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Romeo and Juliet

Read by Becky Miller


William Shakespeare


Romeo and Juliet is perhaps the most famous of Shakespeare’s plays and is thought to be the most famous love story in Western history. It co…

Selected Poems of Robert Frost

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Robert Frost


Robert Frost, who lived from March 26, 1874 to January 29, 1963, was a winner of 4 Pulitzer prizes and one of America’s best loved poets. Th…

Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson

Read by Becky Miller


Emily Dickinson


Emily Dickinson has come to be regarded as one of the quintessential poets of 19th century America. A very private poet with a very quiet an…

Daniel Deronda

Read by Becky Miller


George Eliot


In this enduring Victorian classic written in 1876, two stories weave in and out of each other: The first is about Gwendolen, one of Eliot's…

Woman and the New Race

Read by Becky Cook


Margaret Sanger


Margaret Sanger was an American sex educator and nurse who became one of the leading birth control activists of her time, having at one poin…

A Boy's Will

Read by Becky Miller


Robert Frost


A Boy's Will is Robert Frost's first full volume of poetry. Issued when Frost was approaching forty, it established his reputation and creat…

The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses

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Robert W. Service


Known as the Bard of the Yukon and as a people's poet, Robert Service immortalized his experience with the Yukon and its gold rush and this …

Selected Lullabies of Eugene Field

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Eugene Field


The sweetest songs the world has ever heard are the lullabies that have been crooned above its cradles. The music of Beethoven and Mozart, o…

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In Say and Seal, Volume 2

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Anna Bartlett Warner


The arrival of a new schoolteacher causes quite a stir in the small New England town of Pattaquasset, not the least of it in the house of Mr…

13 - THE BOOMERANG

In Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work

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L. Frank Baum


The novel carries forward the continuing story of the three cousins Louise Merrick, Beth De Graf, and Patsy Doyle, and their circle. The tit…

15 - The Stranger at the Door

In The Boarded Up House

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Augusta Huiell Seaman


What is the secret of the old boarded up house? And what is the answer to the mystery of the long lost letter that is found in it? Best frie…

05 - Chapter 5

In The Young Crusoe, or The Shipwrecked Boy

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Barbara Hofland


The Young Crusoe, or The Shipwrecked Boy (1829) Novel. At the novel's opening, Charles Crusoe, thirteen years of age, asks his mother if he …

The Seven Wonders of Galaxy Zoo

In Stargazing

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Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Entitlement, belonging and outsiderness: Britain's Gypsy Travellers in the twent…

In Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

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Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

02 - Chapter II

In Afloat on the Ohio

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Reuben Gold Thwaites


Afloat on the Ohio, An Historical Pilgrimage, of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, From Redstone to Cairo.There were four of us pilgrims—my Wife,…

Ch. 2 - Girlhood and its Sorrows

In Behind the Scenes

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Elizabeth Keckley


This is the autobiography of Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave who bought her freedom with the money she earned as a seamstress. She eventua…

Glooskap: Story 5

In The Algonquin Legends of New England or Myths and Folk Lore of the Micmac, Pass…

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Charles Godfrey Leland


This work, then, contains a collection of the myths, legends, and folk-lore of the principal Wabanaki, or Northeastern Algonquin, Indians; t…