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The Kid on the Housetop

In Aesop's Fables, Volume 04 (Fables 76-100)

Read by Leah Baskett

Aesop

Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…

Hiring a wetnurse in seventeenth-century England

In Anthropology

Read by Leah Astbury

Various

University of Oxford Podcasts

FMR 47 The vulnerability of Palestinian refugees from Syria

In Forced Migration Review

Read by Leah Morrison

Various

University of Oxford Podcasts

Longlegs The Blue Heron Receives Callers

In The Adventures of Grandfather Frog

Read by Leah Sosewitz

Thornton W. Burgess

Longlegs the Blue Heron felt decidedly out of sorts. It was a beautiful morning, too beautiful for any one to be feeling that way. Indeed, i…

The Women in the Case By Mary Sams Cooke

In Short Stories From Life

Read by Leah Emery

Various

Life Magazine held a short story contest. Stories must be no more than 1500 words. Authors were paid for the number of words under that maxi…

Deciding upon a New Move

In The Ice Queen

Read by Leah Emery

Ernest Ingersoll

When four young people decide to undertake a skating trek across the Arctic ice, there are sure to be adventures. Aleck becomes “Captain,” …

The Fearful Devilfish and Other Rays

In Zoology: The Science of Animal Life

Read by Leah Emery

Ernest Ingersoll

Scientist and prolific author, Ernest Ingersoll, in this book gives as an overview of animal life. Included here are descriptions of sea li…

Mistress Jekyll-Hyde

In Humorous Poems

Read by Leah Autry

Ignatius Brennan

This is a collection of fun poems by West Virginia poet M. Ignatius Brennan. In his poems, the poet makes fun of the people in his surroundi…

The "Defenestration" at Prague, the Thirty Years War, AD 1618, by Samuel R. Gar…

In The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11

Read by Leah MacKenzie

Charles F. Horne

A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…

Twilight

In Poems

Read by Leah Autry

Frances Louisa Bushnell

This is a collection of poems by Connecticut poet Frances Louisa Bushnell. Ms Bushnell was an eminent person in her local social circles, an…