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The British Barbarians by Grant Allen ~ Full Audiobook [comedy] Jan 18, 2023

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The British Barbarians by Grant Allen audiobook.

Genre: comedy

After Civil Servant Philip Christy crosses paths with the mysterious Bertram Ingledew in the respectable suburb of Brackenhurst, Philip and his sister Frida, married to the wealthy Scot Robert Monteith, become friends with the stranger. Bertram has some unconventional concepts about society, and as the story unfolds, his beliefs and actions cause much disruption in the family and the neighbourhood.

Who is Bertram? Where does he come from? Allen explores some interesting ideas about society, some of which are curiously relevant today.

The story is preceded by an introduction which, although it may appear to have no connection with the story itself, the reader is earnestly besought by the author to read. The introduction begins as a diatribe against publishers, and develops into a philosophical justification of Allen's writing, and may, if desired, be omitted by the listener who is only interested in the story.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:23:17) Chapter 01

(00:50:44) Chapter 02

(01:19:17) Chapter 03

(01:28:11) Chapter 04

(02:06:58) Chapter 05

(02:34:38) Chapter 06

(02:54:10) Chapter 07

(03:11:14) Chapter 08

(03:44:20) Chapter 09

(04:04:58) Chapter 10

(04:30:03) Chapter 11

(04:45:43) Chapter 12

(04:53:09) Chapter 13

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The Story of the Pony Express by Glenn D. Bradley ~ Full Audiobook [history] Jan 18, 2023

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The Story of the Pony Express by Glenn D. Bradley audiobook.

Genre: history

The Story of the Pony Express offers an in depth account behind the need for a mail route to connect the eastern U.S. with the rapidly populating west coast following the gold rush of California, the springing up of lumber camps, and all incidental needs arising from the settling of the western frontier. Here we learn of the inception of the Pony Express, its formation, successes, failures, facts, statistics, combined with many anecdotes and names of the people who were an integral part of this incredible entity which lasted but less than two years, yet was instrumental in the successful settlement of two thirds of the land mass comprising the expanding country.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:10:23) Chapter 2

(00:29:23) Chapter 3

(00:56:28) Chapter 4

(01:20:33) Chapter 5

(01:46:06) Chapter 6

(02:07:44) Chapter 7

(02:25:25) Chapter 8

(02:55:09) Chapter 9

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Orthodoxy by Gilbert K. Chesterton ~ Full Audiobook [religion] Jan 18, 2023

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Orthodoxy by Gilbert K. Chesterton audiobook.

Genre: religion

In Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton sets out to explain how he arrived at Christian belief, not through inherited convention, but through a hard-won sense that the world is both stranger and more meaningful than modern cynicism allows. Framed as a personal intellectual adventure, the book follows Chesterton as he tests the fashionable ideas of his age - skepticism, materialism, and self-made philosophies - and finds them unable to account for everyday experience: joy and duty, wonder and reason, sin and virtue, freedom and constraint. With wit, paradox, and vivid imagery, he argues that Christian orthodoxy is not a dull set of rules but a daring balance of opposites that protects the color and sanity of life. Along the way he reflects on imagination, humility, morality, and the peril of making the self the measure of truth. Both a defense of faith and a critique of modern assumptions, Orthodoxy invites listeners to reconsider what seems obvious, and to see belief as a living, dynamic response to the real world.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:11:32) Chapter 2

(00:56:00) Chapter 3

(01:38:08) Chapter 4

(02:35:26) Chapter 5

(03:17:24) Chapter 6

(04:15:57) Chapter 7

(05:18:58) Chapter 8

(06:04:21) Chapter 9

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Equation of Doom by Gerald Vance ~ Full Audiobook [thriller] Jan 17, 2023

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Equation of Doom by Gerald Vance audiobook.

Genre: thriller

A world weary space pilot on the lam from earth for crimes unspecified; the most beautiful (earthly) tri-D woman in the universe who is determined to be the most powerful too; a planet of crafty and unscrupulous giant frogs intent on kicking out all aliens; and finally beings who live outside of time. Mix them all together and some very interesting things happen. Very interesting. And disastrous. But there's more! Why did 3000 worlds across the galaxy suddenly blossom almost simultaneously with very similar life and intelligence? Could there have been a common ancestor? Well, give or take a million years, simultaneously. The answer to all these questions is in this story. Listen and find out what happens in Equation of Doom.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:27:20) Chapter 02

(00:57:14) Chapter 03

(01:27:10) Chapter 04

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Stoicism by George Stock ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy] Jan 17, 2023

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Stoicism by George Stock audiobook.

Genre: philosophy

This short book is part of the Philosophies Ancient and Modern series, which attempts to make Western philosophy more accessible to the general public.

