On the banks of a Nebraska river, several boys hear a story that causes them to plan a great adventure for their future. They could never quite get past a plan to find the Enchanted Bluff, but life has a way of stealing dreams from childish minds. A beautiful story of the hope of childhood in a time...
Lieutenant Gulliver Jones, a navy officer navigating his mundane life in New York City, encounters a mysterious old man who suddenly dies spectacularly. This odd event leads Gulliver to an unusual artifact that thrusts him into an extraordinary adventure on the planet Mars, filled with vibrant chara...
An Available Audio Book
In Cooperation with Spoken Realms
MY COOKERY BOOKS by ELIZABETH ROBINS PENNELL HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY 1903.
Narrated by Joseph Tabler
The book is in three sections.
Elizabeth Robins Pennell (February 21, 1855 - February 7, 1936) was an American writer who, for mos...
Mim has lived on Topsail Island her whole life until love takes her away to a life she never could have imagined. The words, there's no place like home, ring true as she finds out that love isn't everything she thought it would be.
Alexander MacNichol, the epitome of a hot-blooded Highland warrior, loyal to Scotland, lover of women, and a merry time. The last thing he expected from his King, Robert the Bruce, was an order to marry a whey-faced English lass from the wrong side of the border.
Lady Grace Worthington, one moment...
The Inter-Planetary Corporation has sent the space ship Arcturus on a routine fact-finding mission, only to have it ambushed by a strange alien craft, leaving physicist Steve Stevens and Nadia Newton first stranded on Ganymede, and then caught up in the Vorkul-Hexan war. A space adventure of stagger...
Conradin, a ten-year-old boy, rebels against his strict guardian when he invents a new religion that idolizes his pet polecat-ferret, Sredni Vashtar. Conradin hides Sredni Vashtar and prays to him in secret. When the guardian begins a search for the boy’s new god, Conradin’s worship is answered with...
An Available Audio Book In Cooperation with Spoken Realms THE MARITIME HISTORY OF MASSACHUSETTS 1783-1860 By SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY 1921
Narrated by Joseph Tabler
CONTENTS I. COAST AND SEA
II. THE COLONIAL BACKGROUND
III. REVOLUTION AND RECONSTRUCTION
IV. PIONEERS O...
A third collection of full-length adventures for R. Austen Freeman's great forensic detective, Dr John Thorndyke.
First, in The D'Arblay Mystery, the body of Julius D'Arblay is found beneath the surface of a shallow woodland pond, putting Thorndyke on the trail of a very calculated murder.
Then,...
Edited by W. C. Armstrong
Read by Denis Daly
This short poem, first published in 1717, became one of Pope's best-known verse works.
The actual history of the lady appears to have been intentionally concealed by the poet under a mysterious veil. Dr. Johnson offers the following details, based o...
The Last Chronicle of Barset
By Anthony Trollope
Read by Steve Gough
In the last of the six novels in the Chronicles of Barsetshire series Trollope relates the story of the impecunious curate Josiah Crawley who is falsely accused of stealing a cheque. The community is divided between the suppo...
"The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane is a profound short story that captures the struggle for survival experienced by four shipwrecked men adrift in a small dinghy after their steamer, the Commodore, sinks. The narrative is based on Crane's real-life experience of being stranded at sea, and it explores...
