The House of a Thousand Candles by Meredith Nicholson audiobook. Genre: mystery A top ten bestseller of 1906, The House of a Thousand Candles is part adventure/mystery and part romance. The book begins with young Jack Glenarm returning from various exploits in Europe and Africa for the reading of his grandfather’s will. In it, he stands to inherit his grandfather’s estate, but only if he can remain for one year in residence at the old man’s unfinished “House of a Thousand Candles” in Annandale, ...
Mar 01, 2023•7 hr 42 min•Ep. 837
The Rangeland Avenger by Max Brand audiobook. Genre: adventure Hal Sinclair is the kind of man who can hum a tune with his throat cracked by thirst - until a reckless moment on a desperate desert crossing shatters his horse, cripples Hal, and exposes the ugliness in the three partners who have been riding at his side. Lowrie, Quade, and the long, haunted Sandersen choose self-preservation over loyalty, leaving Hal behind beneath a pitiless sun. News of the betrayal reaches Hal's brother, Riley S...
Mar 01, 2023•9 hr 4 min•Ep. 836
The Children’s Life of the Bee by Maurice Maeterlinck audiobook. Genre: science In The Childrens Life of the Bee, Nobel Prize-winning writer Maurice Maeterlinck turns the beehive into a living, breathing city that young listeners can understand and marvel at. Written as a simpler, more accessible companion to his famous The Life of the Bee, this classic 1901 work guides you from the first excitement of a swarm to the daily rhythm of a settled colony. Maeterlinck introduces the hive's central fig...
Mar 01, 2023•2 hr 48 min•Ep. 835
The Courage of the Commonplace by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews audiobook. Genre: drama Set against the pageantry and pressure-cooker rituals of early-20th-century Yale, The Courage of the Commonplace follows Johnny McLean, a likable, athletic junior who discovers that the verdict of his classmates can feel like a verdict on his whole life. As Tap Day approaches - the moment when a select few are chosen for the elite senior societies - Johnny measures himself against rivals who seem effortlessly ...
Mar 01, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 834
The Planet Savers by Marion Zimmer Bradley audiobook. Genre: scifi On the isolated world of Darkover, a terrifying epidemic returns like clockwork: Trailmen's fever, a disease that flares every forty-eight years and can sweep through the human settlements with catastrophic speed. The Terran Trade City is desperate for a cure, and Dr. Randall Forth believes the key lies not only in medicine but in understanding the planet's elusive indigenous people, the tree-dwelling Trailmen of the Hellers. His...
Feb 27, 2023•3 hr 15 min•Ep. 833
Falcons of Narabedla by Marion Zimmer Bradley audiobook. Genre: scifi Mike Kenscott is an ordinary twentieth-century American still haunted by a past catastrophe: a strange laboratory accident, a surge of unseen forces, and the sense that reality has a weak seam running through it. Then, on what should be a simple outing, that seam splits. Mike is flung across the Time Ellipse into Narabedla, a world under twin suns where Terran influence and Darkovan bloodlines have mingled into a brilliant, pe...
Feb 27, 2023•3 hr 11 min•Ep. 832
The Mystery of the Hidden Room by Marion Harvey audiobook. Genre: mystery A classic mystery/detective story in the Sherlock Holmes tradition, the hidden room suggested by the title of this book does not remain a mystery for very long as the book progresses. Written in the first person, the husband of his (Carlton Davies) former lover is found dead one night at the stroke of midnight, and Davies finds his ex-lover standing over the dead body immediately after the shot was fired, with a gun in her...
Feb 27, 2023•10 hr 35 min•Ep. 831
Dr. Montessori’s Own Handbook by Maria Montessori audiobook. Genre: self help This is the authoritative book written by Montessori to describe her methods. It gives an overview of the Montessori Method as developed for 3 to 6 year olds. It is a short work, intended as a manual for teachers and parents, detailing the materials used as well as her philosophy in developing them. 'As a result of the widespread interest that has been taken in my method of child education, certain books have been issu...
Feb 27, 2023•2 hr 46 min•Ep. 830
Ormond by Maria Edgeworth audiobook. Genre: drama Maria Edgeworth was one of the most popular writers of her time, a sharp and witty observer of society manners, and a favorite author for Jane Austen. “Ormond,” published in 1817, is a “coming-of-age” novel, tracing a young man’s development as he approaches the age of majority. When we meet him, Harry Ormond has his “heart in the right place,” but is unsettled of character, naïve and impulsive. The central issue is: “What kind of man will he bec...
Feb 27, 2023•13 hr 58 min•Ep. 829
The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth audiobook. Genre: drama Published in 1812, “The Absentee” by Maria Edgeworth examines social injustice in 19th-century Britain. At that time, the management of many Irish estates suffered from the absenteeism of their Anglo-Irish landlords. We meet Lord and Lady Clonbrony. Lord Clonbrony struggles with debt, while Lady Clonbrony tries to shed her Irish connections and earn status in London’s high society (known as “the ton.”) Meanwhile, their son, Lord Colambre, i...
Feb 27, 2023•11 hr 35 min•Ep. 828
Warrior of Two Worlds by Manly Wade Wellman audiobook. Genre: scifi Snatched from Earth and dropped naked into a roaring dust storm, a bewildered stranger staggers into the underground stronghold of a world called Dondromogon - a planet where only two thin twilight bands are habitable, forever battered by wind between a burning day side and a frozen night side. Captured at the gates, he can offer only one impossible story: he cannot remember his own name. But the defenders see something else in ...
Feb 27, 2023•2 hr 18 min•Ep. 827
Venus Enslaved by Manly Wade Wellman audiobook. Genre: scifi On the sweltering, perilous world of Venus, an Earthman named Planter finds his sentence turned into something far worse than prison: survival among alien jungles, strange predators, and rival powers that treat human life as a resource to be spent. Thrown together with two fellow convicts, the hard-edged Disbro and the unexpectedly formidable Max, Planter expects only heat, hunger, and a quick death. Instead, a sudden encounter with a ...
Feb 27, 2023•2 hr 12 min•Ep. 826
Mercenary by Mack Reynolds audiobook. Genre: scifi In a future America that has traded civic duty for comfort, society is locked into a rigid nine-level caste system - and almost no one ever climbs. Joseph Mauser, born Mid-Lower and determined to become something more, has chosen one of the last remaining ladders: Category Military. But war is no longer a clash of nations. Under a universal disarmament pact that bans modern weaponry, the truly powerful settle their disputes in carefully regulate...
Feb 23, 2023•2 hr 36 min•Ep. 825
Adaptation by Mack Reynolds audiobook. Genre: scifi In 1960 when this was published, the Cold War was at its height. Communism and Free Enterprise (Democracy) were locked in a ferocious struggle to prove that their political ideology was the best form of government for human kind. No holds were barred in this fight; propaganda was poured forth by both sides in a constant push to be seen as better, more progressive, more productive. Nuclear war was a constant threat. I know, I lived through that ...
Feb 23, 2023•3 hr 2 min•Ep. 824
War-Lords of the Moon by Linton Davies audiobook. Genre: scifi On a routine Earth-Moon run, Flight-Commander Bruce Ross asks his navigator, Harrell Moore, a simple question about their star readings and gets a look of pure horror in return. Something is wrong in the heavens, and the answer points straight to the Moon. Summoned into a secretive lunar underworld of provinces, courts, and armed patrols, Ross finds a society in upheaval: a king dead, factions mobilizing, and whispers of a new war th...
Feb 23, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 823
The Hemlock Avenue Mystery by Lily A. Long audiobook. Genre: mystery In a quiet early-1900s neighborhood, a bitter public feud between two prominent attorneys suddenly turns deadly. After a heated clash in full view of witnesses, Warren Fullerton is found murdered, and suspicion falls fast on his courtroom rival, Arthur Lawrence. Percy Lyon, a young newspaper reporter assigned to cover the case, cannot shake the feeling that the obvious answer is the wrong one. Part admirer, part investigator, P...
Feb 23, 2023•7 hr 7 min•Ep. 822
Alice’s Adventures Underground by Lewis Carroll audiobook. Genre: fantasy This is the handwritten book that Carroll wrote for private use before being urged to develop it later into Alice in Wonderland. It was generously illustrated by Carrol and meant to entertain his family and friends. When a sick child in a hospital enjoyed it so much, the mother wrote him saying it had distracted her for a bit from her pain and led eventually to Carroll expanding the story. The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dod...
Feb 23, 2023•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 821
Victory by Lester del Rey audiobook. Genre: scifi The earth is undefended. A ripe, juicy, rich plum just innocently waiting for one of the many new and warlike civilizations in the nearby universe to reach down and pluck to plunder and rape. Well... undefended can mean many things. In this case, humans have colonized many worlds and found many surprisingly human like races among the stars. But when these human colonies are threatened and even viciously attacked by really alien civilizations, ear...
Feb 23, 2023•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 820
Let em Breathe Space by Lester del Rey audiobook. Genre: scifi On the way to Saturn, the space freighter Wahoo is packed far beyond anything it was built to carry. Dr. Pietro's expedition has crammed nineteen people into a ship designed for a handful, and five months of recycled air, bad food, and constant proximity have turned ordinary irritations into open hostility. Narrated by Paul Tremaine, the journey quickly becomes more than a test of engineering and endurance when small mishaps start to...
Feb 23, 2023•2 hr 4 min•Ep. 819
What I Believe by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. Genre: religion 'The inner working of my soul, which I wish to speak of here, was not the result of a methodical investigation of doctrinal theology, or of the actual texts of the gospel; it was a sudden removal of all that hid the true meaning of the Christian doctrine – a momentary flash of light, which made everything clear to me. It was something like that which might happen to a man who, after vainly attempting, by a false plan, to build up a statue ...
