The Flame Tree and Other Folk-Lore Stories from Uganda by Rosetta Baskerville audiobook. Genre: folklore Step into the storytelling circles of the Baganda people with The Flame Tree and Other Folk-Lore Stories from Uganda, a lively collection gathered and retold by Rosetta Baskerville, who lived in Uganda as the wife of a missionary. Here, each tale opens a door into a world where animals bargain and boast, spirits and river fairies test human courage, and everyday choices echo into legend. You ...
Apr 12, 2025•2 hr 20 min
Moo Cow Tales by Rosamund Edith Nesbit Bland audiobook. Genre: family Moo Cow Tales is a charming collection of four classic children's short stories by Rosamund Edith Nesbit Bland that turns a quiet English pasture into a stage for big feelings and brave choices. With gentle humor and vivid countryside detail, Bland gives cows and calves lively inner lives - full of curiosity, pride, worry, and wonder - and lets young listeners see the world through their hoofed heroes' eyes. In one tale, a lon...
Apr 11, 2025•40 min
The Cosmic Junkman by Rog Phillips audiobook. Genre: scifi In the uneasy peace after a galaxy-spanning war, Earth does what it always does when a weapon becomes too frightening: it mothballs its robot armies and sells the rest for scrap. The decision creates a new kind of worker and a new kind of danger. Out in the yards and depots where metal veterans are dismantled, a mysterious figure known as the Cosmic Junkman moves through the wreckage, buying, trading, and taking away machines that should...
Apr 10, 2025•2 hr 18 min
Toxophilus by Roger Ascham audiobook. Genre: history Written in Tudor England and cast as a lively dialogue, Roger Ascham's Toxophilus pairs two friends in friendly dispute: Toxophilus, whose very name means the lover of the bow, and Philologus, the lover of learning. Their conversation begins with a simple question - is archery merely a pastime, or a practice worthy of serious, educated men? From there, Ascham builds a spirited defense of the longbow as a source of health, discipline, and civic...
Apr 09, 2025•5 hr 27 min
The Square Egg and Other Sketches by Saki audiobook. Genre: comedy The Square Egg and Other Sketches gathers Saki's razor-edged short pieces into a compact showcase of his comic genius. Moving through drawing rooms, country houses, and polite public spaces where manners matter more than morals, Saki turns everyday social rituals into arenas for mischief and quiet warfare. In the title sketch, an apparently simple oddity becomes a catalyst for gossip, vanity, and the strange logic of fashionable ...
Apr 08, 2025•1 hr 11 min
Hereditary Genius by Sir Francis Galton audiobook. Genre: science In Hereditary Genius, Victorian polymath Sir Francis Galton sets out to answer a provocative question: why do extraordinary ability and public distinction seem to cluster in certain families? Drawing on biographies, genealogies, and public records, Galton surveys judges, statesmen, military commanders, scientists, poets, and other eminent figures, tracing patterns of achievement across generations. He argues that natural ability i...
Apr 08, 2025•7 hr 26 min
Songs of Travel and Other Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson audiobook. Genre: poetry Robert Louis Stevenson's Songs of Travel and Other Verses gathers poems that move with the rhythm of roads, sea-winds, and restlessness, tracing the inner life of a speaker who is forever setting out and forever taking stock. Across lyrics that feel at once intimate and outward-looking, Stevenson explores what it means to choose motion over comfort, to accept uncertainty as a companion, and to measure a life not ...
Apr 07, 2025•1 hr 21 min
Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson audiobook. Genre: folklore In Fables, Robert Louis Stevenson turns a keen eye on the small, telling moments where human nature gives itself away. This compact collection gathers brief allegorical tales - some humorous, some unsettling, all sharply observed - in which everyday choices are distilled into parable. A traveler bargains for safety and learns what fear can cost. A person seeks certainty and discovers how easily conviction becomes a trap. Pride, envy, ge...
Apr 05, 2025•1 hr 41 min
Initiation by Robert Hugh Benson audiobook. Genre: drama Set in aristocratic England in the years before the First World War, Initiation follows young Sir Nevill Fanning, a man who calls himself Catholic yet lives as if faith were only a family custom. He has charm, money, and a future secured by his devoted Aunt Ann, but his interior life is thin, and he instinctively dodges anything that smells of sacrifice. When Nevill falls in love with a Protestant woman, the easy assumptions of his upbring...
Apr 04, 2025•13 hr 40 min
Revenge by Robert Barr audiobook. Genre: mystery Revenge! (often listed simply as Revenge) gathers Robert Barr's late-19th-century short fiction into a sharp, suspenseful tour of what people will risk when pride is wounded and wrongs demand repayment. Each tale approaches vengeance from a different angle: domestic hatred, political rivalry, professional jealousy, and the cold, careful patience of a mind that will not let go. In 'An Alpine Divorce,' John Bodman and his wife carry their toxic marr...
