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That Other Place: Art and Alzheimer's

In TORCH | The Oxford Research in the Humanities

Read by Helen Statham, Victoria McGuinness and Nicola Onions


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University of Oxford Podcasts

The Life of Kit Carson

Read by Laura Victoria


Edward S. Ellis


Christopher Carson, or as he was familiarly called, Kit Carson, was a man whose real worth was understood only by those with whom he was ass…

One of My Sons

Read by Laura Victoria


Anna Katharine Green


A young girl frantically summons a gentleman walking by on the street to come in and help her grandfather. Arthur Outhwaite answers her cry …

The Hermit of ---- Street

Read by Laura Victoria


Anna Katharine Green


Delight Hunter spends her days looking out of her window at her handsome but very mysterious and reclusive next door neighbor. She walks st…

The Autobiography of an Electron

Read by Laura Victoria


Charles R. Gibson


"While many scientific men now understand our place in the universe, we electrons are anxious that every person should know the very im…

Bible (KJV) NT 11: Phillippians

Read by Victoria Martin


King James Version


Bible scholars believe that this letter was written by the Apostle Paul (A.D. 5-A.D. 67) to the church at Philippi. It is a wonderful letter…

From the Deep Woods to Civilization: Chapters in the Autobiography of an Indian

Read by Laura Victoria


Charles Alexander Eastman


From the Deep Woods to Civilization is the sequel to Indian Boyhood. Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) gives his account of what it was like to tran…

The Child's Book of American Biography

Read by Laura Victoria


Mary Stoyell Stimpson


In every country there have been certain men and women whose busy lives have made the world better or wiser. The names of such are heard so …

The Frozen North

Read by Laura Victoria


Edith Horton


The Frozen North offers short sketches of the first men who bravely took great risks to explore the unknown polar regions and unlock the mys…

Through Glacier Park, Seeing America First with Howard Eaton

Read by Laura Victoria


Mary Roberts Rinehart


This is about a three-hundred mile trip across the Rocky Mountains on horseback with Howard Eaton. It is about fishing, and cool nights arou…

Four American Indians: King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola

Read by Laura Victoria


Edson L. Whitney


Four American Indians by Edson L. Whitney and Frances M. Perry, gives a short history of King Philip, Sachem of the Wampanoags; Pontiac, an …

The Garden Behind the Moon: A Real Story of the Moon Angel

Read by Laura Victoria


Howard Pyle


David goes on a journey to the moon-garden where everything is beautiful and where he also meets Phyllis who is not like the other children …

Mothering on Perilous

Read by Laura Victoria


Lucy S. Furman


Cecelia Loring is alone in the world after the death of her mother and has come to the Kentucky mountains in search of work. Although very d…

Gabriel and the Hour Book

Read by Laura Victoria


Evaleen Stein


Brother Stephen has the heart of an artist and wishes to leave the abbey to travel and see the world. However, King Louis has decreed that a…

The Sun's Babies

Read by Laura Victoria


Edith Howes


Charming stories and poems for young children about nature and the changes that occur with the seasons, weaving in life lessons throughout t…

Within the Deep

Read by Laura Victoria


R. Cadwallader Smith


Presented in the form of lessons, R. Cadwallader Smith vividly portrays life in the ocean. Learn about the common and not so common that swi…

The Woodpeckers

Read by Laura Victoria


Fannie Hardy Eckstorm


The Woodpeckers is a wonderful introduction to the world of bird study for the young naturalist, covering such topics as how he finds food, …

The Story of My Life, Part 1 (Version 3)

Read by Victoria Neely


Helen Keller


When Helen Keller's autobiography was first published in 1903, she was a young woman studying at Radcliffe College. In it, Helen shares memo…

Vanity Fair (version 2)

Read by Helen Taylor


William Makepeace Thackeray


One of the great Victorian novels by an author at the height of his powers, Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of the calculating, upwardly-mo…

The Enchanted April (version 2)

Read by Helen Taylor


Elizabeth Von Arnim


Four very different women, with very different reasons for wanting to escape a cold and dreary London, come together to share a month's holi…

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