OASIS AUDIO CLASSIC RADIO SHOWCASE SERIES Oasis Audio has gone into the vaults and dusted off the very earliest form of audio book, old time radio shows, for our listeners. Introduced episode by episode by Jim Engel, old time radio authority and board member of the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago, this series of classic radio shows is sure to have something for everyone. Celebrity casts and top-notch writers made the 1920s through the...

In the early morning hours of June 6th, 1996 residents slept peacefully in their beds as the moon hung over the quiet neighborhood of Dalrock Heights Addition, in the small town of Rowlett Texas. At 2:30 a.m., a 9-1-1 operator received a frantic call for help. Darlie Routier, a 26-year-old wife and mother of three young boys, reported that a knife-wielding intruder had broken into her house, attacking her and her two of her young sons. From a loving...

A Stranger Arrives this Christmas – the latest heartwarming Christmas romantic comedy from CP Ward When Annie Collins inherits her grandfather's sprawling gothic mansion shortly before Christmas, she has enough to handle without the attention of the eccentric locals and the longtime staff, many of whom seem as old as the house itself. However, when, a handsome stranger arrives one night, Annie could forgive herself for thinking she's stumbled unwittingly...

"A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Abraham Lincoln was president when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions inextricably bound up with money, power, race, identity, and faith. He was hated and hailed, excoriated and revered. In Lincoln we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations. At once familiar...

This collection investigates the origins of our most intriguing old-fashioned superstitions, many of which we still find ourselves abiding by today.

In late 1941 the Japanese Imperial Army marched across Suzhou Creek to add Shanghai to its list of conquests, and the carefree days of Old Shanghai gave way to fear and uncertainty. Henry F. Pringle, a Britisher born in China, never imagined that helping fundraise for a local Red Cross organization would land him in one of the most notorious prisons of the 20th century. In this never-before-seen account, Pringle takes us inside the engine room of...

Find Ancestral Burial Grounds Without Leaving HomeUpdated and revised Fall 2015There's little a genealogist loves more than tramping through an old cemetery. That's because we have an insatiable desire to learn more about our ancestors, when and where they lived, and their final resting place. In today's modern world, so many people live hundreds or thousands of miles from their 18th or 19th century ancestral homes that on-site cemetery research often...

Ford McKinney leads a charmed life: he's a young doctor possessing good looks, good breeding, and money. He comes from an old Savannah family where his parents, attentive to his future, focus their energies on finding their son--their golden boy--a girl to marry. But how charmed is this life when Ford's own heart suspects that he is not meant to spend his life with a woman? His suspicions are confirmed when he meets Dan Crell. Dan is a quiet man...

Los Angeles, California, shaped the nation's culture in the 20th century with the city's bungalow style of mass middle-class housing. The style made the novelty and easy climate of Los Angeles into a force for living according to new standards of health and well-being, freedom and openness, and simple artistry. The bungalow combined the cozy appeal of Arts and Crafts design with what became the basic principles of 20th-century house architecture:...

What would a parent do to save their child? Fight the dead? Defy the gods? Helen Gunn moves to the Wirral Peninsula, England, with her estranged husband, Robert and their three-year-old daughter, Charlotte to try and save the marriage. Within days of moving into their new home, Charlotte begins talking to an invisible friend and strange shadows roam the house threatening the families' safety. Soon, Helen must face a parent's worst nightmare in order...