The Adventures of Buster Bear by Thornton W. Burgess audiobook. Genre: family Buster Bear is big, strong, and far too curious for his own good - and in the Green Forest and the Green Meadows, curiosity has a way of attracting trouble. While Old Mother Bear warns her young cub to stay out of danger, Buster cannot resist testing his strength, sniffing out easy meals, and wandering where he does not belong. His prowling brings him into uneasy contact with the watchful forest neighbors who know his ...
May 24, 2023•1 hr 51 min
The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science by Thomas Troward audiobook. Genre: self help Thomas Troward was a divisional Judge in British-administered India. His avocation was the study of comparative religion. Influences on his thinking, as well as his later writing, included the teachings of Christ, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. After his retirement from the judiciary in 1896, Troward set out to apply logic and a judicial weighing of evidence in the study of matters of cause and effect. The phi...
May 24, 2023•3 hr 17 min
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann audiobook. Genre: drama Set in the prosperous port city of Lubeck in the 19th century, Buddenbrooks follows four generations of a respected merchant family as they fight to preserve their name, fortune, and standing in a rapidly changing world. At the center are the family patriarchs and heirs who inherit not only a business but a code of duty - and the quiet pressure to sacrifice personal desire for public respectability. As new marriages are arranged, partnerships t...
May 23, 2023•29 hr 23 min•Ep. 1018
Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt audiobook. Genre: biography In Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography, the 26th president of the United States tells his own story in a brisk, energetic voice that mirrors the life he led. Beginning with his youth and early battles to overcome frail health, Roosevelt traces the making of his character through intense self-discipline, public service, and a restless appetite for challenge. He recounts formative years in New York politics, ...
May 22, 2023•22 hr•Ep. 1017
Lifted Masks by Susan Glaspell audiobook. Genre: drama First published in 1912, Lifted Masks is Susan Glaspell's keen-edged collection of 13 short stories about the faces people present to the world and what happens when those performances crack. In Paris, a young American woman named Virginia is pulled into an awkward, unexpectedly tender afternoon helping a loud, well-meaning countryman buy gifts for the wife he cannot quite reach anymore. Back in the United States, Glaspell moves through smal...
May 19, 2023•5 hr 48 min•Ep. 1016
The Art of War by Sun Tzu audiobook. Genre: history Composed as a compact manual of strategy and leadership, The Art of War presents Sun Tzu's principles for prevailing in conflict through preparation, intelligence, and disciplined execution. Rather than celebrating brute force, the book argues for winning with minimal cost by understanding both your own capabilities and an opponent's intentions. Across concise chapters, Sun Tzu explores how to evaluate conditions before acting, organize forces,...
May 19, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 1015
Conjuror's House, a Romance of the Free Forest by Stewart Edward White audiobook. Genre: romance In the far northern Canadian wilderness, Conjuror's House stands as a lonely trading post where the Hudson Bay Company rules by distance, tradition, and fear. Virginia Albret has grown up inside that small, whitewashed outpost, the daughter of Galen Albret, the stern Factor who considers the forest, the river routes, and every competing trader to be under his control. Each brief summer brings a rush ...
May 19, 2023•4 hr 42 min•Ep. 1014
Soaked in Seaweed and 7 other Nonsense Novels by Stephen Leacock audiobook. Genre: comedy 8 great spoofs of 'types' of fiction by the premier Canadian humorist Leacock, taken from his book Nonsense Novels. The title of each parody gives away its genre: Soaked in Seaweed or, Upset in the Ocean; Maddened by Mystery: or, The Defective Detective; 'Q.' A Psychic Pstory of the Psupernatural; Guido the Gimlet of Ghent: A Romance of Chivalry; The Man in Asbestos: an Allegory of the Future; Sorrows of a ...
May 19, 2023•2 hr 55 min•Ep. 1013
The Spiritual Exercises by St. Ignatius Loyola audiobook. Genre: religion These are the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, a plan of contemplation to be carried out over about a month. St. Ignatius of Loyola (1419-1556) was the founder of the Jesuits, and was canonized by Pope Gregory XV in 1622. He published the Spiritual Exercises in 1548. The Exercises were intended for use by someone who would be conducting a retreat and are a series of notes on methods and things to cover. As su...
May 18, 2023•3 hr 38 min•Ep. 1012
The Autobiography of St. Ignatius by St. Ignatius Loyola audiobook. Genre: biography This account of the life of St. Ignatius, dictated by himself to Father Gonzalez, is a most valuable record of the great Founder of the Society of Jesus. It, more than any other work, gives an insight into the spiritual life of St. Ignatius. Few works in ascetical literature, except the writings of St. Teresa and St. Augustine, impart such a knowledge of the soul.The saint in his narrative always refers to himse...
