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TechTalk HealthcareJust Follow the Money... and the Research w/ guest Dr. Robert ToppJoin Dr. Jay and Brad as they interview Dr. Robert Topp.Robert Topp, RN, PhD has over 35 years of experience in academia as an endowed research chair and Associate Dean for Research at several universities. He has been the principal or co-investigator on over $3 million of extramurally supported research projects, which has resulted in over 160 publications in peer reviewed journals and over 300 presentations at professional scientific meetings. His expertise in the areas of scholarly writing, research methodology and statistics is sought by numerous professional academic and health organizations. Dr. Topp has collaborated with a variety of health-care...2025-07-1140 min
Read Me a Story, Ink"The Woodcutter's Secret" by Simon HigginsTwo of the King’s guards pay a young man to show them the way to Aliforde the Woodcutter’s hut. But when they arrive the humble woodcutter bests them both by sword revealing his true identity as the King’s Personal Champion, self-exiled after an accidental killing of a rival. But the King has a new son, and he needs his trusted champion back to teach the young prince the way of the Knight.2025-04-1519 minRead Me a Story, Ink"The Leprechaun's Story" by Richard KennedyAccording to legend, if you see a leprechaun and don’t take your eyes off him, he must take you to his pot of gold, which is just what a traveling tradesman does. However, in the end, he is outwitted by the leprechaun’s sad but clever story.2025-03-1410 minRead Me a Story, Ink"The Skunk and the Bear: A Love Story" by Terry JonesA skunk was madly in love with a bear. But the bear, barely noticed the skunk … that is until the skunk saved the bear from hunters and the forest’s most unlikely friendship blossomed.2025-02-1115 minRead Me a Story, Ink"Money Trees: An African-American Story" by Jane NickersonJohn Michael was poor, but his friend William was dirt poor and that’s what decided John Michael to give William all the money he got from selling pecans. He would have loved to buy some sports equipment. but it was more important for William to get a bicycle so that he could get a delivery job and help support his family.2025-02-0408 minRead Me a Story, Ink"The Princess Who Stood on Her Own Two Feet" by Jeanne DesyA long time ago, in a kingdom by the sea, there was a Princess as tall and bright as a sunflower, but she refused to wither in the shadow of her betrothed Prince and found greater pleasure in her beloved talking dog.2025-01-0726 minRead Me a Story, Ink"Castles in the Air" by Stephen KrenskyWhen a witch goes before the king to ask for the road in front of her house to be repaired, she is told by the king’s chief advisor that the king could build castles in the air if he wanted to, rather than talk to her. This gives the witch a clever idea and pretty soon the king is looking down on his kingdom from his castle in the clouds2024-11-1313 minRead Me a Story, Ink"Ghost Walk" by Mark A. GarlandArin and her Mom go to the cemetery to tell Arin’s Dad that it’s okay, that they love him and don’t blame him for what happened in the church the night they surprised two burglars. A softly told tale of a ghostly encounter in a graveyard with a nice twist at the end.2024-10-1808 minRead Me a Story, Ink"Miz Mephitis" by Robert D. CulpWhen Rooster ducks into the barn to get out of the afternoon rain storm he is surprised to have his sneeze answered by a polite “God bless you, young man.” When he realizes it is Miz Mephitis, the skunk, he backs away just a far as he can. But his fear is replaced by curiosity when a right friendly discussion ensues and Rooster learns there is a lot more to skunks than he had imagined.2024-09-2912 minRead Me a Story, Ink"The Booted Cat: or Puss in Boots." Newly translated by Sophie MassonA very literary and delightful modern translation/adaptation of one of Charles Perrault’s most famous fairy tails wherein the youngest son inherits nothing of value except the family cat. But the cat, who is very fond or his young master, proves to be well more that just a cat. Bebooted and behatted, the clever feline finds his master both a kingdom and a wife. For all who love happily ever afters – and cats.2024-08-2220 minRead Me a Story, Ink"The Imaginary Dragon" by Terry JonesA dragon, fearing that he doesn’t exist, shares his concern with his friends the griffin, the unicorn and the sphinx. They can offer little to ease his worries but in the end, like Rousseau, he decides, someone imagines, therefore, I am.2024-07-1309 minRead Me a Story, Ink"Cinders" by Katherine GibsonA “what if” story about one of Cinderella’s coachmen who stays a man rather than regaining his mouse form at the stroke of midnight. Dazed and confused, he finds himself at the gates of a castle and discovers that, upon being given lowly work in the King’s stables, he has a knack as a horse whisperer.2024-06-1235 minRead Me a Story, Ink"The Trouble with Trouble; a Tale from the American South" by Amy Friedman and Meredith JohnsonThe trouble with Trouble was he talked too much, even old skunk told him so. But when Trouble tried to tell everyone old skunk spoke to him, no one ever believed him again.2024-05-1405 min
