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A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Nov 18, 2022

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A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Masquerading as a Victorian scientific romance and then detonating into something far stranger, A Voyage to Arcturus follows the brooding, restless Maskull as he is drawn into an otherworldly expedition beyond Earth. Lured by a mysterious summons and guided by the enigmatic Krag, Maskull joins a journey to the distant planet Tormance, orbiting the binary stars Arcturus. There, the very laws of nature seem shaped by thought, desire, and moral force, and Maskull's body begins to change in unsettling ways as new senses awaken. Each region of Tormance becomes a living argument: landscapes and inhabitants embody competing philosophies of love, power, beauty, suffering, and truth. As Maskull encounters a procession of charismatic teachers, seductive ideals, and perilous adversaries, he is pushed to test every assumption he has carried from Earth. What begins as exploration becomes a relentless spiritual trial, forcing him to decide what kind of reality he can accept and what price he is willing to pay for meaning. Hallucinatory, provocative, and fiercely imaginative, Lindsay's cult classic is a quest not for conquest, but for the nature of the self.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:30:24) Chapter 02

(00:42:55) Chapter 03

(00:53:28) Chapter 04

(01:05:55) Chapter 05

(01:21:12) Chapter 06

(01:59:37) Chapter 07

(02:34:45) Chapter 08

(02:56:13) Chapter 09

(03:44:21) Chapter 10

(04:35:01) Chapter 11

(04:56:22) Chapter 12

(05:33:55) Chapter 13

(05:47:51) Chapter 14

(06:23:33) Chapter 15

(07:08:14) Chapter 16

(07:58:41) Chapter 17

(08:46:21) Chapter 18

(09:33:07) Chapter 19

(10:12:47) Chapter 20

(10:52:46) Chapter 21

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Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore ~ Full Audiobook [poetry] Nov 14, 2022

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Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore audiobook.

Genre: poetry

On a quiet Christmas Eve in a cozy home, a narrator settles in for the night when an unexpected sound outside pulls him to the window. What he sees transforms an ordinary winter evening into a moment of pure wonder: a miniature sleigh, a team of swift reindeer, and a jolly visitor arriving with practiced ease. As the narrator watches in amazement, the stranger-quick, cheerful, and mysterious-moves through the house with a warmth that feels both magical and reassuring. Each detail, from the snowy rooftop to the visitor's twinkling eyes and bundled gifts, paints a vivid picture of holiday enchantment and family comfort. Told in lively rhyme and crisp, memorable images, this classic poem captures the childlike thrill of anticipation, the comfort of tradition, and the belief that generosity can be as real as the falling snow. Perfect for listening by the fire or sharing aloud with loved ones, this timeless Christmas staple invites every generation to pause, listen, and feel the season come alive.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 10

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The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum ~ Full Audiobook [fantasy] Nov 14, 2022

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The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum audiobook.

Genre: fantasy

Long before Santa becomes a legend, a baby is found in the Forest of Burzee and raised under the watchful care of the wood nymph Necile and the powerful immortal Ak. As the boy, Claus, grows, he learns the ways of nature, the quiet wisdom of the forest folk, and the hard truths of the mortal world just beyond the trees. Drawn by compassion, he chooses to live among humans, where he meets poverty, loneliness, and the hardships of childhood. Determined to bring joy where there is little, Claus begins crafting simple toys and delivering them in secret, slowly shaping a new kind of generosity that spreads from house to house and village to village. But his growing mission does not go unnoticed. Ancient beings debate whether a mortal should wield such influence, and darker forces threaten the happiness he works to create. As Claus faces doubt, danger, and the limits of an ordinary human life, he must decide what he is willing to sacrifice to protect the wonder he has sparked. L. Frank Baum blends fairy-tale mythmaking with warmth and adventure, offering an imaginative origin story about kindness, courage, and the power of giving.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:11:56) Chapter 02

(00:26:38) Chapter 03

(00:40:52) Chapter 04

(00:51:46) Chapter 05

(01:13:06) Chapter 06

(01:34:43) Chapter 07

(02:00:19) Chapter 08

(02:16:28) Chapter 09

(02:34:09) Chapter 10

(02:52:58) Chapter 11

(03:09:23) Chapter 12

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The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ~ Full Audiobook [mystery] Nov 14, 2022

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The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook.

