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The House of a Thousand Candles by Meredith Nicholson ~ Full Audiobook [mystery] Mar 01, 2023

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The House of a Thousand Candles by Meredith Nicholson audiobook.

Genre: mystery

A top ten bestseller of 1906, The House of a Thousand Candles is part adventure/mystery and part romance. The book begins with young Jack Glenarm returning from various exploits in Europe and Africa for the reading of his grandfather’s will. In it, he stands to inherit his grandfather’s estate, but only if he can remain for one year in residence at the old man’s unfinished “House of a Thousand Candles” in Annandale, Indiana, with only his grandfather’s mysterious valet for company. If he violates the terms of the will, the house will go to a young woman, heretofore unknown to him, whom the will also forbids Jack to marry if he wants to retain his inheritance. This all sounds very mundane to Jack and he fully expects to be quite bored in very short order. Soon after Jack’s arrival at Glenarm House, however, various strange occurrences ensue, and he soon finds himself absorbed in the most lively adventure of his life!

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:25:51) Chapter 02

(00:44:13) Chapter 03

(00:57:06) Chapter 04

(01:15:56) Chapter 05

(01:36:12) Chapter 06

(01:46:44) Chapter 07

(02:02:30) Chapter 08

(02:14:36) Chapter 09

(02:33:53) Chapter 10

(02:49:54) Chapter 11

(03:02:21) Chapter 12

(03:17:14) Chapter 13

(03:30:36) Chapter 14

(03:46:54) Chapter 15

(03:57:57) Chapter 16

(04:12:31) Chapter 17

(04:26:08) Chapter 18

(04:42:28) Chapter 19

(05:00:46) Chapter 20

(05:15:02) Chapter 21

(05:26:42) Chapter 22

(05:38:19) Chapter 23

(05:57:27) Chapter 24

(06:11:44) Chapter 25

(06:26:26) Chapter 26

(06:51:33) Chapter 27

(07:05:58) Chapter 28

(07:14:19) Chapter 29

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The Rangeland Avenger by Max Brand ~ Full Audiobook [adventure] Mar 01, 2023

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The Rangeland Avenger by Max Brand audiobook.

Genre: adventure

Hal Sinclair is the kind of man who can hum a tune with his throat cracked by thirst - until a reckless moment on a desperate desert crossing shatters his horse, cripples Hal, and exposes the ugliness in the three partners who have been riding at his side. Lowrie, Quade, and the long, haunted Sandersen choose self-preservation over loyalty, leaving Hal behind beneath a pitiless sun. News of the betrayal reaches Hal's brother, Riley Sinclair: a hard, solitary cowpuncher with a strict code and a grim patience for settling accounts. Riley follows the trail into the cattle-and-dust world of Sour Creek, where fear, greed, and reputation can be deadlier than any gun. There, Riley is pulled into a second kind of trial when he is asked to watch over John Gaspar - the soft-spoken schoolteacher the locals mockingly call Cold Feet - a man with a price on his head and few friends willing to stand up for him. Caught between a promise of revenge and the demands of justice, Riley must decide what it really means to be an avenger on the open range.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:20:07) Chapter 02

(00:29:45) Chapter 03

(00:47:42) Chapter 04

(01:00:08) Chapter 05

(01:16:13) Chapter 06

(01:30:03) Chapter 07

(01:41:16) Chapter 08

(01:56:09) Chapter 09

(02:14:07) Chapter 10

(02:27:58) Chapter 11

(02:44:42) Chapter 12

(03:00:51) Chapter 13

(03:11:13) Chapter 14

(03:34:12) Chapter 15

(03:43:08) Chapter 16

(03:59:10) Chapter 17

(04:23:05) Chapter 18

(04:39:02) Chapter 19

(04:51:49) Chapter 20

(05:02:59) Chapter 21

(05:17:26) Chapter 22

(05:29:35) Chapter 23

(05:43:43) Chapter 24

(06:03:28) Chapter 25

(06:20:56) Chapter 26

(06:34:25) Chapter 27

(06:49:01) Chapter 28

(06:59:15) Chapter 29

(07:09:29) Chapter 30

(07:26:13) Chapter 31

(07:45:56) Chapter 32

(08:08:07) Chapter 33

(08:20:23) Chapter 34

(08:33:56) Chapter 35

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The Children’s Life of the Bee by Maurice Maeterlinck ~ Full Audiobook [science] Mar 01, 2023

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The Children’s Life of the Bee by Maurice Maeterlinck audiobook.

