Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte Volume 03 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne audiobook. Genre: biography Written by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, Napoleon Bonaparte's schoolmate at Brienne and later his private secretary, Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte Volume 03 offers a ground-level, insider account of a campaign where ambition collides with distance, disease, and politics. Picking up amid the French occupation of Egypt, Bourrienne chronicles Napoleon's efforts to impose order on an u...
Jan 13, 2025•5 hr 42 min
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte Volume 02 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne audiobook. Genre: biography In Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte Volume 02, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne continues his vivid, close-quarters portrait of Napoleon as France convulses through revolution and war. Writing as a longtime confidant and insider, Bourrienne traces the young general's accelerating rise from ambitious officer to national figure, showing how strategy, politics, and personality collide behind...
Jan 11, 2025•4 hr 9 min
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte Volume 01 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne audiobook. Genre: biography Written by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, a schoolmate of Napoleon and later one of his closest secretaries, Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte Volume 01 opens the door on the private workshops of power behind the most talked-about soldier-statesman of his age. From the early days when a brilliant, intense young Corsican fights for recognition, to the first rungs of influence climbed ami...
Jan 10, 2025•3 hr 40 min
The Charwomans Shadow by Lord Dunsany audiobook. Genre: fantasy In a fairy-tale Spain of proud towers, dusty roads, and old church bells, young Ramon Alonzo is sent away by his impoverished father, Gonsalvo, Lord of the Tower, with one urgent task: learn enough sorcery to turn lead into gold and save the family's honor with a proper dowry. His destination is a secluded magician whose house is as unsettling as it is wondrous, and whose servants include a bent old charwoman with one impossible abs...
Jan 09, 2025•8 hr 5 min
Clean Break by Lionel White audiobook. Genre: thriller Fresh out of prison and living on borrowed time, Johnny Clay believes he has designed the perfect score: rob a New York racetrack on its busiest day, when the cash is piled high and the crowd provides cover. Johnny is no dreamer, though. He knows the biggest risk is people, so he builds his crew from seemingly ordinary men with money troubles and quiet desperation: Marvin Unger, a court stenographer who can bankroll the operation; Big Mike, ...
Jan 08, 2025•4 hr 50 min
The Land of Enchantment - From Pikes Peak to the Pacific by Lilian Whiting audiobook. Genre: history In The Land of Enchantment - From Pike's Peak to the Pacific, journalist and travel writer Lilian Whiting invites listeners on an early 20th century journey through the American Southwest at a moment when rail travel and grand hotels were opening vast new horizons. Setting out beneath the high skies of Colorado, she lingers in Denver's growing elegance and the dramatic country around Pike's Peak,...
Jan 07, 2025•7 hr 29 min
The History of the Popes During the Last Four Centuries- Volume 1 by Leopold von Ranke audiobook. Genre: history In The History of the Popes During the Last Four Centuries - Volume 1, Leopold von Ranke launches a sweeping, source-driven study of the papacy as a political, diplomatic, and spiritual power in early modern Europe. Writing with the cool precision that helped define modern historical scholarship, Ranke follows the Vatican not as a backdrop to great events, but as an engine that shapes...
Jan 06, 2025•21 hr 24 min
War and Peace, Volume 4 by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. Genre: history In War and Peace, Volume 4, Leo Tolstoy brings the great sweep of the Napoleonic era to its most intense and intimate stage, as Russia faces the full force of the 1812 invasion and its shattering aftermath. Amid battles, retreats, and the burning pressures of national crisis, the novel follows the intertwined fates of Pierre Bezukhov, searching for purpose beyond privilege; Natasha Rostova, struggling with guilt, love, and the cost...
Jan 04, 2025•14 hr 57 min
War and Peace, Volume 3 by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. Genre: history In War and Peace, Volume 3, Leo Tolstoy deepens his sweeping portrait of Russia at war and in turmoil, following several intertwined families as private lives collide with the grinding forces of history. Prince Andrei Bolkonsky returns to the center of events, pulled between duty, disillusionment, and the fragile hope of renewed purpose. Pierre Bezukhov, wealthy and restless, searches for moral clarity as he watches political ambit...
Jan 03, 2025•17 hr 14 min
War and Peace, Volume 2 by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. Genre: history In War and Peace, Volume 2, Leo Tolstoy deepens his sweeping portrait of Russia as private lives and public events tighten their grip on one another. The glittering salons of St. Petersburg and Moscow still pulse with gossip, ambition, and court politics, but the aftershocks of the early Napoleonic campaigns reach into every household. Young officers return from the front marked by disillusionment and hard-won experience, while fam...
