An American Robinson Crusoe by Samuel B. Allison audiobook. Genre: adventure Samuel B. Allison's An American Robinson Crusoe is a brisk, child-friendly retelling of Daniel Defoe's classic survival story, reshaped for American classrooms and young readers. It begins in New York City, where a restless boy named Robinson Crusoe would rather roam the streets and watch the ships on the Hudson than study for the future his parents imagine for him. Drawn by tales of distant coasts and strange creatures...
Aug 16, 2023•3 hr 22 min
The Benson Murder Case - A Philo Vance Story by S. S. Van Dine audiobook. Genre: mystery When a powerful New York financier is found shot to death in his own mansion, the crime looks at first like a straightforward killing in a house full of money, secrets, and resentments. But the clues do not line up, the motives overlap, and every witness seems to be hiding something. Called in to assist the investigation is Philo Vance, an urbane aesthete with an unsettling gift for seeing what others overlo...
Aug 15, 2023•10 hr 52 min
Actions And Reactions by Rudyard Kipling audiobook. Genre: adventure Rudyard Kipling's Actions And Reactions is a wide-ranging collection of stories in which private choices collide with public forces - empire, technology, class, and the stubborn pull of the past. From English countryside homes shadowed by old histories to far-flung outposts where duty and survival test the limits of loyalty, Kipling follows soldiers, engineers, travelers, and ordinary men and women caught in moments when a sing...
Aug 15, 2023•6 hr 47 min
Across Mongolian Plains - A Naturalists Account of China's Great Northwest by Roy Chapman Andrews audiobook. Genre: adventure In Across Mongolian Plains: A Naturalists Account of Chinas Great Northwest, famed explorer and naturalist Roy Chapman Andrews invites listeners into the vast, wind-scoured spaces beyond the Great Wall, where grasslands fade into desert and the horizon seems to run forever. Traveling by cart, horseback, and camel caravan, Andrews chronicles the daily realities of field sc...
Aug 15, 2023•8 hr 7 min
The Maker of Moons, and Other Short Stories by Robert W. Chambers audiobook. Genre: horror In this eerie early collection from Robert W. Chambers, the everyday world keeps cracking open to reveal hidden rooms of dread, enchantment, and obsession. The stories range from shadowed city streets to lonely country houses, from moonlit gardens to back rooms where forbidden crafts are practiced, and they share a single question: what happens when curiosity draws ordinary people too close to the impossib...
Aug 14, 2023•9 hr 24 min
The Dog Crusoe and His Master by Robert Ballantyne audiobook. Genre: adventure In The Dog Crusoe and His Master, Robert Michael Ballantyne spins a brisk, sea-salted tale of hardship, loyalty, and hard-won hope. Set against the vast, unforgiving Atlantic and the rugged coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador, the story follows a young sailor and fisherman who is swept into a chain of misfortunes that strips him of comfort and certainty. Beside him stands his most steadfast companion: Crusoe, a tough,...
Aug 14, 2023•9 hr 14 min
My Doggie and I by Robert Ballantyne audiobook. Genre: family In Victorian London, young medical student John Mellon prides himself on being practical, but his life is quietly transformed the moment he takes home a small, shaggy dog with a comically unglamorous look and an outsized spirit. John names him Dumps (also called Pompey), and the pair become inseparable as John makes his rounds in the struggling streets around Whitechapel, where illness, poverty, and loneliness press in on every doorst...
Aug 14, 2023•4 hr 34 min
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall by Plunkitt audiobook. Genre: history Part memoir, part political primer, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall captures the voice of George Washington Plunkitt, a colorful, plainspoken power broker from New York City's Tammany Hall machine. In a series of candid conversations and speeches, Plunkitt lays out how ward politics really works - from turning out votes and settling neighborhood disputes to rewarding loyalty with jobs and favors. He proudly explains his famous idea of 'hone...
Aug 12, 2023•3 hr 3 min
The Many-Sided Franklin by Paul Leicester Ford audiobook. Genre: biography A fast-paced, somewhat racey look into the life, accomplishments and idiosyncrasies of Benjamin Franklin. Acclaimed biographer Paul L. Ford uses Franklin’s letters, papers and journals to step us through Franklin's many adventures, to reveal intimate details of his personal life - relations with siblings, wife, children, friends, business partners; his physique, health, illnesses, schooling, personal habits and goals; his...
Aug 11, 2023•12 hr 31 min
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Patanjali audiobook. Genre: philosophy A foundational text of classical yoga, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali distills the path of inner mastery into brief, potent aphorisms meant to be contemplated, practiced, and lived. Attributed to the sage Patanjali, this compact work maps the workings of the mind and the sources of human suffering, then offers a disciplined method for steadiness, clarity, and liberation. Through its four sections, listeners encounter the centra...
