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Stories Come to Life

Kathryn Lopez Luker

173 episodes

1 week ago

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. While Nancy Drew was sleeping after her trying ordeal at night in the hidden staircase and subterranean passage, Nathan Gombit visited the Turnbull sisters and convinced them to sell The Mansion to him at his price! Before they sign the final papers, it is vital that Nathan Gombit is brought to justice. Nancy Drew has her hands full as she needs to convince the sheriff to make the arrest. Here is the ex...

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Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. While Nancy Drew was sleeping after her trying ordeal at night in the hidden staircase and subterranean passage, Nathan Gombit visited the Turnbull sisters and convinced them to sell The Mansion to him at his price! Before they sign the final papers, it is vital that Nathan Gombit is brought to justice. Nancy Drew has her hands full as she needs to convince the sheriff to make the arrest. Here is the ex...

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Episodes (20/173)

Stories Come to Life

Nancy Drew: The Secret of the Old Clock, Chapters 4, 5, 6, and 7

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Nancy Drew is determined to discover the second will Josiah Crowley made… if it still exists! But that Topham family is unscrupulous and conniving. Nancy is sure they will have destroyed the second will if they have found it. And then the deserving sisters, Allie and Grace Horner, won’t receive their lawful inheritance. But clever Nancy has some ideas of how to proceed. Now sit back, relax, and li...

1 week ago

43 minutes

Stories Come to Life

Nancy Drew: The Secret of the Old Clock, Chapters 17, 18, 19, 20, and 21

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Nancy discovered that robbers have ransacked the Topham bungalow and packed all of the household goods into a moving van! Could the old Crowley clock be inside? As Nancy pursues the thieves and informs the police of the robbery, she wants to investigate the van and find the clock before all the stolen goods are confiscated by the police. But what if Nancy’s investigations are discovered? Now sit b...

1 week ago

49 minutes

Stories Come to Life

Nancy Drew: The Hidden Staircase, Chapters 22, 23, 24, and 25

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. While Nancy Drew was sleeping after her trying ordeal at night in the hidden staircase and subterranean passage, Nathan Gombit visited the Turnbull sisters and convinced them to sell The Mansion to him at his price! Before they sign the final papers, it is vital that Nathan Gombit is brought to justice. Nancy Drew has her hands full as she needs to convince the sheriff to make the arrest. Here is the ex...

1 week ago

53 minutes

Stories Come to Life

Nancy Drew: The Secret of the Old Clock, Chapters 1, 2, and 3

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Who hasn’t heard of Nancy Drew, the girl detective? Here is the first volume of her adventures: The Secret of the Old Clock. In chapters one, two, and three, we meet Nancy and her father, and learn of her inquisitive and insightful personality. Old Josiah Crowley has died, and to the surprise of everyone, his will has left all his substantial wealth to the snobbish Topham family. Nancy ponders this and ...

1 week ago

44 minutes

Stories Come to Life

Nancy Drew: The Secret of the Old Clock, Chapters 22, 23, 24, and 25

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. What was written in the little notebook Nancy found hidden in the old Crowley clock? If she hadn’t been reading very carefully, she may have missed the brief comment about where to find the real will. Josiah Crowley certainly made it difficult for the Tophams to find and destroy his second will. That is good, but it almost made it impossible for the real will to come to light. What a surprise it was for...

1 week ago

46 minutes

Stories Come to Life

Nancy Drew: The Hidden Staircase, Chapters 9, 10, 11, and 12

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Not even a threatening note will stop determined young Nancy Drew from keeping her commitment to visit the two maiden ladies who live in the Turnbull Mansion. She wants to help them figure out who is trying to scare them and make them think their house is haunted. Nancy tries and tries, but is there really a secret passage or hidden panel in the house? And where is Carson Drew, Nancy’s father? He said h...

1 week ago

36 minutes

Stories Come to Life

Nancy Drew: The Secret of the Old Clock, Chapters 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. After learning from the Tophams where the old Crowley clock has been stored, Nancy tried to figure out a way to visit Moon Lake without causing the Tophams to become suspicious. Then she remembered the invitation from her friend, Helen Corning, to visit a camp right on the lakeshore. Delighted, Nancy drove to Moon Lake where she hoped to visit the Tophams’ bungalow to search for the clock. Now sit back,...

1 week ago

50 minutes

Stories Come to Life

Nancy Drew: The Hidden Staircase, Chapters 13, 14, 15, and 16

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Because Nancy Drew is so certain that Nathan Gombit must somehow be involved in the mysterious hauntings at the Turnbull Mansion, she decides she will go to his house to see if she can find a clue that will verify her theory. What she finds is something amazing and even terrifying! Now sit back, relax, and listen to this story come to life. Listening to audiobooks really does count as reading, and...

1 week ago

43 minutes

Stories Come to Life

Nancy Drew: The Hidden Staircase, Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Here is the first part of Nancy Drew’s second mysterious adventure, The Hidden Staircase! When this book was originally published in 1930 it had 25 chapters and included a lot of interesting description and plot details that were later deleted or changed. I prefer the original words, so that is what I’ve recorded for you here. Nancy Drew recalls with fondness the excitement she had while she was solving...

