The Cathedral by Hugh Walpole audiobook. Genre: drama Set in the cathedral town of Polchester during the summer of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, Hugh Walpole's The Cathedral follows Archdeacon Adam Brandon, a commanding High Churchman whose confidence and authority seem as immovable as the great building he serves. Brandon has built his life around influence in the Close, public admiration, and an unshakable certainty that he alone understands what the cathedral and the town should b...
Jan 09, 2024•15 hr 14 min
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole audiobook. Genre: horror On the eve of his son Conrad's wedding, Prince Manfred of the Castle of Otranto is shaken by a grotesque and seemingly impossible catastrophe that shatters his plans for securing his family's rule. Convinced that an ancient prophecy threatens his claim, Manfred becomes desperate to control Otranto's future, and his panic turns quickly into ruthless determination. As fear spreads through the fortress corridors, the castle itself see...
Jan 09, 2024•4 hr 11 min
The Way to Will-Power by Henry Hazlitt audiobook. Genre: self help In The Way to Will-Power, Henry Hazlitt takes up a question that haunts every ambitious plan and every broken resolution: why do we know what we should do, yet fail to do it? Blending clear reasoning with practical counsel, Hazlitt treats willpower not as a mystical gift but as a skill that can be trained through understanding motives, directing attention, and building habits that make right action easier. He explores how desire,...
Jan 06, 2024•3 hr 36 min
Don Quixote in England by Henry Fielding audiobook. Genre: comedy Henry Fielding takes Cervantes' famously book-addled knight and drops him into the very different, very worldly landscape of eighteenth-century England. Don Quixote and his long-suffering squire Sancho Panza arrive at a country inn expecting a realm of honor, damsels, and noble causes, only to find a bustling crossroads of hunters, servants, squires, and self-important local officials. Quixote, convinced that chivalry can still se...
Jan 05, 2024•2 hr 3 min
The Spirit of Bambatse by H. Rider Haggard audiobook. Genre: adventure Also published as Benita: An African Romance, The Spirit of Bambatse follows Benita Clifford, a young Englishwoman sailing toward southern Africa to reunite with the father she has barely known and to start over on his isolated Transvaal farm. On the voyage she encounters Robert Seymour, a restless young man whose sudden attachment to Benita promises safety and scandal in equal measure. But the land they enter is charged with...
Jan 05, 2024•8 hr 24 min
Men Like Gods by H. G. Wells audiobook. Genre: scifi In the summer of 1921, a disenchanted journalist escapes the rat race for a drive in the country. But Mr. Barnstaple's trip exceeds his expectations when he and other motorists are swept 3,000 years into the future. The inadvertent time travelers arrive in a world that corresponds exactly to Barnstaple's ideals: a utopian state, free of crime, poverty, war, disease, and bigotry. Unfettered by the constraints of government and organized religio...
Jan 04, 2024•8 hr 48 min
Bealby; A Holiday by H. G. Wells audiobook. Genre: comedy Bealby: A Holiday is a brisk, mischievous comic tale from H. G. Wells that turns a simple seaside vacation into a sharp-eyed satire of Edwardian respectability. The hero, young Bealby, is no swashbuckling adventurer - he is an ordinary boy with an inconvenient talent for drifting into trouble at exactly the wrong moment. Sent away for a holiday under the watchful care of his formidable Aunt Bridget and a circle of well-meaning adults, Bea...
Jan 04, 2024•8 hr 21 min
Arizona Argonauts by H. Bedford-Jones audiobook. Genre: adventure Imagine it's early 1900's and you want to get away from it all. So you head to Two Palms, Arizona. Where for entertainment, people await the arrival of the daily stage coach. Gold mining is an avocation. There is desert everywhere, deadly rattlers, no paved roads, some people travel in model T's which they call flivvers. They must carry their own water, gasoline and tire patch kits for the many blowouts they encounter. The heat is...
Jan 03, 2024•4 hr 29 min
A Voice in the Wilderness by Grace Livingston Hill audiobook. Genre: romance When Margaret Earle leaves the East to take a teaching post in the Arizona Territory, she expects hardship, but not to step off the train into darkness at a lonely desert stop and watch the cars vanish into the night. Alone in unfamiliar country, with coyotes crying and danger close at hand, Margaret must rely on courage, quick thinking, and the faith that carried her west in the first place. Her desperate flight from a...
Jan 03, 2024•10 hr 48 min
The Elect Lady by George MacDonald audiobook. Genre: drama Set in rural Scotland, George MacDonald's The Elect Lady follows the collision of class, conscience, and faith in a small community where everyone knows their place - until a few unlikely friendships begin to challenge it. Andrew Ingram, the tenant's son, is poor, bookish, and quietly devout, more interested in truth and service than status. Dawtie, a humble servant girl with a tender care for animals and the overlooked, becomes an unexp...
