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The Great Taxicab Robbery by James H. Collins ~ Full Audiobook [mystery] Jan 30, 2023

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The Great Taxicab Robbery by James H. Collins audiobook.

Genre: mystery

In 1912, $25,000 was stolen during a bank transfer in New York City in broad daylight. In what may appear astonishing in today's world, the transfer occurred in a New York City taxicab. This factual account brings true crime of the early twentieth century to life. The various methods used by the detectives and police in their attempts to solve the mystery behind the robbery, and hopefully bring the thieves to justice, makes for great reading, particularly when one considers the fact that the accounts occurred over a century ago, and are quite authentic. Although the police now have higher technological advantages than was available over a century ago, the reader may find that many general techniques haven't changed all that much over the years. The characters involved with this true caper prove ingenious on both sides.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:20:36) Chapter 02

(00:27:42) Chapter 03

(00:42:50) Chapter 04

(01:02:06) Chapter 05

(01:20:50) Chapter 06

(01:34:17) Chapter 07

(01:48:49) Chapter 08

(02:06:58) Chapter 09

(02:28:08) Chapter 10

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The Trawler by James Brendan Connolly ~ Full Audiobook [drama] Jan 30, 2023

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The Trawler by James Brendan Connolly audiobook.

Genre: drama

In Gloucester, Massachusetts, the news comes ashore like a breaker in the night: Arthur Snow, a young bank fisherman, has been swept from the deck of the trawler Arbiter and lost at sea. His father, John Snow, and his niece, Mary, receive the story with grief - and with anger aimed at the vessel's skipper, Hugh Glynn, a towering, fiercely proud captain whose hunger to outwork and outrun every other craft has earned him both admiration and fear. When Glynn himself arrives to speak with the Snows, the tragedy turns into a reckoning, forcing everyone to weigh seamanship against ambition, and pride against responsibility. Watching it all is Simon Kippen, Arthur's close friend, who feels the pull of loyalty and unfinished duty. Determined to understand what took Arthur - and to prove what kind of man he will be - Simon asks for Arthur's place aboard Glynn's vessel as a dory mate, sailing into the brutal, routine danger of the Grand Banks. Between Gloucester and Newfoundland, amid hard weather, harder labor, and the tight bonds of men who risk everything for a share, Simon must face the sea, the skipper, and his own conflicted heart.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:03:16) Chapter 2

(00:17:02) Chapter 3

(00:41:38) Chapter 4

(00:58:41) Chapter 5

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Snowdrift by James B. Hendryx ~ Full Audiobook [adventure] Jan 30, 2023

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Snowdrift by James B. Hendryx audiobook.

Genre: adventure

The story revolves around Carter Brent, an alcoholic and gambler who had struck gold many times in the Yukon, but gambled and drank it away in Dawson; and Snowdrift, the half-breed who had spent her life with a wandering band of Indians in the frozen north country. Snowdrift had been raised by Wananebish, yet never knew who her father was, and yet Wananebish had somehow been able to send her to be schooled at a nearby mission.

The paths of this unlikely pair would cross in the barren lands of the Yukon where Brent had hopes of finding more gold, but it was well known that there was no gold in the region between Dawson and the MacKenzie. But Brent had that certain knack for striking gold, and due to his way of life, also had a certain knack for gambling and drinking it away. Plenty of action follows, while Brent performs his search with little or no money, runs across Snowdrift, and while a band of fellow gamblers who know of his luck follows closely on his trail, he must get his prize back to Dawson.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:13:35) Chapter 02

(00:30:13) Chapter 03

(00:35:17) Chapter 04

(00:52:53) Chapter 05

(01:02:45) Chapter 06

(01:10:35) Chapter 07

(01:12:30) Chapter 08

(01:47:18) Chapter 09

(02:07:38) Chapter 10

(02:29:34) Chapter 11

(02:46:17) Chapter 12

(03:05:47) Chapter 13

(03:34:44) Chapter 14

(03:55:17) Chapter 15

(04:14:40) Chapter 16

(04:34:51) Chapter 17

(05:02:59) Chapter 18

(05:27:47) Chapter 19

(05:53:03) Chapter 20

(06:06:13) Chapter 21

(06:35:40) Chapter 22

(07:13:32) Chapter 23

(07:45:03) Chapter 24

(08:14:15) Chapter 25

(08:42:23) Chapter 26

(09:03:12) Chapter 27

(09:36:17) Chapter 28

(10:05:31) Chapter 29

(10:26:22) Chapter 30

(10:47:56) Chapter 31

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The Thing in the Attic by James B. Blish ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Jan 30, 2023

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The Thing in the Attic by James B. Blish audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Honath the Pursemaker has committed the worst crime in his people’s tree-top civilization: he has doubts. In a culture of small, tail-bearing folk shaped by ancient science and ruled by the Book of Laws, faith is not a private matter, but the glue that keeps order. When Honath and a few like-minded friends question the existence of the Giants said to have created them, the authorities make an example of the heretics by casting them out of the safe canopy and down into the jungle floor - a place their myths describe as Hell. Forced to survive in a world of crushing scale, alien terrain, and predatory beasts that feel half legend and half biology, the exiles must improvise tools, alliances, and a new way of thinking while fear and hunger test their convictions. As their journey pushes them farther from everything they have ever known, Honath is driven to ask what belief is worth when reality itself is uncertain, and whether truth can be found without tearing a society apart. One of Blish’s sharp, idea-driven pantropy tales, this is survival adventure fused with a haunting debate about authority, knowledge, and the cost of heresy.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:44:25) Chapter 02

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The Black Fawn by James Arthur Kjelgaard ~ Full Audiobook [adventure] Jan 27, 2023

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The Black Fawn by James Arthur Kjelgaard audiobook.