Apr 03, 2025•10 hr 16 min
William The Conqueror by Richmal Crompton audiobook. Genre: comedy In William the Conqueror, Richmal Crompton returns to the unruly world of William Brown, an eleven-year-old with a fierce sense of justice, a talent for trouble, and an unstoppable confidence in his own brilliance. Joined by his loyal band of friends - the Outlaws - William barrels through everyday village life and turns it into a string of grand campaigns: foiling grown-up plans, improving other people's arrangements, and launch...
Apr 02, 2025•7 hr 2 min
Further Chronicles of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery audiobook. Genre: family In Further Chronicles of Avonlea, Lucy Maud Montgomery returns to the red roads and bright fields of Prince Edward Island to share a fresh gathering of interconnected tales set among the farms and villages around Avonlea. Anne Shirley is now more a beloved presence in the background than the center of the spotlight, as neighbors, newcomers, and old families take their turns on the stage. An impulsive young man tries t...
Apr 01, 2025•6 hr 58 min
The Land of Midian by Richard Francis Burton audiobook. Genre: history In The Land of Midian, Victorian explorer and linguist Richard Francis Burton turns his keen eye to the stark, little-mapped borderlands of northwest Arabia along the Red Sea. Framed as the record of an expedition undertaken with practical aims as well as scientific curiosity, the book follows Burton and his companions as they push through heat, scarcity, and hard geography to investigate rumors of mineral wealth and to obser...
Mar 31, 2025•7 hr 6 min
Six Metaphysical Meditations by Rene Descartes audiobook. Genre: philosophy In Six Metaphysical Meditations, Rene Descartes invites the listener into a rigorous, first-person investigation of what can be known with certainty. Through a sequence of six meditations, he stages an intellectual reset: setting aside inherited opinions and even the testimony of the senses, he searches for a foundation strong enough to support science, morality, and everyday belief. Along the way, Descartes confronts th...
Mar 29, 2025•2 hr 31 min
The DArblay Mystery by R. Austin Freeman audiobook. Genre: mystery Newly qualified Dr Stephen Gray is taking a last, idle holiday walk before beginning his first appointment when he stumbles on something impossible to dismiss: a body rising beneath the green scum of a quiet woodland pond. The dead man is Julius D'Arblay, a respected artist, and nearby Gray encounters Marion D'Arblay, a poised young woman searching anxiously for her missing father. What first looks like a tragic accident soon fee...
Mar 28, 2025•8 hr 1 min
The Cinema of Orson Welles by Peter Bogdanovich audiobook. Genre: biography In The Cinema of Orson Welles, filmmaker and critic Peter Bogdanovich offers an intimate, clear-eyed portrait of one of cinema's most daring innovators, tracing how Orson Welles made his mark through bold technique, restless experimentation, and an artist's refusal to play safe. Blending sharp film analysis with the immediacy of firsthand conversation, Bogdanovich guides listeners through Welles' key works, from the star...
Mar 27, 2025•1 hr 1 min
Every Man His Own Art Critic by Patrick Geddes audiobook. Genre: philosophy Written for two major British exhibitions in the late 1880s, Patrick Geddes's Every Man His Own Art Critic is a brisk, welcoming guide for anyone who has ever stood before a painting and wondered what, exactly, to do with what they are seeing. Geddes addresses the ordinary visitor rather than the specialist, arguing that art appreciation is not a private language of elites but a skill that can be learned through attentio...
Mar 26, 2025•3 hr 37 min
The Browning Boys by Pansy audiobook. Genre: family On their eleventh birthday, twin brothers Aleck and Ben Browning make a vow that sounds simple until life tests it: they will be truly helpful at home, not just in words but in sacrifice. Their family is under strain, their father is an invalid whose health is failing, and every penny in the household seems to have a purpose already. Ben, thoughtful and quietly ambitious, tries to plan a sensible way forward. Aleck, rougher on the outside and q...
Mar 25, 2025•2 hr 21 min
Sunshine Factory by Pansy audiobook. Genre: religion Sunshine Factory by Pansy (Isabella M. Alden) is a brief, warmhearted collection of seven linked-in-spirit children's stories that turn everyday disappointments into chances for courage, good manners, and practical faith. In the opening tale, young Jennie Moore faces a rainy day and learns from Uncle Jack that sunshine is something you can make - by refusing to dwell on what you have missed, noticing the joys still within reach, and choosing t...
Mar 24, 2025•44 min
Modern Prophets and Other Sketches by Pansy audiobook. Genre: religion In Modern Prophets and Other Sketches, beloved 19th-century author Pansy (Isabella Alden) turns her sharp eye and warm heart on the dramas of everyday Christian living. This collection gathers a series of brief, vivid sketches - part short story, part character study - in which ordinary people are tested by small decisions that reveal large loyalties. Across parlors, prayer meetings, and bustling streets, men and women wrestl...
