The Dalehouse Murder by Francis Everton audiobook. Genre: mystery When Francis Jeffcock accepts an invitation to a summer tennis tournament at the Merchester Lawn Tennis Club, he expects lazy matches, brisk gossip, and the comfortable routines of a well-bred circle. Instead, the weekend turns chilling when Stella Palfreeman, a dazzling young woman at the center of too many glances and private quarrels, is found dead under circumstances that suggest something far more deliberate than misfortune. ...
Mar 27, 2024•7 hr 36 min
Dr. Elsie Inglis by Frances Balfour audiobook. Genre: biography Dr. Elsie Inglis is one of the unsung heroes of the late 19th and early 20th century. She became a physician in 1894, and shortly after opened a Women's Hospice in Edinburgh for impoverished women and children. She was a key figure in the women's suffrage movement in Scotland. During World War I Inglis, despite opposition and cynicism, created the Scottish Women's Hospitals and eventually sent 14 teams to provide field hospitals in ...
Mar 26, 2024•6 hr 24 min
Aniwee - or, the Warrior Queen by Florence Dixie audiobook. Genre: adventure Set amid the wild valleys, apple groves, and snow-bright Andes of Patagonia, Aniwee - or, the Warrior Queen follows a girl scarcely sixteen who has been thrust into power after sudden tragedy. Aniwee, raised among the Araucanian people and bound to them by fierce loyalty, must rule as Queen-Regent for her young child while enemies close in on every side. Beyond the frontier, rival forces and shifting alliances threaten ...
Mar 25, 2024•8 hr 10 min
A Coin Of Edward VII by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery A family celebrates Christmas and its flaws are gently exposed by the house guest Mrs. Parry. Giles is engaged to the wealthy Daisy, yet is clearly in love with the governess Anne Denham. Things come to a head when Daisy is murdered. Who would murder her? Perhaps the governess who told her she would kill her and made it clear she wanted to exchange places with her? After all the governess ran away with a mysterious man right after the...
Mar 23, 2024•8 hr 41 min
All the Sad Young Men by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook. Genre: drama First published in 1926, All the Sad Young Men gathers F. Scott Fitzgerald's sharp, glittering stories of ambition, desire, and disillusionment in the Jazz Age. Across a series of vividly drawn settings - country clubs and city apartments, college campuses and European streets - Fitzgerald follows young men and women chasing romance, status, and the promise of a life that will finally feel complete. In tales such as 'Winter Dre...
Mar 22, 2024•7 hr
Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls by Ernest A. Bell audiobook. Genre: history First published in the early 1900s, Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls is Ernest A. Bell's urgent exposé and reformist call to action against what he and his contemporaries termed the 'white slave trade' - the organized recruitment and coercion of young women and girls into prostitution. Writing for parents, clergy, civic leaders, and lawmakers, Bell assembles case examples, courtroom-reported patterns, and investig...
Mar 21, 2024•12 hr 1 min
The Literature of Arabia by Epiphanius Wilson audiobook. Genre: folklore The Literature of Arabia, edited and introduced by Epiphanius Wilson, is a gateway into classical Arabic storytelling, poetry, and legend, presented for English readers with guiding notes, context, and biographical sketches. Anchoring the volume is the Romance of Antar, the famed pre-Islamic epic of Antar, a warrior-poet born to an enslaved mother who must win honor among his tribe and fight for a place beside the woman he ...
Mar 20, 2024•5 hr 5 min
Seen and Unseen by Emily Katharine Bates audiobook. Genre: biography In Seen and Unseen, Emily Katharine (E. Katharine) Bates presents a candid, globe-spanning memoir of her lifelong investigations into psychic phenomena and spiritualism at the turn of the 20th century. Beginning with early memories shaped by family loss and unsettling dreams, Bates traces how private impressions grew into deliberate experiments, from youthful table-turning sessions to more formal sittings and encounters with me...
Mar 19, 2024•9 hr 14 min
Lords of Creation by Ella Cheever Thayer audiobook. Genre: drama Set in late-19th-century America, Lords of Creation is a brisk, three-act stage drama that brings the early fight for women's suffrage into the parlor, the workplace, and the heart of one divided household. At its center is Kate Grovenor, a sharp-minded young woman unwilling to accept that a woman's only respectable future is marriage and dependence. Her determination to work, to speak for herself, and to claim a citizen's voice co...
Mar 18, 2024•1 hr 34 min
Really So Stories by Elizabeth Gordon audiobook. Genre: history Really So Stories by Elizabeth Gordon is a lively collection of short, true tales for curious listeners who would rather learn how things began than hear another make-believe adventure. During a summer in the woods, a boy named Billy keeps peppering his companion, Somebody, with questions: Why do we celebrate certain holidays? Where did familiar customs come from? How did everyday inventions and habits become part of life? Each chap...
