Storm Cloud on Deka by E. E. Smith audiobook. Genre: scifi In the far-flung Lensman universe, civilization spans the stars and the Galactic Patrol keeps uneasy order, but one terror still devours worlds: self-sustaining atomic vortices, miniature suns of runaway energy that grow as they feed. Neal 'Storm' Cloud is not a celebrated Lensman - he washed out of the exam - yet his uncanny mathematical mind makes him the only specialist trusted to predict, cage, and extinguish these star-hot monsters....
Sep 25, 2023•1 hr 15 min
The Airship Boys in the Great War by De Lysle Ferree Cass audiobook. Genre: adventure When a newspaper headline announces that young reporter Bob Russell has been captured in Europe and accused of spying, his closest friends refuse to stand by and wait for diplomacy to work. Alan Hope and Ned Napier, celebrated teen aviators whose exploits have already carried them across oceans and into danger, race to the offices of The Herald with a desperate proposal: recommission the Ocean Flyer, their powe...
Sep 25, 2023•5 hr 30 min
Astronomy - The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by David Todd audiobook. Genre: science The progress of astronomy from age to age has been far from uniform—rather by leaps and bounds: from the earliest epoch when man's planet earth was the center about which the stupendous cosmos wheeled, for whom it was created, and for whose edification it was maintained—down to the modern age whose discoveries have ascertained that even our stellar universe, the vast region of the solar domain, is but one of t...
Sep 23, 2023•12 hr 18 min
American Myths and Legends, Volume 1 by Charles M. Skinner audiobook. Genre: folklore American Myths and Legends, Volume 1 gathers a wide-ranging set of American folktales as retold by journalist and folklorist Charles M. Skinner, a writer whose collections helped fix many regional stories in the popular imagination. Framed as a follow-up to his larger series Myths and Legends of Our Own Land, this first volume roams from lonely New England woods and stormy coasts to village greens, rocky ledges...
Sep 22, 2023•8 hr 29 min
The Mistress of Court Regna by Charles Garvice audiobook. Genre: romance On the death of Lord Wharton, beautiful young Claire is shocked to find herself the heiress to Court Regna along with the title, the vast fortune and lands that it entails. She meets a poor, handsome architect, and as their love blooms, she misinterprets a chance meeting, which leads her to doubt and refuse him. He immediately leaves Regna not realizing that in doing so, he is suspected of running away with a local village ...
Sep 21, 2023•15 hr 4 min
American Notes by Charles Dickens audiobook. Genre: history When celebrated English novelist Charles Dickens crosses the Atlantic in 1842, he arrives in the young United States as a literary star - and an intensely curious observer. In American Notes, Dickens records his travels from the bustle of the Eastern cities to the edges of the frontier, moving through hotels, streets, public institutions, steamboats, and railroads with a sharp eye for detail and a storyteller's sense of scene. Along the...
Sep 21, 2023•10 hr 6 min
Vicky Van by Carolyn Wells audiobook. Genre: family Carolyn Wells always provides an enjoyable read and this one is probably one of her most intriguing murder mysteries. Vicky Van is a lithe, joyful and vibrant society woman beloved by all. A man named Sommers shows up uninvited at one of her famous parties. He is found murdered shortly after he follows her out of the card room and Vicky Van is seen standing next to him with blood on her dress. She disappears before the police arrive and is cons...
Sep 20, 2023•6 hr 21 min
The Diamond Pin by Carolyn Wells audiobook. Genre: mystery Eccentric and wealthy New York widow Ursula Pell loves playing cruel jokes on her guests and particularly on her niece and nephew who are destined to inherit the millions in gems left to her by her late husband. Therefore when she is found brutally murdered in a locked room the morning after a dinner party her niece Iris the most recent victim of Ursula's humiliating pranks is first suspected until all the clues point to her nephew. Wher...
Sep 20, 2023•6 hr
The Curved Blades by Carolyn Wells audiobook. Genre: mystery At the showplace Long Island estate known as Garden Steps, wealth is a performance and every visitor has a role to play, until the household's formidable mistress, Lucy Carrington, is found dead in her private rooms. She is discovered bizarrely posed for display, dressed in finery and glittering with jewels, with unsettling details at the scene that hint at more than one method of murder. The local police face a maze of motives and ali...
Sep 15, 2023•6 hr 48 min
Faulkner's Folly by Carolyn Wells audiobook. Genre: mystery Eric Stannard, wealthy artist and portrait painter of international reputation is found dead in his studio, an etching needle protruding from his chest. The lights had gone out momentarily just before he was found by a footman and a long-time friend. Standing beside the victim is Joyce his wife and his model Natalie both seeming to be struck with terror and shock!! At first glance the suspects seem obvious...but what about the artist's ...
Sep 14, 2023•6 hr 8 min
Anybody But Anne by Carolyn Wells audiobook. Genre: romance Narrated in the first person by Raymond Sturgis, Anne's old high-school beau, the story opens with a lavish house party hosted by the Van Wycks. David Van Wyck has suddenly decided to become a philanthropist and proposes to give away his entire fortune to the building of a new library in the community, thus leaving his family penniless. The morning following his late meeting with the library committee, David is found dead in his locked ...
Sep 14, 2023•6 hr 30 min
The Mystery of the Iron Box by Bruce Campbell audiobook. Genre: mystery Ken Holt, a sharp, levelheaded teenage reporter for the Brentwood Advance, is counting the days until his father, Richard Holt, a globe-traveling newspaper correspondent, finally comes home for a Christmas visit. The reunion feels like a holiday gift in itself - until Richard arrives with an odd present for the Allens (the family Ken lives with): an antique iron box, heavy, ornate, and seemingly not worth the trouble it soon...
Sep 13, 2023•5 hr 19 min
The Chain of Destiny by Bram Stoker audiobook. Genre: horror Frank Stanford, strapping young man, heads out to the countryside to visit his old friends Mr. and Mrs. Trevor as the Scarp estate. What begins as a warm visit with his ersatz parental figures turns into something both ominous and wonderful with the announcement by Mrs. Trevor that they are to be visited by a young Miss Fothering who Mrs. Trevor feels Frank will fall in love with almost immediately. Frank takes it all in stride until h...
Sep 12, 2023•1 hr 41 min
Recollections of Napoleon at St. Helena by Betsy Balcombe audiobook. Genre: biography In this memoir written by Betsy Balcombe, who was a precocious 14 year old at the time of events, we are provided with a rare account of the character, the moods and humanity of Napoleon Bonaparte. She recalls her initial shock and fear at the arrival of the famous, exiled prisoner on the remote Island of St. Helena where she and her family resided. And how surprised she was when Napoleon decided he wanted to l...
Sep 12, 2023•3 hr 38 min
The ABC of Atoms by Bertrand Russell audiobook. Genre: science Written at the dawn of modern physics, Bertrand Russell's The ABC of Atoms invites the general reader into a world where solid matter turns out to be mostly empty space, stitched together by forces that are stranger than common sense. With a philosopher's clarity and a teacher's patience, Russell explains how scientists moved from chemistry's periodic law to the discovery of electrons, nuclei, and the architecture of atoms. He guides...
Sep 11, 2023•3 hr 32 min
The Octave of Claudius by Barry Pain audiobook. Genre: horror Claudius Sandell is young, clever, and nearly broken: disowned by his father, rejected by publishers, and left to starve on the streets of London. When the formidable surgeon Dr. Gabriel Lamb rescues him from the brink of death, the help comes with a proposition that is as tempting as it is terrifying. Lamb offers Claudius a fortune and an octave of time - eight days to live as he pleases - but at the end of that brief holiday Claudiu...
Sep 11, 2023•6 hr 18 min
The Bronze Eagle - A Story of the Hundred Days by Baroness E. Orczy audiobook. Genre: adventure France, 1815: the Bourbons have been restored, loyalties are brittle, and then a startling rumor becomes reality - Napoleon has escaped Elba and is marching back toward Paris. In this charged moment, Crystal de Cambray, proud daughter of an uncompromising royalist exile, is being drawn into a brilliant match with Victor de Marmont, a polished young aristocrat who carefully hides a dangerous truth: his...
