David Crockett, Scout by Charles Fletcher Allen audiobook. Genre: biography In David Crockett, Scout, Charles Fletcher Allen follows the real-life rise of Americas most famous frontiersman, tracing Davy Crockett from a hard childhood on the Tennessee frontier to the public figure who became a symbol of grit, humor, and independence. Allen puts the tall tales in the background and keeps the spotlight on the experiences that shaped Crockett: backwoods work and wandering, the brutal demands of hunt...
Feb 26, 2024•6 hr 28 min
Polaris of the Snows by Charles B. Stilson audiobook. Genre: adventure Raised in utter isolation at the edge of the Antarctic, Polaris Janess has known only one human voice: his father's. When that towering explorer dies with a final command to go north and 'tell the world,' Polaris is left with a dog team, a handful of weapons, and a sealed packet meant for the National Geographic Society - proof of a discovery that could shake the fame of the men now racing to claim the South Pole. Driving int...
Feb 26, 2024•5 hr 44 min
Minos of Sardanes by Charles B. Stilson audiobook. Genre: adventure In the howling seas off Antarctica, the steel cruiser Minnetonka battles storms, icebergs, and the glow of erupting mountains as an emergency relief expedition drives south on a desperate timetable. Leading the mission is Polaris Janess, a wilderness-raised giant who once stumbled upon Sardanes, a hidden volcanic valley blooming like an oasis in the polar wastes. Now a new upheaval threatens to snuff out the heat that protects t...
Feb 24, 2024•5 hr 12 min
The Snarl of the Beast by Carroll John Daly audiobook. Genre: mystery Carroll John Daly, enormously popular in his day but has since faded into obscurity, is often credited with penning the first hard-boiled crime story in 1922 and creating the first hard-boiled detective in 1923. The Snarl of the Beast is his popular gumshoe Race Williams' first full-length novel and features Daly's classic P. I. as fast-thinking, hard-nosed smart aleck who finds trouble at every turn and isn't afraid to sling ...
Feb 23, 2024•7 hr 4 min
Lukundoo and Other Stories by Edward Lucas White audiobook. Genre: horror Lukundoo and Other Stories gathers Edward Lucas White's most unsettling tales into a single volume of classic weird fiction, where the calm surfaces of ordinary life conceal ancient cruelties and impossible transformations. In the title story, a respectable man becomes the target of a curse so intimate and grotesque that even the language of medicine falters, forcing him to confront the price of pride and the reach of dist...
Feb 23, 2024•8 hr 8 min
The Haunted Island by Edward Harold Visiak audiobook. Genre: adventure Christmas Eve, 1668: young Francis Clayton listens as his bold older brother Dick speaks of a treasure so vast it has become a sailor's nightmare, hidden on a remote island said to be watched by a gigantic spectre. When Dick throws in his lot with conspirators and seizes the King's ship Tiger to hunt the prize, Francis refuses to be left behind. The voyage becomes a running battle with pursuit, mutiny, and the sea itself, unt...
Feb 23, 2024•4 hr 27 min
The Falcon on the Baltic by Edward Frederick Knight audiobook. Genre: adventure In The Falcon on the Baltic, Edward Frederick Knight turns a modest small-boat cruise into an irresistible voyage of self-reliance and discovery. Setting out from Hammersmith in a three-ton yacht named the Falcon - a converted lifeboat with little room for comfort and even less margin for error - Knight and his companion slip from familiar English waters into the North Sea and onward through the waterways and canals ...
Feb 22, 2024•8 hr 16 min
The Radium Pool by Edward Earl Repp audiobook. Genre: scifi In the heat-blasted emptiness of Death Valley, reporter James Dowell expects a routine assignment: tag along with Professor Bloch and document a scientific expedition into the forbidding Manalava Plains. Instead, a weathered prospector called Driftin' Sands draws Dowell into a decades-long mystery - the disappearance of Allie Lane, the woman Sands has hunted for across the desert's shifting horizons. Their search leads beyond dry washes...
Feb 22, 2024•2 hr 53 min
Happiness - Essays on the Meaning of Life by Carl Hilty audiobook. Genre: philosophy In Happiness - Essays on the Meaning of Life, Swiss jurist and public thinker Carl Hilty offers a clear-eyed, compassionate exploration of what it means to live well when comfort, ambition, and certainty all fall short. Written as a sequence of short essays rather than a single argument, the book moves through the practical and the profound: work and vocation, character and self-mastery, friendship and society, ...
Feb 22, 2024•3 hr 33 min
30 Tempting Spaghetti Meals by Campbell Soup Company audiobook. Genre: cooking 30 Tempting Spaghetti Meals is a practical, vintage-style kitchen companion from the Campbell Soup Company, built for the home cook who wants dinners that feel hearty and satisfying without spending all evening at the stove. Framed around the idea that spaghetti can stretch a budget and still deliver comfort, the booklet offers a full lineup of meals designed for real life: quick skillet suppers, family-size casserole...
