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Chapter 17, part 02

In History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688…

Read by Emily Anderson


David Hume


David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned him lasting fame and re…

Wife and Mother, Part 2

In Japanese Girls and Women

Read by Emily Anderson


Alice Bacon


A clear and delightful peek into the world of Japanese girls and women of the late 1800s: their childhood, education, marriage and intimate …

02 - Chapter 1B

In John Quincy Adams

Read by Emily Anderson


John T. Morse


This biography contains three main sections. the first covers Adams's early years and his time as a diplomat--both in America and overseas. …

The Shepherd of the Hills

Read by Emily Jarmard


Harold Bell Wright


The story depicts the lives of mountain people living in the Ozarks and the mystery surrounding an old man called 'The Shepherd of the Hills…

The City of Fire

Read by Emily Grace


Grace Livingston Hill


Home from college, Lynn is heartbroken to find her childhood friend Mark, has fallen away from his faith in God. After making some poor life…

Not Under The Law

Read by Emily Grace


Grace Livingston Hill


After both of Joyce's parents passed away, her beloved aunt raised her. But when her aunt gets sick and dies, Joyce's world turns upside dow…

Lucretia Borgia

Read by Emily Maynard


Ferdinand Gregorovius


According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day. Lucretia Borgia is the most unfortunate woman in modern history. Is this beca…

Bulbs and Blossoms

Read by Emily Isabella


Amy Le Feuvre


Two young children, recently arrived back in England from India, discover their aunt's old gardener, and together they explore the beautiful…

Geronimo’s Story of His Life

Read by Sue Anderson


Geronimo


Geronimo’s Story of His Life is the oral life history of a legendary Apache warrior. Composed in 1905, while Geronimo was being held as a U.…

The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865

Read by Sue Anderson


Leander Stillwell


Leander Stillwell was an 18-year-old Illinois farm boy, living with his family in a log cabin, when the U.S. Civil War broke out. Stillwell …

Pollyanna

Read by Mary Anderson


Eleanor H. Porter


Pollyanna tells the story of Pollyanna Whittier, a young girl who goes to live with her wealthy Aunt Polly after her father's death. Pollyan…

Pollyanna Grows Up

Read by Mary Anderson


Eleanor H. Porter


Pollyanna, now cured of her crippling spinal injury, and able to walk again, goes to live in Boston with Mrs. Carew, a heart-broken woman se…

By Ox Team to California - A Narrative of Crossing the Plains in 1860

Read by Sue Anderson


Lavinia Honeyman Porter


Imagine a young, twenty-something woman in 1860, reared “in the indolent life of the ordinary Southern girl” (which means she has never lear…

Jack and Jill

Read by Mary Anderson


Louisa May Alcott


Jack and Jill went up a hillTo coast with fun and laughter.Jack fell down and broke his crown,And Jill came tumbling after.When Jack and Jil…

Living on Half a Dime a Day

Read by Sue Anderson


Sarah Elizabeth Harper Monmouth


How to live on 5 cents a day! How to survive financial ruin without losing your house! How to keep to a bare bones budget and still have mon…