May 18, 2023•2 hr 21 min•Ep. 1011
Adrift on an Ice-Pan by Sir Wilfred Grenfell audiobook. Genre: biography In Adrift on an Ice-Pan, Sir Wilfred Grenfell, the famed doctor and medical missionary of northern Newfoundland and Labrador, recounts a single harrowing journey that became one of the defining stories of his life. On Easter Sunday in 1908, a desperate call pulls him from St. Anthony into the white expanse: a young patient needs urgent help, and Grenfell sets out fast with a komatik and a team of trusted dogs. Trying to sav...
May 18, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 1010
The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott audiobook. Genre: adventure Set amid the dust, heat, and rivalries of the Third Crusade, Sir Walter Scott's The Talisman follows Sir Kenneth of Scotland, a weary but unbending knight who arrives in the crusader camp as alliances fray and tempers flare. King Richard the Lionheart burns with ambition and illness in equal measure, while jealous princes, scheming counselors, and factions within the army threaten to undo the entire holy venture from within. When a mys...
May 18, 2023•14 hr 41 min•Ep. 1009
The Red Headed League by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: mystery 'The Adventure of the Red-Headed League' is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It first appeared in The Strand Magazine in August 1891. Conan Doyle ranked 'The Red-Headed League' second in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories. In this story, Holmes is presented with a perplexing mystery involving a league set up to aid and benefit men with especially vivid red hair who ...
May 18, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 1008
The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: mystery When a terrified young woman arrives at Baker Street in the dead of night, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are drawn into a mystery steeped in fear, inheritance, and a sinister household on the English countryside. Helen Stoner believes her life is in danger: her twin sister died suddenly two years earlier under baffling circumstances, and now Helen is being forced to sleep in the very room where that death occ...
May 17, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 1007
The Adventure of the Copper Beeches by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: mystery When a highly paid governess position comes with baffling rules and unsettling secrecy, Violet Hunter turns to the one man in London who never dismisses a puzzle. In The Adventure of the Copper Beeches, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson meet a young woman offered an extraordinary salary by the stern Jephro Rucastle, but the work at his remote country house comes with conditions that make no sense: cut your ...
May 17, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 1006
Silver Blaze by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: mystery On a cold English moor, a celebrated racehorse named Silver Blaze vanishes on the eve of a major event, and its trainer is found dead under mysterious circumstances. With reputations, fortunes, and a tightly knit rural community on edge, Scotland Yard turns to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson to untangle a case that seems to defy ordinary logic. As Holmes moves between quiet stables, anxious owners, and wary servants, he listens...
May 17, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 1005
A Scandal in Bohemia by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: mystery When a nervous visitor arrives at 221B Baker Street under cover of darkness, Sherlock Holmes senses that the case will test more than his powers of observation. The client is a powerful European monarch on the verge of a politically vital marriage, and he fears that a compromising photograph from his past could be used to destroy his reputation and derail an alliance. The photograph is in the hands of Irene Adler, a brillia...
May 17, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 1004
A Japanese Boy by Shigemi Shiukichi audiobook. Genre: biography In A Japanese Boy, Shiukichi Shigemi (sometimes listed as Shigemi Shiukichi) invites you into the coastal town of Imabari in the late 19th century, recounting his childhood with the clarity of memory and the curiosity of a boy watching his world take shape. Moving from his grandfather's home and neighborhood shrines to the routines of old-fashioned schooling, Shigemi paints daily life in intimate detail: the discipline of penmanship...
May 17, 2023•3 hr 47 min•Ep. 1003
Vampires of Space by Sewell Peaslee Wright audiobook. Genre: scifi Veteran Space Patrol commander John Hanson has heard every bright young officer insist that space has been tamed - until a quiet stretch of sky starts swallowing passenger ships without a trace. When Hanson and his patrol vessel are sent to investigate, what begins as a routine search turns into a claustrophobic fight for survival against a threat no textbook prepared them for: the Electites, strange, crescent-shaped entities tha...
May 11, 2023•53 min•Ep. 1002
Bat Wing by Sax Rohmer audiobook. Genre: mystery When private detective Paul Harley thinks he is wrapping up routine work for the Home Office, a fearful visitor walks into his London office with a tale that sounds like superstition. Colonel Juan Menendez, a wealthy exile from the Spanish West Indies, is convinced an old enemy has followed him to England - and that a bat wing nailed to his door is not a prank but a death-sign from a secret cult. Harley, joined by his plainspoken associate Mr. Kno...
May 11, 2023•9 hr 25 min•Ep. 1001
Flood Tide by Sara Ware Bassett audiobook. Genre: romance On the windswept edge of Cape Cod, the village of Wilton has learned to make room for Willie Spence - a gentle, eccentric old inventor whose cottage has become a maze of strings, wires, and homemade contraptions. Kept (mostly) in order by his long-suffering housekeeper, Celestina, Willie spends his days chasing bright ideas and dreaming that one day his luck will finally turn. When a capable young outsider, Robert Morton, comes into Willi...
