Battle for the Stars by Edmond Hamilton audiobook. Genre: scifi In a far-future galaxy where humanity's original homeworld has become a distant symbol instead of a true seat of power, five rival Sectors rule the star lanes like competing empires. Commander Kirk of the Lyra Sector is sent on a high-risk solo probe into the Dragon's Throat, a lethal star cluster rumored to hide an Orion Sector secret base that could tip the balance toward open war. Aboard the cruiser Starsong, Kirk and his hard-bi...
Oct 17, 2025•2 hr 27 min
The Just Men of Cordova by Edgar Wallace audiobook. Genre: thriller In the sun-baked streets of Cordova, three notorious vigilantes slip through the crowds like ghosts. Georges Manfred, the cool strategist; the daring Poiccart; and the master of disguise, Gonsalez, have come to Spain for what looks like a holiday - but the Just Men never stop working. Across Europe their name is feared because they punish criminals the courts cannot touch, and they do it by their own ruthless code. This time, wh...
Oct 16, 2025•5 hr 28 min
The Double by Edgar Wallace audiobook. Genre: mystery Newly promoted Detective Inspector Richard (Dick) Staines of Scotland Yard has built a reputation on patience, precision, and an uncanny feel for the small details other men miss. Then, on a storm-lashed night in fashionable Belgravia, one desperate decision pulls him into a case unlike any in his career: trapped outside an acquaintance's house, Staines forces his way in and stumbles upon a scene of quiet horror - a man bound and blindfolded ...
Oct 15, 2025•7 hr 47 min
The Red Hawk by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: scifi In The Red Hawk, Edgar Rice Burroughs carries his Moon trilogy into a harsh, far-future America where the old world has collapsed into scattered, horse-borne tribes and the last remnants of alien rule still poison the land. Centuries after the Kalkars and their human collaborators shattered civilization, technology and history have faded into legend, and survival depends on courage, loyalty, and the strength of a chief who can unite ri...
Oct 14, 2025•2 hr 49 min
Sin In Their Blood by Ed Lacy audiobook. Genre: mystery Matt Ranzino has a reputation as the toughest private eye in town, but when he comes home from the Korean War, toughness is not what he feels. Worn down by what he has seen overseas and by months in hospitals, Matt wants a quiet life and a clean break from the city that still remembers every enemy he made as a fighter, a cop, and a PI. Then a blonde is found brutally dead, and Matt is in the wrong place at the wrong time. Suddenly he is tak...
Oct 13, 2025•4 hr 19 min
Second Stage Lensmen by E. E. Smith audiobook. Genre: scifi The war between the Galactic Patrol and the hidden forces of Boskone is about to turn from skirmishes into something far larger. Kimball Kinnison, newly proven as a Lensman, carries a tool no ordinary agent can wield: the Lens itself, a living symbol of authority that amplifies his mind and binds him to the Patrol's highest purpose. But a badge of power is not enough. Boskone fights through proxies - smugglers, corrupt financiers, and c...
Oct 09, 2025•11 hr 10 min
Galactic Patrol by E. E. Smith audiobook. Genre: scifi In the far future, humanity has taken its first uneasy steps into a wider galactic community, only to find that interstellar space is already a battleground. When brilliant young engineer and newly commissioned officer Kimball Kinnison enters the Triplanetary Service, he expects patrol work and exploration, not a covert war against a ruthless criminal power known as Boskone. Assigned to the elite Galactic Patrol, Kinnison is drawn into a swe...
Oct 08, 2025•8 hr 53 min
Children of the Lens by E. E. Smith audiobook. Genre: scifi In the climactic final volume of E. E. Smith's Lensman saga, the war between Civilization and the shadowy power of Boskone enters a new and dangerous phase. Kimball Kinnison and Clarissa MacDougall Kinnison have helped shape the Galactic Patrol into a force capable of challenging interstellar crime-lords and hidden manipulators, but the enemy is older, subtler, and more deeply embedded than anyone suspects. Their children - a group of a...
Oct 07, 2025•11 hr 37 min
The Cat Saw Murder by Dolores Hitchens audiobook. Genre: mystery When seventy-year-old Rachel Murdock and her quieter sister, Jennifer, get a desperate message from their beloved niece Lily in the seaside town of Breakers Beach, California, they board a train from Los Angeles at once, refusing to leave behind their sleek black cat, Samantha. But the trip turns ominous the moment they arrive: Samantha, newly the unlikely heir to a fortune, becomes the target of a chilling attack, and the sisters ...
Oct 06, 2025•7 hr 35 min
The Man with the Red Beard, A Story of Moscow and London by David Whitelaw audiobook. Genre: thriller Fresh from a year reporting on the unrest of tsarist Russia, a hard-nosed journalist returns to London expecting ordinary assignments and a quieter life. Instead, a chance encounter pulls him into a chase that begins with an enigmatic stranger known only for his unmistakable red beard, a stolen jewel, and a gunshot in a crowded street. Before the night is over, the narrator is forced to choose b...
