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A Spaceship Named McGuire by Randall Garrett ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Mar 21, 2023

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A Spaceship Named McGuire by Randall Garrett audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Can a spaceship go crazy? Well, yes it can if it has a brain. And the new MG (magnetogravitic drive) experimental robot space ship does indeed have a 'brain'. Completely bewildered as to why the first six models of their supposedly perfect new ship model, the MG-YR, nicknamed the McGuire, have gone totally bonkers after activation and before they could ever be used, the company has called in the services of Daniel Oak. They suspect sabotage of course. Daniel Oak is the hard boiled private investigator with nerves of steel and a mind of the same substance. He is extremely expensive to hire but gets results; and he knows his way around crime, space ships and especially women. What he finds out is surprising!

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:19:04) Chapter 2

(00:40:30) Chapter 3

(01:01:36) Chapter 4

(01:21:20) Chapter 5

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In Tune With The Infinite by Ralph Waldo Trine ~ Full Audiobook [self help] Mar 20, 2023

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In Tune With The Infinite by Ralph Waldo Trine audiobook.

Genre: self help

In Tune With The Infinite is Ralph Waldo Trine's classic New Thought guide to living with greater peace, power, and purpose by aligning the inner life with a larger spiritual reality. Written in clear, uplifting language, it invites listeners to consider how thoughts, beliefs, and habitual attitudes shape health, work, relationships, and the quality of everyday experience. Trine argues that a calm, centered mind can become receptive to an infinite source of strength and wisdom, and he offers practical reflections on cultivating faith, courage, gratitude, and goodwill. Along the way, he challenges fear, worry, resentment, and self-doubt as forces that pull us out of harmony, replacing them with the steady discipline of constructive thinking and compassionate action. Part inspirational philosophy and part daily-life manual, the book weaves together spiritual principle and practical application, urging listeners to test its ideas in the ordinary moments where character is formed. The central conflict is internal: whether we will be ruled by reactive emotions and limiting beliefs, or learn to live from a deeper, steadier center that opens the door to clearer judgment, stronger resilience, and a more generous life.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:03:14) Chapter 01

(00:05:40) Chapter 02

(00:12:32) Chapter 03

(00:48:29) Chapter 04

(01:49:55) Chapter 05

(02:12:36) Chapter 06

(02:52:20) Chapter 07

(03:13:14) Chapter 08

(03:45:55) Chapter 09

(04:08:59) Chapter 10

(04:20:22) Chapter 11

(04:31:41) Chapter 12

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The Man from Glengarry by Ralph Connor ~ Full Audiobook [adventure] Mar 20, 2023

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The Man from Glengarry by Ralph Connor audiobook.

Genre: adventure

With international book sales in the millions, Ralph Connor was the best-known Canadian novelist of the first two decades of the Twentieth Century. The Man from Glengarry was his most popular and accomplished work. Immediately after its publication in 1901, the novel spent several months in the top ranks of the New York Times 'Books in Demand' list.

We follow the story of Ranald Macdonald, who is shaped by family and community in rural eastern Ontario in the early decades after Canadian confederation. This is a book about the making of men, but also, ultimately, about the making of a nation, as the mature Ranald moves west to take a leadership role in the fledgling province of British Columbia.

The Man from Glengarry features adventure and romance, and is, above all, a work of serious moral purpose. 'Ralph Connor' was the pen-name of the Reverend Charles Gordon, a prominent Canadian minister, and his stories are woven through with his religious convictions. His is a two-fisted Christianity — or, as he said in his autobiography, a religion that can appeal to 'red-blooded' people who aren't afraid to engage in physical conflict for causes that they know are right.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:02:31) Chapter 01

(00:33:56) Chapter 02

(00:54:14) Chapter 03

(01:08:04) Chapter 04

(01:17:51) Chapter 05

(01:43:44) Chapter 06

(02:11:32) Chapter 07

(02:29:18) Chapter 08

(02:54:31) Chapter 09

(03:48:44) Chapter 10

(04:17:39) Chapter 11

(04:49:34) Chapter 12

(05:08:43) Chapter 13

(05:50:55) Chapter 14

(06:20:01) Chapter 15

(06:59:35) Chapter 16

(07:24:02) Chapter 17

(08:13:49) Chapter 18

(08:39:55) Chapter 19

(09:04:31) Chapter 20

(09:35:11) Chapter 21

(10:10:15) Chapter 22

(10:57:27) Chapter 23

(11:37:57) Chapter 24

(12:05:58) Chapter 25

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Glengarry School Days by Ralph Connor ~ Full Audiobook [drama] Mar 16, 2023

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Glengarry School Days by Ralph Connor audiobook.