RaditudeUnleashing Your Inner Champion: Diving into The Man Alive Philosophy with Gavin ToppDo you have what it takes to chase your purpose?In this episode, we get our minds and bodies ready to hit the self-development gym, coached by the former Australian Champion Boxer, Inductee of Queensland Boxing Hall of Fame, Author and Podcaster, Gavin Topp. Following a successful career as a boxer, Gavin started mentoring and empowering men to discover their purpose and start living a fulfilling life, which became his new mission. He created "The Man Alive Experience," "A Rite of Passage for the Modern Man," and several other programs to help men unleash their inner...2024-05-1431 minRead Me a Story, InkCome Again in SpringWhen death comes for Old Hark, the old man tells him to come again in the spring so he can feed his birds for one more winter. After some argument, Death offers to give him one more winter if he can answer three questions.2024-04-2216 minRead Me a Story, Ink"The Hare and the Orphan" by Lynne Reid BanksA story from Ms Banks' delightful anthology “The Magic Hare” in which the magic hare is snared by an orphan for dinner. The hare continues to suggest ingredients that would make him taste better but the final one is through the dark forest where the orphan has never gone. The hare leads the way, the orphan overcomes her fear and both live happily, but separately, ever after.2024-03-2606 minRead Me a Story, Ink"The Magic Weaver: a Tale from Ireland" by Melissa Shaw-SmithWhen Conal builds his castle on a hilltop he is not aware that he is intruding in the domain of the powerful fairy, Duine Sidhe. Cursed by the fairy, Conal and his family find no happiness until Conal’s son is befriended by a weaver who weaves a magic tapestry that can lift the curse.2024-02-2816 minRead Me a Story, Ink"John Robert and the Dragon's Egg"After John Robert found a dragon’s egg down by the swamp, he and his Grandpa Riley kept it a secret from Aunt Bess whose life was too hard to care about such things. That is until it hatched, grew to 14 feet in two months and drank all the coal oil in the barn. Well, something had to be done. Lucky for John Robert and Grandpa Riley it was the flyin’ kind…2024-01-2228 minRead Me a Story, Ink"The Hare and the Flower" by Lynne Reid BanksA story from Ms Banks delightful anthology “The Magic Hare” in which the magic hare hears tiny bells after every good deed and discovers they are applause from a sad, unnamed flower. In gratitude, the magic hare gives the flower a name, ‘harebell,’ or ‘Campanula rotundifolia.’2024-01-0309 minRead Me a Story, Ink"Mistletoe: A Tale of Giving" by Douglas EvansWhen Derek’s kid brother finds bunches of mistletoe on the ground in an orchard, he decides to sell them to earn money to buy Derek a much needed guitar case. Little does he know that Derek is the one cutting the mistletoe trying to earn enough money to buy him the wooden recorder he has always wanted. Nicely reminiscent of O. Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi.”2023-12-1806 minRead Me a Story, Ink"The Magic Spoon: a Tale for Hanukkah" by Eric A. Kimmel When a stranger comes to the city of Chelm, he claims that he can make his own latkes with nothing but his magic spoon. To make them even better, the folk of Chelm start to loan him ingredients until they are feasting on the perfect latkes.2023-12-0511 minRead Me a Story, Ink"Kotoshi the Dragon Doctor" by Phillis Gershator Young Kotoshi is supposed to be the yearly sacrifice to appease the local dragon. But when she finds the dragon grief-stricken over her dying pup, she uses her healing skills to save the pup. In gratitude, the dragon promises that no harm will ever come to the village.2023-11-1109 minRead Me a Story, Ink"The Entrance Exam: A Young Witch's Tale" by Mary CareyYoung Kate Fotheringay is refused entrance to Miss Perkle’s School for Young Witches, until one of her spells saves the school and causes Miss Perkle to reconsider.2023-10-1418 minRead Me a Story, Ink"The Magic Carpet" by Sophie Masson Young Hamid, is bound as a servant to rug merchants that he believes are his aunt and uncle, until one day a beautiful but ghostly figure hands him an old carpet. Both the woman and the carpet seem remotely familiar and, indeed, they lead to Hamid