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44 - The Three Billy-Goats Gruff

In Popular Tales from the Norse

Read by Deb Cornell

George Dasent and Sir George Webbe Dasent

The most careless reader can hardly fail to see that many of the Tales in this volume have the same groundwork as those with which he has be…

The Consolations of Spinsterhood

In The Spinster Book

Read by Deb Bacon-Ziegler

Myrtle Reed

A cross between guidebook and social commentary, The Spinster Book gives clever and humorous insights on topics such as courting, handling m…

MORE ROBBERS: The Crow and the Blue Jay.

In The Burgess Bird Book for Children

Read by Deb Bacon-Ziegler

Thornton W. Burgess

The Burgess Bird Book for Children is a zoology book written in the form of a story featuring Peter Rabbit. Peter learns from his friend Je…

Ralph Rhodes

In Spoon River Anthology

Read by Deb Bacon-Ziegler

Edgar Lee Masters

This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, goss…

13 - The Answer of the Sphinx

In The Rosary

Read by Deb Bacon-Ziegler

Florence L. Barclay and Florence Louisa Barclay

"The Rosary" is a beautiful love story. Gareth Dalmain falls in love with the Honorable Jane Champion. She loves him back, but doe…

He Who Knew Not Fear

In The Junior Classics Volume 1: Fairy and Wonder Tales

Read by Deb Bacon-Ziegler

William Patten

The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, sto…

Peg Bowen Comes to Church

In The Golden Road

Read by Deb Bacon-Ziegler

L.M. Montgomery and Lucy Maud Montgomery

In the sequel to The Story Girl, Sara Stanley returns to join the King children in publishing their own local magazine to entertain the town…

Chapter 09

In A Girl of the Limberlost

Read by Deb Bacon-Ziegler

Gene Stratton-Porter

A Girl of the Limberlost, a novel written by the American writer and naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter, was first published in August, 1909. T…

Chapter IX

In The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Read by Deb Bacon-Ziegler

Anne Bronte and Anne Brontë

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, the second and final novel by Anne Brontë, is concerned with the story of a woman who leaves her abusive, …

Deadly Devices and Dangerous Drugs, the Secrets Behind Medical Research

In Kellogg College

Read by Carl Heneghan, Jeff Aronson, Deb Cohen, Ben Goldacre and Sharon Mickan

Various

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