The Rockspur Eleven by Burt L. Standish audiobook. Genre: drama In The Rockspur Eleven, Burt L. Standish drops listeners into a turn-of-the-century football season where character is tested as hard as muscle. Don Scott wants nothing more than to help Rockspur win, but his quick temper and stubborn pride keep putting him at odds with teammates, rivals, and even the game itself. When a new, swaggering coach, Dolph Renwood, takes charge, practices turn harsher, expectations rise, and Don finds his ...
Dec 22, 2023•6 hr 33 min
The Lady of the Shroud by Bram Stoker audiobook. Genre: adventure When young Englishman Rupert Sent Leger inherits a fortune from an eccentric uncle, the will comes with conditions that pull him far from London society and into a rugged coastal land on the edge of Europe. Determined to claim his legacy and understand the strange charge entrusted to him, Rupert travels to the blue waters and steep mountains of the Balkans, where local unrest and international intrigue simmer just beneath the surf...
Dec 22, 2023•12 hr 59 min
The Case of Miss Elliott by Baroness Emma Orczy audiobook. Genre: mystery In Edwardian London, crimes that stump Scotland Yard become tea-room talk in an ABC shop off the Strand. There, a mild, unassuming figure known only as the Old Man in the Corner sits with a cup of tea, a length of string, and a talent for seeing what everyone else misses. When a sharp young journalist, often identified as Polly Burton, brings him fresh newspaper accounts and courtroom gossip, he listens, asks a few disarmi...
Dec 21, 2023•6 hr 38 min
Boy Scouts Handbook by Boy Scouts of America audiobook. Genre: self help The Boy Scouts Handbook by the Boy Scouts of America is the essential field guide for a young person stepping into the world of Scouting, where character is built through action, service, and outdoor adventure. Written to be carried, consulted, and lived, it introduces the Scout Oath and Scout Law as a practical compass for everyday choices, then backs those ideals with step-by-step skills for real situations. Readers learn...
Dec 21, 2023•13 hr 48 min
The Artist by B. F. Gandee audiobook. Genre: self help First published in 1835, The Artist by B. F. Gandee is an art manual disguised as a friendly lesson book, inviting listeners into the drawing room where technique is taught through conversation, encouragement, and careful practice. The guide follows Charlotte as she tutors her cousin Ellen, moving step by step from foundational habits of hand and eye to the ornamental styles that fascinated early Victorian makers. Along the way, Gandee expla...
Dec 21, 2023•5 hr 15 min
The Case of the Lamp That Went Out by Auguste Groner audiobook. Genre: mystery In late-19th-century Vienna, an ordinary morning turns grim when a milk girl, Anna, discovers the body of a well-dressed man in an empty lot. With no clear witnesses and only a handful of puzzling traces, the case is handed to Joseph Muller, a quiet, dutiful member of the Imperial Austrian police whose unassuming manner hides a razor-sharp talent for reading people and details. As officialdom pressures the investigati...
Dec 21, 2023•3 hr 55 min
Guy Garrick by Arthur B. Reeve audiobook. Genre: mystery In early twentieth-century New York, private detective Guy Garrick makes his name by treating crime like a laboratory problem. With his loyal friend and assistant Tom Marshall at his side, Garrick is pulled into a baffling case that begins with a rich young man, Mortimer Warrington, reporting the theft of his prized automobile and quickly escalates into violence, intimidation, and a trail of clues that suggest the robbery is only the surfa...
Dec 20, 2023•6 hr 29 min
History of Animals by Aristotle audiobook. Genre: science Book I Grouping of animals and the parts of the human body. Book II Different parts of red-blooded animals. Book III Internal organs. Book IV Animals without blood (invertebrates). Books V & VI Animal reproduction. Book VII Human reproduction. Book VIII Habits (food, migration, health, diseases). Book IX Social behavior. Book X Dealing with barrenness in women was excluded from the translation of D'Arcy Thompson for being spurious so ...
Dec 20, 2023•16 hr 55 min
The Heroic Life and Exploits of Siegfried the Dragon Slayer by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: folklore In The Heroic Life and Exploits of Siegfried the Dragon Slayer, an anonymous classic of Northern European legend, the young hero Siegfried rises from gifted outsider to figure of awe and fear. Tempered by hard training and a restless desire for glory, he leaves the safety of home to seek trials worthy of a song. His path leads to perilous wilderness, to the shadow of a monstrous dragon, and to tre...
Dec 20, 2023•3 hr 10 min
Chicot the Jester by Alexandre Dumas audiobook. Genre: adventure In turbulent late-16th-century France, the court of King Henry III is a glittering stage where every smile can hide a dagger. Into this danger steps Chicot, the king's sharp-tongued jester - a fool by title, but a keen observer and fearless improviser by nature. While nobles posture and factions harden, Chicot slips between worlds: bantering in public, listening in private, and carrying messages that could topple alliances. With th...
