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Edward Eggleston wrote Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans in 1895. Featuring brief biographical sketches on many of the most prominent early Americans, it serves as an accessible introduction to American history. This classic provides vignettes on leading figures like, among others, George Washington, Louisa May Alcott, Daniel Boone, Dorothea Lynde Dix, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Goodyear, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lewis and Clark, William Penn, Benjamin West, Kit Carson, and Washington Irving.
Among the interesting chapters, one finds titles like "Decatur and the Pirates", "Quicksilver Bob", "The First Steamboat", "Eliza Lucas' Plantation", "Putnam and the Wolf", "How Benny West Learned to be a Painter", "Daniel Boone and his Grapevine Swing", "George Washington and the Cherry Tree", "The Story of a Wise Woman", "Elisha Kane & the Arctic", and "The Star-Spangled Banner".
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Beautiful
- By Tori Polonitza on 02-11-23
By: Peter Rimmer
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Sacajawea
- The Story of Bird Woman and the Lewis and Clark Expedition
- By: Joseph Bruchac
- Narrated by: Nicolle Littrell, Michael Rafkin
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 243
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 211
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 209
Before the expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, the United States stopped at the Mississippi River. However, their journey opened up the wilderness borders to the Pacific Ocean. The key to the success of this 18 month journey was a young Indian girl - Sacajawea. Without her, the corps of discovery would have been doomed from the start.
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4 out of 5 stars
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jaycee
- By JANE on 02-25-10
By: Joseph Bruchac
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The Short Stories, Volume I
- By: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrated by: Stacy Keach
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 603
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 396
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Story4 out of 5 stars 396
This definitive audio collection, read by Stacy Keach, traces the development and maturation of Hemingway's distinct and revolutionary storytelling style - from the plain bald language of his first story to his mastery of seamless prose that contained a spare, eloquent pathos, as well as a sense of expansive solitude. These stories showcase the singular talent of a master, the most important American writer of the 20th century.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Papa wouldn't have like this recording.
- By Jerry`` on 03-16-04
By: Ernest Hemingway
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Barracoon
- The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
- By: Zora Neale Hurston
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,287
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,889
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,876
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview 86-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage 50 years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed in the United States. In 1931, Hurston returned to Plateau, the African-centric community three miles from Mobile.
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3 out of 5 stars
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skip the introduction!
- By Earin on 10-16-18
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Caddie Woodlawn
- By: Carol Ryrie Brink
- Narrated by: Roslyn Alexander
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 809
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 658
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 657
No one would accuse 11-year-old Caddie Woodlawn of being dainty and ladylike. In spite of her mother’s best efforts, Caddie is as wild as the wind, playing freely and rambunctiously with her two brothers in the Wisconsin backwoods. There are rafts to build and trees to climb and pranks to play. Caddie especially likes to watch her friend Indian John build birchbark canoes at the river. Every day seems wide with possibility - as wide as the frontier. But living on the edge of civilization has its risks, too....
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5 out of 5 stars
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excellent book
- By Julie Jenkins on 10-14-16
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The Complete Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Abigail Reno, Sharon Plummer
- Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance2.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3
This book brings together the four Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn novels: The Adventures of Tom Sawer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer Abroad, and Tom Sawyer Detective by a famous American writer Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been described as the first Great American Novel, Hemingway wrote: "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn."
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1 out of 5 stars
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Skip or pass
- By Julia Hostler on 09-05-22
By: Mark Twain
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Doctor Dolittle: The Complete Collection, Vol. 1
- The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle; The Story of Doctor Dolittle; Doctor Dolittle's Post Office
- By: Hugh Lofting
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 215
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 172
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 169
Rediscover the children’s literature classic with three novels from the beloved series: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, The Story of Doctor Dolittle, and Doctor Dolittle’s Post Office!
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5 out of 5 stars
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A wonderful bedtime story!
- By Holly Masri on 05-02-20
By: Hugh Lofting
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The Light in the Forest
- By: Conrad Richter
- Narrated by: Joel Fabiani
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 124
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 98
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Story4 out of 5 stars 100
"Johnny Butler was just four years old when his Lenni Lenape "father," Cuyloga, spoke the words that siphoned out his white blood and put Indian blood in its place. Now the Yengwes, the white soldiers, were taking him back to his "true" home. Inside of him hate and anger spread like poisons. The Light in the Forest, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Conrad Richter, will touch a new generation with its lasting truths.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyed
- By Brian Buchanan on 05-27-22
By: Conrad Richter
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Ireland
- By: Frank Delaney
- Narrated by: Frank Delaney
- Length: 19 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,164
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,541
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,529
One evening in 1951, an itinerant storyteller arrives unannounced at a house in the Irish countryside. In exchange for a bed and a warm meal, he invites his hosts and their neighbors to join him by the wintry fireside and begins to tell formative stories of Ireland's history. Ronan, a nine-year-old boy, grows so entranced by the storytelling that, when the old man leaves abruptly under mysterious circumstances, the boy devotes himself to finding him again.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Listen In A Quite While
- By John on 03-17-05
By: Frank Delaney
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The Man Who Would Be King [Classic Tales Edition]
- By: Rudyard Kipling
- Narrated by: B. J. Harrison
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 316
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 277
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 275
Through the sands of the scalding deserts of India, two loafing vagabonds follow a half-scribbled map, heading for a land they hope to conquer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What can one dollar get you?
- By Michael E Yugo on 05-11-21
By: Rudyard Kipling
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My Life as an Indian
- By: James Willard Schultz
- Narrated by: Brian V. Hunt
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 203
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 187
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Story5 out of 5 stars 185
Beautiful, tender, haunting, and full of excitement, this is the memoir of famed author, explorer, Glacier Park guide, trader, and historian of the Blackfoot Indians, James Willard Schultz. With the Blackfoot woman, whom he deeply loved, from 1880 to 1903, Schultz lived the life of a Blackfoot Indian with Nat-ah-ki and her people. During this time, he began writing for magazines, at times running a trading post, and working as a guide in the West.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Compassionate Story
- By Ann Holmes on 09-13-18
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The Big Sea
- An Autobiography
- By: Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 174
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 156
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 155
Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade - Harlem and Paris. In Paris he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. He knew the musicians and dancers, the drunks and dope fiends. In Harlem he was a rising young poet - at the center of the "Harlem Renaissance." Arnold Rampersad writes in his incisive new introduction to The Big Sea, an American classic: "This is American writing at its best...."
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Big Sea
- By Ida Earl on 07-08-16
By: Langston Hughes, and others
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
- By: Ernest J. Gaines
- Narrated by: Tonya Jordan
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 461
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 386
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 387
This is a novel in the guise of the tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has lived 110 years, who has been both a slave and a witness to the black militancy of the 1960s. Miss Jane Pittman has "endured," has seen almost everything and foretold the rest.
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5 out of 5 stars
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At great listen
- By Susan on 11-11-08
By: Ernest J. Gaines
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I Heard the Owl Call My Name
- By: Margaret Craven
- Narrated by: Frank Muller
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 269
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 232
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 232
The touching story of a young, mortally ill priest who spends his last days working among the Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Uncanny insight...
- By MetaThink on 03-22-15
By: Margaret Craven