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Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald ~ Full Audiobook [drama] Dec 27, 2022

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Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook.

Genre: drama

Step into the bright, restless world of the early 1920s with Flappers and Philosophers, F. Scott Fitzgerald's sparkling first story collection. Across eight tales of youth, money, and sudden desire, Fitzgerald follows dreamers and social climbers as they chase romance, status, and the newest thrills of the Jazz Age. In the title story, a young man tries to map love with logic only to discover that emotions refuse to obey tidy rules. In other stories, ambitious outsiders test their luck in drawing rooms and on city streets, while young women with a new sense of freedom weigh what they want against what society expects. From glittering parties to quiet moments of self-reckoning, each narrative captures the push and pull between idealism and reality, between the performance of sophistication and the private cost of wanting more. Witty, bittersweet, and sharply observed, these stories reveal how quickly fortunes can shift and how easily a single choice can define a life, offering a vivid portrait of an era intoxicated with possibility - and shadowed by consequence.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(01:11:47) Chapter 02

(02:12:15) Chapter 03

(03:05:53) Chapter 04

(03:55:03) Chapter 05

(04:55:05) Chapter 06

(05:32:34) Chapter 07

(06:12:29) Chapter 08

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Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F. Scott Fitzgerald ~ Full Audiobook [drama] Dec 27, 2022

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Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook.

Genre: drama

In this sharp, witty story of youth and status, Bernice, a shy girl from the East, arrives for a summer visit with her dazzling cousin Marjorie at a small-town country club in Minnesota. Surrounded by dances, tennis, porch gossip, and a social scene ruled by quick tongues and quicker judgments, Bernice feels invisible next to Marjorie's effortless charm. Marjorie offers to remake her - coaching her on conversation, confidence, and the careful performance that passes for popularity. The lessons work, but success comes with a price: attention turns into scrutiny, friendships become competitions, and Marjorie and Bernice slip from allies into rivals as the town decides who deserves to shine. When a dare about a drastic new look becomes a public test of nerve, Bernice is forced to choose between staying safe and taking control of her own image. Fitzgerald captures the thrill of belonging, the cruelty of fashionable crowds, and the uneasy question beneath every compliment: is the admired version of you actually you at all?

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:32:18) Chapter 02

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Man Overboard! by F. Marion Crawford ~ Full Audiobook [horror] Dec 27, 2022

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Man Overboard! by F. Marion Crawford audiobook.

Genre: horror

A storm howls across the sea as the schooner Helen B. Jackson fights to stay afloat, and in the chaos a cry rings out: man overboard. When the crew counts heads after the gale, one of the Benton twins is missing - Jim or Jack, so alike that even shipmates hesitate to swear which brother was swept away. The loss should be the end of it, another hard truth of life before the mast, yet strange details begin to accumulate: an extra place setting that appears to have been used, footsteps where no one is walking, a sense of company in the tight quarters of the ship. The narrator, a practical seaman with no taste for superstition, tries to explain away what he sees and hears, but the uncanny follows the surviving twin back to shore as well. With a young woman named Mamie waiting in his new life, the survivor should be able to begin again - if grief, guilt, and whatever came back from the storm will let him. Crawford blends nautical realism with a slow, chilling ghostly doubt about identity and the boundaries between the living and the dead.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:29:32) Chapter 2

(00:59:19) Chapter 3

(01:27:36) Chapter 4

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Sentry of the Sky by Evelyn E. Smith ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Dec 26, 2022

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Sentry of the Sky by Evelyn E. Smith audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Clarey is a low-ranking Sub-Archivist in a rigid future society where your job classification can define your entire life, and his private dream of becoming a musician feels more impossible every year. Then, during what he expects to be yet another disappointing visit to the Classification Center, Clarey is abruptly reassigned - not to the artistic post he imagined, but to something far more dangerous: an intelligence assignment off-world. Sent to the alien planet Damorlan, he must learn to survive in a place where social cues are unfamiliar, loyalties are hard to read, and a single mistake can expose him as an outsider. As Clarey is pulled deeper into interstellar intrigue, he faces a constant pressure to perform a role he never asked for while trying to hold onto the parts of himself the system has tried to file away. Witty, sharp, and tense, Sentry of the Sky blends espionage stakes with satirical observations about bureaucracy, ambition, and the uneasy gap between who we are and who we are permitted to be.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:35:35) Chapter 02

(01:08:13) Chapter 03

(01:36:17) Chapter 04

(02:08:04) Chapter 05

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The Biography of a Grizzly by Ernest Thompson Seton ~ Full Audiobook [biography] Dec 26, 2022

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The Biography of a Grizzly by Ernest Thompson Seton audiobook.