Dec 19, 2023•15 hr 43 min
The Book of Jubilees by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: religion The Book of Jubilees is an ancient Jewish work, traditionally attributed to an unknown author, that retells and reorders the foundational stories of Genesis and the early chapters of Exodus. Framed as a revelation delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai, it revisits creation, the lives of the patriarchs, and the shaping of Israel's identity, but with a distinctive emphasis on sacred time: history is measured in precise cycles of jubilees, we...
Dec 19, 2023•5 hr 52 min
Women of the French Revolution by Winifred Stephens Whale audiobook. Genre: history (Excerpt) One aspect of this subject of revolutionary women, their connection with the secret societies of the day I have purposely ignored. It is obscure and highly controversial. Unfortunately, though these societies have been much, written about, and especially of late, it has often been in a partisan spirit. This book will constantly deal with parties, but I trust not in the spirit of a partisan. Of the three...
Dec 19, 2023•8 hr 5 min
The Sandman - His Farm Stories by William John Hopkins audiobook. Genre: family In The Sandman: His Farm Stories, William John Hopkins invites young listeners into a gentle bedtime world where everyday farm work becomes an adventure worth staying awake for - and then drifting off to sleep with. The stories follow Little John, a curious boy growing up amid barns, fields, and kitchen warmth, guided by steady grownups like Uncle John and Uncle Solomon. Each short tale centers on a real task and the...
Dec 18, 2023•2 hr 37 min
Short Stories Of William Henry Harrison Murray by William Henry Harrison Murray audiobook. Genre: adventure Murray (1840-1904) was a sometime clergyman, journalist, and purveyor of the outdoor life. His books did much to popularize the virtues of outdoor experience, especially in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. Here are stories, some humorous some serious, of the out-of-doors, of love between man and woman, man and horse, man and dog, teacher and acolyte, of wisdom and foolishness....
Dec 18, 2023•5 hr 18 min
Epics and Romances of the Middle Ages by Wilhelm Wagner audiobook. Genre: poetry This volume contains the principal hero-lays of the six great epic cycles of the Teutonic Middle Ages: The Langobardian Legends, the Amelung and Kindred Legends; Dietrich of Bern's Adventures; the Nibelung Legends; the Hegeling Legends; and Beowulf. To them, the author has added the great mythical Carolingian cycle, which centred round the persons of Charlemagne and his heroes, and the Breton ones of King Arthur and...
Dec 16, 2023•14 hr 5 min
Among the Great Masters of the Drama by Walter Rowlands audiobook. Genre: biography Among the Great Masters of the Drama is Walter Rowlands' brisk, story-driven tour through the people who shaped the modern stage - not only the playwrights whose works endured, but the performers who made theaters roar, weep, and gasp. Opening with portraits of towering writers like Shakespeare, Moliere, and Voltaire, Rowlands then turns the spotlight toward the craft of acting itself, tracing how reputation is b...
Dec 15, 2023•4 hr 31 min
Napoleon The First, An Intimate Biography by Walter Geer audiobook. Genre: biography Written a century after Napoleon's final defeat, Walter Geer's Napoleon The First, An Intimate Biography sets out to strip away both hero worship and demonization and to portray the man behind the legend. From a young Corsican outsider hungry for recognition, Napoleon Bonaparte rises through the upheavals of the French Revolution, wins startling victories that remake Europe, and learns to command not only armies...
Dec 15, 2023•12 hr 25 min
Napoleon and Josephine The Rise of the Empire by Walter Geer audiobook. Genre: biography FOREWORD: 'In the popular estimation the Empress Josephine is crowned with a halo of goodness which makes the task of her biographer one of peculiar difficulty. The aversion which many feel towards Napoleon is not a little due to what they conceive to be the cruelty with which he treated the woman who for fourteen years was the companion of his glory. The writer of this book holds no brief either for the pro...
Dec 14, 2023•10 hr 10 min
The Blue Island by W. T. Stead audiobook. Genre: religion Written in the shadow of the RMS Titanic disaster, The Blue Island presents itself as an extraordinary report from beyond death. W. T. Stead, the famed British editor and reforming journalist who perished when the Titanic sank, returns here as the books guiding voice, speaking through a claimed process of automatic writing overseen by his daughter, Estelle Stead. The conduit is Pardoe Woodman, a young man in Estelle's theatrical circle wh...
Dec 14, 2023•1 hr 44 min
Easter Hymns by Various audiobook. Genre: religion Easter Hymns by Various is a devotional collection of classic songs of praise centered on the Easter story and the Christian hope of resurrection. Gathered from multiple writers and traditions, these hymns trace the journey from the sorrow of the cross to the wonder of the empty tomb, giving listeners language for gratitude, awe, repentance, and renewed faith. Designed for congregational singing, personal meditation, or seasonal worship, the sel...
