Alice in Wonderland is one of the most wondrous, truly original stories ever written filled with magical and marvelous happenings. On its 15...
In Agatha Christies short story, The Plymouth Express, a rich young American woman is found murdered on the train from Bristol to Plymouth an...
Noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau spent two years, two months, and two days chronicling his near-isolation in the small cabin he bu...
Almost 10 years before Brown vs. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez and her parents helped end school segregation in California. An American c...
by Gail Gibbons
Rent: $5.99In addition to the story of Patrick's life, here is information about how St. Patrick's Day is celebrated. There are decorations from shamro...
Chicken Little and his feathered friends get all aflutter when something falls on his head and he thinks it must be the sky falling to bits....
Hansel and Gretel were siblings and great friends who love adventures - and sweets - just as much as any kid you know. So, when they stumble...
Today's young readers will truly be enchanted by this version of the Brothers Grimm classic, set in an American frontier. As she sets out to...
Despite fierce prejudice and abuse, even being beaten to within an inch of her life, Fannie Lou Hamer was a champion of civil rights from th...
First published in a 1849 edition of The Flag of Our Union, Hop-Frog is a revenge tale akin to The Cask of Amontillado. Told from the perspec...
by Willa Cather
Rent: $2.49Originally published in a 1896 edition of The Home Monthly, The Burglar's Christmas tells the story Crawford, a homeless man in Chicago who h...
When The Tailor of Gloucester sends his cat to buy some food and a twist of silk for a waistcoat, he discovers a secret-the cat has imprisone...
Fall in love with this Shakespearean comedy about finding and losing love. A host of characters try to act as matchmakers for a young couple,...
Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective con...
by Unknown
Rent: $2.49Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is an extreme anxiety-related condition listed by the World Health Organization as one of the ten most debilita...
The Inferno is the first part of The Divine Comedy, Dantes epic poem describing man's progress from hell to paradise. In it, the author is lo...
Purgatorio is the second part of The Divine Comedy, Dante's epic poem describing man's progress from hell to paradise. Having escaped the Inf...
When Ishmael joined the crew of a whaling ship called the Pequod, he was eager for a life of adventure on the high seas. But he didn't know t...
This version of Nature is an 1843 revision to the popular essay written and published in 1836. In the original essay, Emerson put forth the f...
In Hansel and Gretel, a famine has settled over the land. The children of a poor woodcutter are abandoned in the woods by their cruel stepmot...
by Adam Wallace
Rent: $5.99Filled with zany traps and lots of rainbow unicorn fun, this chaotic chase centers around one of the most elusive mythical creatures ever-the...
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience...
Rent: $3.49First published in 1849, this essay argues that individuals have rights and duties in relation to their government. Motivated by his disgust ...
Offers readers a close-up look at sports cars. With fun facts and engaging discussion topics, this short audiobook provides a thrilling overv...
Ashputtel, or Cinderella, is a folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression and triumphant reward. In it, a young girl is forced b...
Sicily: Land of Love and Strife
by Mark Spano
Rent: $3.49In Sicily: Land of Love and Strife, A Filmmaker's Journey, the process of capturing the island nation on film is revealed. A country rich wit...
by Boni Ashburn
Rent: $5.99As the year passes, the narrator's favorite dress goes through a series of creative changes, from dress to shirt to tank top to scarf and so...
While the conflict over slavery was a factor in the Civil War, the abolition of slavery did not become a stated objective until Abraham Linco...
Not everyone loves lawn ornaments. But Pearl was different. Pearl was their friend - the only human who knew they were real. So when Pearl's ...
On the eve of World War II, African American boxer Joe Louis fought German Max Schmeling in a bout that had more at stake than just the world...
When Clara arrived in America, she couldn't speak English. She didn't know that young women had to go to work, that they traded an education...
by Harry Bliss
Rent: $5.99Follow Bailey the dog as he gets ready and goes to school. Should he wear the red or blue collar? Both are so fashionable! Will he be late? T...
by Susan Verde
Rent: $5.99As a little girl tours and twirls through the halls of the art museum, she finds herself on an exciting adventure. Each piece of art evokes s...
by Harry Bliss
Rent: $5.99Bailey is very excited about the school trip to the Museum of Natural History. After all, he loves to dig up bones even more than an archeolo...
by Scott Magoon
Rent: $5.99He's big. He's funny. He's not real. Or IS he? This clever twist on 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf' is told from the point of view of an unexpected ...
by Gail Gibbons
Rent: $5.99Thanksgiving is turkey, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie. It is a holiday for remembering the Pilgrims and the Indians. Most of all, it is a ...
by Judy Cox
Rent: $5.99The Thanksgiving feast is over. Leftover turkey and pumpkin pie litter the table. Mouse peeps out of his hidey-hole and spots a small green p...
In the 1930s most girls were happy playing with dolls. But one girl, Betty Skelton, liked playing with airplanes, watching them fly around ou...
by Jon Agee
Rent: $5.99Milo the Magnificent isn't magnificent at all. His card trick is hopeless. His rope trick is a mess. So the theater manager gives him one la...
In 1897 a young man named Solomon fell in love with and married a beautiful young woman named Anna. They lived in Russia, which was dangerou...
The holidays are filled with joyful noise. But Christmas is sometimes wrapped in quiet: 'Searching for presents quiet,' 'Getting caught quiet...
Clean, cold, white snow! Snow for sledding. Snow for catching on your tongue. Snow for making a SNOWMAN! Is there anything as wonderful as S...
The Smallest Gift of Christmas
Rent: $5.99Roland can't wait for Christmas Day, and when the morning finally arrives he races downstairs to see what is waiting for him. What he sees st...
The angels are aflutter: a baby is soon to be born! One small angel can tell this baby is especially special. And holy moly, are their presen...
It's time for this year's Going Places contest! Finally. Time to build a go-cart, race it - and win. Each kid grabs an identical kit, and scr...
by Eve Bunting
Rent: $5.99It is washday. "Are you ready for work, Lizzie girl?" Grandma asks. "I am," Lizzie replies. It's hard for her to set aside her plans for a te...
Benny Goodman and Teddy Wilson
Rent: $5.99It wasn't soft/It wasn't black/It wasn't sweet/It wasn't white/It was swing. Brought together by the love of playing jazz music, Teddy Wilson...
by Judy Cox
Rent: $5.99Poor Groundhog just can't sleep. He tosses. He turns. Finally, he gets out of bed and goes exploring. Outside his burrow he finds amazing sig...
Ben Franklin loved to swim and, at the age of eleven, he was determined to swim like a fish - fins and all! This fascinating and lively accou...