Genre: biography

In The Biography of a Grizzly, Ernest Thompson Seton tells the life story of a wild bear with the attention and dignity usually reserved for human heroes. From his first uncertain steps in the mountain forests to his rise as a powerful, wary survivor, the grizzly (often known as Wahb) learns the hard rules of a world shaped by hunger, weather, territory, and relentless danger. Guided by instinct and hard-won experience, he navigates rival predators, shifting seasons, and the ever-tightening presence of people - traps, rifles, poisoned bait, and the steady pressure of settlement. Seton blends vivid natural observation with a dramatic narrative voice, inviting listeners to see the landscape through the bear's senses: scent on the wind, the language of tracks, the promise and peril of open meadows. As Wahb grows older and more formidable, his struggles become as much about memory and caution as about strength, raising questions about what civilization calls 'vermin' and what nature calls a life. This is a gripping, empathetic portrait of endurance at the edge of the human frontier.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:35:04) Chapter 02

(01:04:38) Chapter 03

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The Jack-Knife Man by Ellis Parker Butler ~ Full Audiobook [family] Dec 26, 2022

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The Jack-Knife Man by Ellis Parker Butler audiobook.

Genre: family

Ellis Parker Butler's The Jack-Knife Man is a warm, quietly comic story of unlikely family and hard-won belonging along the Mississippi River. Peter Lane is an aging drifter who lives alone on a battered houseboat, passing his days with a jack-knife in hand, whittling small wooden figures and keeping to himself. But on a stormy night, a desperate woman arrives at his door with her young son, Buddy - and by morning Peter finds himself with a child to feed, protect, and somehow claim as his own. As Peter and Buddy settle into life on the river, a ragged wanderer named Booge drifts into their orbit, and the three form a makeshift household held together by simple decency, improvised joy, and the little toys Peter carves. Their fragile peace is tested by suspicious townspeople and well-meaning authorities who believe Buddy would be better off anywhere else, forcing Peter to prove he can offer more than shelter - he can offer a future. Tender, humorous, and deeply humane, Butler's novel explores charity without sentimentality and the stubborn courage it takes to love when the world says you should let go.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:26:09) Chapter 02

(00:37:02) Chapter 03

(00:57:41) Chapter 04

(01:26:32) Chapter 05

(01:55:12) Chapter 06

(02:23:42) Chapter 07

(02:43:00) Chapter 08

(02:53:35) Chapter 09

(03:05:26) Chapter 10

(03:22:41) Chapter 11

(03:31:54) Chapter 12

(04:03:24) Chapter 13

(04:17:31) Chapter 14

(04:36:38) Chapter 15

(04:51:44) Chapter 16

(05:08:37) Chapter 17

(05:28:19) Chapter 18

(05:38:15) Chapter 19

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The Confessions of a Daddy by Ellis Parker Butler ~ Full Audiobook [comedy] Dec 26, 2022

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The Confessions of a Daddy by Ellis Parker Butler audiobook.

Genre: comedy

The wry humor of Ellis Parker Butler, who gave us the classic Pigs Is Pigs, takes us into his own married life where Marthy and Hiram live quietly in their Colorado town. They don't have trouble with anyone of their neighbors. Why should they, as they don't have any kids that could cause the neighbors trouble? And oh, luckily they don't have kids because how could Hiram otherwise afford to give his wife, Marthy a new silk dress? Really lucky. The neighbors kids are cute and all but ugh, they are much better off without kids and their expenses and sicknesses and trouble. Except that one boy, well, he's cool, Hiram wouldn't mind having him around and teaching him how to fish. Or maybe the neighbors youngest daughter, shes so nice. All of this superiority changes when they expect a child of their own and then the poor little thing is born. Funny, poignant and oh, so true!

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:18:02) Chapter 02

(00:36:32) Chapter 03

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The Master-Knot of Human Fate by Ellis Meredith ~ Full Audiobook [fantasy] Dec 26, 2022

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The Master-Knot of Human Fate by Ellis Meredith audiobook.

Genre: fantasy

When a spring hike along a rugged Rocky Mountain trail turns into the unthinkable, two strangers are cut off from everything they ever knew. Adam, a capable, reflective man, and Robin, a sharp-witted woman with a fierce moral imagination, watch the world below them vanish in a sudden, overwhelming cataclysm. With no city lights to return to and no voices answering their calls, they take shelter in an isolated cabin and begin the hard work of staying alive: finding food, making tools, learning old skills the modern world made easy to forget. Yet survival is only the first test. In the silence after disaster, Adam and Robin are forced to confront the questions civilization usually drowns out: what makes a life meaningful, what love and companionship require, what duty remains when society is gone, and whether humanity deserves another beginning at all. Part philosophical fable, part intimate survival story, Ellis Merediths novel turns the end of the world into a searching debate about conscience, faith, and the fragile knot that binds two people - and an entire species - to hope.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:25:06) Chapter 02

(00:36:18) Chapter 03

(00:49:33) Chapter 04

(01:04:33) Chapter 05

(01:14:10) Chapter 06

(01:24:14) Chapter 07

(01:38:19) Chapter 08

(01:45:59) Chapter 09

(01:59:08) Chapter 10

(02:06:10) Chapter 11

(02:12:15) Chapter 12

(02:22:00) Chapter 13

(02:33:17) Chapter 14

(02:45:21) Chapter 15

(02:52:16) Chapter 16

(03:07:23) Chapter 17

(03:19:49) Chapter 18

(03:34:25) Chapter 19

(03:45:35) Chapter 20

(03:56:55) Chapter 21

(04:08:29) Chapter 22

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Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ~ Full Audiobook [family] Dec 23, 2022

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Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook.