Genre: science

In The Childrens Life of the Bee, Nobel Prize-winning writer Maurice Maeterlinck turns the beehive into a living, breathing city that young listeners can understand and marvel at. Written as a simpler, more accessible companion to his famous The Life of the Bee, this classic 1901 work guides you from the first excitement of a swarm to the daily rhythm of a settled colony. Maeterlinck introduces the hive's central figures, the queen, the tireless workers, and the languid drones, and explains what each is for, how the community is organized, and why its rules can seem both strict and strangely beautiful. Along the way, he describes wax-building and comb-making, the gathering of nectar and pollen, the making of honey, and the constant push and pull between safety, hunger, weather, and instinct. Blending clear natural observation with a storyteller's lyricism, Maeterlinck invites children (and curious adults) to see how cooperation, sacrifice, and mystery shape life inside the hive, and to wonder what this tiny society might reflect about our own.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:11:26) Chapter 2

(01:02:57) Chapter 3

(01:46:39) Chapter 4

(02:07:02) Chapter 5

(02:17:10) Chapter 6

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The Courage of the Commonplace by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews ~ Full Audiobook [drama] Mar 01, 2023

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The Courage of the Commonplace by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews audiobook.

Genre: drama

Set against the pageantry and pressure-cooker rituals of early-20th-century Yale, The Courage of the Commonplace follows Johnny McLean, a likable, athletic junior who discovers that the verdict of his classmates can feel like a verdict on his whole life. As Tap Day approaches - the moment when a select few are chosen for the elite senior societies - Johnny measures himself against rivals who seem effortlessly destined for honor, and against a family legacy that leaves little room for ordinary outcomes. When the campus celebration turns into a private reckoning, Johnny must decide whether to keep chasing approval or to rebuild his sense of worth from the inside out. Pushing himself into demanding work and tougher standards than he has ever lived by, he carries those hard-won habits beyond New Haven and into the industrial world, where status means nothing and responsibility can be immediate and unforgiving. In a community shaped by engines, ore, and risk, Johnny is tested by leadership, loyalty, and fear - and learns what kind of bravery lasts when the cheering stops. A poignant coming-of-age story, it asks what success really is, and whether quiet, daily discipline can be its own form of heroism.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:24:40) Chapter 02

(00:42:58) Chapter 03

(01:02:59) Chapter 04

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The Planet Savers by Marion Zimmer Bradley ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Feb 27, 2023

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The Planet Savers by Marion Zimmer Bradley audiobook.

Genre: scifi

On the isolated world of Darkover, a terrifying epidemic returns like clockwork: Trailmen's fever, a disease that flares every forty-eight years and can sweep through the human settlements with catastrophic speed. The Terran Trade City is desperate for a cure, and Dr. Randall Forth believes the key lies not only in medicine but in understanding the planet's elusive indigenous people, the tree-dwelling Trailmen of the Hellers. His best hope may be the brilliant but dangerously ill Dr. Jay Allison, a man whose mind has been split by hypnosis into two competing selves: the cold, scientific Jay and the daring, charismatic Jason, who has the survival skills and childhood ties needed to reach the Trailmen. Sent into the mountains with a mixed party of Terrans and Darkovans, including the politically powerful Regis Hastur and the formidable guide Kyla Raineach, Allison must navigate perilous terrain, armed hostility, and deep cultural mistrust. As the expedition pushes toward first contact and fragile negotiation, Allison's inner war becomes as urgent as the plague itself, raising the question of what it will cost to save an entire planet.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:43:40) Chapter 2

(01:34:07) Chapter 3

(02:22:50) Chapter 4

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Falcons of Narabedla by Marion Zimmer Bradley ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Feb 27, 2023

