Bellona Times
Swamp Island
In this thrilling installment of the Penny Parker mystery series, young reporter Penny Parker finds herself entangled in a dangerous game of…
The Rover Boys Out West
Despite the title, the Rover Brothers spend several chapters -- over half the book -- back East, against arch-nemeses Josiah Crabtree and th…
The Bent Twig
Semi-autobiographical series of incidents in the life of an intellectual American family in the late 19th - early 20th Century as seen by fa…
The Rover Boys at School
First of the famous Rover Boys books by future Hardy Boys creator Edward Stratemeyer (under the pseudonym Arthur M Winfield), this is an int…
Gentle Julia
Penrod for girls in the form of Florence, the bratty younger cousin of luminous Julia Atwater, enlivens this romantic comedy set in Tarkingt…
The Dude Wrangler
Spoiled, handsome, 24 year old Easterner meets pretty, no-nonsense gal from Wyoming, is instantly smitten and does a sea-change to try and i…
The Offshore Pirate
This is a long short story in 6 parts from Fitzgerald's 1920 short story collection, Flappers and Philosophers. It predates the screwball mo…
A Little Bush Maid
A Little Bush Maid invites listeners into the vibrant world of early 20th-century Australia, where the adventures of a spirited young girl u…
Clinical Medicine For Nurses
The basics of clinical medicine for nurses in WWI-era America from a series of lectures by the author, an Asheville, NC physician. - Summary…
Rain
One of Maugham's most famous short stories, Rain unfolds in a soggy tropical paradise marred by self-righteous hypocrites trying to force th…
Evelina's Garden
This is a long short story from 1899, approximately 95 minutes more or less, about a mysterious woman living virtually alone on the outskirt…
O Pioneers! (version 2)
O Pioneers! tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish immigrants in the farm country near the fictional town of Hanover, Nebraska…
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
In F. Scott Fitzgerald's sharp and witty short story, Bernice Bobs Her Hair, we meet Bernice, a young woman whose beauty is overshadowed by …
1891 Collection
Step back in time to 1891, a pivotal year in literature, through a curated collection of essays and short works that capture the essence of …
A Traveller in War-Time
This is a collection of a series of journalistic articles written during his travels throughout WWI era Europe that Churchill -- the America…
Cat Tales
Cat Tales is the first of a series of kid-friendly collections of animal stories and non-fiction. There'll be one or two grade-school-level …
The Rover Boys in the Jungle
Third entry in the then-popular boys' adventure series has the Rover brothers (Tom, Dick, & Sam) heading to Africa to search for their l…
Edgewater People
Edgewater People is a captivating collection of interrelated short stories that paints a vivid portrait of life in small New England village…
1912: Short Works Collection
This is a collection of public domain works either published in 1912, or written in 1912 and published before 1923. The accent is on non-fic…
The Caves of Fear
In The Caves of Fear, Rick Brant and his friend Scotty embark on a perilous journey to the Himalayas, where they face the looming threat of …