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Abraham Lincoln: A Commemoration is a thoughtful tribute to one of the most influential leaders in American history. This audiobook explores the remarkable life, leadership, and enduring legacy of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States. From his humble beginnings in a frontier cabin to his leadership during the American Civil War, Lincoln's journey is a powerful story of determination, courage, and moral conviction.Listeners will discover the defining moments that shaped his character, including his commitment to preserving the Union, his opposition to slavery, and the ...

Sherlock Holmes and Watson are awoken early by a distraught woman desperately seeking their aid. Something is terribly wrong and she fears for her life. Upon hearing her story, Sherlock agrees and springs into action to track down and deal with the sinister Speckled Band who have killed once already. Listen to another exciting adventure of the super sleuth as he uses his powers of observation and deduction to solve this perplexing case. Will he be in time to save the lady's life? Will his powers fail him this time? Listen and find out. (summary by Phil Chenevert)

When Paddy the Beaver moves into the Green Forest and wants to build his home, he never quite expected it would cause so much commotion! Being a focal point of attention, the forest animals watch him carefully and scrutinized his work, make fun of and question his building project, someone screams at him saying unkind things, and one forest animal sets his sights on hunting him to have him for lunch! That's an awful lot for a little beaver to overcome - do you think he can do it?

Lincoln's first inaugural address was delivered on March 4th, 1861, as the North and South were sliding towards separation and Civil War. His second inaugural, given just weeks before his assassination, was also delivered on March 4th but four years later, in 1865. Just over a month later, April 18th, 1865, the Civil War ended with the surrender of the Confederate army. This was four days after Lincoln was shot on April 14th. He died the next day. - Summary by John Greenman

Against Celsus, preserved entirely in Greek, is a major apologetics work by the Church Father Origen of Alexandria, written in around 248 AD, countering the writings of Celsus, a pagan philosopher and controversialist who had written a scathing attack on Christianity in his treatise "The True Word". Among a variety of other charges, Celsus had denounced many Christian doctrines as irrational and criticized Christians themselves as uneducated, deluded, unpatriotic, close-minded towards reason, and too accepting of sinners. He had accused Jesus of performing his miracles using black magic rather...

Little did Alan, Ned and Buck suspect what they were getting themselves in for when they approached the editor of The Herald with their plan to re-employ the Ocean Flyer, flying it back across the Atlantic Ocean to rescue their friend and the newspaper’s reporter, Bob Russell, from the clutches of the German military, who had taken him prisoner, accused him of spying, and, possibly, might condemn him to face a firing squad in the early days of “The Great War” in Europe during 1914. All they knew was they had to do something to help Bob and, hopefully, Mr. Latimer, managing editor of The ...

Four nifty Science Fiction stories by the great C. M. Kornbluth. The Adventurer - The Altar at Midnight - With These Hands and The Marching Morons. All were first published in the 1950s

The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk is another in the long list children's books by the conservationist, Thornton W. Burgess. In this book, Jimmy Skunk has encounters with Reddy Fox, Peter Rabbit, Unc’ Billy Possum and other acquaintances of his in the Green Meadows and Green Forest. Along the way, we learn some of the habits of Jimmy and his friends and we learn little lessons about life such as the importance of always keeping one's temper, keeping promises and not playing practical jokes. We are also treated to a philosophical discussion by Jimmy Skunk on the advantages of defensive weaponry. (...

Enos Mills (1870-1922 ), naturalist and conservationist, was instrumental in the creation of Rocky Mountain National Park. Like his mentor John Muir, Mills was an intrepid solitary high country rambler, as well as an accomplished Colorado mountain guide. There are mountain tales aplenty in "Adventures of a Nature Guide." At one point, Mills climbs Long's Peak alone in a gale with winds topping 170 mph., "carried away with the wild, elemental eloquence of the storm." Near the summit, the wind is so fierce he cannot make headway, so he concludes to "reverse ends." "Putting a shoulder against a ...

