Baled Hay - A Drier Book than Walt Whitmans Leaves o Grass by Bill Nye audiobook. Genre: comedy In Baled Hay: A Drier Book than Walt Whitman's Leaves o' Grass, 19th-century American humorist Bill Nye (Edgar Wilson Nye) sets out to do the unthinkable: publish a book of lofty, poetic sayings while insisting he has carefully removed anything that might accidentally resemble real poetry. The result is a brisk, mischievous collection of comic sketches, mock-serious reflections, and satirical observat...
Jun 28, 2025•6 hr 48 min
The Whispering Eye, A Black Hood Novel by G. T. Fleming-Roberts audiobook. Genre: thriller In a city where headlines travel faster than truth, the masked crime fighter known as the Black Hood suddenly finds himself on the wrong side of the law. A shadowy underworld mastermind called the Eye engineers a ruthless scheme that leaves the Black Hood framed for robbery and murder, with the police closing in and the criminal world eager to collect its prize. Worse, Barbara Sutton, the woman whose faith...
Jun 27, 2025•2 hr 45 min
The Cartels Jungle by Irving E. Cox, Jr. audiobook. Genre: scifi In a future where Earth has been reshaped by catastrophe and power has consolidated into a few ruthless cartels, Captain Max Hunter comes home from the space service with one simple plan: marry Ann Saymer and help her open a clinic. Ann is brilliant, idealistic, and on the verge of unveiling her greatest achievement - a revolutionary psychiatric device known as the Exorciser, a machine that can reach into the mind and change what p...
Jun 26, 2025•1 hr 44 min
Taras Bulba; a Tale of the Cossacks by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol audiobook. Genre: adventure Set on the sweeping steppes of Eastern Europe, Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol's Taras Bulba follows a fierce old Cossack warrior who lives for the hard freedoms of the Zaporozhian Host and the holy fire of battle. When his two sons return from school, Taras wastes no time pulling them into the rough brotherhood of the Sich, where loyalty is sworn with steel, song, and shared danger. As conflict flares with th...
Jun 25, 2025•5 hr 1 min
Shorty McCabe by Sewell Ford audiobook. Genre: comedy Shorty McCabe used to earn his living with his fists. Now the ex-prizefighter is trying to keep steady work as a trainer in New York, only to learn that trouble finds him faster than any challenger ever could. Told in Shorty's fast-talking, streetwise voice, this classic romp begins when a bad horse tip and an empty bankroll introduce him to Leonidas Macklin Dodge, a silk-hatted schemer with a gift for talking his way into (and out of) any ro...
Jun 24, 2025•7 hr 5 min
The Incubator Baby by Ellis Parker Butler audiobook. Genre: comedy Born at barely more than a pound, Marjorie Fielding begins life as a public marvel, sealed behind glass in a nickel-plated incubator while curious strangers peer in and experts adjust dials and temperatures. When she finally comes home, her mother, Mrs. Fielding, is determined to raise a perfect modern child by the newest rules of scientific motherhood: charts for every function, strict schedules, hygienic clothing, and a vigilan...
Jun 23, 2025•1 hr 15 min
White Mountain Trails by Winthrop Packard audiobook. Genre: adventure In White Mountain Trails, naturalist and journalist Winthrop Packard invites you onto the footpaths of New Hampshire's White Hills in a vivid, early-20th-century journey of climbing, watching, and wondering. Moving from the spring freshness of Chocorua and its lake to the high, stony world of Mount Washington, Packard follows well-known routes and lesser rambles alike: Carter Notch, Tuckerman's Ravine, Crawford Notch, Boott's ...
Jun 21, 2025•5 hr 47 min
History of the Johnstown Flood by Willis Fletcher Johnson audiobook. Genre: history Willis Fletcher Johnson's History of the Johnstown Flood is a gripping narrative of one of the deadliest disasters in nineteenth-century America: the catastrophic inundation that struck Johnstown, Pennsylvania, after days of relentless rain and the failure of an earthen dam above the Conemaugh Valley. Johnson reconstructs the setting and the stakes by introducing the river town and its surrounding communities, th...
Jun 20, 2025•7 hr 52 min
Biographical Memoir of John Wesley Powell, 1834-1902 by William Morris Davis audiobook. Genre: biography Written by Harvard geographer William Morris Davis, Biographical Memoir of John Wesley Powell, 1834-1902 presents a brisk, first-hand portrait of one of the defining scientific frontiersmen of the United States. Powell emerges not only as the one-armed Civil War veteran who dared the Colorado River and the canyons of the West, but as a relentless organizer who pushed exploration into public s...
Jun 19, 2025•3 hr 52 min
The Apartment Next Door by William Johnston audiobook. Genre: mystery During World War I, Jane Strong is restless with the safe routines of her New York life and hungry to do something that matters. One night, she glimpses a tense chase outside her building, hears a shot, and watches a familiar figure return - the tenant in the apartment next door. By morning, the papers insist the man who was pursued died by suicide, but Jane knows what she saw does not add up. When a government agent approache...