being reunited with his father, a prince, while the abusive couple get their comeuppance.2023-09-2014 minRead Me a Story, Ink"Katya and the Goat with the Silver Hoof: A Tale from the Ural Mountains" by Bob BartonWhen a young orphaned girl comes to live with Old Vanka, he tells her of his yearly search for the goat that leaves jewels wherever he stamps his silver hoof.2023-08-2515 minRead Me a Story, Ink"A Kindness: From an Arkansas Boyhood" By Robert D. CulpRooster is wondering how to untangle his lucky bobber when mean Old Man Bockenweiler comes strolling down the path. While Rooster hides, his dreaded enemy stops, untangles the bobber, neatly rolls the line and leaves Rooster’s fishing pole by his can of worms, showing Rooster a surprisingly kind side of the Old Man.2023-07-2908 minRead Me a Story, Ink"Three Foots: A Tale from Down South" by Nancy Van LaanA lovely verbal rhythm develops as three squirrels, foot, foot-foot and foot-foot-foot, attempt to eat all the nuts on the tangliest ol’ giant of a nut tree in the bottom of the holler.2023-07-0504 min
Norsk film er ____!?026: I FOKUS: Topp 25 viktigste og beste norske filmer // De gode, de onde og de grusommeGod sommer! Du trodde kanskje vi skulle prate om filmklassikeren "Den gode, den onde og den grusomme" fra 1966? Neida, vi skal gjøre noe enda bedre - for første gang i historien presenterer vi i podcasten, våre topp 25 viktigste og beste norske filmer. Forhåpentlivis blir det ikke siste gang heller.Her blir det latter og moro fra start til slutt, og ikke minst et par saftige overraskelser. Ender vi egentlig ut med 25 filmer til slutt? Lurer du på hvilke filmer det er og hvorfor vi mener de fortjener en plass på lista...2023-07-021h 18Read Me a Story, Ink"Who Owns the Moon?" by Sonia LevitinFarmers Abel, Nagel and Zeke could argue about anything, and did. But when they started to argue about which of them owned the moon, their wives said enough was enough and demanded they go into town and talk to the Teacher who settled their argument in a very clever fashion2023-06-0808 minRead Me a Story, Ink"The Magic Kerchief" by Kirby LarsonA grumpy and friendless old woman begrudgingly gives a weary traveler a bed for the night. In exchange the traveler gives the old woman a magic kerchief. Wearing her new kerchief, the old woman’s curt and hateful words come out compliments as warm as sunshine, bringing with it the riches of new found friends.2023-05-1511 minRead Me a Story, Ink"Above the Classroom" by Douglas Evans For a minor crime, Howard and Francis must stay at their desks for recess. Left to their own devices, they climb through the trap door above the cloak room only to find W. T. Mellon, founder of their school and dead these many years, living in a room filled with books and overflowing with information, including where teachers come from.2023-04-1424 minRead Me a Story, Ink"Si-Ling and the Dragon" by Joan Hiatt HarlowWhen the emperor dies, no man in the kingdom is brave enough to be tested by the great dragon. It is only the emperor’s daughter Si-Ling who has the courage to face the dragon and test her skill against his riddles. Solving the three riddles she ascends the throne with the dragon’s best wishes and rules with courage, heart and wisdom the rest of her days.2023-03-1615 minRead Me a Story, Ink"Tremble with Fear" by Will RawsonWhile eating his morning cereal, Jamie is confronted by two 5 centimeter aliens named Zzyxc and Xthyyz. Jamie suggests that there lives would be a lot simpler if they had names like Alan. The aliens think this a brilliant idea, give up their plan of conquest and head home to rename their planet, and all of its inhabitants, Alan.2023-02-2104 minRead Me a Story, Ink"Wizard's Apprentice" by Delia ShermanDahoe, Maine boasted its very own evil wizard—it said so right on the sign over his door, "Evil Wizard Books, Z. Smallbone, Prop." But Mr. Smallbone’s apprentices never stayed long, that is until young Nick Chanticleer arrived.2023-01-2524 minRead Me a Story, Ink"Heart's Desire: A Cinderella Tale for Our Times" by Janni Lee SimnerIn a modern day twist on a well known fairy tale, Cinderella can’t seem to convince her fairy god-mother that she just wants to stay home and read a good book.2023-01-0214 minRead Me a Story, Ink"Good Neighbors: A Tale from Northern Lands" by Bob BartonWhen a young couple moves into a remote valley, they assure the local trolls that they mean no harm. As the years pass the trolls come to love the couple and they the trolls. Unfortunately the family’s prosperity brings development to the valley and eventually the trolls have to move north, leaving behind a precious gift for their friends.2022-12-0910 minRead Me a Story, Ink"A Good Day for Dragons" by Rick HautalaIt’s always a good day to fight