Feb 21, 2024•36 min
Invisible Helpers by C. W. Leadbeater audiobook. Genre: religion Invisible Helpers is C. W. Leadbeater's classic theosophical exploration of the unseen aid that, he argues, surrounds ordinary life. Blending anecdote with instruction, Leadbeater opens a door onto a hidden world where help can arrive at the edge of danger, illness, grief, or sudden crisis - sometimes perceived as angels, guides, or providential strangers, and sometimes as living people working outside the physical body while it sl...
Feb 21, 2024•3 hr 12 min
Bill Nye's Sparks by Bill Nye audiobook. Genre: comedy Humorist Bill Nye, in his brief 46 years, served as justice of the peace, newspaperman, miner, and postmaster in the rough town of Laramie, Wyoming. This 1901 edition, published after his death, includes a Biographical tribute to Nye, quoting his dear friend, Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley: 'He was unselfish wholly, and I am broken-hearted, recalling the always patient strength and gentleness of this true man, the unfailing hope and cheer...
Feb 21, 2024•3 hr 37 min
Bill Nye and Boomerang by Bill Nye audiobook. Genre: comedy In Bill Nye and Boomerang, 19th-century American humorist Bill Nye (not the modern science communicator) invites listeners into a fast-talking, tall-tale West where newspapers are born in livery-stable lofts, mining camps breed unlikely philosophy, and one long-suffering mule becomes a legend. Anchored by Nye's affectionate, outrageous dedication to his mule Boomerang, this collection stitches together comic sketches, mock-epics, and fr...
Feb 20, 2024•8 hr 32 min
133 Quicker Ways to Homemade with Bisquick by Betty Crocker audiobook. Genre: cooking 133 Quicker Ways to Homemade with Bisquick is a time-saving cookbook from Betty Crocker that turns one familiar pantry staple into a full roster of warm, satisfying meals. Built for busy home cooks who still want that homemade taste, the book gathers 133 straightforward recipes that lean on Bisquick mix to speed up prep without sacrificing comfort or variety. Inside, you will find quick breads and biscuits, fam...
Feb 20, 2024•1 hr 9 min
Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker. Vol.II. by Berthold Auerbach audiobook. Genre: drama It is an era of mass migration as so many young men seek adventure and fortune abroad. When Lenz and lifelong friend Pilgrim were boys they too had longed to travel. Pilgrim did so, for a time, but not the dutiful Lenz. Lens apprenticed to his father, a master clockmaker. After his father's death, Lenz doted on his mother and she on him. But she too has passed. Lenz has inherited a good family name and a...
Feb 20, 2024•6 hr 2 min
The Peaceful Atom by Bernice Kohn Hunt audiobook. Genre: science Written for young readers at the dawn of the Atomic Age, The Peaceful Atom introduces the strange, invisible world inside everyday matter and asks a bold question: what happens when humanity learns to make atoms work for us? Physicist and science writer Bernice Kohn Hunt guides listeners from early ideas about what things are made of to the breakthroughs that revealed radioactivity, the structure of the atom, and the immense energy...
Feb 19, 2024•54 min
The Gospel of the Incarnation by Benjamin B. Warfield audiobook. Genre: religion In The Gospel of the Incarnation, theologian Benjamin B. Warfield invites listeners into the heart of historic Christianity: the confession that God the Son truly became man in Jesus Christ. Writing with the clarity and rigor that made him one of the most influential Reformed voices of his era, Warfield traces why the incarnation is not a decorative doctrine but the organizing center of the Christian message. He exp...
Feb 19, 2024•1 hr 15 min
The B. B. Warfield Collection, Volume 5 by Benjamin B. Warfield audiobook. Genre: religion The B. B. Warfield Collection, Volume 5 gathers a wide-ranging set of essays by Princeton theologian Benjamin B. Warfield, bringing his sharp scholarship to the lived questions of Christian belief. Moving from biblical theology to human nature, Warfield explores how God reveals himself in Scripture, what Christians mean when they confess the Godhead, and how key New Testament language shapes spiritual unde...
Feb 19, 2024•9 hr 42 min
Clown, The Circus Dog by Auguste Vimar audiobook. Genre: adventure In Clown, The Circus Dog, Auguste Vimar introduces a bright, bouncy little poodle whose biggest talent is making people laugh - especially his adored young mistress, Bertha. Chosen as a long-awaited reward and welcomed like a new member of the family, Clown quickly becomes the center of Bertha's days, from walks and games to the small rituals of training and care. But a sudden act of cruelty tears him away from everything familia...
Feb 17, 2024•1 hr 13 min
The Profligate by Arthur Wing Pinero audiobook. Genre: drama Arthur Wing Pinero's The Profligate is a sharp Victorian problem play about love tested by the past and a society that measures men and women by different rules. On the eve of his marriage, polished gentleman Dunstan Renshaw stands poised to begin a respectable new life with Leslie Brudenell, an innocent young woman from a sheltered home. Only Hugh Murray, Dunstan's close friend and best man, knows why the wedding should not go forward...
