Cat Tales

Cats Best of Friends by Henriette Ronner-Knip, public domain

Cat Tales is the first of a series of kid-friendly collections of animal stories and non-fiction. There’ll be one or two grade-school-level texts on the animal, with eight-nine fiction works. Source for these is Project Gutenberg. (Summary by BellonaTimes for Librivox)

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Total running time: 1 hour, 55 minutes

Cats Studies of an Awakening Kitten by Henriette Ronner-Knip, public domain

01 – Cats

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02 – Kittens Will Be Kittens by Mabel Humphrey

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03 – The Great Panjandrum by Mabel

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04 – The Kitten Who Lost Herself by Clara Dillingham

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05 – Pussy-cat Mew by L. Frank Baum

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06 – Cats by Mrs. R. Lee

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Cats Puss in Boots, illustration by Carl Offterdinger, public domain

07 – Puss In Boots by Robert Ford

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08 – The Tiger, The Brahman & The Jackal by Joseph Jacobs

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Cats Királytigris by Vastagh Geza, public domain

09 – Androcles by Aesop

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10 – The Lion and the Cat by Andrew Lang

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Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt by James Baikie

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Luxor Thebes Upper Egypt by David Roberts

01 – A Land of Old Renown

02 – A Day in Thebes

03 – A Day in Thebes, Continued

04 – Pharaoh at Home

Moses and Aaron before Pharoah

05 – The Life of a Soldier
06 – Child-life in Ancient Egypt

07 – Some Fairy-tales of Long Ago

08 – Some Fairy-tales of Long Ago, Continued

09 – Exploring the Soudan

10 – A Voyage of Discovery

Egyptian hieroglyphs Louvre, image source Guillaume Blanchard, GNU Free Documentation license

11 – Egyptian Books

12 – Temples and Tombs

13 – An Egyptian’s Heaven

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Peter baptizing the centurion Cornelius, 1709 oil on canvas by Francesco Trevisani

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01 – The Church of the First Days

02 – The Man at the Beautiful Gate

03 – The Right Way to Give, and the Wrong Way

Stoning of Stephen Koelner Dom bayernfenster 02, image by Raimond Spekking, GNU Free Documentation License

04 – Stephen with the Shining Face

05 – The Man Reading in the Chariot


06 The Voice That Spoke to Saul

07 – What Peter Saw by the Sea

Head of Peter, hand of John, detail from "The Four Apostles", Albrecht Durer, Munich
Head of Peter, hand of John, detail from "The Four Apostles", Albrecht Durer, Munich

08 – How The Iron Gate Was Opened

09 – The Earliest Missionaries

10 – The Song in Prison

11 – Paul’s Speech on the Hill
Paul is rescued by his pupils in Damascus, engraving by Bernhard Rode, 1783

12 – Paul At Corinth

13 – Paul at Ephesus

14 – Paul ‘s Last Journey to Jerusalem

15 – The Speech on the Stairs

16 – Two Years in Prison

17 – The Story That Paul Told to the King

18 – Paul in the Storm
Saint Paul writing his epistles

19 – How Paul Came to Rome and How He Lived There

20 – The Throne of God

21 – The City of God

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Star of Bethlehem detail by Edward Burne-Jones

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01 – The Angel by the Altar
02 – The Manger of Bethlehem

03 – The Star and the Wise Men

Star of Bethlehem by Edward Burne-Jones

04 – The Boy in his Father’s House

05 – The Prophet in the Wilderness

06 – Jesus in the Desert, and beside the River

The Wedding at Cana by Paolo Veronese

07 – The Water Jars at the Wedding Feast

08 – The Stranger at the Well

09 – The Story of a Boy in Capernaum and a Riot

10 – A Net Full of Fishes

11 – The Leper and the Man Let Down through the Roof

12 – The Cripple at the Pool and the Withered Hand
Sankt Matthaeus Kirke Copenhagen altar piece, Sermon on the Mount

13 – The Twelve Disciples and the Sermon on the Mount

14 – The Captain’s Servant, the Widow’s Son, and a Sinner

15 – Some Stories Jesus Told by the Sea

16 – Peace, Be Still

17 – The Little Girl Who Was Raised to Life

18 – A Dancing Girl and What Was Given Her

The miracle of the loaves and fishes by Lambert Lombard

19 – The Feast beside the Sea and What Followed It

20 – The Answer to a Mother’s Prayer

21 – The Glory of Jesus on the Mountain

22 – The Little Child in the Arms of Jesus

23 – At the Feast of Tabernacles

24 – The Man with Clay on His Face

25 – The Good Shepherd and the Good Samaritan

Lazarus by Geertgen tot Sint Jans, born 1480

26 – Lazarus Raised to Life

27 – Some Parables in Perea

28 – The Poor Rich Man and the Rich Poor Man
29 – Jesus at Jericho
30 – Palm Sunday

Palm frond, image by Felix Burton, Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 license

31 – The Last Vistis of Jesus to the Temple

32 – The Parables on the Mount of Olives

33 – The Last Supper

34 – The Olive Orchard and the High Priests Hall

35 – The Crown of Thorns

Crucifixion of Christ by Jan Bruegel

36 – The Darkest Day of All the World

37 – The Brightest Day of All the World

38 – The Stranger on the Shore

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A closeup of the illuminated letter P in the 1407AD Latin Bible on display in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, England. It was hand written in Belgium, by Gerard Brils, for reading aloud in a monastery.

