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14 - Chapter 3B

In John Quincy Adams

Read by Jon Smith


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. …

Friar Bacon and the Brazen Head

In Thirty More Famous Stories Retold

Read by Jon Smith


James Baldwin


Thirty More Famous Stories Retold, the sequel to the popular Fifty Famous Stories Retold, retells the stories of legendary people and mythol…

Turkey Bones and Eating and We Liked It. A Play

In Geography and Plays

Read by Jon Miller


Gertrude Stein


Geography and Plays is a 1922 collection of Gertrude Stein's "word portraits," or stream-of-consciousness writings. These stream-o…

15 - Chapter XV

In Afloat on the Ohio

Read by Jon Smith


Reuben Gold Thwaites


Afloat on the Ohio, An Historical Pilgrimage, of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, From Redstone to Cairo.There were four of us pilgrims—my Wife,…

Book the First; Chapter II: Caiphul

In A Dweller on Two Planets or The Dividing of the Way

Read by Jon Berczely


Fredrick Spencer Oliver


A channeled autobiography of a spirit calling himself Phylos the Thibetan. The setting is Atlantis with a first person account of Atlantean…

The Age of Gold

In Weeds by the Wall: Verses

Read by Jon Burton


Madison Cawein


This is a volume of verses by Madison Julius Cawein. This volume contains several poems of the dream-like quality for which Cawein was so fa…

Anxious Days

In Tom Swift and His Wireless Message

Read by Jon Kerfoot


Victor Appleton


Tom Swift & friends decide to trial an experimental airship near the New Jersey coast, and are unexpectedly swept out to sea by hurrican…

The Ghost That Got The Button

In Humorous Ghost Stories

Read by Jon Smith


Dorothy Scarborough


Includes: An introduction by Dorothy Scarborough -- The Canterville ghost / by Oscar Wilde -- The ghost-extinguisher / by Gelett Burgess -- …

Three Languages, The

In Grimms' Fairy Tales

Read by Jon Ingram


Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


A classic collection of oral German folklore, brought together for posterity by the scholarly brothers Grimm in the 1800s, this epitome of f…

22 - Judgment and Reasoning

In Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young

Read by Jon Ingram


Jacob Abbott


Subtitled, "The principles on which a firm parental authority may be established and maintained, without violence or anger, and the rig…

10 - Interest and Discipline

In Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

Read by Jon Miller


John Dewey


An important, controversial, and often cited work on public education. Dewey discusses the role of public education in a democracy and the d…

First Impressions Of Yucatan

In The American Egypt

Read by Jon Smith


Channing Arnold


Arnold and Frost were English archaeologists who traveled to the Yucatan Peninsula and wrote "the first book ever written by Englishmen…

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