Technology Fiction

Perfect for bedtime listening, this heartwarming homeschool story celebrates the joy of learning at home. Follow Nina and her brother Wild as they imagine a week of homeschool adventures—from Museum Mondays to Community Day Fridays—that show kids learning happens everywhere: at home, in the neighborhood, and in the world beyond.

After years of helping people who barely knew how to generate a 2048-bit encryption key, I should've been happy to get a client with a real problem. But when it starts with me being knocked unconscious and kidnapped, you understand if I'm grumpy. Still, a missing insane software designer is a magnet to my mental metal: I'm an Information Technology Private Investigator and I love a high-tech problem. My only worry is that unlike my usual cases, this one might just kill me.

The setting is a small fishing village. The former seaman Longren raises his daughter Assol alone after losing his beloved wife, making a meager living by selling the toy boats he carves from wood. As a child, Assol encounters an old man who claims to be a wizard and promises the girl that one day a prince will come on a ship with scarlet sails to carry her away. The villagers scoff but Assol believes her dream will come true one day. Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

The book Moscow and Muscovites, written by Mikhail Nikolayevich Zagoskin, author of the famous historical novel Yuri Miloslavskii or Russian in 1612, Roslavlev or Russian in 1812," and many other works. Moscow and Muscovites - vivid and fascinating essays, short stories, stage "of the home and social life in Moscow," since 1814, and 40s of the XIX century.

This novel in verse, said to be the parent of all Russian novels, is a tragic story of innocence, love, and friendship. Eugene Onegin, an aristocrat, much like Pushkin and his peers in his attitude and habits, is bored. He visits the countryside where the young and passionate Tatyana falls in love with him. In a touching letter she confesses her love but is cruelly rejected. Years later, it is Onegin's turn to be rejected by Tatyana. Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story by American author Washington Irving. Written while Irving was living abroad in Birmingham, England, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" was first published in 1820. Along with Irving's companion piece "Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity. Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

Prichudlivye, polnye intrig priklyucheniya geroev povestej Charskoj perepletayutsya s ih vysokimi, blagorodnymi chuvstvami i postupkami. V tom mire, kotoryj sozdala Lidiya Charskaya, negodyayam i merzavcam ne udaetsya vzyat' verh nad svetlymi, chestnymi, chistymi dushami. Ee geroi takie, kakimi v glavnom navernyaka hotelos' by stat' i tebe: chtoby, nesmotrya na prepyatstviya, vse udavalos', chtoby tebya lyubili horoshie lyudi, a tvoya dusha otzyvalas' na etu lyubov', beskorystno ipredanno.

This collection of short stories includes the works of three famous American writers who contributed a great deal to world literature.

Alice's second adventure takes her through the looking glass to a place even curiouser than Wonderland. She finds herself caught up in the great looking glass chess game and sets off to become a queen. It isn't as easy as she expects: At every step she is hindered by nonsense characters who crop up and insist on reciting poems. Some of these poems, such as "The Walrus and the Carpenter" and "Jabberwocky" are as famous as the Alice stories themselves. Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime. Shakespeare's use of his poetic dramatic structure, especially effects such as switching between comedy and tragedy to heighten tension, his expansion of minor characters, and his use of subplots to embellish the story, has been praised as an early sign of his dramatic skill.

In The Merchant of Venice, the path to marriage is hazardous. To win Portia, Bassanio must pass a test prescribed by her father's will, choosing correctly among three caskets or chests. If he fails, he may never marry at all. Bassanio and Portia also face a magnificent villain, the moneylender Shylock. Portia is most remembered for her disguise as a lawyer, Balthazar, especially the speech in which she urges Shylock to show mercy that "[D]roppeth as the gentle rain from heaven". Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

Shakespeare's Sonnets cover themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty, and mortality. The first 17 poems, traditionally called the procreation sonnets, are addressed to a young man urging him to marry and have children in order to immortalize his beauty by passing it to the next generation. Other sonnets brood upon loneliness, death, and the transience of life; seem to criticize the young man for preferring a rival poet; and more. Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

The parents of a 13 year old boy, acquire an old treasure chest from a nautical shop. While the boy (Josh) and his two closest friends (Jerry and Janet) inspect the chest and tease their imaginations with the contents that the chest once held (gold, silver and jewels), they accidentally uncover a map. It is a map of Lake Erie but, none like they have ever seen before. In fact, it is a map like no one has ever seen before. It takes them to a place long gone, if it ever existed at all.

Shades of LOVE: Learning Our Various Emotions is a completion of poetic expressions that delve into life governed by emotions and love. LOVE is the foundation that everyone should stand upon in order to better understand one another.

As the sun sets, night creatures awaken. In their rural backyard, a parent and child camp out, watching as fireflies flicker, bats flap, and rabbits race.

Have you ever used your imagination to solve a problem? When Albert Einstein was young, he was fascinated by the way magnetism made a compass work. As an adult, he used thought experiments to solve some of the universe's greatest mysteries. Einstein loved to think about math and science. He worked for a while at a patent office, but his mind wasn't focused on inventions. Instead, he thought about the universe. In 1905, Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity solved questions that scientists had grappled with for hundreds of years.

On a cold January day in 2017, nearly two months before due date, Nile hippopotamus Bibi gave her keepers at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden a big surprise: a tiny newborn hippo, no bigger than a football. The first premature hippo born and raised in captivity, baby Fiona was an underdog from the start: She couldn't nurse, she couldn't stay hydrated, and she wasn't thriving. But the staff at the zoo knew they could save her.

Explore the fascinating world of software coding. With fun facts and engaging discussion topics, this short audiobook provides an inspiring look at this exciting technology.

Explore the fascinating world of robots. With fun facts and engaging discussion topics, this short audiobook provides an inspiring look at this exciting technology.

Pinterest, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Wikipedia reign as today's top websites. Have we reflected enough on them? This work offers poetic reflections about the Internet and fame by exploring these five websites.