Classic Audiobook Collection

The Branding Iron by Katharine Newlin Burt audiobook. Genre: romance From the cold and mountainous regions of Wyoming to the bright lights of the big city, The Branding Iron is the story of a remarkable woman, Joan Carver. Born of poor means, at a fairly young age Joan decides to leave her father and strike out on her own, but she is to face more difficulties and hardships than she had reckoned for, and the men she encounters on her way share different means of dealing with her; and she of them. She becomes her own individual, with a strong will and a determination to lead her life as she sees fit. As with many of Ms. Burt's stories, The Branding Iron is filled with unexpected surprises at each turn. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:14:39) Chapter 02 (00:29:19) Chapter 03 (00:35:17) Chapter 04 (00:46:43) Chapter 05 (01:01:53) Chapter 06 (01:15:20) Chapter 07 (01:23:44) Chapter 08 (01:30:58) Chapter 09 (01:48:58) Chapter 10 (02:02:17) Chapter 11 (02:19:30) Chapter 12 (02:33:28) Chapter 13 (02:40:17) Chapter 14 (02:58:20) Chapter 15 (03:09:47) Chapter 16 (03:24:58) Chapter 17 (03:54:30) Chapter 18 (04:09:05) Chapter 19 (04:22:48) Chapter 20 (04:42:02) Chapter 21 (04:56:04) Chapter 22 (05:18:40) Chapter 23 (05:34:57) Chapter 24 (05:53:32) Chapter 25 (06:07:12) Chapter 26 (06:37:00) Chapter 27 (06:54:07) Chapter 28 (07:22:20) Chapter 29 (07:47:47) Chapter 30 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich audiobook. Genre: religion Julian of Norwich (c. November 8, 1342 – c. 1416) is considered to be one of the greatest English mystics. Little is known of her life aside from her writings. Even her name is uncertain, the name 'Julian' coming from the Church of St Julian in Norwich, where she occupied a cell adjoining the church as an anchoress. At the age of thirty, suffering from a severe illness and believing she was on her deathbed, Julian had a series of intense visions. (They ended by the time she overcame her illness on May 13, 1373.) These visions would twenty years later be the source of her major work, called Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love (circa 1393). This is believed to be the first book written by a woman in the English language. Julian became well known throughout England as a spiritual authority. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:05:27) Chapter 02 (00:09:30) Chapter 03 (00:14:33) Chapter 04 (00:18:28) Chapter 05 (00:23:08) Chapter 06 (00:29:22) Chapter 07 (00:35:40) Chapter 08 (00:39:59) Chapter 09 (00:43:37) Chapter 10 (00:52:57) Chapter 11 (00:58:56) Chapter 12 (01:02:31) Chapter 13 (01:07:23) Chapter 14 (01:11:11) Chapter 15 (01:14:50) Chapter 16 (01:18:20) Chapter 17 (01:24:43) Chapter 18 (01:28:52) Chapter 19 (01:33:07) Chapter 20 (01:36:40) Chapter 21 (01:40:26) Chapter 22 (01:45:57) Chapter 23 (01:51:00) Chapter 24 (01:54:07) Chapter 25 (01:58:23) Chapter 26 (02:00:31) Chapter 27 (02:04:58) Chapter 28 (02:08:46) Chapter 29 (02:10:45) Chapter 30 (02:13:40) Chapter 31 (02:19:23) Chapter 32 (02:25:27) Chapter 33 (02:29:03) Chapter 34 (02:32:02) Chapter 35 (02:37:00) Chapter 36 (02:43:55) Chapter 37 (02:46:54) Chapter 38 (02:50:35) Chapter 39 (02:55:27) Chapter 40 (03:01:02) Chapter 41 (03:07:50) Chapter 42 (03:14:44) Chapter 43 (03:20:59) Chapter 44 (03:23:47) Chapter 45 (03:28:28) Chapter 46 (03:33:58) Chapter 47 (03:38:59) Chapter 48 (03:44:29) Chapter 49 (03:50:28) Chapter 50 (03:54:37) Chapter 51 (04:25:45) Chapter 52 (04:35:25) Chapter 53 (04:42:15) Chapter 54 (04:46:20) Chapter 55 (04:52:21) Chapter 56 (04:58:08) Chapter 57 (05:04:14) Chapter 58 (05:11:33) Chapter 59 (05:16:55) Chapter 60 (05:23:48) Chapter 61 (05:31:20) Chapter 62 (05:35:09) Chapter 63 (05:40:46) Chapter 64 (05:47:16) Chapter 65 (05:52:06) Chapter 66 (05:58:32) Chapter 67 (06:02:50) Chapter 68 (06:06:23) Chapter 69 (06:09:26) Chapter 70 (06:13:55) Chapter 71 (06:16:51) Chapter 72 (06:23:03) Chapter 73 (06:27:50) Chapter 74 (06:33:36) Chapter 75 (06:38:36) Chapter 76 (06:43:13) Chapter 77 (06:49:32) Chapter 78 (06:54:19) Chapter 79 (06:58:50) Chapter 80 (07:03:34) Chapter 81 (07:06:45) Chapter 82 (07:11:07) Chapter 83 (07:14:00) Chapter 84 (07:15:58) Chapter 85 (07:18:10) Chapter 86 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An Antarctic Mystery by Jules Verne audiobook. Genre: adventure When a battered bottle and a scrap of writing surface off the stormy seas of the Southern Ocean, the message hints at a vanished expedition and a man still alive beyond the limits of the known world. Determined to learn the truth, a small band of sailors and explorers sets out aboard a capable vessel, pushing south into freezing fogs, crushing pack ice, and waters where charts are guesswork and every day tests seamanship and nerve. As the crew threads through treacherous channels and endures months of cold, hunger, and isolation, they must also contend with clashing temperaments and the haunting uncertainty of what they will find at the edge of the continent. Jules Verne blends meticulous nautical detail with escalating suspense as the voyage becomes both a rescue mission and a confrontation with nature at its most indifferent. Part polar quest, part scientific romance, An Antarctic Mystery follows the cost of obsession, the pull of duty, and the human need to explain the unexplained, as the expedition closes in on a secret hidden among the ice. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:13:28) Chapter 2 (00:28:26) Chapter 3 (00:44:43) Chapter 4 (01:07:07) Chapter 5 (01:43:25) Chapter 6 (01:56:25) Chapter 7 (02:11:35) Chapter 8 (02:22:23) Chapter 9 (02:40:00) Chapter 10 (02:52:17) Chapter 11 (03:08:09) Chapter 12 (03:23:45) Chapter 13 (03:37:47) Chapter 14 (03:45:25) Chapter 15 (03:55:59) Chapter 16 (04:12:39) Chapter 17 (04:31:14) Chapter 18 (04:50:03) Chapter 19 (05:05:54) Chapter 20 (05:17:07) Chapter 21 (05:34:18) Chapter 22 (05:56:17) Chapter 23 (06:13:58) Chapter 24 (06:39:28) Chapter 25 (06:58:01) Chapter 26 (07:10:44) Chapter 27 (07:26:55) Chapter 28 (07:40:42) Chapter 29 (07:57:11) Chapter 30 (08:20:36) Chapter 31 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trees and Other Poems by Joyce Kilmer audiobook. Genre: poetry 'I think that I shall never see, a poem as lovely as a tree; A tree whose hungry mouth is presd against the sweet earth's flowing breast ...'. Almost all of us, including myself of course, have heard and enjoyed those famous words which begin Kilmer's poem, Trees. There is even a National Forest in the United States named in honor of this poem. Here is a recording of the entire book of poems in which it was first published in 1914. Joyce Kilmer was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for this short poem but he was a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his Roman Catholic religious faith, Kilmer was also a journalist, literary critic, lecturer, and editor. While most of his works are largely unknown, a select few of his poems remain popular and are published frequently in anthologies. At the time of his deployment to Europe during World War I (1914–1918), Kilmer was considered the leading American Roman Catholic poet and lecturer of his generation, whom critics often compared to British contemporaries G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc . He enlisted in the New York National Guard and was deployed to France with the 69th Infantry Regiment (the famous 'Fighting 69th') in 1917. He was killed by a sniper's bullet at the Second Battle of the Marne in 1918 at the age of 31. He was married to Aline Murray, who later became a poet and author in her own right, with whom he had five children. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:11:09) Chapter 2 (00:21:03) Chapter 3 (00:27:00) Chapter 4 (00:33:38) Chapter 5 (00:41:18) Chapter 6 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Black Star by Johnston McCulley audiobook. Genre: mystery The Black Star was a master criminal who took great care to never be identifiable, always wore a mask so nobody knew what he looked like, rarely spoke to keep his voice from being recognized, and the only mark left at the scenes of the crimes which he and his gang committed were small black stars which were tacked as a sign of their presence, and an occasional sarcastic note to signify his presence and responsibility. Even those who worked for him knew nothing of him, all of which were making his crimes virtually unsolvable. The police were at a complete loss as to his identity and at a method of stopping his criminal activities. He seemed to have the perfect strategic setup and all advantages were in his favor. He even somehow knew where the wealthy kept their jewels and money, and knew when they would remove valuable items from their safes and deposit boxes. Thus Roger Verbeck decided to take on the case of the Black Star using his own methodology. The Black Star will keep you guessing from beginning to end, just as he kept the police and Verbeck guessing. Johnston McCulley was a prolific writer in the pulp fiction vein, and his Zorro series would become immensely popular. However, prior to Zorro, the Black Star was among his first repeating characters which kept readers of the day in continual suspense until his next appearance. McCulley also wrote mysteries and detective stories using various pseudonyms, including Harrison Strong. