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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 109

"History is profuse with abuses of some of the best thoughts and discoveries that have come to the human race," according to F. T. Ives in "Cranks." Reader-chosen topics in Vol. 109 include science, exploration, innovation, and investigative reporting: Forgetfulness; Punishment and Reward; Overlearning; A Shoal of Porpoises; Dreams as Omens; Experimental Farms; Onset of a Year Without a Summer; a New Hybrid Rose; and Wild Apples. Rounding out the volume are an essay on the Tarzan Tales; a eulogy to Beethoven; and Thoreau's playful description of a kitten. Summary by Sue Anderson

Year of Publication: Genres: *Non-fiction

Running Time: 02 hours 51 minutes 22 seconds

#	Chapter Name
1	Accident on the Ice: Onset of the Year Without a Summer (1816) Alister	9:26
2	AgePage: Forgetfulness, Knowing When to Ask for Help (2020) T.Y.Lee	17:51
3	Coke of Norfolk (1752?-1842): Father of Experimental Farms Steve C	29:00
4	Cranks: Chapter 1 of The Hollow Earth (1904) phineas2000	6:09
5	Down the River of Doubt with Theodore Roosevelt (1913-1914) Phil Schempf	10:18
6	Dreams as Omens and Media of Communication between Gods and Men (1891) Public Domain Scholar	12:51
7	The Effect of Overlearning on Retention (1929) Leon Harvey	12:17
8	The Eruption of Vesuvius: Pliny the Younger's Description (79 AD) Thomas A. Copeland	17:02
9	How Burroughs Wrote the Tarzan Tales (1922) Ben Tucker	9:35
10	The Kitten, from Thoreau's Journal, February 15, 1861 Sue Anderson	2:50
11	A New Hybrid Rose "Psyche" (1898) Availle	1:28
12	A Note on the Relative Value of Punishment and Reward as Motives (1912) Leon Harvey	11:41
13	Prejudices, Fifth Series: Beethoven (1926) mkirkpat	12:13
14	A Shoal of Porpoises Meets its End on the Heads of Scottish Harpoons (1815) Alister	2:44
15	Wild Apples (1862) MexIrishBrian	15:57