Sep 07, 2023•15 hr 10 min
Beau Brocade by Baroness E. Orczy audiobook. Genre: romance In the tense aftermath of the Jacobite defeat, the moors and villages of Derbyshire fill with King George's troops, proclamations, and rewards for anyone accused of treason. Philip James Gascoyne, young Earl of Stretton, has become a hunted man - not for what he has done, but for what a powerful enemy insists he has done. Forced into rough disguise and desperate secrecy, Philip finds precarious shelter at the forge of John Stitch, an ho...
Sep 07, 2023•10 hr 14 min
The Dream Doctor by Arthur B. Reeve audiobook. Genre: mystery When the managing editor of the New York Star orders reporter Walter Jameson to spend a month shadowing his friend Professor Craig Kennedy, Jameson thinks he is signing up for a profile. Instead, he is pulled into a relentless chain of cases that show why Kennedy is feared by criminals and admired by police: he investigates with microscopes, chemicals, wires, and a cool logic that treats every clue as a measurable fact. The assignment...
Sep 06, 2023•10 hr 31 min
Riceyman Steps by Arnold Bennett audiobook. Genre: drama In a narrow corner of Clerkenwell, a steep little passage called Riceyman Steps leads to the cramped secondhand bookshop of Henry Earlforward, a man of strict habits and even stricter accounts. Henry lives by ledgers and bargains, measuring every candle stub and crumb of coal, convinced that thrift is the only true virtue in a city that wastes. Yet the world presses in: the everyday bustle of London trade, the small dramas of neighbors and...
Sep 06, 2023•11 hr 45 min
Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope audiobook. Genre: romance Doctor Thorne is the third of Trollope's Barsetshire novels, and unlike some of the others, has little to do with the politics and personalities of the Church of England, or politics on the national level (though there is lots of politicking in the mythical county of Barsetshire itself). The plot revolves around the illegitimate Mary Thorne, who has been lovingly raised by her uncle, a country doctor, and who, as she comes of age, finds...
Sep 05, 2023•26 hr 22 min
Harry Heathcote of Gangoil by Anthony Trollope audiobook. Genre: drama In the hot, uneasy backcountry of colonial Australia, Harry Heathcote is a young squatter determined to hold together Gangoil, the cattle station he has built into a symbol of order, hard work, and English respectability. But the frontier has its own rules. As drought tightens its grip and political winds favor small settlers over big runs, the boundary lines around Gangoil turn into fault lines: neighbors resent what Harry o...
Sep 05, 2023•3 hr 54 min
An Eye for an Eye by Anthony Trollope audiobook. Genre: tragedy In An Eye for an Eye, Anthony Trollope turns a sharp, compassionate gaze on love, pride, and the quiet violence of social rules. When Fred Neville, a young English officer from a powerful family, is stationed in Ireland, he meets Kate McDermot, the spirited daughter of a struggling local gentleman. Their attraction is immediate, but the world around them is built to keep such a match from becoming more than a summer dream. Fred is b...
Sep 04, 2023•7 hr 27 min
(Volume 13) Arabian Nights - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: folklore This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators, and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found for the collection, but several versions date the collection's genesis to somewhere between AD 800 and 900. The stories are wound to...
Sep 04, 2023•15 hr 20 min
(Volume 12) Arabian Nights - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: folklore This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found, but several versions date the collection’s genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. The stories are wound together under the device ...
Sep 02, 2023•15 hr 20 min
(Volume 11) Arabian Nights - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: folklore This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found, but several versions date the collection’s genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. The stories are wound together under the device ...
Sep 01, 2023•11 hr 3 min
(Volume 10) Arabian Nights - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: folklore This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found, but several versions date the collection’s genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. The stories are wound together under the device ...
Sep 01, 2023•10 hr 56 min
(Volume 9) Arabian Nights - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: folklore This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found for the collection, but several versions date the collection's genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. The stories are wound together ...
Aug 31, 2023•15 hr 44 min
(Volume 8) Arabian Nights - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: folklore This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found for the collection, but several versions date the collection's genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. The stories are wound together ...
Aug 31, 2023•13 hr 28 min
(Volume 7) Arabian Nights - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: folklore This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found, but several versions date the collection’s genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. The stories are wound together under the device o...
Aug 30, 2023•16 hr 59 min
