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🎙️ SHOW NOTES — "A Brave Heart" by Henry van Dyke at 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Henry van Dyke sets A Brave Heart against the rugged, wintry backdrop of rural Canada, a landscape he often used to explore themes of endurance, moral clarity, and the quiet heroism found in ...  Show more

🎙️ SHOW NOTES O. Henry — "Jimmy Hayes and Muriel" 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales In this lighthearted Texas tale, O. Henry introduces us to Jimmy Hayes, a Texas Ranger whose grit and courage are matched only by his unexpected tenderness toward an unlikely companion — a small ...  Show more

We love the summer because it means trips the bookstore! We have some of our favorite bookstores recommending their favorite summer titles. If you are in need of a laugh, a thrill or just a great story to read on the beach, this is an episode of The Book Case you don't want to mi ...  Show more

Working on the theory that you can skin a sucker in space as well as on Earth, the con team of Harding and Sheckly operated furtively but profitably among natives of the outer planets. That is—until there was a question of turnabout being fair play in a world where natives took t ...  Show more

She was the guardian of the worlds, but HER world was dead. The Gifts of Asti by Andre Norton, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.The first story we ever narrated by Andre Norton, All Cats Are Gray, was so popular that we decided to do another one of her stories as soon as po ...  Show more

The Amazon lives in our imaginations, in literature, and throughout swathes of travel writing. But what is it like to live there? Lale chats with journalist Eliane Brum who's built a house from recycled wood in Altamira, a town on the northern fringes of the Amazon, to find out m ...  Show more