Genre: drama

Set in the rugged Scottish-Canadian community of Glengarry, Ralph Connor's Glengarry School Days follows the arrival of a young, idealistic schoolmaster determined to bring order, learning, and a larger sense of purpose to a one-room country school. He soon discovers that the classroom is only the beginning: rivalries between farm boys, family feuds, prideful clan loyalties, and the rough demands of frontier life spill into every lesson and every game. At the center are the students themselves - bright, stubborn, and fiercely independent - who test their teacher's patience while quietly needing his guidance. As the school year unfolds, friendships harden under pressure, a few spirited leaders emerge, and the community is forced to confront what it truly values: strength or character, tradition or growth, winning or fairness. Told with humor, warmth, and a strong moral backbone, Connor paints a vivid portrait of youth on the edge of adulthood, where courage is measured as much by kindness as by grit, and where a small schoolhouse can become the proving ground for an entire generation.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:13:23) Chapter 02

(00:36:37) Chapter 03

(01:19:09) Chapter 04

(02:02:23) Chapter 05

(02:15:37) Chapter 06

(02:39:39) Chapter 07

(02:55:35) Chapter 08

(03:25:23) Chapter 09

(04:08:37) Chapter 10

(04:43:05) Chapter 11

(04:57:35) Chapter 12

(05:12:12) Chapter 13

(05:21:28) Chapter 14

(06:06:32) Chapter 15

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Bacon by R. W. Church ~ Full Audiobook [biography] Mar 16, 2023

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Bacon by R. W. Church audiobook.

Genre: biography

In this concise, vivid volume from the English Men of Letters series, Victorian scholar and churchman R. W. Church traces the extraordinary contradictions of Francis Bacon (1561-1626): philosopher of a new science, master of English prose, and ambitious servant of power in the volatile world of Elizabethan and Jacobean politics. Church follows Bacon from a brilliant, restless youth and early legal promise into the rivalries of court, where patronage, strategy, and survival often clash with principle. Along the way, he makes Bacon's big intellectual wager feel urgent and human: that knowledge should be rebuilt from the ground up through disciplined observation and experiment, so that humanity might gain practical command of nature. With clear explanations of Bacon's major writings and aims, and a steady eye for the pressures that shaped his choices, Church examines how a mind devoted to public good and intellectual reform could also accept compromises that darken its legacy. The result is both an accessible introduction to Bacon's ideas and a probing character study of greatness tested by temptation, ambition, and the costs of living at the center of power.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:02:27) Chapter 01

(00:33:37) Chapter 02

(00:53:22) Chapter 03

(01:21:14) Chapter 04

(01:52:24) Chapter 05

(02:10:23) Chapter 06

(02:36:34) Chapter 07

(02:54:27) Chapter 08

(03:13:22) Chapter 09

(03:30:57) Chapter 10

(03:56:49) Chapter 11

(04:22:09) Chapter 12

(04:53:25) Chapter 13

(05:06:52) Chapter 14

(05:29:32) Chapter 15

(05:56:21) Chapter 16

(06:25:35) Chapter 17

(06:38:39) Chapter 18

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Fast in the Ice by R. M. Ballantyne ~ Full Audiobook [adventure] Mar 16, 2023

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Fast in the Ice by R. M. Ballantyne audiobook.

Genre: adventure

In Fast in the Ice, R. M. Ballantyne throws listeners aboard the brig Hope as she sails from England into the blank white spaces of the Arctic in pursuit of a bold idea: that beyond the pack lies an open polar sea waiting to be reached. Captain Harvey is a driven, capable commander, but he is also a man who knows what his ambition costs the people he leaves behind. At his side is his nephew, Tom Gregory, a young ship's surgeon eager to trade classroom learning for real danger and discovery. As Greenland and Baffin's Bay close around them, the Hope is battered by storms, then gripped by the ice, turning a voyage of exploration into a long fight for endurance. The crew must improvise shelter and food, contend with sickness and scarcity, and venture out across a frozen wilderness where polar bears, darkness, and crushing cold are as threatening as any enemy. Along the way, Ballantyne mixes tense sea adventure with detailed, lived-in glimpses of Arctic travel, dog sledging, and hard-won lessons learned from the region's native people, testing what leadership and comradeship mean when the world itself will not let you go.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:06:58) Chapter 02

(00:17:15) Chapter 03

(00:33:20) Chapter 04

(00:49:26) Chapter 05

(01:06:31) Chapter 06

(01:24:46) Chapter 07

(01:51:25) Chapter 08

(02:05:39) Chapter 09

(02:20:27) Chapter 10

(02:33:25) Chapter 11

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Away in the Wilderness by R. M. Ballantyne ~ Full Audiobook [adventure] Mar 16, 2023

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Away in the Wilderness by R. M. Ballantyne audiobook.

