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Sydney Past and Present by John Arthur Barry audiobook. Genre: history Written with a journalist's eye and a storyteller's timing, Sydney Past and Present invites listeners into the making of Australia's first colonial city. John Arthur Barry traces Sydney's growth from its early settlement years through the great surges of the nineteenth century, building his narrative from vivid episodes first published as a popular series in the Town and Country Journal. Rather than offering a dry timeline, B...
The Devil-Ray by Joel Martin Nichols, Jr. audiobook. Genre: scifi George Ferris is a master thief with a problem no lockpick can solve: he cannot remember who he truly is. Living by instinct and reputation, he teams up with two fellow criminals for a high-risk break-in at Castle Blennerhof, an isolated stronghold rumored to hide a fortune in priceless jewels. The plan is clean, the target is legendary, and the payout could buy any of them a new life. Then the night fractures. A plane roars overh...
The Kingdom of Happiness by Jiddu Krishnamurti audiobook. Genre: philosophy First published in 1927, The Kingdom of Happiness gathers a series of early talks by Jiddu Krishnamurti, delivered at Eerde Castle in Ommen, Holland to members of the Order of the Star. Speaking to an audience expecting spiritual instruction, Krishnamurti explores what he calls a 'kingdom' that is not a place to reach through belief, ritual, or status, but a living quality that must be discovered inwardly and expressed i...
Viking Tales by Jennie Hall audiobook. Genre: folklore Viking Tales by Jennie Hall invites listeners into the wind-swept world of the Northmen, where longships ride gray seas and honor is measured in courage, loyalty, and the keeping of one's word. Framed for younger audiences yet rich with atmosphere, this collection retells classic Norse myths and saga-stories with clear, lively storytelling. You will meet the great figures of the old North: Odin, the far-seeing ruler of Asgard; Thor, the thun...
Star Dust by Jeannette Fraser Henshall audiobook. Genre: poetry Star Dust is a compact, turn-of-the-century style volume of lyric poetry by Jeannette Fraser Henshall, a companion to her later collection Rain and Roses. Across dozens of brief poems, Henshall turns everyday moments into small constellations of feeling: a love confessed in a letter, a sudden wave of homesickness, a hard-won gratitude, a memory that will not loosen its hold. The speakers in these verses move through courtship and ma...
Billie Bradley on Lighthouse Island by Janet D. Wheeler audiobook. Genre: mystery Billie Bradley has a talent for turning trouble into adventure, and her third year with her inseparable chums, Laura Jordon and Violet Farrington, begins with a simple school errand that goes wrong. Sent from Three Towers Hall to collect rare ferns, the girls lose their way in the deep woods and stumble into a meeting that leaves them with more questions than answers. Before long, brighter days arrive in the form o...
Billie Bradley at Twin Lakes by Janet D. Wheeler audiobook. Genre: mystery Billie Bradley is ready for a summer that is supposed to be nothing but fresh air and fun. With her brother and their closest friends, she heads to Twin Lakes, where two rented cottages promise days of boating, swimming, campfire meals, and plenty of laughter - even when a simple cooking plan turns into chaos. Their vacation has a proper chaperone in the kind but capable Miss Martha Beggs, yet Twin Lakes quickly proves to...
Billie Bradley and the School Mystery by Janet D. Wheeler audiobook. Genre: mystery Back at Three Towers Hall on the shores of Lake Molata, outspoken Billie Bradley is ready for a new term with her best friends, Violet and Laura, until a sudden accident changes everything. On a goldenrod-picking hike, Billie slips into a life-threatening predicament and is saved by Edina Tooker, a new student from Oklahoma whose rough edges and plain clothes make her an instant target for the school's snobs, esp...
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens audiobook. Genre: drama On a bitter Christmas Eve in Victorian London, the hard-fisted moneylender Ebenezer Scrooge insists that warmth and generosity are foolish luxuries. He snaps at his cheerful nephew, refuses charity for the poor, and grudgingly gives his overworked clerk, Bob Cratchit, only the barest holiday allowance. But when night falls, Scrooge's locked-in habits and long-buried memories are shaken by an eerie visitation that forces him to confront...
This episode follows Alice's extraordinary journey into Wonderland, beginning with her fall down the rabbit hole and her first bizarre encounters. She navigates confusing size changes, an argumentative tea party with the Mad Hatter, and the tyrannical rule of the Queen of Hearts, all while trying to maintain her sense of self amidst the pervasive nonsense. The story concludes with her confronting the absurdities of the Queen's court before waking from her remarkable dream.