pirates, especially if you’re a dragon and a boy, friends for life. Even if your mother keeps telling you that the is no such thing as “people” and that you must curb your dragon imagination.2022-11-1126 minRead Me a Story, Ink"Gyffes Llaw: A Welsh Tale" by Sharon BaillyGyffes Llaw is the finest shoemaker in Wales and the Princess of Wales goes barefoot for lack of good shoes. But it won’t be easy for Gyffes to win her heart. “I will marry, but the man I wed must come to me neither on horse nor on foot. He must welcome me neither inside nor out. He must stand above me yet remain beneath.”2022-10-1609 minRead Me a Story, Ink"Mountain Medicine" by Rosemary WellsThe first of three lovely, interconnected stories about nurse Mary Breckinridge who created the Frontier Nursing Service and spent her life riding the isolated hills of Appalachia bringing medicine to their poorest residents and building clinics.2022-10-0113 minRead Me a Story, Ink"An Autumn Tale" by Susan EberlyArcite, the coldest queen, feels neither joy nor sorrow. At the suggestion of her High Counselor, Arcite sets out on an adventure in hopes of finding both. In her chance encounter with the great Bully Legged Bogle, she finds, at last, both sorrow and great joy.2022-09-1213 minRead Me a Story, Ink"The Breadth of a Whisker" by Janet McNeill Each night the alchemist and the mouse meet in the lab to try to make gold. But after so many years, it is as much for friendship as it is for the gold. One night – almost absentmindedly – they succeed with just enough to coat the mouse’s whisker but the Alchemist can’t even remember how he did it, or perhaps simply doesn’t want the nightly friendship to end. 2022-08-1212 minRead Me a Story, Ink"How to Stuff a Rhino" by Gene TwaroniteJuan had wanted his own Rhino for the longest time. Then, one birthday, his parents gave him a Rhino. But after a short few hours of fun, Juan realized that the Rhino was homesick and Juan had to figure a way to get the Rhino back to the Serengeti. So, Juan stuffed his Rhino into a hatbox…2022-07-2212 minRead Me a Story, Ink"Watch: An Ogre's Tale" by J. G. FormatoIt is the Ogres’ sacred trust to watch over human beings, but when Oni’s mother is killed by humans she vows to never help a human again. That is until she begrudgingly saves, then befriends a young woman who is drowning.2022-06-2819 minRead Me a Story, Ink"Books of Wisdom" by Michael CadutoWhen an old woman shows up in a prosperous village with twelve beautifully bound books that contain all the knowledge and all the wisdom in the world, the town refuses to buy them for one sack of gold. By the time they realize the true cost of ignoring knowledge and wisdom it is nearly too late.2022-06-1111 minRead Me a Story, Ink"The Pirate Who Tried to Capture the Moon" by Dennis HaseleyA pirate has captured everything but the moon. After many attempts, he finally comes up with a plan to own the moon but in the end, it is the moon that captures the pirate’s heart.2022-05-1708 minRead Me a Story, Ink"Critch: a Witch's Tale" by Judith GorogCritch, an old witch who is living in a time past the time of witches is befriended by a strange young girl who helps her with her failed spells and keeps her house entirely too clean. When the girl brings her brothers, sisters and friends, Critch finds she has a place after all, as a storyteller.2022-04-2734 minRead Me a Story, Ink"The Contests at Cowlick" by Richard KennedyWhen Hogbone and his gang ride into town, the sheriff and his men are just a holler up the creek fishing. Unfortunately everyone is too scared to holler and saving the town is up to young Wally who tricks Hogbone into a hollering contest.2022-04-0411 minRead Me a Story, Ink"All the Cats in the World" by Sonia LevitinOld Mikila came each day to feed the wild cats at the base of the light house, all the while ignoring the teasing of the lighthouse keeper. But when she fell sick, it was the very same keeper who fed her beloved cats thus starting a friendship that brought warmth to their aged lives.2022-03-2010 minRead Me a Story, Ink"The Leprechaun's Story" by Richard KennedyAccording to legend, if you see a leprechaun and don’t take your eyes off him, he must take you to his pot of gold, which is just what a traveling tradesman does. But in the end, he is outwitted by the leprechaun’s sad but clever story.2022-03-0310 minRead Me a Story, Ink"New Day Dawning" by Joyce HansenOn the day of their emancipation, field hands on George Thomas’ plantation threaten to leave unless he builds a school to educate their children. Young Sarah, the mistress’s personal slave, is conflicted between taking her freedom and dedication to her mistress but decides to stay on awhile if she can go to the school and study to become a teacher.2022-02-0918 minRead Me a Story, Ink"Reading to Matthew" by Jackie ViveloJohn had been reading to his younger brother, Matthew, his entire life. Early on they discovered that something happened when the two of them read together, they found themselves IN the story. When Matthew was knocked out by a baseball and lay in a coma in the hospital, all John could think to do was to read to him, which had unexpected and amazing results. 