Aug 11, 2023•3 hr 38 min
Christie's Christmas by Pansy audiobook. Genre: religion Twelve-year-old Christie Tucker has been counting the days until Christmas, which is also her birthday. On their modest farm, every penny matters, but a new railroad line has finally made a dream possible: Christie's parents can save enough to send her on a one-day trip to visit her well-to-do Uncle Daniel and his family in the city. For Christie, the journey itself feels like a grand adventure - her first time away from home, her first ti...
Aug 11, 2023•7 hr 58 min
The Inimitable Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse audiobook. Genre: comedy When either Bertie Wooster or his friends found themselves in the soup or in dangerous proximity to the tureen, the instinct of one and all was to turn to Jeeves - Bertie's Man. He understood human nature, especially that of gilded youth. It did not matter if the hope of an ancient house had fallen in love with a waitress, or if Bertie's cousins Claude and Eustace had been playing dido; Jeeves never failed. His was a sound brain. ...
Aug 10, 2023•6 hr 59 min
Carry On, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse audiobook. Genre: comedy 'Leave it to Jeeves' was Bertie's motto, be the question one of a colour of a tie, the style of a hat, the cut of a coat. Jeeves was always right. There was no one like him to placate rich uncles or indignant mammas. He said just the right thing at just the right moment. What did it matter that Jeeves was somewhat of a tyrant, and that without his approval Bertie could not grow so much as a moustache? Was he not always there to lean on...
Aug 10, 2023•7 hr 44 min
The Age of the Condottieri - A Short History of Mediaeval Italy from 1409-1530 by Oscar Browning audiobook. Genre: history Italy from 1409 to 1530 is synonymous with the Renaissance, but this was also the age of the condottieri, Italian captains of mercenary companies and multinational armies who fought in the service of city states, monarchs, and the Pope. Some like Ludovico Sforza in Milan seized power and founded dynasties in their own right. The merchant princes of the Medici family reached ...
Aug 10, 2023•8 hr 42 min
An Iron Will by Orison Swett Marden audiobook. Genre: self help In An Iron Will, Orison Swett Marden, one of the founding voices of the modern success movement, makes a spirited case that the strongest force a person can cultivate is not luck, talent, or circumstance, but a trained and steadfast will. Through brisk chapters packed with vivid examples, memorable maxims, and stories of ordinary people facing extraordinary pressures, Marden explores how determination is built, tested, and strengthe...
Aug 09, 2023•1 hr 41 min
Cupid's Cyclopedia by Oliver Herford audiobook. Genre: comedy In Cupid's Cyclopedia, humorist and illustrator Oliver Herford (with fellow artist John Cecil Clay) turns the most unpredictable human subject - love - into a mock reference book that is equal parts dictionary, satire, and valentine. Framed as Cupid's own guide to romance, the book trots through the alphabet, offering brisk entries on everything from affection and adoration to jealousy, jilt, and kiss, each definition sharpened into a...
Aug 09, 2023•1 hr 9 min
A Bachelor's Dream by Mrs. Hungerford audiobook. Genre: romance In late-Victorian London, Dr. George Brudenell has built a quiet, ordered life around his practice, his books, and the capable management of his housekeeper, Mrs. Jessop. Then a letter upends everything: his sister, delayed abroad, is sending her children ahead to live with him. With three lively youngsters about to invade his calm household, Brudenell turns for advice to the warm, bustling Mrs. Leslie at Petersham Villa and finds h...
Aug 09, 2023•3 hr 33 min
The Adventure of the Broad Arrow - An Australian Romance by Morley Roberts audiobook. Genre: adventure When a few men decide to go for looking for gold in the outback of Australia, days of extreme heat with no water and no rain in sight, make them turn back and give up the trip; all but two of them that is, Smith and Mandeville, aka the 'Baker. Smith and Baker decide to tough it out and go after their dreams, chancing their lives to find 'their luck'. Little do they realize, they will put their ...
Aug 08, 2023•4 hr 10 min
The Clock Strikes Thirteen by Mildred A. Wirt Benson audiobook. Genre: mystery Penny Parker is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter who has an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysteries. The only daughter of widower Anthony Parker, publisher of the 'Riverview Star,' Penny has been raised to be self-sufficient, outspoken, innovative, and extraordinarily tenacious. Her cheerful, chatty manner belies a shrewd and keenly observant mind. Penny was the creation of...
Aug 08, 2023•4 hr 44 min
The Wishing Well by Mildred A. Wirt Benson audiobook. Genre: mystery PENNY PARKER is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysteries. The only daughter of widower Anthony Parker, publisher of the 'Riverview Star,' Penny has been raised to be self-sufficient, outspoken, innovative, and extraordinarily tenacious. Her cheerful, chatty manner belies a shrewd and keenly observant mind. Penny was the creation of Mildred A. W...
