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Old Mother West Wind

Read by Laurie Anne Walden


Thornton W. Burgess


Thornton Waldo Burgess (January 14, 1874 – June 5, 1965) was a conservationist and author of children's stories. He loved the beauty of natu…

The Man of the Desert

Read by LikeManyWaters


Grace Livingston Hill


Fleeing from an aggressive suitor, Hazel Radcliffe becomes hopelessly lost in the Arizona desert. Exhausted, she falls unconscious from her …

Blindfolded

Read by Roger Melin


Earle Ashley Walcott


Giles Dudley is called upon by his cousin Henry Wilton to assist him in San Francisco, but the reason for the summons is not at all clear. D…

Petticoat Government, Volume 3

Read by Mark Leder


Frances Milton Trollope


The adventures--in society, in love--of Judith Maitland conclude.

The After House

Read by Tom Penn


Mary Roberts Rinehart


Ralph Leslie, a brand-new MD, realizes that a life of adventure holds more appeal than hospital rounds and daily clinics. Is it good luck, b…

Heretics

Read by Ray Clare


G. K. Chesterton


The Author Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere "rollicki…

Pollyanna (version 2)

Read by Phil Chenevert


Eleanor H. Porter


In a small town far out West, 11 year old Pollyanna loses her mother then her dad to disease. This book describes how the orphan is sent to…

Plants and People

Read by Timothy Walker


Timothy Walker


University of Oxford Podcasts

Doris and the Ankh

Read by Brian Holtz


Brian Holtz


A fantasy adventure for all ages. Doris, a neurotic and quirky thirteen-year-old, is thrust into an alternate reality where flowers sneeze,…

Horace Walpole's Letters: a selection

Read by Barbara Baker


Horace Walpole


Horace Walpole, 4th earl of Orford, was a cultivated participant in, and observer of, the social and political life of Georgian England. His…

Reading: An Essay

Read by David Wales


Hugh Walpole


A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales

The Side of the Angels

Read by Simon Evers


Basil King


The book is set in New England in the early 20th century in an old established community where times are rapidly changing but nonetheless th…

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…

A Diary from Dixie

Read by Laurie Anne Walden


Mary Chesnut


Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, a well-educated South Carolina woman who was married to a Confederate general, kept extensive journals during th…

Petticoat Government, Volume 2

Read by Mark Leder


Frances Milton Trollope


The further adventures of young Judith Maitland in the clerical close of Westhampton. - Summary by Mark Leder

Excursions

Read by PhyllisV


Henry David Thoreau


Excursions is an 1863 anthology of several essays by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The anthology contains an introduction …

Judith Lee - Pages From Her Life

Read by Alan Winterrowd


Richard Marsh


Judith Lee is a young woman with an unusual gift, she can read lips at a distance as well as she can hear the person next to her. Her skill …

Woodland Paths

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Winthrop Packard


American naturalist, Winthrop Packard, takes us on a wandering journey into the woods, alerting us to the many inhabitants and their habitat…

The Gentle Grafter

Read by Leslie Walden


O. Henry


If Jefferson "Parleyvoo" Pickens had appeared in print just a few years later, he might have been the "Gentle Grifter" i…

Poems of Nature

Read by Larry Wilson


Henry David Thoreau


The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved. Many of the…

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