Jan 03, 2024•6 hr 15 min
Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood by George MacDonald audiobook. Genre: family This delightful story begins in a little town called Marshmallows, where a young man, the new vicar, Harry Walton, has just arrived. As he begins his work Harry realizes that everything is not quite 'right' in his little parish and it all seems to center around Oldcastle Hall. As he wins the affection of the people secrets begin to unfold, and Harry Walton attempts to free them from guilt of the past, help them overcome...
Jan 02, 2024•15 hr 38 min
Angels of the Battlefield by George Barton audiobook. Genre: history Angels of the Battlefield is George Barton's sweeping Civil War history of the Catholic sisterhoods who became some of the era's most indispensable nurses, organizers, and steady hands in the midst of mass suffering. Drawing on interviews, letters, official records, and community archives, Barton reconstructs how orders such as the Sisters of Charity, Sisters of Mercy, Sisters of St. Joseph, and Sisters of Holy Cross moved from...
Jan 02, 2024•13 hr 10 min
The Everlasting Man by G. K. Chesterton audiobook. Genre: religion This book needs a preliminary note that its scope be not misunderstood. The view suggested is historical rather than theological, and does not deal directly with a religious change which has been the chief event of my own life; and about which I am already writing a more purely controversial volume. It is impossible, I hope, for any Catholic to write any book on any subject, above all this subject, without showing that he is a Ca...
Jan 02, 2024•10 hr 27 min
G.K. Chesterton in The Open Road by G. K. Chesterton audiobook. Genre: religion In G.K. Chesterton in The Open Road, the great English essayist turns two short book reviews into a brisk, brainy ride through the controversies of his day. Originally published in 1911 in The Open Road, these pieces show Chesterton at his most playful and provocative as he tests fashionable ideas against common sense, history, and the stubborn facts of human nature. In 'The Dulness of New Religions,' he pokes at spi...
Jan 01, 2024•24 min
Great Inventors and Their Inventions by Frank Puterbaugh Bachman audiobook. Genre: biography This book is about Great inventors and what they created. It has different stories like Alexander Bell, Wrights, Morse, Gutenberg, and Edison. ON August 17, 1807, a curious crowd of people in New York gathered at a boat landing. Tied to the dock was a strange-looking craft. A smokestack rose above the deck. From the sides of the boat, there stood out queer shaped paddle wheels. Of a sudden, the clouds of...
Jan 01, 2024•6 hr 11 min
Billy Whiskers Jr. by Frances Trego Montgomery audiobook. Genre: adventure Restless after only a few quiet weeks back on the farm, Night - Billy Whiskers Jr. - decides that ordinary pasture life is not for him. Brimming with swagger and curiosity, the young goat dreams of the wide-open West, where tough herds, long trails, and bigger dangers promise the kind of fame a born troublemaker thinks he deserves. When an unexpected change of owners sends him toward ranch country, Billy Jr. takes every n...
Dec 30, 2023•3 hr 26 min
Billy Whiskers Adventures by Frances Trego Montgomery audiobook. Genre: adventure Billy Whiskers is not an ordinary goat - he is a quick-witted troublemaker with a big heart and an even bigger appetite for adventure. After spending the war years in France alongside American troops, Billy returns to New York Harbor with his inseparable companions: Stubby the loyal dog and Button the sharp-eyed cat. Home is finally in sight, but the city has plans of its own. Mistaken for valuable mascots and near...
Dec 29, 2023•3 hr 27 min
The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw by Frances Milton Trollope audiobook. Genre: adventure In The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw, Frances Milton Trollope follows a restless young American, Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw, as he chases fortune and importance along the Mississippi River in the rough-and-ready decades of westward expansion. Eager to rise in a nation he believes rewards boldness above all else, Jonathan plunges into a world of steamboats, booming rive...
Dec 29, 2023•17 hr 40 min
Sleeping Sickness by Fleming Mant Sandwith audiobook. Genre: science In the twenty-first century sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis in humans) is still a life-threatening disease of adults and children and a hazard to tourists in East African game parks.The protozoan parasite is transmitted by the tsetse fly, a buzzing insect with reddish eyes and a large biting proboscis. In 1912, when this short monograph was written, physicians of the British Empire understood that trans-continental e...
Dec 28, 2023•2 hr 34 min
The Frithiof Saga by Ferdinand Schmidt audiobook. Genre: folklore In this dramatic retelling of a classic Norse legend, Ferdinand Schmidt follows Frithiof, a fearless young warrior whose strength at sea and in battle is matched only by his stubborn pride. Raised alongside Ingeborg, the beloved daughter of King Bele, Frithiof grows from childhood companion to devoted suitor - only to be blocked by Ingeborg's royal brothers, who refuse to let a hero of lesser birth claim her hand. When politics an...