In this volume, George Stock provides a concise primer on Stoicism, the ancient philosophy that maintained that the universe is governed entirely by fate, and that humans can achieve happiness only by cultivating a calm acceptance of the vicissitudes of life. Among the Stoics of the Greek and Roman world were its founder, Zeno, the former slave Epictetus, and the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. George Stock discusses not only the Stoic ethics, but also less well-known aspects of Stoicism, such as its division of the branches of philosophy, its account of logic, and its natural philosophy.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:12:40) Chapter 02

(00:18:28) Chapter 03

(00:44:41) Chapter 04

(01:34:32) Chapter 05

(01:58:20) Chapter 06

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QRM-Interplanetary by George O. Smith ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Jan 17, 2023

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QRM-Interplanetary by George O. Smith audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Far from Earth, where the Sun can turn a simple transmission into silence, the Venus Equilateral Relay Station keeps three worlds talking. Built from an asteroid and parked sixty degrees ahead of Venus in its orbit, the spinning cylinder is a self-contained city of nearly three thousand people - engineers, technicians, and families whose daily work makes interplanetary civilization possible. Don Channing, one of the station's best electronics men, lives for the clean logic of beam circuits and relay schedules. Then the Interplanetary Communications Commission appoints a new Director: Francis Burbank, a cost-cutting administrator who treats a lifeline like a ledger. As Burbank clamps down on personal freedoms, dismantles long-standing procedures, and meddles with systems he does not understand, resentment simmers and the station's delicate balance begins to wobble. When routine maintenance and bureaucratic shortcuts collide, Channing and his colleagues - including beam-control expert Walt Franks and sharp-tongued Arden Westland - must keep communications stable while racing to prevent a life-support disaster that could turn Venus Equilateral into a drifting tomb. QRM-Interplanetary is classic, idea-driven science fiction about competence under pressure and the deadly interference of bad leadership.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:37:15) Chapter 02

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The Lifted Veil by George Eliot ~ Full Audiobook [horror] Jan 17, 2023

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The Lifted Veil by George Eliot audiobook.

Genre: horror

In Victorian England, sensitive and solitary Latimer drifts through life with a mind he does not fully control. After a strange illness in his youth, he becomes cursed - or gifted - with sudden flashes of the future and an unnerving ability to hear the secret thoughts of those around him. What first seems like a way to understand people more deeply quickly turns into a relentless assault of petty motives, hidden cruelties, and banal desires, leaving Latimer increasingly detached from ordinary human warmth. When he meets the poised and enigmatic Bertha, he hopes love might anchor him to the living world and quiet the din inside his head. Instead, his visions and impressions intensify, tightening into a private dread that he cannot name and cannot escape. As marriage, family expectations, and medical ambition intersect with Latimer's frightening perceptions, George Eliot crafts a chilling, intimate study of isolation and the danger of seeing too much. The Lifted Veil is a darkly psychological tale about knowledge without comfort, intimacy without trust, and the thin barrier between rational life and the uncanny.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:32:01) Chapter 02

(01:02:32) Chapter 03

(01:33:42) Chapter 04

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Silas Marner by George Eliot ~ Full Audiobook [drama] Jan 17, 2023

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Silas Marner by George Eliot audiobook.

Genre: drama

Silas Marner (originally published in 1861): Betrayed by a beloved friend and accused of a crime he didn’t commit, awkward Silas Marner is expelled from his beloved religious community — the only community he has ever known. He exiles himself in the remote village of Raveloe. Friendless and without family, set apart from the villagers by their superstition and fear of him, he plies his weaving trade day after day, storing up gold which becomes his idol. When his gold is stolen, he is rescued from despair by the arrival on his lonely hearth of a beautiful little girl, whom he adopts, and through whom he and the other people of the village learn that loving relationships are more fulfilling than material wealth.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:25:24) Chapter 2

(00:44:11) Chapter 3

(01:09:46) Chapter 4

(01:26:06) Chapter 5

(01:37:52) Chapter 6

(01:59:50) Chapter 7

(02:11:38) Chapter 8

(02:30:16) Chapter 9

(02:45:08) Chapter 10

(03:18:32) Chapter 11

(04:01:43) Chapter 12

(04:16:22) Chapter 13

(04:33:27) Chapter 14

(05:01:39) Chapter 15

(05:04:43) Chapter 16

(05:37:15) Chapter 17

(05:59:58) Chapter 18

(06:07:55) Chapter 19

(06:28:44) Chapter 20

(06:33:48) Chapter 21

(06:41:23) Chapter 22

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Middlemarch by George Eliot ~ Full Audiobook [drama] Jan 17, 2023

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Middlemarch by George Eliot audiobook.

Genre: drama

Set in the English Midlands in the years just before the Reform Act of 1832, Middlemarch follows the intertwined lives of the residents of a provincial town where ambition, idealism, and gossip travel quickly through drawing rooms, churches, and counting houses. At its center is Dorothea Brooke, a young woman determined to live for something larger than comfort, whose choices pull her into a marriage and a social world she only partly understands. Around her move the newly arrived doctor Tertius Lydgate, hungry to modernize medicine and build a meaningful career, and the earnest banker Fred Vincy and practical Mary Garth, whose relationship is tested by debt, duty, and pride. As elections stir local politics and old families reckon with new money, private longings collide with public expectations. George Eliot renders love and marriage, vocation and compromise, faith and skepticism, and the quiet heroism of everyday endurance with psychological depth and sharp humor. In Middlemarch, the smallest decisions can reshape a whole life, and a town's moral climate can be as decisive as any fate.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:26:30) Chapter 2