Jun 18, 2025•5 hr 55 min
The Troubled Man's Medicine by William Hugh audiobook. Genre: religion Written in the midst of England's Reformation and shaped by pastoral urgency, The Troubled Man's Medicine is William Hugh's practical guide for anyone facing sickness, loss, fear, or hard fortune. Framed as counsel originally composed for an ailing friend, the book sets out to give troubled readers a steadying remedy: not a physical cure, but a disciplined way to endure adversity with patience, gratitude, and faith. Across tw...
Jun 17, 2025•2 hr 39 min
Gravenhurst, or Thoughts on Good and Evil by William Henry Smith audiobook. Genre: philosophy Set in and around the English countryside village the author calls Gravenhurst, this reflective Victorian work follows an observant country gentleman as he records a chain of walks, visits, and drawing-room conversations that keep circling back to one stubborn question: if the world contains so much beauty, why does it also contain so much pain? As his friends debate what they have seen in their own liv...
Jun 16, 2025•6 hr 50 min
Mosquitoes by William Faulkner audiobook. Genre: comedy Set in the languid heat of New Orleans in the early 1920s, William Faulkner's Mosquitoes follows a mixed group of artists, writers, socialites, and dreamers who escape the city on a weekend yachting trip across Lake Pontchartrain. The voyage promises leisure and inspiration, but the close quarters quickly turn the boat into a floating stage for vanity, flirtation, rivalry, and relentless talk. At the center is a young writer watching the ot...
Jun 12, 2025•12 hr 1 min
Sour Grapes by William Carlos Williams audiobook. Genre: poetry Sour Grapes is an early, punchy collection of poems by William Carlos Williams that helps define an American modernist voice: local, plainspoken, and startlingly alive to the physical world. Moving from quick, image-driven lyrics to more expansive reflections, Williams trains his attention on everyday scenes - a street corner, a room, a body at work, a sudden change of weather - and turns them into moments of sharp perception. The p...
Jun 11, 2025•51 min
Smoky The Cowhorse by Will James audiobook. Genre: adventure In the high country of the American West, a wild, steel-gray mustang is born with speed, intelligence, and a fierce love of open space. The cowboys who spot him call him Smoky, and before long he is caught, sold, and thrown into a human world he does not understand. Fate brings Smoky to a quiet, capable young cowboy named Clint, who takes the time to gentle him with patience rather than force. Under Clint's care, Smoky becomes more tha...
Jun 10, 2025•8 hr 25 min
Galileo by Walter W. Bryant audiobook. Genre: biography Walter W. Bryant's Galileo follows the rise of the brilliant Italian thinker who helped transform stargazing into modern science. From Galileo Galilei's early curiosity and restless ambition, the narrative traces his move from classroom theory to hands-on investigation, where careful measurement and daring questions begin to challenge inherited certainty. As he refines instruments and turns his telescope to the night sky, Galileo's observat...
Jun 09, 2025•2 hr 6 min
A Last Diary by W. N. P. Barbellion audiobook. Genre: biography A Last Diary gathers the final notebook entries of W. N. P. Barbellion, the pen name of British naturalist and writer Bruce Frederick Cummings, as he records the narrowing circle of his days with an unsparing eye. Writing in a voice that is by turns sardonic, tender, and fiercely intelligent, he chronicles life as a museum worker and would-be man of letters while a progressive illness steadily threatens his independence, stamina, an...
Jun 07, 2025•4 hr 14 min
Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott audiobook. Genre: family In Jo's Boys, Louisa May Alcott returns to the lively world of Plumfield, the unconventional school founded by Jo and Professor Bhaer. Years have passed since the boys and girls first arrived, and now Jo watches her former pupils step into adulthood with all its bright ambitions and hard lessons. The story follows a wide circle of characters - including the warm-hearted but impulsive Dan, the earnest sailor Emil, the artistic and sensitive ...
Jun 06, 2025•11 hr 9 min
Human Affairs by Vincent OSullivan audiobook. Genre: drama First published in 1907, Human Affairs is a sharp, atmospheric collection of seven long stories by fin-de-siecle writer Vincent O'Sullivan, each one peeling back the polite surface of society to expose the hungers, vanities, and quiet despairs underneath. In 'The Great Moment,' a once-comfortable New York family is jolted into a harsher life when Mr. Becker dies and his widow and daughters, including Maud, are forced to measure what mone...
Jun 05, 2025•7 hr 3 min
The Ukrainians and the European War by Various audiobook. Genre: history Published in 1915 as the First World War tore through Eastern Europe, The Ukrainians and the European War is a compact, urgent collection of essays, reports, and proclamations aimed at explaining the Ukrainian cause to an English-speaking audience. In short pieces by advocates and observers such as George Raffalovich, Alexander von Nuber, Dr. Samuel Max Melamed, and several anonymous contributors, the booklet introduces Ukr...
