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The Untroubled Mind by Herbert J. Hall ~ Full Audiobook [self help] Jan 25, 2023

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The Untroubled Mind by Herbert J. Hall audiobook.

Genre: self help

In The Untroubled Mind, physician Herbert J. Hall turns his clinical experience with nervous strain, worry, and exhaustion into a steady, practical guide for anyone whose thoughts run ahead of their life. Writing with the calm authority of a doctor who has watched anxiety reshape sleep, appetite, work, and relationships, Hall explains how a mind becomes overburdened and why willpower alone often fails to restore balance. Through clear explanations and relatable case sketches, he invites listeners to notice the habits that keep distress alive: rumination, fear of symptoms, and the constant search for certainty. Hall then offers a grounded program for recovery built on attention training, sensible routine, rest that actually restores, and purposeful activity that rebuilds confidence. Rather than promising instant peace, the book focuses on small, repeatable choices that loosen the grip of worry and help the body and mind cooperate again. Warm, direct, and quietly motivating, The Untroubled Mind speaks to modern stress with timeless insights about discipline, compassion, and the daily practice of steadiness.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:12:38) Chapter 02

(00:23:48) Chapter 03

(00:35:01) Chapter 04

(00:44:06) Chapter 05

(00:57:20) Chapter 06

(01:07:52) Chapter 07

(01:15:14) Chapter 08

(01:23:50) Chapter 09

(01:32:18) Chapter 10

(01:40:12) Chapter 11

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The Snow-Burner by Henry Oyen ~ Full Audiobook [folklore] Jan 25, 2023

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The Snow-Burner by Henry Oyen audiobook.

Genre: folklore

The Snow-Burner is what the Native Americans called Reivers, and it was a rough and tumble life in the land where Reivers chose to live up to his name. The name was attributed to Reivers upon his proof after arriving in the north country because of his ability to defeat all perceived enemies in whatever means was necessary; whether by brute force and tough action, or by sheer cunning which he had gained living in the city in his earlier days. When assigned to oversee a group of foreigners in a work camp, he treated them with utter cruelty. When in search of an unknown source of gold, he found it necessary to combine his cunning with his forceful ways, proving his worthiness of the title given him.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:15:09) Chapter 02

(00:25:42) Chapter 03

(00:46:47) Chapter 04

(01:03:46) Chapter 05

(01:13:41) Chapter 06

(01:27:27) Chapter 07

(01:50:46) Chapter 08

(02:00:41) Chapter 09

(02:16:52) Chapter 10

(02:22:22) Chapter 11

(03:00:16) Chapter 12

(03:13:26) Chapter 13

(03:26:04) Chapter 14

(03:45:20) Chapter 15

(04:20:26) Chapter 16

(04:38:09) Chapter 17

(04:50:27) Chapter 18

(05:00:12) Chapter 19

(05:26:12) Chapter 20

(05:32:42) Chapter 21

(05:48:23) Chapter 22

(06:06:19) Chapter 23

(06:28:56) Chapter 24

(06:47:58) Chapter 25

(07:07:33) Chapter 26

(07:21:03) Chapter 27

(07:41:14) Chapter 28

(07:49:18) Chapter 29

(07:59:31) Chapter 30

(08:05:36) Chapter 31

(08:13:48) Chapter 32

(08:25:08) Chapter 33

(08:35:13) Chapter 34

(08:45:09) Chapter 35

(08:53:35) Chapter 36

(09:02:49) Chapter 37

(09:17:52) Chapter 38

(09:30:21) Chapter 39

(09:51:17) Chapter 40

(10:07:30) Chapter 41

(10:14:50) Chapter 42

(10:22:51) Chapter 43

(10:36:47) Chapter 44

(10:44:52) Chapter 45

(10:59:15) Chapter 46

(11:08:29) Chapter 47

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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy] Jan 25, 2023

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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau audiobook.

Genre: philosophy

Written in 1849 after Henry David Thoreau's brief imprisonment for refusing to pay a poll tax, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience is a sharp, compact manifesto on what a person owes to conscience when the law supports injustice. Thoreau challenges the comforting belief that obeying the state is automatically virtuous, arguing that citizens become complicit when government wages an unjust war or upholds human bondage. Moving from personal experience to public principle, he asks whether a moral individual should wait for majorities, elections, or slow reforms, or instead withdraw cooperation from wrongdoing right now. With brisk logic and vivid conviction, he explores the tension between practical citizenship and ethical integrity: how much power a government should have, what it means to be free, and what sacrifice may be required to live honestly. This essay is both a call to inner responsibility and a blueprint for nonviolent resistance, offering ideas that later inspired movements for social change while remaining fiercely individual and urgently contemporary.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:34:16) Chapter 02

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A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen ~ Full Audiobook [drama] Jan 25, 2023

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A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen audiobook.

