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The Pirates by Morgan Robertson audiobook. Genre: adventure When Ensign William Denman stays aboard a brand-new U.S. Navy destroyer for one quiet night, he expects nothing more dangerous than paperwork and a watchman's round. Instead, a dozen escaped prisoners slip through the fog, silence the sentries, and steal the fastest ship afloat, a turbine-driven grayhound fitted with torpedoes, searchlights, and a crackling new wireless set. Their leader, the hard-handed Herbert Jenkins, offers Denman a...
Don Quixote Vol. 2 by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra audiobook. Genre: adventure Don Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in the character of the Morisco historian, Cide Hamete Benengeli, whom he claims to have hired to translate the story from an Arabic manuscript he found in Toledo's bedraggled old Jewish quarter. The protagonist, Alonso Quixano, is a minor landowner who has read so many stories of ch...
Don Quixote Vol. 1 by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra audiobook. Genre: adventure Don Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in the character of the Morisco historian, Cide Hamete Benengeli, whom he claims to have hired to translate the story from an Arabic manuscript he found in Toledo's bedraggled old Jewish quarter. The protagonist, Alonso Quixano, is a minor landowner who has read so many stories of ch...
Broken Barriers by Meredith Nicholson audiobook. Genre: romance When college junior Grace Durland is abruptly summoned home to Indianapolis, she expects a temporary family setback. Instead, she finds the Durlands shaken by financial ruin and simmering tensions: her proud father has been pushed out of the business he helped build, her brother Roy is protected and indulged, and Grace is told to trade campus freedom for duty and practicality. Refusing to be reduced to a household problem to be mana...
The Eight Strokes of the Clock by Maurice Leblanc audiobook. Genre: mystery In The Eight Strokes of the Clock, Maurice Leblanc sends Arsene Lupin, France's legendary gentleman-thief, into a different kind of game: not a heist, but a sequence of puzzles where time itself seems to set the rules. When the daring and newly widowed Countess of Cagliostro crosses paths with Lupin, she is drawn into an unusual arrangement - eight promised adventures, each marked by a stroke of a clock and each leading ...
Is Shakespeare Dead by Mark Twain audiobook. Genre: history A short, semi-autobiographical work by American humorist Mark Twain. It explores the controversy over the authorship of the Shakespearean literary canon via satire, anecdote, and extensive quotation of contemporary authors on the subject. In the book, Twain expounds the view that Shakespeare of Stratford was not the author of the canon, and lends tentative support to the Baconian theory. The book opens with a scene from his early adulth...
The Thing in the Woods by Margery Williams audiobook. Genre: fantasy Dr. Haverill is asked to fill in as local physician for the skittish Dr. Lennox in a small Pennsylvania town. The locals seem to be a superstitious bunch, prone to fearing traveling in the woods at night and with good reason. It seems a series of vicious attacks have occurred by what appears to be some kind of large animal. As the bodies begin to pile up, Dr. Haverill starts to question whether the responsible party could be so...
The Camp Fire Girls at Sunrise Hill by Margaret Vandercook audiobook. Genre: adventure Fifteen-year-old Betty Ashton has everything a girl in Woodford, New Hampshire, is supposed to want-except a sense of purpose. Restless in her old family home, she is stunned when her mother brings in Esther Clark, a blunt, big-hearted girl from the local orphan asylum, to serve as Betty's companion. Esther carries something Betty has never tried before: the Camp Fire Girls' ideals of work, health, and love, a...
Baseball Joe in the Big League by Lester Chadwick audiobook. Genre: adventure 'Baseball Joe' Matson's great ambition is to become a professional baseball pitcher. The Baseball Joe series follows his career as he seeks to attain his goal. In this fifth volume, Joe is drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the major leagues. A successful season of pitching is marred by mishaps beginning with a request for a loan by a has-been ball player and ending with the kidnapping of our hero. Lester Chadwick i...
What Shall We Do by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. Genre: philosophy A vivid description of wealth and poverty in Russia in Tolstoy's day, an inquiry into the root causes of economic inequality, and a vision of a more just way of living. Tolstoy recounts his own disturbing encounters with extreme poverty in Moscow, his initial idea of making the problem disappear by generous financial contributions, and his subsequent realization that the problem of poverty was much more intractable than he had imagined...