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Falcons of Narabedla by Marion Zimmer Bradley audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Mike Kenscott is an ordinary twentieth-century American still haunted by a past catastrophe: a strange laboratory accident, a surge of unseen forces, and the sense that reality has a weak seam running through it. Then, on what should be a simple outing, that seam splits. Mike is flung across the Time Ellipse into Narabedla, a world under twin suns where Terran influence and Darkovan bloodlines have mingled into a brilliant, perilous, and decadent civilization of towers, pleasure-cities, and razor-edged etiquette. Worse, the man who arrives is not only Mike: in this future he is also known as Adric of the Scarlet Tower, a name that carries debts, enemies, and expectations he does not understand. Caught in courtly intrigues and psychic undercurrents, Mike must learn the rules of a society built on dream, domination, and dangerous mind-born powers. To reclaim his life and his name, he is driven toward a single, ominous goal: the Keep of the Dreamer, and the legendary Falcons of Narabedla that may be the key to everything. Falcons of Narabedla blends time displacement, identity crisis, and baroque planetary adventure into a tense, uncanny journey.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:17:43) Chapter 02

(00:46:07) Chapter 03

(01:02:32) Chapter 04

(01:14:47) Chapter 05

(01:24:20) Chapter 06

(01:39:55) Chapter 07

(01:58:40) Chapter 08

(02:10:16) Chapter 09

(02:22:03) Chapter 10

(02:42:21) Chapter 11

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The Mystery of the Hidden Room by Marion Harvey ~ Full Audiobook [mystery] Feb 27, 2023

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The Mystery of the Hidden Room by Marion Harvey audiobook.

Genre: mystery

A classic mystery/detective story in the Sherlock Holmes tradition, the hidden room suggested by the title of this book does not remain a mystery for very long as the book progresses. Written in the first person, the husband of his (Carlton Davies) former lover is found dead one night at the stroke of midnight, and Davies finds his ex-lover standing over the dead body immediately after the shot was fired, with a gun in her hand. It was no secret that she never truly loved her husband, who had blackmailed her into marrying him. The jury ships Ruth to prison, and the stage is set for Davies to locate the right detective for the case, and for a series of events with twists and turns and surprises that will keep the reader guessing who was responsible for this murder.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:15:17) Chapter 02

(00:26:56) Chapter 03

(00:45:10) Chapter 04

(01:06:59) Chapter 05

(01:21:24) Chapter 06

(01:34:10) Chapter 07

(01:44:22) Chapter 08

(01:58:28) Chapter 09

(02:14:56) Chapter 10

(02:28:12) Chapter 11

(02:40:23) Chapter 12

(02:53:52) Chapter 13

(03:09:48) Chapter 14

(03:26:54) Chapter 15

(03:40:35) Chapter 16

(03:51:22) Chapter 17

(04:16:06) Chapter 18

(04:31:38) Chapter 19

(04:41:10) Chapter 20

(05:03:15) Chapter 21

(05:23:58) Chapter 22

(05:44:22) Chapter 23

(06:14:04) Chapter 24

(06:30:34) Chapter 25

(06:46:47) Chapter 26

(07:03:11) Chapter 27

(07:14:52) Chapter 28

(07:29:01) Chapter 29

(07:43:51) Chapter 30

(07:58:36) Chapter 31

(08:13:50) Chapter 32

(08:29:30) Chapter 33

(08:45:24) Chapter 34

(09:02:16) Chapter 35

(09:21:21) Chapter 36

(09:33:50) Chapter 37

(09:50:06) Chapter 38

(10:13:49) Chapter 39

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Dr. Montessori’s Own Handbook by Maria Montessori ~ Full Audiobook [self help] Feb 27, 2023

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Dr. Montessori’s Own Handbook by Maria Montessori audiobook.

Genre: self help

This is the authoritative book written by Montessori to describe her methods. It gives an overview of the Montessori Method as developed for 3 to 6 year olds. It is a short work, intended as a manual for teachers and parents, detailing the materials used as well as her philosophy in developing them. 'As a result of the widespread interest that has been taken in my method of child education, certain books have been issued, which may appear to the general reader to be authoritative expositions of the Montessori system. I wish to state definitely that the present work, the English translation of which has been authorized and approved by me, is the only authentic manual of the Montessori method ...