Genre: drama

In A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen draws listeners into the warm, carefully arranged home of Nora Helmer, a lively young wife devoted to her husband, Torvald, and proud of the comfortable life they are building. But beneath the cheerful routines and pet names, Nora carries a private burden: years earlier, she made a risky choice to protect her family, and the consequences of that decision return just as Torvald begins a new position at the bank. When the desperate clerk Nils Krogstad threatens to expose Nora's secret unless she intervenes on his behalf, her domestic world turns into a pressure cooker of fear, persuasion, and moral compromise. As old friends reappear, including the steady Kristine Linde and the ailing Dr. Rank, Nora is forced to examine the true foundations of her marriage and the roles society has written for her. With sharp dialogue and mounting tension, Ibsen explores love and power, appearances and reality, and what it costs to be seen as a person rather than a possession.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(01:15:32) Chapter 02

(02:16:00) Chapter 03

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The World I Live In by Helen Keller ~ Full Audiobook [biography] Jan 25, 2023

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The World I Live In by Helen Keller audiobook.

Genre: biography

The World I Live In by Helen Keller is a collection of essays that poignantly tells of her impressions of the world, through her sense of touch, smell, her imagination and dreams.

My hand is to me what your hearing and sight together are to you. In large measure we travel the same highways, read the same books, speak the same language, yet our experiences are different. All my comings and goings turn on the hand as on a pivot. It is the hand that binds me to the world of men and women. The hand is my feeler with which I reach through isolation and darkness and seize every pleasure, every activity that my fingers encounter. With the dropping of a little word from another's hand into mine, a slight flutter of the fingers, began the intelligence, the joy, the fullness of my life. Helen Keller, quoted from her essay, The Seeing Hand

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:02:25) Chapter 01

(00:14:30) Chapter 02

(00:24:17) Chapter 03

(00:33:09) Chapter 04

(00:45:46) Chapter 05

(00:56:07) Chapter 06

(01:07:57) Chapter 07

(01:13:18) Chapter 08

(01:20:48) Chapter 09

(01:29:57) Chapter 10

(01:38:08) Chapter 11

(01:45:56) Chapter 12

(01:56:35) Chapter 13

(02:15:55) Chapter 14

(02:24:34) Chapter 15

(02:39:15) Chapter 16

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The Repairman by Harry Harrison ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Jan 25, 2023

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The Repairman by Harry Harrison audiobook.

Genre: scifi

In a sleek, automated future where machines run nearly everything, the people who can still fix those machines have become an afterthought. The Repairman follows one of the last true troubleshooters, a working-class specialist who spends his days crawling through service ducts, hunting down faults in systems that most citizens no longer understand and no longer want to think about. When a critical breakdown ripples outward from a seemingly minor failure, he is pulled from routine calls into the bright, bureaucratic world that depends on uninterrupted technology. There, corporate rules, spotless control rooms, and complacent managers collide with the messy reality of maintenance: things wear out, connections fail, and somebody has to get their hands dirty. As pressure mounts to restore operations quickly and quietly, the repairman must rely on his practical ingenuity, hard-won instincts, and a stubborn sense of professional pride to navigate a society that values convenience over competence. Witty, sharp, and unsettlingly plausible, Harry Harrison's story explores status, responsibility, and what happens when progress leaves essential people behind.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:19:14) Chapter 2

(00:34:55) Chapter 3

(00:46:31) Chapter 4

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The Misplaced Battleship by Harry Harrison ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Jan 25, 2023

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The Misplaced Battleship by Harry Harrison audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Something the size of a battleship should be hard to misplace. In interstellar space, it is just another missing object with the potential to start a war. When a powerful warship goes unaccounted for in a supposedly peaceful region, the Special Corps sends its most unusual investigator: James Bolivar diGriz, better known as Slippery Jim, the Stainless Steel Rat, a master thief who now uses his talents on the side of the law. Jim follows a trail of quiet rumors and carefully hidden paperwork to the planet Cittanuvo, where an illegal shipbuilding project may be underway behind a mask of respectability. The deeper he digs, the more he runs into professional-grade misdirection, a web of bribes and false fronts, and the unsettling possibility that someone plans to steal the battleship and sell its firepower to the highest bidder. Facing the criminal genius Pepe Nero and aided and hindered by the brilliant and unpredictable Angelina, Jim must rely on charm, nerve, and a thief's instincts to find the ship before it becomes the spark for galaxy-wide chaos. Fast, witty, and twisty, this caper blends crime, adventure, and classic space opera suspense.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:16:41) Chapter 2

(00:38:45) Chapter 3

(00:54:11) Chapter 4

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The K-Factor by Harry Harrison ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Jan 25, 2023

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The K-Factor by Harry Harrison audiobook.

