Three Midnight Stories by Alexander W. Drake audiobook. Genre: horror Alexander W. Drake was a well-regarded illustrator and engraver, spending much of his career at the vaunted Scribner's Monthly magazine (which would become The Century magazine eventually). What many were not aware of is that Drake also produced three short stories, printed in The Century over the course of a couple months, that captured a strange and otherworldly beauty in the human condition. A man obsessed with designing th...
Feb 12, 2024•1 hr 44 min
Bucking the Tiger by Achmed Abdullah audiobook. Genre: mystery A group of down-and-outers decide on the ultimate gamble: they will bankroll one of themselves, chosen by lot, to live well for a year. Then the one chosen must commit suicide after that year, so that the others can cash in on his life insurance policy. Complications arise when the 'lucky winner' finds an unexpected turn in his fortunes. How can he get out of it with his honor intact, or will he 'welch' on the deal? 'Bucking the tige...
Feb 12, 2024•4 hr 44 min
The wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl, the Man who lost his Shadow by Adelbert von Chamisso audiobook. Genre: folklore In early 19th-century Europe, a shy young wanderer named Peter Schlemihl arrives in a prosperous town hoping to secure a place in respectable society. His fortunes seem to change overnight when he meets a mysterious, well-dressed stranger who offers him a bargain: in exchange for Peter's shadow, he will receive a bottomless purse that produces unlimited gold. At first the dea...
Feb 12, 2024•2 hr 47 min
The Adventuress by Arthur B. Reeve audiobook. Genre: mystery When a revolver shot shatters the quiet of Columbia Universitys chemistry building, scientist-detective Craig Kennedy and his journalist companion Walter Jameson find themselves drawn into a case that reeks of both money and modern warfare. Their shaken visitor is Maxwell Hastings, attorney for munitions titan Marshall Maddox, whose body has just been found in Westport Bay after a tense family conference aboard the yacht Sybarite. With...
Feb 10, 2024•7 hr 42 min
Friends and Cousins by Abbie Farwell Brown audiobook. Genre: family Brother and sister, Kenneth and Rose, love to go to the Island where where their summer home is, and they are eager to see all their favorite places. This time, it's going to be even more fun when they meet their neighbors and make friends with the Prout children. Charlie, their cousin comes for a visit too. The children (even sometimes with the playful parents and Aunt Clare) are having exciting adventures, share stories, and p...
Feb 09, 2024•2 hr 12 min
Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne audiobook. Genre: poetry Now We Are Six is A. A. Milne's beloved collection of children's poems that captures the bright, odd, and perfectly serious logic of being young. Framed by the milestone of turning six, these verses wander through a child's daily world of games, pretend adventures, small worries, and sudden wonders, where a bear can be a companion, a shadow can become a mystery, and the simplest question deserves a grand investigation. With Milne's gentle wi...
Feb 09, 2024•1 hr 5 min
Winning His Game by Ralph Henry Barbour audiobook. Genre: adventure When shy, thoughtful Dudley 'Dud' Baker arrives as a new boy at Grafton School, he quickly learns that fitting in can feel as hard as any exam. Dorm life has its own rules, reputations are made at the dining table as much as in the classroom, and Dud is painfully aware of how easily a quiet newcomer can be overlooked. Fortunately, his lively, good-humored roommate, Jimmy Logan, decides Dud is worth a little pushing and pulling i...
Feb 09, 2024•6 hr 40 min
The Dream of the Red Chamber Book II by Xueqin Cao audiobook. Genre: drama The Dream of the Red Chamber Book II continues Cao Xueqin's monumental portrait of the Jia clan at the height of its splendor, even as quiet signs of strain begin to show beneath the lacquered surface. At the center is Jia Baoyu, a sensitive heir who chafes against the rigid expectations of scholarship, status, and marriage that define elite life. Within the women-filled world of the Grand View Garden, Baoyu's closest bon...
Feb 08, 2024•29 hr 35 min
The Dream of the Red Chamber Book I by Xueqin Cao audiobook. Genre: drama The Dream of the Red Chamber Book I opens the door to the splendid yet fragile world of the Jia clan, an aristocratic family whose mansions overflow with wealth, ceremony, and whispered rivalries. Framed by a mystical prologue about a sentient stone and a piece of jade, the story turns to Jia Baoyu, the family's unconventional heir, who resists the path mapped for him by status and exams. When his delicate, sharp-tongued c...
Feb 08, 2024•19 hr 34 min
The Secret Play by Ralph Henry Barbour audiobook. Genre: family At Clearfield High, football season arrives with a crisis: the coach is suddenly gone, the schedule is unforgiving, and the town is sure the team is headed for humiliation. Seventeen-year-old Dick Lovering loves the game as fiercely as any player, but a physical disability keeps him on the sidelines - and makes him an unlikely choice to lead anyone. When Dick and his quick-witted friend Fudge Shaw realize no savior is coming, Dick s...