(00:47:11) Chapter 3

(01:18:13) Chapter 4

(01:37:47) Chapter 5

(02:01:21) Chapter 6

(02:30:10) Chapter 7

(02:41:27) Chapter 8

(02:55:28) Chapter 9

(03:21:44) Chapter 10

(03:51:13) Chapter 11

(04:15:53) Chapter 12

(05:00:00) Chapter 13

(05:24:17) Chapter 14

(05:46:07) Chapter 15

(06:23:26) Chapter 16

(06:59:10) Chapter 17

(07:23:30) Chapter 18

(07:54:13) Chapter 19

(08:04:47) Chapter 20

(08:36:49) Chapter 21

(08:58:12) Chapter 22

(09:35:22) Chapter 23

(10:07:32) Chapter 24

(10:37:53) Chapter 25

(10:54:38) Chapter 26

(11:07:25) Chapter 27

(11:30:14) Chapter 28

(11:43:09) Chapter 29

(12:03:47) Chapter 30

(12:20:52) Chapter 31

(12:46:31) Chapter 32

(13:17:45) Chapter 33

(13:31:58) Chapter 34

(13:51:20) Chapter 35

(14:20:36) Chapter 36

(15:00:08) Chapter 37

(15:54:38) Chapter 38

(16:14:37) Chapter 39

(16:43:31) Chapter 40

(17:16:41) Chapter 41

(17:30:04) Chapter 42

(18:01:56) Chapter 43

(18:19:28) Chapter 44

(18:27:05) Chapter 45

(19:12:11) Chapter 46

(19:34:40) Chapter 47

(19:49:23) Chapter 48

(20:12:21) Chapter 49

(20:22:12) Chapter 50

(20:49:10) Chapter 51

(21:21:05) Chapter 52

(21:43:49) Chapter 53

(22:17:27) Chapter 54

(22:46:49) Chapter 55

(22:58:11) Chapter 56

(23:46:00) Chapter 57

(24:10:11) Chapter 58

(24:57:40) Chapter 59

(25:05:28) Chapter 60

(25:32:57) Chapter 61

(26:09:37) Chapter 62

(26:38:12) Chapter 63

(26:57:12) Chapter 64

(27:40:11) Chapter 65

(27:53:24) Chapter 66

(28:17:57) Chapter 67

(28:38:19) Chapter 68

(28:59:11) Chapter 69

(29:24:51) Chapter 70

(29:57:20) Chapter 71

(30:39:45) Chapter 72

(30:50:05) Chapter 73

(31:01:27) Chapter 74

(31:28:38) Chapter 75

(31:48:00) Chapter 76

(32:12:42) Chapter 77

(32:31:30) Chapter 78

(32:42:35) Chapter 79

(33:04:39) Chapter 80

(33:29:51) Chapter 81

(33:40:12) Chapter 82

(34:00:20) Chapter 83

(34:23:39) Chapter 84

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A Man of Honor by George Eggleston ~ Full Audiobook [drama] Jan 17, 2023

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A Man of Honor by George Eggleston audiobook.

Genre: drama

In the uneasy calm after the Civil War, Robert Pagebrook, a young New Yorker with a proud streak and a wounded heart, finds himself unmoored. A professional setback and a romantic disappointment have left him restless and self-critical, so when an invitation arrives from Virginia kin he barely knows, he takes it as a chance to begin again. At Shirley, an old family place shaped by memory, custom, and Reconstruction-era change, Pagebrook is welcomed into a world where lineage still matters, manners conceal sharp judgments, and every neighbor seems to have a theory about what a man owes to his name. As Robert navigates cousins, country characters, and the quiet pressures of Southern society, he discovers that hospitality can come with expectations, and affection can test pride. Then an abrupt financial shock from home leaves him stranded and indebted, forcing him to choose between easy evasions and the harder work of living up to the standard he admires most: honor. With keen observation and moral tension, Eggleston turns a visit into a trial of character, where love, loyalty, and self-respect all hang in the balance.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:16:57) Chapter 02

(00:24:41) Chapter 03

(00:42:02) Chapter 04

(00:55:29) Chapter 05

(01:07:12) Chapter 06

(01:17:56) Chapter 07

(01:27:03) Chapter 08

(01:34:36) Chapter 09

(01:42:49) Chapter 10

(01:55:52) Chapter 11

(02:04:52) Chapter 12

(02:21:57) Chapter 13

(02:30:08) Chapter 14

(02:42:54) Chapter 15

(02:55:06) Chapter 16

(03:04:24) Chapter 17

(03:12:15) Chapter 18

(03:23:45) Chapter 19

(03:30:22) Chapter 20

(03:38:31) Chapter 21

(03:51:49) Chapter 22

(04:03:05) Chapter 23

(04:11:55) Chapter 24

(04:18:03) Chapter 25

(04:34:44) Chapter 26

(04:45:08) Chapter 27

(04:57:46) Chapter 28

(05:12:35) Chapter 29

(05:23:00) Chapter 30

(05:29:57) Chapter 31

(05:45:54) Chapter 32

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