Oct 04, 2025•6 hr 49 min
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe audiobook. Genre: adventure Born in Newgate Prison and cast into poverty, Moll Flanders grows up determined to survive in a world that offers women few safe choices. Telling her own story in a candid, shrewd voice, Moll follows opportunity wherever it appears - through households and marketplaces, across social classes, and into a string of marriages, bargains, and betrayals. She learns to read people as quickly as she reads a room, using charm, calculation, and she...
Oct 03, 2025•12 hr 6 min
Lady Chatterleys Lover by D. H. Lawrence audiobook. Genre: romance Set in post-World War I England, Lady Chatterley's Lover follows Constance (Connie) Reid after her marriage to Sir Clifford Chatterley, an upper-class baronet whose war injury leaves him physically disabled and increasingly withdrawn into ambition, status, and the running of his coal-mining estate. Isolated at Wragby Hall and suffocated by the cold formality of her new world, Connie struggles with loneliness, the rigid expectatio...
Oct 02, 2025•12 hr 44 min
The Soul Stealers by Chester S. Geier audiobook. Genre: scifi Bryan, a battle-worn newspaper reporter, thinks he has seen every kind of death until a string of baffling cases lands him in a hospital ward: men whose bodies still breathe, yet whose minds are gone, as if the essential spark inside them has been stolen. The trail leads to Chicago's Grant Park, where nighttime shadows hide impossible shapes and witnesses swear they have seen translucent, insect-like beings moving with silent purpose....
Oct 01, 2025•1 hr 36 min
Hours of Sorrow by Charlotte Elliott audiobook. Genre: religion Written by Charlotte Elliott, the Victorian hymn writer best known for 'Just as I Am,' Hours of Sorrow is a devotional collection created for listeners moving through illness, grief, and long seasons of low spirits. In a series of short, hymn-like poems and meditations, Elliott gives language to weariness, doubt, and the lonely hours when comfort feels far away. Each piece turns ordinary trials into prayer: a mind searching for stea...
Sep 27, 2025•2 hr 24 min
The Crooked Cross by Charles J. Dutton audiobook. Genre: mystery When summer heat makes New York City feel unbearable, John Bartley plans an easy escape: a visit to his friend Carter in a quiet lakeside village. Instead, Bartley sends his friend Pelt ahead to settle in, never guessing that a simple holiday will turn into a case that reaches from a country house dining room to the attention of Scotland Yard. Professor Henry Warren, a brilliant scientist newly returned from China, has invited a sm...
Sep 26, 2025•5 hr 50 min
Square Deal Sanderson by Charles Alden Seltzer audiobook. Genre: adventure In the hard, empty spaces of the Southwestern range, Deal 'Square Deal' Sanderson lives by a simple code: do the right thing, even when nobody is watching. While traveling alone, he stumbles onto violence in a remote ravine and finds a letter meant for Mary Bransford, a young ranch owner desperately waiting for the brother she has not seen since childhood. Mary is being pressured and terrorized by Alva Dale, a smooth-talk...
Sep 24, 2025•8 hr 17 min
The Syndic by C. M. Kornbluth audiobook. Genre: scifi In a future America where the old United States has been driven offshore, order has not vanished so much as changed hands. On the East Coast, the Syndic runs like a vast protection league: pay your dues, keep your receipts, and life can be startlingly freewheeling. West of the Mississippi, a rival power known as the Mob preaches iron morality and enforces it with fear. Caught between them is Charles Orsino, a young, low-ranking Syndic collect...
Sep 23, 2025•4 hr 56 min
The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracian audiobook. Genre: philosophy Written in the sharp, elegant style of the Spanish Baroque, The Art of Worldly Wisdom is a compact treasury of insight for anyone navigating ambition, reputation, friendship, and power. Baltasar Gracian distills decades of observation into a series of brief maxims, each offering a practical angle on how people behave and how a person might act with tact, foresight, and self-command. Rather than telling a story, the book b...
Sep 22, 2025•5 hr 40 min
The Shining Pyramid by Arthur Machen audiobook. Genre: horror In the misty border hills of Wales, Mr. Vaughan expects a quiet life on his family estate - until unsettling signs begin to appear along an old path near the woods: flint arrowheads laid out with deliberate precision, shifting from day to day into eerie patterns, as if someone is writing a message in stone. Seeking an explanation that goes beyond local gossip and superstition, Vaughan summons his old friend Mr. Dyson, a London man of ...
Sep 20, 2025•8 hr 37 min
Ornaments in Jade by Arthur Machen audiobook. Genre: horror Ornaments in Jade is Arthur Machen's slender, hallucinatory collection of ten short pieces that read like prose poems disguised as stories. Written in the 1890s but published in book form in 1924, these vignettes move through gardens, city rooms, summer landscapes, and shadowed interiors where ordinary perception begins to fail. A narrator recalls a rose garden that seems too perfect to be natural; an antiquarian curiosity opens onto ru...
