Islands of Space by John W. Campbell audiobook. Genre: scifi As Earth's faster-than-light spaceship hung in the void between galaxies, Arcot, Wade, Morey and Fuller could see below them, like a vast shining horizon, the mass of stars that formed their own island universe. Morey worked a moment with his slide rule, then said, 'We made good time! Twenty-nine light years in ten seconds! Yet you had it on at only half power....' Arcot pushed the control lever all the way to full power. The ship fill...
Feb 03, 2023•7 hr 13 min•Ep. 777
Invaders from the Infinite by John W. Campbell audiobook. Genre: scifi The famous scientific trio of Arcot, Wade and Morey, challenged by the most ruthless aliens in all the universes, blasted off on an intergalactic search for defenses against the invaders of Earth and all her allies. World after world was visited, secret after secret unleashed, and turned to mighty weapons of intense force--and still the Thessian enemy seemed to grow in power and ferocity. Mighty battles between huge space arm...
Feb 03, 2023•7 hr 47 min•Ep. 776
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth by John Muir audiobook. Genre: biography 'The only fire for the whole house was the kitchen stove, with a fire box about eighteen inches long and eight inches wide and deep,- scant space for three or four small sticks, around which in hard zero weather all the family of ten shivered, and beneath which in the morning we found our socks and coarse, soggy boots frozen solid.' Thus, with perceptive eye for detail, the American naturalist, John Muir, describes life o...
Feb 03, 2023•5 hr 35 min•Ep. 775
The Tar Baby - And Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris audiobook. Genre: folklore In The Tar Baby - And Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus, Joel Chandler Harris gathers some of the most memorable Uncle Remus selections into a compact, lively listening experience. Set within the familiar frame of a young boy visiting the elderly storyteller Uncle Remus, the book turns quickly to the animal world of Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, Brer Bear, and their neighbors, where every friendly chat can becom...
Feb 02, 2023•1 hr 42 min•Ep. 774
Uncle Remus Returns by Joel Chandler Harris audiobook. Genre: folklore In Uncle Remus Returns, Joel Chandler Harris brings back the soft-spoken, sharp-eyed storyteller of the old plantation, now older and enjoying a quieter sort of retirement. When a new child arrives to visit family - the son of the original little boy who once begged for tales by the fire - Uncle Remus slips naturally into his familiar role, turning everyday moments into invitations for story. One by one, he shares a set of li...
Feb 02, 2023•3 hr 2 min•Ep. 773
Uncle Remus and Friends - 17 stories by Joel Chandler Harris audiobook. Genre: folklore Uncle Remus, that genial old storyteller, knows how to spin these wonderful tales about the 'criteers' that the little 6 year old boy (and many of us adults!) love to listen to. Yet the 'Brer Rabbit and 'Brer Fox and the others sound a lot like the people all around us. They tell stories about personalities and faults and virtues in a way that is unique to Uncle Remus. As the shadows grow longer outside, draw...
Feb 02, 2023•1 hr 48 min•Ep. 772
Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit by Joel Chandler Harris audiobook. Genre: folklore Step into a porchside circle of storytelling where Uncle Remus, an elderly Black narrator, shares a lively chain of animal fables with a curious young boy. In these classic tales, the small but quick-witted Brer Rabbit survives a world of bigger, stronger rivals - especially the relentless Brer Fox - by relying on nerve, wordplay, and a sharp eye for opportunity. Each story unfolds like a miniature contest: traps are ...
Feb 02, 2023•51 min•Ep. 771
The Will and the Way Stories by Jessie Benton Fremont audiobook. Genre: self help In The Will and the Way Stories, 19th-century American writer Jessie Benton Fremont gathers nine brief, essay-like tales that turn a familiar proverb into lived experience: where there's a will, there's a way. Moving from small-town classrooms and snowy evening walks to seafaring labor and far-flung travel, each vignette introduces ordinary people - and a few larger-than-life figures - facing a practical problem, a...
Feb 02, 2023•3 hr 35 min•Ep. 770
The Valley of Silent Men by James Oliver Curwood audiobook. Genre: adventure James Kent has learned that he is terminally ill with perhaps only days to live, and so decides to confess to a murder and thus save an innocent man. Nobody believes his confession, particularly Marette, a mysterious girl who had shown up at Athabasca Landing only weeks before. Kent’s illness takes a turn and his death is postponed, and he sets about to find out more about the girl, who he ends up falling in love with, ...
Jan 31, 2023•8 hr 53 min•Ep. 769
The Honor of the Big Snows by James Oliver Curwood audiobook. Genre: adventure In the far Canadian North, where winter can swallow a trading post whole, John Cummins loses the one warmth in his life: his young wife, Melisse, who dies just after giving birth to their daughter. On the same night, a starving boy stumbles out of the spruce forest with a violin and a name, Jan Thoreau, and the music he plays binds his fate to the grief-stricken hunter and the motherless child. Taken in at Post Lac Ba...