2022-01-2026 minRead Me a Story, Ink"The Creature in the Doorway" by Jackie ViveloWhat Jeff mistakenly thought was a black velvet rope in the doorway to his classroom turned out to be the tail of a huge black panther - a panther that no one else saw, and it had clearly chosen Jeff. But why?2021-12-2921 minRead Me a Story, Ink“The Gift Givers: An Appalachian Christmas Tale” by Jack StillmanElderly best friends living at the Feldon’s Downs Nursing Home always look forward to Christmas when they can exchange their precious whittling knives…until one Christmas when neither knife can be found, but snow falls gently for the first time in 100 years.2021-12-0610 minRead Me a Story, Ink"Skivvy and Cuttle" by Joan LennonSkivvy and Cuttle the Dragon, team up with Robin’s merry men to save Robin Hood from the Sheriff of Nottingham’s dungeon.2021-11-1015 min
The Bishop & The RabbiEpisode 41 | Rabbi Kalman Topp | Chayei SarahJoin us for The Bishop & The Rabbi with Rabbi Kalman Topp! If you want to partner with Eagles' Wings - eagleswings.org/donate Support the show2021-10-2939 minRead Me a Story, Ink“Four Dollars and Fifty Cents: An Almost-a-Ghost Story” by Eric KimmelShorty Long took pride in his reputation for never paying anybody the money he owed them, but Widow McCrae, who ran the Silver Dollar Café, was determined to ruin his reputation, and get back her four dollars and fifty cents.2021-10-2113 minRead Me a Story, Ink"The Purple Reader" by Douglas EvansKenneth is the worst reader in his class until a mysterious purple book appears on the bottom bookshelf of the reading corner. Each day there are fewer pictures and more words but each page chronicles events in Kenneth’s life that haven’t happened yet.2021-09-2718 minRead Me a Story, Ink"The Princess Who Kicked Butt" by Will ShetterlyWhen a princess is born, the Fairy Who is Good with Names names her the “Princess Who Kicked Butt.” However, the King and Queen hear the “Princess Who Reads Books.” It takes an Evil Enchanter, a kidnapped king and queen, a handsome page and a horse named Hates Everything to allow her to live up to her real name.2021-09-0915 minRead Me a Story, Ink"The Test Tester" by Douglas EvansThird-grader Loren doesn’t like taking tests until she is contacted by the top-secret Iowa Test Site to be a test tester. Charged with her new duties, she settles into answering the questions seriously while looking for flaws. And if she ever has any questions, she can contact any one of the four secret test agents: Eeny, Meeny, Miny or Moe.2021-08-1920 minRead Me a Story, Ink"Fluffle-Picking Time" by Chris Grabenstein“The outdoors smelled like cotton candy mixed with the fresh scent of pillowcases dried on a clothesline.” It was clearly fluffle-picking time, and Charlotte’s dad thought it could be the best crop in six years. Thousands of stuffed bears, blue whales, monkeys, and other critters just ripe for the picking from the fluffle trees in Plush Grove.2021-07-2510 minRead Me a Story, Ink"Jamie and the Bakerman" by Phyllis RootWhen a young boy steps into a new bakery to get out of the rain, he is invited to help with the baking. But he soon finds out that what they are really cooking up is the weather… sprinkle the flour and the rain comes down, stir the bowl and the wind whips up.2021-07-0508 minRead Me a Story, Ink"The Clever Thief" by Sophie MassonWhen a young boy is captured by a band of robbers and forced to do their bidding, he foils their attempts to steal by taking their instructions too literally.2021-06-0107 minRead Me a Story, Ink"When Swamp Lily Met Swamp Thing" by J. G. FormatoWhen Swamp Thing appears in 12-year-old Lily’s closet, with sorrowful eyes, begging for help in cleaning up his trash-strewn home, Lily elicits the help of her classmates in forming the North Florida Nature Preservers to clean up the swamp. But she keeps her friendship to Swamp Thing her special secret.2021-05-1022 minRead Me a Story, Ink"Dr. Peterson's Electric Pumpkin Field" by Jack StillmanAfter his wife and son die in the epidemic of 1918, Jonathan Ford must find a way to keep his farm alive and instill the will to live in his young, influenza stricken daughter, which he does with love, ingenuity and some electric pumpkin seeds.2021-04-2727 minThe Bishop & The RabbiEpisode 14 | Rabbi Kalman Topp | Acharei-KedoshimJoin us for The Bishop & The Rabbi with Rabbi Kalman Topp! If you want