Be Them
Read by Mark F. Smith
Frank Gelett Burgess
Deep in the heart of every parent is the wish, the desire, to have other adults tell us, in an unsolicited way, just how very polite one’s c…
The Mysterious Island
Read by Mark F. Smith
Jules Verne
A story of castaways, similar to Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson, this book details the escape from Civil War-era Richmond, Vi…
The First Battle of Bull Run
Read by Mark F. Smith
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard
General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was one of the senior commanders of Southern forces during the Civil War. It was he who initiated …
Little Wars
Read by Mark F. Smith
H. G. Wells
A Game for Boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books…
How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day
Read by Mark F. Smith
Arnold Bennett
"Which of us lives on twenty-four hours a day? And when I say 'lives,' I do not mean exists, nor 'muddles through.'" -- Arnold Ben…
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 2)
Read by Mark F. Smith
Mark Twain
In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain creates an entertaining adventure of Middle America in the 1800's - afloat on a raft on th…
The Gettysburg Address (version 3)
Read by Mark F. Smith
Abraham Lincoln
The Dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, in November, 1863, followed a few short months after the roiling, acrid clouds of gun…
Tarzan of the Apes
Read by Mark F. Smith
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan of the Apes is Burroughs’ exciting, if improbable, story of an English lord, left by the death of his stranded parents in the hands o…
New Discoveries at Jamestown
Read by Mark F. Smith
John L. Cotter
Chances are, you are reading this because you are aware that Jamestown, Virginia, celebrated its 400th birthday in 2007. It was the first &q…
Star Born
Read by Mark F. Smith
Andre Norton
Andre Norton's "Star Born" pictures a human colony in another galaxy, driven away from Earth generations ago by a repressive gover…
Floor Games
Read by Mark F. Smith
H. G. Wells
H.G. Wells had so much fun playing with his children on the floor of their playroom, he decided to write a jovial little book to inspire oth…
The First Men in the Moon
Read by Mark F. Smith
H. G. Wells
Britain won the Moon Race! Decades before Neal Armstrong took his "giant leap for mankind" two intrepid adventurers from Lympne, E…
The Lost World (version 2)
Read by Mark F. Smith
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Imagine a strange, tropical place that is almost inaccessible. Time appears to have stood still there. Species of animal and plant life not …
Greylorn
Read by Mark F. Smith
Keith Laumer
Commander Greylorn has a problem. No, actually he has two of them. It's not enough that the remaining residents of Earth have pinned their l…