Jun 04, 2025•1 hr 37 min
The Thrill Book Vol. I No. 1, March 1, 1919 by Various audiobook. Genre: fantasy Step into the birth of American weird pulp with The Thrill Book Vol. I No. 1 (March 1, 1919), a debut issue assembled by editor Harold Hersey to showcase stories that were stranger, darker, and less easily labeled than ordinary adventure fare. Across this fast-moving collection, readers roam from harsh frontiers to shadowed drawing rooms and into the lure of the occult. Greye La Spina opens the issue with 'Wolf of t...
Jun 03, 2025•5 hr 18 min
The Easter Mystery Of Jesus Christ by Various audiobook. Genre: religion The Easter Mystery Of Jesus Christ is a carefully gathered anthology that traces the Christian story of Holy Week and Easter through Scripture, poetry, hymnody, and prayer. Rather than offering a single narrator's commentary, this collection lets many voices speak: it opens with Gospel readings from the New Testament that follow Jesus through betrayal, trial, crucifixion, burial, and the astonished testimony of those who en...
Jun 02, 2025•3 hr 57 min
The Thrill Book Vol. I No. 3, April 1, 1919 by Various audiobook. Genre: horror Step back into the raw, fast-paced world of early American pulp with The Thrill Book Vol. I No. 3 (April 1, 1919), a magazine issue packed with cliffhangers, sinister discoveries, and hard-edged suspense from a rotating cast of genre pioneers. Here, danger comes in many shapes: the shadowed depths of a jungle hiding a lost-race mystery, the electric tension of a crime plot that tightens like a wire, and uncanny tales...
May 31, 2025•4 hr 48 min
Library of the Worlds Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 17 by Various audiobook. Genre: history Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volume 17 is a gateway volume in the famed 45-volume anthology assembled to bring 'a mass of good reading' into everyday homes. Edited under the direction of Charles Dudley Warner and his collaborators, each section pairs a brief, approachable introduction with carefully chosen excerpts, letting listeners sample major voices without...
May 30, 2025•19 hr 2 min
Fevers and Physicians in Space by various audiobook. Genre: scifi Fevers and Physicians in Space is a wide-ranging science fiction anthology that puts the human body under pressure: in sickrooms and laboratories, on crowded Earths and in the sealed, fragile habitats of space. Across a lineup of classic short stories by multiple authors, medicine becomes both a lifeline and a battleground. A global outbreak forces uneasy questions about what really counts as a cure. A society obsessed with orderl...
May 29, 2025•8 hr 34 min
Anthology of Early Mormon Doctrine and Apologetics by Various audiobook. Genre: religion Anthology of Early Mormon Doctrine and Apologetics gathers key short writings from the early decades of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, offering a front-row view of how a new American faith explained itself to believers, critics, and the wider public. Framed by three influential pieces from Joseph Smith Jr. on his history, theology, and political thought, the collection moves through spirite...
May 28, 2025•13 hr 25 min
Joe Strong, the boy wizard by Vance Barnum audiobook. Genre: adventure Joe Strong has circus sawdust in his blood. Orphaned young, he is taken in by the strict Blackfords of quiet Bedford, a home that offers food and shelter but little understanding for a boy who can climb higher, run faster, and dream bigger than anyone in town. When the dazzling Professor Alonzo Rosello brings his magic show to Bedford, Joe cannot resist the challenge of figuring out the tricks, and his talent for sleight of h...
May 27, 2025•5 hr 56 min
Combat Lessons Number 1 - Rank And File In Combat - What Theyre Doing, How They Do It by United States Army War College audiobook. Genre: history Compiled for the United States Army War College during World War II, Combat Lessons Number 1 is a fast-moving field digest built from the voices of soldiers and junior leaders who had already learned hard truths under fire. Instead of a single narrative, it assembles short, direct observations drawn from combat reports and front-line testimony, organiz...
May 26, 2025•1 hr 24 min
The Unholy Three by Tod Robbins audiobook. Genre: thriller Three sideshow outcasts decide the carnival is too small for their ambitions. Tweedledee, a vicious little man with a taste for cruelty, has the hunger to command. Hercules, the strongman, supplies the muscle and the fearsome reputation. And Professor Echo, a gifted ventriloquist with nerves stretched thin, brings the one talent the others lack: a voice that can become anyone's. When Echo slips into the disguise of a harmless old woman, ...
May 24, 2025•5 hr 55 min
The History of Rome, volume 4 by Titus Livius audiobook. Genre: history Often published as Volume IV in modern sets of Livy's monumental History of Rome, this installment gathers Books 8-10 and follows the Republic as it pushes beyond Latium and is tested by wars, rival coalitions, and its own uncompromising ideals. As Rome clashes with former allies and confronts the hard-fighting Samnites in the rugged heart of Italy, Livy paints a world where political authority, military command, and persona...
May 23, 2025•21 hr 37 min