to partner with Eagles' Wings - eagleswings.org/donate Support the show2021-04-2346 minRead Me a Story, Ink"The San Jacinto Corn" by Diane BaileyAfter Daniel's and Joseph's pa died at the Alamo, the boys joined Sam Houston's brigade to fight for Texas independence. After Santa Anna's surrender, Sam Houston passed around an ear of corn from their meager supplies and encouraged each soldier to take a kernel home so that they could cultivate the arts of peace as nobly as they had mastered the arts of war.2021-04-1112 minRead Me a Story, Ink"Boom Town" by Sonia LevitinAmanda and her family have come to California to join her father in the mining camp but they find nothing but a few broken down log cabins. Soon Amanda is baking pies that her Pa sells to the miners and she is suggesting to traveling peddlers and wandering artisans that they settle down and open shops. Soon enough their cabin is smack dab in the middle of a Boom Town.2021-03-1911 minRead Me a Story, Ink"Messenger's Plight: A Dragon Tale" by Robyn JordanWhen Hsing Li's brother is injured, Li must deliver a critical military message to the emperor, but is nearly forced to turn back by a severe winter storm...that is until she outwits the Snow Dragon and gains his respect and support.2021-02-2831 minRead Me a Story, Ink"Little Mary and the Big Bear" by Gretchen WoelfleWhen Mary's papa announces he can't go to the mill because Buttercup is about to have her calf, nine-year-old Mary begs to go alone. Her mother calls her dauntless, her father gives in and Mary sets off on Old Major. But neither Mary nor Old Major are prepared to meet the biggest bear even seen in the Maine woods.2021-02-1107 minRead Me a Story, Ink"The Wrong Spoon" by Sophie MassonDr. Bee is the greatest saucerer in the land. Why his sauces are almost magical. Or so that is what his young apprentice, Clara, discovers when she stirs the super-duper, extra special Christmas honeycomb caramel sauce with an old spoon she finds hidden away behind a cupboard.2021-01-2114 minRead Me a Story, Ink"Two-Thirty Crossing" by Leslie WyattYoung John Maxwell and his dad live in a Nebraska soddy, two and one-half miles from the railroad crossing. But with a freezing rain storm and only a half hour to intercept the afternoon train, that two and one-half mile ride on their little black mare, Ozark, seems like an eternity to John who has to get help for his dying father.2021-01-0113 minRead Me a Story, Ink“A Miracle for Marci: A Story for Hanukkah” by Miriam RinnYoung Marci needs the help of her neighbor, Mrs. Gold to plan a surprise Hanukkah party for her recently emigrated family. Since religious practices were banned in her native Soviet Union, Marci and her family never learned the true history of Hanukkah or how to celebrate it.2020-12-0714 minRead Me a Story, Ink"The Christmas Elf" by Elizabeth YatesAfter Jennie and her mother mixed the batter for the Christmas cake, Jennie took it into her sick father's room so that he could stir in his wish. Then Jennie and her mom both stirred in their wishes. Now, it was up to the Christmas Elf to grant one of the three wishes.2020-11-2911 minRead Me a Story, Ink"The Wild Dog of Caucomgomoc" by Charles Boardman HawesWhen an old trapper dies, his faithful bloodhound turns wild and fearsome tales grow around his mournful howl. But when the Wild Dog of Caucomgomac saves a young boy lost in the swamps, the townsfolk reassess their fears and give him a loving home for the rest of his days.2020-11-0919 minRead Me a Story, Ink"The Fisherman and the Bird" by Sonia LevitinRico has lived and fished alone since being jilted in his youth. But one day, Rico discovers that a pair of beautiful birds have built a nest at the top of his mast. He is ready to destroy the nest so that he can sail, but the local school-teacher convinces Rico of the rarity of the birds and the importance of letting them nest. Begrudgingly, Rico leaves the nest undisturbed and is transformed by the their beauty and the friendship of the villagers.2020-10-2016 minRead Me a Story, Ink"The Powder Horn: An Historical Tale" by Elizabeth CoatsworthA gently told story of how small things can bring joy. Alice finds and old, engraved powder horn in Mr. Hall's antique shop. When she brings it home, she and her father decide to build a "rainy-day" room in the attic decorated in the same designs as the powder horn.2020-10-0511 minRead Me a Story, Ink“Calling Papa Home: A Tale of the Great Peshtigo Fire, 1871” by Julia Pferdehirt.During the Great Peshtigo Forest Fire of 1871, Susanna's papa sets off to help his sister-in-law and her baby back to the river and safety. But before he can make it home the smoke becomes so thick he loses all sense of direction. Luckily, Susanna has the presence of mind to climb the bell tower