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This collection of lyric poems evokes the sea in every line, from birth (A Son of the Sea) to death (Outbound). The smells, sights and sounds of the Canada's East Coast feature prominently. (Summary by Sean Michael Hogan)

Ballads of a Bohemian by Robert W. Service is a captivating collection of narrative poems celebrating the adventurous, unconventional, and often unpredictable lives of artists, wanderers, dreamers, and outsiders. With his distinctive storytelling style, Service combines vivid imagery, wit, and emotional depth to create memorable portraits of human ambition, love, hardship, and resilience. Each ballad reflects the spirit of freedom and the search for meaning beyond society's expectations. Rich in atmosphere and unforgettable characters, these poems showcase why Robert W. Service remains one of ...

"What nuclear war may do to the world we know is a closed book to mankind—but here’s what coming eras may bring!" After nuclear war, scientists in Biological Control Labs monitor the former bomb sites, fearing that a mutated animal will develop the intelligence and power to become a threat to humans. One day, men sent to investigate alarms activated in the nuclear wasteland in the New York area find more than they bargained for. - Summary by Elsie Selwyn

The story of Allan Quatermain's wife and further adventures of Allan Quatermain. (Summary by Elaine Tweddle)

This is a fantasy story about a little girl, 5-years old, who is the given the ability to converse with animals. - Summary by april6090

Volume 5 continues the commentary on world history begun in the first four volumes. This volume looks at some of the main religious figures of the Middle Ages, as well as social issues like the Crusades and the feudal system. - Summary by KHand

The writer is as earnest in recommending ladies who belong to the higher class of settlers to cultivate all the mental resources of a superior education, as she is to induce them to discard all irrational and artificial wants and mere useless pursuits. She would willingly direct their attention to the natural history and botany of this new country, in which they will find a never-failing source of amusement and instruction, at once enlightening and elevating the mind, and serving to fill up the void left by the absence of those lighter feminine accomplishments, the practice of which are ...

Ralph Chaplin and many other prominent members of the Industrial Workers of the World were imprisoned under the Espionage Act of 1917 as the United States entered World War I. As with Socialist presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs, these activists were accused of undermining recruiting efforts and the draft - even of encouraging soldiers to desert. Though they never gained the universal popularity of his anthem "Solidarity Forever," the poems and songs in this volume - composed during his four years in prison - represent the defiant attitude of a true rebel in the face of persecution. - ...

Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by Andrew Carnegie is the personal story of one of the most influential industrialists and philanthropists of the modern era. Written in Carnegie’s own voice, the book traces his journey from a modest childhood in Scotland to extraordinary success in the United States.Carnegie describes his family’s emigration to America, his early work in factories and offices, and the opportunities that helped him rise through the railroad, telegraph, and steel industries. He explains how discipline, observation, relationships, calculated risk, and hard work shaped his ...

A baby squirrel is adopted by a farm cat after his mother is killed, but when he is half-grown the barn which is his home catches fire. He flees into the woods, where he learns to survive and make a new life. - Summary by Wikipedia

Elizabeth Banks was an American journalist and author. She grew up in Wisconsin, then lived in England the last forty years of her life. She became a regular contributor to English publications such as The Daily News, Punch, St James' Gazette, and London Illustrated. She created a sensation by recording her observations on the plight of the lower classes, which she researched posing as a housemaid, street sweeper, and Covent Garden flower girl. Her later journalistic writings promoted women's right to vote and denounced prison conditions for jailed suffragettes. This memoir was written about ...

The Autobiography of George Dewey by George Dewey is the firsthand story of the American naval officer best known for his decisive victory at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.Dewey begins with memories of his childhood and early education before describing his decision to pursue a naval career. He recounts his training at the United States Naval Academy and the experiences that gradually shaped him into an experienced officer.A substantial part of the memoir concerns his service during the American Civil War. Dewey describes naval operations, life aboard warships, the ...

A delightful version of Alice's Adventures following that scurrying Rabbit with the watch that is shortened for the enjoyment of younger children. She meets all of the strange talking animals (and they are just as rude or silly as usual) and eats and drinks from all of the bottles and grows and shrinks alarmingly just like in the longer version. Enjoy. (Summary by the reader, Phil Chenevert)

Forced into marriage to a man who is older and wealthier, young Theodora Fitzgerald contemplates her fate in love, until she meets and falls in love with another. - Summary by Amy Deuchler

Ywain, a knight bored with his administrative duties, abandons his estate to his younger brother and goes on a pilgrimage to seek his heart's desire. Following a will-o'-the-wisp resembling a child, his quest takes him to the city of Paladore, where he meets the lady Aithne, half-fae enchantress. Sir Henry Newbolt's allegorical fantasy was published in hardback in Britain in 1914 and in the Uniited States a year later. It was revived in 1975 as the fifth volume in the celebrated Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library. - Summary by Phil Benson, adapted from Wikipedia

"Baby's Own Aesop" presents the fables as one-stanza limericks, each "pictorially pointed" by Walter Crane, the noted painter and illustrator. He apprenticed to master wood-engraver, William James Linton, who furnished the draft of the book's poems for Crane to edit. "Baby's Own Aesop" is available in a beautiful facsimile edition of colored engravings from the International Children's Digital Library, with which your child can read along while listening to the recording. (Summary by Denny Sayers)

The Grim Thirteen is a striking anthology of thirteen dark short stories by thirteen different authors. Edited by Frederick Stuart Greene and introduced by Edward J. O’Brien, the collection was created around an unusual idea: to gather powerful stories that magazines had rejected because their subjects were considered too grim, gruesome, unsettling, or unlucky for ordinary publication.The resulting tales move between crime, mystery, psychological tension, tragedy, and supernatural horror. Their characters confront violence, obsession, guilt, family conflict, strange coincidences, and the ...

All the Sad Young Men by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a collection of short stories exploring ambition, wealth, love, disappointment, and the fragile dreams of the Jazz Age.Published in 1926, the collection portrays young men and women searching for success, romance, and social status in a world shaped by money and appearances. Behind the elegance and glamour, Fitzgerald reveals loneliness, regret, failed relationships, and the painful gap between youthful hopes and reality.Among its best-known stories are “The Rich Boy,” “Winter Dreams,” and “Absolution,” each examining different ...

The Bachelors' Club is a sanctuary for an elite group of London's unmarried men to gather. To qualify as a Bachelor, each had to undergo a strict background check to ensure that they were not only unmarried, but a zealot in the movement that held marriage to be an undue punishment...upon women. As our story goes, we learn many revealing things about these men's convictions and pasts, as well as insightful commentaries on life and society in 1890 that is markedly similar to today. Summary by Keith Salis

Fifteen short stories of 1919, winners of a rigorous competition. The extensive Introduction is omitted from this recording. ( david wales)