Genre: mystery

In Victorian London, a small, glittering object becomes the center of a baffling holiday mystery. After a street scuffle leaves behind a battered hat and a Christmas goose, the curious items make their way to consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his loyal companion, Dr. John Watson. What begins as a modest puzzle quickly sharpens into a high-stakes case when Holmes learns that a famous and valuable blue carbuncle has been stolen and that suspicion has already fallen on an unlikely suspect. With the city busy and the police eager for an arrest, Holmes turns his keen eye to overlooked details: the shape of a hat, the habits of its owner, the winding paths of London's markets and boarding houses, and the quiet motives that drive ordinary people to desperate choices. As Holmes traces the carbuncle's journey from glittering jewel to hidden prize, the investigation explores themes of justice, mercy, and the thin line between misfortune and wrongdoing, all set against the warmth and bustle of the Christmas season.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:26:48) Chapter 02

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Gift of the Magi by O. Henry ~ Full Audiobook [romance] Nov 14, 2022

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Gift of the Magi by O. Henry audiobook.

Genre: romance

The Gift of the Magi is an O. Henry short story in which a young couple are very much in love with each other but can barely afford their one-room apartment. For Christmas, they each make a sacrifice to purchase a gift for the other, with ironic results.

The moral of the story is that physical possessions, however valuable they may be, are of little value in the grand scheme of things. The true unselfish love that the characters, Jim and Della, share is greater than their possessions.

O. Henry ends the story by clarifying the metaphor between the characters in the story, Della and James (or Jim), and the Biblical Magi. The Gift of the Magi features O. Henry's characteristic twist ending and use of flowery diction.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

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Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence ~ Full Audiobook [drama] Nov 14, 2022

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Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence audiobook.

Genre: drama

Women in Love is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence published in 1920. It is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow (1915), and follows the continuing loves and lives of the Brangwen sisters, Gudrun and Ursula. Gudrun Brangwen, an artist, pursues a destructive relationship with Gerald Crich, an industrialist. Lawrence contrasts this pair with the love that develops between Ursula and Rupert Birkin, an alienated intellectual who articulates many opinions associated with the author. The emotional relationships thus established are given further depth and tension by an unadmitted homoerotic attraction between Gerald and Rupert. The novel ranges over the whole of British society at the time of the First World War and eventually ends high up in the snows of the Swiss Alps.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:50:51) Chapter 02

(01:23:49) Chapter 03

(01:55:55) Chapter 04

(02:15:35) Chapter 05

(02:41:42) Chapter 06

(03:25:07) Chapter 07

(03:40:02) Chapter 08

(04:25:11) Chapter 09

(05:08:36) Chapter 10

(05:37:09) Chapter 11

(05:50:44) Chapter 12

(06:24:35) Chapter 13

(06:55:36) Chapter 14

(07:30:32) Chapter 15

(08:26:11) Chapter 16

(09:19:58) Chapter 17

(09:46:18) Chapter 18

(10:23:32) Chapter 19

(10:56:49) Chapter 20

(11:40:14) Chapter 21

(12:11:05) Chapter 22

(12:41:51) Chapter 23

(13:23:51) Chapter 24

(13:57:26) Chapter 25

(14:41:25) Chapter 26

(15:15:11) Chapter 27

(16:22:35) Chapter 28

(17:12:53) Chapter 29

(18:02:02) Chapter 30

(18:12:45) Chapter 31

(18:41:42) Chapter 32

(19:29:21) Chapter 33

(19:47:01) Chapter 34

(20:20:25) Chapter 35

(20:54:36) Chapter 36

(21:46:49) Chapter 37

(22:27:55) Chapter 38

(22:50:54) Chapter 39

(23:20:53) Chapter 40

(24:01:36) Chapter 41

(24:56:42) Chapter 42

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The Behavior of the Honey Bee in Pollen Collecting by D. B. Casteel ~ Full Audiobook [science] Nov 14, 2022

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The Behavior of the Honey Bee in Pollen Collecting by D. B. Casteel audiobook.