Aug 08, 2023•4 hr 52 min
Alice of Old Vincennes by Maurice Thompson audiobook. Genre: history This entertaining book of adventure, love and war was a Bestseller in 1900 and 1901. The heroine Alice Roussillon is a brave young woman who grew up in a small town on the Wabash River in Indiana during the revolutionary war. The characters are all distinctive and compelling. It gives a great insight into the frontier life of that era and includes true historical accounts and personages such as the wicked Lieutenant Governor He...
Aug 07, 2023•10 hr 46 min
Dead Men's Shoes by Mary Elizabeth Braddon audiobook. Genre: mystery In Victorian England, Sybil Secretan is a gentlewoman with a precarious future: she has breeding and pride, but not the money that protects a woman from hard choices. When she is offered the post of housekeeper to her wealthy, eccentric uncle, the arrangement seems like salvation. In a comfortable household, treated with unexpected kindness, Sybil can finally imagine security, and the unspoken promise of inheritance begins to s...
Aug 07, 2023•19 hr 24 min
Boy, The Wandering Dog by Marshall Saunders audiobook. Genre: adventure Told with wit, grit, and a keen eye for human folly, 'Boy, The Wandering Dog' follows Boy, a bold fox-terrier with a mind of his own, as he tries to make his place in a city that can be thrilling one moment and merciless the next. Newly arrived in New York after a stretch of roaming, Boy quickly learns that a dog survives on more than luck: he needs allies, street sense, and a clear set of rules for navigating parks, apartme...
Aug 07, 2023•9 hr 27 min
Beautiful Joe by Marshall Saunders audiobook. Genre: family Told in the plainspoken voice of a dog, Beautiful Joe follows a gentle, bighearted mutt whose early life is defined by fear. After suffering brutal treatment at the hands of an owner who sees animals as disposable, Joe escapes and is taken in by the Morris family, a warm household where children and parents alike believe that kindness is a daily practice, not a slogan. In their care, Joe begins the slow work of learning to trust again -...
Aug 05, 2023•10 hr 14 min
The Young Diana by Marie Corelli audiobook. Genre: scifi In The Young Diana: An Experiment of the Future, Marie Corelli blends social satire with speculative science to ask a dangerous question: what would you trade for youth? Diana May is a well-bred Englishwoman who has done everything society told her to do and is rewarded with quiet humiliation - jilted after years of faithful waiting, dismissed as a burden by her self-satisfied parents, and treated as though a woman past her first bloom has...
Aug 04, 2023•13 hr 35 min
Andrew the Glad by Maria Thompson Daviess audiobook. Genre: romance 'There are some women who will brew mystery from the decoction of even a very simple life. Matilda is one of them, remarked the major to himself as he filled his pipe and settled himself before his high-piled, violet-flamed logs...' A sweet, heartfelt, old-fashioned romance. The middle-aged adults take a kindly interest in the affairs of the young people, with many having friendships across generations in a way not often seen to...
Aug 04, 2023•5 hr 42 min
The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson audiobook. Genre: family The Able McLaughlins won the Pulitzer Prize for a novel in 1924 in Margaret Wilson's debut work. Aptly described as 'Little House on the Prairie - but for adults' the novel follows a group of Scottish families who pioneer the Iowa prairie in the 1860’s. The main storyline concerns Wully, the eldest McLaughlin son, who returns home from the Civil War to find that his sweetheart, Chirstie, has experienced an unspeakable tragedy that ...
Aug 04, 2023•8 hr 21 min
Beethoven - The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words by Ludwig van Beethoven audiobook. Genre: biography Beethoven - The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words invites listeners into Ludwig van Beethoven's inner world through a carefully arranged selection of his own letters, notes, and remarks. Rather than a distant overview of dates and premieres, this book lets Beethoven speak for himself, revealing a mind that burns with artistic purpose while wrestling with practical r...
Aug 03, 2023•2 hr 56 min
The Blue Castle by Lucy Maud Montgomery audiobook. Genre: romance In a small Ontario town, 29-year-old Valancy Stirling lives under the thumb of her sharp-tongued mother and a clan of proper, disapproving relatives who have trained her to be quiet, grateful, and afraid. Her days are a procession of dull duties and stifled wishes, relieved only by her secret devotion to the vivid, escapist nature writings of John Foster and by an imagined refuge she calls the Blue Castle - a private dream of free...
Aug 03, 2023•8 hr 12 min
Christmas With Lucy Maud Montgomery - A Selection Of Stories by Lucy Maud Montgomery audiobook. Genre: family Christmas With Lucy Maud Montgomery - A Selection Of Stories gathers a sparkling handful of the beloved Canadian author s seasonal tales into one cozy listening experience. Set against snow-softened lanes, lamplit parlors, and windswept island shores, these stories follow ordinary people at a moment when the year feels both hardest and most hopeful. Montgomery introduces spirited young w...
Aug 03, 2023•5 hr 45 min
