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Listen up and enjoy life, advises popular television, radio, and print personality Dr. Michael Mantell. His guide, Don't Sweat the Small Stuff: P.S. It's All Small Stuff, provides thoughtful and practical advice for those of us who take life too seriously.

As a well-paid war correspondent, Stephen Crane was shipwrecked en route to Cuba in early 1897. He and a small party of passengers spent 30 hours adrift off the coast of Florida, an experience that Crane would later transform into this, his most famous short story, in 1898.

"A Dog's Tale" is a short story, written by Mark Twain, told from the standpoint of a loyal household pet. It first appeared in the December 1903 issue of Harper's magazine. In January of the following year it was extracted into a stand-alone pamphlet published for the National Anti-Vivisection Society. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer.

Disarmed and leaderless after a Russian sneak attack, the United States is united no longer. But a lone warrior from the skies; a fighter pilot, Hawk Hunter has emerged to lift America from the ashes of defeat. The armies of freedom now control the western U.S. But the evil New Order is raising a huge mercenary force to reclaim America. Hunter is the only one who can prevent this. From the cockpit of his MiG-25 Foxbat, he launches his swift and bloody kamikaze raid.

Here are books four, five, and six in L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, which have been entertaining audiences for half a century!

In a darkened corner of the world, America lies bleeding. The Big War has reduced the country's once-great industrial cities and vast countryside to a war-blackened landscape. But out of these ruins emerges brilliant ace fighter pilot Hawk Hunter, a lone warrior battling to keep the spirit of his country alive.

James Dewey Watson (April 6, 1928-November 6, 2025) was an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. Francis Harry Compton Crick (June 8, 1916-July 28, 2004) was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist. In 1953, Watson and Crick co-authored an academic paper in Nature proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule, building on research by Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling. The following TV interview is from 1993.

Edmund Emil Kemper III (born December 18, 1948) is an American serial killer convicted of murdering seven women and one girl between May 1972 and April 1973. Years earlier, at the age of 15, Kemper had murdered his paternal grandparents. Nicknamed the "Co-ed Killer," as most of his non-familial victims were female college students hitchhiking in the vicinity of Santa Cruz County, California, Kemper's murders often included necrophilia, decapitation, dismemberment, and possibly cannibalism.

Hear rare recording from some of the world's most-respected poets reading their own works: J. R. R. Tolkien, "The Hoard"; e. e. Cummings, "Prose Jottings"; Archibald Macleish, "The Old Man To The Lizard"; Ted Hughes, "Six Young Men"; May Swenson, "Naked In Borneo"; Marilyn Hacker, "The Dark Twin"; Kenneth Patchen, "23rd Street Runs into Heaven"; Edith Stillwell, "An Old Woman"; and Theodore Roethke, "The Bat".

Published in Harper's Magazine in 1946, "Beware of the Dog," by Roald Dahl, is a short story that recounts the experiences of Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter pilot Peter Williamson after he is shot down during a World War II bombing mission.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (January 3, 1892 to September 2, 1973) was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954–55). While many other authors had published works of fantasy before Tolkien, the success of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings precipitated an avalanche of new books and authors in the genre.

Joan Didion (December 5, 1934-December 23, 2021), born in Sacramento, California, was an American author, screenwriter, and journalist. Her writing during the 1960s through the late 1970s engaged audiences in the realities of the counterculture of the 1960s, the Hollywood lifestyle, and the history and culture of California.

Here is the delicious life of one of the most beloved figures in 20th-century American culture. With a swooping voice, an incredible sense of humor, and a passion for good food, Julia Child ushered in the nation's culinary renaissance.

Charade is a 1963 American romantic screwball comedy mystery film, shot on location in Paris, produced and directed by Stanley Donen, written by Peter Stone and Marc Behm, and starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. The cast also features Walter Matthau, James Coburn, George Kennedy, Dominique Minot, Ned Glass and Jacques Marin. It spans three genres: suspense thriller, romance and comedy. Charade was praised by critics for its screenplay and the chemistry between Grant and Hepburn. The following is the audio track of the full feature film.

Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 - September 3, 1962), commonly known as e e cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. During World War I, he worked as an ambulance driver and was imprisoned in an internment camp, which provided the basis for his 1922 novel The Enormous Room. The following year he published his first collection of poetry.

In this, the third book, Tolly and his grandmother are away (presumably in Cornwall). Two women have rented the house for the summer and ask three children to stay. Ida is the niece of one of the women; Ping and Oskar are refugees. The children are turned loose on the river, where they have many fine and imaginative adventures.

In Animal Soulmates: Stories of the Intimate Bond Between Humans and Animals, author and activist Brenda Peterson draws upon her lifelong relationship with animals and the bond between the two species.

This is a rare recording of Dr. Peter Marshall (1902-1949), a Scottish American preacher and former pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, who twice served as chaplain of the United States Senate. He is remembered most popularly from the biography A Man Called Peter and the film made from it.

The 1965 film Poverty in Rural America by the U.S. Department of Agriculture offers a documentary portrait of impoverished rural communities across the United States during the early years of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s "War on Poverty." The film highlights the economic and social hardships faced by families in isolated regions, including Appalachia, the rural South, Native American reservations, and agricultural areas in the Southwest.

When a sweet married couple find themselves in financial hot water, they decide to become burglars. Two problems: First, they stink at it. Second, the owner of the first house they try to rob, a doctor, catches them in the act, takes one look at the scared woman's behind, and says he won't call the police if she agrees to allow his medical school anatomy class to examine her! And he doesn't hold back in making sure that her embarrassment is taken to the nth degree!