of the old schoolhouse and ring the school bell giving her papa a beacon of sound to follow.2020-09-1625 minRead Me a Story, Ink"The Old Gray Chair" by Douglas EvansZachary just can't seem to stay in his seat. But as it turns out, it isn’t entirely his fault. Mr. Leeks, the old janitor, lets on that Zack’s seat is the orneriest bucking chair at W. T. Mellon Elementary School. Well, yahoo! Looks like there’s going to be a chair bustin’ rodeo in the classroom at the end of the hall.2020-09-0115 minRead Me a Story, Ink"The Pied Piper of Hamelin, A Tale From Germany" by Amy FriedmanA fresh and lively retelling of a traditional German folk tale in which a piper is not paid his due for ridding the town of Hamelin of its rats. But he forewarned the town that his pipe could play many tunes and they paid the price.2020-08-1607 minRead Me a Story, Ink"The Entrance Exam, A Young Witch's Tale" by Mary CareyKate is refused entrance to Miss Perkle's School for Young Witches, that is until one of her spells saves the school from destruction and causes Miss Perkle to reconsider.2020-07-2918 minRead Me a Story, Ink"The Soap Bandit" by Dennis HaseleyJesse just can't help but get dirty, which is a problem when he goes to visit his aunt who lives in a town where EVERYONE is clean and tidy, that is until the soap bandit steals all of the soap. As everything and everyone gets dirtier and dirtier, attitudes begin to change, until the whole town understands how much fun it is to do things that might just get them a little dirty.2020-07-0709 minRead Me a Story, Ink"Ethan Unbound" by Gary L. BlackwoodA young book lover thinks the librarian is a witch, only to find out how true that is when he is locked in the library after closing on a stormy night.2020-06-1426 minRead Me a Story, Ink"Kite Flier" by Dennis HaseleyWhen the Kite Flier's wife dies in childbirth, the Kite Flier stops making kites until he realizes the joy they bring his infant son. From that day forth kites are what father and son share. Even when the son is grown and moved away, the first windy day of each year they both put a kite up and let is fly away as a symbol of their love for each other.2020-05-2606 minRead Me a Story, Ink"Run, Kate Shelley, Run" by Julia PferdehirtA thrilling account based on a true event which took place in Iowa, in 1881. A young Kate Shelley witnessed the collapse of a train bridge during a raging storm and risked her life crossing another trestle bridge in the pitch dark to warn the station master to stop the Midnight Express, which was already barreling toward disaster.2020-05-0610 minRead Me a Story, Ink“Nothing at All, A Dragon Tale” by Julia Pferdehirt.Ona doesn't have any particular talent, not like her brother, the swiftest runner, or her sister, the storyteller. In fact, Ona means "nothing at all." But when the dragon from the distant mountains threatens to burn their village, it is Ona that is clever enough and brave enough to riddle the dragon, sending him back to the high mountains and earning herself the name Kima Reetana-"Brave One, Who Riddles with Dragons."2020-04-1619 minRead Me a Story, Ink“The Enchanted Hare: A Norse Legend” by Shirley ClimoIn this lovely retelling of a traditional Norse legend, a young girl finds a frozen bird during a long cold winter and calls upon Eostre, the Bringer of Spring, to help save the bird. What Eostre does explains how a rabbit and brightly colored eggs came to be associated with Easter.2020-03-2910 minRead Me a Story, Ink“Liam McLafferty’s Choice: An Irish Tale” by Alexis O’Neill.No young lad in Ireland made worse choices than Liam McLafferty, or so it would seem. It took the Fairy Queen to help Liam understand that his choices were really the best because they came from his heart.2020-03-1107 minRead Me a Story, Ink"Darlene and the Ice Storm: A Winter's Tale" by Robert D. CulpWhen Darlene, Rooster's pregnant heifer, wanders off during an ice storm, Rooster and his best friend, Cotton, must find her before she gives birth. Unfortunately, they are too late and they have to figure out how to get the newborn to safety. Rooster comes up with a cunning plan, but when Darlene decides she doesn't like it, Rooster's plan falls apart and all hilarity breaks loose.2020-02-2813 minRead Me a Story, Ink"The Invisible Moose: A Canadian Love Story" by Dennis Haseley"She was a beautiful moose, the most beautiful moose in the forest. He was a shy young moose and he was in love with her." But when she is captured and taken to New York, he must summon all of his courage to rescue her. With the help of Professor Owl Mcfowl's invisibility potion, he makes the trek to New York in search of his love. "On the fresh white ground, their tracks appeared, two by two, as they headed north, and home."2020-02-1014 minRead Me a