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A Grave Discovery

In The Daughter of the Sioux

Read by Shirley Anderson


Charles King


Charles King was a United States soldier and a distinguished writer. He was the son of Civil War general Rufus King and great grandson of Ru…

03 - A Family Dinner

In The Story of Ab

Read by Shirley Anderson


Stanley Waterloo


This is the story of Ab, a man of the Age of Stone, who lived so long ago that we cannot closely fix the date, and who loved and fought well…

02 - An Important Item

In Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor

Read by Shirley Anderson


Richard Doddridge Blackmore


"If anybody cares to read a simple tale told simply" ... thus opens Lorna Doone, one of the best love stories ever written. The no…

Chapter 2

In Herodotus' Histories Vol 2

Read by Shirley Anderson


Herodotus


The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus is considered the first work of history in Western literature. Written about 440 BC, the Histori…

Levitical

In Shirley

Read by Shirley Anderson


Charlotte Brontë


Shirley is an 1849 social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë. It was Brontë's second published novel after Jane Eyre (…

The Course of True Love

In The Secret Passage

Read by Shirley Anderson


Fergus Hume


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

04 - The Bear and Skrattel

In The Fairy Ring

Read by Shirley Anderson


Kate D. Wiggin and Nora A. Smith and Kate Douglas Wiggin


The Fairy Ring, originally published in 1910, is a collection of 63 fairy tales from around the globe. It includes such well-known favorites…

Geronimo’s Story of His Life

Read by Sue Anderson


Geronimo


Geronimo’s Story of His Life is the oral life history of a legendary Apache warrior. Composed in 1905, while Geronimo was being held as a U.…

Pollyanna

Read by Mary Anderson


Eleanor H. Porter


Pollyanna tells the story of Pollyanna Whittier, a young girl who goes to live with her wealthy Aunt Polly after her father's death. Pollyan…

The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865

Read by Sue Anderson


Leander Stillwell


Leander Stillwell was an 18-year-old Illinois farm boy, living with his family in a log cabin, when the U.S. Civil War broke out. Stillwell …

Pollyanna Grows Up

Read by Mary Anderson


Eleanor H. Porter


Pollyanna, now cured of her crippling spinal injury, and able to walk again, goes to live in Boston with Mrs. Carew, a heart-broken woman se…

By Ox Team to California - A Narrative of Crossing the Plains in 1860

Read by Sue Anderson


Lavinia Honeyman Porter


Imagine a young, twenty-something woman in 1860, reared “in the indolent life of the ordinary Southern girl” (which means she has never lear…

Jack and Jill

Read by Mary Anderson


Louisa May Alcott


Jack and Jill went up a hillTo coast with fun and laughter.Jack fell down and broke his crown,And Jill came tumbling after.When Jack and Jil…

Living on Half a Dime a Day

Read by Sue Anderson


Sarah Elizabeth Harper Monmouth


How to live on 5 cents a day! How to survive financial ruin without losing your house! How to keep to a bare bones budget and still have mon…

Just David

Read by Mary Anderson


Eleanor H. Porter


David and his father set out from their idyllic mountain home to go to meet family, but enroute, David's father, who is sick dies, and David…

Michael O'Halloran

Read by Mary Anderson


Gene Stratton-Porter


The story of a plucky, optimistic newsboy, Michael O’Halloran, who has been orphaned from a young age and asks nothing of the world but to “…

Gallipoli Diary

Read by Sue Anderson


John Graham Gillam


Major John Graham Gillam, British Supply Officer, wrote in his World War I Gallipoli Diary that when he sailed from England for the Dardanel…