Genre: family

If you like Jane Austen, you will probably like this book!

Mrs. Gaskell, as she was often referred to, is considered one of the greatest British novelists of the Victorian era. She was one of the earliest novelists ever to use dialect in her works, finding often that no word but the vernacular would suffice to convey the meaning she wanted to achieve. She was the author of The Life of Charlotte Brontë, a much-acclaimed and sometimes-reviled biography of her friend and peer.

Wives and Daughters revolves around Molly Gibson, only daughter of a widowed doctor living in a provincial English town in the 1830s. The novel was first published in the Cornhill Magazine as a serial from August 1864 to January 1866. When Mrs Gaskell died suddenly in 1865, it was not quite complete, and the last section was written by Frederick Greenwood.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:21:02) Chapter 02

(00:57:50) Chapter 03

(01:14:57) Chapter 04

(01:44:20) Chapter 05

(02:13:26) Chapter 06

(02:46:11) Chapter 07

(03:03:09) Chapter 08

(03:34:24) Chapter 09

(03:54:54) Chapter 10

(04:37:53) Chapter 11

(05:15:03) Chapter 12

(05:34:31) Chapter 13

(05:59:29) Chapter 14

(06:30:17) Chapter 15

(06:49:00) Chapter 16

(07:10:49) Chapter 17

(07:36:34) Chapter 18

(08:06:48) Chapter 19

(08:33:11) Chapter 20

(08:53:34) Chapter 21

(09:25:22) Chapter 22

(09:50:23) Chapter 23

(10:10:21) Chapter 24

(10:25:01) Chapter 25

(10:44:23) Chapter 26

(11:25:09) Chapter 27

(11:42:27) Chapter 28

(12:10:56) Chapter 29

(12:42:59) Chapter 30

(13:02:38) Chapter 31

(13:23:37) Chapter 32

(13:54:59) Chapter 33

(14:11:21) Chapter 34

(14:31:39) Chapter 35

(15:04:23) Chapter 36

(15:18:11) Chapter 37

(15:49:52) Chapter 38

(16:14:09) Chapter 39

(16:42:19) Chapter 40

(17:01:52) Chapter 41

(17:29:56) Chapter 42

(17:51:10) Chapter 43

(18:14:42) Chapter 44

(18:38:09) Chapter 45

(18:59:39) Chapter 46

(19:20:27) Chapter 47

(19:47:43) Chapter 48

(20:10:21) Chapter 49

(20:31:48) Chapter 50

(21:01:12) Chapter 51

(21:22:21) Chapter 52

(21:52:42) Chapter 53

(22:18:54) Chapter 54

(22:45:48) Chapter 55

(23:08:01) Chapter 56

(23:27:32) Chapter 57

(23:50:39) Chapter 58

(24:13:54) Chapter 59

(24:36:15) Chapter 60

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Ruth by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell ~ Full Audiobook [drama] Dec 23, 2022

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Ruth by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell audiobook.

Genre: drama

The book is a social novel, dealing with Victorian views about sin and illegitimacy. It is a surprisingly compassionate portrayal of a 'fallen woman', a type of person normally outcast from respectable society. The title of the novel refers to the main character Ruth Hilton, an orphaned young seamstress who is seduced and then abandoned by gentleman Henry Bellingham. Ruth, pregnant and alone, is taken in by a minister and his sister. They conceal her single status under the pretense of widowhood in order to protect her child from the social stigma of illegitimacy. Ruth goes on to gain a respectable position in society as a governess, which is threatened by the return of Bellingham and the revelation of her secret.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:27:39) Chapter 02

(01:13:49) Chapter 03

(01:47:58) Chapter 04

(02:29:35) Chapter 05

(02:50:08) Chapter 06

(03:11:15) Chapter 07

(03:31:27) Chapter 08

(03:59:24) Chapter 09

(04:08:51) Chapter 10

(04:22:20) Chapter 11

(04:56:32) Chapter 12

(05:23:12) Chapter 13

(05:53:23) Chapter 14

(06:15:54) Chapter 15

(06:38:11) Chapter 16

(07:12:06) Chapter 17

(07:43:35) Chapter 18

(08:09:33) Chapter 19

(08:44:27) Chapter 20

(09:36:18) Chapter 21

(10:12:42) Chapter 22

(10:49:18) Chapter 23

(11:48:18) Chapter 24

(12:31:47) Chapter 25

(13:24:32) Chapter 26

(13:59:35) Chapter 27

(14:52:30) Chapter 28

(15:26:05) Chapter 29

(15:58:48) Chapter 30

(16:37:08) Chapter 31

(17:00:00) Chapter 32

(17:17:48) Chapter 33

(17:38:06) Chapter 34

(18:07:48) Chapter 35

(18:20:27) Chapter 36

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