The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson audiobook. Genre: scifi The Sun has gone out and the Earth is lit only by the glow of residual vulcanism. The last few millions of the human race are gathered together in a gigantic metal pyramid, nearly eight miles high – the Last Redoubt, under siege from unknown forces and Powers outside in the dark. These are held back by a Circle of Energy, known as the 'air clog', powered from a subterranean energy source called the 'Earth Current'. For millennia, vas...
Jun 08, 2023•19 hr 4 min
My School Days by E. Nesbit audiobook. Genre: biography In My School Days, E. Nesbit steps away from pure fantasy and invites listeners into a vivid, funny, and sometimes sharp-eyed memoir of childhood in late Victorian England. Speaking in a warm, conversational voice, Nesbit (as narrator and main character) revisits classrooms and playgrounds, introducing a gallery of teachers, schoolmates, and authority figures who can be inspiring one moment and terrifying the next. Through self-contained ep...
Jun 07, 2023•2 hr 20 min
The Way of the Wind by Zoe Anderson Norris audiobook. Genre: drama From the comfort of the hills of Kentucky traveled Celia and her husband Seth to the desolate prairies of Kansas, where cyclones, tornadoes, and endless wind were to greet them. Always, there was the wind cutting across the plains as the young couple builds their home while working the soil, while Seth awaits the wise men of the east to begin building the magic city where he has staked his territory on the plains. But sometimes l...
Jun 07, 2023•4 hr 15 min
The Ghost Pirates by William Hope Hodgson audiobook. Genre: horror William Hope Hodgson's The Ghost Pirates is a sea tale where hard-won seamanship collides with the uncanny. Young sailor Jessop signs on to the Mortzestus hoping for honest work and a fair voyage, but the ship carries an atmosphere of dread that the most seasoned hands cannot quite laugh away. Whispers spread of a shadowed presence that clings to the rigging at night, of shapes that move where no man stands, and of a strange, per...
Jun 07, 2023•5 hr 8 min
My Antonia by Willa Cather audiobook. Genre: drama On the wide, windswept Nebraska prairie of the late 1800s, young Jim Burden is sent from Virginia to live with his grandparents in the small railroad town of Black Hawk. There he meets Antonia Shimerda, the spirited daughter of Bohemian immigrants struggling to make a life on unfamiliar land. As Jim grows from a lonely newcomer into a sharp-eyed student, Antonia becomes the beating heart of his new world - fearless, hardworking, and determined t...
Jun 07, 2023•7 hr 56 min
Nine Unlikely Tales by E. Nesbit audiobook. Genre: fantasy Nine Unlikely Tales is a sparkling collection of nine offbeat fairy stories from E. Nesbit, where the ordinary rules of everyday life are cheerfully overturned and logic is treated as just another plaything. In one tale, practical little Matilda and her no-nonsense nurse, Pridmore, take a wrong turn and tumble into a village of impossible surprises, complete with a bewitched royal court and a wonderfully troublesome bird called the Cocka...
Jun 06, 2023•4 hr 39 min
The Last Trail by Zane Grey audiobook. Genre: adventure In the raw, river-laced wilderness of the Ohio Valley after the Revolutionary War, survival depends on sharp eyes, steady nerves, and trust that is never guaranteed. A lone family group, led by pioneer George Sheppard, pushes toward the tenuous safety of Fort Henry - only to discover that the greatest dangers are not always the ones that move through the trees. When a young woman is seized from the fort and carried into contested territory ...
Jun 06, 2023•8 hr 13 min
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins audiobook. Genre: mystery The Woman in White is an epistolary novel written by Wilkie Collins in 1859, serialized in 1859-1860, and first published in book form in 1860. It is considered to be to the first mystery novel, and is widely regarded as one of the first (and finest) in the genre of ’sensation novels’…. The Woman in White is also an early example of a particular type of Collins narrative in which several characters in turn take up the telling of the ...
Jun 06, 2023•25 hr 45 min
The Frog Prince and Other Stories by Walter Crane audiobook. Genre: folklore In The Frog Prince and Other Stories, celebrated Victorian artist and storyteller Walter Crane brings a handful of beloved fairy tales to life with a clear-eyed, lyrical simplicity and a painter's sense of wonder. At the heart of the collection is the classic Frog Prince: a proud young princess makes an impulsive promise to a strange, speaking frog, only to discover that a careless word can become a binding oath. Around...
Jun 06, 2023•42 min
The Last Plainsmen by Zane Grey audiobook. Genre: adventure Often listed as The Last of the Plainsmen, this Zane Grey classic follows the author on a rugged 1907 expedition across the Arizona desert and the North Rim of the Grand Canyon in the company of Charles 'Buffalo' Jones - a larger-than-life frontiersman famous not for killing, but for capturing wild animals alive. As the old West begins to vanish, Jones undertakes what feels like a final, defining mission: to track and take living cougar...