Billie Bradley and Her Classmates by Janet D. Wheeler audiobook. Genre: mystery At Three Towers Hall, Billie Bradley and her best friends, Violet Farrington and Laura Jordon, expect a winter term filled with skating parties, lessons, and laughter. But when an afternoon on Lake Molata turns into a desperate rescue of three little children who have fallen through thin ice, Billie is drawn into the hardships of a struggling local family and a mystery that refuses to stay outside the school gates. R...
Pomes Penyeach by James Joyce audiobook. Genre: poetry Pomes Penyeach is James Joyce's compact, meticulously crafted collection of thirteen poems - a small book with an outsized emotional reach. Moving through city streets, coastal landscapes, and intimate rooms, Joyce traces the shifting weather of desire, memory, and loneliness with a lyric voice that is at once musical and sharply observant. These poems linger on brief encounters and private reckonings: a lover glimpsed and lost, a marriage s...
A Token for Children by James Janeway audiobook. Genre: religion First published in the late seventeenth century, James Janeway's A Token for Children is a classic work of Puritan devotion written to speak directly to young listeners and their families. Framed as a series of brief accounts, the book gathers stories of boys and girls whose short lives are marked by earnest faith, searching self-examination, and a steadying hope in Christ. Janeway writes as a pastor and teacher, using plain langua...
Captives of the Thieve-Star by James H. Schmitz audiobook. Genre: scifi Newly married and newly rich in trouble, Peer and Channok are small-time space operators with a talent for finding the wrong kind of salvage. A simple plan to spirit away their latest haul turns into a nightmare when they grapple a drifting derelict, the Ra-Twelve, and discover they have latched onto a prize someone else is desperate to claim. Word of stolen treasure and a missing ship spreads fast across the fringe, drawing...
The Green Girl by Jack Williamson audiobook. Genre: scifi On May 4, 1999, the sun goes dark at noon and Earth begins to slide toward a new Ice Age. In a quiet Florida cottage, young Melvin Dane has only one refuge from the panic spreading across the world: his brilliant foster father, Dr. Samuel Walden, a scientist who has been preparing for an attack no one else believes is possible. Walden has built a strange, all-terrain machine capable of traveling by land, air, and sea, and his calculations...
You Cant Win by Jack Black audiobook. Genre: biography First published in 1926, You Cant Win is the hard-edged, darkly funny autobiography of Jack Black, a drifter and career thief who came of age in the American West during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Told in a blunt, conversational voice, Black traces his early fascination with the underworld, the mentors who school him in the craft of stealing, and the shifting code of honor that governs the road. From boxcars and flophouses to saloons, g...
The Hampdenshire Wonder by J. D. Beresford audiobook. Genre: scifi In a quiet English village in Hampdenshire, the birth of Victor, the son of humble farm laborers, should be an ordinary event. Instead, from his earliest days Victor displays a strange, unsettling difference - a mind that seems to operate on a level no one around him can name, explain, or comfortably accept. As the boy grows, local figures including sympathetic friends and cautious professionals try to make sense of what they are...
White Jacket by Herman Melville audiobook. Genre: adventure Herman Melville's White-Jacket plunges listeners into the cramped, wind-whipped world of a U.S. Navy frigate at sea, where discipline is as relentless as the ocean. The story follows an intelligent, observant sailor known for the makeshift white coat he wears, a small act of individuality that quickly becomes a mark of identity in a floating city ruled by hierarchy and tradition. Aboard the warship, he learns the routines of reefing sai...
The Encantadas Or Enchanted Isles by Herman Melville audiobook. Genre: adventure Herman Melville's The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles is a sequence of vivid, sea-borne sketches that carries listeners to the Galapagos Islands, a place sailors call enchanted not for comfort, but for the way it unsettles the mind. Guided by a narrator who moves between travelogue, legend, and meditation, the book surveys bleak lava fields, blasted coves, and a wildlife kingdom ruled by giant tortoises, iguanas, and...
The Confidence-Man - His Masquerade by Herman Melville audiobook. Genre: philosophy On April Fool's Day, a steamboat pushes off from St. Louis and heads down the Mississippi, carrying a cross-section of antebellum America: merchants, widows, gamblers, clerks, reformers, and dreamers, all enclosed together in a floating marketplace of stories and schemes. As the day unfolds, a series of persuasive strangers appears among the passengers, each offering a different pitch - charity for the afflicted,...