Mar 16, 2024•3 hr 10 min
The Soup and Sauce Book by Elizabeth Douglas audiobook. Genre: cooking The Soup and Sauce Book by Elizabeth Douglas is a practical, early-20th-century guide for cooks who want to build real confidence with the two foundations that can transform everyday meals: soups and sauces. Rather than treating recipes as untouchable rules, Douglas focuses on method, teaching you how good stock, careful simmering, and balanced seasoning create depth of flavor with straightforward ingredients. The book moves ...
Mar 15, 2024•2 hr 25 min
The Pudding and Pastry Book by Elizabeth Douglas audiobook. Genre: cooking First published in 1903, The Pudding and Pastry Book is Elizabeth Douglas's practical, dessert-focused handbook for the home kitchen, offering clear instruction and a wide range of classic sweets. Douglas begins with a cook's-eye view of technique and preparation - measuring carefully, choosing suitable dishes, and working with heat, steam, and cold to get consistent results. From there, the book unfolds as a well-stocked...
Mar 14, 2024•2 hr 52 min
Monte-Cristo's Daughter by Edmund Flagg audiobook. Genre: adventure A swashbuckling sequel to Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo, Edmund Flagg's Monte-Cristo's Daughter follows Zuleika, the beautiful daughter of Edmond Dantes and Haydee, as she steps into a world where her father's legendary name still opens doors - and invites danger. In Rome, Zuleika's romance with the ardent young Viscount Giovanni Massetti seems destined for happiness, until a single reckless entanglement with Annunz...
Mar 13, 2024•9 hr 51 min
The Brain by Edmond Hamilton audiobook. Genre: scifi In the near-future America of 1960, Dr. Semper Lee, an overlooked entomologist and engineer, is abruptly pulled from a remote research post in Australia and flown to Cephalon, Arizona, a brand-new city that does not appear on any map. Lee arrives with an impossible cargo: tons of living termite mounds from his painstakingly bred species, Ant-termes-pacificus. Inside Cephalon's guarded Braintrust complex, brilliant scientists and military plann...
Mar 12, 2024•6 hr 7 min
Forgotten World by Edmond Hamilton audiobook. Genre: scifi In a far-future galaxy where humanity has scattered among the stars, Earth has become a tired, ridiculed backwater - the mother planet remembered more as an embarrassment than a home. Carlin, a brilliant cosmic engineer pushed to the edge by years of deep-space work, is ordered to take an open-ended rest cure on Terra. Expecting dullness and decay, he instead finds a stubborn, quietly beautiful world and a struggling community that survi...
Mar 11, 2024•2 hr 21 min
The Writing of Fiction by Edith Wharton audiobook. Genre: self help In The Writing of Fiction, acclaimed novelist Edith Wharton turns from the page to the workshop, offering a clear-eyed guide to how stories are built and why certain novels endure. Drawn from her lectures and steeped in a lifetime of practice, Wharton walks aspiring writers and serious readers through the essential architecture of fiction: the seed of a situation, the shaping of plot, the creation of character, and the disciplin...
Mar 09, 2024•3 hr 12 min
The Master Mind of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: scifi The protagonist is a soldier from the Great War whose tale John Carter has brought to Earth. Having saved the life of an ancient Martian who sells new bodies to wealthy Martians, he learns from this genius the arts of suspended animation and brain transplantation. During his apprenticeship, he falls in love with one of the victims of his master's profitable trade. When her body becomes the property of the evil ruler of a dis...
Mar 08, 2024•5 hr 49 min
The Eternal Savage by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure On a visit to the African jungle and the famed Greystoke estate, spirited American Victoria Custer expects big game, bigger stories, and perhaps a glimpse of the legendary Tarzan. Instead, she becomes entangled in something far stranger: a rupture in time that hurls Nu, a fearless warrior from a remote Stone Age world, into the modern era. Nu is no polished gentleman, but his raw courage and unwavering devotion shake Victoria...
Mar 07, 2024•7 hr 29 min
Tarzan and the Lost Empire by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure When rumors surface of a forgotten colony hidden deep in Africa, Lord Greystoke - better known as Tarzan - finds himself drawn into a mystery that feels older than the jungle itself. A strange map, whispered legends of an ancient people, and the disappearance of travelers point toward a region no outsider is meant to reach. Tarzan joins an expedition led by determined scholars and wary guides, but the journey quickly ...
Mar 06, 2024•7 hr 10 min
A Fighting Man of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: scifi Under the double moons of Barsoom, an invisible flier sped to the mysterious city of Jahar where Sanoma Tora, the kidnapped princess of Helium had been taken. Hadron of Hastor was at the controls, hatching a rescue plan that required unusual daring and great ingenuity. For invisibility alone was not a great enough weapon against 'The Death.' And should Hadron succeed, what fate would await him at the hands of the madman whose...
Mar 05, 2024•8 hr 58 min
Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers audiobook. Genre: mystery When a wealthy, seemingly harmless old woman dies after a brief illness, the attending doctor and the family accept it as nature taking its course. Lord Peter Wimsey does not. A stray remark, an odd choice of nurse, and the quiet haste with which everyone wants the matter settled prick at his sense that something has been arranged to look ordinary. Following the trail from a respectable English household to a close-knit village where...
Mar 04, 2024•10 hr 40 min
Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster audiobook. Genre: philosophy In Aspects of the Novel, E. M. Forster turns from writing fiction to asking a deceptively simple question: what, exactly, makes a novel work? Drawn from his celebrated Cambridge lectures, this compact classic invites listeners into a brisk, witty tour of storytelling as an art form. Forster begins with the basic building blocks of narrative and then tests them against the living reality of great books, moving from the pleasures o...
Mar 02, 2024•5 hr 12 min
Battles for the Stars by Dave Dryfoos audiobook. Genre: scifi Battles for the Stars is a fast-moving anthology of classic short science fiction centered on conflict in many forms: battlefield action, cold war brinkmanship, and moral battles over what it means to be human. Across a wide range of settings, the collection follows desperate diplomats trying to stop an alien threat before it can report back to its empire, commanders and scientists forced to weigh duty against conscience, and professi...
Mar 01, 2024•5 hr 25 min
Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers audiobook. Genre: mystery On a bleak morning in the English countryside, an aristocratic family is jolted by violence at their ancestral home. The victim is found on the grounds of the Duke of Denver's estate, and suspicion quickly gathers around the Duke's brother - Lord Peter Wimsey - who is both uncomfortably close to the scene and all too aware of how scandal can ruin a name. When the case tightens into a noose around the Denver household, Wimsey is for...
Feb 29, 2024•11 hr 35 min
The First Epistle of Paul to Timothy, Analytically Expounded by David Dickson audiobook. Genre: religion In The First Epistle of Paul to Timothy, Analytically Expounded, Scottish divine David Dickson (1583-1663) offers a clear, pastorally minded commentary on one of the New Testament's key letters for church life and spiritual leadership. Moving through 1 Timothy passage by passage, Dickson breaks the epistle into its parts, traces Paul's line of thought, and draws out the doctrinal and practica...
Feb 29, 2024•1 hr 28 min
The Isle of Dead Ships by Crittenden Marriott audiobook. Genre: adventure In the steaming lanes of the Atlantic, sailors whisper about an impossible place: a floating island made from centuries of wrecks, tangled in weed and circling in the Sargasso Sea like a slow, restless graveyard. When the steamer carrying attorney Philip Renfrew and the young Dorothy Fairfax also takes aboard a handcuffed prisoner, the escaped convict Frank Howard, Renfrew recognizes a name tied to a long pursuit and a sca...
Feb 28, 2024•4 hr 54 min
Studies of Death by Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock audiobook. Genre: horror Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock was an eccentric character to say the least. Maintaining a veritable zoo on his estate populated with the likes of a reindeer and a bear, he travelled with a dog, a monkey and a life-sized doll he nicknamed 'The Little Count' and which he referred to as 'his son'. Before his untimely death at the age of 36 of cirrhosis of the liver due to his excessive alcoholism and opium addiction, Stenbo...
Feb 28, 2024•2 hr 3 min
Dr. Hackensaw's Secrets by Clement Fezandie audiobook. Genre: scifi In Dr. Hackensaws Secrets, the brilliant and unpredictable Doctor Hackensaw never travels alone for long. At his side are three equally offbeat companions: the daring Silas Rockett, the quick thinking Pep Perkins, and the sharp eyed Tintangeles Smith. Together, they tumble from one short, fast paced adventure to the next, following the Doctor's latest idea before it is fully tested, fully explained, or fully safe. Each tale open...
Feb 27, 2024•16 hr 6 min
Advance Agent by Christopher Anvil audiobook. Genre: scifi Sent ahead of the diplomats and the contracts, Dan Redman is what the interstellar powers call an advance agent: the first man on the ground when a new world becomes too valuable to ignore. His latest assignment takes him to Porcy, home of the towering, hard-muscled Porcyns - and home to an economy and social order that makes no sense to outsiders. To get close enough to learn what Porcy really sells, what it fears, and how it keeps itse...
Feb 27, 2024•1 hr 25 min
The Crux by Charlotte Perkins Gilman audiobook. Genre: philosophy 'This story is, first, for young women to read; second, for young men to read; after that, for anybody who wants to. Anyone who doubts its facts and figures is referred to 'Social Diseases and Marriage,' by Dr. Prince Morrow, or to 'Hygiene and Morality,' by Miss Lavinia Dock, a trained nurse of long experience. Some will hold that the painful facts disclosed are unfit for young girls to know. Young girls are precisely the ones wh...
Feb 27, 2024•5 hr 59 min