Genre: adventure

In 19th-century Canada, famed backwoods hunter and trapper Jasper Derry sets out from the far reaches of Rupert's Land with one urgent goal: reach civilization in time to marry the woman he loves, Marie Laroche, and finally trade a life of wandering for a home. The journey should be straightforward for a man as capable as Jasper, but the wilderness has its own plans. Traveling with two unlikely companions, Arrowhead, a sharp-eyed Indigenous guide, and John Heywood, a young artist whose sketches and curiosity often slow the pace, Jasper must thread his way through swarming insects, dangerous rivers, isolated outposts, and sudden encounters with wild animals, including a terrifying bear. As the three friends push onward, their camaraderie is tested by exhaustion, hard choices, and the long shadow of human conflict on the frontier, including the schemes of Darkeye, a hostile chief who sees opportunity in their passage. Fast-moving, vivid, and moral in spirit, Away in the Wilderness blends survival adventure with humor, friendship, and a hard-earned lesson about pride, mercy, and revenge.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:06:27) Chapter 02

(00:15:48) Chapter 03

(00:26:31) Chapter 04

(00:34:44) Chapter 05

(00:50:12) Chapter 06

(01:09:59) Chapter 07

(01:24:31) Chapter 08

(01:45:19) Chapter 09

(01:59:47) Chapter 10

(02:15:20) Chapter 11

(02:35:02) Chapter 12

(02:48:52) Chapter 13

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Witch of the Demon Seas by Poul William Anderson ~ Full Audiobook [fantasy] Mar 16, 2023

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Witch of the Demon Seas by Poul William Anderson audiobook.

Genre: fantasy

Condemned pirate captain Corun of Conahur is hours from the headsman's axe when a strange bargain buys him a little more life. The price is a voyage no sane sailor attempts: guiding a black galley into the Demon Seas, toward the lost, dread citadel of the Xanthi - amphibious sea-devils whose raids and ancient ruins haunt every chart. Corun's new masters are as dangerous as any monster: Shorzon, a calculating sorcerer with a plan that reaches beyond kings, and Chryseis, the mercurial witch whose beauty, cruelty, and iron will can command men as surely as chains. With a crew of hard-bitten sea raiders and a kingdom's politics tightening like a noose behind them, Corun is pulled between survival and pride, desire and suspicion, loyalty and revenge. Storm-lashed islands, bloody shipboard clashes, and eerie encounters in alien waters drive the journey forward as Corun begins to grasp what Shorzon and Chryseis truly seek. To reach the Xanthi is one thing; to return with his soul intact is another.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:13:35) Chapter 02

(00:34:15) Chapter 03

(00:52:08) Chapter 04

(01:01:40) Chapter 05

(01:24:41) Chapter 06

(01:36:17) Chapter 07

(01:59:11) Chapter 08

(02:15:41) Chapter 09

(02:27:22) Chapter 10

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The Sensitive Man by Poul William Anderson ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Mar 16, 2023

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The Sensitive Man by Poul William Anderson audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Poul Anderson delves into the realm of human potential in this exciting story and asks some penetrating questions for us to think about. What if psychology finally enabled people to even partially control all those automatic reactions of our minds and bodies? What if we were not slaves to anger, fear, emotions, hormones, blood pressure and the thousand other things that our bodies 'take care of' from instant to instant? What if those things could be brought under the control even partially of our reason and minds? In this story one man stood between a power-hungry cabal and their world mastery—but a man of, shall we say, unusual talents.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:16:33) Chapter 02

(00:39:54) Chapter 03

(00:51:23) Chapter 04

(01:16:16) Chapter 05

(01:32:40) Chapter 06

(01:49:16) Chapter 07

(02:09:59) Chapter 08

(02:28:08) Chapter 09

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The Golden Slave by Poul William Anderson ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Mar 15, 2023

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The Golden Slave by Poul William Anderson audiobook.

Genre: scifi

100 B.C. The Cimbrian hordes galloped across the dawn of history and clashed in screaming battle against the mighty Roman legions. Led by their chief, Boierik, and his son, Eodan, the hungry and homeless pagan tribes hurled back the Romans time after time in their desperate search for land. But for all the burning towns, the new-caught women weeping, the wine drunk, the gold lifted, the Cimbri did not find a home. And now it was over. At Vercellae the Roman armies shattered them completely. Only a few survived—and for them death would have been more merciful. Eodan, the proud young chieftain, had been caught and sold into slavery, his infant son murdered and his beautiful wife, Hwicca, taken as a concubine. But whips and slave chains could not break the spirit of this fiery pagan giant who fought, seduced and connived his way to a perilous freedom to rescue the woman he loved

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:21:41) Chapter 02

(00:42:34) Chapter 03

(00:59:32) Chapter 04

(01:23:39) Chapter 05

(01:52:12) Chapter 06

(02:08:58) Chapter 07

(02:33:00) Chapter 08

(02:51:06) Chapter 09

(03:10:36) Chapter 10