Feb 08, 2024•8 hr 44 min
The American Diary of a Japanese Girl by Yone Noguchi audiobook. Genre: drama Told as a lively series of diary entries, The American Diary of a Japanese Girl follows Morning Glory, a young Japanese woman who arrives in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century full of curiosity, ambition, and sharp opinions. Recording each day with wit and candor, she navigates the thrill and confusion of a new country - its bustling streets, social rituals, food, fashion, and ideas about love and i...
Feb 07, 2024•4 hr 40 min
Roman History - The Early Empire, from the Assassination of Julius Caesar to that of Domitian by William Wolfe Capes audiobook. Genre: history In Roman History - The Early Empire, W. W. Capes traces the turbulent birth of imperial Rome, beginning in the chaos after Julius Caesar's assassination and following the long struggle to replace a shattered Republic with a durable new order. Moving from the rise of Augustus and the creation of principate to the volatile reigns of the Julio-Claudian emper...
Feb 07, 2024•7 hr 53 min
Finnish Legends by R. Eivind audiobook. Genre: folklore On a dark winter day in northern Finland, a wandering merchant named Father Mikko finds shelter with an isolated family as a storm gathers outside. When the evening meal is finished and the fire is burning low, the family's daughter asks for the oldest tales he knows - stories from the very beginning of the world. What follows is a vivid journey through Finnish myth and legend, where the boundaries between nature and magic blur and the past...
Feb 07, 2024•4 hr 46 min
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare audiobook. Genre: drama In Vienna, public morals have grown lax, and the laws meant to curb vice have fallen into disuse. When Duke Vincentio abruptly hands authority to the severe and unbending Angelo, the city is jolted into a harsh new order. Angelo moves swiftly to make an example of Claudio, a young gentleman condemned for breaking a long-ignored statute. Desperate to save her brother, Claudio's sister Isabella - a novice preparing to enter a conve...
Feb 06, 2024•2 hr 46 min
The Greenstone Door by William Satchell audiobook. Genre: history In William Satchell's The Greenstone Door, an older Cedric Tregarthen looks back on a youth shaped by violence and belonging in mid-19th-century New Zealand. After his family is swept away in frontier conflict, Cedric is taken in by the trader Purcell and grows up under the protection of a powerful Maori community, sharing a wild, close-knit childhood with his foster sister Puhi-Huia and his fierce, complicated friend Rangiora. De...
Feb 06, 2024•15 hr 10 min
A Silent Witness by R. Austin Freeman audiobook. Genre: mystery On a wet midnight walk near Hampstead, newly qualified physician Dr. Humphrey Jardine comes upon what seems to be the body of an elderly man lying in Millfield Lane. When he returns with the police, the corpse has vanished without a trace. The authorities doubt his story, but Jardine cannot forget the bloodstain, the disturbed ground leading toward the woods, and a small octagonal gold reliquary that feels like the one solid clue in...
Feb 06, 2024•11 hr 5 min
A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Walter Terence Stace audiobook. Genre: philosophy A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Walter Terence Stace is a clear, rigorous guide to the thinkers who shaped the Western tradition of reasoned inquiry. Moving from the early cosmologists who first asked what the world is made of, through the moral revolution of Socrates, and into the grand systems of Plato and Aristotle, Stace explains not only what these philosophers argued but why their problems...
Feb 05, 2024•12 hr 44 min
The War Trail by Thomas Mayne Reid audiobook. Genre: adventure On the uneasy borderlands of the Rio Bravo, not long after the Mexican War, Captain Warfield leads a hard-riding troop of American rangers assigned to keep a fragile peace: protect isolated settlements, guard uneasy allies, and face the constant threat of raiders and guerrilla bands. From the rooftop of a dusty frontier village, Warfield glimpses the nearby hacienda of Don Ramon de Vargas and soon meets the Don's spirited daughter, I...
Feb 05, 2024•18 hr 39 min
The Follies of a Day by Pierre Beaumarchais audiobook. Genre: comedy This is Thomas Holcroft's English translation, obtained by attending Pierre Beaumarchais' French play nine times in Paris during its original official staging in 1784. Beaumarchais' play was the basis for Mozart's 1796 opera, and is a satire about lovers' misdoings and French society. Because of its rebellious themes, presented during the troubling times leading up to the French Revolution, Beaumarchais had a very difficult tim...
Feb 05, 2024•3 hr 4 min
The Art of Dying Well by St. Robert Bellarmine audiobook. Genre: religion In The Art of Dying Well, St. Robert Bellarmine - a leading Catholic theologian and pastor of souls - offers a clear, steady guide to facing lifes most unavoidable moment with faith rather than fear. Written for ordinary Christians as well as clergy and caregivers, the book treats death not as a taboo subject but as a spiritual reality that can be met wisely through daily preparation. Bellarmine leads the listener through ...
