Classic Audiobook Collection

Dear Enemy by Jean Webster audiobook. Genre: romance In this witty, warm epistolary novel, Sallie McBride takes on a challenge most people would run from: becoming superintendent of the John Grier Home, a bleak, old-fashioned orphanage with a tight budget, stubborn traditions, and a board of trustees more interested in appearances than children. Sallie writes a lively stream of letters to her best friend Judy Abbott (now comfortably married), to Judy's husband Jervis, and to a handful of others who can help her survive the job - including the one correspondent she least expects to rely on: the sharp-tongued young doctor, Robin MacRae, whom she dubs her 'dear enemy.' As Sallie tries to replace rigid rules with humane care, she must navigate staff rivalries, skeptical benefactors, and the daily realities of raising dozens of lively, wounded, hopeful kids. Full of humor and heart, Dear Enemy blends social conscience with sparkling banter, tracing how small reforms, patient attention, and unexpected alliances can change an institution - and how a clash of opinions can slowly turn into something far more personal. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:14:43) Chapter 2 (00:32:43) Chapter 3 (00:48:46) Chapter 4 (01:04:17) Chapter 5 (01:19:31) Chapter 6 (01:33:44) Chapter 7 (01:52:15) Chapter 8 (02:07:47) Chapter 9 (02:32:11) Chapter 10 (02:47:43) Chapter 11 (03:03:22) Chapter 12 (03:19:49) Chapter 13 (03:34:58) Chapter 14 (03:54:19) Chapter 15 (04:14:30) Chapter 16 (04:27:15) Chapter 17 (04:43:16) Chapter 18 (05:01:28) Chapter 19 (05:17:22) Chapter 20 (05:34:08) Chapter 21 (05:47:41) Chapter 22 (06:01:19) Chapter 23 (06:19:13) Chapter 24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Alaskan by James Oliver Curwood audiobook. Genre: adventure In the raw, ice-bright reaches of early-1900s Alaska, Mary Standish boards a northbound steamer with little more than a battered suitcase and a fierce need to outrun her past. Watching over her is Captain Rifle, a weathered old seaman who knows every treacherous channel and every kind of human desperation that rides the Alaskan coast. Waiting beyond the docks is Alan Holt, a hard-riding frontier landholder determined to defend his vast holdings and the people who depend on them from speculators and corrupt powerbrokers hungry for timber, gold, and influence. When a sudden tragedy on the voyage pulls Mary into the center of a widening struggle, her flight becomes a test of courage, trust, and survival. As Mary and Alan are drawn together, they are forced to navigate a wilderness where the law is far away, violence is close at hand, and the stakes include not only fortunes but the fate of the land itself. Sweeping, romantic, and fiercely grounded in the frontier spirit, The Alaskan pits love and conscience against greed in a country that demands everything from those who dare to claim it. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:13:31) Chapter 02 (00:36:41) Chapter 03 (00:58:49) Chapter 04 (01:20:22) Chapter 05 (01:45:07) Chapter 06 (01:59:30) Chapter 07 (02:12:17) Chapter 08 (02:30:13) Chapter 09 (02:57:37) Chapter 10 (03:19:55) Chapter 11 (03:31:57) Chapter 12 (04:08:42) Chapter 13 (04:26:20) Chapter 14 (04:48:51) Chapter 15 (05:09:19) Chapter 16 (05:22:21) Chapter 17 (05:42:49) Chapter 18 (06:03:37) Chapter 19 (06:32:31) Chapter 20 (06:50:26) Chapter 21 (07:06:18) Chapter 22 (07:19:44) Chapter 23 (07:38:11) Chapter 24 (08:03:52) Chapter 25 (08:22:40) Chapter 26 (08:47:55) Chapter 27 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Boys Book of Famous Soldiers by J. Walker McSpadden audiobook. Genre: history In Boys Book of Famous Soldiers, J. Walker McSpadden gathers a gallery of military lives into a brisk, story-driven introduction to the men who shaped famous campaigns and the eras around them. Written for young readers but engaging for anyone who likes clear, dramatic history, the book moves from one portrait to the next, sketching childhood influences, early ambitions, decisive moments of leadership, and the hard choices demanded by war. Each chapter sets its subject against a vivid backdrop of shifting nations, rival commanders, and battles where discipline, timing, and nerve matter as much as strength. McSpadden is less interested in dry timelines than in the human qualities behind reputation: courage under pressure, loyalty to comrades, the burdens of command, and the way victory can carry a cost. Along the way, the book invites listeners to weigh honor and ambition against the realities of conflict, asking what makes a soldier memorable after the smoke clears. The result is a lively, accessible tour through military history, told through the lives that defined it. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:02:56) Chapter 01 (00:16:22) Chapter 02 (00:32:21) Chapter 03 (00:52:17) Chapter 04 (01:11:33) Chapter 05 (01:32:08) Chapter 06 (01:50:25) Chapter 07 (02:05:54) Chapter 08 (02:20:07) Chapter 09 (02:35:09) Chapter 10 (02:52:51) Chapter 11 (03:10:39) Chapter 12 (03:28:27) Chapter 13 (03:40:20) Chapter 14 (03:53:27) Chapter 15 (04:09:31) Chapter 16 (04:27:53) Chapter 17 (04:38:15) Chapter 18 (04:50:08) Chapter 19 (05:01:36) Chapter 20 (05:13:27) Chapter 21 (05:24:00) Chapter 22 (05:36:32) Chapter 23 (05:50:09) Chapter 24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Atlantis - The Antediluvian World by Ignatius Loyola Donnelly audiobook. Genre: history First published in 1882, Ignatius Loyola Donnelly's Atlantis - The Antediluvian World is a bold investigation into one of history's most enduring mysteries: was Plato's Atlantis a real place, and could it have been the lost cradle of civilization? Donnelly, a politician turned restless scholar, builds a sweeping case that an advanced island continent once existed in the Atlantic Ocean and that its destruction by a prehistoric catastrophe scattered survivors across the globe. Drawing on classical texts, early archaeology, comparative mythology, linguistics, and 19th-century geology, he links ancient Egypt, the Americas, and Europe through shared symbols, flood legends, and technological echoes that, he argues, point back to a single source. As Donnelly challenges the mainstream view of independent cultural development, readers are invited into a spirited debate over evidence, interpretation, and the human desire to connect the fragments of the distant past. Part detective story, part manifesto, and part tour of the world's oldest stories, this influential work remains a landmark of alternative history and a vivid portrait of Victorian-era curiosity about humanity's origins. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:09:59) Chapter 02 (00:37:31) Chapter 03 (01:07:45) Chapter 04 (01:30:18) Chapter 05 (01:54:28) Chapter 06 (02:04:29) Chapter 07 (02:22:38) Chapter 08 (02:31:35) Chapter 09 (02:52:14) Chapter 10 (03:23:24) Chapter 11 (03:49:03) Chapter 12 (04:14:02) Chapter 13 (04:40:45) Chapter 14 (05:02:26) Chapter 15 (05:18:18) Chapter 16 (05:44:10) Chapter 17 (06:16:32) Chapter 18 (06:27:03) Chapter 19 (06:52:39) Chapter 20 (07:18:23) Chapter 21 (07:58:14) Chapter 22 (08:21:21) Chapter 23 (09:09:58) Chapter 24 (09:48:48) Chapter 25 (09:58:35) Chapter 26 (10:12:03) Chapter 27 (10:34:37) Chapter 28 (10:57:41) Chapter 29 (11:07:22) Chapter 30 (11:15:34) Chapter 31 (11:46:18) Chapter 32 (12:14:12) Chapter 33 (12:27:13) Chapter 34 (12:40:43) Chapter 35 (13:05:03) Chapter 36 (13:26:26) Chapter 37 (13:33:08) Chapter 38 (14:00:01) Chapter 39 (14:09:59) Chapter 40 (14:37:40) Chapter 41 (15:23:15) Chapter 42 (16:02:58) Chapter 43 (16:36:41) Chapter 44 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Histories Vol. 1 by Herodotus of Halicarnassus audiobook. Genre: history Herodotus of Halicarnassus opens his great inquiry into how peoples remember, explain, and wage war with one another. In Histories Vol. 1, he traces the rising power of Persia and the long chain of rivalries that will culminate in the great clashes between East and West. The narrative begins with stories of famous abductions and reprisals that ancient audiences treated as the roots of conflict, then turns to the formidable kings of Lydia, especially Croesus, whose wealth and ambition draw him into confrontation with a new imperial force. Along the way, Herodotus blends political history with vivid travel writing: customs, religions, marvels, and whispered anecdotes gathered from priests, soldiers, and local guides. His method is as much about questioning sources as it is about telling a gripping story, weighing competing accounts and pausing to reflect on fate, pride, and the dangers of overconfidence. By weaving together court intrigue, diplomacy, battlefield decisions, and cultural portraiture, this first volume establishes a sweeping world of interconnected kingdoms and sets the stage for a larger struggle that will reshape the ancient Mediterranean. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:15:47) Chapter 02 (00:41:46) Chapter 03 (01:10:41) Chapter 04 (01:35:20) Chapter 05 (02:00:30) Chapter 06 (02:22:52) Chapter 07 (02:51:58) Chapter 08 (03:15:53) Chapter 09 (03:41:43) Chapter 10 (04:21:41) Chapter 11 (04:42:22) Chapter 12 (05:02:31) Chapter 13 (05:32:40) Chapter 14 (05:57:34) Chapter 15 (06:21:52) Chapter 16 (06:46:58) Chapter 17 (07:09:00) Chapter 18 (07:40:25) Chapter 19 (08:00:53) Chapter 20 (08:21:59) Chapter 21 (08:43:03) Chapter 22 (09:05:49) Chapter 23 (09:24:38) Chapter 24 (09:44:59) Chapter 25 (10:02:19) Chapter 26 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago by Hannah Trager audiobook. Genre: history In Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago, Hannah Trager invites listeners into a series of vivid, intimate scenes that recreate everyday Jewish life as it was remembered and recorded half a century earlier. Framed through family conversation and letters read aloud in a modest London home, the book follows the Jacobs family as they prepare for Shabbat and wrestle with the pressures of fitting in while remaining faithful to tradition. The children, especially Benjamin, become a bridge between worlds: the crowded streets and schools of immigrant London, and the longing, idealized pull of Jerusalem. As letters from the Holy City are shared, daily routines open outward into a larger portrait of Jewish home practice, education, charity, and community life in Palestine: spring cleaning before Passover under conditions of scarcity, Sabbath meals and household arrangements, and the textures of neighborhood support and disagreement. Warmly observant and rich with cultural detail, Trager's sketches explore identity, environment, and the quiet heroism of keeping a way of life alive across distances and generations. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:13:43) Chapter 02 (00:22:47) Chapter 03 (00:32:25) Chapter 04 (00:42:05) Chapter 05 (00:55:00) Chapter 06 (01:04:54) Chapter 07 (01:09:18) Chapter 08 (01:17:11) Chapter 09 (01:24:27) Chapter 10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Omnilingual by H. Beam Piper audiobook. Genre: scifi On a windswept, long-dead Mars, an Earth expedition uncovers a buried city that could rewrite humanity's understanding of alien intelligence. But the most valuable find is not a monument or a machine - it is writing: inscriptions, labels, and fragments of text scattered through the ruins. For the scientists on the team, the discovery is exhilarating and terrifying, because deciphering an unknown language without a living speaker can be a puzzle with no solution. At the center of the effort is Martha Dane, a brilliant linguist whose training, intuition, and stubborn patience may be the difference between a priceless breakthrough and a permanent mystery. As personalities clash, priorities diverge, and time and resources tighten, the team must decide what evidence matters, what assumptions are dangerous, and how much of their own culture they are smuggling into every translation attempt. Omnilingual is a tense, idea-driven tale about the limits of knowledge, the fragile bridge between symbols and meaning, and the thrilling moment when the past becomes readable again. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:42:00) Chapter 2 (01:11:11) Chapter 3 (01:27:12) Chapter 4 (01:39:10) Chapter 5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Geronimo by Geronimo audiobook. Genre: biography Geronimo’s Story of His Life is the oral life history of a legendary Apache warrior. Composed in 1905, while Geronimo was being held as a U.S. prisoner of war at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Geronimo’s story found audience and publication through the efforts of S. M. Barrett--Lawton, Oklahoma, Superintendent of Education, who wrote in his preface that “the initial idea of the compilation of this work was . . . to extend to Geronimo as a prisoner of war the courtesy due any captive, i.e. the right to state the causes which impelled him in his opposition to our civilization and laws.” Barrett, with the assistance of Asa Deklugie, son of Nedni chief Whoa as Apache translator, wrote down the story as Geronimo told it --beginning with an Apache creation myth. Geronimo recounted bloody battles with Mexican troopers, against whom he had vowed vengeance in 1858 after they murdered his mother, his wife, and his three small children. He told of treaties made between Apaches and the U.S. Army--and treaties broken. There were periods of confinement on the reservations, and escapes. And there were his final days on the run, when the U.S. Army put 5000 men in the field against his small band of 39 Apache. Geronimo had been a prisoner of war for 19 years when he told his story. Born in 1829, he was by then an old man, no longer a warrior, and he had come to an accommodation with many things “white,” including an appreciation of money. U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs personnel took him to the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904, where he roped cows in the “wild west show” and signed his name for “ten, fifteen, or twenty five cents.” By then he was perhaps the United States’ most “famous” Indian. In 1905 he was even invited to ride horseback in President Theodore Roosevelt’s inaugural parade (though still a prisoner of war!). Geronimo dedicated his book to Roosevelt with the plea that he and his people be allowed to return to their ancestral land in Arizona. “It is my land, my home, my father’s land, to which I now ask to be allowed to return. I want to spend my last days there, and be buried among those mountains. If this could be I might die in peace.” Geronimo died at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in 1909, still a prisoner of war. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 0 (00:20:45) Chapter 1 (00:43:15) Chapter 2 (01:11:02) Chapter 3 (01:31:06) Chapter 4 (01:56:14) Chapter 5 (02:14:50) Chapter 6 (02:37:02) Chapter 7 (03:11:45) Chapter 8 (03:29:15) Chapter 9 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Harvester by Gene Stratton-Porter audiobook. Genre: romance In the rich wetlands and woodlands of early 20th-century Indiana, David Langston makes an unusual living: he is a harvester of medicinal plants, gathering roots, leaves, and blossoms to supply doctors and pharmacies. Known for his skill, integrity, and near-mystical knowledge of the wild, David has built a life of hard work and quiet purpose, yet he aches for companionship and a home filled with warmth. When he offers shelter to Ruth Jameson, a frail, guarded young woman with a painful past and little trust left to spend, their lives become entwined in ways neither expects. As David tries to help Ruth heal in body and spirit, the natural world around them becomes both refuge and proving ground, testing patience, belief, and the courage to begin again. But Ruth's history is not easily escaped, and David must confront the limits of goodwill when secrets, fear, and outside pressures threaten the fragile peace they are building. Lush, heartfelt, and steeped in nature lore, The Harvester is a story of healing, hope, and love hard-won. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:29:19) Chapter 02 (00:56:21) Chapter 03 (01:22:37) Chapter 04 (01:49:56) Chapter 05 (02:21:34) Chapter 06 (02:49:29) Chapter 07 (03:21:16) Chapter 08 (04:04:16) Chapter 09 (04:28:53) Chapter 10 (05:13:35) Chapter 11 (05:44:30) Chapter 12 (06:22:51) Chapter 1 (07:00:48) Chapter 2 (07:39:07) Chapter 14 (08:01:17) Chapter 15 (08:51:24) Chapter 3 (09:31:48) Chapter 4 (10:14:44) Chapter 17 (11:03:07) Chapter 18 (11:54:38) Chapter 5 (12:30:07) Chapter 6 (13:03:03) Chapter 20 (14:03:01) Chapter 21 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Club of Queer Trades by G. K. Chesterton audiobook. Genre: mystery In Edwardian London, the greatest oddities are not found in back alleys but in drawing rooms - and nowhere more so than in the Club of Queer Trades, an exclusive society whose members pledge to earn their living in ways no one has ever attempted before. Into this world steps Basil Grant, a former judge turned amateur detective, whose gift is not merely to notice clues but to understand the strange human motives that make them possible. When his practical, level-headed brother Rupert encounters a series of bewildering incidents - a seemingly purposeless kidnapping, a private carriage that behaves like a trap, a street that turns into a stage for deception - the brothers are drawn toward the Club and its eccentric entrepreneurs. Each case is a puzzle built from disguises, misunderstandings, and ingenious professional inventions, but beneath the whimsy lies a sharper question: what is normal, and who gets to decide? Witty, brisk, and packed with paradox, Chesterton's linked mysteries invite you to laugh at the absurd while watching two keen minds try to restore order to a world that insists on being delightfully, dangerously peculiar. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:56:30) Chapter 2 (01:34:36) Chapter 3 (02:19:08) Chapter 4 (03:09:07) Chapter 5 (03:52:39) Chapter 6 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The White Moll by Frank L. Packard audiobook. Genre: thriller Frank Lucius Packard (February 2, 1877 – February 17, 1942) born in Montreal, Quebec, was a Canadian novelist. Packard is credited with bridging the gap from the “cozy” style mysteries to the more gritty, hard-boiled style of such writers as Dashiell Hammet and Raymond Chandler. Packard also wrote a series of novels, beginning in 1917, featuring Jimmie Dale. A wealthy playboy by day, at night, Jimmie becomes a crimefighter “The Gray Seal” complete with mask and secret hide-out, “The Sanctuary”. This character certainly influenced later crime-fighting characters such as Batman and The Shadow. In The White Moll (1920) Rhoda Gray, “The White Moll”, an angel of mercy who spends her time helping the poor in the slums of New York City, is drawn into the criminal world when she attempts to help Gypsy Nan, who is not what she seems. Accused of a crime and on the run from the police, she must battle the most nefarious criminal gang in the New York underworld to prove her innocence. Populated by such characters as Pierre Dangler, the Pug, Pinkie Bonn, Skeeny, the Sparrow and above all “the Adventurer”, this story contains shoot-outs, car chases, adventure and enough suspense and deception to satisfy the most avid mystery lover. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:24:55) Chapter 2 (00:53:55) Chapter 3 (01:22:05) Chapter 4 (01:40:28) Chapter 5 (02:05:26) Chapter 6 (02:27:49) Chapter 7 (02:58:33) Chapter 8 (03:27:26) Chapter 9 (03:48:38) Chapter 10 (04:21:52) Chapter 11 (04:49:48) Chapter 12 (05:17:22) Chapter 13 (05:38:56) Chapter 14 (05:58:14) Chapter 15 (06:19:43) Chapter 16 (06:46:39) Chapter 17 (07:03:13) Chapter 18 (07:37:48) Chapter 19 (08:04:08) Chapter 20 (08:20:34) Chapter 21 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers audiobook. Genre: thriller Containing many realistic details based on Childers' own sailing trips along the German North Sea coast, the book is the retelling of a yachting expedition in the early 20th century combined with an adventurous spy story. It was one of the early invasion novels which predicted war with Germany and called for British preparedness. The plot involves the uncovering of secret German preparations for an invasion of the United Kingdom. It is often called the first modern spy novel, although others are as well, it was certainly very influential in the genre and for its time. The book enjoyed immense popularity in the years before World War I and was extremely influential. Winston Churchill later credited it as a major reason that the Admiralty decided to establish naval bases at Invergordon, the Firth of Forth and Scapa Flow. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:05:53) Chapter 01 (00:24:05) Chapter 02 (00:57:06) Chapter 03 (01:22:11) Chapter 04 (01:41:33) Chapter 05 (02:02:37) Chapter 06 (02:20:28) Chapter 07 (02:50:04) Chapter 08 (03:18:12) Chapter 09 (03:38:52) Chapter 10 (03:57:54) Chapter 11 (04:18:32) Chapter 12 (04:43:29) Chapter 13 (04:56:42) Chapter 14 (05:16:38) Chapter 15 (05:34:13) Chapter 16 (06:06:40) Chapter 17 (06:34:21) Chapter 18 (06:48:48) Chapter 19 (07:21:37) Chapter 20 (07:48:35) Chapter 21 (08:23:52) Chapter 22 (08:53:48) Chapter 23 (09:25:36) Chapter 24 (10:02:08) Chapter 25 (10:31:47) Chapter 26 (11:03:08) Chapter 27 (11:39:59) Chapter 28 (12:00:59) Chapter 29 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Grey Woman by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook. Genre: thriller Presented as a found manuscript passed from hand to hand, The Grey Woman draws you into a hushed confession of fear, courage, and reinvention. In a small German town, the gentle Anna Scherer is courted into an elegant marriage that promises security and sophistication. But behind the fine house, the polished manners, and the glitter of high society, Anna begins to sense a deeper menace in her husband and the circle that surrounds him. When scattered clues harden into certainty, Anna finds an unexpected ally in Amante, a sharp-eyed servant whose loyalty is matched only by her practical daring. Together they attempt what seems impossible: to break free from a powerful man who does not intend to be refused, and from a past that can track them across borders. As Anna is forced into secrecy and disguise, every knock at the door becomes a test of nerve, and every new refuge carries the question of who can be trusted. Elizabeth Gaskell blends Gothic atmosphere with psychological realism, exploring coercion, survival, and the price of reclaiming your own name. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:37:49) Chapter 02 (01:25:42) Chapter 03 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Thing from the Lake by Eleanor M. Ingram audiobook. Genre: horror To get away from city life periodically, New Yorker Roger Locke purchases an abandoned farm house in rural Connecticut, and with the assistance of his cousin Phillida and her beau Ethan Vere, he sets about fixing up the place. Immediately however, an unseen mysterious woman begins giving him warnings during nocturnal visits to leave the house at once. Soon he begins hearing strange ominous sounds emanating from the tiny lake at the back of the house coupled with a permeation of sickly odors. An evil presence then begins to visit him during the witching hours of the late night, challenging him to a battle of wits from which there can be only one victor. Is his mysterious female visitor there to help and encourage him to flee from the house, or is she working in tandem with The Thing From the Lake? A gripping, occasionally frightening tale, Ms. Ingram wastes no time in grabbing the reader into the story and manages to weave a tale that will leave the reader guessing at every turn of events. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:10:02) Chapter 02 (00:37:37) Chapter 03 (01:38:46) Chapter 04 (01:43:38) Chapter 05 (01:56:34) Chapter 06 (02:17:06) Chapter 07 (02:43:05) Chapter 08 (02:49:52) Chapter 09 (03:01:27) Chapter 10 (03:23:41) Chapter 11 (03:45:15) Chapter 12 (04:00:55) Chapter 13 (04:24:06) Chapter 14 (04:35:30) Chapter 15 (05:05:35) Chapter 16 (05:43:45) Chapter 17 (06:00:08) Chapter 18 (06:22:44) Chapter 19 (06:57:15) Chapter 20 (07:04:59) Chapter 21 (07:17:22) Chapter 22 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Life of Charlemagne by Einhard audiobook. Genre: biography Written by Einhard, a scholar and court insider who served in the Carolingian court, Life of Charlemagne is an intimate portrait of the ruler who reshaped early medieval Europe. Part eyewitness memoir, part political history, it follows Charlemagne from his ascent amid a turbulent Frankish world through the long campaigns and hard choices required to expand and secure a vast realm. Einhard traces the pressures of governing a patchwork of peoples and frontiers, the drive to impose order through law and administration, and the ambition to revive learning and culture in an age often marked by fragmentation. Alongside battles and diplomacy, the narrative lingers on the daily life of the court: Charlemagne's habits, tastes, religious devotion, family relationships, and the public image he cultivated as king and emperor. The central drama is not only conquest, but the effort to turn power into lasting stability, and to craft a legacy that can outlive a single extraordinary leader. Clear, vivid, and surprisingly personal, this short classic remains one of the most influential biographies of the Middle Ages. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:12:07) Chapter 02 (00:29:28) Chapter 03 (00:46:43) Chapter 04 (01:00:38) Chapter 05 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Afterward by Edith Wharton audiobook. Genre: horror In 'Afterward,' Edith Wharton turns a quiet domestic dream into a chilling question of moral debt. Mary and Ned Boyne, affluent Americans eager for a more settled life, purchase an old English country house called Lyng. The estate comes with atmosphere, history, and the kind of subtle folklore that their practical minds initially dismiss. When a neighbor mentions a local saying - that if anything uncanny happens at Lyng, it comes afterward - Mary treats it as a charming superstition, even as she takes pride in the peace and privacy they have finally secured. As the Boynes settle in, they host visitors, stroll the grounds, and speak with the confident ease of people who believe their past has been left behind. But small disruptions begin to accumulate: an unexpected caller, uneasy conversations, and a growing sense that someone is waiting to be recognized. With Wharton's hallmark psychological precision, the story tightens around the couple's marriage and their assumptions about what can be known - and what can be owed - until the past presses in through the ordinary fabric of everyday life. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:31:25) Chapter 2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Olive by Dinah Maria Craik audiobook. Genre: romance Born into a household that prizes beauty above kindness, Olive Rothesay enters the world marked by a slight deformity that makes her an object of shame rather than celebration. Rejected by her charming, self-absorbed mother, and later judged by a father who measures a daughter's worth by appearances, Olive grows up hungry for simple friendship and determined to earn the dignity others deny her. When family fortunes collapse, she and her mother are forced into a precarious new life in London, where unpaid debts, failing health, and hard necessity push Olive toward the only refuge that feels truly hers: work. Taken in among artists, she learns the discipline of the studio and fights for the right to be taken seriously, even as the world insists that a woman lacks genius and that a woman like Olive has no claim on love. As her talent and independence slowly take shape, Olive must decide what she owes to duty, what she dares to want for herself, and whether a guarded, wounded widower can see past what society cannot. Olive is a Victorian story of resilience, vocation, and the quiet courage of self-respect. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:12:22) Chapter 02 (00:28:35) Chapter 03 (00:40:17) Chapter 04 (00:49:46) Chapter 05 (01:09:41) Chapter 06 (01:22:50) Chapter 07 (01:32:49) Chapter 08 (01:49:04) Chapter 09 (01:58:50) Chapter 10 (02:12:51) Chapter 11 (02:26:39) Chapter 12 (02:48:49) Chapter 13 (03:11:31) Chapter 14 (03:22:47) Chapter 15 (03:43:23) Chapter 16 (03:58:27) Chapter 17 (04:17:06) Chapter 18 (04:30:28) Chapter 19 (04:49:48) Chapter 20 (05:13:43) Chapter 21 (05:31:41) Chapter 22 (05:48:31) Chapter 23 (06:07:00) Chapter 24 (06:23:45) Chapter 25 (06:39:23) Chapter 26 (06:59:21) Chapter 27 (07:21:36) Chapter 28 (07:42:38) Chapter 29 (07:55:32) Chapter 30 (08:20:11) Chapter 31 (08:35:22) Chapter 32 (08:54:14) Chapter 33 (09:11:38) Chapter 34 (09:23:21) Chapter 35 (09:44:39) Chapter 36 (10:05:56) Chapter 37 (10:18:58) Chapter 38 (10:39:12) Chapter 39 (10:57:21) Chapter 40 (11:10:57) Chapter 41 (11:33:39) Chapter 42 (11:49:28) Chapter 43 (12:08:56) Chapter 44 (12:22:07) Chapter 45 (12:43:15) Chapter 46 (13:05:38) Chapter 47 (13:22:22) Chapter 48 (13:41:51) Chapter 49 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Seven Sleuths Club by Carol Norton audiobook. Genre: mystery At Miss Demorest's Sunnyside Seminary, recreation breaks are filled with gossip, snowstorms, and big ideas - especially when spirited Merry Lee discovers that the local boys have their own secret detective society, the C.D.C., inspired by Conan Doyle. When the boys dismiss the notion that girls could ever solve mysteries, Merry and her friends do what they do best: band together. Their long-running S.S.C. - once the earnest Spread Sunshine Club - is reborn as the Seven Sleuths' Club, a lively sisterhood determined to prove its cleverness, uncover the boys' secrets, and find a real case worthy of their new name. Alongside quick-witted Peggy Pierce, kindhearted Gertrude, and the rest of the seven, Merry navigates school rules, sibling rivalries, and a swirl of schemes that range from charity parties to daring daytime investigations. Complicating everything is Geraldine Morrison, a wealthy new girl whose pride and polish make her an unlikely recruit - until unexpected happenings in Sunnyside begin to feel a little too suspicious to ignore. Warm, funny, and full of youthful daring, this classic middle-grade mystery celebrates friendship, confidence, and the thrill of following clues wherever they lead. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:06:18) Chapter 02 (00:12:20) Chapter 03 (00:26:15) Chapter 04 (00:33:30) Chapter 05 (00:41:17) Chapter 06 (00:47:54) Chapter 07 (00:55:48) Chapter 08 (01:09:14) Chapter 09 (01:17:00) Chapter 10 (01:30:55) Chapter 11 (01:36:09) Chapter 12 (01:43:09) Chapter 13 (01:54:35) Chapter 14 (02:01:07) Chapter 15 (02:12:43) Chapter 16 (02:19:33) Chapter 17 (02:28:27) Chapter 18 (02:38:10) Chapter 19 (02:46:07) Chapter 20 (02:57:42) Chapter 21 (03:08:05) Chapter 22 (03:15:10) Chapter 23 (03:25:11) Chapter 24 (03:33:31) Chapter 25 (03:39:34) Chapter 26 (03:45:48) Chapter 27 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Spirits in Bondage by C. S. Lewis audiobook. Genre: poetry Spirits in Bondage is C.S. Lewis’s first book and the first of his works to be available in the public domain. It was released in 1919 under the pseudonym of Clive Hamilton and was written in a period of darker thought for C.S. Lewis than was later evidenced in his Christian apologist writings. The darkness of the verse is most evident in Part One (The Prison House), begins to change in the short transitional Part Two (Hesitation) and attains a more hopeful tone in the final Part Three (Escape). Yet a dreamy effect, influenced by Celtic and Druid mythology, persists throughout. Spirits in Bondage consists of forty poems that provide an intriguing insight into the youthful heart of C.S. Lewis and occasionally provides interesting lyrical foreshadowing of some of the landscapes portrayed in his famous Chronicles of Narnia series. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:41:18) Chapter 2 (00:48:17) Chapter 3 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Art of Controversy (or - The Art of Being Right) by Arthur Schopenhauer audiobook. Genre: philosophy The Art of Controversy (or The Art of Being Right) (Die Kunst, Recht zu Behalten) is a short treatise written in 1831 by the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer in which he presents thirty-eight methods of gaining an unfair advantage in a debate and thereby being right even if you are wrong. Schopenhauer champions the virtue of dialectical argument, in his view wrongly neglected by philosophers in favour of logic, and goes on to discuss the distinction between our conscious intellectual powers and our will. The text is a favourite of debaters including the philosophers AC Grayling and Mary Warnock, and the Mayor of London Boris Johnson. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:24:41) Chapter 02 (00:29:34) Chapter 03 (00:45:35) Chapter 04 (00:55:06) Chapter 05 (01:14:12) Chapter 06 (01:28:18) Chapter 07 (01:50:52) Chapter 08 (02:08:35) Chapter 09 (02:45:32) Chapter 10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope audiobook. Genre: drama In Anthony Trollope's He Knew He Was Right, a comfortable Victorian marriage begins to fracture under the slow, relentless pressure of pride and suspicion. Louis Trevelyan, an honorable, high-minded English gentleman, becomes convinced that his wife, the spirited and independent Emily, is behaving improperly in her friendship with a charming older colonel. What starts as a demand for reassurance hardens into a test of obedience, and soon Louis' certainty turns into an obsession that isolates him from family, friends, and the reasonable counsel of those who care for him. Emily, unwilling to accept humiliation or surrender her sense of dignity, resists in ways that only deepen the conflict. As the Trevelyan household splinters, Trollope widens the lens to include a lively network of relatives, suitors, and social climbers whose romantic schemes and moral compromises echo the novel's central questions about power, duty, and self-deception. Moving from drawing rooms to country estates, the story builds through escalating confrontations, legal and financial pressures, and the devastating emotional cost of being unable to yield. With psychological insight and sharp social observation, Trollope traces how a private conviction can become a public catastrophe. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:19:51) Chapter 02 (00:36:37) Chapter 03 (00:56:03) Chapter 04 (01:14:31) Chapter 05 (01:30:56) Chapter 06 (01:55:52) Chapter 07 (02:20:04) Chapter 08 (02:38:21) Chapter 09 (02:55:14) Chapter 10 (03:07:37) Chapter 11 (03:33:23) Chapter 12 (03:53:30) Chapter 13 (04:22:09) Chapter 14 (04:41:18) Chapter 15 (04:52:38) Chapter 16 (05:10:16) Chapter 17 (05:27:40) Chapter 18 (05:48:40) Chapter 19 (06:09:40) Chapter 20 (06:26:27) Chapter 21 (06:43:29) Chapter 22 (07:05:56) Chapter 23 (07:23:40) Chapter 24 (07:40:31) Chapter 25 (08:00:52) Chapter 26 (08:18:09) Chapter 27 (08:35:04) Chapter 28 (08:51:58) Chapter 29 (09:07:42) Chapter 30 (09:30:12) Chapter 31 (09:51:48) Chapter 32 (10:07:31) Chapter 33 (10:22:42) Chapter 34 (10:33:46) Chapter 35 (11:00:51) Chapter 36 (11:15:13) Chapter 37 (11:37:03) Chapter 38 (11:48:11) Chapter 39 (12:00:53) Chapter 40 (12:10:42) Chapter 41 (12:32:18) Chapter 42 (12:49:58) Chapter 43 (13:05:35) Chapter 44 (13:26:55) Chapter 45 (13:45:01) Chapter 46 (14:01:08) Chapter 47 (14:26:31) Chapter 48 (14:45:05) Chapter 49 (14:58:14) Chapter 50 (15:15:09) Chapter 51 (15:43:41) Chapter 52 (15:53:42) Chapter 53 (16:10:03) Chapter 54 (16:27:41) Chapter 55 (16:49:54) Chapter 56 (17:09:08) Chapter 57 (17:31:19) Chapter 58 (17:45:15) Chapter 59 (17:57:24) Chapter 60 (18:25:20) Chapter 61 (18:41:11) Chapter 62 (19:02:59) Chapter 63 (19:25:13) Chapter 64 (19:37:06) Chapter 65 (19:59:28) Chapter 66 (20:09:58) Chapter 67 (20:32:21) Chapter 68 (20:44:03) Chapter 69 (20:55:55) Chapter 70 (21:12:44) Chapter 71 (21:29:00) Chapter 72 (21:46:56) Chapter 73 (22:06:20) Chapter 74 (22:25:46) Chapter 75 (22:45:51) Chapter 76 (23:02:59) Chapter 77 (23:23:50) Chapter 78 (23:47:33) Chapter 79 (23:59:43) Chapter 80 (24:19:50) Chapter 81 (24:42:19) Chapter 82 (24:59:09) Chapter 83 (25:15:25) Chapter 84 (25:28:09) Chapter 85 (25:48:11) Chapter 86 (26:12:55) Chapter 87 Max Character Limit reached Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Fortunes of Philippa by Angela Brazil audiobook. Genre: drama Raised in the sunlit beauty of San Carlos in South America, ten-year-old Philippa has known a life of freedom, stories, and fierce devotion to her widowed father, the British Consul. But when he decides she must have a proper English education, Philippa is uprooted and sent across the sea to live with practical Aunt Agatha and a houseful of cousins. Homesick and out of step with English ways, she must learn new rules of manners, family life, and belonging - and then face a greater test when she is enrolled at The Hollies, a strict girls' school where lessons, games, and social expectations are all equally demanding.At school, Philippa finds herself caught between warm-hearted allies like Catherine (Cathy) Winstanley and classmates who seem determined to cut the newcomer down to size - especially the sharp, influential Ernestine Salt. From rivalries and pranks to societies, performances, and a picnic that turns unexpectedly dangerous, Philippa discovers that courage is not only for grand adventures, but for apologies, second chances, and standing steady when the world changes. And as the long years of separation near an end, one looming voyage promises to decide what comes next for Philippa and the life she has been building. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:16:05) Chapter 02 (00:33:26) Chapter 03 (00:52:11) Chapter 04 (01:05:04) Chapter 05 (01:23:19) Chapter 06 (01:44:26) Chapter 07 (02:05:58) Chapter 08 (02:28:23) Chapter 09 (02:53:22) Chapter 10 (03:13:39) Chapter 11 (03:31:40) Chapter 12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Humility by Andrew Murray audiobook. Genre: religion In Humility, South African pastor and devotional writer Andrew Murray offers a clear, searching guide to the virtue he calls the root of all Christian life: genuine humility before God. Drawing on Scripture and the example of Jesus Christ, Murray argues that humility is not self-contempt or passivity, but a joyful surrender of self-rule that makes room for God's presence and power. With the care of a spiritual physician, he names the subtle ways pride hides in religious activity, reputation, and even apparent goodness, and he invites readers into a different way of living: dependence, gentleness, teachability, and quiet confidence grounded in grace. Each chapter functions like a meditation, combining practical exhortation with prayerful reflection, calling the reader to examine motives, relationships, and daily habits. The central conflict is inward and persistent: the struggle between self-exaltation and the life of Christ formed within. Written in Murray's warm, direct style, Humility speaks to anyone who longs for deeper spiritual growth and a faith marked not by performance, but by Christlike love. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:09:05) Chapter 02 (00:19:54) Chapter 03 (00:29:20) Chapter 04 (00:40:57) Chapter 05 (00:50:44) Chapter 06 (01:02:42) Chapter 07 (01:12:49) Chapter 08 (01:23:40) Chapter 09 (01:32:35) Chapter 10 (01:43:13) Chapter 11 (01:53:12) Chapter 12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Little Maid of Province Town by Alice Turner Curtis audiobook. Genre: adventure On the windy tip of Cape Cod, in the small fishing settlement of Province Town, eight-year-old Anne Nelson is suddenly alone: her mother is gone, and her seafaring father has vanished, leaving only rumors in his wake. When Captain Enos Stoddard and his kind-hearted wife, Martha, take Anne into their home, she hopes she has finally found safety - but the village is uneasy. British ships prowl the coast as tensions rise toward revolution, and some neighbors whisper that Anne's father was a traitor. Branded a 'spy's daughter' by other children, Anne must learn whom to trust while proving she is more than the stories people tell about her family. Between chores, schoolroom lessons, and the simple comforts of a household that begins to feel like her own, Anne is swept into a chain of coastal mishaps and small adventures - missing animals, dangerous wanderings, and unexpected encounters that reveal how close the conflict has come to shore. As Anne grows braver and more capable, her greatest challenge remains the same: finding her place, and finding the truth about the father she still believes will return. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:13:20) Chapter 02 (00:27:02) Chapter 03 (00:38:30) Chapter 04 (00:51:36) Chapter 05 (01:03:57) Chapter 06 (01:14:21) Chapter 07 (01:27:21) Chapter 08 (01:38:30) Chapter 09 (01:48:39) Chapter 10 (02:00:01) Chapter 11 (02:10:44) Chapter 12 (02:25:41) Chapter 13 (02:40:40) Chapter 14 (03:00:28) Chapter 15 (03:09:56) Chapter 16 (03:19:01) Chapter 17 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson audiobook. Genre: adventure David Balfour, a lad of seventeen and newly orphaned, is directed to go and live with his rich uncle, the master of the estate of Shaws in the lowlands of Scotland near Edinburgh. His uncle, Ebenezer (as close a miser as Dickens' Ebenezer Scrooge), is shocked to suddenly have his young relative descend on him and tries to rid himself of David with an arranged accident. Failing that, he pays the captain of a brig to kidnap David and sell him into slavery in Carolina. A collision in the fog brings onboard the brig a survivor, Alan Breck Stewart, who is carrying a dangerous amount of gold on his person. David warns him of a plan by the brig's captain and crew to overpower him and seize the money, and then finds himself fighting alongside Alan in a battle royale. By good fortune, Alan is handy with a sword and they have access to the firearms locker, and the pair so completely defeat the crew that barely enough hands remain to sail her. Limping to port, she is holed by rocks, and David finds himself a castaway. Being in Alan's presence continues to be a chancey business. David is talking to Colin Roy Campbell, the King's Factor who has been oppressing Alan's people, when the man is shot to death, and David is chased as an accomplice. The two 'take to the heather' and barely survive near brushes with redcoats as they thread through the Trossachs and other highland ranges of Scotland. Only after an arduous weeks-long trek through territory where they are actively hunted do they emerge in the more settled districts around the river Forth, only to find guards upon the bridge. With no money remaining, they must somehow cross to Queensferry, find Ebenezer's lawyer, and lay claim to David's inheritance in order to send Alan safely on to France. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:11:28) Chapter 01 (00:22:15) Chapter 02 (00:34:18) Chapter 03 (00:51:20) Chapter 04 (01:09:47) Chapter 05 (01:24:45) Chapter 06 (01:36:18) Chapter 07 (01:52:44) Chapter 08 (02:04:18) Chapter 09 (02:24:34) Chapter 10 (02:39:24) Chapter 11 (02:49:40) Chapter 12 (03:09:55) Chapter 13 (03:22:46) Chapter 14 (03:42:55) Chapter 15 (04:00:37) Chapter 16 (04:17:25) Chapter 17 (04:30:16) Chapter 18 (04:48:04) Chapter 19 (05:02:11) Chapter 20 (05:21:23) Chapter 21 (05:37:46) Chapter 22 (05:55:27) Chapter 23 (06:14:30) Chapter 24 (06:38:22) Chapter 25 (06:53:52) Chapter 26 (07:17:42) Chapter 27 (07:35:59) Chapter 28 (07:53:27) Chapter 29 (08:09:10) Chapter 30 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Green Mansions by William Henry Hudson audiobook. Genre: romance 'Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest' is a narration of his life story by Abel, a Venezuelan, to a comrade. Once a wealthy young man, he meddled in politics to the extent of provoking a revolution... which failed. Escaping into the tropical forests of Guyana Abel takes up gold hunting, then journal-writing, and fails at both. Now with no aim for his life, he drifts until he takes up residence with a remote Indian tribe. Soon he learns of a wood the Indians avoid, as it is inhabited by a dangerous Daughter of the Didi, who, they say, slew one of them with magic. The fellow was in fact hit with a poisoned dart by accident, but his dying belief that she had caught the dart and hurled it at him survived him. Intrigued, Abel visits the wood repeatedly, and eventually encounters Rima. She indeed is something magical. She seems to have a pact with nature: animals don't molest her, she speaks in a melodious birdsong (as well as Spanish), and she even makes her garments of spider silk. When Abel is bitten by a venomous snake that acts protective of her, she and her 'grandfather' Nuflo nurse Abel back to health. Both Abel and Rima are wonderments to each other, someone unlike any other person they have ever encountered. They fall in love, a love that is stymied by Rima's inability to understand the feelings Abel creates in her. On a long trek to discover Rima's origins, they find that her unique people no longer exist, but they finally confront the magnetism that is drawing them together. Finally they find joy, and make plans... until Rima is murdered by the Indians. And then it is time for vengeance! For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:10:57) Chapter 01 (00:47:33) Chapter 02 (01:10:59) Chapter 03 (01:32:40) Chapter 04 (01:46:18) Chapter 05 (02:12:21) Chapter 06 (02:38:23) Chapter 07 (02:58:40) Chapter 08 (03:33:25) Chapter 09 (03:52:09) Chapter 10 (04:18:41) Chapter 11 (04:50:53) Chapter 12 (05:19:06) Chapter 13 (05:42:54) Chapter 14 (05:56:07) Chapter 15 (06:26:10) Chapter 16 (06:42:48) Chapter 17 (07:17:46) Chapter 18 (07:36:21) Chapter 19 (08:06:00) Chapter 20 (08:39:11) Chapter 21 (09:09:49) Chapter 22 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Three Midshipmen by William Henry Giles Kingston audiobook. Genre: adventure In The Three Midshipmen, W.H.G. Kingston drops listeners onto the gun decks and quarterdecks of the Royal Navy, where three teenage midshipmen begin their lives at sea with more courage than experience. Bound together by friendship and rivalry, they must learn the hard rules of discipline, seamanship, and leadership while serving under demanding officers and facing enemies who do not forgive mistakes. From crowded ports to lonely watches at midnight, their world is shaped by sudden squalls, cramped hammocks, strict routine, and the constant possibility of action. As the ship is driven into danger by war and weather alike, the boys are tested in ways no classroom could prepare them for: split-second decisions aloft, tense encounters with hostile vessels, and moments when loyalty to shipmates matters as much as bravery. Kingston blends brisk nautical detail with coming-of-age stakes, showing how character is forged through duty, loss, and hard-won competence. The result is a classic sea story about friendship, honor, and earning your place on a ship where the ocean is always the final judge. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:30:49) Chapter 02 (01:04:50) Chapter 03 (01:34:43) Chapter 04 (02:09:11) Chapter 05 (02:49:27) Chapter 06 (03:31:00) Chapter 07 (04:12:48) Chapter 08 (04:42:35) Chapter 09 (05:16:04) Chapter 10 (05:46:20) Chapter 11 (06:20:29) Chapter 12 (06:41:51) Chapter 13 (07:23:51) Chapter 14 (07:53:01) Chapter 15 (08:18:43) Chapter 16 (08:48:27) Chapter 17 (09:18:09) Chapter 18 (10:06:43) Chapter 19 (10:49:18) Chapter 20 (11:18:58) Chapter 21 (12:00:05) Chapter 22 (12:40:08) Chapter 23 (13:08:51) Chapter 24 (13:29:11) Chapter 25 (13:47:24) Chapter 26 (14:07:13) Chapter 27 (14:30:59) Chapter 28 (14:57:24) Chapter 29 (15:20:24) Chapter 30 (15:42:18) Chapter 31 (16:08:35) Chapter 32 (16:24:22) Chapter 33 (16:48:03) Chapter 34 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Mutiny of the Bounty and other narratives by William Bligh audiobook. Genre: history Written by Captain William Bligh, The Mutiny of the Bounty and other narratives presents a first-hand, seafaring account of one of the most famous uprisings in naval history and the perilous journeys that followed. Bligh sets the stage aboard His Majesty's Ship Bounty, sent across the Pacific on a high-stakes mission tied to empire, commerce, and the transport of breadfruit. As months at sea strain supplies, patience, and discipline, Bligh's demanding command style collides with an exhausted crew, and the simmering tensions crystallize around his master, Fletcher Christian. When loyalty fractures, Bligh must confront not only the immediate crisis aboard ship but the larger ordeal of leadership, responsibility, and survival in unforgiving waters. Alongside the central narrative, the accompanying accounts broaden the portrait of exploration-era voyaging: hard choices made far from home, the constant calculation of wind and current, and the thin margin between order and disaster. Stark, practical, and intensely human, these narratives invite listeners into the day-to-day reality of 18th century naval life, where authority is tested and endurance becomes its own form of navigation. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:30:58) Chapter 02 (00:55:27) Chapter 03 (01:23:04) Chapter 04 (01:41:55) Chapter 05 (02:00:23) Chapter 06 (02:16:07) Chapter 07 (02:38:05) Chapter 08 (02:58:25) Chapter 09 (03:15:17) Chapter 10 (03:24:07) Chapter 11 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Two Destinies by Wilkie Collins audiobook. Genre: mystery In The Two Destinies, Wilkie Collins blends domestic drama with eerie mystery to follow a love story tested by distance, illness, and the unsettling sense that unseen forces may be at work. The novel centers on George Germaine, a devoted young man whose life becomes bound to the fate of Mary Dermody, the woman he loves. Their hope of a stable future is complicated by separation and by the fragile health of those around them, and George is drawn into a series of anxious journeys and discoveries as he tries to protect what he cherishes. Along the way, Collins introduces a circle of relatives, friends, and medical authorities whose advice and motives do not always align, forcing George to decide whom to trust. Threaded through the human conflicts is a disturbing question: are the lovers connected by coincidence and psychology, or by a deeper, inexplicable bond that can reach across space and time? As ordinary life gives way to suspicion and wonder, George must confront the possibility that destiny has more than one path and that love may demand a reckoning with the unknown. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:20:08) Chapter 01 (00:30:04) Chapter 02 (00:54:13) Chapter 03 (01:13:19) Chapter 04 (01:18:33) Chapter 05 (01:34:55) Chapter 06 (01:49:19) Chapter 07 (02:04:13) Chapter 08 (02:24:35) Chapter 09 (02:43:09) Chapter 10 (02:59:34) Chapter 11 (03:10:44) Chapter 12 (03:28:38) Chapter 13 (03:45:55) Chapter 14 (04:02:08) Chapter 15 (04:13:09) Chapter 16 (04:20:50) Chapter 17 (04:38:48) Chapter 18 (04:54:20) Chapter 19 (05:10:04) Chapter 20 (05:23:27) Chapter 21 (05:35:52) Chapter 22 (05:53:01) Chapter 23 (06:16:31) Chapter 24 (06:27:12) Chapter 25 (06:38:18) Chapter 26 (06:43:17) Chapter 27 (06:54:47) Chapter 28 (07:03:43) Chapter 29 (07:13:04) Chapter 30 (07:44:27) Chapter 31 (08:05:42) Chapter 32 (08:16:43) Chapter 33 (08:24:09) Chapter 34 (08:46:39) Chapter 35 (08:56:06) Chapter 36 (09:22:25) Chapter 37 (09:58:18) Chapter 38 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Queen of Hearts by Wilkie Collins audiobook. Genre: mystery In a lonely corner of South Wales, three aging brothers have settled into a quiet, rule-bound life at the bleak old Glen Tower - until a visit from their young ward, Jessie Yelverton, turns their household upside down. Spirited, curious, and impossible to ignore, Jessie soon earns (and embraces) her nickname: the Queen of Hearts. But her stay is set to be brief, and the brothers have a private reason to keep her under their roof a little longer: Griffith's son, George, is expected home soon, and his hopes for Jessie depend on time. Their solution is both simple and dangerous - they will hold Jessie night after night with stories. What begins as a domestic comedy of manners becomes a chain of gripping fireside narratives: tales of hidden motives, uncanny warnings, sudden violence, and everyday lives pushed into extraordinary corners. As each storyteller reveals another secret, the frame story tightens too, and Jessie must decide what to believe about the men around her, and what kind of future she will accept. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:02:38) Chapter 01 (00:14:26) Chapter 02 (00:29:04) Chapter 03 (00:53:09) Chapter 04 (01:07:59) Chapter 05 (01:22:16) Chapter 06 (01:45:14) Chapter 07 (02:04:02) Chapter 08 (02:27:05) Chapter 09 (02:45:48) Chapter 10 (02:58:17) Chapter 11 (03:16:53) Chapter 12 (03:23:37) Chapter 13 (03:40:01) Chapter 14 (03:58:54) Chapter 15 (04:21:09) Chapter 16 (04:35:43) Chapter 17 (04:53:35) Chapter 18 (05:14:14) Chapter 19 (05:44:24) Chapter 20 (06:23:43) Chapter 21 (06:53:21) Chapter 22 (07:11:41) Chapter 23 (07:39:20) Chapter 24 (08:11:05) Chapter 25 (08:31:28) Chapter 26 (09:03:41) Chapter 27 (09:22:41) Chapter 28 (09:43:52) Chapter 29 (10:24:47) Chapter 30 (10:56:18) Chapter 31 (11:19:38) Chapter 32 (11:37:52) Chapter 33 (11:50:50) Chapter 34 (12:15:25) Chapter 35 (12:28:03) Chapter 36 (12:51:50) Chapter 37 (13:04:11) Chapter 38 (13:44:43) Chapter 39 (14:42:13) Chapter 40 (15:12:30) Chapter 41 (15:28:05) Chapter 42 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Rogue’s Life by Wilkie Collins audiobook. Genre: adventure 'The story offers the faithful reflection of a very happy time in my past life. It was written at Paris, when I had Charles Dickens for a near neighbor and a daily companion, and when my leisure hours were joyously passed with many other friends, all associated with literature and art, of whom the admirable comedian, Regnier, is now the only survivor. The revising of these pages has been to me a melancholy task. I can only hope that they may cheer the sad moments of others. The Rogue may surely claim two merits, at least, in the eyes of the new generation—he is never serious for two moments together; and he 'doesn't take long to read.' For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:19:22) Chapter 02 (00:38:47) Chapter 03 (00:55:42) Chapter 04 (01:08:11) Chapter 05 (01:24:07) Chapter 06 (02:09:57) Chapter 07 (02:25:17) Chapter 08 (02:48:38) Chapter 09 (03:04:45) Chapter 10 (03:14:30) Chapter 11 (03:33:27) Chapter 12 (03:57:34) Chapter 13 (04:12:18) Chapter 14 (04:32:15) Chapter 15 (04:48:10) Chapter 16 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Society as I Have Found It by Ward McAllister audiobook. Genre: biography Mark Twain illustrator Dan Beard recalled discussing McAllister’s book with Twain. “It was before Webster & Company failed that Ward McAllister’s book (Society as I have Found It) appeared, and when he (Twain) sauntered into my studio one day, I said: ‘Mr. Clemens, have you read Ward McAllister’s book?’ ‘Yes; have you?’ he replied. ‘Indeed, I have. I have read it through several times, and intend to read it again. It is one of the most humorous books I ever read.’ ‘That’s so,’ said Mark, ‘that’s so. Now, I will tell you something. I spent three months writing a satire on that book of Ward McAllister’s. And when I got through, I again read McAllister’s book, and then my satire, and then tore the blamed thing up. Some things are complete in themselves and cannot be improved upon, and I take off my hat to Mr. McAllister.’” (ref. A Bibliography of the Work of Mark Twain by Merle Johnson) Wikipedia says: 'McAllister's downfall came when he published a book of memoirs entitled Society as I Have Found It in 1890. The book, and his hunger for media attention, did little to endear him to the old guard, who valued their privacy in an era when millionaires were the equivalent of modern movie stars.' N.B. - NOT included in this recording is the author's extensive collection of period stationery, found at the end of the book. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:01:31) Chapter 01 (00:10:04) Chapter 02 (00:29:36) Chapter 03 (00:37:36) Chapter 04 (00:50:18) Chapter 05 (00:59:45) Chapter 06 (01:11:40) Chapter 07 (01:22:02) Chapter 08 (01:39:43) Chapter 09 (01:55:37) Chapter 10 (02:12:35) Chapter 11 (02:28:09) Chapter 12 (02:37:45) Chapter 13 (02:53:02) Chapter 14 (03:03:10) Chapter 15 (03:18:19) Chapter 16 (03:31:45) Chapter 17 (03:51:33) Chapter 18 (04:09:12) Chapter 19 (04:22:22) Chapter 20 (04:33:02) Chapter 21 (04:45:29) Chapter 22 (04:59:18) Chapter 23 (05:17:15) Chapter 24 (05:28:53) Chapter 25 (05:40:28) Chapter 26 (05:57:09) Chapter 27 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo audiobook. Genre: adventure Set on the rugged Channel Islands in the early 1800s, Victor Hugo's Toilers of the Sea follows Gilliatt, a solitary, fiercely capable fisherman and handyman whose quiet life is marked by rumor, suspicion, and an unspoken longing to belong. When a revolutionary steamship is wrecked on the treacherous reefs off Guernsey, the disaster becomes more than a financial blow to the island community: it turns into a test of will, ingenuity, and moral courage. Gilliatt seizes a chance to prove himself by attempting an almost impossible salvage operation, driven in part by his deep feelings for Deruchette, the spirited young woman whose future is entangled with the ship's owner, Lethierry. As Gilliatt battles isolation, harsh weather, and the merciless mechanics of the sea, Hugo expands the struggle into something mythic, weaving together suspenseful survival, painstaking labor, and philosophical reflection on fate, love, and society's judgment. Both a romance and an epic of human endurance, the novel asks what a person is worth when no one is watching, and what it costs to win acceptance from those who doubt you. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:02:17) Chapter 01 (00:07:07) Chapter 02 (00:18:14) Chapter 03 (00:26:25) Chapter 04 (00:47:17) Chapter 05 (00:54:35) Chapter 06 (01:06:56) Chapter 07 (01:14:15) Chapter 08 (01:20:40) Chapter 09 (01:26:24) Chapter 10 (01:31:05) Chapter 11 (01:37:20) Chapter 12 (01:41:02) Chapter 13 (01:49:26) Chapter 14 (01:54:31) Chapter 15 (02:04:02) Chapter 16 (02:09:44) Chapter 17 (02:21:43) Chapter 18 (02:27:00) Chapter 19 (02:32:33) Chapter 20 (02:40:58) Chapter 21 (02:43:58) Chapter 22 (02:50:58) Chapter 23 (02:54:10) Chapter 24 (03:05:53) Chapter 25 (03:09:26) Chapter 26 (03:15:51) Chapter 27 (03:21:50) Chapter 28 (03:25:05) Chapter 29 (03:30:25) Chapter 30 (03:33:54) Chapter 31 (03:39:33) Chapter 32 (03:58:00) Chapter 33 (04:03:58) Chapter 34 (04:10:47) Chapter 35 (04:28:54) Chapter 36 (04:51:01) Chapter 37 (05:08:18) Chapter 38 (05:15:47) Chapter 39 (05:38:26) Chapter 40 (05:48:37) Chapter 41 (05:56:50) Chapter 42 (06:05:32) Chapter 43 (06:22:52) Chapter 44 (06:35:51) Chapter 45 (06:45:26) Chapter 46 (07:06:25) Chapter 47 (07:16:11) Chapter 48 (07:35:38) Chapter 49 (07:46:57) Chapter 50 (08:07:36) Chapter 51 (08:21:00) Chapter 52 (08:28:20) Chapter 53 (08:32:14) Chapter 54 (08:39:33) Chapter 55 (08:49:55) Chapter 56 (08:55:49) Chapter 57 (09:14:09) Chapter 58 (09:19:45) Chapter 59 (09:27:46) Chapter 60 (09:38:30) Chapter 61 (09:48:50) Chapter 62 (09:54:23) Chapter 63 (10:09:16) Chapter 64 (10:16:19) Chapter 65 (10:21:01) Chapter 66 (10:30:10) Chapter 67 (10:45:52) Chapter 68 (11:02:42) Chapter 69 (11:09:13) Chapter 70 (11:17:37) Chapter 71 (11:26:25) Chapter 72 (11:30:29) Chapter 73 (11:38:10) Chapter 74 (11:45:16) Chapter 75 (11:49:29) Chapter 76 (11:58:46) Chapter 77 (12:07:37) Chapter 78 (12:13:44) Chapter 79 (12:16:16) Chapter 80 (13:07:36) Chapter 81 (13:19:13) Chapter 82 (13:40:02) Chapter 83 (13:47:15) Chapter 84 (13:57:03) Chapter 85 (14:05:44) Chapter 86 (14:22:40) Chapter 87 (14:27:28) Chapter 88 (15:05:13) Chapter 89 (15:26:28) Chapter 90 (15:51:09) Chapter 91 Max Character Limit reached Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tom Swift and His War Tank by Victor Appleton audiobook. Genre: scifi Tom Swift, that prolific youthful inventor, is engaged in trying to help the Allies win WWI. After reading newspaper accounts of the British tanks, Tom takes a sheet of paper and sets out to design a better one from scratch. And fortunately, he can throw the whole family business behind his venture. He has two problems: First, his friends and acquaintances are questioning his patriotism because he hasn't enlisted as a rifleman for the front lines. Even his girl is worried his blood isn't true-blue. But that's because he is developing his tank in secret, and they don't know he's concentrating on winning the war the American way, with machines. The second problem is that the German spies have penetrated the secret of what is being built in the high-security shop on the Swift property. And they will stop at nothing to steal its design - not kidnapping Tom, and not kidnapping the tank itself, complete with crew. Tom and his buddies had better work fast, or the American riflemen are going to find the Kaiser's soldiers using American-designed tanks against them! For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:25:13) Chapter 02 (00:46:53) Chapter 03 (01:08:42) Chapter 04 (01:30:29) Chapter 05 (01:50:49) Chapter 06 (02:18:05) Chapter 07 (02:35:47) Chapter 08 (02:56:05) Chapter 09 (03:19:16) Chapter 10 (03:39:25) Chapter 11 (04:00:31) Chapter 12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung by Victor Appleton audiobook. Genre: scifi The US Government is very smartly letting Tom Swift Jr. handle the recovery of its probe to Jupiter. But a mystery missile suddenly intercepts the probe and splashes it in the South Atlantic. Faced with a huge search task to find the probe on the ocean bottom, Tom soon realizes that the same shadowy group that attacked the probe is competing to find it, and no holds are barred: kidnap, coercion, and lethal force are all in play. Under such circumstances, what can Tom do? What he does every time, of course! He invents some utterly cool device to get the job done! And his Electronic Hydrolung is just the beginning! For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:11:13) Chapter 02 (00:26:15) Chapter 03 (00:36:19) Chapter 04 (00:49:02) Chapter 05 (00:57:27) Chapter 06 (01:08:09) Chapter 07 (01:17:51) Chapter 08 (01:28:43) Chapter 09 (01:40:32) Chapter 10 (01:52:36) Chapter 11 (02:04:39) Chapter 12 (02:16:13) Chapter 13 (02:29:22) Chapter 14 (02:43:14) Chapter 15 (02:53:46) Chapter 16 (03:03:22) Chapter 17 (03:16:44) Chapter 18 (03:27:56) Chapter 19 (03:36:55) Chapter 20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Ordeal of Mark Twain by Van Wyck Brooks audiobook. Genre: biography In The Ordeal of Mark Twain, literary critic Van Wyck Brooks reexamines the life and work of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, tracing how a riverboat pilot from the Mississippi became the most recognizable American voice of his age - and how that fame carried a private cost. Brooks follows Twain from the shaping forces of boyhood and the frontier to the whirlwind of lectures, publishing triumphs, and celebrity, reading the books alongside the man who wrote them. As Twain grows into a national icon, Brooks highlights the strain between the humor the public demanded and the darker moral intelligence that pressed to be heard: anger at hypocrisy, disillusionment with politics and profit, and a restless search for artistic honesty. Set against the pressures of the Gilded Age, the story brings forward the personal trials, financial risks, and complicated relationships that tested Twain's resilience and sharpened his satire. Both portrait and argument, this is a vivid, provocative account of an American writer wrestling with his country, his conscience, and the shadow behind the laughter. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (01:02:03) Chapter 02 (02:05:17) Chapter 03 (02:58:32) Chapter 04 (04:04:12) Chapter 05 (05:14:12) Chapter 06 (06:04:04) Chapter 07 (07:16:43) Chapter 08 (08:05:47) Chapter 09 (09:00:00) Chapter 10 (10:03:57) Chapter 11 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Burial of the Guns by Thomas Nelson Page audiobook. Genre: history Set in the stunned quiet after Appomattox, The Burial of the Guns follows an aging Confederate artillery commander, known simply as the old Colonel, and the remnants of his veteran battery as they hold a Virginia mountain pass they have defended for years. The war has finally turned, but the battery is still in position, hungry, ragged, and fiercely disciplined, bound not only to one another but to the six beloved cannon they have hauled through campaign after campaign and christened with nicknames like old comrades. When word arrives that Lee has surrendered, the Colonel faces a wrenching dilemma: how to obey his orders, protect his men, and preserve the dignity of a unit that prides itself on never having lost a gun. Around dwindling campfires, the survivors take stock of their dead, their scars, and the homeward road that suddenly feels unfamiliar. As night falls, the battery prepares a last, solemn act part military procedure, part ritual of grief and defiance, meant to mark what they were and what they can no longer be. Thomas Nelson Page blends battlefield memory with postwar uncertainty in a story about honor, loyalty, and the cost of letting go. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:31:14) Chapter 02 (00:58:09) Chapter 03 (01:29:51) Chapter 04 (02:00:13) Chapter 05 (02:43:43) Chapter 06 (03:16:23) Chapter 07 (03:53:30) Chapter 08 (04:26:33) Chapter 09 (04:57:26) Chapter 10 (05:27:06) Chapter 11 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock audiobook. Genre: comedy Deep in the fens of the British coast sits the gloomy mansion that goes by the name Nightmare Abbey. It is inhabited by persons of very low opinion of the human race, and in fact they pride themselves in the depths of their detestation. Others of its denizens believe the ultimate exercise and product of the human mind ought to be chaos. Now let the young master of the house get snared by the wiles of a beautiful young lady. And for good measure, toss in another beautiful young lady. Now Scythrop (named in honor of an ancestor who became bored with life and hanged himself) is about to find that two such make too much of a good thing! Peacock wrote Nightmare Abbey as a satire, and he has folded in allusions to or quotations from literally dozens of other works. He makes use of many long, impressive-sounding words (some of which he very possibly made up!). Ignore these and his occasional Latin phrase, treat the rest as a farce, and you're on track for a fun listen! For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:17:39) Chapter 02 (00:25:16) Chapter 03 (00:35:55) Chapter 04 (00:46:43) Chapter 05 (00:59:42) Chapter 06 (01:17:35) Chapter 07 (01:39:27) Chapter 08 (01:51:31) Chapter 09 (02:02:33) Chapter 10 (02:18:45) Chapter 11 (02:38:28) Chapter 12 (02:51:11) Chapter 13 (03:07:37) Chapter 14 (03:15:45) Chapter 15 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Strenuous Life by Theodore Roosevelt audiobook. Genre: speeches In The Strenuous Life, Theodore Roosevelt sets out a bracing vision of character, citizenship, and national purpose through a collection of speeches and essays from the late 1890s. Speaking as a public figure on the rise, Roosevelt argues that a healthy republic depends on citizens who embrace effort over ease, responsibility over comfort, and service over self-indulgence. He ranges from the duties of the individual to the obligations of a growing nation, urging physical vigor, moral courage, and practical competence in both private life and public affairs. Along the way, he wrestles with questions of leadership, education, work, and the meaning of patriotism, pressing listeners and readers to meet hardship with discipline rather than cynicism. The writing is direct, energetic, and unapologetically demanding, revealing the worldview behind Roosevelt's larger-than-life reputation. At its core, this audiobook offers a window into an era of American expansion and reform, and into a voice determined to shape the tone of civic life by challenging people to live with purpose, grit, and a sense of duty. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:36:39) Chapter 02 (00:59:33) Chapter 03 (01:34:31) Chapter 04 (02:10:57) Chapter 05 (02:39:45) Chapter 06 (02:53:37) Chapter 07 (03:03:18) Chapter 08 (03:11:49) Chapter 09 (03:26:14) Chapter 10 (03:41:29) Chapter 11 (04:10:28) Chapter 12 (04:34:16) Chapter 13 (05:03:05) Chapter 14 (05:23:03) Chapter 15 (05:46:02) Chapter 16 (06:07:41) Chapter 17 (06:37:52) Chapter 18 (07:05:56) Chapter 19 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What Katy Did at School by Susan Coolidge audiobook. Genre: family In What Katy Did at School, spirited Katy Carr is back - older, wiser, and still determined to meet life head-on. After the hard lessons that changed her outlook at home, Katy heads away to a girls' boarding school, where new friendships, unfamiliar rules, and the everyday trials of growing up test her patience and her pride. Surrounded by classmates with very different temperaments and backgrounds, Katy tries to balance her earnest desire to be good with her old habit of speaking too quickly and judging too sharply. As lessons and dorm life unfold, she finds herself drawn into small dramas, misunderstandings, and the quiet work of learning when to lead, when to listen, and when to apologize. With humor and warmth, Susan Coolidge follows Katy through the classroom and beyond, capturing the awkwardness and excitement of adolescence and the comfort of finding your people. At its heart, this is a story about character - how it is shaped by responsibility, friendship, and the daily choice to become kinder than you were yesterday. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:24:11) Chapter 2 (00:43:13) Chapter 3 (00:59:20) Chapter 4 (01:17:06) Chapter 5 (01:35:26) Chapter 6 (01:59:23) Chapter 7 (02:18:04) Chapter 8 (02:35:39) Chapter 9 (03:05:33) Chapter 10 (03:27:47) Chapter 11 (03:49:18) Chapter 12 (04:03:50) Chapter 13 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge audiobook. Genre: family In a quiet New England town, high-spirited Katy Carr is certain she was born for something bigger than everyday life. The eldest of six siblings in a lively household, she throws herself into plans to improve herself and her family, even as her impatience and quick temper get her into trouble. Katy's world changes abruptly after a serious accident leaves her confined and facing a future she never imagined. As the days stretch on, the same energy that once fueled her grand ambitions must be turned toward a harder task: learning self-control, resilience, and kindness in the small moments. Guided by the steady wisdom of her cousin Helen and sustained by the love and chaos of her brothers and sisters, Katy begins to discover that growing up is not about becoming famous or exceptional, but about becoming dependable and generous when life is unfair. Warm, funny, and quietly moving, What Katy Did follows one girl's journey from restless dreaming to earned maturity, with family bonds, moral lessons, and everyday joys at the heart of the story. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:17:38) Chapter 02 (00:32:31) Chapter 03 (00:51:10) Chapter 04 (01:10:53) Chapter 05 (01:30:28) Chapter 06 (01:58:30) Chapter 07 (02:24:49) Chapter 08 (02:45:28) Chapter 09 (03:12:36) Chapter 10 (03:39:25) Chapter 11 (03:56:27) Chapter 12 (04:19:17) Chapter 13 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

War Is a Racket by Smedley Butler audiobook. Genre: history War Is a Racket is Smedley D. Butler's blunt, fast-moving indictment of modern warfare as a business enterprise disguised as patriotism. Drawing on his career as a decorated U.S. Marine Corps major general, Butler speaks as an insider who has seen interventions and campaigns up close, and he argues that the true winners of war are rarely the soldiers who fight it. In vivid, plain language, he traces how bankers, arms makers, and major industries can prosper from mobilization, contracts, debt, and wartime price controls, while ordinary citizens pay in taxes, inflation, and grief. Butler challenges listeners to look past slogans and recruiting posters to the machinery that sells war to the public, then lays out practical proposals aimed at stripping profit from conflict and forcing democratic accountability before troops are sent abroad. Part memoir, part political warning, and part call to action, this short classic confronts the uneasy relationship between power, money, and national sacrifice, and asks what it would take to make war truly the last resort. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:12:39) Chapter 02 (00:30:51) Chapter 03 (00:43:54) Chapter 04 (00:53:35) Chapter 05 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Through the Magic Door by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: biography In Through the Magic Door, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle invites you to step past an ordinary doorway and into the private kingdom that shaped his mind: his library. Framed as a warm, witty tour of his own bookshelves, this reflective memoir follows Doyle as he traces the reading life that carried him from curious boyhood through medical training and into the demanding work of a writer. Each shelf becomes a portal to the voices that challenged him, consoled him, and sharpened his sense of adventure and ethics. As he recalls the authors and stories that left lasting marks, Doyle also wrestles with a quiet tension: life is short, duties are real, yet the world of books is endless and urgently alive. Part celebration, part personal history, and part defense of the imagination, this book explores how reading builds character, expands empathy, and offers companionship across time. Through the Magic Door is a brisk, companionable listen for anyone who has ever felt that opening a book can change the size of a life. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:21:16) Chapter 02 (00:48:32) Chapter 03 (01:09:08) Chapter 04 (01:34:43) Chapter 05 (01:58:20) Chapter 06 (02:21:14) Chapter 07 (02:53:05) Chapter 08 (03:27:40) Chapter 09 (03:47:01) Chapter 10 (04:04:17) Chapter 11 (04:22:25) Chapter 12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Poison Belt by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: scifi Three years after the events that took place in The Lost World , Professor Challenger urgently summons his fellow explorers (Professor Summerlee, Lord John Roxton, and reporter E.D. Malone) to a meeting. Oddly, he requires each to bring an oxygen cylinder with him. What he soon informs them is that from astronomical data and just-received telegraphs of strange accidents on the other side of the world, he has deduced that the Earth is starting to move through a region of space containing something poisonous to humankind. Shutting themselves tightly up in Challenger's house, they start to consider what may be done. But as their countrymen start to drop, will their oxygen last long enough to determine and implement a solution? For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:38:53) Chapter 2 (01:17:12) Chapter 3 (01:55:08) Chapter 4 (02:22:47) Chapter 5 (02:57:18) Chapter 6 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: adventure In The Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle launches readers into a high-stakes expedition where science, pride, and raw survival collide. When the loud, brilliant, and stubborn Professor George Edward Challenger claims he has discovered a remote South American plateau where prehistoric creatures still live, London laughs him out of respectable circles. Determined to prove his case and silence his critics, Challenger assembles a small party: the sharp-tongued skeptic Professor Summerlee, the seasoned big-game hunter Lord John Roxton, and Edward Malone, an ambitious young journalist eager for a story that will make his name. What begins as a quest for evidence becomes a fight against an unforgiving wilderness, treacherous terrain, and rival human dangers, as the team pushes deeper into a place that should not exist. Amid startling encounters and close calls, Malone records not only marvels that challenge modern understanding, but also the shifting bonds and fractures within the group. Fast-paced and vividly imagined, the novel explores the thrill of discovery, the cost of obsession, and the thin line between civilization and the wild. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:15:05) Chapter 2 (00:31:53) Chapter 3 (00:49:14) Chapter 4 (01:27:07) Chapter 5 (01:58:01) Chapter 6 (02:20:50) Chapter 7 (02:44:25) Chapter 8 (03:15:30) Chapter 9 (04:07:49) Chapter 10 (04:40:25) Chapter 11 (05:17:47) Chapter 12 (05:54:36) Chapter 13 (06:29:08) Chapter 14 (07:02:21) Chapter 15 (07:40:05) Chapter 16 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Royal Book of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson audiobook. Genre: fantasy In The Royal Book of Oz, the Emerald City is bustling with celebrations, but the peace of Oz is shaken by rumors of a mysterious figure who claims a startling right to the throne. Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion, Princess Ozma, and their friends are drawn into a tangle of royal questions, secret histories, and far-flung journeys across the many odd and wonderful countries that surround the Emerald City. As messages go missing and loyalties are tested, the travelers must separate truth from trickery and protect Oz from being reshaped by ambition. Along the way, they encounter strange courts, curious creatures, and comical hazards that turn every road into a new puzzle, where courage and kindness matter as much as cleverness. Ruth Plumly Thompson blends brisk adventure with playful humor, building a story about identity, legitimacy, and what it really means to be royal. With danger brewing behind pageantry, the fate of Oz may depend on whether its friends can uncover the real story before a false claim becomes a real catastrophe. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:17:22) Chapter 02 (00:32:09) Chapter 03 (00:43:53) Chapter 04 (01:02:50) Chapter 05 (01:21:08) Chapter 06 (01:32:12) Chapter 07 (01:48:17) Chapter 08 (02:06:26) Chapter 09 (02:22:49) Chapter 10 (02:26:47) Chapter 11 (02:37:47) Chapter 12 (02:58:17) Chapter 13 (03:13:03) Chapter 14 (03:24:27) Chapter 15 (03:35:30) Chapter 16 (03:48:45) Chapter 17 (03:54:15) Chapter 18 (04:09:49) Chapter 19 (04:16:05) Chapter 20 (04:29:46) Chapter 21 (04:38:30) Chapter 22 (04:41:07) Chapter 23 (04:49:59) Chapter 24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Nature and Authority of Conscience by Rufus Jones audiobook. Genre: religion In this 1920 Swarthmore Lecture, Quaker thinker and philosopher Rufus M. Jones tackles a question at the crossroads of ethics and faith: what is conscience, and why should it command our allegiance when custom, church, and state all claim authority? Beginning with familiar moral tensions, Jones widens the lens to consider the idea of a moral universe and the place of the individual within it. He argues that conscience is more than a passing emotion or simple social conditioning: it is a deep, active capacity that can be awakened, educated, clarified, and also misled. Along the way, he probes how moral insight develops through experience and disciplined inner life, and he tests the power of external voices - law, tradition, public opinion, and institutional religion - against the inward summons to truth and goodness. With a distinctly Quaker emphasis on the Inner Light, Jones challenges listeners to examine the roots of their moral judgments and to form a conscience strong enough to resist coercion, yet humble enough to learn. Part philosophical inquiry and part spiritual counsel, this concise classic speaks to anyone wrestling with duty, freedom, and the demands of integrity. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:01:50) Chapter 01 (00:12:24) Chapter 02 (00:22:28) Chapter 03 (01:03:53) Chapter 04 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling audiobook. Genre: adventure Real men don't take guff from snotty kids. Neither does Disko Troop, skipper of the 'We're Here', a fishing schooner out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, when his crew fishes Harvey Cheyne out of the Atlantic. There's no place on the Grand Banks for bystanders, so Harvey is press-ganged into service as a replacement for a man lost overboard and drowned. Harvey is heir to a vast fortune, but his rescuers believe none of what he tells them of his background. Disko won't take the boat to port until it is full of fish, so Harvey must settle in for a season at sea. Hard, dangerous work and performing it alongside a grab-bag of characters in close quarters is a life-changing experience. And when Harvey at last is reunited with his parents, who have thought him dead for months, he must face the hard decisions of how he will allow his experience to change his life. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:28:45) Chapter 02 (01:07:05) Chapter 03 (01:50:33) Chapter 04 (02:25:09) Chapter 05 (02:57:11) Chapter 06 (03:17:03) Chapter 07 (03:34:30) Chapter 08 (04:20:03) Chapter 09 (05:10:18) Chapter 10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson audiobook. Genre: adventure In the unsettled years of England's War of the Roses, where a man stood on the issue of kingship could make his fortune... or end his life. Dick Shelton, a nobly-born lad, is on the cusp of manhood, and he is thrust bodily into this stew where allegiances shift under one's feet. Circumstances cause him to fall in with a gentlemaiden in boy's disguise. Until he learns of the deception, Dick is unaware that the young lady is an heiress whom his guardian Sir Daniel had kidnapped. And the introduction of an outlaw with a penchant for putting black arrows into the bodies of the men who had wronged him affords Dick a worrying hint - that Sir Daniel might have been the man that had murdered Dick's father! For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:37:03) Chapter 01 (00:56:41) Chapter 02 (01:09:58) Chapter 03 (01:26:28) Chapter 04 (01:43:49) Chapter 05 (02:02:12) Chapter 06 (02:17:35) Chapter 07 (02:36:55) Chapter 08 (02:55:50) Chapter 09 (03:12:56) Chapter 10 (03:27:38) Chapter 11 (03:38:22) Chapter 12 (03:56:26) Chapter 13 (04:11:41) Chapter 14 (04:25:17) Chapter 15 (04:32:29) Chapter 16 (04:50:56) Chapter 17 (05:04:19) Chapter 18 (05:16:32) Chapter 19 (05:33:12) Chapter 20 (05:53:43) Chapter 21 (06:10:06) Chapter 22 (06:30:43) Chapter 23 (06:38:53) Chapter 24 (07:02:46) Chapter 25 (07:17:27) Chapter 26 (07:31:46) Chapter 27 (07:41:05) Chapter 28 (08:02:04) Chapter 29 (08:19:10) Chapter 30 (08:39:26) Chapter 31 (08:48:27) Chapter 32 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amusement Only by Richard Marsh audiobook. Genre: mystery Amusement Only is a spirited Edwardian collection of twelve tales by Richard Marsh, each built to entertain while keeping a faint edge of danger just out of sight. In The Lost Duchess, London society is jolted when the Duke of Datchet learns his wife has seemingly vanished from a sealed carriage, and a brazen ransom demand turns a glittering dinner engagement into a race against time. In The Strange Occurrences in Canterstone Jail, a routine morning becomes a crisis when an entire prison finds its cell doors mysteriously refusing to open, testing order, authority, and nerves. Twins! spins a brisk comedy of confusion as lookalike brothers become entangled in other people's grudges and debts, while A Vision of the Night drifts into uncanny territory when an artist paints a face from a dream and is confronted by the living woman behind it. Between the shocks and puzzles, Marsh threads sly social satire: patent-medicine schemes, domestic misadventures, and romances that feel like traps. By turns witty, suspenseful, and eerie, these stories ask how easily identity, reputation, and reality can be swapped for sheer amusement. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:18:16) Chapter 02 (00:36:05) Chapter 03 (00:56:28) Chapter 04 (01:23:11) Chapter 05 (01:49:29) Chapter 06 (02:14:29) Chapter 07 (02:30:59) Chapter 08 (02:36:15) Chapter 09 (02:51:51) Chapter 10 (03:01:56) Chapter 11 (03:09:00) Chapter 12 (03:14:46) Chapter 13 (03:40:37) Chapter 14 (03:59:36) Chapter 15 (04:21:08) Chapter 16 (04:34:19) Chapter 17 (04:55:30) Chapter 18 (05:02:00) Chapter 19 (05:09:47) Chapter 20 (05:22:42) Chapter 21 (05:45:22) Chapter 22 (06:07:00) Chapter 23 (06:18:57) Chapter 24 (06:40:08) Chapter 25 (06:48:37) Chapter 26 (06:56:42) Chapter 27 (07:12:17) Chapter 28 (07:18:52) Chapter 29 (07:33:47) Chapter 30 (07:39:00) Chapter 31 (08:10:36) Chapter 32 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices