Grampa In Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson audiobook. Genre: fantasy Another great book in the world of Oz, in which King Fumbo of Ragbad loses his head in a storm and Prince Tatters, accompanied by the wise and wonderful old soldier Grampa, sets off to find the king's head, a fortune, and a princess. With Bill, a live iron weathercock, they visit a Wizard's Garden and discover Urtha, a lovely girl made all of flowers -- and proceed to fall, swim, explode, sail, and fly above and below Oz and Ev. Gram...
May 05, 2023•5 hr 7 min•Ep. 990
Captain Salt in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson audiobook. Genre: fantasy A voyage on the famous Nonestic Ocean! What could be more thrilling than that? We—many of us—have taken trips on the prosaic Atlantic or even Pacific, but have we found a SEA FOREST with flying fish and swimming birds? Have we been pursued by a real SEA SERPENT, or had our ship transfixed by the immense ivory tusk of a NARWHAL? Have we come upon the glittering island of PEAKENSPIRE, or made friends with a charming talking hippo...
May 04, 2023•5 hr 31 min•Ep. 990
Collected Poems by Rupert Brooke audiobook. Genre: poetry Rupert Brooke's Collected Poems gathers the brief, radiant body of work that made him one of the defining English voices of the early 20th century. Moving from lush, sensuous celebrations of countryside and city life to intimate lyrics of desire, friendship, and restless self-scrutiny, these poems trace a young poet testing the limits of beauty, belief, and belonging. Brooke writes with a startling clarity that can feel effortless, yet un...
May 03, 2023•3 hr 45 min•Ep. 989
Kim by Rudyard Kipling audiobook. Genre: adventure Orphaned and streetwise, Kimball O'Hara - known to everyone simply as Kim - grows up in the crowded, shifting world of British India, drifting between cultures with an easy talent for languages, disguises, and friendships. When he meets an aging Tibetan lama searching for a holy river said to bring spiritual freedom, Kim becomes his devoted chela, guiding him across the subcontinent's bazaars, temples, and mountain roads. But Kim's gift for slip...
May 02, 2023•13 hr 21 min•Ep. 988
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling audiobook. Genre: folklore Just So Stories is Rudyard Kipling's sparkling collection of origin tales - playful, rhythmic, and full of mischief - that explain how the world got its quirks. In these classic bedtime adventures, curious animals and headstrong people collide with the forces of nature to create the traits we recognize today: an elephant child whose endless questions lead to a life-changing tug-of-war, a camel who learns the cost of saying 'Humph,' a ...
May 01, 2023•3 hr 37 min•Ep. 987
Abaft The Funnel by Rudyard Kipling audiobook. Genre: adventure Abaft the Funnel gathers Rudyard Kipling's sharp-eyed tales and sketches of men living where comfort ends and work begins: on ships running the China seas, in steamy ports, and in the cramped social worlds that travel with the British Empire. The opening pieces drop you aboard the Whanghoa, where a ship's routine is thrown delightfully off-balance by Erastasius, a cat with a gift for mischief and an instinct for finding trouble. ci...
Apr 28, 2023•7 hr 1 min•Ep. 986
The Romance of an Old Fool by Roswell Field audiobook. Genre: romance John Stanhope is a comfortable, successful widower in middle life, content with his books, his country routines, and the dry-witted company of Bunsey, a would-be novelist who is forever observing (and judging) the romantic impulses of others. Yet when a chance trip draws John back to the small town of his boyhood, old streets and familiar names awaken a longing he did not know was still alive. Among renewed friendships and rem...
Apr 27, 2023•3 hr 4 min•Ep. 985
Pierre and Luce by Romain Rolland audiobook. Genre: romance Set in Paris during the final year of World War I, Pierre and Luce follows two teenagers who meet by chance in the shadow of air raid sirens and long range shelling. Pierre, a sensitive and thoughtful schoolboy, has been pushed into adulthood by the constant pressure of loss and uncertainty. Luce, younger but fiercely alive, carries her own private world of art, curiosity, and stubborn hope. Drawn together in a city where tomorrow is ne...
Apr 26, 2023•2 hr 57 min•Ep. 984
Armand Durand by Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon audiobook. Genre: romance Armand Durand, published in 1868, was written by Rosanna Leprohon, an English-speaker with an insider’s knowledge of French Canada, thanks to her Montreal education and marriage to a man from an old Québécois family. Paul Durand, a prosperous Québécois farmer, marries in quick succession two very different wives, and fathers two very different sons. The first son, Armand, delicate and bookish, is destined for a legal career in t...
Apr 24, 2023•7 hr 55 min•Ep. 983
Fundamentals of Prosperity by Roger Babson audiobook. Genre: business Written in the wake of Americas post-World War I boom, Roger W. Babsons Fundamentals of Prosperity asks a blunt question: what happens when a nation stacks story after story of profits and expansion on a foundation that is too thin to hold it? A pioneering statistician and business forecaster, Babson speaks directly to business leaders and working citizens, arguing that lasting prosperity is not built first from raw materials ...
Apr 21, 2023•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 981
The Return of the Soul by Robert Smythe Hichens audiobook. Genre: horror In The Return of the Soul, Robert Smythe Hichens spins a gothic psychological tale in which a long-buried act of cruelty refuses to stay in the past. Ronald, now a grown man with wealth, education, and a carefully built sense of control, cannot forget a boyhood incident at his grandmother's house, when spite and boredom led him to kill her beloved Persian cat. Years later, Ronald marries Margot, a woman of striking beauty a...
Apr 20, 2023•2 hr 25 min•Ep. 980
The Judas Valley by Robert Silverberg audiobook. Genre: scifi A scout ship returns from the far system of Fomalhaut with a story no one wants to believe: on a quiet, breathable world, eight men stepped out into a sunlit valley and simply died. Now the Interstellar Exploration Service has a second reason to go back. Instruments have detected a fortune in double-nucleus beryllium, the fuel that could reshape Earths economy, if anyone can mine it. Captain Peter Wayne, a meticulous survey officer an...
Apr 20, 2023•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 979
The Happy Unfortunate And The Hunted Heroes by Robert Silverberg audiobook. Genre: scifi In this two-story collection of early Robert Silverberg science fiction, humanity's future splits along harsh new lines. In The Happy Unfortunate, Rolf Dekker returns to Earth after years among the stars and discovers a planet that no longer feels like home. The space program has reshaped people as much as it has reshaped society: the big-boned, acceleration-hardened Spacers stand apart from Earthbound citiz...
Apr 20, 2023•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 978
Watchbird by Robert Sheckley audiobook. Genre: scifi In a near-future America where crime prevention has become a technical problem, the government unveils the Watchbirds - autonomous flying drones designed to patrol cities, identify threats, and stop violence before it happens. The idea sounds foolproof: no human bias, no hesitation, and no exhaustion. But when a Watchbird assigned to safeguard the public begins to reinterpret its mission, the line between protection and control starts to blur....
Apr 20, 2023•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 977
Planet of the Gods by Robert Moore Williams audiobook. Genre: scifi Far, far in the future Earth has achieved real peace and is sending out interstellar expeditions, not to conquer, but to explore. The third such expedition, has made it to the Vega system and discovered to everyone's amazement, not only a solar system but two worlds circling the Vega sun that seem to have atmosphere and water. And apparently intelligent life is there as well because something tries, and almost succeeds, in blast...
Apr 20, 2023•1 hr 50 min•Ep. 976
Doomsday Eve by Robert Moore Williams audiobook. Genre: scifi In a world already burning from a catastrophic war, a new mystery spreads faster than any rumor: strangers known only as the New People appear without warning, perform impossible rescues, and vanish as if the battlefield cannot hold them. American intelligence officer Kurt Zen is ordered to do what armies cannot - find these apparitions, identify their source of power, and learn whether they are saviors, spies, or something far more d...
Apr 20, 2023•4 hr 40 min•Ep. 975
Jewels of Gwahlur by Robert E. Howard audiobook. Genre: fantasy Conan The Barbarian is after fabulous treasure in this exciting story. But he finds himself in more difficulties than he had counted on. Crafty and powerful human opponents seek to skin him alive, bestial mutations seek to rip his arms off, denizens of the deep want to devour him whole and scantily clad dusky beauties try to waylay him at every step. And all of this to find the Jewels of Gwahlur, the most fabulous treasure every hid...
Apr 20, 2023•2 hr 11 min•Ep. 974
A Knyght Ther Was by Robert F. Young audiobook. Genre: scifi 'But the Knyght was a little less than perfect, and his horse did not have a metabolism, and his 'castle' was much more mobile - timewise! - than it had any business being!' In 2178, once time travel had become a simple task, it had also been outlawed. Those who chose to ingnore this law were known as time-thieves, and Tom Mallory was among the best of them. When he learns the precise whereabouts of the Holy Grail in 542, he sets out t...
Apr 20, 2023•2 hr 23 min•Ep. 973
The People of the Black Circle by Robert E. Howard audiobook. Genre: fantasy The People of the Black Circle' is one of the original novellas about Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine in three parts over the September, October and November 1934 issues. Howard earned $250 for the publication of this story. It is set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan kidnapping a regal princess of Vendhya (pre-historical...
Apr 20, 2023•3 hr 56 min•Ep. 972
The Hour of the Dragon by Robert E. Howard audiobook. Genre: fantasy In a kingdom built on steel, sorcery, and hard-won law, Conan of Cimmeria sits uneasily upon the jeweled throne of Aquilonia. When a cabal of nobles and dark priests strikes from the shadows, Conan is torn from his crown and branded an outlaw in the very land he forged into order. Imprisoned, hunted, and stripped of allies, he faces a threat that is not merely political but supernatural: ancient necromancy, cursed relics, and a...
Apr 19, 2023•9 hr 4 min•Ep. 971
The Devil in Iron by Robert E. Howard audiobook. Genre: fantasy Conan's lustful desires again get him into a whole pile of trouble. This time the beautiful, golden haired, noble born Octavia, lures him into a fiendish trap set by his most powerful enemies and from which there seems to be no escape. But on the long deserted island of Xapur where he goes to capture this crafty beauty, it is not just mortal enemies that await him; Khosatral Khel a demon that crawled up from the abyss many eons ago ...
Apr 19, 2023•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 970
Shadows in Zamboula by Robert E. Howard audiobook. Genre: fantasy In the decadent desert city of Zamboula, travelers vanish after nightfall, whispered to be taken by cannibals and worse. Conan, a hard-bitten wanderer with a thief's instincts and a mercenary's muscle, rides in looking for food, coin, and answers - and quickly finds that survival depends on reading the city's shifting alliances as much as wielding a sword. Behind perfumed taverns and torchlit streets, Zamboula is a crossroads of c...
Apr 19, 2023•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 969
Red Nails by Robert E. Howard audiobook. Genre: fantasy Conan the Cimmerian rides into the wild, steaming jungles of the far south and crosses paths with Valeria, a hard-edged mercenary with a past as bloody as his own. Pursued by enemies and driven by the promise of shelter, the pair force their way into Xuchotl, a sealed and ancient city that should have been dead for centuries. Instead, it is very much alive - and sick. Behind its silent walls, two decadent factions cling to fading luxury whi...
Apr 19, 2023•3 hr 55 min•Ep. 968
Gods of the North by Robert E. Howard audiobook. Genre: fantasy 'The Frost-Giant's Daughter' is, arguably the earliest chronological story by Robert E. Howard in terms of Conan's life. The brief tale is set somewhere in frozen Nordheim, geographically situated north of Conan's homeland, Cimmeria. Conan is depicted by Howard as a youthful Cimmerian mercenary traveling among the golden-haired Aesir in a war party. Shortly before the story begins, a hand-to-hand battle has occurred on an icy plain....
Apr 19, 2023•27 min•Ep. 967
Conan and the Queen of the Black Coast by Robert E. Howard audiobook. Genre: fantasy Driven by outlaw blood and a restless need for the horizon, Conan the Cimmerian flees civilization and finds himself on the lawless waters of the Western Sea. There he encounters Belit, the fierce and magnetic pirate queen of the Black Coast, whose raid-scarred crew rules the waves with ruthless daring. Drawn together by shared hunger for freedom and plunder, Conan and Belit forge a partnership as dangerous as i...
Apr 18, 2023•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 966
Conan and Shadows in the Moonlight by Robert E. Howard audiobook. Genre: fantasy For a genuine Conan tale, full of barbarian craftiness, magic, fierce fighting and his berserker strength, this meets every criteria and is one of the best. Conan was raiding with the Free Companions when they were trapped and slaughtered by the merciless Shah Amurath the great Lord of Akif. Conan is one of the very few who escape by hiding in the mud of the marshes like a beast living on raw snake and muskrat. Luck...
Apr 18, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 965
Beyond the Black River by Robert E. Howard audiobook. Genre: fantasy Conan the Barbarian is employed by one of the civilized countries to help in it's push to claim lands from the primitive Picts. The Picts are not excited about the idea however. Old gods and mythical creatures are called up by the Pict witches to contest the invading army and Conan finds himself battling for his life amid the blood thirsty hordes that include saber-toothed tigers, 40 foot long venomous snakes and a demon from a...
Apr 18, 2023•2 hr 41 min•Ep. 964
You Know Me Al by Ring Lardner audiobook. Genre: comedy Big, fat, dumb, lazy, vain, headstrong and cheap, Jack Keefe is a journeyman pitcher with the Chicago White Sox in the rowdy days of the Deadball Era, circa 1915, ruled by the likes of Ty Cobb and John McGraw. In You Know Me Al, we follow Jack Keefe's life on-field and off, via the letters Jack writes to his old chum Al in his home town of Bedford, Indiana. Ring Lardner was a Chicago sportswriter who covered the White Sox, and he brought an...
Apr 18, 2023•5 hr 13 min•Ep. 963
Afloat on the Ohio by Reuben Gold Thwaites audiobook. Genre: history In Afloat on the Ohio, historian Reuben Gold Thwaites turns a six-week family outing into a moving, mile-by-mile portrait of Americas great border river. Setting off from Redstone in western Pennsylvania in a small skiff christened the Pilgrim, Thwaites travels with his wife, their ten-year-old son, and a physician friend, choosing the rivers level view and nightly camps to better imagine what explorers, flatboatmen, and pionee...
Apr 17, 2023•7 hr 34 min•Ep. 962
The Girl on the Boat by P. G. Wodehouse audiobook. Genre: comedy On a transatlantic crossing aboard the White Star liner Atlantic, spirited redhead Wilhelmina 'Billie' Bennett finds that a ship is the perfect place for romance to collide with pride, poetry, and plain bad timing. Billie has high standards, a soft spot for dogs, and an awkward secret: she is quietly engaged to Eustace Hignett, a shy would-be poet who is far more frightened of his formidable mother than he is of the open sea. Enter...
Apr 17, 2023•7 hr 26 min•Ep. 961
