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 please...
Jan 27, 2023•8 hr 25 min•Ep. 747
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...
Jan 27, 2023•10 hr 34 min•Ep. 746
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 fee...
Jan 27, 2023•2 hr 7 min•Ep. 745
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 Pol...
Jan 26, 2023•6 hr 55 min•Ep. 744
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 nei...
Jan 26, 2023•5 hr 45 min•Ep. 743
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 ...
Jan 26, 2023•6 hr 5 min•Ep. 742
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 t...
Jan 26, 2023•11 hr 41 min•Ep. 741
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...
Jan 26, 2023•17 hr 22 min•Ep. 740
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 p...
Jan 26, 2023•8 hr 26 min•Ep. 739
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 determinati...
Jan 26, 2023•6 hr 37 min•Ep. 738
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 ...
Jan 25, 2023•1 hr 56 min•Ep. 737
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 da...
Jan 25, 2023•11 hr 32 min•Ep. 736
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 bon...
Jan 25, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 735
A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen audiobook. Genre: drama In A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen draws listeners into the warm, carefully arranged home of Nora Helmer, a lively young wife devoted to her husband, Torvald, and proud of the comfortable life they are building. But beneath the cheerful routines and pet names, Nora carries a private burden: years earlier, she made a risky choice to protect her family, and the consequences of that decision return just as Torvald begins a new position at the bank...
Jan 25, 2023•3 hr 21 min•Ep. 734
The World I Live In by Helen Keller audiobook. Genre: biography The World I Live In by Helen Keller is a collection of essays that poignantly tells of her impressions of the world, through her sense of touch, smell, her imagination and dreams. My hand is to me what your hearing and sight together are to you. In large measure we travel the same highways, read the same books, speak the same language, yet our experiences are different. All my comings and goings turn on the hand as on a pivot. It is...
Jan 25, 2023•2 hr 56 min•Ep. 733
The Repairman by Harry Harrison audiobook. Genre: scifi In a sleek, automated future where machines run nearly everything, the people who can still fix those machines have become an afterthought. The Repairman follows one of the last true troubleshooters, a working-class specialist who spends his days crawling through service ducts, hunting down faults in systems that most citizens no longer understand and no longer want to think about. When a critical breakdown ripples outward from a seemingly ...
Jan 25, 2023•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 732
The Misplaced Battleship by Harry Harrison audiobook. Genre: scifi Something the size of a battleship should be hard to misplace. In interstellar space, it is just another missing object with the potential to start a war. When a powerful warship goes unaccounted for in a supposedly peaceful region, the Special Corps sends its most unusual investigator: James Bolivar diGriz, better known as Slippery Jim, the Stainless Steel Rat, a master thief who now uses his talents on the side of the law. Jim ...
Jan 25, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 731
The K-Factor by Harry Harrison audiobook. Genre: scifi In Harry Harrison's The K-Factor, humanity has tried to make war obsolete by turning it into a measurable, manageable risk. The key tool is Societics, a hard-nosed, data-driven science that treats whole cultures like systems and watches for the smallest shift that can trigger a runaway chain reaction. When the frontier planet Himmel begins showing a sudden, inexplicable rise in its k-factor - the war factor - veteran field operative Neel Sid...
Jan 25, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 730
Planet of the Damned by Harry Harrison audiobook. Genre: scifi On the ice-bound world of Anvhar, society survives a brutal climate by channeling ambition into the Twenties - a planet-wide contest that crowns the most capable mind and body of a generation. Brion Brandd has just won, and he expects rest, acclaim, and a quiet recovery. Instead, a former champion named Ihjel pulls him into an off-world emergency: on the desert planet Dis, the ruling magter have provoked a crisis so extreme that neig...
Jan 24, 2023•6 hr 42 min•Ep. 729
Arm of the Law by Harry Harrison audiobook. Genre: scifi On the dusty margins of Mars, Nineport is a place people pass through, not a place they build. Its police station reflects that truth: a bored, graft-friendly chief, a couple of unreliable patrolmen, and one seasoned sergeant trying to keep the town from sliding completely into chaos. Then a coffin-sized crate arrives from Earth, addressed to the department with no warning and a promise of 'field testing.' Inside is Ned, a police experimen...
Jan 24, 2023•45 min•Ep. 728
The Brand of Silence by Harrington Strong audiobook. Genre: mystery Harrington Strong was a pseudonym used by author Johnston McCulley, creator of the character Zorro and many others. The Brand of Silence - A Detective Story finds Sidney Prale returning to New York after ten years during which he sought his fortune. But he finds New York a very changed place, and even more distressing, he finds that his old friends are now turning their backs on him, his old haunts no longer welcome him, and the...
