Sometimes it's nice just to hear a story. Like the "golden age of radio," Awesome Stories features dramatizations of classics, narrated chapters of our own stories, radio interviews and radio plays. This collection benefits ESL, adult literacy and those who just want to close their eyes and listen to a good story!
Read quotes about baseball from famous authors such as Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, and Virginia Woolf.
Frances Mayes, the author of her memoirs Under the Tuscan Sun, splits her time between San Francisco and Tuscany.
Tone is taken prisoner with his French colleagues and is charged as a traitor to Britain.
Taking off from Pakistan, en route to Norway, Francis Gary Powers flies his U-2 recon airplace over Soviet territory where he is shot-down by a Soviet...
Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation to free salves on January 1, 1863.
Books represent new or controversial ideas and allow people to preserve and share their thoughts.
There was no system in place to help slaves transition from slavery to freedom either in the North or the South.
While Key and Beanes are on the British ship, flag maker Mary Young Pickersgill's flag flies over Baltimore's harbor.
Americans have to ration gasoline, because the military needs it.
George Jung and Carlos Lehder import most of the cocaine in the US during the late 70s and 80s.
The police catch George again, and he makes deals against Lehder and Manuel Noreiga. Pablo Escobar walks away.
In prison, George learns about cocaine from Carlos, then makes a lot of money selling it, and becomes an addict.
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