Mar 22, 2025•6 hr 30 min
Little Minnie, and Other Stories by Pansy audiobook. Genre: family In Little Minnie, and Other Stories, beloved 19th-century author Pansy (Isabella M. Alden) gathers a handful of warm, faith-tinged tales about ordinary children facing very grown-up choices. At the center is Minnie, a small girl with a tender heart and a lively will, whose everyday moments at home, at school, and among neighbors become quiet tests of honesty, kindness, and courage. Around her, other boys and girls step into their...
Mar 21, 2025•1 hr 57 min
Dr. Deanes Way, and Other Stories by Pansy audiobook. Genre: religion In Dr. Deane's Way, and Other Stories, beloved Christian storyteller Pansy (Isabella Macdonald Alden), joined here with her friend and fellow writer Faye Huntington, gathers a handful of warm, earnest tales about ordinary people confronted by extraordinary moments of conscience. The title story follows Dr. Deane, a physician whose influence reaches beyond medicine as he tries to choose a path marked by integrity, humility, and...
Mar 20, 2025•4 hr 57 min
Meet Mr. Mulliner by P. G. Wodehouse audiobook. Genre: comedy Meet Mr. Mulliner is a sparkling collection of comic tales from P. G. Wodehouse, all framed by an evening at the placid Angler's Rest, where a regular named Mr. Mulliner holds court by the fire. Prompted by whatever topic arises - love, bravery, family pride, mistaken identity, or sheer misfortune - Mulliner calmly produces a story about one of his innumerable relatives, each bearing the unmistakable Mulliner flair for getting into tr...
Mar 19, 2025•6 hr
Mr. Zytztz Goes to Mars by Noel M. Loomis audiobook. Genre: scifi When strange, plantlike visitors from Mars begin turning up on Earth, the worlds governments are left scrambling for answers: Are these silent newcomers scouts, refugees, or the opening move in an invasion no one understands? Two unlikely investigators, Healey and Browne, believe the only way to solve the mystery is to go straight to the source. Their chance comes in the form of the Phoebus, a salvaged, half-forgotten spacecraft t...
Mar 18, 2025•2 hr 20 min
The Little Girl Next Door by Nina Rhoades audiobook. Genre: family On a rainy New York day, a spirited, well-to-do little girl named Winifred spots a neighbor across the way and strikes up a friendship the only way she can - through an open window and sheer determination. The girl next door, Joy, is blind and lives in far humbler circumstances, yet her courage, good sense, and quiet dignity quickly upend every assumption Winifred has been taught about what makes someone a suitable companion. As ...
Mar 13, 2025•5 hr 12 min
The Mantle and Other Stories by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol audiobook. Genre: comedy In The Mantle and Other Stories, Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol opens the door to St Petersburg's back streets and bureaucratic corridors, where small lives collide with vast indifference and the ordinary suddenly turns uncanny. Centered on the haunting tale of a meek clerk whose world revolves around a new overcoat, this collection gathers Gogol's sharpest portraits of ambition, poverty, vanity, and loneliness. Across...
Mar 12, 2025•5 hr 6 min
The Art of War by Niccolo Machiavelli audiobook. Genre: history Niccolo Machiavelli's The Art of War is a brisk, practical exploration of how a republic can defend itself - and preserve its liberty - through disciplined, citizen-based arms. Framed as a lively dialogue set in Florence, the book follows the seasoned commander Fabrizio Colonna as he debates skeptical friends and eager admirers on what makes an army effective, honorable, and sustainable. Drawing on Roman examples as well as the hard...
Mar 11, 2025•7 hr 14 min
Les Miserables Volume 5 by Victor Hugo audiobook. Genre: drama In Les Miserables Volume 5, Victor Hugo tightens his focus on Jean Valjean as the long shadow of his past presses in on the life he has built. Valjean, once a hunted ex-convict, now lives quietly as Cosette's devoted guardian, determined to keep her safe and to honor the promise that transformed him years before. But Paris is changing, and so is Cosette. As she steps into adulthood, new attachments and old dangers collide: a young id...
Mar 10, 2025•13 hr 26 min
Les Miserables Volume 4 by Victor Hugo audiobook. Genre: drama In Les Miserables Volume 4, Victor Hugo shifts the story into the streets and private rooms of Paris as love, idealism, and revolution begin to collide. Marius Pontmercy, a young man searching for purpose and a moral compass of his own, finds himself pulled between two worlds: the tender, hidden life he discovers when he meets Cosette, and the fiery public life of his passionate friends, a circle of students and dreamers determined t...
Mar 06, 2025•15 hr 47 min
Les Miserables Volume 3 by Victor Hugo audiobook. Genre: drama In Volume 3 of Victor Hugo's epic novel Les Miserables, the lives of a former convict turned benefactor, a hunted police inspector, and a desperate mother continue to collide in the streets and shadows of post-revolutionary France. Jean Valjean, struggling to live as an honest man while hiding a past that could destroy him, makes choices that bind him to the fate of young Cosette and deepen his resolve to protect her at any cost. Mea...
Mar 05, 2025•11 hr 9 min