Feb 22, 2023•8 hr 3 min•Ep. 818
Sevastopol by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. Genre: history Sevastopol Sketches are three short stories written by Leo Tolstoy and published in 1855 to record his experiences during the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) in the Crimean War (1853-1856). The name originates from Sevastopol, a city in Crimea. The book has also been released under the anglicized title The Sebastopol Sketches and is sometimes titled Sevastopol Stories. These brief 'sketches' formed the basis of many of the episodes in Tolstoy's...
Feb 22, 2023•5 hr 5 min•Ep. 817
My Confession by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. Genre: philosophy 'My Confession' is a brief autobiographical story of Leo Tolstoy's struggle with a mid-life existential crisis of melancholia. It describes his search for answers to the profound questions 'What will come of my life?' and 'What is the meaning of life?', without answers to which life, for him, had become 'impossible.' Tolstoy reflects on the arc of his philosophical life until then: his childhood abandonment of his Russian orthodox faith; ...
Feb 22, 2023•2 hr 48 min•Ep. 816
Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. Genre: drama A land owner, Vasili Andreevich, takes along one of his peasants, Nikita, for a short journey to another town. He wishes to get to the town quickly 'for business'. They find themselves in the middle of a blizzard, but the master in his avarice wishes to press on. They eventually get lost off the road and they try to camp. The master's peasant soon finds himself about to die from hypothermia. The master leaves him on the horse to stubbornly tr...
Feb 22, 2023•2 hr 29 min•Ep. 815
Family Happiness by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. Genre: drama In Family Happiness, Leo Tolstoy tells the intimate coming-of-age story of Masha, a motherless young woman growing up on a quiet Russian estate under the kindly guidance of her guardian, the reserved landowner Sergei Mikhailovich. When affection deepens into a sudden, life-altering proposal, Masha enters marriage with bright, romantic expectations and the hope that love will be enough to shape a complete, lasting happiness. But as the coupl...
Feb 16, 2023•3 hr 5 min•Ep. 814
Boyhood by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. Genre: drama Leo Tolstoy's Boyhood continues the intimate, semi-autobiographical story of Nikolai Irtenyev as he leaves the relative shelter of childhood and steps into the restless, self-conscious world of early adolescence. Now moving between the routines of study, the expectations of adults, and the sharp hierarchies of aristocratic society, Nikolai begins to measure himself against friends, rivals, and the ideals he longs to embody. Small social missteps fee...
Feb 16, 2023•3 hr 2 min•Ep. 812
Childhood by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. Genre: drama In Childhood, Leo Tolstoy introduces Nikolai Irtenyev, a sensitive Russian boy growing up on a country estate where love, pride, and fear mingle in the ordinary rhythms of family life. Surrounded by affectionate sisters, stern adults, and the quietly powerful presence of his mother, Nikolai begins to notice how quickly feelings shift: a warm moment can turn to shame, jealousy, or sudden loneliness. As tutors and servants shape his days, he watches...
Feb 16, 2023•4 hr 3 min•Ep. 813
Bethink Yourselves by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. Genre: religion As Russia goes to war against Japan, Tolstoy urges those at all levels of society, from the Tsar down to the common soldier, to consider their actions in the light of Christ's teaching. 'However strange this may appear, the most effective and certain deliverance of men from all the calamities which they inflict upon themselves and from the most dreadful of all—war—is attainable, not by any external general measures, but merely by that ...
Feb 16, 2023•1 hr 47 min•Ep. 811
A Confession by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. Genre: philosophy Leo Tolstoy's 'A Confession,' written in 1882 shortly after a life-altering spiritual crisis, is a brutally sincere reflection on life, morality, and the nature of faith. Tolstoy describes in great detail the process by which he lost his faith in established Christian churches, the meaninglessness of wealth and fame, the agony of acute depression, and how he overcame misery and dread through personal study of the teachings of Jesus Christ....
Feb 16, 2023•2 hr 14 min•Ep. 810
Thralls of the Endless Night by Leigh Douglass Brackett audiobook. Genre: scifi This is a classic story from the early days of science fiction pulp magazines. Leigh Brackett, a female author who stood with the best of them during the period, always has a quirky way of examining human behavior whether on earth or a distant planet. A 'tribe' composed of Hans, Officers and a Captain have been marooned on a strange place, out of touch with other humans for many generations. They have to eke out a li...
Feb 16, 2023•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 809
The Jewel of Bas by Leigh Douglass Brackett audiobook. Genre: scifi On a harsh, half-forgotten world where legends walk as close as hunger, Ciaran the wandering minstrel and Mouse his sharp-eyed, sharp-fingered wife live by wit, song, and whatever can be stolen back from those who hoard. One evening on the edge of the Forbidden Plains, a campfire tale turns real: the Kalds, savage servants of the sleeping boy-god Bas, drag the pair toward Ben Beatha, the Mountain of Life, where Bas lies dreaming...
Feb 15, 2023•2 hr 17 min•Ep. 808