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin audiobook. Genre: family Orphaned young but brimming with imagination, Rebecca Rowena Randall is sent from her quiet country home in Maine to live with her two aunts in the village of Riverboro. Aunt Miranda rules her household with strict economy and firm expectations, while Aunt Jane offers gentleness and quiet support. Rebecca, determined to be useful and to win affection without losing her sparkle, must learn the rhythms of a new home where r...
The Trial of a New Society by Justus Ebert audiobook. Genre: philosophy In 1912 textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, mostly immigrants, went on strike in response to a pay cut, speedups, and unsafe working conditions. Representatives from the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW/Wobblies) came in to help organize the strike. The city declared martial law and a tense standoff went on for weeks. National newspapers provided breathless coverage of the strike and painted drastically different...
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu audiobook. Genre: horror In a lonely Styrian castle, sheltered young Laura lives a quiet life with her father, attended only by servants and the hush of surrounding woods. Everything changes when a carriage accident brings a mysterious girl to their doorstep: Carmilla, elegant, languid, and strangely familiar. As the two form an intense friendship, Laura is drawn into a world of whispered confidences, unsettling dreams, and a growing sense that something in th...
Chance by Joseph Conrad audiobook. Genre: drama In Chance, Joseph Conrad turns his maritime world into a tense study of reputation, power, and the precariousness of love. The story is framed by Marlow, who pieces together the fate of Flora de Barral, a young woman left socially stranded after her financier father is disgraced. With few allies and many watchers, Flora becomes vulnerable to exploitation and rumor in a society that treats a woman's future as a negotiable commodity. Her path crosses...
Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad audiobook. Genre: drama In a remote river settlement in the Malay Archipelago, Dutch trader Kaspar Almayer clings to a single dream: striking it rich and escaping the humid, decaying outpost that has swallowed his youth. Propped up by the lingering promises of his seafaring patron Captain Lingard, Almayer builds a grand, unfinished house the locals mock as his 'folly' - a monument to ambition in a place governed by shifting alliances, rumor, and power. But the fo...
The Voice and Public Speaking by John Poole Sandlands audiobook. Genre: self help I write for public speakers. I wish to take them into my confidence. I feel I can do them good. My object is to help them to speak with greater ease and efficiency. When the voice is developed and in a condition to answer the calls made upon it, then it will naturally seek to put its powers into operation.... Develop the powers of the voice and it will not be satisfied till it find scope for their exercise. This is...
The History of Britain by John Milton audiobook. Genre: history Written by the poet and polemicist John Milton, The History of Britain is an ambitious attempt to trace the story of the British Isles from legendary beginnings through the arrival of the Saxons and into the early medieval period. Drawing on classical writers, medieval chronicles, and national tradition, Milton moves from mythic founders and heroic battles to the hard questions of governance, succession, and the making of a people. ...
Cinnamon and Angelica by John Middleton Murry audiobook. Genre: drama First published in 1920, John Middleton Murry's Cinnamon and Angelica is a four-act verse play that turns romance into a glittering fable of rival houses and restless desire. In a world where even the names taste of spice, Cinnamon, Prince of the Peppercorns, finds his imagination and his fate pulled toward Angelica, Princess of the Cloves - a meeting that threatens to ignite more than private longing. Around them gather vivid...
All That Glitters Is Not Gold by John Maddison Morton audiobook. Genre: romance Set in a bustling Victorian world of cotton mills and drawing rooms, All That Glitters Is Not Gold follows wealthy factory owner Jasper Plum as he tries to steer his family safely through the treacherous waters of love, status, and money. His sensible son Stephen risks his father's disapproval by courting Martha Gibbs, an earnest factory worker whose lack of fortune makes her an easy target for suspicion. Meanwhile, ...
Money and Trade Considered by John Law audiobook. Genre: business Written at the dawn of modern finance, John Law's Money and Trade Considered sets out a bold claim: a nation's prosperity depends less on hoarded metal than on the smart circulation of credit. Speaking to the chronic shortages of coin and the economic stagnation he saw in Britain, Law builds an accessible, argumentative case that money is not merely treasure but a tool - one that can be redesigned. Moving from first principles to ...
Divine Conduct, or the Mystery of Providence by John Flavel audiobook. Genre: religion In Divine Conduct, or the Mystery of Providence, Puritan pastor John Flavel guides listeners through a careful, Scripture-soaked exploration of how God governs the world and the lives of ordinary believers. Written for Christians who wrestle with confusion, loss, delay, and sudden change, this classic work treats providence not as an abstract doctrine but as a lived reality that meets the soul in daily anxieti...