Genre: adventure

Bud Sloan was an orphan who had been 'sold out' of the orphanage to work on a farm once he'd been old enough to labor. The farm where he was to work was owned by an aging farmer and his wife who had raised a large family and were now left alone.

One day, after his chores were done, Bud wandered into the woods nearby and with mouth agape, he noticed a newborn jet black fawn all alone and apparently confused in his new surroundings. Bud resolved that day that this baby fawn was just like himself, an orphan, and would be bound to him in spirit. But many obstacles would keep the two separated, and the black fawn would eventually become the target of the local hunters.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:26:41) Chapter 02

(00:54:00) Chapter 03

(01:26:14) Chapter 04

(01:52:42) Chapter 05

(02:22:18) Chapter 06

(02:57:00) Chapter 07

(03:19:05) Chapter 08

(03:46:11) Chapter 09

(04:16:01) Chapter 10

(04:37:48) Chapter 11

(05:02:38) Chapter 12

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Six Feet Four by Jackson Gregory ~ Full Audiobook [adventure] Jan 27, 2023

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Six Feet Four by Jackson Gregory audiobook.

Genre: adventure

A hotel is robbed one night, and a cowboy makes his getaway with but few witnesses. When a young woman is also robbed, suspicion falls on one particular man who matches the description of the former thief. The robber is without a doubt a tall man; six feet four inches tall. Buck Thornton, at six feet four, in the area, and acting a bit peculiarly, becomes the suspect and sets about to uncover the true culprit. However, what he discovers during his detective work shocks him. Surely it couldn't be? He sets out to capture the thief and clear his name and just maybe prove to the girl who had been robbed that he was innocent of the crime.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:19:56) Chapter 02

(00:40:02) Chapter 03

(01:00:07) Chapter 04

(01:24:34) Chapter 05

(01:41:05) Chapter 06

(01:59:23) Chapter 07

(02:13:20) Chapter 08

(02:29:26) Chapter 09

(02:46:02) Chapter 10

(03:06:38) Chapter 11

(03:22:33) Chapter 12

(03:41:40) Chapter 13

(04:02:25) Chapter 14

(04:20:18) Chapter 15

(04:47:18) Chapter 16

(05:12:31) Chapter 17

(05:26:09) Chapter 18

(05:42:01) Chapter 19

(05:58:06) Chapter 20

(06:10:14) Chapter 21

(06:27:11) Chapter 22

(06:37:11) Chapter 23

(06:54:12) Chapter 24

(07:15:54) Chapter 25

(07:41:09) Chapter 26

(08:02:44) Chapter 27

(08:23:31) Chapter 28

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Salvage in Space by Jack Williamson ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Jan 27, 2023

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Salvage in Space by Jack Williamson audiobook.

Genre: scifi

In the lonely reaches of the asteroid belt, Thad Allen makes a bare living as a meteor miner, welding scavenged iron into a tiny drifting 'planet' he hopes to trade for a better life. Then his battered instruments pick up the impossible: a rocket ship, the Red Dragon, dead in space and drifting without a beacon. To a salvager, it is a fortune waiting to be claimed - if he can live long enough to collect it. Inside, Thad finds signs of a crew that vanished in terror, a single shivering dog that will not stop watching the shadows, and a mystery that turns the ship into a trap. The thing responsible is not only lethal, but nearly impossible to fight: a hidden presence that moves through the corridors without showing itself, leaving only dread and sudden violence behind. As Thad struggles to keep his nerve and keep his new companion alive, he uncovers a stranger discovery still - a young woman named Linda Cross, preserved beyond help and demanding answers. With air, power, and time running out, Thad must choose what is worth saving, and what might cost him everything.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:35:51) Chapter 02

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The Shaggy Man of Oz by Jack Snow ~ Full Audiobook [fantasy] Jan 27, 2023

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The Shaggy Man of Oz by Jack Snow audiobook.

Genre: fantasy

'During the past few years, several readers have written me asking: 'What ever happened to the Nome King's tunnel under the Deadly Desert?' The answer will be found in this book. Everyone who has read the Oz books knows and loves Shaggy. He first met Dorothy in 'The Road To Oz,' and from that time on had a number of adventures in which he discovered such famous Oz personages as the Patchwork Girl, Ojo, Unk Nunkie, the Glass Cat, Betsy Bobbin and her Mule Hank, and many others. So, it is about time that the Shaggy Man had an Oz book all his own—and here it is—faithfully recorded from the latest messages received from the Land of Oz.'