Jun 05, 2023•7 hr 24 min
The Mohawk Valley by W. Max Reid audiobook. Genre: history W. Max Reid's The Mohawk Valley is a sweeping, scene-by-scene history of New York's great river corridor from the first sustained European contacts in the early 1600s through the upheavals of the late 1700s. Moving along the valley between Schenectady and Rome, Reid traces how a landscape of forests, waterways, and frontier settlements became a crossroads of diplomacy, trade, mission work, and war. At the heart of the narrative are the N...
Jun 05, 2023•12 hr 26 min
The Beast With Five Fingers by W. F. Harvey audiobook. Genre: horror Eustace Borlsover is a cool-headed English scholar, more comfortable with heredity charts and specimen drawers than with grief. But when his eccentric, blind uncle Adrian dies, Eustace inherits more than an enormous library. A strange, ventilated box arrives at Borlsover Conyers carrying an object that should be inert, yet is unmistakably alive: Adrian's severed right hand, preserved and restless. Years earlier, Adrian had deve...
Jun 05, 2023•1 hr 13 min
Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey audiobook. Genre: adventure The year is 1871, and wealthy ranch owner Jane Withersteen is in trouble. She has incurred the displeasure of her Mormon church leaders by refusing to marry a church elder and by befriending Gentiles (non-Mormons). In rides Lassiter, the quintessential Western hero: mysterious, purposeful, a deadly gunslinger, but with an unexpected streak of gentleness. While Lassiter is assisting Jane at the ranch, her friend and rider Bern Ven...
Jun 03, 2023•10 hr 57 min
The Majesty of Calmness by William George Jordan audiobook. Genre: self help In The Majesty of Calmness, William George Jordan offers a timeless guide to cultivating inner steadiness in a noisy, reactive world. Through short, pointed chapters, he argues that calmness is not passivity but a form of strength - a practiced self-command that clarifies judgment, steadies emotion, and influences others without force. Drawing on vivid examples from everyday conflicts, public life, and private worry, Jo...
Jun 03, 2023•1 hr 25 min
Abandoned by William Clark Russell audiobook. Genre: adventure On the morning she is meant to become Mrs. Reynolds, Miss Lucretia Lane walks down the aisle with a secret dread she cannot explain, and the ceremony ends in scandalous silence. Captain Francis Reynolds, a hard-tested officer of the British Merchant Service, is certain his new wife loves him - yet she refuses to speak to him or live with him, leaving both families stunned and humiliated. When word arrives that Reynolds has been griev...
Jun 03, 2023•9 hr 43 min
The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians (Spartans) by Xenophon audiobook. Genre: history The Polity of the Lacedaemonians talks about the laws and institutions created by Lycurgus, which train and develop Spartan citizens from birth to old age. It only because of Xenophon that we have most of our knowledge about the Spartans. Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans, and was exiled from Athens which may explain why he is so negat...
Jun 02, 2023•1 hr 45 min
Bhagavad Gita by Vyasa audiobook. Genre: religion The content of the text is a conversation between Krishna and Arjuna taking place on the battlefield of Kurukshetra just prior to the start of a climactic war. Responding to Arjuna's confusion and moral dilemma, Krishna explains to Arjuna his duties as a warrior and Prince and elaborates on a number of different Yogic and Vedantic philosophies, with examples and analogies. This has led to the Gita often being described as a concise guide to Hindu...
Jun 02, 2023•2 hr 59 min
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf audiobook. Genre: drama 'Mrs. Dalloway' recounts a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in the middle of June 1923. Clarissa Dalloway is a high society London lady. On that day, she is hosting a party, meeting people, going to the park, and reflecting on her choices. Where would she have been if she married Peter Walsh and not Richard Dalloway? What if she would not invite this or that person to her party? Her feelings about Peter Walsh grow because on that partic...
Jun 02, 2023•6 hr 40 min
The Men in the Walls by William Tenn audiobook. Genre: scifi There are giant, technologically superior aliens who have conquered Earth. People live like vermin in holes in the insulation material of the walls of the homes the monsters have built, sneaking out to steal food and other items from the aliens. A complex social and religious order has evolved, with women preserving knowledge and working as healers, while men serve as warriors and thieves. For the aliens, men and women are just a nuisa...
Jun 01, 2023•3 hr 46 min
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo audiobook. Genre: drama In medieval Paris, the great cathedral of Notre Dame towers over a city of pageantry, poverty, and fear. Hidden among its bells lives Quasimodo, the cathedral's isolated bell ringer, whose appearance has made him an object of cruelty and superstition. His guardian, the severe archdeacon Claude Frollo, believes order and devotion can master every human impulse, but the city beyond the cloister walls teems with temptations and unre...
Jun 01, 2023•22 hr 5 min
Tom Swift and the Visitor From Planet X by Victor Appleton audiobook. Genre: scifi Tom Swift Jr. and his associates at Swift Enterprises wait breathlessly for what may well be the most important scientific event in history—the arrival of the visitor from Planet X—a visitor in the form of energy. But there are factions at work determined to snatch the energy, which Tom has named Exman, from the young scientist-inventor's grasp. First, a series of unexplainable, devastating earthquakes threaten to...
Jun 01, 2023•4 hr 28 min
The Return of Clubfoot by Valentine Williams audiobook. Genre: thriller Whilst spending a holiday in a small Central American Republic, Desmond Okewood, of the Secret Service, learns from a dying beachcomber of a hidden treasure. With the assistance of a millionaire, he sets out for Cock Island, in the Pacific. To his astonishment he discovers that the Man with the Clubfoot, whom he had regarded as dead, has anticipated him. It is obvious to Okewood that his old enemy is also in search of the hi...
May 31, 2023•7 hr 16 min
The Man with the Clubfoot by Valentine Williams audiobook. Genre: thriller 'The Man with the Clubfoot' is one of the most ingenious and sinister secret agents in Europe. It is to him that the task is assigned of regaining possession of an indiscreet letter written by the Kaiser. Desmond Okewood, a young British officer with a genius for secret service work, sets out to thwart this man and, incidentally, discover the whereabouts of his brother. He penetrates into Germany disguised, and meets with...
May 31, 2023•7 hr 16 min
Clubfoot the Avenger by Valentine Williams audiobook. Genre: thriller When a dead man is found in a purple cabriolet on a rain-swept London street, the case looks like a simple suicide - until the details refuse to fit. For Major Desmond Okewood, once a star of the British Secret Service, the incident has the unmistakable scent of an old enemy: Dr. Adolf Grundt, the brilliant German mastermind known in Intelligence files as The Man with the Clubfoot. Okewood and his brother Francis have tried to...
May 30, 2023•5 hr 32 min
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair audiobook. Genre: drama When young immigrant Jurgis Rudkus arrives in Chicago at the turn of the 20th century, America looks like a promise he can finally grasp: steady work, a home of his own, and a future for the family he has brought from Lithuania. But the city he enters is a machine that runs on poverty and desperation, and its beating heart is the stockyards and packinghouses of Packingtown. As Jurgis struggles to keep his household afloat, he confronts brutal ...
May 30, 2023•16 hr 15 min
The Book of Life by Upton Sinclair audiobook. Genre: self help Written as a candid, practical guide for ordinary people, Upton Sinclair's The Book of Life gathers the questions he received from readers and turns them into a wide-ranging blueprint for living with more clarity, health, and purpose. Speaking directly and often provocatively, Sinclair argues that many of the things people most need to know are not taught by schools, newspapers, or churches, and he sets out to fill that gap with plai...
May 29, 2023•18 hr 48 min
Unidentified Flying Objects by United States Federal Bureau of Investigation audiobook. Genre: science Through the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) this series of communications has been de-classified and made public. Most names have been omitted, however much information of the sightings of UFOs in 1947 can be gleaned from these communications which were primarily between the FBI and other U.S. Government and military organizations. It should be noted that the U.S. Air Force only became a...
May 29, 2023•1 hr 13 min
Space Prison by Tom Godwin audiobook. Genre: scifi When the colony ship Constellation flees a newly declared interstellar war, its 8,000 passengers believe salvation lies ahead on Athena, a green world beyond the reach of the expanding Gern Empire. Then the Gerns find them. With the ship crippled and air running out, surrender is forced, and the invaders sort human lives with cold efficiency: the skilled become Acceptables, taken onward as slave labor, while the rest are branded Rejects and dump...
May 26, 2023•6 hr 9 min
The Adventures of Reddy Fox by Thornton W. Burgess audiobook. Genre: adventure The Adventures of Reddy Fox is another in the series of children’s stories by conservationist Thornton W. Burgess. In this story, Reddy and Granny Fox must outsmart Farmer Brown’s Boy who is out to get Reddy for stealing his pet chicken. Along the way, Reddy encounters many of the citizens of the Green Meadows and the Green Forest and with him we learn little lessons about life such as: the perils of being a show off;...
May 26, 2023•1 hr 43 min
The Adventures of Poor Mrs. Quack by Thornton W. Burgess audiobook. Genre: fantasy 'Hello, Jerry Muskrat! We'd forgotten all about you,' said Mrs. Quack. 'What was that you said?' Jerry good-naturedly repeated what he had said. Mrs. Quack's face brightened. 'Do you really mean it?' she asked eagerly. 'Do you really mean that you know of a pond where we could live and not be likely to be seen by these two-legged creatures called men?' 'That's what I said,' replied Jerry briefly. 'Oh, Jerry, you'r...
May 25, 2023•1 hr 55 min