Jan 24, 2023•7 hr 7 min•Ep. 727
Janet of the Dunes by Harriet T. Comstock audiobook. Genre: family Known primarily for her children's books, Harriet T. Comstock would occasionally depart from that genre and showcase her writing talent in adult prose as well. Janet of the Dunes is one such departure wherein she masterfully takes us into the lives of the bold men and women who tended those life saving stations along the seaboard which many a ship relied upon for their safety. They were simple people, large of heart and as close-...
Jan 24, 2023•7 hr 51 min•Ep. 726
The Wailing Octopus by Harold L. Goodwin audiobook. Genre: adventure Rick Brant and his best friend, Don 'Scotty' Scott, expect an easygoing trip to the Caribbean: sunshine, diving, and a shot at a legend. Off Clipper Cay in the Virgin Islands lies the wreck of a pirate ship rumored to have gone down with a priceless prize - a golden Spanish statue lost for centuries. Joining the boys are two very different scientists: archaeologist Dr. Tony Briotti, eager to explore submerged artifacts, and phy...
Jan 24, 2023•5 hr 5 min•Ep. 725
Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet by Harold L. Goodwin audiobook. Genre: scifi 'Foster, Lieutenant, R. I. P.,' blared the voice horn, and five minutes later Rip Foster was off into space on an assignment more exciting than any he had ever imagined. He could hardly believe his ears. Could a green young Planeteer, just through his training, possibly carry out orders like these? Sunny space, what a trick it would be! From the moment Rip boards the space ship Scorpius there is a thrill a minute. He a...
Jan 24, 2023•5 hr 50 min•Ep. 724
The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen audiobook. Genre: folklore The Little Mermaid' (Danish: Den lille havfrue, literally: 'the little sea lady') is a very well known fairy tale by the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen about a young mermaid willing to give up her life in the sea and her identity as a mermaid to gain a human soul and the love of a human prince. The tale was first published in 1837 and has been adapted to various media including musical theatre and animated film. But ...
Jan 23, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 723
The Protector by Harold Bindloss audiobook. Genre: adventure Harold Bindloss, while born in England, based most of his novels in western Canada, and The Protector is based primarily in and around Vancouver and Victoria. There is often danger involved in the mining and timber industries north of Vancouver, and there is also danger in the trust given to people who own and operate these mines and timber lands. And finding one's way in locating them can be equally as difficult as well. Wallace Vane ...
Jan 23, 2023•9 hr 45 min•Ep. 722
Northwest! by Harold Bindloss audiobook. Genre: adventure Jimmy Leyland is a young Englishman with expensive habits and too much confidence in his luck, until one uneasy day in western Canada turns his life inside out. After a reckless hunting trip leaves him unsure whether he has shot a man from the Northwest Mounted Police, Jimmy realizes that uncertainty can be as dangerous as guilt. With officials searching for answers and friends offering conflicting advice, he runs for the one place that m...
Jan 23, 2023•9 hr 34 min•Ep. 721
The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen audiobook. Genre: folklore On a bitter New Year's Eve in a snowy city, a poor little girl wanders the streets with a bundle of matches to sell. Barefoot, hungry, and afraid to go home without money, she drifts from doorway to doorway as crowds hurry past, too busy to notice her. To keep her hands from freezing, she dares to strike a match, and in its small, wavering light she sees comforting visions: warmth, food, and the kind of tenderness she ra...
Jan 23, 2023•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 720
The Emperor’s New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen audiobook. Genre: folklore This is a collection of a few of my personal favorite stories by Hans Christian Andersen that I most loved as a child and still enjoy as an adult. The Emperor's New Clothes was funny from my earliest years because even then I could see that it poked fun at adults and their silly pretensions; The Ugly Duckling I think, was enjoyable because the bullied little one turned out so well and it had a happy ending although I...
Jan 23, 2023•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 719
The Spirit of Sweetwater by Hamlin Garland audiobook. Genre: drama In the mountain West, Richard Clement arrives in the mining country with little money and a stubborn resolve to make his way. A few hard years later, he is no longer an anonymous prospector but the sole owner of a wildly profitable mine called The Witch, a fortune that brings power, suspicion, and a grinding loneliness he did not expect. Seeking rest and a return to ordinary human company, Clement takes leave from his operations ...
Jan 23, 2023•1 hr 59 min•Ep. 718