1 week ago

40 minutes

Stories Come to Life

Nancy Drew: The Hidden Staircase, Chapters 17, 18, 19, 20, and 21

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Because Nancy Drew is so certain that Nathan Gombit must somehow be involved in the mysterious hauntings at the Turnbull Mansion, she decides she will go to his house to see if she can find a clue that will verify her theory. What she finds is something amazing and even terrifying! Now sit back, relax, and listen to this story come to life. Listening to audiobooks really does count as reading, and...

1 week ago

54 minutes

Stories Come to Life

Nancy Drew: The Secret of the Old Clock, Chapters 8, 9, 10, and 11

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. As Nancy visits the relatives of Josiah Crowley, she discovers that he has promised each of them that he would leave them some inheritance after his death. But still, no second will can be found! Then old Abigail Rowen remembers something about the Crowley Family clock. Could the will be hidden there? And where could the clock be now? To find out, sit back, relax, and listen to this story come to life. ...

1 week ago

47 minutes

Stories Come to Life

Nancy Drew: The Hidden Staircase, Chapters 5, 6, 7, and 8

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Nancy Drew can’t seem to help attracting mysterious adventures. When she visits her old friend Abigail Rowen, she learns about a haunted mansion and promises to help the two maiden ladies who live there to figure out what is causing the strange happenings at their home. With permission from her father, Nancy plans to spend about a week with the old ladies trying to figure out if it is something supernat...

1 week ago

41 minutes

Stories Come to Life

The Story Girl, by L. M. Montgomery, Chapters 31 and 32

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. After a wonderful cousin-filled summer with friendships and adventures and excitement, it is time to close the cover of this lovely book. The Story Girl, the King siblings and cousins, Peter the hired boy, and even the lachrymose Sara Ray must all go on where we leave them. But there is this last episode of celebrations and discoveries before we say goodbye. Now sit back, relax, and listen to this story...

2 weeks ago

35 minutes

Stories Come to Life

The Story Girl, by L. M. Montgomery, Chapters 28, 29, and 30

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. It’s apple picking time up at the Hill Farms, and the whole group of cousins is busy harvesting the ripe beauties and listening to the Story Girl weave tales. Things take a deeply serious turn, though, when one of their number walks precariously close to the Valley of the Shadow of Death. Now sit back, relax, and listen to this story come to life. Listening to audiobooks really does count as reading, an...

4 weeks ago

58 minutes

Stories Come to Life

The Story Girl, by L. M. Montgomery, Chapters 25, 26, and 27

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. After a pleasant evening in the orchard when the grown-ups reminisced about their childhoods, the Story Girl had a wonderful idea for a new game the friends and cousins could play. Peter made quite an impression when it was his turn, and he actually sent nervous little Sara Ray into hysterics! These days of early autumn are times the children will recollect for the rest of their lives. Now sit back, rel...

1 month ago

1 hour 1 minute

Stories Come to Life

The Story Girl, by L. M. Montgomery, Chapters 22, 23, and 24

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Dream journals, a poisonous cucumber, and a possible bewitchment! These are some of the things you will encounter in today’s episode of The Story Girl, by L. M. Montgomery. I think it would be wonderful to have a group of cousins and close friends to spend time with and have adventures with. What exciting lives these eight young people lead! Now sit back, relax, and listen to this story come to life. Li...

2 months ago

1 hour 3 minutes

Stories Come to Life

The Story Girl, by L. M. Montgomery, chapters 19, 20, and 21

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Is it a good practice to believe everything you read? When the Charlottetown newspaper prints a paragraph about how the mighty Day of Judgement may come on the twelfth at two in the afternoon, all the cousins and friends don’t know whether to be frightened or not. They all spend a long time searching their souls and making last-minute preparations for that great and dreadful day, whether it comes or not...

2 months ago

1 hour 2 minutes

Stories Come to Life

The Story Girl, by L. M. Montgomery, chapters 16, 17, and 18

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. It’s almost time for the adults to come home from their long trip. But there are still adventures for all the cousins before their aunts, uncles, and parents arrive. A dark orchard can still be a bit frightening after everyone’s imagination is stimulated by the Story Girl. And will the Story Girl’s cooking skills ever come close to Felicity’s? Certainly, she can make a simple cornmeal pudding, or can sh...

3 months ago

48 minutes

Stories Come to Life

The Story Girl, by L. M. Montgomery, chapters 13, 14, and 15

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. When Uncle Alec, Aunt Janet, and Aunt Olivia leave for a wedding, Uncle Roger is left nominally in charge of the cousins. But it is really Felicity, the wonderful cook, who takes charge. Everything seems just fine, until she becomes too bossy. Dan rebels, and the consequences seem dire. What will happen when Dan decides to defy his sister and eat the bad berries? It is all too easy for a little power to...

5 months ago

44 minutes

Stories Come to Life

The Story Girl, by L. M. Montgomery, chapters 10, 11, and 12

Send us a text Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. Poor Sara Ray wants so badly to go to the magic lantern show, but her mother, of course, has forbidden it. But because her mother will be out of town, she succumbs to the temptation the Story Girl proposes to sneak out and go anyway! But that leads to the Story Girl imposing a strict penance on herself. Was the price of urging someone to disobedience worth it? You’ll have to decide. Now sit back, ...

5 months ago

51 minutes