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:02:40) Chapter 01

(00:14:10) Chapter 02

(00:24:45) Chapter 03

(00:27:44) Chapter 04

(00:40:14) Chapter 05

(01:34:19) Chapter 06

(01:44:50) Chapter 07

(01:49:58) Chapter 08

(02:11:52) Chapter 09

(02:17:20) Chapter 10

(02:33:01) Chapter 11

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Ormond by Maria Edgeworth ~ Full Audiobook [drama] Feb 27, 2023

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Ormond by Maria Edgeworth audiobook.

Genre: drama

Maria Edgeworth was one of the most popular writers of her time, a sharp and witty observer of society manners, and a favorite author for Jane Austen.

“Ormond,” published in 1817, is a “coming-of-age” novel, tracing a young man’s development as he approaches the age of majority. When we meet him, Harry Ormond has his “heart in the right place,” but is unsettled of character, naïve and impulsive. The central issue is: “What kind of man will he become?”

In part, Harry is influenced by the books he reads: Fielding’s “Tom Jones,” Richardson’s “Sir Charles Grandison,” and works of the French Enlightenment. More important, however, are influences from the company he keeps, much as Prince Hal in Shakespeare’s “Henry IV” takes shape as a reflection of the people around him. As an orphan, Harry had been adopted by Sir Ulick O’Shane, a man of society, full of subtlety and strategies, who exploits his public trust for private advantage (a practice known at that time as “jobbing”). Harry also spends time with Sir Ulick’s cousin Cornelius, a Falstaffian figure of hearty good cheer and eccentric rural lifestyle. (He enthrones himself on a tiny island in an Irish lake, calls himself the “King of the Black Islands” and nicknames Ormond “Prince Harry.”) Later, Harry follows Cornelius’s daughter to Paris, where he witnesses the glamorous dissipation of French society in the years before the Revolution.

This novel explores the challenges of bringing together apparent oppositions: reconciling promised loyalty with assertion of self, Anglo-Irish landlords with their Irish tenants, Catholics with Protestants, and the impulsive heart with the rational head.

“Ormond” is named in the reference list “1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.”

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:33:56) Chapter 02

(00:59:30) Chapter 03

(01:24:32) Chapter 04

(01:44:39) Chapter 05

(02:01:25) Chapter 06

(02:28:51) Chapter 07

(03:01:08) Chapter 08

(03:24:26) Chapter 09

(03:41:19) Chapter 10

(04:01:30) Chapter 11

(04:16:55) Chapter 12

(04:39:05) Chapter 13

(05:07:49) Chapter 14

(05:42:11) Chapter 15

(06:14:18) Chapter 16

(06:37:27) Chapter 17

(06:58:11) Chapter 18

(07:33:29) Chapter 19

(07:59:27) Chapter 20

(08:22:25) Chapter 21

(08:46:52) Chapter 22

(09:16:41) Chapter 23

(09:47:30) Chapter 24

(10:16:10) Chapter 25

(10:30:37) Chapter 26

(10:59:14) Chapter 27

(11:41:39) Chapter 28

(11:58:48) Chapter 29

(12:20:41) Chapter 30

(12:53:50) Chapter 31

(13:23:56) Chapter 32

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The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth ~ Full Audiobook [drama] Feb 27, 2023

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The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth audiobook.

Genre: drama

Published in 1812, “The Absentee” by Maria Edgeworth examines social injustice in 19th-century Britain. At that time, the management of many Irish estates suffered from the absenteeism of their Anglo-Irish landlords.

We meet Lord and Lady Clonbrony. Lord Clonbrony struggles with debt, while Lady Clonbrony tries to shed her Irish connections and earn status in London’s high society (known as “the ton.”) Meanwhile, their son, Lord Colambre, is wary of the entanglements of that society and escapes to the family estate in Ireland, where he discovers the abuses that have arisen in the family’s absence.

Maria Edgeworth was a pioneer of realism in fiction, and one of the most successful and popular novelists of her time. She offered satirical portraits of society manners and sympathetic treatment of regional life. Her work won admiration from authors such as Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott. “The Absentee” is named in the reference list “1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.”

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:27:58) Chapter 02

(01:06:44) Chapter 03

(01:43:32) Chapter 04

(02:19:34) Chapter 05

(03:22:48) Chapter 06

(04:11:50) Chapter 07

(04:48:14) Chapter 08

(05:13:11) Chapter 09

(05:53:08) Chapter 10