Story, Ink“Gammelyn, The Dressmaker” by Laurence HousmanGammelyn the dressmaker must make two impossible dresses for the wedding of a spoiled princess. But when she asks for a third dress made from butterfly wings, Gammelyn thinks that cruel and finds a way to avoid making the dress and deliver the princess her comeuppance at the same time.2020-01-3012 minRead Me a Story, Ink"Alexander and the Magic Mouse" by Martha SandersWhen the old lady was young she had brought home a cat from London, a Yak from Tibet and an Alligator from China. The magic mouse came with the house. They all lived quite contentedly together until the magic mouse proclaimed that it would rain for 30 days and 30 nights. The Old Lady decided that the nearby town needed to be warned, but which of them could brave the torrents and the quickly rising river?2020-01-0821 minRead Me a Story, InkThe Cobweb Christmas by Shirley ClimoEvery Christmas old Tante cuts a tree and decorates it with presents for the village children and farm creatures. Then one Christmas as Christkindel is passing by, the spiders ask him to open Tante's door so that they can see Christmas. Creeping quietly past a snoring Tante, they soon have the tree spun with magnificent webs which Christkindel turns to tinsel of gold and silver giving old Tante a special gift in return for her generosity.2019-12-2110 minRead Me a Story, InkEight Special Gifts: A Hanukkah Story by Sonia LevitinThese are hard times and there are no Hanukkah presents this year for Morry and his family. Morry, however, is determined to have a Hanukkah to remember and does an act of kindness for a different neighbor each day for eight days bringing warmth, sharing and the real meaning of Hanukkah to everyone.2019-12-1209 minRead Me a Story, Ink"Banat er Rih: Daughter of the Wind" by Kimberley Griffiths LittleSahloul, Sheik Najjar's youngest son, hopes the mare he helped raise can win the honor of Banat er Rih, Daughter of the Wind. But even if she wins, he stands little chance of being named her master. That honor is likely to go to one of his older brothers. Luckily his father sees his love for the mare and both of his dreams come true.2019-11-2310 minRead Me a Story, Ink"The Cave of Snores" by Dennis HaseleyA Shepard’s snores have been so amplified since his visit to the Cave of Snores that they keep the other Shepherds awake, drown out the sound of the sheep bandit and alert the wolves to where the sheep are - that is until the Shepherds hire a magician to take away his snores. But the solution proves more harmful than the problem leaving the Shepard’s son to seek the Cave of Snores where he finds his own voice - er, snores.2019-11-0612 minRead Me a Story, Ink"A Place of Haunts." A Halloween Tale by Robert D. CulpCome Halloween Cotton and his best friend Rooster decide to scare old man Garvey thinking he had stolen honey from a tree that was rightfully theirs. Despite a well-planned ghostly ambush, it is Cotton and Rooster that get the real fright, bested once again by old man Garvey.2019-10-2115 minRead Me a Story, Ink"The Neptune Clock" by Sophie Mason.A lovely modernization of the classic selkie myth. Jessie always thought the face of Neptune on her grandfather's clock looked just like her grandfather, with kindly spiderweb creases. But when her grandfather disappeared and the same kindly creases showed up on one of two dolphins playing in the waves, Jessie knew that her grandfather had returned to the sea to be with her departed grandmother.2019-10-0808 minRead Me a Story, Ink"The Ghosts of Cracke Road" by Joyce HansenCracke Road in Charleston, South Carolina was on land that used to be a plantation and it was rumored that when you sang "Sweet Hour of Prayer" you could see the ghosts of slaves that tried to run away. No one believed it until a young girl said a ghost was going to help her reunite with her mother in New York, and sure enough, two weeks after disappearing a letter arrived from New York saying that she was safe and with her mother.2019-09-2425 minRead Me a Story, Ink"There Are Witches on This Planet" by J. G. FormatoVas and her father are helping to terraform a distant planet from earth but the seedlings brought from earth are failing. While her father is away seeking council, Vas gets a little advice of her own from an old woman...in a hut...sprouting chicken legs?...in a haunted forest!..Baba Yaga? Oh, there are witches on this planet.2019-09-1119 minRead Me a Story, InkThe Hero and the WeaverA son disowned by his father years before, asks a weaver of magic cloth to make him and invisible cloak so that he may see his ailing father one more time. To the son's surprise, his father recognizes him and expresses his sorrow at their estranged years leading to a final and happy reunion.2019-08-2610 min