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The Death of Ivan Ilyitch
Read by Laurie Anne Walden
Leo Tolstoy
The Death of Ivan Ilyitch is the story of a socially ambitious middle-aged judge who contracts an unexplained and untreatable illness. As I…
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Read by Laurie Anne Walden
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
What really killed Sir Charles Baskerville? Is his nephew, Sir Henry, in danger from the legendary family curse, a gigantic black hound? She…
The Frog Prince and Other Stories
Read by Laurie Anne Walden
Walter Crane
Here are three charming fairy tales with happy endings. They feature an enchanted frog; a princess, her brothers, and a dastardly plot agai…
The Day Boy and the Night Girl
Read by Laurie Anne Walden
George MacDonald
A boy named Photogen, who has never seen the moon, meets a girl named Nycteris, who has never seen the sun. The two of them must escape from…
Riders of the Purple Sage
Read by Laurie Anne Walden
Zane Grey
The year is 1871, and wealthy ranch owner Jane Withersteen is in trouble. She has incurred the displeasure of her Mormon church leaders by …
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…
A Study in Scarlet
Read by Laurie Anne Walden
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet, a short novel published in 1887, was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story. At the beginning of the book…
Selected Short Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Read by Laurie Anne Walden
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ranging in tone from humor to sentimentality, these stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald are set against a backdrop of jazz, flappers, and the cha…
The Book of Dragons
Read by Laurie Anne Walden
E. Nesbit
A dragon who flies out of a magical book; one whose purr quiets a fussy baby; another who eats an entire pack of tame hunting-hippopotomuses…
Mother West Wind's Children
Read by Laurie Anne Walden
Thornton W. Burgess
"You can't fool old Mother Nature. No, Sir, you can't fool old Mother Nature, and it's of no use to try." The animals of the Gree…
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…
The One-Hoss Shay
Read by Laurie Anne Walden
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
This is a small collection of whimsical poems by the American physician and author Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. "The Deacon's Masterpiec…
Carolina Chansons: Legends of the Low Country
Read by Laurie Anne Walden
Dubose Heyward
This is a collection of poems about Charleston and the South Carolina Lowcountry. DuBose Heyward was a Charleston native best known for his…
Bowser the Hound
Read by Laurie Anne Walden
Thornton W. Burgess
Old Man Coyote craftily leads Bowser the hound away from home, and Bowser gets lost. Will Bowser find his way back to Farmer Brown's? Will R…
Religion and Science from Galileo to Bergson
Read by Laurie Anne Walden
John Charlton Hardwick
This history of Western philosophy, published in 1920, explores how people have explained the natural world during the last few centuries, w…
United States Constitution and Amendments
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United States Government and Unit
The Constitution is the charter of government and the supreme law of the United States of America. It was signed by delegates to the Constit…
Radioisotopes in Medicine
Read by Laurie Anne Walden
Earl W. Phelan
Radioisotopes in Medicine is an educational booklet published in 1966 as part of the Understanding the Atom series by the United States Atom…