Jan 02, 2025•16 hr 22 min
War and Peace, Volume 1 by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. Genre: history In War and Peace, Volume 1, Leo Tolstoy opens a sweeping portrait of Russian society as Europe trembles under the rise of Napoleon. In the glittering salons of St. Petersburg and the grand estates of the countryside, families maneuver for influence, affection, and security while rumors of war harden into orders. Young, idealistic Pierre Bezukhov is suddenly thrust into a new social position and searches for purpose amid temptation ...
Jan 01, 2025•14 hr 48 min
Stars of the Desert by Laurence Hope audiobook. Genre: poetry Stars of the Desert is a turn-of-the-20th-century poetry collection by Laurence Hope (the pen name of Adela Florence Nicolson) that invites listeners into a world of heat, distance, and longing. Written in a lush, musical voice, these lyrics move between starlit sands and shadowed gardens, between the restless pull of travel and the private ache of desire. A recurring speaker stands at the center of the book: sometimes a lover, someti...
Dec 31, 2024•3 hr 34 min
The Bobbsey Twins Keeping House by Laura Lee Hope audiobook. Genre: family In The Bobbsey Twins Keeping House, Laura Lee Hope sends the four lively siblings into a new kind of adventure - one that happens right at home in Lakeport. Bert and Nan, the older twins, and little Freddie and Flossie are used to fun and mischief, but when an unexpected family emergency pulls the adults away, the children find themselves stepping into grown-up responsibilities. Keeping the furnace going, managing meals, ...
Dec 30, 2024•4 hr 42 min
The Bobbsey Twins at Home by Laura Lee Hope audiobook. Genre: family In The Bobbsey Twins at Home, Laura Lee Hope brings readers back to the warm, bustling household of the Bobbseys, where twins Nan and Bert, along with their younger twin siblings Flossie and Freddie, rarely have a quiet day. Settled in their familiar town and surrounded by friends, neighbors, and visiting relatives, the children turn ordinary routines into lively adventures. A string of small puzzles and misunderstandings begin...
Dec 14, 2024•4 hr 38 min
The Bobbsey Twins at Cloverbank by Laura Lee Hope audiobook. Genre: adventure Summer begins with a secret in the Bobbsey household in Lakeport: Bert, Nan, Flossie, and Freddie are all sneaking packages past one another as they plan a surprise for their father. Then a mysterious box arrives, and the twins' curiosity is instantly hooked. Before long, an invitation pulls the family away from town and out to Cloverbank, a busy country farm where long sunny days promise freedom, fresh air, and plenty...
Dec 11, 2024•4 hr 51 min
The Blythe Girls - Margys Queer Inheritence by Laura Lee Hope audiobook. Genre: mystery Helen, Margy, and Rose Blythe have already learned how hard it is to be young, alone, and responsible for one another in New York City. Their small apartment and tight budget leave no room for mistakes, and every new bill feels like a fresh test of courage. Then Margy receives surprising news: an aunt she barely knew, living far away in the Midwest, has left her an inheritance. For three sisters who have been...
Dec 09, 2024•4 hr 48 min
The Blythe Girls - Helen, Margy and Rose by Laura Lee Hope audiobook. Genre: family Left suddenly to make their own way, three sisters from the country step into the noise and promise of New York City with little more than courage and each other. Helen Blythe, quiet but determined, dreams of earning a living through her art. Practical, ambitious Margy, fresh from business school, hunts for a position that will keep their small apartment afloat. And plain-spoken Rose, ready to tackle any honest w...
Dec 07, 2024•4 hr 49 min
The Devotions of Bishop Andrewes by Lancelot Andrewes audiobook. Genre: religion The Devotions of Bishop Andrewes gathers the private prayers and meditations of Lancelot Andrewes, one of the most influential Anglican churchmen of the early seventeenth century. Shaped for personal use rather than public display, these devotions invite the listener into a disciplined spiritual life ordered by the hours and seasons of Christian worship. Moving from adoration and thanksgiving to confession, petition...
Dec 06, 2024•1 hr 50 min
Worlds of the Imperium by Keith Laumer audiobook. Genre: scifi American diplomat Brion Bayard thinks he knows Stockholm well enough to spot trouble, but one shadowed street is all it takes to pull him out of his life and into a reality that should not exist. His captors are impeccably polite, unmistakably Imperial, and absolutely certain that Bayard has a role to play in a war spanning countless parallel Earths. In their world, the American Revolution never happened, London sits at the heart of ...
Dec 05, 2024•4 hr 59 min
The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield audiobook. Genre: drama Katherine Mansfield's The Garden Party, and Other Stories gathers a vivid selection of her most celebrated short fiction, capturing ordinary moments that suddenly sharpen into revelations. Moving between sunlit lawns, cramped boarding houses, bustling city streets, and quiet family rooms, these stories follow children on the edge of adulthood, young women testing the roles set for them, and families whose polite r...
Nov 19, 2024•6 hr 6 min
In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield audiobook. Genre: drama In a German Pension is a sharp, early collection of linked short stories by Katherine Mansfield, unified by the wry perspective of a young Englishwoman staying in a boardinghouse at a German spa. From the dining room table to the stuffy parlor, she watches the pension's residents perform their daily rituals: a self-important husband holding court, anxious mothers and boastful patriots, a flirtation that turns brittle, a sickroom ...
Nov 18, 2024•3 hr 22 min
The Bible Book by Book by Josiah Blake Tidwell audiobook. Genre: religion Written by Baylor University Bible professor Josiah Blake Tidwell, The Bible Book by Book is a practical handbook for readers who want to understand Scripture with clarity, structure, and confidence. Designed for classrooms, church study groups, and serious individual learners, this early-20th-century guide begins by laying foundations for informed Bible study: why Christians trust the Bible, how the Bible is organized, ma...
Nov 16, 2024•8 hr 25 min
Madam Crowls Ghost and Other Tales of Mystery by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu audiobook. Genre: mystery In Madam Crowl's Ghost and Other Tales of Mystery, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu gathers a set of Victorian chillers that blend Gothic atmosphere with unnerving psychological realism. Linked by the shadowy figure of Dr. Martin Hesselius, a physician who studies strange disorders of mind and spirit, the stories unfold as case histories: a young woman takes a post in a gloomy country house where a dead mis...
Nov 15, 2024•7 hr 51 min
The Nature of a Crime by Joseph Conrad audiobook. Genre: drama In this psychologically charged, letter-driven novella by Joseph Conrad (in collaboration with Ford Madox Ford), an unnamed lawyer sets down a private record that is part love letter, part confession, and part argument with his own conscience. Over a handful of tense days in early 20th century England, he writes to a woman he desires but cannot openly claim, even as another, darker secret tightens around him: he has abused a position...
Nov 14, 2024•2 hr 5 min
Anne Blake by John Westland Marston audiobook. Genre: drama Set in North Wales in the early Victorian era, Anne Blake follows a young orphan whose fierce pride is both her shield and her undoing. Living under the roof - and rules - of her wealthy relatives, Sir Joshua Toppington and the formidable Lady Toppington, Anne is expected to be grateful, obedient, and easily guided. Instead she is outspoken, sensitive to insult, and determined to choose her own future. When Thorold, a talented visiting ...
Nov 13, 2024•1 hr 35 min
The Jumping Kangaroo and the Apple Butter Cat by John Walker Harrington audiobook. Genre: family Step into a bright, turn-of-the-century woodland where birds gossip from the branches, mice raid cellar shelves, and every animal has an opinion worth announcing. In this playful collection of linked stories, John Walker Harrington introduces a cast of boastful jumpers, anxious schemers, and mischievous tricksters who keep the neighborhood in constant commotion. Kerchug the leap frog loves an audienc...
Nov 12, 2024•1 hr 26 min
Fact Stranger than Fiction by John Patterson Green audiobook. Genre: biography In Fact Stranger than Fiction, John Patterson Green tells the story of his first seventy-five years, tracing a path from his childhood in New Bern, North Carolina, through a formative move to Cleveland, Ohio, and into a life spent fighting for education, professional standing, and public service in a country shaped by the color line. Part memoir, part social history, and part collection of vivid recollections, Green s...
Nov 11, 2024•10 hr 50 min
Holy Sonnets by John Donne audiobook. Genre: poetry John Donne's Holy Sonnets gathers some of the most daring and intimate devotional poems in English, written in the concentrated, argumentative style that made Donne a defining voice of metaphysical poetry. Across these sonnets, a restless speaker wrestles with sin, mortality, judgment, and the yearning for grace, addressing God with a candor that can feel like a courtroom cross-examination one moment and a private confession the next. Donne tur...
Nov 09, 2024•31 min
Commentary on the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians by John Calvin audiobook. Genre: religion John Calvin's Commentary on the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians is a rigorous, pastorally driven guide to one of the New Testament's most urgent letters: Paul's defense of the gospel of grace. Writing for readers who want Scripture explained with clarity and conviction, Calvin walks verse by verse through Galatians, unpacking Paul's confrontation with teachings that would add hum...
Nov 08, 2024•6 hr 58 min
A Treatise of the Fear of God by John Bunyan audiobook. Genre: religion In A Treatise of the Fear of God, John Bunyan turns his plainspoken pastoral voice to one of Scripture's most misunderstood themes: what it means to fear God rightly. Writing for ordinary believers as well as the uncertain and tempted, Bunyan distinguishes between slavish, tormenting fear that drives the soul away from God and a holy, childlike fear that draws the heart toward Him. With Bible-saturated reasoning and practica...
Nov 07, 2024•5 hr 16 min