Do today's children still learn what a "marionette" is? The beloved story of Pinocchio may represent a last lingering picture of a world not dominated by plastic or electronic toys. Pinocchio is a puppet made from a piece of wood that curiously could talk even before being carved. A wooden-head he starts and a wooden-head he stays - until after years of misadventures caused by his laziness and failure to keep promises he finally learns to care about his family - and then he becomes a real boy. For those who have seen the Disney movie the cast of characters will be familiar, from the Talking ...

4 Science Fiction Stories by the quirky Mack Reynolds from the golden age of Science Fiction, the 1950s

What is it like to be a fox hunted by hounds? We find out through the senses of an escaped convict as he struggles to free himself from would-be captors. The struggle is brutal. In the end, we are left wondering which person really wins--the pursued or the pursuer. Or perhaps which one is now the pursuer, which the pursued.

The Achilleid is the third and unfinished work by the Roman poet Publius Papinius Statius. In its introduction, it promises to present the life of the hero Achilles from his youth as a pupil under the centaur Chiron to his death at Troy. The author died however before writing most of the poem, leaving only one and a half books completed. The part that remains though holds interest for being unusual, bringing an account of the hero's early life and an episode in which his mother, Thetis, disguised him as a girl on the island of Scyros before he joined the Greek expedition against Troy. (Summary...

Against Odds by Lawrence L. Lynch is a fast-moving detective novel set amid the spectacle and confusion of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. Carl Masters, an experienced member of the Secret Service, arrives at the White City with his fellow detective, Dave Brainerd. Their mission is to identify and capture Greenback Bob, a counterfeiter, and Delbras, a sophisticated criminal connected with theft and deception. Surrounded by magnificent buildings, crowded exhibitions, foreign villages, lagoons, and thousands of visitors, the detectives discover that the fair provides perfect cover for ...

There's nothing that sly troublemaker Sammy Jay likes better than stealing corn - unless it's playing tricks on the other animals in the forest. Yet Chatterer the Red Squirrel would like to keep his corn, thank you very much, and while he's at it prove he is just as smart as Sammy Jay! Thornton Burgess takes us once again into the charming world of the Green Forest and Green Meadows in this delightful story. (Summary by Rachel)

This work describes conditions and forces the black population of the South faced after freedom was brought by the Civil War. As Sinclair puts it at the outset of his book, ". . . the chief efforts of Southern leadership have been to curtail the freedom of the colored people, to minimize their liberty and reduce them as nearly as possible to the condition of chattel slaves." - Summary by Jim Locke

3 Science Fiction Stories by Gerald Vance is a collection of three imaginative science-fiction tales: Monsoons of Death, Larson’s Luck, and Vital Ingredient. Each story explores a different vision of the future, combining adventure, danger, technology, and human choices.In Monsoons of Death, a newly commissioned lieutenant faces a terrifying situation on Mars and discovers what true courage really means. Larson’s Luck takes a lighter approach, following daring space pilots through piracy, risky decisions, and unexpected adventure. Vital Ingredient imagines a future in which boxing has been...

Further adventures of Allan Quatermain. This is one of the 14 books that H. Rider Haggard wrote - starting with "King Solomon's Mines" - depicting the adventures of Allan Quatermain, great English hunter in the wilds of mysterious Africa. (Summary by laineyben)

Abaft the Funnel by Rudyard Kipling is a collection of early short stories that reveals the wit, observation, adventure, and narrative energy that would later make Kipling one of the best-known writers of his generation.The stories move through a variety of settings and social worlds, bringing together soldiers, travelers, officials, adventurers, journalists, and ordinary people caught in unusual circumstances. Kipling combines humor, irony, tension, and sharp character studies, often focusing on the unpredictable encounters that arise when different personalities, cultures, and ambitions ...

1891 Collection by Various is not a single novel, but an anthology of fiction, essays, and other writings first published in 1891. The collection brings together different authors and genres, offering a broad view of late nineteenth-century literature and culture.Its selections include mystery, literary fiction, social observation, travel writing, and commentary. Stories by writers such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Edith Wharton, Oscar Wilde, and Sarah Orne Jewett explore themes including relationships, society, morality, identity, and everyday life.Because each work is independent, there is no ...