Les Miserables Volume 2 by Victor Hugo audiobook. Genre: drama In Volume 2 of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables, the city of Paris becomes a pressure cooker where private lives collide with public unrest. Jean Valjean, still carrying the weight of his past, struggles to build a quiet, honorable future while protecting Cosette, the young girl whose safety and happiness have become his purpose. But peace is fragile: the relentless inspector Javert remains convinced that Valjean can never truly change, ...
Mar 03, 2025•13 hr 9 min
Les Miserables Volume 1 by Victor Hugo audiobook. Genre: drama In Les Miserables Volume 1, Victor Hugo introduces a sweeping portrait of France in the early 19th century through the life of Jean Valjean, a man marked by years of imprisonment and struggling to rebuild his identity in a world that refuses to forget his past. After an unexpected act of mercy alters his course, Valjean attempts to create an honest life, only to find himself hunted by rigid inspector Javert, who believes the law must...
Mar 01, 2025•13 hr 21 min
The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson audiobook. Genre: drama In the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite rising, the proud Durie family of Scotland makes a fateful choice to protect its estate: one brother, James Durie, outwardly supports the Crown, while the other, Henry, is sent to join the doomed rebellion. But when James, the charismatic and dangerous 'Master of Ballantrae,' returns from presumed death, the household is plunged into a long, bitter contest that stretches from bleak Sc...
Feb 28, 2025•8 hr 57 min
Kidnapped in London by Sun Yat-sen audiobook. Genre: biography In Kidnapped in London, revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen recounts a tense, true-life episode that turned his political exile into an international incident. Living abroad while plotting the downfall of the Qing dynasty, Sun finds himself shadowed by agents determined to silence him. What begins as an ordinary day in London abruptly narrows into a confined struggle for time, nerve, and survival as he is seized and hidden away, cut off...
Feb 27, 2025•2 hr 18 min
The Seven Temporary Moons by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifi When seven strange objects take up station around Earth like brand-new moons, panic spreads fast: are they a freak of astronomy, or an enemy's first move? Dr. Murfree, a practical scientist with too many urgent problems and too little time, turns to the one person who keeps producing impossible answers - Bud Gregory, a backwoods tinkerer whose homespun manner hides a terrifying intuition for high technology. Bud has already sho...
Feb 26, 2025•1 hr 27 min
The Grandfather's War by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifi On the interstellar frontier, war is supposed to be obsolete. Distance, physics, and modern technology have made the old-style clash of fleets and armies effectively impossible. So when the Med Service receives an urgent call from the colony world Phaedra II, warning of casualties from a war about to erupt, the request sounds like a misunderstanding - until Dr. Calhoun is dispatched in a small Med Ship to find out what is really ha...
Feb 25, 2025•2 hr 41 min
Ribbon in the Sky by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifi Calhoun is a Med Service man, trained to carry medicine and public health to far-flung human worlds, and he is proud of doing a job where mistakes can cost lives. Then a simple human blunder in the navigation system punches his small ship off course into uncharted space, leaving him and his sharp-tempered, tree-climbing companion Murgatroyd with no clear route home. Their forced landing drops them onto a bleak colony world where a stra...
Feb 24, 2025•1 hr 48 min
If You Was a Moklin by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifi Forty years after the first Earth ship settled the lush world called Moklin, the tiny human colony thinks it has won the jackpot of first contacts: the Moklins are friendly, helpful, and openly fascinated by everything human. They admire Earthmen so much that they copy our clothes, our speech, our habits, even our ideas about business and trade. And on Moklin, imitation is not just a hobby. Their strange biology lets each new generat...
Feb 22, 2025•55 min
Be Young Again by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifi In Be Young Again!, Murray Leinster blends a fast-talking con game with a startling scientific gamble when a streetwise teenage narrator gets pulled into one of old Jode's biggest schemes yet. Jode, a seasoned swindler with a taste for big scores and bigger risks, teams up with the cash-strapped Professor Henry Barr, who claims to have recreated an ancient alchemical process that produces an actual Elixir of Youth. Their target is Mr. Vac...
Feb 21, 2025•1 hr 17 min
The Serious Family by Morris Barnett audiobook. Genre: comedy Set in the drawing rooms of Victorian society, The Serious Family is a sharp comedy of manners that punctures the respectable facade of the Torrens household. Mr. Charles Torrens prides himself on order, propriety, and the image of unimpeachable domestic virtue, but the atmosphere in his home is already brittle, crowded with watchful relatives, eager advisers, and a steady hum of judgment from the outside world. Into this carefully ma...