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:01:59) Chapter 01

(00:06:59) Chapter 02

(00:13:07) Chapter 03

(00:21:05) Chapter 04

(00:27:37) Chapter 05

(00:40:54) Chapter 06

(00:54:51) Chapter 07

(01:03:43) Chapter 08

(01:29:01) Chapter 09

(01:42:41) Chapter 10

(01:56:37) Chapter 11

(02:03:53) Chapter 12

(02:12:08) Chapter 13

(02:21:25) Chapter 14

(02:28:54) Chapter 15

(02:36:10) Chapter 16

(02:43:09) Chapter 17

(02:50:24) Chapter 18

(02:57:25) Chapter 19

(03:04:02) Chapter 20

(03:08:17) Chapter 21

(03:16:56) Chapter 22

(03:22:35) Chapter 23

(03:27:59) Chapter 24

(03:31:36) Chapter 25

(03:34:11) Chapter 26

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The Magical Mimics in Oz by Jack Snow ~ Full Audiobook [fantasy] Jan 27, 2023

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The Magical Mimics in Oz by Jack Snow audiobook.

Genre: fantasy

The land of OZ is the happiest fairyland anywhere, but there are evil creatures whose only ambition is to destroy that happiness. Lurking inside Mount Illuso, just south of the Deadly Desert, live the Magic Mimics, a race devoted to causing the maximum chaos and unhappiness everywhere, but mainly in the land of OZ. Until now they have been kept at bay by a spell, but when Princess Ozma leaves OZ for 3 days, their foul machinians are quicly put into play. Princess Dorothy is left in chage of OZ and must deal with these happiness crushing beings. Can she do it? Will Toto help? You bet!!! Listen to this rip snorting adventure in oz and enjoy all of your old friends again. .

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:05:21) Chapter 02

(00:17:58) Chapter 03

(00:23:28) Chapter 04

(00:33:27) Chapter 05

(00:41:01) Chapter 06

(00:51:21) Chapter 07

(00:56:39) Chapter 08

(01:06:31) Chapter 09

(01:23:18) Chapter 10

(01:30:48) Chapter 11

(01:47:27) Chapter 12

(01:59:38) Chapter 13

(02:07:26) Chapter 14

(02:15:58) Chapter 15

(02:28:11) Chapter 17

(02:40:54) Chapter 18

(02:50:41) Chapter 19

(02:58:01) Chapter 20

(03:03:23) Chapter 21

(03:11:01) Chapter 22

(03:18:06) Chapter 23

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Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev ~ Full Audiobook [drama] Jan 27, 2023

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Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev audiobook.

Genre: drama

The fathers and children of the novel refers to the growing divide between the two generations of Russians, and the character Yevgeny Bazarov has been referred to as the 'first Bolshevik', for his nihilism and rejection of the old order.

Turgenev wrote Fathers and Sons as a response to the growing cultural schism that he saw between liberals of the 1830s/1840s and the growing nihilist movement. Both the nihilists (the 'sons') and the 1830s liberals sought Western-based social change in Russia. Additionally, these two modes of thought were contrasted with the conservative Slavophiles, who believed that Russia's path lay in its traditional spirituality.

Fathers and Sons might be regarded as the first wholly modern novel in Russian Literature (Gogol's Dead Souls, another main contender, is sometimes referred to as a poem or epic in prose as in the style of Dante's Divine Comedy). The novel introduces a dual character study, as seen with the gradual breakdown of Bazarov's and Arkady's nihilistic opposition to emotional display, especially in the case of Bazarov's love for Madame Odintsova and Fenichka. This prominent theme of character duality and deep psychological insight would exert an influence on most of the great Russian novels to come, most obviously echoed in the novels of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.

The novel is also the first Russian work to gain prominence in the Western world, eventually gaining the approval of well established novelists Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, and Henry James, proving that Russian literature owes much to Ivan Turgenev.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:09:51) Chapter 02

(00:15:00) Chapter 03

(00:29:43) Chapter 04

(00:41:20) Chapter 05

(00:57:39) Chapter 06

(01:05:46) Chapter 07

(01:22:42) Chapter 08

(01:41:37) Chapter 09

(01:49:44) Chapter 10

(02:22:21) Chapter 11

(02:33:15) Chapter 12

(02:46:57) Chapter 13

(03:03:02) Chapter 14

(03:15:48) Chapter 15

(03:27:46) Chapter 16

(03:54:42) Chapter 17

(04:24:25) Chapter 18

(04:37:46) Chapter 19

(04:57:22) Chapter 20

(05:26:48) Chapter 21

(06:10:39) Chapter 22

(06:25:57) Chapter 23

(06:44:02) Chapter 24

(07:29:09) Chapter 25

(07:56:21) Chapter 26

(08:19:58) Chapter 27

(09:01:49) Chapter 28

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