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01 – The First Four Kings

02 – The Little Boy Who Was Crowned King

03 – Three Kings and a Great Prophet

04 – The Good King Hezekiah

05 – The Lost Book Found in the Temple

Ezekiel on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican between 1508 to 1512, fresco, by Michelangelo

06 – The Last for Kings of Judah, and the Weeping Prophet

07 – What Ezekiel Saw in the Valley

08 – The Jewish Captives in the Court of the King

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09 – The Golden Image and the Fiery Furnace

10 – The Tree That Was Cut Down and Grew Again

11 – The Writing upon the Wall

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12 –  Daniel in the Den of Lions

13 – The Story of a Joyous Journey

14 – The New Temple on Mount Moriah

15 – The Beautiful Queen of Persia

16 – The Scribe Who Wrote the Old Testament

17 – The Nobleman who built the wall of Jerusalem

18 – Ezra’s Great Bible Class in Jerusalem

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Daniele_da_Volterra The Prophet Elijah

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Elijah by Jose de Ribera

01 – The Breaking Up of a Great Kingdom

02 – The King Who Led Israel to Sin

03 – The Prophet Whose Prayer Raised a Boy To Life

04 – The Prayer That Was Answered In Fire

05 – The Voice that Spoke To Elijah in the Mount

06 – The Wounded Prophet and His Story

07 – What Ahab Paid For His Vinyard

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d 08 – The Arrow That Killea King

09 – Elijah’s Chariot of Fire

Gustave_Doré_-_2_Kings_2_-_11 Elijah taken up into heaven

10 – A Spring Sweetened by Salt

11 – The Pot of Oil and the Pot of Poison

Jonah and the Whale

12 – The Little Boy at Shunem

13 – How a Little Girl Helped to Cure a Leper

14 – The Chariots of Fire around Elisha

15 – What the Lepers Found in the Camp

16 – Jehu, The Furious Driver of His

17 – Elisha and the Bow; Jonah and Nineveh

18 – How the Ten Tribes Were Lost

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Three Branches

One Vote Matters

House of Representatives

The Senate

Representative Numbers



Federalism

Primary Documents

How a Bill Becomes Law



Checks and Balances

Amendments

The First Amendment




Filibusters

Key Congressional Leaders

Lobbyists

The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott

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Summary: The Talisman is a gripping tale set near the end of the Third Crusade. King Richard the Lionheart is grievously ill, and all around him the leaders from allied countries plot and scheme to gain personal power, putting the future of the crusade in jeopardy. Sir Kenneth of Scotland finds himself caught up in events, and finds both his honour and his life are now on the line. Can a cure be found for the King? Can Kenneth redeem his honour? – Written by Rowen for Librivox.

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# 01 – Chapter 1

# 02 – Chapter 2

# 03 – Chapter 3 Part 1

# 04 – Chapter 3 Part 2

# 05 – Chapter 4

# 06 – Chapter 5

# 07 – Chapter 6

# 08 – Chapter 9

# 09 – Chapter 8

# 10 – Chapter 9

# 11 – Chapter 10

# 12 – Chapter 11 Pt 1

# 13 – Chapter 11 Pt 2

# 14 – Chapter 12

# 15 – Chapter 13

# 16 – Chapter 14

# 17 – Chapter 15

# 18 – Chapter16

# 19 – Chapter 17

# 20 – Chapter 18

# 21 – Chapter 19

# 22 – Chapter 20

# 23 – Chapter 21

# 24 – Chapter 22

# 25 – Chapter 23

# 26 – Chapter 24

# 27 – Chapter 25

# 28 – Chapter 26

# 29 – Chapter 27 pt 1

# 30 – Chapter 27 pt 2

# 31 – Chapter 28

Hurlbut’s Bible Lessons for Boys and Girls by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

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Garden-of-Eden-by-Thomas-Cole

Running time: 2 hours, 18 minutes

Summary: Questions and answers on The Old Testament and The New Testament comprising a complete course of study designed to carry on through the Old Testament in one year and through the New Testament in one year. (Summary from title page) This book is read in a question and answer format, back and forth between two people.

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The Bobbsey Twins or Merry Days Indoors and Out by Laura Lee Hope

Bobbsey Twins, cover of 1904 book, authored by the Stratemeyer Syndicate, public domain

Summary: The Bobbsey Twins are the principal characters of what was, for many years, the Stratemeyer Syndicate’s longest-running series of children’s novels, penned under the pseudonym Laura Lee Hope. The first of 72 books was published in 1904, the last in 1979. The books related the adventures of the children of the middle-class Bobbsey family, which included two sets of fraternal twins: Bert and Nan, who were 12 years old, and Flossie and Freddie, who were six. (Summary by Wikipedia)

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Total running time:  3 hours, 40 minutes

Kurtis i skogsbacken, by Julius Kronberg, public domain

01 – The Bobbsey Twins at Home

02 – Rope Jumping, and What Followed

03 – The First Snow Storm

Childe Hassam, Snowstorm Madison Square, public domain

04 – The Broken Window

05 – Bert’s Ghost

06 – Coasting, and What Came of It

07 – Freddie and Flossie’s Snow House

08 – Fun on the Ice

Axel Ender, Sledekjøring på isen, public domain

09 – Freddie Loses Himself

10 – Lost and Found

11 – The Cruise of the Ice Bird

12 – Tige–Playing Theater

13 – Nan’s First Cake-Baking

14 – Christmas

Paula Modersohn Becker, Zwei Kinder auf einer Wiese sitzend, public domain

15 – The Children’s Party

16 – A Grand Sleigh Ride

17 – The Race and the Runaway

18 – A Quarrel in the Schoolyard

19 – Nan’s Plea

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20 – St. Valentine’s Day

21 – The Rescue of Snoop, the Kitten

22 – The Last of the Ghost–Good Night