Feb 20, 2025•1 hr 39 min
The Dread Apache - That Early-Day Scourge of the Southwest by Merrill Pingree Freeman audiobook. Genre: history Written by Arizona pioneer and local historian Merrill Pingree Freeman, The Dread Apache - That Early-Day Scourge of the Southwest is a brisk, episode-driven look at life on the late-19th-century frontier, when travel, ranching, and mining in southern Arizona could turn deadly in an instant. Freeman strings together vivid vignettes of raids, ambushes, and narrow escapes, drawing on inc...
Feb 08, 2025•1 hr 4 min
101 Mexican Dishes by May E. Southworth audiobook. Genre: cooking 101 Mexican Dishes by May E. Southworth is a practical, recipe-driven introduction to the flavors and everyday techniques of Mexican cooking, designed for home cooks who want reliable results without guesswork. Organized as a generous collection of clearly presented dishes, the book guides listeners through the building blocks that give the cuisine its character, from chiles and spices to tortillas, beans, rice, and fresh garnishe...
Feb 07, 2025•1 hr 9 min
The Fixed Flight by Maurice Renard audiobook. Genre: scifi When Archibald Clarke receives an urgent telegram, he rushes to his sister Ethel's home outside Philadelphia and finds the Corbett household on edge. Ethel's husband, the brilliant but ailing engineer Corbett, is determined to prove a breakthrough that sounds like madness: the Aerofix, a slim, sealed craft designed not to fly forward, but to hold itself motionless in the air while the Earth turns beneath it. If the machine can truly main...
Feb 06, 2025•1 hr 33 min
The After House by Mary Roberts Rinehart audiobook. Genre: mystery Ralph Leslie is newly out of medical school and newly out of money, still weakened from a serious illness and hungry for anything that feels like life again. When a berth opens on the private yacht Ella, he signs on as a steward and expects hard work, sea air, and a clean escape from expectations ashore. Instead, the voyage turns sinister almost at once. A sudden death aboard the yacht leaves the crew and a handful of passengers ...
Feb 05, 2025•6 hr 6 min
Sight Unseen by Mary Roberts Rinehart audiobook. Genre: mystery In an orderly, respectable neighborhood just before the Great War, a small circle of friends meets for Monday dinners, arguing politics, literature, and the modern world. The group - a lawyer narrator and his wife, the sharp-tongued newspaper man Herbert Robinson and his sister Alice, the brilliant heart specialist Dr. Sperry, and warm, observant Mrs. Dane - calls itself the Neighborhood Club. One autumn night, Mrs. Dane surprises t...
Feb 01, 2025•3 hr 9 min
Lady Rose's Daughter by Mary Augusta Ward audiobook. Genre: drama In Edwardian London, Julie Le Breton arrives with impeccable manners, quick intelligence, and a past she cannot afford to advertise: she is the daughter of the beautiful, rebellious Lady Rose, and her uncertain birth leaves her vulnerable in a world that lives on pedigree and whisper. Taking a position as companion and secretary to the formidable Lady Henry Delafield, Julie is drawn into a glittering circle of salons, political ta...
Jan 31, 2025•13 hr 4 min
Tall Tales Of Cape Cod by Marillis Bittinger audiobook. Genre: folklore Tall Tales Of Cape Cod gathers a spirited handful of legends, yarns, and half-remembered histories that Cape Codders might tell when the wind is up and the tide is turning. Marillis Bittinger blends local color with playful exaggeration, introducing a shoreline where strict Sabbath manners collide with human stubbornness, where buried loot and sudden gold fever tempt the hopeful, and where old superstitions still cling to th...
Jan 30, 2025•2 hr 21 min
Five Little Peppers at School by Margaret Sidney audiobook. Genre: family In Five Little Peppers at School, Margaret Sidney sends the beloved Pepper children beyond their cozy 'Little Brown House' and into the larger world of lessons, rules, and new temptations. With their mother, Mamsie, still the heart of the family, the Pepper siblings - capable Polly, high-spirited Jasper, steady Ben, thoughtful Joel, little Davie, and sunny Phronsie - face what growing up really costs when school and opport...
Jan 29, 2025•8 hr 10 min
Emilys Quest by Lucy Maud Montgomery audiobook. Genre: drama In Emily's Quest, Lucy Maud Montgomery brings Emily Byrd Starr to the brink of adulthood, where talent and ambition collide with family expectations, heartbreak, and the demands of real life. Now living at New Moon on Prince Edward Island, Emily is determined to become a writer, chasing publication with the same fierce honesty that shapes her poems, stories, and private journal. But as her world widens beyond childhood, so do the compl...
Jan 28, 2025•7 hr 29 min
Silver Pitchers - and Independence, A Centennial Love Story by Louisa May Alcott audiobook. Genre: romance In Silver Pitchers: and Independence, A Centennial Love Story, Louisa May Alcott gathers nine lively tales that move from parlor conversations to country roads, mixing moral resolve, comedy, and quietly daring romance. The opening novella, Silver Pitchers, follows three close friends - dignified Portia, fiery Pauline, and gentle but determined Priscilla - after a holiday celebration is spoi...