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:19:15) Chapter 02 (00:30:03) Chapter 03 (00:52:09) Chapter 04 (01:07:57) Chapter 05 (01:18:34) Chapter 06 (01:29:45) Chapter 07 (01:40:39) Chapter 08 (01:53:53) Chapter 09 (02:13:19) Chapter 10 (02:24:27) Chapter 11 (02:37:06) Chapter 12 (02:52:13) Chapter 13 (03:03:36) Chapter 14 (03:08:41) Chapter 15 (03:23:21) Chapter 16 (03:40:42) Chapter 17 (03:52:47) Chapter 18 (04:11:02) Chapter 19 (04:31:49) Chapter 20 (04:48:54) Chapter 21 (05:04:34) Chapter 22 (05:14:29) Chapter 23 (05:22:29) Chapter 24 (05:36:00) Chapter 25 (05:43:23) Chapter 26 (06:00:55) Chapter 27 (06:19:39) Chapter 28 (06:28:08) Chapter 29 (06:39:54) Chapter 30 (06:53:04) Chapter 31 (07:04:43) Chapter 32 (07:17:08) Chapter 33 (07:31:32) Chapter 34 (07:43:58) Chapter 35 (07:53:53) Chapter 36 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Raggedy Ann Stories by Johnny Gruelle audiobook. Genre: family Step into a cozy nursery where imagination is as real as sunshine through the window. Raggedy Ann Stories introduces Raggedy Ann, a bright red-haired rag doll with a candy-heart smile, who comes to life when the grown-ups are away. Alongside her brother Raggedy Andy and a lively circle of toy companions, she turns ordinary days into gentle adventures filled with make-believe rules, small mishaps, and warm-hearted lessons. Each tale follows Raggedy Ann as she explores the world from a toy's-eye view: comforting friends who feel left out, solving playful problems in the playroom, and meeting curious characters that wander into their home. But the greatest challenge is keeping their secret safe and staying true to the kindness that makes Raggedy Ann the heart of the nursery. Johnny Gruelle's classic stories blend whimsy with reassurance, celebrating friendship, empathy, and the quiet magic of childhood. Perfect for listeners who love timeless bedtime storytelling, these episodes offer simple delights, soft humor, and a sense that goodness can be stitched into every day. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:06:32) Chapter 01 (00:16:43) Chapter 02 (00:23:46) Chapter 03 (00:33:26) Chapter 04 (00:43:03) Chapter 05 (00:51:52) Chapter 06 (00:59:04) Chapter 07 (01:08:07) Chapter 08 (01:17:53) Chapter 09 (01:24:45) Chapter 10 (01:33:58) Chapter 11 (01:44:07) Chapter 12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Ultimate Weapon by John W. Campbell audiobook. Genre: scifi The star Mira was unpredictably variable. Sometimes it was blazing, brilliant and hot. Other times it was oddly dim, cool, shedding little warmth on its many planets. Gresth Gkae, leader of the Mirans, was seeking a better star, one to which his 'people' could migrate. That star had to be steady, reliable, with a good planetary system. And in his astronomical searching, he found Sol. With hundreds of ships, each larger than whole Terrestrial spaceports, and traveling faster than the speed of light, the Mirans set out to move in to Solar regions and take over. And on Earth there was nothing which would be capable of beating off this incredible armada—until Buck Kendall stumbled upon THE ULTIMATE WEAPON. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:19:03) Chapter 02 (00:34:05) Chapter 03 (00:45:50) Chapter 04 (01:00:03) Chapter 05 (01:13:27) Chapter 06 (01:23:20) Chapter 07 (01:50:06) Chapter 08 (02:11:10) Chapter 09 (02:33:17) Chapter 10 (02:48:14) Chapter 11 (03:12:11) Chapter 12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Islands of Space by John W. Campbell audiobook. Genre: scifi As Earth's faster-than-light spaceship hung in the void between galaxies, Arcot, Wade, Morey and Fuller could see below them, like a vast shining horizon, the mass of stars that formed their own island universe. Morey worked a moment with his slide rule, then said, 'We made good time! Twenty-nine light years in ten seconds! Yet you had it on at only half power....' Arcot pushed the control lever all the way to full power. The ship filled with the strain of flowing energy, and sparks snapped in the air of the control room as they raced at an inconceivable speed through the darkness of intergalactic space. But suddenly, far off to their left and far to their right, they saw two shining ships paralleling their course! They held grimly to the course of the Earth ship, bracketing it like an official guard. The Earth scientists stared at them in wonder. 'Lord,' muttered Morey, 'where can they have come from?' For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:02:59) Chapter 01 (00:19:11) Chapter 02 (00:41:17) Chapter 03 (00:57:46) Chapter 04 (01:17:31) Chapter 05 (01:39:00) Chapter 06 (02:00:22) Chapter 07 (02:16:31) Chapter 08 (02:33:28) Chapter 09 (02:53:53) Chapter 10 (03:12:20) Chapter 11 (03:26:57) Chapter 12 (03:47:43) Chapter 13 (04:07:43) Chapter 14 (04:24:10) Chapter 15 (04:44:34) Chapter 16 (05:03:48) Chapter 17 (05:23:53) Chapter 18 (05:40:17) Chapter 19 (05:56:55) Chapter 20 (06:16:55) Chapter 21 (06:36:50) Chapter 22 (06:49:29) Chapter 23 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Invaders from the Infinite by John W. Campbell audiobook. Genre: scifi The famous scientific trio of Arcot, Wade and Morey, challenged by the most ruthless aliens in all the universes, blasted off on an intergalactic search for defenses against the invaders of Earth and all her allies. World after world was visited, secret after secret unleashed, and turned to mighty weapons of intense force--and still the Thessian enemy seemed to grow in power and ferocity. Mighty battles between huge space armadas were but skirmishes in the galactic war, as the invincible aliens savagely advanced and the Earth team hurled bolt after bolt of pure ravening energy--until it appeared that the universe itself might end in one final flare of furious torrential power.... For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:13:21) Chapter 02 (00:32:56) Chapter 03 (00:54:15) Chapter 04 (01:17:42) Chapter 05 (01:30:25) Chapter 06 (01:46:09) Chapter 07 (02:05:41) Chapter 08 (02:19:07) Chapter 09 (02:31:41) Chapter 10 (02:56:35) Chapter 11 (03:05:42) Chapter 12 (03:25:23) Chapter 13 (03:39:11) Chapter 14 (03:58:20) Chapter 15 (04:09:47) Chapter 16 (04:22:20) Chapter 17 (04:41:06) Chapter 18 (05:10:49) Chapter 19 (05:18:18) Chapter 20 (05:35:16) Chapter 21 (05:57:54) Chapter 22 (06:14:52) Chapter 23 (06:41:15) Chapter 24 (06:49:51) Chapter 25 (07:17:10) Chapter 26 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Story of My Boyhood and Youth by John Muir audiobook. Genre: biography 'The only fire for the whole house was the kitchen stove, with a fire box about eighteen inches long and eight inches wide and deep,- scant space for three or four small sticks, around which in hard zero weather all the family of ten shivered, and beneath which in the morning we found our socks and coarse, soggy boots frozen solid.' Thus, with perceptive eye for detail, the American naturalist, John Muir, describes life on a pioneer Wisconsin farm in the 1850's. Muir was only eleven years old when his father uprooted the family from a relatively comfortable life in Dunbar, Scotland, to settle in the backwoods of North America. The elder Muir was a religious fundamentalist. What his father taught, John Muir writes, was 'grim self denial, in season and out of season, to mortify the flesh, keep our bodies in subjection to Bible laws, and mercilessly punish ourselves for every fault, imagined or committed.' Muir's father believed that the Bible was 'the only book human beings could possibly require,' while John secretly read every volume of poetry and literature he could get his hands on. With no formal schooling after leaving Scotland, John also learned from nature--keenly observing details of the seasons, the life of the farm oxen, and wild animals and birds. John also became an amateur inventor, eking out time from farm chores by getting up at 1 a.m. to whittle intricate wooden clocks by candlelight in the unheated farm house basement. Muir finally made a break for freedom--his decision was to go to Madison, Wisconsin, and enter his clocks in the State Fair, with the hope that somebody might see them and offer him a job in a machine shop! All the baggage he carried the day he left home was a package made up of 'two clocks and a small thermometer made of a piece of old washboard, all three tied together with no covering or case of any sort, the whole looking like one very complicated machine.' His father's goodbye was to admonish John about the 'wicked world' and to warn him sternly that if he should find himself in need of money, none would be forthcoming. John would have to depend on himself. How John Muir made his way from that Wisconsin farm to become the great American naturalist, spokesman for Yosemite and the California redwoods, is the stuff of legend: which makes Muir's autobiographical account of his early boyhood a fascinating read For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:56:43) Chapter 02 (01:40:14) Chapter 03 (02:31:41) Chapter 04 (03:08:10) Chapter 05 (03:41:31) Chapter 06 (04:29:56) Chapter 07 (04:56:18) Chapter 08 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Tar Baby - And Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris audiobook. Genre: folklore In The Tar Baby - And Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus, Joel Chandler Harris gathers some of the most memorable Uncle Remus selections into a compact, lively listening experience. Set within the familiar frame of a young boy visiting the elderly storyteller Uncle Remus, the book turns quickly to the animal world of Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, Brer Bear, and their neighbors, where every friendly chat can become a contest of wits. The centerpiece is the famous Tar Baby episode, a comic trap that sparks a fast-moving struggle between cunning and force, followed by additional rhymes and tales that echo the cadences of oral storytelling. As Brer Rabbit schemes, escapes, and occasionally overreaches, listeners encounter a world where the small survive by thinking faster than the strong. Beneath the humor and rhythmic language are themes of resilience, deception, and the complicated ways stories pass between generations and cultures. This collection highlights Harris's enduring, controversial place in American letters, preserving folktale patterns and character types that have traveled far beyond the cabin porch where Uncle Remus first speaks. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:12:11) Chapter 02 (00:15:48) Chapter 03 (00:20:06) Chapter 04 (00:22:41) Chapter 05 (00:28:14) Chapter 06 (00:33:03) Chapter 07 (00:38:21) Chapter 08 (00:43:06) Chapter 09 (00:47:48) Chapter 10 (00:52:28) Chapter 11 (00:58:20) Chapter 12 (01:00:25) Chapter 13 (01:05:51) Chapter 14 (01:08:56) Chapter 15 (01:11:40) Chapter 16 (01:13:49) Chapter 17 (01:15:54) Chapter 18 (01:20:56) Chapter 19 (01:23:17) Chapter 20 (01:25:27) Chapter 21 (01:27:19) Chapter 22 (01:29:53) Chapter 23 (01:31:22) Chapter 24 (01:32:40) Chapter 25 (01:34:31) Chapter 26 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Uncle Remus Returns by Joel Chandler Harris audiobook. Genre: folklore In Uncle Remus Returns, Joel Chandler Harris brings back the soft-spoken, sharp-eyed storyteller of the old plantation, now older and enjoying a quieter sort of retirement. When a new child arrives to visit family - the son of the original little boy who once begged for tales by the fire - Uncle Remus slips naturally into his familiar role, turning everyday moments into invitations for story. One by one, he shares a set of lively animal fables in which Brer Rabbit, forever small but never helpless, matches wits with larger, tougher neighbors like Brer Fox and Brer Bear. The adventures are comic, cunning, and often pointed, using mischief and surprise to explore pride, greed, fear, and the thin line between being clever and being cruel. Framed by the boy's questions and Remus's warm, teasing wisdom, the collection captures the rhythms of spoken storytelling and the pull of tales passed from one generation to the next. Heard today, the book also reflects the attitudes and dialect writing of its era, and some language may feel dated or offensive, even as the folk patterns and trickster energy remain compelling. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:02:07) Chapter 01 (00:28:08) Chapter 02 (00:54:29) Chapter 03 (01:21:15) Chapter 04 (01:45:57) Chapter 05 (02:09:48) Chapter 06 (02:31:04) Chapter 07 (02:40:47) Chapter 08 (02:47:57) Chapter 09 (02:51:37) Chapter 10 (02:54:41) Chapter 11 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Uncle Remus and Friends - 17 stories by Joel Chandler Harris audiobook. Genre: folklore Uncle Remus, that genial old storyteller, knows how to spin these wonderful tales about the 'criteers' that the little 6 year old boy (and many of us adults!) love to listen to. Yet the 'Brer Rabbit and 'Brer Fox and the others sound a lot like the people all around us. They tell stories about personalities and faults and virtues in a way that is unique to Uncle Remus. As the shadows grow longer outside, draw up a rocking chair next to the little boy, settle back and listen to the wise old man tell these stories. These 17 stories were specially chosen from Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings and include The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story, Miss Cow falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit; Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs; Mr. Rabbit grossly deceives Mr. Fox and lots of others. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:05:57) Chapter 02 (00:10:51) Chapter 03 (00:15:44) Chapter 04 (00:20:55) Chapter 05 (00:26:43) Chapter 06 (00:35:08) Chapter 07 (00:43:13) Chapter 08 (00:48:38) Chapter 09 (00:56:25) Chapter 10 (01:04:10) Chapter 11 (01:10:27) Chapter 12 (01:14:58) Chapter 13 (01:21:41) Chapter 14 (01:25:08) Chapter 15 (01:29:08) Chapter 16 (01:34:58) Chapter 17 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit by Joel Chandler Harris audiobook. Genre: folklore Step into a porchside circle of storytelling where Uncle Remus, an elderly Black narrator, shares a lively chain of animal fables with a curious young boy. In these classic tales, the small but quick-witted Brer Rabbit survives a world of bigger, stronger rivals - especially the relentless Brer Fox - by relying on nerve, wordplay, and a sharp eye for opportunity. Each story unfolds like a miniature contest: traps are set, bargains are struck, pride is punctured, and the underdog finds an unexpected opening when no one else can. As the boy returns again and again for another evening's entertainment, the collection builds a richly patterned folk universe full of repeating characters, familiar lessons, and playful reversals. At once humorous and slyly instructive, the book preserves a tradition of oral storytelling, with rhythms and voices meant to be heard aloud. Beneath the mischief and laughter are enduring themes of resilience, cleverness, and the complicated ways power can be challenged without force. This audiobook invites you to savor the cadence of the stories and the timeless charm of Brer Rabbit's audacious escapes. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:04:54) Chapter 02 (00:09:36) Chapter 03 (00:14:09) Chapter 04 (00:19:33) Chapter 05 (00:23:42) Chapter 06 (00:28:43) Chapter 07 (00:32:10) Chapter 08 (00:36:13) Chapter 09 (00:39:54) Chapter 10 (00:42:39) Chapter 11 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Will and the Way Stories by Jessie Benton Fremont audiobook. Genre: self help In The Will and the Way Stories, 19th-century American writer Jessie Benton Fremont gathers nine brief, essay-like tales that turn a familiar proverb into lived experience: where there's a will, there's a way. Moving from small-town classrooms and snowy evening walks to seafaring labor and far-flung travel, each vignette introduces ordinary people - and a few larger-than-life figures - facing a practical problem, a moral test, or a moment of fear that demands grit, ingenuity, and steady purpose. The collection ranges widely in setting and tone, from the working-life realism of 'The Deck Hand' to the frontier-flavored portrait of 'Kit Carson,' and from the playful contrasts of 'Play and Work' to the more sobering shadows of 'A Long Horror.' Other pieces follow miscommunications and chance encounters ('The Hat of the Postmaster'), the clash between stubbornness and true resolve ('The Two Wills'), and a quietly urgent call to compassion ('The Good Samaritan'). Written with warmth, humor, and an eye for character, these compact stories invite listeners to consider how determination, conscience, and everyday choices shape the roads we manage to take - and the ones we fail to see until we try. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:17:33) Chapter 2 (00:53:42) Chapter 3 (01:21:11) Chapter 4 (01:39:36) Chapter 5 (01:52:08) Chapter 6 (02:14:46) Chapter 7 (02:44:33) Chapter 8 (03:08:50) Chapter 9 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Valley of Silent Men by James Oliver Curwood audiobook. Genre: adventure James Kent has learned that he is terminally ill with perhaps only days to live, and so decides to confess to a murder and thus save an innocent man. Nobody believes his confession, particularly Marette, a mysterious girl who had shown up at Athabasca Landing only weeks before. Kent’s illness takes a turn and his death is postponed, and he sets about to find out more about the girl, who he ends up falling in love with, although she’ll not reveal her past to him, nor what she knows about the murder. A story of intrigue, suspense, action, and above all, a story of love in the furthest outreaches of the Great White North where three great rivers flow; the Athabasca, the Slave, and the McKenzie, and where somewhere is hidden The Valley of Silent Men. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:12:55) Chapter 01 (00:36:45) Chapter 02 (00:58:28) Chapter 03 (01:15:47) Chapter 04 (01:24:41) Chapter 05 (01:47:35) Chapter 06 (02:08:23) Chapter 07 (02:26:07) Chapter 08 (02:50:11) Chapter 09 (03:16:44) Chapter 10 (03:29:24) Chapter 11 (03:55:04) Chapter 12 (04:09:50) Chapter 13 (04:29:25) Chapter 14 (04:45:21) Chapter 15 (05:00:00) Chapter 16 (05:20:40) Chapter 17 (05:38:55) Chapter 18 (06:17:39) Chapter 19 (06:33:19) Chapter 20 (06:47:42) Chapter 21 (07:17:51) Chapter 22 (07:32:06) Chapter 23 (07:48:14) Chapter 24 (08:09:23) Chapter 25 (08:13:38) Chapter 26 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Honor of the Big Snows by James Oliver Curwood audiobook. Genre: adventure In the far Canadian North, where winter can swallow a trading post whole, John Cummins loses the one warmth in his life: his young wife, Melisse, who dies just after giving birth to their daughter. On the same night, a starving boy stumbles out of the spruce forest with a violin and a name, Jan Thoreau, and the music he plays binds his fate to the grief-stricken hunter and the motherless child. Taken in at Post Lac Bain, Jan grows up under the hard rules of the wilderness, carrying a past he will not explain and a private code of honor he will not break. As the little Melisse becomes a young woman, the post that once felt like the edge of the world begins to change: loyalties shift, old debts and old violence resurface, and newcomers arrive with appetites the North does not easily forgive. Caught between love and duty, belonging and exile, Jan must decide what kind of man he will be when the big snows close in again and the truth he fears most threatens to reach the one person he cannot bear to lose. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:14:55) Chapter 02 (00:30:01) Chapter 03 (00:37:17) Chapter 04 (00:52:03) Chapter 05 (01:08:50) Chapter 06 (01:21:40) Chapter 07 (01:36:18) Chapter 08 (01:58:03) Chapter 09 (02:06:16) Chapter 10 (02:26:52) Chapter 11 (02:36:57) Chapter 12 (02:45:59) Chapter 13 (02:58:36) Chapter 14 (03:16:24) Chapter 15 (03:35:38) Chapter 16 (03:47:31) Chapter 17 (04:04:03) Chapter 18 (04:20:53) Chapter 19 (04:37:44) Chapter 20 (04:49:39) Chapter 21 (05:03:29) Chapter 22 (05:18:55) Chapter 23 (05:25:51) Chapter 24 (06:00:56) Chapter 25 (06:19:43) Chapter 26 (06:34:28) Chapter 27 (06:48:24) Chapter 28 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Golden Snare by James Oliver Curwood audiobook. Genre: adventure With but two years of service in the RNMP Philip Raine finds himself somewhat unwillingly on the trail of Bram Johnson, wanted for murder and a wild, untamed and savage man who commands a pack of wolves as his brethren. But most peculiar of all is the snare which Bram had had in his possession and had somehow lost. It was a golden snare intricately woven out of the finest, most delicate flaxen hair of a woman. But what could possibly be the relationship between this half-human murderer and a woman who could have borne a crown of such beauty and elegance? The mystery of Bram Johnson and his wolves and the golden snare becomes one which Raine feels compelled to unravel even as he pursues the wild man and his pack among his own territory of the Canadian barren lands. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:09:58) Chapter 02 (00:19:45) Chapter 03 (00:28:35) Chapter 04 (00:41:23) Chapter 05 (00:56:59) Chapter 06 (01:17:39) Chapter 07 (01:29:52) Chapter 08 (02:03:11) Chapter 09 (02:17:47) Chapter 10 (02:33:16) Chapter 11 (02:50:47) Chapter 12 (03:06:30) Chapter 13 (03:20:02) Chapter 14 (03:34:04) Chapter 15 (03:54:47) Chapter 16 (04:06:40) Chapter 17 (04:17:36) Chapter 18 (04:31:46) Chapter 19 (04:44:20) Chapter 20 (04:56:25) Chapter 21 (05:11:23) Chapter 22 (05:20:53) Chapter 23 (05:34:33) Chapter 24 (05:49:34) Chapter 25 (06:05:07) Chapter 26 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Gold Hunters by James Oliver Curwood audiobook. Genre: adventure Roderick Drew has come north for one last season of hard travel and harder lessons, running the traplines with his closest friend, Wabigoon, and their grizzled guide, Mukoki. In the frozen wilds around Hudson Bay posts and endless lakes, the three stumble onto a mystery older than any of them: a forgotten cabin, ancient bones, and a birch-bark map that hints at a hidden country of gold. But before the dream can become a springtime expedition, danger strikes without warning. Wabigoon's sister, Minnetaki, is seized by the outlaw Woongas, a ruthless band driven by an old blood-feud, and time turns brutal as thaw and wind threaten to erase every track in the snow. With only Rod's memory of a half-seen trail to guide them, the friends race the Hudson Bay mail routes, drive their dog teams into the teeth of winter, and gamble their lives against hunger, cold, and ambush. Part rescue mission, part treasure quest, Curwood's classic tale fuses frontier suspense with deep loyalty to comrades and an awe for the beauty and cruelty of the northern wilderness. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:17:29) Chapter 02 (00:32:43) Chapter 03 (00:54:47) Chapter 04 (01:14:56) Chapter 05 (01:31:05) Chapter 06 (01:46:41) Chapter 07 (02:03:23) Chapter 08 (02:33:57) Chapter 09 (02:57:31) Chapter 10 (03:22:19) Chapter 11 (03:44:10) Chapter 12 (04:16:14) Chapter 13 (04:39:18) Chapter 14 (05:02:27) Chapter 15 (05:37:33) Chapter 16 (05:57:32) Chapter 17 (06:24:00) Chapter 18 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Flaming Forest by James Oliver Curwood audiobook. Genre: adventure In the far northern wilderness of Canada, Sergeant David Carrigan of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police rides alone on a clear-cut mission: track down and bring in the feared outlaw known as Black Roger Audemard. But the North has its own rules, and Carrigan's certainty is shattered when an ambush leaves him wounded and at the mercy of a daring young woman, Jeanne Marie-Anne Boulain. Instead of finishing him, she keeps him alive and delivers him into the moving world of the Boulain Brigade, a tight-knit band of French-Canadian backwoodsmen led by the formidable St. Pierre Boulain. Traveling by river and trail through a country of wolves, storms, and long nights, Carrigan is forced to weigh duty against the growing pull of the people around him - and the fierce, unreadable woman who captured him. As rumors harden into threats and a manhunt tightens, alliances become dangerous, trust turns costly, and the wilderness itself rises into a raging, flame-lit test of survival. Sweeping, suspenseful, and richly atmospheric, The Flaming Forest pits law and conscience against love, loyalty, and the raw power of the wild. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:12:17) Chapter 02 (00:32:19) Chapter 03 (00:54:40) Chapter 04 (01:15:32) Chapter 05 (01:36:47) Chapter 06 (02:05:32) Chapter 07 (02:21:45) Chapter 08 (02:46:53) Chapter 09 (03:03:04) Chapter 10 (03:20:35) Chapter 11 (03:35:58) Chapter 12 (03:54:27) Chapter 13 (04:21:02) Chapter 14 (04:35:43) Chapter 15 (04:47:09) Chapter 16 (05:18:29) Chapter 17 (05:35:26) Chapter 18 (05:52:44) Chapter 19 (06:12:00) Chapter 20 (06:31:45) Chapter 21 (06:50:50) Chapter 22 (06:59:36) Chapter 23 (07:23:34) Chapter 24 (07:44:51) Chapter 25 (08:06:36) Chapter 26 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Danger Trail by James Oliver Curwood audiobook. Genre: adventure Chicago engineer Jack Howland is sent to the edge of the Canadian barren lands north of Prince Albert to establish a train route through some of the most treacherous terrain in North America. He would soon learn that it was not only the terrain that was forbidding, as he begins to understand why the previous engineers sent on the same mission had been forced to give up the task and flee back to the south. Mysterious visitors, suspicious characters, strange apparent coincidences, and one particularly mysterious girl meet Howland at every turn in this suspenseful tale of adventure, excitement, danger, and romance set in the northern Canadian wilderness. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:15:39) Chapter 02 (00:32:34) Chapter 03 (00:45:30) Chapter 04 (01:08:42) Chapter 05 (01:43:19) Chapter 06 (02:04:23) Chapter 07 (02:27:53) Chapter 08 (02:45:42) Chapter 09 (02:58:11) Chapter 10 (03:20:34) Chapter 11 (03:47:12) Chapter 12 (04:05:25) Chapter 13 (04:23:15) Chapter 14 (04:50:41) Chapter 15 (05:14:27) Chapter 16 (05:44:13) Chapter 17 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Country Beyond by James Oliver Curwood audiobook. Genre: adventure In the spring thaw of Canadas north country near Lake Superior, a homely, big-footed puppy named Peter Pied-Bot tumbles into a story far larger than himself. Peter belongs to Nada, a young woman trapped in an isolated lakeside clearing where beauty and brutality live side by side - and where the cruel, one-eyed Jed Hawkins keeps his hold through fear and force. The one bright thread in Nadas life is Jolly Roger McKay, a restless wanderer and skilled woodsman whose gift of the pup binds the three together. When the law brands McKay a criminal and sends Sergeant Cassidy of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police after him, the wilderness becomes a vast chessboard of rivers, muskeg, cedar swamps, and hard miles. Cassidy is no simple villain, and McKay is no simple hero; Curwood lets their pursuit turn into a test of honor as much as speed. With Peter racing between loyalties and a Cree elder foretelling a meeting in a mysterious refuge called the Country Beyond, Nada must gamble on hope, love, and the thin chance of freedom before the North closes in. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:32:27) Chapter 02 (00:54:54) Chapter 03 (01:23:31) Chapter 04 (01:35:31) Chapter 05 (01:57:06) Chapter 06 (02:17:29) Chapter 07 (02:59:07) Chapter 08 (03:42:04) Chapter 09 (04:05:45) Chapter 10 (04:46:17) Chapter 11 (05:08:21) Chapter 12 (05:46:56) Chapter 13 (06:16:31) Chapter 14 (06:43:51) Chapter 15 (07:06:13) Chapter 16 (07:30:24) Chapter 17 (08:10:41) Chapter 18 (08:26:38) Chapter 19 (08:38:04) Chapter 20 (09:01:56) Chapter 21 (09:17:30) Chapter 22 (09:34:07) Chapter 23 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nomads of the North by James Oliver Curwood audiobook. Genre: adventure An unlikely pair were Neewa, the black bear cub who had been orphaned at a young age, and Miki, part Mackenzie hound, part Airedale and Spitz who had become separated from his master in the frozen reaches of northern Canada. But the two befriended one another, and these nomads fended for themselves until they too became separated in an unfortunate way. While Neewa searched for his friend, Miki was taken by northern trappers who felt he could be trained to become a good fighting dog, a valuable asset in the north. What follows is Miki's attempts to flee from his captors and search for his master, and Neewa's search for his canine friend. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:15:03) Chapter 02 (00:32:04) Chapter 03 (01:03:02) Chapter 04 (01:12:19) Chapter 05 (01:25:06) Chapter 06 (01:49:08) Chapter 07 (02:11:01) Chapter 08 (02:35:19) Chapter 09 (03:05:03) Chapter 10 (03:19:28) Chapter 11 (03:36:53) Chapter 12 (03:55:46) Chapter 13 (04:09:13) Chapter 14 (04:42:39) Chapter 15 (04:51:28) Chapter 16 (05:06:58) Chapter 17 (05:30:00) Chapter 18 (05:49:39) Chapter 19 (06:01:17) Chapter 20 (06:12:03) Chapter 21 (06:30:55) Chapter 22 (06:45:58) Chapter 23 (07:03:19) Chapter 24 (07:15:00) Chapter 25 (07:36:08) Chapter 26 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Isobel by James Oliver Curwood audiobook. Genre: adventure Action, intrigue, and a touch of romance in the farthest reaches of northern Canada. Sergeant Billy MacVeigh of the Canadian Northwest Mounted, with his only partner Pelliter are the only official representatives in the lonely and desolate reaches of Point Fullerton, hundreds of miles from the next nearest outpost, and from any civilization. Both are nearing the end of their service in those regions, and their main function has been to try to find the elusive murderer Scottie Deane, and if they happen upon anybody trading in Eskimo women to haul them in also. Then one day, one of those traders happens to show up at their cabin, and what follows is some close calls and long trips across the barrens of northern Canada that uncovers clues to the whereabouts of the notorious Scottie Deane and his wife, and all deal with near death experiences primarily due to loneliness, bitter cold, and fatigue, not to mention the red death. Will they find Deane and his wife? If so, what affect will he have on them and their respective conditions? For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:19:27) Chapter 02 (00:31:05) Chapter 03 (00:55:13) Chapter 04 (01:19:03) Chapter 05 (01:39:43) Chapter 06 (01:58:03) Chapter 07 (02:18:03) Chapter 08 (02:35:06) Chapter 09 (02:53:38) Chapter 10 (03:14:37) Chapter 11 (03:26:52) Chapter 12 (03:50:01) Chapter 13 (04:06:17) Chapter 14 (04:13:37) Chapter 15 (04:32:42) Chapter 16 (04:54:01) Chapter 17 (05:10:41) Chapter 18 (05:32:11) Chapter 19 (05:48:02) Chapter 20 (05:58:56) Chapter 21 (06:10:13) Chapter 22 (06:32:35) Chapter 23 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Flower of the North by James Oliver Curwood audiobook. Genre: adventure On a routine business journey up the Churchill River, Philip Whittemore expects the North to feel familiar. Instead, the farther he travels into the raw, river-cut wilderness of northern Canada, the more the land seems to shift under his feet, as if the map in his mind no longer matches what lies ahead. Drawn by rumor and by a nagging sense that something is being kept from him, Philip follows a fragile trail of hints to an isolated outpost known as Fort o' God, a settlement tucked among rock and timber and guarded by silence. There he meets Jeanne D'Arcambal, a woman whose beauty and quiet strength make her seem like the very soul of the country, and Pierre, her fierce protector. As Philip is welcomed into the settlement's daily life, wonder turns to unease: the people are wary, their pasts blurred, and Jeanne herself is surrounded by contradictions. Caught between desire and doubt, Philip becomes determined to uncover what Fort o' God is hiding, even as the North closes in with its own tests of endurance. Flower of the North blends romance, suspense, and wilderness adventure into a story about trust, identity, and the price of knowing the truth. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:14:23) Chapter 02 (00:30:57) Chapter 03 (00:45:35) Chapter 04 (01:01:02) Chapter 05 (01:23:51) Chapter 06 (01:39:09) Chapter 07 (02:06:59) Chapter 08 (02:31:36) Chapter 09 (02:56:54) Chapter 10 (03:23:30) Chapter 11 (03:46:04) Chapter 12 (04:00:00) Chapter 13 (04:34:39) Chapter 14 (05:02:35) Chapter 15 (05:19:07) Chapter 16 (05:37:22) Chapter 17 (06:05:26) Chapter 18 (06:19:33) Chapter 19 (06:42:21) Chapter 20 (07:07:21) Chapter 21 (07:34:05) Chapter 22 (07:44:39) Chapter 23 (07:57:18) Chapter 24 (08:20:24) Chapter 25 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Thirteenth - Greatest of Centuries by James Joseph Walsh audiobook. Genre: history It cannot but seem a paradox to say that the Thirteenth was the greatest of centuries. To most people the idea will appear at once so preposterous that they may not even care to consider it. A certain number, of course, will have their curiosity piqued by the thought that anyone should evolve so curious a notion. Either of these attitudes of mind will yield at once to a more properly receptive mood if it is recalled that the Thirteenth is the century of the Gothic cathedrals, of the foundation of the university, of the signing of Magna Charta, and of the origin of representative government with something like constitutional guarantees throughout the west of Europe. The cathedrals represent a development in the arts that has probably never been equaled either before or since. The university was a definite creation of these generations that has lived and maintained its usefulness practically in the same form in which it was then cast for the seven centuries ever since. The foundation stones of modern liberties are to be found in the documents which for the first time declared the rights of man during this precious period. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:45:40) Chapter 02 (01:24:56) Chapter 03 (02:33:51) Chapter 04 (03:28:45) Chapter 05 (04:15:29) Chapter 06 (05:28:26) Chapter 07 (06:05:39) Chapter 08 (06:34:14) Chapter 09 (07:17:20) Chapter 10 (07:58:09) Chapter 11 (08:26:06) Chapter 12 (09:03:40) Chapter 13 (09:32:05) Chapter 14 (10:17:53) Chapter 15 (10:56:57) Chapter 16 (11:38:53) Chapter 17 (12:31:10) Chapter 18 (13:01:25) Chapter 19 (13:51:46) Chapter 21 (14:25:07) Chapter 22 (15:00:50) Chapter 23 (15:29:44) Chapter 24 (16:14:46) Chapter 25 (17:16:55) Chapter 26 (17:55:00) Chapter 27 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No Clue by James Hay audiobook. Genre: mystery “No Clue! A Mystery Story” finds detective Jefferson Hastings at the home of wealthy but eccentric Arthur Sloane one hot summer night, when two other guests at Sloanehurst stumble across the body of young Mildred Brace lying dead on the lawn. Sloane’s daughter Lucille asks Hastings to help solve the crime, but Hastings gets surprisingly little help from anybody he interviews, including Mr. Sloane himself and even the mother of the victim. With few clues to aid him and nobody beyond suspicion, including himself, seemingly rock solid alibis begin to fall apart, expanding the list of potential suspects, and Hastings must rely on subtle expressions and the scant evidence at hand to try to solve the murder. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:10:12) Chapter 02 (00:28:20) Chapter 03 (00:49:50) Chapter 04 (01:10:07) Chapter 05 (01:30:25) Chapter 06 (01:50:22) Chapter 07 (02:15:23) Chapter 08 (02:33:18) Chapter 09 (03:02:20) Chapter 10 (03:26:33) Chapter 11 (03:46:51) Chapter 12 (04:01:04) Chapter 13 (04:25:45) Chapter 14 (04:54:59) Chapter 15 (05:21:34) Chapter 16 (05:37:52) Chapter 17 (05:58:55) Chapter 18 (06:11:15) Chapter 19 (06:33:36) Chapter 20 (06:51:40) Chapter 21 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Great Taxicab Robbery by James H. Collins audiobook. Genre: mystery In 1912, $25,000 was stolen during a bank transfer in New York City in broad daylight. In what may appear astonishing in today's world, the transfer occurred in a New York City taxicab. This factual account brings true crime of the early twentieth century to life. The various methods used by the detectives and police in their attempts to solve the mystery behind the robbery, and hopefully bring the thieves to justice, makes for great reading, particularly when one considers the fact that the accounts occurred over a century ago, and are quite authentic. Although the police now have higher technological advantages than was available over a century ago, the reader may find that many general techniques haven't changed all that much over the years. The characters involved with this true caper prove ingenious on both sides. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:20:36) Chapter 02 (00:27:42) Chapter 03 (00:42:50) Chapter 04 (01:02:06) Chapter 05 (01:20:50) Chapter 06 (01:34:17) Chapter 07 (01:48:49) Chapter 08 (02:06:58) Chapter 09 (02:28:08) Chapter 10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Trawler by James Brendan Connolly audiobook. Genre: drama In Gloucester, Massachusetts, the news comes ashore like a breaker in the night: Arthur Snow, a young bank fisherman, has been swept from the deck of the trawler Arbiter and lost at sea. His father, John Snow, and his niece, Mary, receive the story with grief - and with anger aimed at the vessel's skipper, Hugh Glynn, a towering, fiercely proud captain whose hunger to outwork and outrun every other craft has earned him both admiration and fear. When Glynn himself arrives to speak with the Snows, the tragedy turns into a reckoning, forcing everyone to weigh seamanship against ambition, and pride against responsibility. Watching it all is Simon Kippen, Arthur's close friend, who feels the pull of loyalty and unfinished duty. Determined to understand what took Arthur - and to prove what kind of man he will be - Simon asks for Arthur's place aboard Glynn's vessel as a dory mate, sailing into the brutal, routine danger of the Grand Banks. Between Gloucester and Newfoundland, amid hard weather, harder labor, and the tight bonds of men who risk everything for a share, Simon must face the sea, the skipper, and his own conflicted heart. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:03:16) Chapter 2 (00:17:02) Chapter 3 (00:41:38) Chapter 4 (00:58:41) Chapter 5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Snowdrift by James B. Hendryx audiobook. Genre: adventure The story revolves around Carter Brent, an alcoholic and gambler who had struck gold many times in the Yukon, but gambled and drank it away in Dawson; and Snowdrift, the half-breed who had spent her life with a wandering band of Indians in the frozen north country. Snowdrift had been raised by Wananebish, yet never knew who her father was, and yet Wananebish had somehow been able to send her to be schooled at a nearby mission. The paths of this unlikely pair would cross in the barren lands of the Yukon where Brent had hopes of finding more gold, but it was well known that there was no gold in the region between Dawson and the MacKenzie. But Brent had that certain knack for striking gold, and due to his way of life, also had a certain knack for gambling and drinking it away. Plenty of action follows, while Brent performs his search with little or no money, runs across Snowdrift, and while a band of fellow gamblers who know of his luck follows closely on his trail, he must get his prize back to Dawson. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:13:35) Chapter 02 (00:30:13) Chapter 03 (00:35:17) Chapter 04 (00:52:53) Chapter 05 (01:02:45) Chapter 06 (01:10:35) Chapter 07 (01:12:30) Chapter 08 (01:47:18) Chapter 09 (02:07:38) Chapter 10 (02:29:34) Chapter 11 (02:46:17) Chapter 12 (03:05:47) Chapter 13 (03:34:44) Chapter 14 (03:55:17) Chapter 15 (04:14:40) Chapter 16 (04:34:51) Chapter 17 (05:02:59) Chapter 18 (05:27:47) Chapter 19 (05:53:03) Chapter 20 (06:06:13) Chapter 21 (06:35:40) Chapter 22 (07:13:32) Chapter 23 (07:45:03) Chapter 24 (08:14:15) Chapter 25 (08:42:23) Chapter 26 (09:03:12) Chapter 27 (09:36:17) Chapter 28 (10:05:31) Chapter 29 (10:26:22) Chapter 30 (10:47:56) Chapter 31 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Thing in the Attic by James B. Blish audiobook. Genre: scifi Honath the Pursemaker has committed the worst crime in his people’s tree-top civilization: he has doubts. In a culture of small, tail-bearing folk shaped by ancient science and ruled by the Book of Laws, faith is not a private matter, but the glue that keeps order. When Honath and a few like-minded friends question the existence of the Giants said to have created them, the authorities make an example of the heretics by casting them out of the safe canopy and down into the jungle floor - a place their myths describe as Hell. Forced to survive in a world of crushing scale, alien terrain, and predatory beasts that feel half legend and half biology, the exiles must improvise tools, alliances, and a new way of thinking while fear and hunger test their convictions. As their journey pushes them farther from everything they have ever known, Honath is driven to ask what belief is worth when reality itself is uncertain, and whether truth can be found without tearing a society apart. One of Blish’s sharp, idea-driven pantropy tales, this is survival adventure fused with a haunting debate about authority, knowledge, and the cost of heresy. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:44:25) Chapter 02 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Black Fawn by James Arthur Kjelgaard audiobook. Genre: adventure Bud Sloan was an orphan who had been 'sold out' of the orphanage to work on a farm once he'd been old enough to labor. The farm where he was to work was owned by an aging farmer and his wife who had raised a large family and were now left alone. One day, after his chores were done, Bud wandered into the woods nearby and with mouth agape, he noticed a newborn jet black fawn all alone and apparently confused in his new surroundings. Bud resolved that day that this baby fawn was just like himself, an orphan, and would be bound to him in spirit. But many obstacles would keep the two separated, and the black fawn would eventually become the target of the local hunters. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:26:41) Chapter 02 (00:54:00) Chapter 03 (01:26:14) Chapter 04 (01:52:42) Chapter 05 (02:22:18) Chapter 06 (02:57:00) Chapter 07 (03:19:05) Chapter 08 (03:46:11) Chapter 09 (04:16:01) Chapter 10 (04:37:48) Chapter 11 (05:02:38) Chapter 12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Six Feet Four by Jackson Gregory audiobook. Genre: adventure A hotel is robbed one night, and a cowboy makes his getaway with but few witnesses. When a young woman is also robbed, suspicion falls on one particular man who matches the description of the former thief. The robber is without a doubt a tall man; six feet four inches tall. Buck Thornton, at six feet four, in the area, and acting a bit peculiarly, becomes the suspect and sets about to uncover the true culprit. However, what he discovers during his detective work shocks him. Surely it couldn't be? He sets out to capture the thief and clear his name and just maybe prove to the girl who had been robbed that he was innocent of the crime. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:19:56) Chapter 02 (00:40:02) Chapter 03 (01:00:07) Chapter 04 (01:24:34) Chapter 05 (01:41:05) Chapter 06 (01:59:23) Chapter 07 (02:13:20) Chapter 08 (02:29:26) Chapter 09 (02:46:02) Chapter 10 (03:06:38) Chapter 11 (03:22:33) Chapter 12 (03:41:40) Chapter 13 (04:02:25) Chapter 14 (04:20:18) Chapter 15 (04:47:18) Chapter 16 (05:12:31) Chapter 17 (05:26:09) Chapter 18 (05:42:01) Chapter 19 (05:58:06) Chapter 20 (06:10:14) Chapter 21 (06:27:11) Chapter 22 (06:37:11) Chapter 23 (06:54:12) Chapter 24 (07:15:54) Chapter 25 (07:41:09) Chapter 26 (08:02:44) Chapter 27 (08:23:31) Chapter 28 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Salvage in Space by Jack Williamson audiobook. Genre: scifi In the lonely reaches of the asteroid belt, Thad Allen makes a bare living as a meteor miner, welding scavenged iron into a tiny drifting 'planet' he hopes to trade for a better life. Then his battered instruments pick up the impossible: a rocket ship, the Red Dragon, dead in space and drifting without a beacon. To a salvager, it is a fortune waiting to be claimed - if he can live long enough to collect it. Inside, Thad finds signs of a crew that vanished in terror, a single shivering dog that will not stop watching the shadows, and a mystery that turns the ship into a trap. The thing responsible is not only lethal, but nearly impossible to fight: a hidden presence that moves through the corridors without showing itself, leaving only dread and sudden violence behind. As Thad struggles to keep his nerve and keep his new companion alive, he uncovers a stranger discovery still - a young woman named Linda Cross, preserved beyond help and demanding answers. With air, power, and time running out, Thad must choose what is worth saving, and what might cost him everything. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:35:51) Chapter 02 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Shaggy Man of Oz by Jack Snow audiobook. Genre: fantasy 'During the past few years, several readers have written me asking: 'What ever happened to the Nome King's tunnel under the Deadly Desert?' The answer will be found in this book. Everyone who has read the Oz books knows and loves Shaggy. He first met Dorothy in 'The Road To Oz,' and from that time on had a number of adventures in which he discovered such famous Oz personages as the Patchwork Girl, Ojo, Unk Nunkie, the Glass Cat, Betsy Bobbin and her Mule Hank, and many others. So, it is about time that the Shaggy Man had an Oz book all his own—and here it is—faithfully recorded from the latest messages received from the Land of Oz.' For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:01:59) Chapter 01 (00:06:59) Chapter 02 (00:13:07) Chapter 03 (00:21:05) Chapter 04 (00:27:37) Chapter 05 (00:40:54) Chapter 06 (00:54:51) Chapter 07 (01:03:43) Chapter 08 (01:29:01) Chapter 09 (01:42:41) Chapter 10 (01:56:37) Chapter 11 (02:03:53) Chapter 12 (02:12:08) Chapter 13 (02:21:25) Chapter 14 (02:28:54) Chapter 15 (02:36:10) Chapter 16 (02:43:09) Chapter 17 (02:50:24) Chapter 18 (02:57:25) Chapter 19 (03:04:02) Chapter 20 (03:08:17) Chapter 21 (03:16:56) Chapter 22 (03:22:35) Chapter 23 (03:27:59) Chapter 24 (03:31:36) Chapter 25 (03:34:11) Chapter 26 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Magical Mimics in Oz by Jack Snow audiobook. Genre: fantasy The land of OZ is the happiest fairyland anywhere, but there are evil creatures whose only ambition is to destroy that happiness. Lurking inside Mount Illuso, just south of the Deadly Desert, live the Magic Mimics, a race devoted to causing the maximum chaos and unhappiness everywhere, but mainly in the land of OZ. Until now they have been kept at bay by a spell, but when Princess Ozma leaves OZ for 3 days, their foul machinians are quicly put into play. Princess Dorothy is left in chage of OZ and must deal with these happiness crushing beings. Can she do it? Will Toto help? You bet!!! Listen to this rip snorting adventure in oz and enjoy all of your old friends again. . For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:05:21) Chapter 02 (00:17:58) Chapter 03 (00:23:28) Chapter 04 (00:33:27) Chapter 05 (00:41:01) Chapter 06 (00:51:21) Chapter 07 (00:56:39) Chapter 08 (01:06:31) Chapter 09 (01:23:18) Chapter 10 (01:30:48) Chapter 11 (01:47:27) Chapter 12 (01:59:38) Chapter 13 (02:07:26) Chapter 14 (02:15:58) Chapter 15 (02:28:11) Chapter 17 (02:40:54) Chapter 18 (02:50:41) Chapter 19 (02:58:01) Chapter 20 (03:03:23) Chapter 21 (03:11:01) Chapter 22 (03:18:06) Chapter 23 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev audiobook. Genre: drama The fathers and children of the novel refers to the growing divide between the two generations of Russians, and the character Yevgeny Bazarov has been referred to as the 'first Bolshevik', for his nihilism and rejection of the old order. Turgenev wrote Fathers and Sons as a response to the growing cultural schism that he saw between liberals of the 1830s/1840s and the growing nihilist movement. Both the nihilists (the 'sons') and the 1830s liberals sought Western-based social change in Russia. Additionally, these two modes of thought were contrasted with the conservative Slavophiles, who believed that Russia's path lay in its traditional spirituality. Fathers and Sons might be regarded as the first wholly modern novel in Russian Literature (Gogol's Dead Souls, another main contender, is sometimes referred to as a poem or epic in prose as in the style of Dante's Divine Comedy). The novel introduces a dual character study, as seen with the gradual breakdown of Bazarov's and Arkady's nihilistic opposition to emotional display, especially in the case of Bazarov's love for Madame Odintsova and Fenichka. This prominent theme of character duality and deep psychological insight would exert an influence on most of the great Russian novels to come, most obviously echoed in the novels of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. The novel is also the first Russian work to gain prominence in the Western world, eventually gaining the approval of well established novelists Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, and Henry James, proving that Russian literature owes much to Ivan Turgenev. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:09:51) Chapter 02 (00:15:00) Chapter 03 (00:29:43) Chapter 04 (00:41:20) Chapter 05 (00:57:39) Chapter 06 (01:05:46) Chapter 07 (01:22:42) Chapter 08 (01:41:37) Chapter 09 (01:49:44) Chapter 10 (02:22:21) Chapter 11 (02:33:15) Chapter 12 (02:46:57) Chapter 13 (03:03:02) Chapter 14 (03:15:48) Chapter 15 (03:27:46) Chapter 16 (03:54:42) Chapter 17 (04:24:25) Chapter 18 (04:37:46) Chapter 19 (04:57:22) Chapter 20 (05:26:48) Chapter 21 (06:10:39) Chapter 22 (06:25:57) Chapter 23 (06:44:02) Chapter 24 (07:29:09) Chapter 25 (07:56:21) Chapter 26 (08:19:58) Chapter 27 (09:01:49) Chapter 28 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Silas Strong by Irving Bacheller audiobook. Genre: drama Per the author: 'The book has one high ambition. It has tried to tell the sad story of the wilderness itself—to show, from the woodsman's view-point, the play of great forces which have been tearing down his home and turning it into the flesh and bone of cities.' But this story is much more than that. It revolves around Silas Strong and his distaste for the modernization and destruction of his beloved forest surroundings, and how it pleases him to teach younger folk how to appreciate that which has been given us. He takes matters into his own hands, as only Silas Strong can do. Addison Irving Bacheller was an American journalist and writer who founded the first modern newspaper syndicate in the United States. He was a graduate of St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York in 1882. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:28:36) Chapter 02 (00:35:25) Chapter 03 (00:45:15) Chapter 04 (01:05:34) Chapter 05 (01:20:39) Chapter 06 (01:29:12) Chapter 07 (01:37:35) Chapter 08 (01:55:11) Chapter 09 (02:19:43) Chapter 10 (02:33:32) Chapter 11 (02:49:28) Chapter 12 (03:12:41) Chapter 13 (03:24:00) Chapter 14 (03:37:07) Chapter 15 (03:46:22) Chapter 16 (04:05:35) Chapter 17 (04:12:34) Chapter 18 (04:34:19) Chapter 19 (04:46:09) Chapter 20 (04:55:10) Chapter 21 (05:04:10) Chapter 22 (05:19:46) Chapter 23 (05:32:59) Chapter 24 (05:42:54) Chapter 25 (05:59:34) Chapter 26 (06:12:25) Chapter 27 (06:20:11) Chapter 28 (06:27:42) Chapter 29 (06:39:10) Chapter 30 (07:21:11) Chapter 31 (07:29:17) Chapter 32 (07:38:01) Chapter 33 (07:43:53) Chapter 34 (07:55:24) Chapter 35 (08:04:11) Chapter 36 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eben Holden by Irving Bacheller audiobook. Genre: family Eben Holden - A Tale of the North Country. Having lost both parents and his home in northern Vermont, orphan Willie Brower is taken in by Eben Holden, 'Uncle Eb' who transports him westward to save him from being sent to an orphanage. Through the Adirondacks and into the St. Lawrence valley they travel. Eben is kind, happy, and loves to tell stories to the youngster, many of which were to shape the life and ideals of Willie during his life. This story follows Willie as a young orphan, later as a journalist, and finally as a soldier who enlists in the army at the outset of the American Civil War. The book was immensely popular when it was published in 1900 and the years to follow, as the characters were all drawn from people who the author had known himself. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:16:33) Chapter 02 (00:35:17) Chapter 03 (01:03:43) Chapter 04 (01:34:52) Chapter 05 (01:44:26) Chapter 06 (01:53:15) Chapter 07 (02:16:14) Chapter 08 (02:34:39) Chapter 09 (02:48:32) Chapter 10 (03:05:28) Chapter 11 (03:09:21) Chapter 12 (03:25:39) Chapter 13 (03:47:22) Chapter 14 (03:57:15) Chapter 15 (04:04:58) Chapter 16 (04:25:36) Chapter 17 (04:40:16) Chapter 18 (04:52:30) Chapter 19 (05:05:09) Chapter 20 (05:12:05) Chapter 21 (05:22:41) Chapter 22 (05:35:36) Chapter 23 (05:46:18) Chapter 24 (05:55:41) Chapter 25 (06:01:22) Chapter 26 (06:14:05) Chapter 27 (06:22:21) Chapter 28 (06:38:19) Chapter 29 (06:53:46) Chapter 30 (07:05:54) Chapter 31 (07:19:52) Chapter 32 (07:29:18) Chapter 33 (07:38:20) Chapter 34 (07:51:07) Chapter 35 (08:04:16) Chapter 36 (08:17:18) Chapter 37 (08:23:40) Chapter 38 (08:38:42) Chapter 39 (09:09:47) Chapter 40 (09:38:31) Chapter 41 (09:41:41) Chapter 42 (09:49:20) Chapter 43 (10:05:00) Chapter 44 (10:15:39) Chapter 45 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cobb’s Anatomy by Irvin S. Cobb audiobook. Genre: comedy Cobbs Anatomy is not a medical textbook but a slyly titled collection of comic essays in which Irvin S. Cobb turns the human body into his favorite subject for satire. With the voice of a seasoned newspaper storyteller, Cobb plays both lecturer and long-suffering specimen, inviting you to examine the daily indignities of being built the way nature built you. In a series of sketches focused on tummies, teeth, hair, and finally hands and feet, he follows the anxieties and absurd rituals that grow up around ordinary body parts: the stout man trying to fit into a world designed for 'stock sizes,' the uneasy truce we make with dentists, the small tyrannies of barbers and beautifiers, and the fussing we do over grooming and appearance as if respectability depended on it. Cobb blends exaggeration, sharp observation, and self-deprecating confession to show how vanity, discomfort, and social expectations can turn simple anatomy into comedy. The result is a brisk, witty portrait of human nature disguised as an inspection of the human frame. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:30:40) Chapter 2 (01:00:13) Chapter 3 (01:32:02) Chapter 4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting audiobook. Genre: adventure Told through the wide-eyed narration of young Tommy Stubbins, The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle follows the famous country doctor of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh as he turns his gift for speaking with animals into a passport to the wider world. After Tommy brings an injured squirrel for help, he is drawn into Dolittle's bustling household of animal friends and begins learning their languages under the sharp, patient guidance of Polynesia the parrot. Before long, Dolittle's unusual talents pull him into human trouble too: a man accused of murder can only be cleared by the testimony of the one witness who cannot speak in court, his dog. When a message arrives that a gifted naturalist named Long Arrow has vanished, Dolittle outfits a ship, gathers a small crew of people and animals, and lets fate choose their destination. Their journey tests Dolittle's principles and ingenuity through comic negotiations, dangerous weather, and strange discoveries, including a drifting island with its own mysteries and conflicts. Warm, imaginative, and quietly moral, the novel celebrates curiosity, compassion, and the idea that understanding begins with learning another creature's language. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:01:49) Chapter 01 (00:07:05) Chapter 02 (00:15:20) Chapter 03 (00:24:59) Chapter 04 (00:34:16) Chapter 05 (00:44:21) Chapter 06 (00:48:41) Chapter 07 (00:54:16) Chapter 08 (00:58:49) Chapter 09 (01:04:18) Chapter 10 (01:09:46) Chapter 11 (01:15:25) Chapter 12 (01:20:21) Chapter 13 (01:24:30) Chapter 14 (01:28:45) Chapter 15 (01:33:26) Chapter 16 (01:36:50) Chapter 17 (01:41:21) Chapter 18 (01:45:30) Chapter 19 (01:51:18) Chapter 20 (01:57:45) Chapter 21 (02:02:35) Chapter 22 (02:08:04) Chapter 23 (02:12:55) Chapter 24 (02:16:39) Chapter 25 (02:21:52) Chapter 26 (02:27:53) Chapter 27 (02:31:57) Chapter 28 (02:39:12) Chapter 29 (02:43:26) Chapter 30 (02:49:41) Chapter 31 (02:57:44) Chapter 32 (03:03:21) Chapter 33 (03:07:22) Chapter 34 (03:15:09) Chapter 35 (03:25:19) Chapter 36 (03:31:26) Chapter 37 (03:38:36) Chapter 38 (03:58:29) Chapter 39 (04:03:48) Chapter 40 (04:12:31) Chapter 41 (04:18:57) Chapter 42 (04:26:39) Chapter 43 (04:36:24) Chapter 44 (04:45:28) Chapter 45 (04:50:14) Chapter 46 (04:55:40) Chapter 47 (05:00:36) Chapter 48 (05:07:35) Chapter 49 (05:13:20) Chapter 50 (05:17:48) Chapter 51 (05:25:18) Chapter 52 (05:35:22) Chapter 53 (05:43:15) Chapter 54 (05:51:22) Chapter 55 (05:57:59) Chapter 56 (06:03:06) Chapter 57 (06:12:38) Chapter 58 (06:19:52) Chapter 59 (06:23:42) Chapter 60 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Doctor Dolittle’s Zoo by Hugh Lofting audiobook. Genre: fantasy Doctor Dolittle, the man who can speak with the animals, is back home but running short of money to care for all the animals who need his help. He invites animals into his garden and encourages them to build their own societies and come and go as they please. This works very well. He has a mouse and rat town, a dog community, a burrow for badgers, and so forth. This does not make any money and only gets him into trouble with his neighbors. But the stories told by these mice and rats are entertaining and fun. And there is a mystery too, which Kling, the dog detective, helps solve. All of this with Lofting's usual delightful whimsy and light hearted touch that make you smile at every other sentence. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:05:03) Chapter 01 (00:11:47) Chapter 02 (00:21:03) Chapter 03 (00:31:36) Chapter 04 (00:41:32) Chapter 05 (00:50:44) Chapter 06 (01:00:48) Chapter 07 (01:08:55) Chapter 08 (01:17:07) Chapter 09 (01:26:45) Chapter 10 (01:36:12) Chapter 11 (01:45:15) Chapter 12 (01:54:30) Chapter 13 (02:04:17) Chapter 14 (02:13:17) Chapter 15 (02:22:05) Chapter 16 (02:30:47) Chapter 17 (02:39:44) Chapter 18 (02:49:10) Chapter 19 (03:03:15) Chapter 20 (03:12:02) Chapter 21 (03:23:40) Chapter 22 (03:37:54) Chapter 23 (03:49:35) Chapter 24 (03:58:09) Chapter 25 (04:06:28) Chapter 26 (04:15:29) Chapter 27 (04:23:54) Chapter 28 (04:29:59) Chapter 29 (04:39:00) Chapter 30 (04:50:21) Chapter 31 (04:56:21) Chapter 32 (05:02:50) Chapter 33 (05:11:04) Chapter 34 (05:20:29) Chapter 35 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Doctor Dolittle’s Post Office by Hugh Lofting audiobook. Genre: fantasy Doctor Dolittle's Post Office is the exciting third in the series of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books. As usual, the Doctor has many adventures while helping his animal friends and the people he meets. At the start book, Doctor Dolittle gets help from the sea birds to help to capture a notorious slave trader and free his captives, then organizes the postal service of a small African kingdom, Fantippo, ruled over by King Koko. He does this of course with the help of all his animal friends especially the birds. He discovers a hidden island populated by peace loving creatures, gets thrown into another African jail, invents animal alphabets, and defeats at least two armies. Each of the animals in the Dolittle family also tells a quaint and personal story. The postal program grows into a worldwide postal and publishing service for the benefit of animals everywhere. ..Whew! what an adventure! For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:03:14) Chapter 01 (00:14:03) Chapter 02 (00:24:46) Chapter 07 (00:35:56) Chapter 08 (00:52:53) Chapter 09 (01:07:52) Chapter 11 (01:18:52) Chapter 12 (01:34:35) Chapter 13 (01:49:45) Chapter 14 (01:59:20) Chapter 15 (02:04:05) Chapter 16 (02:11:24) Chapter 17 (02:17:22) Chapter 18 (02:28:26) Chapter 19 (02:34:28) Chapter 20 (02:54:10) Chapter 21 (03:10:20) Chapter 22 (03:25:03) Chapter 23 (03:42:47) Chapter 24 (03:57:33) Chapter 25 (04:06:50) Chapter 26 (04:16:21) Chapter 27 (04:30:12) Chapter 28 (04:43:57) Chapter 29 (04:54:30) Chapter 30 (05:04:31) Chapter 31 (05:14:30) Chapter 32 (05:31:09) Chapter 33 (05:42:19) Chapter 34 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac audiobook. Genre: drama In Restoration-era Paris, where titles and money can open any door, young law student Eugene de Rastignac arrives with ambition and a thin purse and takes a room in the shabby Maison Vauquer boardinghouse. There he meets a gallery of strivers and castoffs, including the quiet, ridiculed old lodger known as Father Goriot, who seems to be sinking into poverty for reasons no one understands. As Eugene is drawn into the glittering salons of the Faubourg Saint-Germain through distant family connections, he also encounters the mysterious, sharp-minded Vautrin, whose cynical lessons about power and survival tempt Eugene to trade principles for advancement. Between the boardinghouse's cramped dining room and the city's grand drawing rooms, Eugene watches alliances form and collapse, reputations bought and sold, and affection tested by social ambition. At the heart of it all lies Goriot's all-consuming love for his daughters, a devotion that exposes the costs of status, the cruelty of gossip, and the hunger that drives people to betray one another. Balzac's classic unspools as a portrait of Paris itself: seductive, pitiless, and impossible to resist. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:43:17) Chapter 02 (01:16:11) Chapter 03 (01:34:02) Chapter 04 (01:58:59) Chapter 05 (02:10:06) Chapter 06 (02:39:39) Chapter 07 (03:28:37) Chapter 08 (03:55:01) Chapter 09 (04:44:06) Chapter 10 (05:30:37) Chapter 11 (06:16:04) Chapter 12 (06:59:34) Chapter 13 (07:41:06) Chapter 14 (08:22:48) Chapter 15 (08:59:19) Chapter 16 (09:41:44) Chapter 17 (10:25:26) Chapter 18 (10:56:11) Chapter 19 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cousin Betty by Honore de Balzac audiobook. Genre: drama Cousin Betty (La Cousine Bette), published in serial format in 1846, was one of the last and greatest of Balzac's works. It was part of his long novel collection titled La Comédie Humaine. Set in mid-19th-century France, it tells the story of a woman who resents her position as a 'poor relation.' As we follow her schemes to bring ruin upon the more privileged members of her family, we see a society in transition. The stability and idealism of the old order give way to a new bourgeois world in which virtue is strangled in the struggle for power and money. In this novel, Balzac searchingly probes the psychology and motivations of his characters: his work influenced the development of literary realism, as practised by writers such as Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Proust, and Henry James. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:09:53) Chapter 02 (00:35:46) Chapter 03 (01:03:26) Chapter 04 (01:30:36) Chapter 05 (01:56:41) Chapter 06 (02:25:08) Chapter 07 (02:49:13) Chapter 08 (03:16:51) Chapter 09 (03:38:52) Chapter 10 (04:00:58) Chapter 11 (04:19:01) Chapter 12 (04:41:32) Chapter 13 (05:07:55) Chapter 14 (05:35:41) Chapter 15 (06:00:38) Chapter 16 (06:17:48) Chapter 17 (06:39:05) Chapter 18 (06:59:35) Chapter 19 (07:25:30) Chapter 20 (07:50:12) Chapter 21 (08:23:58) Chapter 22 (08:55:10) Chapter 23 (09:20:39) Chapter 24 (09:47:52) Chapter 25 (10:15:00) Chapter 26 (10:34:14) Chapter 27 (11:03:16) Chapter 28 (11:35:11) Chapter 29 (12:10:00) Chapter 30 (12:39:16) Chapter 31 (13:19:35) Chapter 32 (13:52:58) Chapter 33 (14:37:01) Chapter 34 (15:05:23) Chapter 35 (15:29:53) Chapter 36 (16:00:32) Chapter 37 (16:28:46) Chapter 38 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Gray Phantom by Herman Landon audiobook. Genre: mystery On opening night at New York's Thelma Theater, the audience settles into a hush just before the climax of His Soul's Master - a play by young dramatist Helen Hardwick. Then the performance turns into a nightmare: the leading actress collapses and dies under baffling, suspicious circumstances, leaving behind a fragmentary clue and a chill of ominous laughter that Helen cannot forget. Because Helen was watching from a privileged vantage point and glimpsed something no one else seems to have noticed, she is pulled from the safety of the footlights into a dangerous investigation that stretches far beyond the theater walls. Rumors swirl about Mr. Shei, a shadowy figure whispered to be behind a growing pattern of threats, and about the sudden reappearance of the Gray Phantom - a name tied to audacious crimes, elaborate disguises, and a reputation that makes him equal parts suspect and savior. As pressure mounts and powerful men become targets in a scheme of intimidation and extortion, Helen must decide whom to trust while navigating a world of secrets where every entrance feels like a trap and every curtain call could be fatal. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:22:38) Chapter 02 (00:55:38) Chapter 03 (01:30:38) Chapter 04 (01:43:43) Chapter 05 (02:08:22) Chapter 06 (02:33:42) Chapter 07 (03:04:00) Chapter 08 (03:18:06) Chapter 09 (03:34:19) Chapter 10 (03:55:05) Chapter 11 (04:11:51) Chapter 12 (04:29:59) Chapter 13 (04:58:01) Chapter 14 (05:09:52) Chapter 15 (05:31:50) Chapter 16 (05:48:35) Chapter 17 (06:19:41) Chapter 18 (06:37:45) Chapter 19 (06:57:48) Chapter 20 (07:28:07) Chapter 21 (07:48:43) Chapter 22 (08:05:33) Chapter 23 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adventures of Bindle by Herbert Jenkins audiobook. Genre: comedy In early 20th-century London, Joseph Bindle is a mild-mannered, endlessly helpful little man whose greatest talent is turning everyday errands into unexpected escapades. A working-class clerk with a gift for friendly chatter and an instinct to do the 'right thing' (even when no one asked), Bindle drifts through streets, shops, pubs, and parlors with the cheerful certainty that everything will work out - and the stubborn determination to make it so. At home, his capable wife, Mrs. Bindle, tries to keep order and dignity intact while her husband collects odd jobs, acquaintances, and misunderstandings like souvenirs. When a series of small obligations, favors, and chance encounters pulls Bindle into other people's private troubles, he finds himself juggling loyalty, reputation, and the unwritten rules of his neighborhood. Warmly observant and sharply funny, Adventures of Bindle follows one ordinary man as he navigates social class, respectability, and community ties, proving that heroism can look a lot like persistence, kindness, and a well-timed cup of tea - even when chaos is never far behind. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:27:59) Chapter 02 (01:01:56) Chapter 03 (01:17:01) Chapter 04 (01:38:34) Chapter 05 (02:01:18) Chapter 06 (02:19:24) Chapter 07 (02:43:33) Chapter 08 (03:19:41) Chapter 09 (03:43:21) Chapter 10 (04:09:05) Chapter 11 (04:23:13) Chapter 12 (04:52:26) Chapter 13 (05:09:02) Chapter 14 (05:25:09) Chapter 15 (05:53:35) Chapter 16 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Untroubled Mind by Herbert J. Hall audiobook. Genre: self help In The Untroubled Mind, physician Herbert J. Hall turns his clinical experience with nervous strain, worry, and exhaustion into a steady, practical guide for anyone whose thoughts run ahead of their life. Writing with the calm authority of a doctor who has watched anxiety reshape sleep, appetite, work, and relationships, Hall explains how a mind becomes overburdened and why willpower alone often fails to restore balance. Through clear explanations and relatable case sketches, he invites listeners to notice the habits that keep distress alive: rumination, fear of symptoms, and the constant search for certainty. Hall then offers a grounded program for recovery built on attention training, sensible routine, rest that actually restores, and purposeful activity that rebuilds confidence. Rather than promising instant peace, the book focuses on small, repeatable choices that loosen the grip of worry and help the body and mind cooperate again. Warm, direct, and quietly motivating, The Untroubled Mind speaks to modern stress with timeless insights about discipline, compassion, and the daily practice of steadiness. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:12:38) Chapter 02 (00:23:48) Chapter 03 (00:35:01) Chapter 04 (00:44:06) Chapter 05 (00:57:20) Chapter 06 (01:07:52) Chapter 07 (01:15:14) Chapter 08 (01:23:50) Chapter 09 (01:32:18) Chapter 10 (01:40:12) Chapter 11 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Snow-Burner by Henry Oyen audiobook. Genre: folklore The Snow-Burner is what the Native Americans called Reivers, and it was a rough and tumble life in the land where Reivers chose to live up to his name. The name was attributed to Reivers upon his proof after arriving in the north country because of his ability to defeat all perceived enemies in whatever means was necessary; whether by brute force and tough action, or by sheer cunning which he had gained living in the city in his earlier days. When assigned to oversee a group of foreigners in a work camp, he treated them with utter cruelty. When in search of an unknown source of gold, he found it necessary to combine his cunning with his forceful ways, proving his worthiness of the title given him. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:15:09) Chapter 02 (00:25:42) Chapter 03 (00:46:47) Chapter 04 (01:03:46) Chapter 05 (01:13:41) Chapter 06 (01:27:27) Chapter 07 (01:50:46) Chapter 08 (02:00:41) Chapter 09 (02:16:52) Chapter 10 (02:22:22) Chapter 11 (03:00:16) Chapter 12 (03:13:26) Chapter 13 (03:26:04) Chapter 14 (03:45:20) Chapter 15 (04:20:26) Chapter 16 (04:38:09) Chapter 17 (04:50:27) Chapter 18 (05:00:12) Chapter 19 (05:26:12) Chapter 20 (05:32:42) Chapter 21 (05:48:23) Chapter 22 (06:06:19) Chapter 23 (06:28:56) Chapter 24 (06:47:58) Chapter 25 (07:07:33) Chapter 26 (07:21:03) Chapter 27 (07:41:14) Chapter 28 (07:49:18) Chapter 29 (07:59:31) Chapter 30 (08:05:36) Chapter 31 (08:13:48) Chapter 32 (08:25:08) Chapter 33 (08:35:13) Chapter 34 (08:45:09) Chapter 35 (08:53:35) Chapter 36 (09:02:49) Chapter 37 (09:17:52) Chapter 38 (09:30:21) Chapter 39 (09:51:17) Chapter 40 (10:07:30) Chapter 41 (10:14:50) Chapter 42 (10:22:51) Chapter 43 (10:36:47) Chapter 44 (10:44:52) Chapter 45 (10:59:15) Chapter 46 (11:08:29) Chapter 47 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau audiobook. Genre: philosophy Written in 1849 after Henry David Thoreau's brief imprisonment for refusing to pay a poll tax, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience is a sharp, compact manifesto on what a person owes to conscience when the law supports injustice. Thoreau challenges the comforting belief that obeying the state is automatically virtuous, arguing that citizens become complicit when government wages an unjust war or upholds human bondage. Moving from personal experience to public principle, he asks whether a moral individual should wait for majorities, elections, or slow reforms, or instead withdraw cooperation from wrongdoing right now. With brisk logic and vivid conviction, he explores the tension between practical citizenship and ethical integrity: how much power a government should have, what it means to be free, and what sacrifice may be required to live honestly. This essay is both a call to inner responsibility and a blueprint for nonviolent resistance, offering ideas that later inspired movements for social change while remaining fiercely individual and urgently contemporary. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:34:16) Chapter 02 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices