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The World That Couldn’t Be by Clifford D. Simak ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Nov 11, 2022

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The World That Couldn’t Be by Clifford D. Simak audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Layard was a curiosity to sociologists. The planet supported thriving tribes of natives but they were genderless. How could tribes form without families? But Gavin Duncan didn’t care. He had come to Layard to farm vua plants. Their berries cured mental illnesses and were one of the most expensive commodities in the galaxy. He was going to make his fortune if he could just keep the Cytha at bay, a big, dumb animal that could munch through 10 rows of vua in a night. Despite native superstitions he was going to have to hunt and kill the pest if he was to protect his crop. It was a dim-witted beast. How hard could it be? – “The World That Couldn’t Be” was first published in the January 1958 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction magazine.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:13:45) Chapter 2

(00:31:59) Chapter 3

(00:47:52) Chapter 4

(00:55:02) Chapter 5

(01:40:37) Chapter 6

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The Orphan by Clarence Edward Mulford ~ Full Audiobook [adventure] Nov 11, 2022

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The Orphan by Clarence Edward Mulford audiobook.

Genre: adventure

Many men swore that The Orphan was bad, and many swore profanely and with wonderful command of epithets because he was bad, but for obvious reasons that was as far as the majority went to show their displeasure. Those of the minority who had gone farther and who had shown their hatred by rash actions only proved their foolishness; for they had indeed gone far and would return no more. But Sheriff Jim Shields is tracking The Orphan, wanted for the murder of sheepherders, and won’t stop until he brings the bad man to justice.

Often billed as the second book in Clarence Mulford’s Hopalong Cassidy series, Hoppy doesn’t appear in this one, but it’s still as rip-roaring a western as you’ll ever see.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:13:19) Chapter 02

(00:37:36) Chapter 03

(00:52:25) Chapter 04

(01:10:28) Chapter 05

(01:34:57) Chapter 06

(02:04:48) Chapter 07

(02:32:39) Chapter 08

(02:39:30) Chapter 09

(02:58:46) Chapter 10

(03:32:30) Chapter 11

(03:59:20) Chapter 12

(04:21:00) Chapter 13

(04:58:43) Chapter 14

(05:31:33) Chapter 15

(05:54:33) Chapter 16

(06:13:01) Chapter 17

(06:46:11) Chapter 18

(07:05:06) Chapter 19

(07:19:43) Chapter 20

(07:38:33) Chapter 21

(07:47:28) Chapter 22

(08:09:18) Chapter 23

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Loss of the Sultana by Chester D. Berry ~ Full Audiobook [history] Nov 11, 2022

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Loss of the Sultana by Chester D. Berry audiobook.

Genre: history

In April 1865, as the Civil War collapses into uneasy peace and the nation reels from Abraham Lincoln's assassination, thousands of Union prisoners are finally released from Confederate camps like Andersonville and Cahaba. For many of these gaunt, half-starved soldiers, the steamboat Sultana seems like a last hard step on the road home. Instead, it becomes a floating pressure cooker of exhaustion, bureaucracy, and greed: a vessel built for a few hundred people is packed with more than two thousand, pushing north on the Mississippi after a hurried repair and a rushed loading at Vicksburg.Chester D. Berry, himself a survivor, reconstructs the tragedy through a blend of firsthand narrative, gathered testimonies, and documentary detail. Voices from men who endured prisons, marches, and hospitals now confront a new enemy - fire, boiling steam, icy river water, and the chaos of a night-time catastrophe near Memphis. As Berry follows the disaster and the investigations that follow, he also probes the unsettling question of how the worst maritime loss of life in American history could be so quickly overshadowed, and what happens when survivors must fight not only to live, but to be remembered.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 001

(00:09:12) Chapter 002

(00:12:42) Chapter 003

(00:40:14) Chapter 004

(00:46:14) Chapter 005

(00:47:32) Chapter 006

(00:48:51) Chapter 007

(00:54:58) Chapter 008

(00:57:58) Chapter 009

(01:01:09) Chapter 010

(01:03:59) Chapter 011

(01:07:02) Chapter 012

(01:09:52) Chapter 013

(01:18:53) Chapter 014

(01:20:14) Chapter 015

(01:21:29) Chapter 016

(01:46:22) Chapter 017

(01:56:38) Chapter 018

(01:58:13) Chapter 019

(02:14:01) Chapter 020

(02:21:10) Chapter 021

(02:35:46) Chapter 022

(02:38:36) Chapter 023

(02:41:47) Chapter 024

(02:42:54) Chapter 025

(02:58:16) Chapter 026

(03:01:09) Chapter 027

(03:04:05) Chapter 028

(03:09:22) Chapter 029

(03:14:22) Chapter 030

(03:20:08) Chapter 031

(03:21:31) Chapter 032

(03:27:01) Chapter 033

(03:29:48) Chapter 034

(03:36:40) Chapter 035

(03:38:44) Chapter 036

(04:05:23) Chapter 037

(04:24:32) Chapter 038

(04:37:07) Chapter 039

(04:38:27) Chapter 040

(04:39:45) Chapter 041

(04:42:07) Chapter 042

(04:52:36) Chapter 043

(04:59:19) Chapter 044

(05:06:06) Chapter 045

(05:10:50) Chapter 046

(05:16:49) Chapter 047

(05:24:06) Chapter 048

(05:30:26) Chapter 049

(05:33:20) Chapter 050

(05:40:35) Chapter 051

(05:41:36) Chapter 052

(05:44:02) Chapter 053

(05:51:28) Chapter 054

(05:59:11) Chapter 055

(06:01:18) Chapter 056

(06:04:48) Chapter 057

(06:06:09) Chapter 058

(06:07:20) Chapter 059

(06:08:42) Chapter 060

(06:12:33) Chapter 061

(06:24:48) Chapter 062

(06:28:52) Chapter 063

(06:30:11) Chapter 064

(06:32:06) Chapter 065

(06:41:58) Chapter 066

(06:44:50) Chapter 067

(06:52:40) Chapter 068

(06:55:42) Chapter 069

(07:00:23) Chapter 070

(07:03:55) Chapter 071

(07:06:17) Chapter 072

(07:08:50) Chapter 073

(07:13:28) Chapter 074

(07:18:03) Chapter 075

(07:24:12) Chapter 076

(07:34:34) Chapter 077

(07:38:48) Chapter 078

(07:41:55) Chapter 079

(07:44:37) Chapter 080

(07:47:59) Chapter 081

(07:52:39) Chapter 082

(07:59:39) Chapter 083

(08:10:03) Chapter 084

(08:14:30) Chapter 085

(08:20:04) Chapter 086

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The Ghost of Guir House by Charles Willing Beale ~ Full Audiobook [horror] Nov 10, 2022

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The Ghost of Guir House by Charles Willing Beale audiobook.

Genre: horror

When New Yorker Paul Henley receives a curious letter clearly meant for someone else, he does not toss it aside. On impulse - and with a growing fascination he cannot quite explain - he answers the invitation and travels south to the isolated Guir House in rural Virginia. There he meets Miss Dorothy Guir, an intelligent and disarming hostess whose warmth only deepens the unease that clings to her family's ancient, black-stone mansion. Inside its shadowed halls, strange portraits, half-forgotten histories, and whispered warnings suggest that Guir House is not merely old, but marked by something restless. As Paul tries to navigate the consequences of his initial deception, he is drawn into a tightening web of secrets surrounding the Guir name, the house's unsettling reputation, and a series of uncanny experiences that blur the line between superstition and something far more unsettling. With threads of gothic romance, psychological suspense, and late-Victorian fascination with hypnotism and occult philosophy, The Ghost of Guir House builds a steadily mounting dread around one question: is the haunting in the walls, in the past, or in the mind itself?

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:34:05) Chapter 02

(01:02:07) Chapter 03

(01:22:50) Chapter 04

(01:51:51) Chapter 05

(02:29:06) Chapter 06

(02:56:18) Chapter 07

(03:28:00) Chapter 08

(03:52:18) Chapter 09

(04:19:13) Chapter 10

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Rebels of the Red Planet by Charles Louis Fontenay ~ Full Audiobook [scifi] Nov 10, 2022

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Rebels of the Red Planet by Charles Louis Fontenay audiobook.

Genre: scifi

Dark Kensington had been dead for twenty-five years. It was a fact; everyone knew it. Then suddenly he reappeared, youthful, brilliant, ready to take over the Phoenix, the rebel group that worked to overthrow the tyranny that gripped the settlers on Mars.

The Phoenix had been destroyed not once, not twice, but three times! But this time the resurrected Dark had new plans, plans which involved dangerous experiments in mutation and psionics.

And now the rebels realized they were in double jeopardy. Not only from the government's desperate hatred of their movement, but also from the growing possibility that the new breed of mutated monsters would get out of hand and bring terrors never before known to man.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:30:22) Chapter 2

(01:05:51) Chapter 3

(01:45:05) Chapter 4

(02:24:42) Chapter 5

(02:59:20) Chapter 6

(03:36:16) Chapter 7

(04:10:38) Chapter 8

(04:42:52) Chapter 9

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The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children by Charles Kingsley ~ Full Audiobook [folklore] Nov 04, 2022

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The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children by Charles Kingsley audiobook.

Genre: folklore

In The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children, Charles Kingsley invites young listeners into the bright, perilous world of ancient Greece through a warm, fireside style that treats mythology as a treasury of moral adventure. Framed as stories told for children, the book retells classic legends with clear, vigorous prose and a storyteller's sense of wonder. You will meet Perseus, a determined youth set against monsters and dark magic; Jason, drawn into a daring voyage in search of glory; and Theseus, who must prove himself amid treachery, strange roads, and an enemy hidden at the heart of a maze. Kingsley keeps the gods, heroes, and creatures vivid, but he is just as interested in courage, self-control, loyalty, and the cost of pride. Across sea-journeys, riddling prophecies, and encounters with fearsome beasts, each tale asks what it means to be brave for the right reasons, and how a person can hold to honor when the world is full of temptations and terror. It is both an accessible introduction to Greek myth and a spirited meditation on character.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:14:23) Chapter 01

(00:22:44) Chapter 02

(00:41:36) Chapter 03

(01:02:53) Chapter 04

(01:29:51) Chapter 05

(01:38:50) Chapter 06

(01:53:41) Chapter 07

(02:12:20) Chapter 08

(02:20:32) Chapter 09

(03:07:54) Chapter 10

(04:02:21) Chapter 11

(04:08:42) Chapter 12

(04:18:38) Chapter 13

(05:09:17) Chapter 14

(05:19:24) Chapter 15

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Kentucky’s Famous Feuds and Tragedies by Charles G. Mutzenberg ~ Full Audiobook [history] Nov 04, 2022

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Kentucky’s Famous Feuds and Tragedies by Charles G. Mutzenberg audiobook.

Genre: history

In Kentucky's Famous Feuds and Tragedies, Charles G. Mutzenberg assembles a hard-edged tour through the violent vendettas and public calamities that helped shape Kentucky's reputation in the late 1800s. Beginning with the infamous Hatfield-McCoy conflict, Mutzenberg traces how ordinary disputes over property, politics, and personal honor could harden into years of retaliation, ambushes, and courtroom drama. From there, he turns to other, less widely remembered wars between neighbors and kin - including the French-Eversole feud and other regional clashes that drew newspapers, officials, and outsiders into communities already divided by loyalty and fear. Told as a sequence of tightly focused episodes, the book places listeners close to the people living inside these storms: family patriarchs trying to hold a side together, hotheaded young men eager to prove themselves, and local authorities struggling to enforce law where allegiance often mattered more than statutes. At once social history and cautionary tale, Mutzenberg's account examines how pride, rumor, and grievance can ignite a cycle of violence that outlives its original cause.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:23:44) Chapter 02

(00:38:56) Chapter 03

(00:54:18) Chapter 04

(01:12:02) Chapter 05

(01:32:35) Chapter 06

(01:59:17) Chapter 07

(02:18:22) Chapter 08

(02:32:56) Chapter 09

(02:46:34) Chapter 10

(03:01:34) Chapter 11

(03:17:46) Chapter 12

(03:35:34) Chapter 13

(03:49:43) Chapter 14

(04:07:17) Chapter 15

(04:29:23) Chapter 16

(04:44:02) Chapter 17

(04:54:55) Chapter 18

(05:13:03) Chapter 19

(05:31:05) Chapter 20

(05:43:27) Chapter 21

(05:56:48) Chapter 22

(06:15:10) Chapter 23

(06:46:46) Chapter 24

(07:07:18) Chapter 25

(07:27:48) Chapter 26

(07:46:23) Chapter 27

(07:59:29) Chapter 28

(08:14:53) Chapter 29

(08:24:50) Chapter 30

(08:45:05) Chapter 31

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The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens ~ Full Audiobook [drama] Nov 04, 2022

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The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens audiobook.

Genre: drama

The Old Curiosity Shop tells the story of Little Nell, a beautiful and virtuous young girl who lives with her grandfather in his shop of curiosities. Her grandfather loves her dearly, and Nell does not complain, but she lives a lonely existence without friends of her own age. Her only friend is Kit, an honest young lad who works at the shop, and whom she is teaching to write. Unbeknownst to Nell, her grandfather is obsessed with their precarious financial position and is attempting to make Nell a good inheritance by winning at cards. He keeps these nocturnal activities a secret, but borrows heavily from the evil Quilp, a dwarf, in order to raise new capital. In the end, he gambles away what little money they own, and Quilp seizes the opportunity to take possession of the shop and make Nell's and her grandfather's lives a misery. Indeed, her grandfather suffers a breakdown, which leaves him bereft of his wits. Courageously, Nell decides to escape Quilp, and she and her grandfather run away to the country to live as beggars, travelling into the Midlands of England.

There, then, follow the multifarious adventures of Nell and her grandfather, Quilp and his sly minions and accomplices, who would be Nell's vehement pursuers throughout the entire story, the noble schoolmaster, and many, many other personages as bright and memorable as Dickens' heroes always are. But... let us hear the story itself, shan't we?

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:04:39) Chapter 01

(00:42:31) Chapter 02

(01:00:54) Chapter 03

(01:21:55) Chapter 04

(01:42:58) Chapter 05

(01:58:55) Chapter 06

(02:23:06) Chapter 07

(02:39:15) Chapter 08

(03:03:40) Chapter 09

(03:30:34) Chapter 10

(03:44:19) Chapter 11

(04:05:30) Chapter 12

(04:23:49) Chapter 13

(04:45:42) Chapter 14

(05:01:42) Chapter 15

(05:24:30) Chapter 16

(05:38:14) Chapter 17

(05:57:30) Chapter 18

(06:15:56) Chapter 19

(06:40:51) Chapter 20

(06:52:36) Chapter 21

(07:15:43) Chapter 22

(07:28:15) Chapter 23

(07:51:26) Chapter 24

(08:06:09) Chapter 25

(08:26:02) Chapter 26

(08:42:48) Chapter 27

(09:05:23) Chapter 28

(09:20:23) Chapter 29

(09:43:16) Chapter 30

(09:56:18) Chapter 31

(10:20:46) Chapter 32

(10:33:56) Chapter 33

(10:57:29) Chapter 34

(11:10:24) Chapter 35

(11:34:58) Chapter 36

(11:48:09) Chapter 37

(12:05:55) Chapter 38

(12:28:00) Chapter 39

(12:42:50) Chapter 40

(13:01:17) Chapter 41

(13:17:52) Chapter 42

(13:40:00) Chapter 43

(13:55:18) Chapter 44

(14:18:04) Chapter 45

(14:34:11) Chapter 46

(14:57:34) Chapter 47

(15:11:04) Chapter 48

(15:33:20) Chapter 49

(15:49:06) Chapter 50

(16:11:54) Chapter 51

(16:27:55) Chapter 52

(16:51:26) Chapter 53

(17:07:20) Chapter 54

(17:33:09) Chapter 55

(17:47:47) Chapter 56

(18:11:16) Chapter 57

(18:25:03) Chapter 58

(18:48:31) Chapter 59

(19:04:43) Chapter 60

(19:29:09) Chapter 61

(19:43:31) Chapter 62

(20:08:04) Chapter 63

(20:23:49) Chapter 64

(20:49:13) Chapter 65

(21:02:31) Chapter 66

(21:42:57) Chapter 67

(22:07:32) Chapter 68

(22:24:45) Chapter 69

(22:49:58) Chapter 70

(23:05:49) Chapter 71

(23:27:53) Chapter 72

(23:47:16) Chapter 73

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Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens ~ Full Audiobook [drama] Nov 04, 2022

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Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens audiobook.

Genre: drama

Born in the Marshalsea Prison for Debtors, Amy—Little Dorrit—the daughter of the ruined, but self-respectful William Dorrit, has put her entire heart in caring for her dear father, until one day her humble path is crossed by Arthur Clennam. Their meeting proves providential not only for Amy's life, but for the whole Dorrit family, whose new rise will, in many ways, be also their fall. As in all his novels, in Little Dorrit Dickens ushers us into a fascinating and startlingly rich world of human characters and destinies, where virtue and nobility cross swords with vice and villainy, where strength and weakness intertwine with prejudice and magnanimity and where the author's inspired pen wields a compelling and unforgettable power over the readers.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:04:56) Chapter 01

(00:43:29) Chapter 02

(01:20:26) Chapter 03

(01:58:27) Chapter 04

(02:07:19) Chapter 05

(02:38:58) Chapter 06

(03:07:15) Chapter 07

(03:36:17) Chapter 08

(04:07:58) Chapter 09

(04:44:39) Chapter 10

(05:36:18) Chapter 11

(06:04:00) Chapter 12

(06:29:40) Chapter 13

(07:26:21) Chapter 14

(08:00:47) Chapter 15

(08:26:27) Chapter 16

(09:03:22) Chapter 17

(09:28:35) Chapter 18

(09:56:41) Chapter 19

(10:29:29) Chapter 20

(11:06:28) Chapter 21

(11:29:52) Chapter 22

(11:55:40) Chapter 23

(12:35:30) Chapter 24

(13:16:13) Chapter 25

(13:43:16) Chapter 26

(14:17:59) Chapter 27

(14:52:00) Chapter 28

(15:11:48) Chapter 29

(15:32:36) Chapter 30

(16:17:03) Chapter 31

(17:00:50) Chapter 32

(17:25:30) Chapter 33

(17:53:18) Chapter 34

(18:18:13) Chapter 35

(18:53:37) Chapter 36

(19:13:44) Chapter 37

(19:54:06) Chapter 38

(20:05:20) Chapter 39

(20:47:44) Chapter 40

(20:58:22) Chapter 41

(21:42:32) Chapter 42

(22:22:02) Chapter 43

(22:52:06) Chapter 44

(23:24:55) Chapter 45

(24:04:46) Chapter 46

(24:24:56) Chapter 47

(24:40:16) Chapter 48

(25:17:43) Chapter 49

(25:58:36) Chapter 50

(26:27:25) Chapter 51

(27:11:30) Chapter 52

(27:30:56) Chapter 53

(27:55:04) Chapter 54

(28:13:17) Chapter 55

(28:57:07) Chapter 56

(29:23:38) Chapter 57

(29:46:47) Chapter 58

(30:04:36) Chapter 59

(30:37:09) Chapter 60

(31:03:23) Chapter 61

(31:27:03) Chapter 62

(31:51:04) Chapter 63

(32:29:48) Chapter 64

(33:19:27) Chapter 65

(33:42:48) Chapter 66

(34:48:45) Chapter 67

(35:12:50) Chapter 68

(35:33:33) Chapter 69

(36:01:58) Chapter 70

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Pocket Island by Charles Clark Munn ~ Full Audiobook [fantasy] Nov 04, 2022

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Pocket Island by Charles Clark Munn audiobook.

Genre: fantasy

Along the coast of Maine are littered thousands of small islands. One such, named 'Pocket Island' by the locals was so called because of a pocket formed twice daily by the waning of the tides. The coast of Maine holds many secrets and legends, and Pocket Island was no exception.

Subtitled 'A Story of Country Life in New England', this story holds such varied and fascinating glimpses into the lives of a few individuals, and is not limited to merely a story of ghosts, of war, of barn dances, friendship, tales of rum-runners, smugglers, and seafarers. Rather it is all of the above, and much more, all wrapped nicely around a story of love.

Is Pocket Island truly haunted by ghosts of the past? The story begins ca. 1824, and takes us through the U.S. Civil War and beyond

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:11:15) Chapter 02

(00:19:41) Chapter 03

(00:30:44) Chapter 04

(00:45:11) Chapter 05

(00:56:19) Chapter 06

(01:09:04) Chapter 07

(01:20:35) Chapter 08

(01:31:49) Chapter 09

(01:43:30) Chapter 10

(01:57:31) Chapter 11

(02:12:00) Chapter 12

(02:22:01) Chapter 13

(02:36:23) Chapter 14

(02:48:32) Chapter 15

(02:59:25) Chapter 16

(03:06:03) Chapter 17

(03:20:08) Chapter 18

(03:35:26) Chapter 19

(03:47:02) Chapter 20

(04:01:49) Chapter 21

(04:13:03) Chapter 22

(04:25:37) Chapter 23

(04:37:14) Chapter 24

(04:50:57) Chapter 25

(05:02:24) Chapter 26

(05:14:31) Chapter 27

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