Jan 25, 2025•9 hr 31 min
The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley by Louis Tracy audiobook. Genre: mystery On a bright June morning in 1912, young artist John Trenholme expects nothing more demanding than an easy commission: travel to a quiet Hertfordshire village and sketch its threatened old-world charm. Instead, a moment of idyllic calm - a young woman, Sylvia, emerging from her dawn swim on the estate of wealthy financier Mortimer Fenley - is shattered by a rifle shot. Fenley is found dead near his own house, and Trenhol...
Jan 24, 2025•10 hr 3 min
Number Seventeen by Louis Tracy audiobook. Genre: mystery On a wet London night, young writer Frank Theydon leaves the theater and cannot forget the sight of a poised, striking girl and the stern older man who escorts her. Hours later, back in his apartment block, Frank spots that same man entering the building and paying a brief, secretive visit to the flat next door - Number Seventeen, home of the widow Edith Lester. By morning, Edith is dead, and what Frank heard on the stairs becomes the fir...
Jan 23, 2025•9 hr 19 min
The Beggars of Paris by Louis Paulian audiobook. Genre: history In The Beggars of Paris, Louis Paulian turns a hard, clear eye on a side of the city most polite society prefers not to see: begging as an organized trade. Writing from firsthand investigation, Paulian explains how he was drawn into the question of mendicity and then follows his inquiry into the streets, doorways, and church porches where appeals for alms are staged. He distinguishes the truly destitute from the practiced impostor, ...
Jan 22, 2025•5 hr 28 min
Dr. Adriaan by Louis Couperus audiobook. Genre: drama Set a decade after the earlier novels in Louis Couperus' Small Souls cycle, Dr. Adriaan returns to the dwindling Van Lowe clan as they try to build a livable future inside a dark, overfull country house at Driebergen. Constance van der Welcke and her husband Henri preside over a household crowded with dependents and memories: the aging Mamma van Lowe, restless younger relatives, and Mathilde, whose remarriage has brought a new center of gravi...
Jan 21, 2025•9 hr 44 min
The Twilight of the Souls by Louis Couperus audiobook. Genre: drama In fin-de-siecle The Hague, the once-formidable Van Lowe clan is coming apart at the seams. The Twilight of the Souls, the third novel in Louis Couperus' four-book cycle The Books of the Small Souls, returns to a family that has drifted from its old rituals of Sunday gatherings and shared certainties. Constance Van der Welcke tries to build a quieter, steadier life with her husband Henri, yet the family atmosphere remains charge...
Jan 20, 2025•9 hr 29 min
The Later Life by Louis Couperus audiobook. Genre: drama Set among the rigid gentility of turn-of-the-century The Hague, The Later Life follows the Van der Welckes as they try to rebuild an ordinary existence under the long shadow of an old scandal. Constance van der Welcke has returned from years abroad, hoping time will soften judgment, but the price of respectability is isolation: family ties are strained, doors in their former circle stay closed, and every visit can feel like a test. Her hus...
Jan 18, 2025•8 hr 19 min
Small Souls by Louis Couperus audiobook. Genre: drama In late-19th-century The Hague, the dignified Van Lowe household lives by routine, reputation, and the weekly Sunday gathering presided over by the formidable Mrs. van Lowe. Into this carefully maintained world returns her daughter Constance, absent for years after a scandal that polite society has never truly forgiven: a divorce, a forbidden love, and a second marriage to the diplomat Henri van der Welcke that cost them both status and secur...
Jan 17, 2025•11 hr 52 min
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte Volume 06 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne audiobook. Genre: biography In Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte Volume 06, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne - Napoleon's longtime associate and former private secretary - continues his insider chronicle of the astonishing ascent of a man who remade France and unsettled all of Europe. Writing as both participant and observer, Bourrienne draws readers behind the curtains of power, where proclamations and battlefield v...
Jan 16, 2025•3 hr 49 min
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte Volume 05 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne audiobook. Genre: biography In Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 05, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, one of Napoleon's early companions and a longtime secretary, continues his intimate chronicle of a man who remade France and unsettled the old order of Europe. Writing with the confidence of an insider, Bourrienne moves through the machinery of power: the daily routines of the leader at the center of events,...
Jan 15, 2025•4 hr 8 min
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte Volume 04 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne audiobook. Genre: history In Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte Volume 04, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, Napoleon's boyhood schoolmate and later trusted insider, follows the general's return to Paris and the precarious first steps of the Consulate. France is still at war, Europe watches the new regime with suspicion, and every public gesture must balance promise and threat: overtures of peace to foreign powers, ca...
Jan 14, 2025•4 hr 19 min