Dec 28, 2023•2 hr 19 min
Social Life in England 1750-1850 by F. J. Foakes-Jackson audiobook. Genre: history In 1916, the Cambridge historian, F.J. Foakes-Jackson braved the wartime Atlantic to deliver the Lowell Lectures in Boston. In these wide-ranging and engaging talks, the author describes British life between 1750-1850. There are John Wesley's horseback peregrinations over thousands of miles of English countryside. Next, Foakes-Jackson introduces the mordant rural poet, George Crabbe, who began life as a surgeon ap...
Dec 28, 2023•6 hr 17 min
The Desire of Ages by Ellen G. White audiobook. Genre: religion The Desire of Ages is Ellen G. White's sweeping, devotional portrait of the life and ministry of Jesus Christ, told with vivid narrative force and a pastor's concern for the inner life. Moving from the promises and longings that precede Christ's birth through the defining moments of His public work, the book follows the unfolding conflict between faith and unbelief, humility and pride, mercy and self-righteousness. Familiar scenes a...
Dec 27, 2023•27 hr 57 min
Blotted Out by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding audiobook. Genre: mystery Fresh off a ship into New York, James Ross expects anonymity: no family, no friends, no ties. Instead, before he can even step onto the dock, a note pulls him into a stranger's life. A woman named Amy Solway claims to be his cousin and begs him to help her immediately by posing as her newly hired chauffeur. James agrees, thinking it will be a brief favor. But the moment he enters Amy's house, he stumbles on a horrifying secret: a ...
Dec 27, 2023•3 hr 37 min
Successward - A Young Man's Book for Young Men by Edward Bok audiobook. Genre: self help In Successward: A Young Man's Book for Young Men, editor and writer Edward W. Bok speaks directly to ambitious young men who feel success is reserved for the lucky, the wealthy, or the well-connected. Writing as someone still close to the struggle himself, Bok reframes success as something built from clear self-knowledge, steady habits, and honorable motives rather than flash or privilege. Across a series of...
Dec 27, 2023•3 hr 5 min
The Moon Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: scifi In The Moon Men, Edgar Rice Burroughs turns a futuristic America into a hard-edged battleground for freedom. Generations after a disastrous first contact between Earth and the Moon, humanity lives under the yoke of the Kalkars, ruthless Lunarian conquerors who rule through forced labor, taxes, and terror. In the teeming, fenced-in districts of a broken Chicago, Julian, a young man born into occupation, grows up hearing dangerous whispe...
Dec 26, 2023•3 hr 11 min
Seven Keys to Baldpate by Earl Derr Biggers audiobook. Genre: mystery When playwright and cynic George Washington Magee accepts a lucrative bet to write an entire play in twenty four hours, he thinks he has found the perfect loophole: seclude himself in a supposedly empty mountain lodge called Baldpate Inn, where the quiet is guaranteed and interruptions are impossible. He arrives with a locked room, a blazing fireplace, and a deadline that will make or break both his pride and his career. But t...
Dec 26, 2023•8 hr 17 min
Benigna Machiavelli by Charlotte Perkins Gilman audiobook. Genre: comedy In Benigna Machiavelli, Charlotte Perkins Gilman turns a provocative name into a sharp, witty study of power, principle, and the quiet strategies women are forced to master. Benigna is a young woman who refuses to accept the smallness of the role assigned to her. Bright, observant, and disarmingly polite, she studies the rules that govern family life, romance, and social reputation, then begins to use those rules with delib...
Dec 26, 2023•6 hr 1 min
The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte Mary Yonge audiobook. Genre: family In a bustling mid-Victorian household at Ernescliffe, Dr. May's many children live in a whirl of lessons, quarrels, loyalties, and high-minded schemes - until a sudden family disaster reshapes everything they thought childhood would be. At the heart of the story is Etheldred (Ethel) May, earnest, intense, and determined to do something worthy with her life. She dreams of serious study, of heroic service, and of lift...
Dec 25, 2023•30 hr 8 min
The Notting Hill Mystery by Charles Warren Adams audiobook. Genre: mystery Charles Felix was the pseudonym of Charles Warren Adams, an English Lawyer and publisher and is now known to have been the author of 'The Notting Hill Mystery', thought to be the first full length detective novel in English. The story first appeared as an eight part serial in a weekly magazine in 1862, and was subsequently published as a single volume novel in 1865. The story deals with the then newly emerging field of 'm...
Dec 25, 2023•5 hr 8 min
The Early Tudors - Henry VII and Henry VIII by Charles Edward Moberly audiobook. Genre: history In The Early Tudors - Henry VII and Henry VIII, historian and educator Charles Edward Moberly guides listeners from the battered aftermath of the Wars of the Roses into the hard-edged rise of Tudor power. Beginning with Henry VII, Moberly traces how a new dynasty steadies a divided realm through careful statecraft, the management of rivals, and the slow tightening of royal authority. The narrative the...
Dec 23, 2023•8 hr 55 min