May 10, 2023•8 hr 29 min•Ep. 1000
The Imperialist by Sara Jeannette Duncan audiobook. Genre: romance “The Imperialist,” a novel by Sara Jeannette Duncan, published in 1904, is a portrait of life in small-town Ontario at the beginning of the 20th century. At that time, English Canada was torn between affectionate loyalty for the “mother country” (Britain), and, on the other side, hard-headed respect for the demands of life in the shadow of the dynamic American economy. (In a by-election, one party pushes for establishing a prefer...
May 09, 2023•12 hr 38 min•Ep. 999
The Secret of Lonesome Cove by Samuel Hopkins Adams audiobook. Genre: mystery A body is found on the beach not far from a New England town one morning. Curiously, nobody recognizes the dead woman, and nobody in or near the town seems to be a suspect in a possible murder, therefore most of them assume that she simply washed ashore from a passing vessel. Only problem is vessels didn't pass that stretch of the coast because of it's peculiar tides and eddies; hence its name, Lonesome Cove. Following...
May 09, 2023•7 hr 48 min•Ep. 998
On Loving God by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux audiobook. Genre: religion In On Loving God, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, the great 12th-century Cistercian abbot and preacher, offers a clear, searching guide to the heart of Christian life: learning to love God truly and steadily. Written as a practical spiritual treatise rather than a lofty abstraction, the book asks two disarming questions: Why should we love God, and how do we do it when our hearts are divided by fear, habit, and self-interest? Ber...
May 09, 2023•1 hr 46 min•Ep. 997
The Silver Princess in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson audiobook. Genre: fantasy Young King Randy of Regalia is doing his best to act royal, but the duties of a crown can feel like a cage. So when Kabumpo, the Elegant Elephant of Pumperdink, arrives with a plan for travel and excitement, Randy cannot resist. Their destination is the glittering Land of Ev, where their friend Jinnicky the Red Jinn should be living in comfort and splendor. But the road to Ev rarely stays simple in the Oz universe. Along...
May 09, 2023•4 hr 30 min•Ep. 996
The Lost King of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson audiobook. Genre: fantasy 'Princess Ozma has ruled so wisely and happily in the wonderful Land of Oz for so long that most of us have forgotten the strange story of the Lost King of Oz—Ozma's father. As everyone in Oz knows, the King was transformed from his royal self by Mombi, the wicked old Gilliken witch, and lost his throne and his crown when he, himself, was lost. In this new Oz book the Royal Historian tells how Snip, the little buttonboy, and P...
May 09, 2023•5 hr 8 min•Ep. 995
The Cowardly Lion of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson audiobook. Genre: fantasy Mustafa of Mudge has heard of the famous Cowardly Lion of Oz, and decides to capture him and put him into a zoo! He enlists the help of Bob Up and a clown called Notta Bit More - the master of disguise! The Cowardly Lion meanwhile travels though Oz and meets a stone man, who offers to turn the Cowardly Lion into stone: after all, a stone lion doesn't feel fear! Is this the solution to the Cowardly Lion's quest for courage?...
May 09, 2023•5 hr 47 min•Ep. 994
Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson audiobook. Genre: fantasy The Wizard of Oz has built two beautiful 'Ozoplanes' to explore Oz. But the official launch party goes wrong when the Soldier with the Green Whiskers accidentally launches the Oztober into the cloud country of Stratovania! The ruler, Strut of the Strat, makes Jellia Jamb his 'Starina' and then sets off to conquer the fascinating country of Oz! Meanwhile the Wizard, Dorothy, the Cowardly Lion and the Scarecrow pile...
May 09, 2023•4 hr 41 min•Ep. 993
Kabumpo in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson audiobook. Genre: fantasy An elephant in Oz? You bet! The tiny kingdom of Pumperdink has what no neighboring kingdom has: an Elegant Elephant in court, and his name is Kabumpo. He is very proud of his kingdom, his elegance and tends to be just the smallest bit pompous. On the other hand, he loves the young prince Pompo and goes with him in a desperate search to save their kingdom from disappearing. Yes, the prince must find the 'proper princess' and marry he...
May 08, 2023•5 hr 36 min•Ep. 992
Handy Mandy in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson audiobook. Genre: fantasy On many a day had Handy, the Goat Girl of Mern, pursued her goats up and down the rocky eminences of her native mountain. And never—NEVER—in her fourteen or so years' experience had she been blown up by a mountain spring. But there comes, in every one's experience a day which is unlike every other day, and so it was with the Goat Girl. As she was pursuing What-a-butter, her favorite goat, there was a sudden crash, a whish, and u...
May 05, 2023•4 hr 17 min•Ep. 991