Sep 19, 2025•1 hr 45 min
Wage Labour and Capital by Karl Marx audiobook. Genre: philosophy In Wage Labour and Capital, Karl Marx delivers a clear, tightly argued introduction to how capitalist economies work and why, in his view, they produce deep social conflict. Written as an accessible series of talks and articles, the book begins with the everyday reality of the worker who must sell labor power to survive, then asks what wages really measure and how they are shaped by competition and the needs of industry. Marx dist...
Sep 18, 2025•1 hr 47 min
The Book of Musical Knowledge by Arthur Elson audiobook. Genre: history Arthur Elson's The Book of Musical Knowledge is a one-volume guided tour for anyone who loves music but wants to understand what they are hearing. Written for music-lovers, students, and teachers, it moves step by step from the origins of Western music into the major ideas that shape musical craft and musical meaning. Elson begins with the evolution of music - from early and medieval traditions through the rise of counterpoi...
Sep 17, 2025•23 hr 56 min
Movement & Progression of Animals by Aristotle audiobook. Genre: science In Movement and Progression of Animals, Aristotle turns a sharp, patient eye to one of the most basic mysteries of life: how living creatures set themselves in motion. Drawing on close observation and comparative reasoning, he examines the structures that make movement possible - bones, joints, sinews, and the diverse body plans of land animals, birds, and creatures of the sea. But this is not merely a catalog of anatom...
Sep 16, 2025•1 hr 50 min
Practical Sermons by Archibald Alexander audiobook. Genre: religion Practical Sermons gathers a selection of clear, pastorally minded messages by Archibald Alexander, an early American Presbyterian minister and theologian best known for shaping generations of clergy at Princeton. Written to be heard as well as read, these sermons aim less at ornament and more at spiritual usefulness, pressing timeless Bible truths into the ordinary pressures of conscience, family life, sorrow, temptation, and ho...
Sep 15, 2025•17 hr 29 min
The Black Monk by Anton Chekhov audiobook. Genre: tragedy Anton Chekhov's The Black Monk follows Andrey Kovrin, a brilliant young scholar worn down by years of intense study. On the advice of friends, he retreats to the quiet countryside estate of Yegor Pesotsky, a devoted horticulturist whose vast gardens are his life's pride. There, amid summer light, long walks, and the warm companionship of Pesotsky's daughter Tanya, Kovrin seems to recover his strength and even glimpses a gentler future. Bu...
Sep 13, 2025•1 hr 17 min
The Theological Tractates by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius audiobook. Genre: religion Written by the late Roman philosopher and statesman Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, The Theological Tractates (often gathered as the Opuscula Sacra) offers a compact but demanding set of essays that bring the tools of classical logic to the central questions of Christian doctrine. Across these short works, Boethius asks how careful definitions can clarify mysteries that believers confess but struggle t...
Sep 12, 2025•1 hr 45 min
The Poverty of Philosophy by Karl Marx audiobook. Genre: philosophy Written as a sharp reply to Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's popular treatise on political economy, Karl Marx's The Poverty of Philosophy is a brisk, combative introduction to the method and stakes of Marx's emerging critique of capitalism. Moving between close textual argument and broad historical analysis, Marx challenges Proudhon's attempt to reconcile social contradictions through abstract formulas and moral appeals. He examines how...
Sep 11, 2025•6 hr 34 min
Tanar of Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure Deep beneath the Earth's crust lies Pellucidar, a savage inner world of endless daylight where stone-age tribes fight for survival among prehistoric beasts. When radio experimenter Jason Gridley intercepts a desperate transmission from scientist Abner Perry, he learns that the young Empire of Pellucidar is in peril and that its emperor, David Innes, has fallen into enemy hands. The message carries the firsthand account of Ta...
Sep 10, 2025•8 hr 13 min
A Fourth Form Friendship - A School Story by Angela Brazil audiobook. Genre: drama In A Fourth Form Friendship, Angela Brazil brings listeners into the busy, rule-bound, and often hilarious world of an English girls' school, where the Fourth Form is old enough to be ambitious but still young enough to get into trouble. When a newcomer arrives and tries to find her place among established friendships, house loyalties, and strict classroom expectations, she quickly learns that popularity can be as...
Sep 09, 2025•6 hr 49 min
Ponnamal, Her Story by Amy Wilson Carmichael audiobook. Genre: biography Ponnamal, Her Story is Amy Wilson Carmichael's intimate biography of an Indian woman whose quiet courage helped shape the early years of the Dohnavur work in South India. The story opens with Ponnamal as a young widow, trapped by crushing social expectations and the loneliness of a life that seems to offer no future. From that desperation, Carmichael traces the slow, hard-won emergence of hope: Ponnamal's growing faith, her...
Sep 08, 2025•2 hr 36 min