The Last Secrets by John Buchan audiobook. Genre: history In The Last Secrets (1923), John Buchan turns from spy fiction to the real-world drama of the map's final blank spaces, tracing how early twentieth-century expeditions transformed rumor and legend into surveyed fact. With a storyteller's pace and a geographer's eye, Buchan revisits the great set pieces of a rapidly shrinking world: the long-guarded road to Lhasa, the perilous gorges of the Brahmaputra, the contested dreams of the North an...
Greenmantle by John Buchan audiobook. Genre: adventure On the eve of the First World War's next turning point, veteran spy Richard Hannay is pulled back into Britain's shadow war against a new and terrifying threat. Rumors swirl of Greenmantle - a mysterious figure or movement capable of igniting a wave of religious fervor across the Islamic world and shattering Allied strategy in the Middle East. To stop it, Hannay and a small band of allies must slip through a Europe of checkpoints, informers,...
Meditations and Prayers by John Bradford audiobook. Genre: religion Meditations and Prayers by John Bradford gathers the devotional writings of one of the English Reformation's most compelling voices. Written in a plain, urgent style shaped by pastoral care and personal suffering, these meditations lead the listener through confession, repentance, gratitude, and steadfast trust in God's mercy. Bradford speaks as both teacher and fellow pilgrim, addressing the restless conscience, the fear of jud...
The Destination Of Man by Johann Gottlieb Fichte audiobook. Genre: philosophy Johanne Fichte published The Destination of Man (Die Bestimmung des Menschen) in 1799. It was translated into English in 1846 by Jane Sinnett and then again in 1848 by William Smith. Fichte says his book is designed to 'raise [the reader] from the sensuous world, to that which is above sense.' Francis Bacon said, in The Advancement of Learning, 'the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of action common...
Billie Bradley and Her Inheritance by Janet D. Wheeler audiobook. Genre: mystery High-spirited Billie Bradley is the kind of girl who turns an ordinary errand into an uproar - and she does it the day she and her best friends, Laura and Violet, slip back into their closed school building to retrieve a forgotten book. A bit of joking goes too far, a valuable statue is broken, and suddenly Billie is facing a crushing problem: how can she possibly raise the money to make things right? Before she can...
Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice by James Branch Cabell audiobook. Genre: fantasy In a quiet medieval town, Jurgen is a middle-aged pawnbroker with a sharp tongue, a restless imagination, and a marriage that has settled into routine with his formidable wife, Dame Lisa. When a mysterious encounter offers him a chance to step outside his ordinary life, Jurgen seizes it and finds himself moving through a chain of uncanny courts and legendary landscapes where desire, reputation, and virtue are all negoti...
Big Sur by Jack Kerouac audiobook. Genre: drama In Big Sur, Jack Kerouac turns his restless, beat-fueled legend inward, following writer Jack Duluoz as fame, exhaustion, and alcoholism begin to close in. Hoping to escape the noise of city life and the demands of being a public symbol, Duluoz accepts an invitation to a secluded cabin on the rugged California coast, where redwood forests and crashing surf promise silence and recovery. But solitude does not automatically bring peace. As days stretc...
Tommy and Grizel by J. M. Barrie audiobook. Genre: drama Tommy and Grizel (1900) is J. M. Barrie's bittersweet sequel to Sentimental Tommy, following Thomas (Tommy) Sandys as he tries to turn boyhood imagination into a life worth living. Sixteen and solemn, Tommy arrives in foggy London with his devoted sister, Elspeth, and falls into the orbit of O. P. Pym, a booming, unreliable popular writer who hires the farm-bred youth as an assistant. Under Pym's chaotic mentorship, Tommy discovers both th...
J.M. Barrie's "Alice Sit-by-the-Fire" follows Alice Gray's return to London, eager to reclaim her family role, only to find her children, especially Amy, have developed their own dramatic lives. Misinterpretations, fueled by Amy's love for theater, lead to a complex web of assumed affairs and heroic sacrifices. The play comically and tenderly explores themes of motherhood, identity, and the blurring lines between performance and real emotion within the domestic sphere, culminating in a series of misunderstandings that ultimately bring the family closer.