Dec 14, 2023•2 hr 28 min
Galopoff, the Talking Pony by Tudor Jenks audiobook. Genre: fantasy In Tudor Jenks' Galopoff, the Talking Pony, an ordinary stable yard becomes the doorway to the extraordinary when, for one day each year, the animals are able to speak. Galopoff, a spirited pony with a sharp mind and a flair for drama, finally gets his chance to tell the humans in his life what he has seen and survived. Gathered close are his young mistress and her visiting cousin, eager to hear why this small pony carries himse...
Dec 13, 2023•3 hr 5 min
On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus audiobook. Genre: poetry On the Nature of Things, written in the first century BCE by Titus Lucretius Carus, is one of the principle expositions on Epicurean philosophy and science to have survived from antiquity. Far from being a dry treatise on the many topics it covers, the original Latin version (entitled De Rerum Natura) was written in the form of an extended poem in hexameter, with a beauty of style that was admired and emulated by his succe...
Dec 13, 2023•8 hr 52 min
The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad by Thornton W. Burgess audiobook. Genre: family In The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad, Thornton W. Burgess invites listeners into the Green Meadows and the Smiling Pool, where a small, warty, wide-mouthed fellow becomes the center of big curiosity and bigger trouble. Old Mr. Toad is not fast like Peter Rabbit, not fierce like Reddy Fox, and not flashy like some of the birds, but he has his own quiet strengths and a stubborn determination to live his life in peace. When...
Dec 13, 2023•1 hr 57 min
Man's Restoration by Grace by Thomas Goodwin audiobook. Genre: religion In Mans Restoration by Grace, Puritan pastor and theologian Thomas Goodwin traces the heart of the Christian message: that humanity, ruined by sin and unable to repair itself, is restored only by the free and powerful grace of God. With the clarity of a seasoned preacher, Goodwin sets the scene by describing the depth of the fall and the futility of self-salvation, then turns to the hope announced in the gospel - a restorati...
Dec 12, 2023•1 hr 20 min
The Astonishing History of Troy Town by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch audiobook. Genre: comedy In the genteel Cornish harbor town of Troy - a thinly veiled portrait of Fowey - respectability is measured by a single shibboleth: being 'cumeelfo' (as Troy pronounces comme il faut). Into this snug world of drawing-room evenings, gossip, and small tyrannies comes a thrilling disturbance: the arrival of the apparently aristocratic Frederic and Geraldine Goodwyn-Sandys, tenants of the house called Th...
Dec 12, 2023•6 hr 58 min
Round The Fire Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: horror In Round The Fire Stories, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle gathers a set of unsettling tales meant to be told in the flicker of lamplight, when a familiar room can suddenly feel strange. Across these stories, respectable doctors, scholars, and travelers are drawn into encounters that test the limits of reason: a medical case that seems to defy anatomy, a creature glimpsed where no creature should be, a relic that carries a lingerin...
Dec 12, 2023•10 hr 24 min
A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud audiobook. Genre: science These twenty-eight lectures to laymen are elementary and almost conversational. Freud sets forth with a frankness almost startling the difficulties and limitations of psychoanalysis, and also describes its main methods and results as only a master and originator of a new school of thought can do. A text like this is the most opportune and will naturally more or less supersede all other introductions to the genera...
Dec 11, 2023•18 hr 3 min
The Wishing Horse of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson audiobook. Genre: fantasy Magic wishing emeralds mysteriously arrive in the little kingdom of Skampavia. King Skamperoo immediately confiscates them and wishes to become the Emperor of Oz, with his magic horse Chalk as his advisor. All the residents of Oz are enchanted to forget Ozma and their own rulers, except for Dorothy and Pigasus the flying pig. Can Dorothy and Pigasus break the enchantment and rescue Princess Ozma? Will they forge an unlikel...
Dec 11, 2023•4 hr 42 min
Policy and Passion by Rosa Campbell Praed audiobook. Genre: drama Set in the rough-edged boomtowns and parliamentary backrooms of colonial Queensland, Policy and Passion follows the Longleat family as private desire collides with public ambition. Thomas Longleat, a self-made political leader on the rise, is determined to shape the young colony's future and to secure a place among its powerful men. But the closer he comes to office, the more vulnerable he becomes to scandal, rivals, and the pull ...
Dec 09, 2023•14 hr 42 min
The Hound From the North by Ridgwell Cullum audiobook. Genre: thriller Set against the wind-scoured prairie of southern Manitoba and the ice-hard reaches of the Yukon trail, The Hound From the North follows Prudence, a capable young woman helping her mother keep a struggling ranch afloat. Trouble rides in with her brother, back from his northern gold hunt changed, broke, and shadowed by whatever he saw in the mountains - and trailed by a vicious, three-legged husky with a reputation that seems l...
Dec 08, 2023•9 hr 30 min