Feb 02, 2024•4 hr 40 min
Anne of Geierstein, Volume 1 by Sir Walter Scott audiobook. Genre: history In Anne of Geierstein, Volume 1, Sir Walter Scott transports listeners to late-15th-century Europe, where the clash between the rising Swiss Confederacy and the power of Burgundy turns travel into peril and diplomacy into a game of survival. A young English traveler, Arthur Philipson, and his older companion and guide, Dr. Hendrik, set out across the Alps on a journey that is part pilgrimage, part secret errand, and wholl...
Feb 02, 2024•12 hr 33 min
Gertrude's Diary, and The Cube by Pansy audiobook. Genre: religion Gertrude's Diary, and The Cube gathers two spirited tales for young listeners from beloved Christian author Pansy (Isabella Macdonald Alden). In Gertrude's Diary, sensible, outspoken Gertrude Morrison agrees to a challenge set by her pastor, Mr. Neale: she and her closest friends, Ruth, Namie, and Prissy, will keep daily journals and measure their choices against a new Bible 'golden text' each month. What begins as a curious assi...
Feb 02, 2024•2 hr 13 min
His Wisdom, the Defender - A Story by Simon Newcomb audiobook. Genre: scifi Set in a near-future America imagined from the turn of the 20th century, His Wisdom, the Defender is presented as a later historical account of how the world was pushed toward an uneasy peace. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, the brilliant and intensely private Professor Campbell makes a breakthrough that promises effectively limitless power, then withdraws from academia and becomes the wealthiest man alive almost overnight....
Feb 01, 2024•7 hr 1 min
On Lying by Saint Augustine of Hippo audiobook. Genre: philosophy In On Lying, Saint Augustine of Hippo tackles a question as practical as it is unsettling: can a lie ever be justified? Writing as a pastor, teacher, and philosopher, Augustine examines the everyday ways people bend the truth and the serious spiritual and social consequences that follow. With a careful, step-by-step method, he defines what counts as a lie, explores the role of intention and speech, and tests common excuses: protec...
Feb 01, 2024•1 hr 43 min
The Brownies and Prince Florimel by Palmer Cox audiobook. Genre: fantasy When King Florimel's father dies, the rightful heir discovers that a ruthless uncle is ready to take the throne and erase him from the story for good. There is one problem the court cannot ignore: Florimel is brave, clever, and noble, but he is also very small, and the grown rulers around him treat his size as a reason to deny his claim. Forced to flee, Florimel carries the strange legacy of a fairy godmother: hints of seco...
Feb 01, 2024•4 hr 41 min
Island Nights Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson audiobook. Genre: adventure In Island Nights Entertainments, Robert Louis Stevenson gathers three vivid tales that blend the heat and color of the South Pacific with sharp moral tension and a taste for the uncanny. In The Beach of Falesa, a principled trader arrives on a remote island to build an honest life, only to find himself tangled in local rivalries, colonial exploitation, and a marriage arranged under troubling misunderstandings. In ...
Jan 31, 2024•5 hr 52 min
Purgatory by Rev. Francois Xavier Schouppe audiobook. Genre: religion Purgatory by FX Schouppe, SJ, a french Catholic theologian who died in November, 1904 details the place where saved souls go before Heaven. Think of it as a temporary cleaning or purging place for those who aren't going to Hell. Fire, burning and intense pain for various lengths of time make up the experience of Purgatory. The author details eyewitness accounts and blood chilling stories from the perspective of a number of sai...
Jan 31, 2024•12 hr 59 min
A Broken Bond by Nicholas Carter audiobook. Genre: mystery In A Broken Bond: Or, The Man Without Morals, a fortune made in a South American mining venture turns two longtime partners into enemies overnight. When Winthrop Crawford survives what looks like a carefully planned ambush in the mountains, the attack raises a terrifying question: who would risk everything to see him dead, and why now, just as the partners are poised to cash out? Rumors of jealousy and treachery swirl around Crawford's a...
Jan 31, 2024•6 hr 11 min
Another Brownie Book by Palmer Cox audiobook. Genre: fantasy In Another Brownie Book, illustrator and poet Palmer Cox invites listeners back into the moonlit world of the Brownies - tiny, quick-witted sprites who slip out while townsfolk sleep to turn ordinary places into stages for mischief, teamwork, and secret good deeds. Told in lively rhyming verse and originally paired with Cox's own drawings, these episodic tales follow the Brownies as they tackle one nighttime scheme after another: shapi...
Jan 30, 2024•2 hr 17 min
Amends for Ladies by Nathan Field audiobook. Genre: comedy Amends for Ladies falls within the genre of Jacobean city comedy. Three women debate which has the better lot: a maid, a wife, or a widow. Lady Honour, the maid, is loved by her servant, Ingen, and disguises herself as a boy to become servant to him. Lady Perfect, the wife, is suspected by her husband, Love-all, of infidelity; Love-all tries to trap his wife by having his devious friend, Subtle, seduce her. A young citizen, Bold, disguis...
Jan 29, 2024•2 hr 25 min
