The Door Through Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley audiobook. Genre: scifi At one time Race Cargill had been the best Terran Intelligence agent on the complex and mysterious planet of Wolf. He had repeatedly imperiled his life amongst the half-human and non-human creatures of the sullen world. And he had repeatedly accomplished the fantastic missions until his name was emblazoned with glory. But that had all seemingly ended. For six long years he'd sat behind a boring desk inside the fenced-in Terr...
Oct 19, 2022•4 hr 2 min•Ep. 447
The Book of Wonder by Lord Dunsany audiobook. Genre: fantasy First published in 1912, The Book of Wonder gathers Lord Dunsany's luminous, dreamlike short tales into a single volume of mythic imagination. Each story opens a different door: a traveler strays into uncanny streets where ordinary rules dissolve; a king bargains with forces older than his throne; a hunter follows signs that seem to come from the edge of the world; and distant gods, monsters, and marvels drift through scenes that feel ...
Oct 19, 2022•2 hr 37 min•Ep. 446
What Men Live By and Other Tales by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. Genre: religion Although Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a wealthy landowner, in his later life he had what was considered a “religious awakening.” This experience went on to inform his writing and his lifestyle in profound ways. His views transcended the specifics of religion, as known in his day - so much so he came to be a helpful guide both to Mohandas Gandhi and to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The four stories in this collection ask profo...
Oct 19, 2022•2 hr 17 min•Ep. 445
Insurgent Mexico by John Reed audiobook. Genre: history In the autumn of 1913 John Reed was sent to Mexico by the Metropolitan Magazine to report the Mexican Revolution. He shared the perils of Pancho Villa's army for four months, present with Villa's Constitutional Army when it defeated Federal forces at Torreón, opening the way for its advance on Mexico City. Reed's time with the Villistas resulted in a series of outstanding magazine articles that brought Jack a national reputation as a war co...
Oct 19, 2022•8 hr 47 min•Ep. 444
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome audiobook. Genre: comedy Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The book was intended initially to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history of places along the route, but the humorous elements eventually took over, to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages now seem like an unnecessary...
Oct 19, 2022•6 hr 36 min•Ep. 443
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 ...
Oct 18, 2022•6 hr 46 min•Ep. 442
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 v...
Oct 18, 2022•9 hr 22 min•Ep. 441
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 cho...
Oct 18, 2022•6 hr 19 min•Ep. 440
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...
Oct 18, 2022•17 hr 4 min•Ep. 439
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 ...
Oct 18, 2022•10 hr 27 min•Ep. 438
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 r...
Oct 18, 2022•1 hr 42 min•Ep. 437
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 puzzl...
Oct 18, 2022•2 hr 2 min•Ep. 436
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 th...
Oct 18, 2022•3 hr 59 min•Ep. 435
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 Rut...
Oct 17, 2022•15 hr 8 min•Ep. 434
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...
Oct 17, 2022•5 hr 2 min•Ep. 433
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 S...
Oct 17, 2022•8 hr 58 min•Ep. 432
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 King...
Oct 17, 2022•12 hr 39 min•Ep. 431
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 surr...
Oct 13, 2022•2 hr 19 min•Ep. 430
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 a...
Oct 13, 2022•7 hr 49 min•Ep. 429
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...
Oct 13, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 428
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 - Ma...
Oct 12, 2022•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 427
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...
Oct 12, 2022•14 hr 17 min•Ep. 426
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 ...
Oct 05, 2022•3 hr 59 min•Ep. 425
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 at...
Oct 05, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 424
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 philoso...
Oct 05, 2022•3 hr 20 min•Ep. 423
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, an...
Oct 05, 2022•30 hr 17 min•Ep. 422
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, f...
Oct 05, 2022•3 hr 53 min•Ep. 421
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 wa...
Oct 04, 2022•2 hr 12 min•Ep. 420
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 r...
Oct 04, 2022•3 hr 40 min•Ep. 419
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 ...
Oct 04, 2022•8 hr 20 min•Ep. 418