Jan 31, 2023•7 hr 24 min•Ep. 768
The Golden Snare by James Oliver Curwood audiobook. Genre: adventure With but two years of service in the RNMP Philip Raine finds himself somewhat unwillingly on the trail of Bram Johnson, wanted for murder and a wild, untamed and savage man who commands a pack of wolves as his brethren. But most peculiar of all is the snare which Bram had had in his possession and had somehow lost. It was a golden snare intricately woven out of the finest, most delicate flaxen hair of a woman. But what could po...
Jan 31, 2023•6 hr 35 min•Ep. 767
The Gold Hunters by James Oliver Curwood audiobook. Genre: adventure Roderick Drew has come north for one last season of hard travel and harder lessons, running the traplines with his closest friend, Wabigoon, and their grizzled guide, Mukoki. In the frozen wilds around Hudson Bay posts and endless lakes, the three stumble onto a mystery older than any of them: a forgotten cabin, ancient bones, and a birch-bark map that hints at a hidden country of gold. But before the dream can become a springt...
Jan 31, 2023•6 hr 51 min•Ep. 766
The Flaming Forest by James Oliver Curwood audiobook. Genre: adventure In the far northern wilderness of Canada, Sergeant David Carrigan of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police rides alone on a clear-cut mission: track down and bring in the feared outlaw known as Black Roger Audemard. But the North has its own rules, and Carrigan's certainty is shattered when an ambush leaves him wounded and at the mercy of a daring young woman, Jeanne Marie-Anne Boulain. Instead of finishing him, she keeps him al...
Jan 31, 2023•8 hr 50 min•Ep. 765
The Danger Trail by James Oliver Curwood audiobook. Genre: adventure Chicago engineer Jack Howland is sent to the edge of the Canadian barren lands north of Prince Albert to establish a train route through some of the most treacherous terrain in North America. He would soon learn that it was not only the terrain that was forbidding, as he begins to understand why the previous engineers sent on the same mission had been forced to give up the task and flee back to the south. Mysterious visitors, s...
Jan 31, 2023•6 hr 19 min•Ep. 764
The Country Beyond by James Oliver Curwood audiobook. Genre: adventure In the spring thaw of Canadas north country near Lake Superior, a homely, big-footed puppy named Peter Pied-Bot tumbles into a story far larger than himself. Peter belongs to Nada, a young woman trapped in an isolated lakeside clearing where beauty and brutality live side by side - and where the cruel, one-eyed Jed Hawkins keeps his hold through fear and force. The one bright thread in Nadas life is Jolly Roger McKay, a restl...
Jan 31, 2023•9 hr 59 min•Ep. 763
Nomads of the North by James Oliver Curwood audiobook. Genre: adventure An unlikely pair were Neewa, the black bear cub who had been orphaned at a young age, and Miki, part Mackenzie hound, part Airedale and Spitz who had become separated from his master in the frozen reaches of northern Canada. But the two befriended one another, and these nomads fended for themselves until they too became separated in an unfortunate way. While Neewa searched for his friend, Miki was taken by northern trappers ...
Jan 31, 2023•8 hr 2 min•Ep. 762
Isobel by James Oliver Curwood audiobook. Genre: adventure Action, intrigue, and a touch of romance in the farthest reaches of northern Canada. Sergeant Billy MacVeigh of the Canadian Northwest Mounted, with his only partner Pelliter are the only official representatives in the lonely and desolate reaches of Point Fullerton, hundreds of miles from the next nearest outpost, and from any civilization. Both are nearing the end of their service in those regions, and their main function has been to t...
Jan 30, 2023•7 hr 3 min•Ep. 761
Flower of the North by James Oliver Curwood audiobook. Genre: adventure On a routine business journey up the Churchill River, Philip Whittemore expects the North to feel familiar. Instead, the farther he travels into the raw, river-cut wilderness of northern Canada, the more the land seems to shift under his feet, as if the map in his mind no longer matches what lies ahead. Drawn by rumor and by a nagging sense that something is being kept from him, Philip follows a fragile trail of hints to an ...
Jan 30, 2023•8 hr 39 min•Ep. 760
The Thirteenth - Greatest of Centuries by James Joseph Walsh audiobook. Genre: history It cannot but seem a paradox to say that the Thirteenth was the greatest of centuries. To most people the idea will appear at once so preposterous that they may not even care to consider it. A certain number, of course, will have their curiosity piqued by the thought that anyone should evolve so curious a notion. Either of these attitudes of mind will yield at once to a more properly receptive mood if it is re...
Jan 30, 2023•18 hr 59 min•Ep. 759
No Clue by James Hay audiobook. Genre: mystery “No Clue! A Mystery Story” finds detective Jefferson Hastings at the home of wealthy but eccentric Arthur Sloane one hot summer night, when two other guests at Sloanehurst stumble across the body of young Mildred Brace lying dead on the lawn. Sloane’s daughter Lucille asks Hastings to help solve the crime, but Hastings gets surprisingly little help from anybody he interviews, including Mr. Sloane himself and even the mother of the victim. With few c...