Feb 16, 2024•2 hr 22 min
The Dorrington Deed-Box by Arthur Morrison audiobook. Genre: mystery In fog-bound Victorian London, a quiet box of papers becomes a key to an unusual kind of detection. When a curious narrator is introduced to Dorrington, a sharp-minded man with a criminal past and a talent for reading people, he is invited to look through the Dorrington deed-box - a private cache of documents, notes, and proofs drawn from cases that polite society would rather forget. From vanished valuables and carefully stage...
Feb 16, 2024•6 hr 28 min
The Rover Boys Winning A Fortune by Arthur M. Winfield audiobook. Genre: adventure In The Rover Boys Winning a Fortune, the next generation of the famous Rover family is pulled into danger on two fronts, and the stakes are personal. When a bold robbery strikes the New York offices connected to the senior Rovers, clues vanish, reputations tremble, and suspicion points in more than one direction. Jack Rover, Fred Rover, and the high-spirited twins Andy and Randy quickly discover that the crime is ...
Feb 16, 2024•5 hr 48 min
Lords of the Stratosphere by Arthur J. Burks audiobook. Genre: scifi At Roosevelt Field, where history-making flights begin and end, the race to conquer the stratosphere turns deadly and strange. Celebrated flier Franz Kress launches first, chasing the glory of breaking the altitude barrier above fifty-five thousand feet - and then vanishes. Rival aviator-scientists Lucian Jeter and Tema Eyer, equal parts competitors and partners in discovery, refuse to let the mystery close the sky. As unnervin...
Feb 15, 2024•2 hr 34 min
The Romance of Modern Locomotion by Archibald Williams audiobook. Genre: history In the following pages we shall peep into the history of typical companies in Great Britain, the United States, and elsewhere; consider the various forms of traction, signals, and other mechanical appliances connected with the working of a railway; notice the effects of railway communication on a country for its peaceful development, or its conquest in war; and make the tour of a typical locomotive factory. These an...
Feb 15, 2024•10 hr 34 min
The Romance of Mining by Archibald Williams audiobook. Genre: history Any writer on mining in its general aspect is, when casting about for a starting-point, driven to express what others have said before him-that the history of mining is the history of civilization. The following pages, while touching on the chief branches of the mining industry, must necessarily omit reference to many of the great treasure-houses of the world. Special prominence has been given to the precious metals, because t...
Feb 15, 2024•11 hr 40 min
Clergymen of the Church of England by Anthony Trollope audiobook. Genre: history In Clergymen of the Church of England, Anthony Trollope turns his sharp eye from the drawing rooms of his novels to the pulpits, parsonages, and corridors of power that shaped Victorian religious life. Across ten connected essays, he sketches a living map of the Church's hierarchy and its working realities: the modern archbishop no longer a political prince, bishops balancing dignity with administration, deans and a...
Feb 14, 2024•2 hr 46 min
Nerves and common sense by Annie Payson Call audiobook. Genre: self help In Nerves and Common Sense, Annie Payson Call offers a calm, practical guide for anyone worn down by worry, overstimulation, and the exhausting feeling of living on edge. Writing with the voice of a trusted counselor, Call explores how nervous strain can creep into ordinary days through hurried habits, tense muscles, restless thoughts, and the constant pressure to do more. Rather than treating 'nerves' as a personal failing...
Feb 14, 2024•6 hr 13 min
Astrophel and Other Poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne audiobook. Genre: poetry Astrophel and Other Poems is a late-Victorian collection in which Algernon Charles Swinburne turns his lush, musical lyricism toward memory, landscape, and the lives of writers and heroes who shaped the English imagination. The opening sequence, 'Astrophel', is sparked by reading Sir Philip Sidneys Arcadia in the garden of an old manor, and it sets the tone for a book that moves between private reverie and public ad...
Feb 13, 2024•3 hr 54 min
The Spirit of the Cure of Ars by Alfred Monnin audiobook. Genre: religion In The Spirit of the Cure of Ars, Alfred Monnin gathers the living voice of St. John Mary Vianney, the famed parish priest of Ars, whose plain speech and relentless charity drew crowds of penitents to a tiny French village in the 1800s. Rather than a conventional biography, this work presents Vianney as his people knew him: a pastor teaching catechism, preaching short sermons, offering exhortations, and answering the every...
Feb 13, 2024•6 hr 20 min
The Lost Oases by Ahmed Hassanein audiobook. Genre: adventure In 1923, Egyptian diplomat and explorer Ahmed Hassanein sets out with a small caravan of guides, attendants, and stubborn camels on a gamble that borders on obsession: to cross the Libyan Desert and confirm the rumored whereabouts of oases that exist, for most of the world, only in fragments of tradition and the half-finished notes of earlier expeditions. First published in 1925, The Lost Oases is Hassanein's firsthand account of the ...
Feb 13, 2024•7 hr 29 min
