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In Heart of Spring

Read by Kay Williams


Shaw Neilson


John Shaw Neilson was born at Penola, South Australia in 1872, the son of a farmer and contractor who removed to Victoria when Neilson was n…

The Private Memoirs Part 7

In The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Version 2)

Read by Kay Williams


James Hogg


An early example of a psychological mystery and modern crime fiction, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner details the …

Legends of Norseland

Read by Ryan Williams


Mara L. Pratt


Collection of tales from the Norse legends, from the beginning of the golden kingdom of the Aesir, to it's end within the flames of Ragnarok…

The Story of Red Feather

Read by Mira Williams


Edward S. Ellis


The fierce chieftain Red Feather is leading a raiding party of Sioux across the Montana frontier, and the Clarendon homestead is directly in…

Coleshanger

Read by Norman E Williams


Norman E Williams


“Coleshanger people are pretty bad,” said Uncle Edward. “They won’t cross water after sunset. And they have to be in bed by midnight, otherw…

Lilith

Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA


George MacDonald


Lilith, written by the father of fantasy literature, George MacDonald, was first published in 1895. Its importance was recognized in its lat…

Undine

Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA


Friedrich De La Motte Fouqué


Undine is a novel by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué concerning Undine, a water spirit who marries a Knight named Huldbrand in order to …

The Expressman and the Detective

Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA


Allan Pinkerton


Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884), a Scotsman by birth and a barrel-maker by trade, settled in Chicago in its infancy and founded the Pinkertons, …

Hymns to the Night

Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA


Novalis


"Hymns to the Night" is the last published work of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (1772-1801), the German philoso…

Origins of Nature

Read by Richard Dawkins, Rowan Williams and Anthony Kenny


Richard Dawkins, Rowan Williams and Anthony Kenny


University of Oxford Podcasts

Madame Théophile and the Parrot by Théophile Gautier

In The Animal Story Book

Read by Tania Kay


Various


Edited by Andrew Lang, this book is an anthology of interesting stories about a wide variety of diffferent animals collected from numerous s…

Under the Hay

In The Bobbsey Twins in Washington

Read by Lois Kay


Laura Lee Hope


The Bobbsey Twins are off on another adventure, this time to Washington D.C.! They see the president and try to solve the mystery of an old…

Chapter XXVI. The Era of Expansion

In An Outline History of Japan

Read by Kay Dropiewski


Herbert Henry Gowen


A history of Japan from its origins to the early 20th century. - Summary by Kazbek

Little Ida's Flowers

In Fairy Tales

Read by Kay Dropiewski


Hans Christian Andersen


This collection of fairy tales include many that you may never have heard of. Published in 1884, Andersen obviously enjoyed putting many un…

The Revolt of Mother

In Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times

Read by Kathy Kay


Alice Duer Miller


A collection of poetry and some other short works by suffragist Alice Duer MIller. Many of these satirical works were first published in the…