Genre: science

In The Behavior of the Honey Bee in Pollen Collecting, D. B. Casteel offers a clear, observation-driven study of how worker honey bees locate, gather, and manage pollen - the protein-rich resource that fuels brood rearing and colony growth. Moving from the hive outward into the field, Casteel follows the forager's work step by step: how bees choose among blooming plants, how they loosen and pack pollen onto specialized body structures, and how the familiar pollen loads are formed and carried back to the colony. Along the way, the book examines the signals and practical constraints that shape pollen foraging, including floral traits, weather, time of day, and the needs of the brood nest, and it distinguishes pollen collecting from nectar foraging in both purpose and technique. Written to connect careful natural history with useful insight, the study highlights what these behaviors mean for beekeeping, crop pollination, and the broader relationship between insects and flowering plants. The result is a focused introduction to the mechanics and logic of pollen collection, inviting listeners to see a common backyard insect as a finely tuned biological system.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:08:53) Chapter 02

(00:12:01) Chapter 03

(00:17:53) Chapter 04

(00:20:59) Chapter 05

(00:26:26) Chapter 06

(00:34:44) Chapter 07

(00:45:24) Chapter 08

(01:13:47) Chapter 09

(01:20:37) Chapter 10

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The Island of Appledore by Cornelia Meigs ~ Full Audiobook [adventure] Nov 14, 2022

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The Island of Appledore by Cornelia Meigs audiobook.

Genre: adventure

Any one who knows the coast of New England will know also the Island of Appledore and just where it lies. Such a person can tell you that it is not exactly the place described in this book, that it is small and bare and rocky with no woods, no meadows, no church, or mill, or mill-creek road. Perhaps all that the story tells of it that is true is that there the rocks give forth their strange deep song, “the calling of Appledore,” as warning of a storm, that there the poppies bloom as nowhere else in the world, that there the surf comes rolling in, day in and day out, the whole year through, and that there one’s memory turns back with longing, no matter how many years of absence have gone by. There, also, you can sit for hours to watch the huge, green breakers come foaming and tumbling in endless procession up the stony beach; you can watch the nimble sandpipers and the tireless, wheeling gulls; and if you choose you can spin for yourself just such a story as this one of Billy Wentworth and Captain Saulsby and Sally Shute, a tale of mysteries and perils and midnight adventures on the shores of Appledore.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:27:54) Chapter 02

(00:53:43) Chapter 03

(01:24:59) Chapter 04

(01:44:11) Chapter 05

(02:04:37) Chapter 06

(02:24:32) Chapter 07

(02:48:31) Chapter 08

(03:07:11) Chapter 09

(03:30:52) Chapter 10

(03:52:31) Chapter 11

(04:20:00) Chapter 12

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Project Mastodon by Clifford D. Simak ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Nov 11, 2022

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Project Mastodon by Clifford D. Simak audiobook.

Genre: scifi

When three longtime friends stumble onto a working time-jump device, they do not rush to change history - they go looking for opportunity. Wesley Adams, a visionary deal-maker, John Cooper, his blunt and loyal right hand, and Chuck Hudson, a well-connected former diplomat, leap back tens of thousands of years to a North America that is familiar in outline but ruled by Pleistocene reality: shifting glaciers, altered landscapes, and the looming presence of mastodons and other dangerous wildlife. Their bold plan is not just to explore, but to claim: they plant a flag, set up a rough capital, and announce the birth of a brand-new nation - Mastodonia - in a time before modern borders exist. But building a country is harder than naming one. While two men guard supplies and wrestle with survival in the ancient wilderness, the third returns to the twentieth century to seek recognition, investment, and legitimacy. What follows is a wry, fast-moving clash between big dreams and hard logistics, as ambition, bureaucracy, and the raw facts of deep time threaten to turn a clever scheme into a very expensive mistake.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:14:25) Chapter 2

(00:32:09) Chapter 3

(00:47:14) Chapter 4

(01:03:21) Chapter 5

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Hellhounds of the Cosmos by Clifford D. Simak ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Nov 11, 2022

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Hellhounds of the Cosmos by Clifford D. Simak audiobook.

Genre: scifi

For six months the world has been coming apart. Towns vanish overnight, expeditions return broken and babbling, and the newspapers can only give the terror a name: the Black Horror. It does not march like an army or land like a spaceship - it simply appears, leaving ruin behind, and every weapon humanity owns seems useless against it. As panic spreads and civilization strains to hold together, one man offers a theory as frightening as the threat itself. Dr. Silas White believes the invaders are not from another planet, but from the fourth dimension - and that the only way to stop them is to meet them on their own ground. Caught between skepticism, fear, and the relentless pressure of each new atrocity, a hard-nosed reporter, Henry Woods, finds himself drawn into White's plan. The proposal is simple to state and nearly impossible to survive: send ninety-eight volunteers across the dimensional barrier, remake them for a realm beyond human senses, and ask them to fight for a planet they may never see again. What follows is a compact, high-stakes journey into the unknown, where science becomes desperation and courage is the last remaining defense.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:16:04) Chapter 2

(00:32:11) Chapter 3

(00:52:45) Chapter 4

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