Genre: scifi

In Harry Harrison's The K-Factor, humanity has tried to make war obsolete by turning it into a measurable, manageable risk. The key tool is Societics, a hard-nosed, data-driven science that treats whole cultures like systems and watches for the smallest shift that can trigger a runaway chain reaction. When the frontier planet Himmel begins showing a sudden, inexplicable rise in its k-factor - the war factor - veteran field operative Neel Sidorak is pulled from routine work and sent to find out why. Working under the weary guidance of Societics' aging founder and partnered with his assistant Adao Costa, Neel is dropped into a tense colonial society where independence movements, political pride, and old resentments are building pressure by the hour. But the numbers do not lie, and they hint at something worse than local unrest: someone may be feeding dangerous knowledge to the wrong hands, pushing Himmel toward a catastrophic point of no return. As Neel races to map the real forces shaping the planet, he must decide how far a supposedly peaceful civilization should go to prevent a war before it starts.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:16:05) Chapter 2

(00:29:09) Chapter 3

(00:46:01) Chapter 4

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Planet of the Damned by Harry Harrison ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Jan 24, 2023

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Planet of the Damned by Harry Harrison audiobook.

Genre: scifi

On the ice-bound world of Anvhar, society survives a brutal climate by channeling ambition into the Twenties - a planet-wide contest that crowns the most capable mind and body of a generation. Brion Brandd has just won, and he expects rest, acclaim, and a quiet recovery. Instead, a former champion named Ihjel pulls him into an off-world emergency: on the desert planet Dis, the ruling magter have provoked a crisis so extreme that neighboring Nyjord is preparing to stop them with nuclear force. With millions of lives poised on a countdown, Brion is recruited for a mission no diplomat or soldier has been able to solve. His edge is unusual: an amplified empathy that lets him read people and situations with unsettling clarity - a gift that becomes as dangerous as it is useful once he is trapped amid Dis's heat, scarcity, and violence. To prevent catastrophe, Brion must navigate blockades, hostile factions, and the alien logic of a world that seems to reward only aggression, while racing to understand what is really driving Dis toward self-destruction.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:12:04) Chapter 02

(00:21:30) Chapter 03

(00:56:01) Chapter 04

(01:10:29) Chapter 05

(01:25:34) Chapter 06

(01:40:32) Chapter 07

(02:10:37) Chapter 08

(02:38:38) Chapter 09

(03:06:23) Chapter 10

(03:27:44) Chapter 11

(03:49:50) Chapter 12

(04:06:29) Chapter 13

(04:32:16) Chapter 14

(04:55:42) Chapter 15

(05:20:18) Chapter 16

(05:36:52) Chapter 17

(06:01:18) Chapter 18

(06:16:06) Chapter 19

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Arm of the Law by Harry Harrison ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Jan 24, 2023

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Arm of the Law by Harry Harrison audiobook.

Genre: scifi

On the dusty margins of Mars, Nineport is a place people pass through, not a place they build. Its police station reflects that truth: a bored, graft-friendly chief, a couple of unreliable patrolmen, and one seasoned sergeant trying to keep the town from sliding completely into chaos. Then a coffin-sized crate arrives from Earth, addressed to the department with no warning and a promise of 'field testing.' Inside is Ned, a police experimental robot in a crisp, blue-painted uniform and armed with a literal-minded zeal for duty. At first, Ned is treated like expensive maintenance equipment, sweeping floors and sorting paperwork while the human cops get on with surviving Nineport. But when an armed robbery call comes in and the chief takes the lazy way out, Ned is sent into the street to do a cop's job. In a town where criminals operate under protection and everyone knows the name China Joe, one perfectly efficient machine is enough to upset every fragile arrangement. As violence flares and authority is challenged, the sergeant must decide what law enforcement means when the 'arm of the law' is made of metal, wiring, and unbreakable logic.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:13:48) Chapter 2

(00:28:51) Chapter 3

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