Redburn - His First Voyage by Herman Melville audiobook. Genre: adventure In Redburn - His First Voyage, Herman Melville follows Wellingborough Redburn, a sheltered young man from New York who, faced with family hardship and a restless need to prove himself, signs on as a common sailor aboard a merchant ship bound for Liverpool. Armed with little more than a few boyish notions of the sea and an old guidebook, Redburn quickly discovers that life before the mast is not the heroic dream he imagined...
Pierre, or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville audiobook. Genre: drama In Pierre, or The Ambiguities, Herman Melville follows Pierre Glendinning, a young heir raised amid privilege and rigid expectations in rural New York. Poised to inherit status, security, and a conventional future, Pierre's life is unsettled when a mysterious young woman appears with a story that threatens to rewrite everything he believes about his family and his own identity. Driven by a fierce, idealistic sense of honor and...
Billy Budd by Herman Melville audiobook. Genre: drama On the eve of war with revolutionary France, the British navy is stretched thin, and suspicion of mutiny hangs over every deck. Into this tense world steps Billy Budd, a young sailor pressed into service and assigned to the warship HMS Bellipotent. Handsome, hardworking, and widely liked, Billy seems the very image of innocence - until his presence stirs jealousy and fear in the ship's master-at-arms, John Claggart. As discipline tightens and...
Benito Cereno by Herman Melville audiobook. Genre: mystery Off the coast of Chile in the late 1700s, American sea captain Amasa Delano encounters a battered Spanish merchant ship drifting in uneasy silence. Its commander, Don Benito Cereno, appears sickly, distracted, and strangely dependent on his enslaved attendants, while the vessel itself seems plagued by shortages, confusion, and simmering disorder. Delano, practical and good-natured, boards to offer aid and quickly finds himself trying to ...
Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War by Herman Melville audiobook. Genre: poetry Published in the aftermath of the American Civil War, Herman Melville's Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War is a searching, many-angled meditation on a nation fractured and remade. Through a sequence of poems, Melville moves from the shock of first clashes and public rallies to the long grind of campaigns, prisons, hospitals, and hard-won victories, pausing on moments that official histories often pass over - a sen...
Atomic! by Henry Kuttner audiobook. Genre: scifi Six years after the Three-Hour War turned New York into a radioactive ruin, humanity survives by policing the bomb craters it has learned to fear. Across the world, hundreds of blast zones have become 'Rings' - dead centers surrounded by violent new growth, where mutation accelerates and anything might evolve into mankind's successor. At Biological Control Labs north of the shattered city, a weary field officer trains rookie Bob Davidson in the on...
Travels in Brazil, Volume 1 by Henry Koster audiobook. Genre: history In Travels in Brazil, Volume 1, Englishman Henry Koster offers a vivid, observant account of northeastern Brazil in the early nineteenth century, written from the perspective of a long-term resident rather than a passing tourist. Arriving for the sake of his health and drawn into local life, Koster journeys through Pernambuco and surrounding regions, moving between bustling port towns and the interior's plantations, rivers, fo...
The Ivory Tower by Henry James audiobook. Genre: drama An unfinished manuscript written in ponderous, convoluted language making possible subterfuge and frankness in wealthy American society of James' purview, in which a character as unsuspecting as the reader gets embroiled more or less willingly in power shifts over a massive inheritance. The first part of the book is an example of James' late adoption of narrator as seemingly blinkered as his characters to the unseen, leaving the 'i's' delibe...
Amelia (Vol 3) by Henry Fielding audiobook. Genre: drama In Volume 3 of Henry Fielding's Amelia, the Booths' hard-won hopes of a quiet domestic life are tested by the London world that never stops prying, judging, and tempting. Amelia Booth remains the steadfast heart of the story, a devoted wife and mother trying to keep her family intact while money troubles, gossip, and predatory 'friends' tighten their grip. Captain William Booth, loving but impulsive, struggles to balance honor with surviva...
Amelia (Vol 2) by Henry Fielding audiobook. Genre: drama In Volume 2 of Henry Fielding's Amelia, the young married couple at the story's heart finds their hopes tested by London itself - its crowded streets, ruthless creditors, and glittering rooms where reputation can be bought or broken. Amelia Booth, steadfast and clear-eyed, fights to keep her household together as her husband, Captain William Booth, is pulled between love, pride, and the temptations of quick solutions. As money grows tighte...