Jan 30, 2023•7 hr 28 min•Ep. 758
The Great Taxicab Robbery by James H. Collins audiobook. Genre: mystery In 1912, $25,000 was stolen during a bank transfer in New York City in broad daylight. In what may appear astonishing in today's world, the transfer occurred in a New York City taxicab. This factual account brings true crime of the early twentieth century to life. The various methods used by the detectives and police in their attempts to solve the mystery behind the robbery, and hopefully bring the thieves to justice, makes ...
Jan 30, 2023•2 hr 48 min•Ep. 757
The Trawler by James Brendan Connolly audiobook. Genre: drama In Gloucester, Massachusetts, the news comes ashore like a breaker in the night: Arthur Snow, a young bank fisherman, has been swept from the deck of the trawler Arbiter and lost at sea. His father, John Snow, and his niece, Mary, receive the story with grief - and with anger aimed at the vessel's skipper, Hugh Glynn, a towering, fiercely proud captain whose hunger to outwork and outrun every other craft has earned him both admiration...
Jan 30, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 756
Snowdrift by James B. Hendryx audiobook. Genre: adventure The story revolves around Carter Brent, an alcoholic and gambler who had struck gold many times in the Yukon, but gambled and drank it away in Dawson; and Snowdrift, the half-breed who had spent her life with a wandering band of Indians in the frozen north country. Snowdrift had been raised by Wananebish, yet never knew who her father was, and yet Wananebish had somehow been able to send her to be schooled at a nearby mission. The paths o...
Jan 30, 2023•11 hr 35 min•Ep. 755
The Thing in the Attic by James B. Blish audiobook. Genre: scifi Honath the Pursemaker has committed the worst crime in his people’s tree-top civilization: he has doubts. In a culture of small, tail-bearing folk shaped by ancient science and ruled by the Book of Laws, faith is not a private matter, but the glue that keeps order. When Honath and a few like-minded friends question the existence of the Giants said to have created them, the authorities make an example of the heretics by casting them...
Jan 30, 2023•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 754
The Black Fawn by James Arthur Kjelgaard audiobook. Genre: adventure Bud Sloan was an orphan who had been 'sold out' of the orphanage to work on a farm once he'd been old enough to labor. The farm where he was to work was owned by an aging farmer and his wife who had raised a large family and were now left alone. One day, after his chores were done, Bud wandered into the woods nearby and with mouth agape, he noticed a newborn jet black fawn all alone and apparently confused in his new surroundin...
Jan 27, 2023•5 hr 34 min•Ep. 753
Six Feet Four by Jackson Gregory audiobook. Genre: adventure A hotel is robbed one night, and a cowboy makes his getaway with but few witnesses. When a young woman is also robbed, suspicion falls on one particular man who matches the description of the former thief. The robber is without a doubt a tall man; six feet four inches tall. Buck Thornton, at six feet four, in the area, and acting a bit peculiarly, becomes the suspect and sets about to uncover the true culprit. However, what he discover...
Jan 27, 2023•9 hr 7 min•Ep. 752
Salvage in Space by Jack Williamson audiobook. Genre: scifi In the lonely reaches of the asteroid belt, Thad Allen makes a bare living as a meteor miner, welding scavenged iron into a tiny drifting 'planet' he hopes to trade for a better life. Then his battered instruments pick up the impossible: a rocket ship, the Red Dragon, dead in space and drifting without a beacon. To a salvager, it is a fortune waiting to be claimed - if he can live long enough to collect it. Inside, Thad finds signs of a...
Jan 27, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 751
The Shaggy Man of Oz by Jack Snow audiobook. Genre: fantasy 'During the past few years, several readers have written me asking: 'What ever happened to the Nome King's tunnel under the Deadly Desert?' The answer will be found in this book. Everyone who has read the Oz books knows and loves Shaggy. He first met Dorothy in 'The Road To Oz,' and from that time on had a number of adventures in which he discovered such famous Oz personages as the Patchwork Girl, Ojo, Unk Nunkie, the Glass Cat, Betsy B...
Jan 27, 2023•3 hr 44 min•Ep. 750
The Magical Mimics in Oz by Jack Snow audiobook. Genre: fantasy The land of OZ is the happiest fairyland anywhere, but there are evil creatures whose only ambition is to destroy that happiness. Lurking inside Mount Illuso, just south of the Deadly Desert, live the Magic Mimics, a race devoted to causing the maximum chaos and unhappiness everywhere, but mainly in the land of OZ. Until now they have been kept at bay by a spell, but when Princess Ozma leaves OZ for 3 days, their foul machinians are...
Jan 27, 2023•3 hr 34 min•Ep. 749
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev audiobook. Genre: drama The fathers and children of the novel refers to the growing divide between the two generations of Russians, and the character Yevgeny Bazarov has been referred to as the 'first Bolshevik', for his nihilism and rejection of the old order. Turgenev wrote Fathers and Sons as a response to the growing cultural schism that he saw between liberals of the 1830s/1840s and the growing nihilist movement. Both the nihilists (the 'sons') and the 1830...
Jan 27, 2023•9 hr 29 min•Ep. 748
